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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · April 27, 1904 · Chapter 1630

Chapter 1630. Making appropriations to supply 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. 1630.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other purposes. April 27, 1904.[[H. R. 15054](/us/bill/34/hr/15054).][[Public, No. 189](/us/pl/34/189).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Santo Domingo.Chargé d’affaires abolished.*Ante*, p. 68.So much of the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five as requires the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Haiti to be accredited also as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo is hereby repealed. Santo Domingo.Minister resident and consul-general.Consul-general at Santo Domingo abolished.*Ante*, p. 73.For minister resident and consul-general to Santo Domingo for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars, and so much of the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five as appropriates for the salary of a consul-general to Santo Domingo is hereby repealed.
Trebizond, Turkey.Consulate at Erzerum transferred to.*Ante*, p. 75.The consulate at Erzerum, Turkey, is hereby transferred to Trebizond, Turkey, and the appropriations for salary of consul at the former place for nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five may be applied to payment of salary of consul at Trebizond, Turkey. Chargés d’affaires ad interim.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents.
Interpreters, etc., Turkey.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “ Expenses of interpreters and guards in Turkish dominions,’ and so forth, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, forty-two dollars and ninety-nine cents. Extradition.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Bringing home criminals,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten dollars and fifty-two cents.
Contingent expenses, consulates.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-four cents. Benjamin Franklin.Medal to commemorate 200th anniversary of birth.Distribution.Benjamin Franklin medal: To enable the Secretary of State to have struck a medal to commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, for distribution in connection with the occurrence of the bicentennial anniversary of his birth, on the seventeenth day of January, nineteen hundred and six, one single impression on gold to be presented, under the direction of the President of the United States, to the Republic of France, and one hundred and fifty impressions on bronze, of which one hundred shall be dis-395tributed as may be directed by the President of the United States, and fifty shall be for the use of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge, founded by Franklin, five thousand dollars.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of Treasurer of United States (national currency,Treasurer’s Office.Clerks, etc reimbursable): For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, to be reimbursed by the national banks: For one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; fourteen expert counters, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; and one assistant messenger, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; in all, two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the temporary employment by detailing from the Bureau ofCounters. Engraving and Printing of additional counters adequate to assort the congested notes in the national bank redemption agency of the office of the Treasurer of the United States, to be used to reimburse the appropriations of the Bureau for the force now detailed, twelve thousand dollars. Office of the assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: For the followingSaint Louis, Mo.Assistant treasurer’s office. for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, namely:
For one assistant assorting teller, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one assistant bookkeeper, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one clerk, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and one laborer, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum, in all, seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and ten cents; for two additional coin counters from May first to November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each, one thousand one hundred and one dollars and sixty cents.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentIndependent Treasury, contingent expenses. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, twenty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin,Transporting silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin, when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have*Proviso*.Deposit, etc. been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin,Transporting minor coins. three thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso*.Deposit, etc. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoining gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/usc/s3512/p696). of the Revised Statutes of the United States, six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twelve cents. 396 Suppressing counterfeiting, etc., crimes.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes:
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifty dollars. Quarantine service.Quarantine service: For necessary repairs to floating property of the quarantine service, nine thousand five hundred dollars. Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred thousand dollars, Detection of frauds, etc.Vol. 20, p. 886.Annual appropriation increased.and the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenues from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are hereby amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the year nineteen hundred and four, and yearly thereafter, to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fees and expenses.For fees and expenses, including remuneration for Special Assistant Attorney-General, in the investigation and prosecution of certain frauds upon the customs service, the same to continue available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty thousand dollars. Compensation in lien of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, ten thousand dollars. Edward King.Refund to.Refund to Edward King:
To refund to Edward King duties erroneously collected on stolen animals and covered into the Treasury of the United States, ninety dollars. Henry Benson.Payment to heirs of.Payment to the heirs of Henry Benson, deceased: To pay to the heirs of Henry Benson, deceased, the amount of unclaimed wages, and so forth, due said Benson under employment of the United States Government on the steamship The City of Everett at the time of his death, and which sum has since been covered into the Treasury, two hundred dollars and thirty-six cents. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau.
Transfer of balances.The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to transfer from the unexpended balance now to the credit of the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-six thousand dollars, as follows : To the appropriation for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars; and to the appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and four, thirty thousand dollars; and to use the sums so transferred as though they had been originally appropriated for the purposes of said appropriations for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and four, and plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and four. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
Expenses.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and thirty-six cents. 397 collecting internal revenue.Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers,Agents, gaugers, etc. salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For the payment of claims for rebate of tax on tobacco, snuff, andRebate of tobacco tax.Vol. 31. p. 940 cigars presented after the expiration of the sixty days’ limit provided by Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 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 hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRefunding taxes Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected,” eighty-two dollars and eighty-three cents. public buildings.Public buildings. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of the sums appropriated for the fiscal year*Proviso.*Employees outside of District of Columbia. nineteen hundred and four for this object not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three dollars and fifteen cents. Alexandria, Virginia, custom-house and post-office: To reimburseAlexandria, Va.Repairs. the appropriation for addition to the building the amount required to be diverted for necessary repairs to original construction of the old building, three thousand five hundred dollars. under smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution.
American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution: That the SecretaryAmerican Ethnology.Balances made available. of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby authorized to apply any unexpended balance of the appropriation “American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, to the payment of liabilities existing against the appropriations “American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution,” for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one and nineteen hundred and two, respectively, and the same is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure for the purpose herein mentioned. interstate commerce commission.Interstate Commerce Commission.
For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission toExpenses. give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, fifteen thousand dollars. 398 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years as follows: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eighty dollars.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For livery of horse or horse hire for the coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for judicial expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty-six dollars and three cents. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-four cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seventy-one dollars and seventy cents. Bathing beach.Bathing beach: For additional amount required for the care, operation, maintenance, and repair of bathing beach for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifty dollars and eighty cents. Disposal of refuse.Collection and disposal of city refuse: For amount due R. Carter Ballantyne for city directory, furnished the street cleaning department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five dollars.
Electrical department.Electrical department: For additional amount required for electric arc lighting, three thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents. Report of cost of electrical plants in Departments.The head of each of the several Executive Departments at Washington, wherein electric plants are owned by the Government, is hereby authorized and directed to report to Congress at its next session the cost of electric light and power produced by such plants.
Engineer and inspectors.For additional services required during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, by authority of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to regulate electrical wiring in the District of Columbia,” passed during the present session of Congress, namely, Salaries.*Ante*, p. 307.for electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; for two electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand nine hundred dollars.
Public schools.Public schools: For additional amount required for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, two thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel.For fuel, ten thousand dollars. For additional compensation for the janitor of the Takoma Park School, from February first, nineteen hundred and four, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty cents.
Equipping new buildings.That the appropriation of twelve thousand two hundred and fifty dollars for furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings provided in the Act making appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 399hundred and four, is hereby made available for the equipment of such buildings. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedTransfers to contingent expenses account. to transfer five hundred and twenty dollars from the appropriation for purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training and for incidental expenses connected therewith, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and two hundred and thirty dollars from the appropriation for kindergarten instruction, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, to the appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four.
That the appropriation of thirty-five thousand dollars for kindergartenPianos, etc.Vol. 32. p. 969. instruction provided in the Act making appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby made available for the payment of pianos and other supplies heretofore purchased, during said fiscal year, for use in the kindergarten schools. Metropolitan police: For additional amount required to meet thePolice. objects set forth in the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eight dollars and fifty cents.
Fire department: For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture,Fire department. fixtures, washing, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, labor, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-six cents. For forage, five thousand dollars.
For additional amount required for house and furniture for truck company located in square nine hundred and twenty-five, five hundred dollars. For amount required for deepening well, Congress Heights engine house, five hundred dollars. Health department: For additional amount required for theHealth department.Preventing contagious diseases.Vol. 26, p. 691.Vol. 29. p. 635. enforcement of the provisions of the Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia, approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and the Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two dollars.
For additional amount required for the necessary traveling expensesMilk inspection. of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, two hundred dollars. For additional amount required for special services in connectionAdulteration of drugs, etc. with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, and for the necessary expenses of the chemical laboratory incident thereto, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar and twenty cents.
For additional amount required for contingent expenses incident toContingent expenses. the enforcement of an Act to regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteenVol. 28, p. 709. hundred and ninety-five; an Act relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved FebruaryVol. 30, p. 246.Vol. 30, p. 398. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and an Act to prevent 400the adulteration of candy in the District of Columbia, approved May fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for the maintenance of the chemical laboratory, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty dollars and sixty-two cents.
Isolating wards in hospitals.For additional amount required for maintenance of the isolating wards at Garfield Hospital, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Judgments.Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-two and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-eight, of this session, eight thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-five cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: For amount due Doctor D. Percy Hickling for services as witness in alleged lunacy cases, three certificates, at ten dollars each, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, ten dollars. Washington Asylum.Washington Asylum: For additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal years which follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-six cents. Freedmen’s Hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For additional amount required for fuel, light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seventy-one dollars and ten cents.
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to pay R. Carter Ballantyne the sum of five dollars for a city directory furnished the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four. Feeble-minded children, care.Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amount required for maintenance of feeble-minded children, one thousand dollars. Industrial Home School.Industrial Home School: For maintenance, four thousand dollars. For additional amount required for enlargement and improvement of plant for industrial training, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirty-three dollars and two cents.
Relief of the poor.Relief of the poor: For additional amount required for the municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, maintenance, including rent, four hundred dollars. For amount due R. Carter Ballantyne for city directory furnished the municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five dollars. Naval militia.Fuel.Militia: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to pay Stephenson and Brother the sum of seven dollars, for fuel furnished United States steamship Oneida, used by naval militia, without inspection required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three.
Excise board.Expenses of the excise board: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to pay R. Carter Ballantyne the sum of five dollars, for city directory furnished the excise board during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one. Joseph A. Nash.Services.Payment to Joseph A. Nash: For amount due Joseph A. Nash for services as an additional private of the Metropolitan police, District of Columbia, in connection with the dog-pound service, May 401ninth and eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, at two dollars per diem, and for allowance for horse and buggy used in connection with such services, at two dollars per diem, eight dollars.
Water department: For additional amount required to meet theWater department.Expenses. objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the water department, one hundred and -fifty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorizedOscar W. White and H. R. Howenstein.Refund. to refund to Oscar W. White the sum of twelve dollars and to H.
R. Howenstein the sum of one dollar and five cents, paid by them for the use of water for building purposes. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toHalf front District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. That whenever the office of the Adjutant-General and the RecordMilitary Secretary’s office.Appropriation, etc., for Adjutant-General’s and Record and pension offices, transferred to.*Ante*, p. 262. and Pension Office shall be consolidated by operation of law, any appropriation available at the time of such consolidation, or that may thereafter become available, for the support of either of those offices shall be equally available for the support of the bureau formed by the consolidation, and all employees provided by law for either of said offices, except such employees as were transferred by the Secretary of War to the Military Information Division of the General Staff prior to April first, nineteen hundred and four, shall be regarded as employees of the consolidated bureau and shall be exclusively engaged upon the work of that bureau as required in the case of the employees of the Record and Pension Office by the Acts making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five.
Claims for property taken from Confederate officers andConfederate soldiers claims. soldiers after surrender: Payment to Confederate soldiers: For payment of claims filed with the Quartermaster-General under Act ofVol. 32. p. 43. February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. The timeTime extended. for filing these claims under the provisions of the above-entitled Act and amendment thereto and for the payment thereof, is extended for two years from the date of the passage of this Act.
Relief of David Tweed: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryDavid Tweed.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1462. to carry out the provisions of the “Act for the relief of David Tweed,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, three thousand five hundred dollars. Credit in the accounts of James Eveleth: That the accounting officersJames Eveleth.Credit in accounts. of the Treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized, and directed to credit in the accounts of James Eveleth, United States agent, deceased, the sum of one thousand four hundred and one dollars and seventy-two cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury.
Credit in the accounts of Major J. B. Aleshire: That theJ. B. Aleshire.Credit in accounts. accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Major J. B. Aleshire, quartermaster, United States Army, the sum of forty-seven dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury. Payments for advertising: To enable the Secretary of War toAdvertising. pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements 402for proposals for construction work, as set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixty-four of the present session, twenty dollars and nine cents.
Model of Capitol.Transporting, etc., to Saint Louis Fair.For packing and transporting a model of the Capitol building, which represents the said Capitol building as it now is, to and from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at Saint Louis and there exhibiting the same in the Government building and as a part of the Government exhibit at said exposition, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum shall be immediately available, and shall be expended under the direction of the superintendent of the Capitol, who is hereby authorized and directed to superintend the packing, transportation, and exhibition of said model and the return thereof, and for that purpose is authorized to employ such person or persons as may be necessary.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military establishment. Army pay.Pay of the Army: For pay of officers of the staff and line, six hundred thousand dollars; For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred thousand dollars; In all, one million five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Pay, and so forth, of the Army” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies.Reappropriation.Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Regular Supplies” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, which is hereby reappropriated for said purpose. Shooting ranges, etc.Shooting galleries and ranges:
For shelter, shooting galleries, ranges for small arms, target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars; to continue available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. medical department.Medical Department. Supplies, etc.Reappropriation.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Medical and Hospital Department,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “Medical and Hospital Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. armories and arsenals.
Rock Island Arsenal.Rent of electrical power.Rock Island Arsenal: The Secretary of War is authorized in his discretion to rent such portion of the electrical power generated by the power plant of the Rock Island Arsenal as may not be needed for the purposes of the United States, the proceeds to be covered into the Treasury of the United States. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For household, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation 403Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five thousand dollars.
Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For household, including theTogus, Me. 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. Southern Branch at Hampton, Virginia: For farm, including theHampton., Va. same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three thousand five hundred dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. To pay for the funeral expenses, including the disinterment, proper“Missouri, Funeral expenses, explosion on. care, preparation, and transportation to their homes of the remains of the officers and men who died as the result of the recent explosion on the United States steamship Missouri, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, ten thousand dollars. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawingContingent expenses materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, two thousand dollars.
For the purpose of purchasing the remainder in fee in and to theNaval Academy.Additional land. land now held and occupied by lease by the United States Government across the Severn River from the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, to be used for naval purposes, three thousand and fifty dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andTransportation. directed to allow, in the settlement of the accounts of disbursing officers of the Navy, all vouchers covering payments for mileage books,Purchase of mileage books, etc., permitted. commutation tickets, and other similar transportation tickets heretofore purchased by the Navy Department and furnished to officers and civilian inspectors traveling under orders from the Department.
And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to continue to purchase such mileage books, commutation tickets, and other similar transportation tickets as may in his discretion seem necessary, and to furnish same to officers and others ordered to perform travel on official business; and payment for such transportation tickets upon their receipt, in accordance with commercial usage, or prior to the actual performance of the travel involved, shall not be regarded as an advance of[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/usc/s3648/p718). public money within the meaning of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes. All naval records, such as musterNaval records.Transfer of all, to Navy Department. and pay rolls, orders, and reports relating to the personnel and operations of the Navy of the United States, from the beginning of the Navy Department to the war of the rebellion, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, including operations against the French navy,.
Tripolitan war, war of eighteen hundred and twelve, operations against pirates in the West Indies, Florida war, and the war with Mexico, now in any of the Executive Departments, shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy, to be preserved. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval Establishment. General account of advances: To reimburse “General accountGeneral account of advances.Reimbursement.Vol. 20, p. 167. of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows: 404 Emergency fund.For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-two dollars and twenty cents;
Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and three, fourteen thousand and fifty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty-three dollars and fifty-four cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, ninety dollars and twenty-five cents;
Contingent.For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy-two cents; For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-three cents; Marine Corps.For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, seventy-eight thousand one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eleven cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-three cents;
For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, twenty thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty cents; For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-six cents; For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents; For repairs of barracks. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents; For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, twenty-nine dollars and forty cents;
For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand two hundred and one dollars and sixty cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-eight cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-two cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, fifteen dollars and one cent; Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents;
For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred, three hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-nine cents; For outfits for landsmen, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and one, ninety dollars; For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, sixty-one thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and fifty-four cents; For naval training station, California, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars;
Bureau of Ordnance.For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one dollar; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and three, forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred, five dollars and thirty-six cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and one, sixteen cents; Bureau of Equipment.For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred, one hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-one cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred, twenty-five cents; 405 For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundredBureau of Yards and Docks. and two, twelve thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-nine cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and one, seventy dollars and ninety-five cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred, twelve dollars and sixteen cents; For contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand dollars;
For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteenBureau of Medicine and Surgery. hundred and one, fifteen dollars and seventy-two cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred, twelve dollars and fifty-one cents; For repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two dollars and nine cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, four thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and ninety cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-eight dollars -and thirty-five cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred and three, four hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and four dollars and ninety-nine cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and six dollars and sixteen cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred, two hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-two cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred, two hundred and twenty dollars and twenty-eight cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and three, five thousand and ninety-one dollars and ninety-one cents;
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred,Bureau of Steam Engineering. twenty-six dollars; For dry dock, Habana, Cuba, eighteen thousand seven hundred andHabana dry dock. thirty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents; For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nineteen hundred andRepairs, etc. one, seven dollars and fourteen cents; For Marine Barracks, League Island, Pennsylvania, sixty-six dollarsMarine Barracks, League Island, Pa. and ninety-seven cents; in all, seven hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and eighteen cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
For transportation, including all objects mentioned under this titleTransportation, etc. of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixty thousand dollars. Naval War College, Rhode Island: For building and furnishingNaval War College. a fireproof annex to the college, with a covered connecting bridge, twelve thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTraining station, California. on account of the appropriation “Naval Training Station, California.
Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two fourteen dollars and thirty-one cents. 406 bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Contingent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting- officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and forty-eight cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Contingent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-one cents. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Contingent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-six dollars and fifteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty cents. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
Equipment of vessels.For equipment of vessels, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred thousand dollars. For equipment of vessels, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifty thousand dollars. Coal.Coal and transportation: For purchase of coal for steamers’ and ships’ use and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Provisions.For provisions, Navy, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid from the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for “Provisions, Navy,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery.For steam machinery, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six hundred thousand dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Provisions.Provisions: To pay accounts on file for subsistence of enlisted men, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and sixteen dollars. Clothing.Clothing: For clothing for the Marine Corps, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation 407Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fuel: To pay accounts on file for fuel, Marine Corps, fiscal yearFuel. nineteen hundred and three, seven thousand and forty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents.
Military stores: To reimburse current appropriations ordnanceMilitary stores. stores, ammunition and ordnance stores, equipment, Ordnance Department, United States Army, for ordnance stores and ammunition furnished the Marine Corps in the Philippines for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and seventy-four dollars and fifty cents. Transportation and recruiting: For transportation and recruitingTransportation and recruiting. for the Marine Corps, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars.
To pay accounts on file for transportation of enlisted men, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-eight cents. Repairs of barracks: To reimburse Quartermaster’s Department,Repairs to barracks. United States Army, for lumber furnished the Marine Corps at Guam, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and fifty dollars. Forage: To reimburse Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, for forage furnished the Marine Corps in the Philippines and Guam, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and three cents.
Contingent: For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, includingContingent. 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 reimburse Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, forReimbursing Arm. miscellaneous supplies furnished the Marine Corps at Guam, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four thousand two hundred and seven dollars and eighty-three cents.
To pay account on file for freight charges. Marine Corps, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty cents. Barracks and quarters: For the installation of water supply forNaval Academy barracks. fire purposes and flushing system, Marine Barracks, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, five thousand dollars. The Auditor for the Navy Department be, and is hereby, authorizedCredit in accounts and directed to credit in the accounts of the quartermaster, United States Marine Corps, for the first quarter, nineteen hundred and two, under appropriation contingent, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, voucher numbered five hundred and forty, and under appropriation military stores, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and one, voucher numbered two hundred and fifty-two, first quarter, nineteen hundred and two: *Provided*, That the quartermaster of the Marine*Proviso.*Fuel to clerks, etc.
Corps be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to pay from appropriations fuel, Marine Corps, to enlisted men of the Marine Corps employed as clerks and messengers in the office of the commandant and in the offices of the staff officers of the Marine Corps commutation of fuel, at nine dollars each per month for clerks and eight dollars each per month for messengers, from and after January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, when, by a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, enlisted men so employed were denied the right to said commutation in said amounts. public works.Public works.
Navy-yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: For fittings andLeague Island, Pa. modifications, dry dock and its pumping plant, forty thousand dollars. 408 Washington, D. C.Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For quay wall, fifty thousand dollars. Timber dry docks, League Island.Timber dry docks: For dry dock, League Island, Pennsylvania, two hundred and thirty-six thousand and thirty-five dollars and sixty-one cents. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy-yards:
To pay vouchers numbered twelve, nineteen, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty, and forty-one for labor and material for building ice plant, naval station, Guam, procured and purchased during fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents. miscellaneous, navy.Miscellaneous. E. D. Ryan.Reimbursement.To reimburse Paymaster Eugene D. Ryan on account of suspension in his accounts of amounts overpaid to two mess attendants in accordance with an Executive order, eight dollars and forty-three cents.
To reimburse Paymaster Eugene D. Ryan on account of suspension in his accounts for the year nineteen hundred and two of amounts paid to certain general court-martial prisoners in accordance with the Department’s instructions after their terms of enlistment had expired, ninety-eight dollars and forty-one cents. Webb V. H. Rose.Reimbursement.To reimburse Paymaster Webb V. H. Rose the amount paid for injuries inflicted by the United States steamship Monterey and checked against his accounts by the accounting officers of the Treasury, forty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Piper, Aden Goodall Company.Repairs.To compensate Piper, Aden, Goodall Company for repairs to their steamer Grace Barton, necessitated by collision with United States tug Vigilant, three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. Fenelon B. Higgins.Damages.To compensate Fenelon B. Higgins for injuries to his naphtha launch in collision with a steam launch from the United States steamship Olympia, one hundred dollars. Pennsylvania Railroad Company.Reimbursement.To reimburse the Pennsylvania Railroad Company the expense of repairing damages sustained by Pier K, Harsimus Cove, Jersey City, in collision with the United States tug Traffic, one hundred and seventy dollars and seven cents.
“Ida F. Bozman.”Payment to owner.To reimburse to owner the expense of repairing the damages sustained by the schooner Ida F. Bozman in collision with the United States tug Standish, one hundred and seventeen dollars and sixty-five cents. “Trigonia.”Payment to owner.To reimburse to owner the expense of repairing the damages sustained by the steamer Trigonia in collision with the United States steamship Monterey, one thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and nineteen cents.
M. D. Tindal and T. W. Greer.Reimbursement.To reimburse Messrs. M. D. Tindal and T. W. Greer for the damages to their launch by being struck by a steam launch from the receiving ship Franklin, three hundred dollars. “Empire.”Payment to owners.To reimburse to owners of tug Empire and her tow and the cargo thereof the losses and actual cost of repairs due to the collision on October twelfth, nineteen hundred and three, between said tug and her tow and the United States naval collier Leonidas, one thousand six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department of the Interior. Stationery.For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including the Civil Service Commission, eight thousand dollars. Repairs to buildings.Repairs of buildings: To pay amounts found due by the accounting- officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty-five cents. 409 For the Capitol:
The accounting officers of the Treasury areCapitol.Steel boilers, Senate.Credit in accounts of George W. Evans, for. hereby authorized and directed to credit the account of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, for certain payments made in the quarter ended December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, under the appropriation for “Capitol Building and repairs, nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four,” amounting to twelve thousand five hundred and nine dollars and nine cents, being the amount paid by him in good faith on vouchers properly approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol Buildings and Grounds for steel boilers for the United States Senate and for services of a consulting engineer in connection with the erection of the same.
Maps of the United States: For rollers and other material, andMaps.Rollers, etc.Vol. 31, pp. 121, 997. for labor required for mounting maps of the United States, ordered for the use of Congress by the Acts of April seventeenth, nineteen hundred; March third, nineteen hundred and one, and April twenty-eighth,Vol. 32. p. 158.*Post*, p. 1234. nineteen hundred and two, respectively, eight thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars, to be expended under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby directed to have said maps attached to rollers before delivery.
Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For the purchase of anHot Springs, Ark.Electric pump. electric motor, with rotary pump, for pumping hot water for the free bath house on the Hot Springs Reservation, for the construction of wooden lockers, and the purchase of office and bathroom furniture necessary for the running of the free bath house on the Hot Springs Reservation, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Repairs to Natural Bridge, Arizona: To reimburse the Atchison,Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company.Reimbursement.
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company for expenses incurred by said corporation in the making of permanent repairs to what is known as the Natural Bridge, in the Petrified Forest, in the Territory of Arizona, four hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-six cents. patent office.Patent Office. For the expenses of a delegate to represent the United States PatentInternational Industrial Association.Delegates expenses Office at the meetings of the International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property, to be held at Berlin, Germany, in May, and at Berne, Switzerland, in August, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand two hundred dollars.
For producing the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly,Official Gazette. bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, eighty thousand dollars. For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents;Copies of drawings etc. for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraphVol, 28, p. 620. to be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided*, That the entire work may be done at the Government Printing*Proviso*.Work at Government Printing Office.
Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no Joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, thirty thousand dollars. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane:Expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become 410insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, forty thousand dollars.
Painting new buildings.For painting new buildings, fifteen thousand dollars. howard university.Howard University. Fire escapes.To provide additional fire escapes for Howard University and to improve the condition of the buildings to provide against danger from fire and panic, two thousand dollars. public lands service.Public lands. Surveyors-GeneralAlaska.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one dollar and twenty cents.
Nevada.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents. Reproducing plats of surveys.Balance available.Reproducing plats of surveys: The appropriation made in the sundry civil Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, of two thousand five hundred dollars, to enable the Commissioner of the Vol. 32, p. 452.General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of his office and to furnish the local land offices with such plats, is hereby continued and made available for such work during the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five.
Inspectors’ expenses.Expenses of Inspectors: For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, one thousand and fifty dollars. Arthur D. Kidder.Expenses, boundary line Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.Boundary line, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma: To reimburse Arthur D. Kidder, examiner of surveys and special disbursing agent, General Land Office, for expenses incurred and paid by him during the months of September and October, nineteen hundred and three, in the examination in the field of the resurvey and reestablishment, on the line of the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude, of the boundary line between the State of Colorado and the Territories Vol. 32, p, 574.of New Mexico and Oklahoma, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, the sum of nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-nine cents, being the amount found due him by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but disallowed for payment, as the expenses were not incurred during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and three, for which the appropriation was made available.
Mineral lands, Montana and Idaho.Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho: For publication of reports of lands classified by the board of mineral land commissioners in the Helena and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and in the Cœur d’Alene land district, in the Vol. 28, p. 683.Vol. 31, p. 615.State of Idaho, as authorized by the Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, the sum of one hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to meet the payment of unsettled bills for publications chargeable to the appropriation for “Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one.
” George B. Rogers.Reimbursement.Reimbursement to George B. Rogers: To reimbuse George B. Rogers, late receiver of public moneys at Blackfoot, Idaho, for money 411erroneously collected by him and covered into the Treasury of the United States on lot six, block twenty-seven, Pocatello town site, in the State of Idaho, per certificate numbered twenty-six hundred and thirty-five, dated April third, nineteen hundred and one, said amount having been repaid to the entryman by the late receiver from his personal funds, the entryman not having been required by him to make application on this office for repayment of amount in the manner prescribed by law, ten dollars.
Reimbursement to the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company:Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company.Reimbursement. To reimburse the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company, successor to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, for moneys, deposited by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company and covered into the Treasury of the United States under the provisions of the Act of July thirty-first,Vol. 19, p. 121. eighteen hundred and seventy-six (Nineteenth Statutes at Large, one hundred and twenty-one), in excess of the amount required to reimburse the Government for the cost of surveying and patenting of lands granted to said company under the Act of July twenty-seventh,Vol. 14. p. 296. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and forty-six cents.
Payment to James Deitrick: For payment to James Deitrick forJames Deitrick.Payment to. rent of land office at Peavy, Alaska, and for supplies furnished to R. C. Nichols, receiver of public moneys, for use of said land office, and for freight and drayage paid on land-office furniture and supplies from Saint Michael to Peavy, Alaska, as per account rendered and certified to by R. C. Nichols, late receiver, and set forth on page twenty-five, House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-two of this session, one thousand six hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.
Payment to the C. O. Pick Transfer and Storage Company:C. O. Pick Transfer and Storage Company.Payment to. For payment to the C. O. Pick Transfer and Storage Company, of Portland, Oregon, the balance due said company for removing, in June, nineteen hundred and two, the records and public property of the office of the United States surveyor-general in the post-office building, in which it was then located, to the present quarters in the custom-house building, Portland, Oregon, the sum of ten dollars.
Payments to certain deputy surveyors: For payments to certainDeputy surveyors.Payment to certain. deputy surveyors, for surveys and resurveys of public lands executed by them, as fully set forth on pages twenty-six and twenty-seven of House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-two of the present session, five thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents. Payment to Waller R. Staples: To reimburse Waller R. Staples,Walter R. Staples.Services. late detailed clerk of the General Land Office, for salary and expenses incurred and paid for by him in the employment of an assistant used in the examination of surveys from July fourth to and including August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifty-five dollars.
Payment to Richard O. Chaney and William W. Smith: ToRichard O. Chaney and William W. Smith.Services. pay Richard O. Chaney and William W. Smith balance due on contract for surveys approved and accepted of township exteriors in the strip of public land lying north of the State of Texas and bounded on the north by the States of Colorado and Kansas, under Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-six cents. geological survey.Geological Survey.
For installation of a fire-alarm system, necessary for the better protectionFire-alarm system. of the Survey property from fire, such as furniture, instruments, laboratory apparatus, library, records, manuscripts, original map sheets, and so forth, five hundred dollars. 412 Contingent expenses.For purchase of rugs, carpets, linoleum, desks, chairs, and tables; book, map, letter, specimen, tile, and catalogue cases; screens, sinks, and ventilating fans for laboratory; awnings, window shades, washstands, wardrobe cabinets, water coolers, lumber for shelving, installation of intercommunication of telephone service, and all other absolutely necessary articles; to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
Earle Goldsmith.Payment to.For payment of amount due Earle Goldsmith, of Wayne, Michigan, as satisfaction of a judgment in amount obtained against Robert L. Muldrow, topographer, United States Geological Survey, for damages done to horse and wagon hired by him for use in the discharge of his official duties, fifty dollars. For payment of costs of court trials in said case, including fees, transportation, subsistence, and so forth, one hundred and seven dollars and seventy-seven cents.
Coals and lignites tests. Louisiana Purchase Exposition.*Ante*, p. 33.*Post*, pp. 603, 1187.For additional amount for analyzing and testing at the Louisiana Purchase. Exposition the 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 States Geological Survey, forty thousand *Provisos*Machinery, etc.dollars, to be available until expended: *Provided*, That all testing machinery and all coal and lignites to be tested shall be contributed without Timber tests.charge to the Government: *Provided further*, That of the foregoing amount ten thousand dollars shall be available and may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for all necessary expenses incident to testing, in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, the manner in which timber can best be treated chemically to prevent decay and to fireproof the same, to the end that it may be more economically and safely used for bridge and other structural timbers, lumber, poles, fence posts, ties, mine props, and so forth: *Provided Machinery, etc.further*, That all testing cylinders and all timbers to be tested shall be contributed without charge to the Government, except that necessary housing for the protection of machinery and of those conducting the work may in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture be paid from the said ten thousand dollars.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition.Expenses of joint Congressional Committee at opening.*Post*, p. 1881.To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of the Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress of the United States on the occasion of the formal opening ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held in Saint Louis, Missouri, April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum two thousand five hundred dollars shall be accredited to the Senate, to be expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and three thousand five hundred dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives. indian affairs.Indian affairs.
Personal tax inquiry, Indian Territory.Vol. 31, p. 1074.Reappropriation.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of five thousand dollars made March third,, nineteen hundred and one, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report to Congress whether it is practicable to provide a system of taxation of personal property, occupations, franchises, and so forth, in the Indian Territory sufficient to maintain a system of free schools to all the children of the Indian Territory is hereby reappropriated and made available for said purpose until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.
Contingencies.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Contingencies, Indian Department,” including all objects mentioned under this title of 413appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryMorris, Minn.School. on account of the appropriation for “Indian School, Morris, Minnesota,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten dollars and sixty-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIncidentals.Indian Territory. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in the Indian Territory, including employees,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents. For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana,Montana. including traveling expenses of agents and pay of employees, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred dollars.
For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana, including traveling expenses of agents and pay of employees, five hundred dollars. For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands toSurvey and allotting lands. be allotted to Indians and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars. To pay to William G. Malin, United States Indian agent, Sac andWilliam G.
Malin.Reimbursement. Fox Agency, Toledo, Iowa, to reimburse him for expenses incurred in defending a suit brought against him in his official capacity as said Indian agent, six hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-eight cents. The expenditure of four thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollarsAlaska Indians.Transporting pupils to Salem, Oreg., school. and twenty cents by the superintendent of the industrial school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for transportation and expense of securing Indian youths from Alaska to said school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, for the current fiscal year is hereby authorized to be paid from the appropriation for transportation of Indian pupils for said year.
Three thousand five hundred dollars by the superintendent of theTransporting pupils to Carlisle, Pa., school. Indian industrial school at Chemawa (Salem, Oregon) for transportation and expense of securing Indian youths from Alaska to said school at Chemawa, Oregon, for the current fiscal year is hereby authorized to be paid from the appropriation for transportation of Indian pupils for said year. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorizedMount Pleasant, Mich.Reappropriation for school building. and directed to return by warrant on the books of the Indian Office the sum of four thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-three cents out of the amount of six thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-two cents turned into the Treasury to the credit of the surplus fund, June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, under the title of “Indian School, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, buildings,” being the amount necessary to pay for building contracted for April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, payment for which was properly chargeable against said surplus.
PENSIONS.Pensions. For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows,Army and Navy. minor children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, four million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for*Provisos*.Navy pensions. navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above itemsAccounts. shall be accounted for separately. 414 POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department.
Emma S. Spates.Salary.To pay Emma S. Spates the balance of salary due her as a clerk at nine hundred dollars per annum for services rendered in the office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, rural free-delivery service, from October first to twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, inclusive, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. J. T. Suter, jr.Rent.For rent of office room numbered fifty-one in the Home Life Building in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, from J.
T. Suter, junior, for two months from September eighth, nineteen hundred and three, including janitor service, eighty-two dollars. Contingent expenses.For telegraphing, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy cents. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses, and repair of wagons and harness, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-seven cents. For purchase and erection of revolving doors for the two center entrances of the Washington city post-office building, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Postage.Postage, Post-Office Department: Postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, one hundred and fifty dollars. out of the postal revenues.Postal service. Transportation.Star routes.Mail transportation: By star routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.
Steamboat routes.By steamboat routes, fifteen thousand dollars. Railroads.By railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper, mail equipment, and other supplies from the manufactories to the post-offices and depots of distribution, four hundred thousand dollars. Wagon service.For regulation, screen, and other wagon service, one hundred thousand dollars. Mail bags, etc.Mail bags:
For mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, thirty-six thousand dollars. Repair shop.For fuel for mail-bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, six hundred dollars. Railway Mail Service.Acting clerks, etc.Railway mail service: Acting clerks in place of clerks injured while on duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, twenty thousand dollars.
Stamped envelopes.Stamped envelopes: For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, fourteen thousand dollars. Official envelopes.For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, seven thousand dollars. Stamps.For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps and books of stamps, fifteen thousand dollars. Rural free delivery.Maps.Rural free delivery: For map work in the rural free-delivery service, said maps for the use of the Department and for distribution to members of Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. 415 For labor employed and material used in the preparation of rural route maps during fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, five hundred dollars.
To pay amounts certified in House Document Numbered Six hundredExpenses. and fifty-two, of the present session, for rural free-delivery service on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand one hundred and five dollars and sixty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and forty-nine dollars.
City free delivery: To pay the amounts set forth in HouseCity free delivery. Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-two of this session, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eleven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and nineteen cents. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For payment to E. D. Lister, of Grants Pass, Oregon, for the valueE. D. Lister.Payment to. of a horse hired for official use by an employee of the Bureau of Forestry under proper authority and accidentally killed while in the service of the United States, July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, sixty dollars.
To pay the bill of The Dispatch Company, of Richmond, Virginia,Advertising. for advertising, October first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, being a deficiency on account of the appropriation “Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two dollars and ninety-two cents. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. Twelfth Census: For the purpose of enabling the Bureau of theTwelfth Census.Philippine census, etc.
Census to complete the compilation and promulgation of the census in the Philippine Islands and of such other statistical work as may be transferred to said Office by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor pursuant to the authority vested in him by section four of the ActVol. 32, p. 826. creating said Department, and for the other purposes named herein, the proviso in the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three,Balance reappropriated.Vol. 32, p. 1059. entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” reappropriating the unexpended balance of the Twelfth Census fund, is hereby reenacted, and the amount of said fund remaining unexpended on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, for the purposes indicated in said proviso, and also for the purposes named herein.
Bureau of Corporations: The unexpended balance of the appropriationBureau of Corporations.Special agents.*Ante*, p. 35,Balance reappropriated. of thirty thousand dollars made in the deficiency appropriation Act approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, “For compensation, to be 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,” remaining unexpended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five. 416 Bureau of Immigration.Additional clerks.Bureau of Immigration:
For the following additional clerks for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, namely: One clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one, and two clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration.” William Williams.Reimbursement.To reimburse William Williams, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, for amount paid by him to William B.
Anderson for legal services furnished to the Government by the latter as counsel in the case of Isabella Gonzales against William Williams, the services of regularly employed counsel for the Government not having been procurable, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for “Expenses of regulating immigration,” two hundred and fifty dollars. Repairs to stations.Expenditures authorized.The authority to incur expenditures under the appropriation for “expenses of regulating immigration” shall be construed by the accounting officers of the Treasury without reference to any specific appropriation heretofore made for repairs or alterations to any immigrant station.
Frank S. Howell.Salary, etc.For salary and expenses, including additional compensation in lieu of subsistence, of Frank S. Howell, clerk in the immigration service at large, while actually and necessarily employed in the Bureau of Immigration in Washington on temporary detail from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to November twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, in connection with the preparation of the annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, chargeable to the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration,” eight hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Bertram N. Stump.Salary, etc.For salary, expenses, and additional compensation in lieu of subsistence of Bertram N. Stump, immigrant inspector, while actually and necessarily detailed for special duty at the United States Civil Service Commission in Washington from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, to assist in the preparation of marking examination papers of persons examined for the purpose of creating a civil-service register from -which to select immigrant and Chinese inspectors, chargeable to the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration,” three hundred and fifty-five dollars and twelve cents.
William V. Howard.Salary and expenses.For salary and expenses of William V. Howard, statistician in the immigration service at large, while actually and necessarily detailed for duty in the Bureau of Immigration in Washington from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to September twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, in connection with the preparation of the annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, chargeable to the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration,” five hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-two cents.
“Linda.”Refund to master.To refund to R. W. Young, master of British steamship Linda, the sum of eighty dollars erroneously collected from him at Tampa, Florida, Vol. 32, p. 1216.and covered into the Treasury for an alleged infraction of sections twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of the immigration act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, eighty dollars. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. Repairs, etc., vessels.For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, eight thousand five hundred dollars. 417 BUREAU OF STANDARDS.Bureau of Standards.
For extra labor to be used in connection with the installation ofExtra labor. machinery and apparatus in the laboratory of the Bureau of Standards at Pierce Mill road, seven hundred and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For stationery for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seventy-nineStationery. dollars and fifty-two cents. For stationery for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred dollars. For books for law library of the Department, one thousand fiveBooks. hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,Contingent expenses. foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, five thousand dollars. miscellaneous, department of justice.Miscellaneous. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryAlaska, traveling expenses. on account of the appropriation “Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and eleven dollars, and seventy-four cents.
For salaries and expenses, Spanish Treaty Claims Commission,Spanish Claims Commission. namely: For expenses of taking testimony abroad, to be available until used, twenty thousand dollars. For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessaryDefending suits in claims. employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents.
For payment to the Western Union Telegraph Company for transmittingWestern Union Telegraph Company.Payment to. certain messages from and to the office of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents. JUDICIAL.Judicial. For salary of the additional district judge for the eastern district ofPennsylvania, eastern district.Additional judge.*Ante*, p. 155.
Pennsylvania, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one thousand five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. For salary of the additional district judge for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, six thousand dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals. and their deputies, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, forty thousand dollars. 418 District attorneys and assistants.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. Clerks.For fees of clerks, thirty-five thousand dollars. 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, one thousand and fifty-one dollars and seventy-nine cents. Rent of rooms.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one thousand eight hundred and two dollars and twelve cents.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, ten thousand dollars. Bailiffs, etc.*Provisos.*Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, Vacation, etc.That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the Expenses of judges, etc.United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals, not to exceed ten dollars per day; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when Jury commissioners.ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, ten thousand dollars.
Supplies.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 and three, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary.For miscellaneous expenditures at the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, including all objects specified under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, four thousand dollars.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Marcus A. Hanna.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Honorable Marcus A. Hanna, late a Senator from the State of Ohio, five thousand dollars. Official reporters.Reimbursement.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and three, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and four, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
William B. Turner.Payment to.To pay William B. Turner for completing the table of contents and preparing an index to the Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission and appendices thereto, three hundred dollars. G. C. Lodge.Payment to.To pay G. C. Lodge for translating document entitled “ Compagnie Nouvelle du Canal de Panama,” as authorized by Senate resolution of February second, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. 419 To pay John F. Hayes, for services in reporting and transcribingJohn F.
Hayes.Payment to. testimony taken by the subcommittee of the Committee- on Territories in the inquiry relative to Alaska, under Senate resolution of March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and indexing said testimony and the report, five hundred dollars. To pay Edward C. Goodwin for extra services as clerk to the specialEdward C. Goodwin.Extra services. committee appointed to inquire into certain charges respecting Honorable Charles H. Dietrich, a Senator from the State of Nebraska, under a resolution of the Senate February first, nineteen hundred and four, from February fourth, nineteen hundred and four, to April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and four, four hundred and twenty dollars.
To pay Thom Williamson, junior, and Ernest J. Waterman, assistantThom Williamson, jr. and Ernest J. Waterman.Payment to. clerks to the Committee on Military Affairs, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars each, for indexing hearings before the Committee on Military Affairs during the present session, including those in connection with the promotion of Brigadier-General Leonard Wood, three hundred dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr for services as assistant clerk, by detail toDennis M.
Kerr.Services. the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Ormsby McHarg for indexing and for extra services asOrmsby McHarg.Services. clerk to the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the SenateJ. H. Jones.Payment to. chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the first and second sessions of the Fifth-eighth Congress. For fuel, oil, cotton-waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus,Fuel, oil, etc. exclusive of labor, five thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousandMiscellaneous items. dollars. For repairs of Maltby Building, two hundred and fifty dollars.Maltby Building, repairs. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the HouseCongressional employees.Extra month’s pay. of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House, borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and four, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the first and second sessions of the Fifty-eighth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. For compensation of members of the House of Representatives andCompensation. Delegates from Territories, twelve thousand dollars. To pay the widow of Henry Burk, late a Representative in CongressHenry Burk.Pay to widow. from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars.
To pay the widow of G. W. Croft, late a Representative in CongressG. W. Croft.Pay to widow. from the State of South Carolina, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of R. H. Foerderer, late a Representative fromR. H. Foerderer.Pay to widow. the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of W. W. Skiles, late a Representative from theW. W. Skiles.Pay to widow. State of Ohio, five thousand dollars. To pay the legal heirs of C. W. Thompson, late a Representative inC.
W. Thompson.Pay to heirs. Congress from the State of Alabama, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow, or if none to the legal heirs, of V. Boreing, lateV. Boreing.Pay to widow, or heirs. a Representative in Congress from the State of Kentucky, five thousand dollars. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expensesContested-election expenses. incurred by them in contested-election cases as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: To George Howell, two thousand dollars;George Howell. 420 Charles F.
Joy.To Charles F. Joy, nine hundred and eighty dollars; Aaron P. Prioleau.To Aaron P. Prioleau, two thousand dollars; George S. Legare.To George S. Legare, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents; Bird S. McGuire.To Bird S. McGuire, two thousand dollars; W. M. Cross.To W. M. Cross, two thousand dollars; John T. Hunt.To John T. Hunt, five hundred and twenty-six dollars; Robert W. Bonynge.To Robert W. Bonynge, two thousand dollars; John F. Shafroth.To John F.
Shafroth, two thousand dollars; F. M. Davis.To F. M. Davis, two thousand dollars; T. W. Sims.To T. W. Sims, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and sixty cents; Allan C. Durborow.To Allan C. Durborow, two thousand dollars; George D. Reynolds.To George D. Reynolds, two thousand dollars; Henry D. Clayton.To Henry D. Clayton, one thousand and three dollars; Julius Kahn.To Julius Kahn, two thousand dollars; Edward J. Livernash.To Edward J. Livernash, two thousand dollars;
Joseph A, Conry.To Joseph A. Conry, two thousand dollars; John A. Keliher.To John A. Keliher, two thousand dollars; James M. Moody.To the widow of James M. Moody, two thousand dollars; James M Gudger.To James M. Gudger, tw7o thousand dollars; Asbury F. Lever.To Asbury F. Lever, two thousand dollars; William Lorimer.To William Lorimer, two thousand dollars; James J. Butler.To James J. Butler, two thousand dollars; Alexander D. Dantzler.To Alexander D. Dantzler, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and ten cents.
Alexander McDowell.Contested elections digest.To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Fifty-eighth Vol. 24, p. 445.Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,” the sum of two thousand six hundred and ten dollars and twenty-five cents, and an additional sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, four thousand four hundred and ten dollars and twenty-five cents.
Official reporters and stenographers.Extra services.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates and the official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives, including the assistant official stenographer to committees authorized by resolution of the House of December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and three, for clerk hire and extra clerical services during the first and second sessions of the Fifty-eighth Congress to March fourth, nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and fifty dollars John J.
Cameron.each; and to John J. Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Herman Gauss.Services.To pay Herman Gauss for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. D. S. Porter.Services.To pay D. S. Porter for services as assistant clerk, by detail, to the Committee on Pensions, five hundred dollars. Elevator conductors.Payment to.To pay the conductors of the elevators in the House wing of the Capitol the difference between the amounts received by them and the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum from July first, nineteen hundred and two, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, inclusive, each as follows:
L. B. Cook, two hundred dollars; George Winters, two hundred dollars; M. F. O’Donnell, two hundred dollars; S. A. Barnes, one hundred and sixty dollars and forty-seven cents; R. E. Walker, two hundred dollars; J. K. Duncan, two hun-421dred dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars and forty-seven cents. For compensation of session employees from November ninth toSession employees.Compensation, first session. December sixth, nineteen hundred and three, inclusive, namely:
For forty-three pages, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; eight session messengers in the post-office, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month each; and for fifteen committee clerks, at six dollars each per day for December fifth and sixth, nineteen hundred and three; in all, three thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eighty-eight cents. To pay J. D. Cremer for services in compiling and indexing matterJ. D. Cremer.Payment to. for House Report Numbered Six hundred and forty-six, Documentary History of the Capitol, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To continue employment during the fiscal year nineteen hundredBathroom laborer.Pay. and five of the additional laborer in the bathroom at sixty dollars per month, as authorized in House Resolution of November nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, seven hundred and twenty dollars. For two laborers, known as cloak room men, at the rate of sixCloak room men.Pay. hundred dollars per annum each, from May first, nineteen hundred and four, until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand four hundred dollars.
To pay L. W. Busbey for services as clerk to the Committee onL. W. Busbey.Services. Rules, five hundred dollars. For clerk to the Committee on Industrial Arts and ExpositionsIndustrial Arts and Exposition Committee. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two thousand dollars. To continue during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five thePay of clerk.List of private claims. employment of three clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, in the office of the Clerk of the House, to complete a digested summary and alphabetical list of private claims presented to the House of Representatives from the Fifty-second to the Fifty-seventh Congress, inclusive, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For additional compensation of the paying teller in the office of theSergeant-at-Arms, paying teller. Sergeant-at-Arms, three hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items. fifteen thousand dollars. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives andStationery. for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For additional amount for hire of horses and mail wagons for carryingHorses and wagons. the mails, to be paid to the present contractor for said service, three hundred dollars. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For procuring manure, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants,Repairs, etc. and seeds, and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. For painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, and for rebronzing and reconstructing foundation and bottom of Bartholdi fountain, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theLeaves of absence to employees. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 422 Treasury Department.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, thirty thousand dollars. Interior Department.For printing and binding for the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, twenty thousand dollars.
Department of Justice.For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars. Messengers, night service.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes as messengers on night duty during the first and second sessions of the present Congress for extra services, five hundred dollars each; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, one thousand five hundred dollars.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. Joseph Sudsburger, excepted.For the payment of the judgments, except the judgment in favor of Joseph Sudsburger, numbered twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty-four, rendered by the Court of Claims and reported to Congress in House Documents Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four and Six hundred and seventy-two, and Senate Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-seven, Two hundred and ninety-two, and Two hundred and ninety-six, of the present session, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents: *Provisos.*Appeal.*Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired: *Provided further*, Distributing award to New York Indians.That in the settlement by the accounting officers of the Treasury of the judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the New York Indians, rendered by said court on November twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, contained in House Document Numbered Two hundred Vol. 31, p. 27.and twenty-six, Fifty-sixth Congress, first session, and appropriated for by Congress in the deficiency Act of February ninth, nineteen hundred, the distribution of the award to said Indians shall be made on settlements of Auditor for the Interior Department.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments United States courts.For payment of certain judgments, including costs of suit, which have been rendered by the United States courts on mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States and by the circuit court of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, and not appealed, for which the United States is liable, certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered Six hundred and Coca-Cola Company excepted.sixty-nine, except the two judgments in favor of the Coca-Cola Company, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-nine cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum on the respective judgments as maybe authorized by law from *Provisos.*Appeals.the date thereof: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired:
Transmittal of estimates.*Provided further*, That hereafter estimates for the payment of all judgments against the United States, including judgments in Indian depredation claims and of United States courts shall be transmitted to Congress through the Treasury Department as other estimates of appropriations are required to be transmitted. 423 JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, inJudgments, Indian depredation claims.
Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and seventy-one, and Senate Documents Numbered Two hundred and eighty-four, Two hundred and ninety-three, and Three hundred, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars; saidDeductions. judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for theVol. 26, p. 863. adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amountsReimbursement. paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said*Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney- General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
JUDGMENT, COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS.Judgment, Court or Private Land Claims. For payment of the judgment of the Court of Private Land Claims,Nicolas Durau de Chaves grant. entered December fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, against the United States in the case of Jose Chaves y Gallegos and others versus The United States, Numbered Fifty-seven, Nicolas Duran de Chaves grant, as set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and eighty-two, this session, five hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
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 theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 28, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered six hundred and seventy 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 payment to Western Union Telegraph Company, interest on settlements withheld under Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty-two cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, fifty-one cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, nine dollars and fifteen cents. 424 For repairs and perservation of public buildings, fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, three dollars and twenty cents.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, one hundred and one dollars and eighty cents. For Life-Saving Service, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-three cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and fifty cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, thirty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed Auditor for War Department For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand four hundred and four dollars and fifty-six cents.
For pay of two and three year volunteers, twenty-three dollars and fifty-two cents. For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For pay of Military Academy, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For subsistence of the Army, seven hundred and ten dollars and forty-nine cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, thirty-two dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, sixty dollars and fifteen cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents. For barracks and quarters, eight hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-five cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, seventeen dollars and thirty-six cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, fifty-nine cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, forty-one dollars and thirty-four cents. For Ordnance Service, seven dollars and forty-five cents.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch one hundred and nine dollars and thirty-four cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, fifty dollars and twenty-two cents. State claims.For refunding to States, expenses incurred in raising volunteers namely: To the State of Wisconsin, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty cents. To the State of Massachusetts, one million six hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars and eighty-five cents.
For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, sixty-six dollars and twenty cents. For expenses of Rogue River Indian war, fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen bundled and fifty-six, three thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For pay of the Navy, two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-nine cents. 425 For pay, miscellaneous, twenty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. For clothing, Marine Corps, thirteen dollars and thirteen cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, six dollars and eighty-six cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, twelve dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-nine cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, three thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-three dollars and twenty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, forty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, sixty-eight dollars and sixty cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, four hundred and thirty dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For surveying the public lands, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-one cents. For Geological Survey, one dollar and one cent. For transportation of Indian supplies, five hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-eight cents.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, four dollars and fifty cents. For payment to C. A. Burris, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him in eighteen hundred and sixty-six by Comanche Indians, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For payment to estate of Shum ho ka, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from her in eighteen hundred and sixty-eight by Comanche Indians, one thousand six hundred dollars. For payment to estate of Booker James, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from him in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven by Comanche Indians, four hundred dollars.
For payment to estate of Shah to ho yer, deceased, a Chickasaw Indian, for stock stolen from her in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven by Comanche Indians, five hundred and twenty-five dollars. For Army pensions, eighty-five dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For public printing and binding, one hundred and twenty-six dollars. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, two hundred and sixty-five dollars and two cents. 426 For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, two hundred and ninety - five dollars and fifty-two cents.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, forty cents. For determining the most practicable route for canal across the Isthmus of Panama, thirty-five dollars. For salaries, consular service, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, three hundred and seventy-five dollars and ninety-one cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy cents. For salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, one dollar and ninety-seven cents.
For animal quarantine stations, one hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-one cents. For agricultural experiment stations, one dollar and sixty cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, one hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. For salaries, keepers of light-houses, five dollars and three cents. For supplies of light-houses, fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, twelve dollars and ninety-six cents.
For Cedar Point light station, Maryland, fourteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. For Lower Cedar Point light station, Maryland, seven dollars and forty-six cents. For Solomons Lump light station, Chesapeake Bay, twelve dollars and sixty-nine cents. For Maryland Point light station, Maryland, six dollars and fifty-seven cents. For Hooper Island light station, Maryland, two dollars and eighty-eight cents. For Pages Rock light station, Virginia, three dollars and twenty-eight cents.
For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, seven hundred dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and ten cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, twenty-eight dollars and five cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, ninety dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, eight hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.
For compensation of postmasters, fourteen dollars and eighteen cents. For clerk hire, nineteen dollars and twenty cents. For rent, light, and fuel, sixty-one dollars and sixteen cents. For railway mail service, one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixteen cents. For miscellaneous, First Assistant Postmaster-General, salary and allowance division, one hundred dollars. For star transportation, two hundred and nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, fifteen dollars.
For rewards, fifty dollars. 427 Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, p, 254. two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-nine, 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 repairs and preservation of public buildings, five dollars and sixty cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, twenty-eight dollars. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, nineteen dollars and six cents. For Life-Saving Service, five hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department For pay, and so forth, of the Army, fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents.
For subsistence of the Army, one hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-four cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seventy dollars and twenty-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, one hundred and seven dollars and eighty-five cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For surveying the public lands, four thousand five hundred and seventy-five dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. state department. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, two hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, forty dollars. department of justice. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, two hundred dollars. claims allowed by the auditor for the post-office department.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.
For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, five dollars. Sec. 4. For payment of a certain Treasury settlement heretoforeEureka Insurance Company.Treasury settlement. certified to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, namely, settlement numbered five thousand, in favor of the Eureka Insurance Com-428pany, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, William L. Jones, receiver, five thousand dollars, reported in Senate Executive Document Numbered Five, Fifty-third Congress, third session.
Missouri.Claim to be reopened.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to reopen and adjust the claim of the State of Missouri, under the Act to reimburse the State of Missouri for moneys expended for the United States in enrolling and equipping and provisioning militia Vol. 14, p. 38.forces to aid in suppressing the rebellion, approved April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, on the basis of like claims of Indiana, Michigan, New York, Maine, and Pennsylvania.
Texas.Payment for expenses, Greer County.To pay to the State of Texas as reimbursement to said State for expenses incurred in maintaining a civil government, and so forth, in what was then known as Greer County, Texas, now known as Greer County, Oklahoma, as shown by reports of the Secretary of the Interior contained in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-one, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, and House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-one, Part Two, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, fifty thousand eight hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-three cents, and the acceptance of payment hereunder shall be in full for all claims, of the character herein provided for, by the State of Texas.
New Jersey and Wisconsin.Adjusting claims of.Vol. 32, p. 1078.That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to reopen and adjust the claims of New Jersey and Wisconsin, for which appropriation was made by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, on the basis of like claims of Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Maine, and Pennsylvania, with the same force and effect as though appropriation therefor had not been made or accepted by the said States.
James D. Longstreet.Payment to widow.For the relief of Helen D. Longstreet, widow of General James Longstreet, the sum of one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 5. Chinese exclusion.Vol. 32, p. 176, amended.That section one of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to prohibit the coming into and to regulate the residence within the United States, its Territories, and all territory under it’s jurisdiction, and the District of Columbia, of Chinese and persons of Chinese descent,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
" Laws reenacted without limitation.“All laws in force on the twenty-ninth day of April, nineteen hundred and two, regulating, suspending, or prohibiting the coming of Chinese persons or persons of Chinese descent into the United Vol. 25, p. 477.States, and the residence of such persons therein, including sections five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, thirteen, and fourteen of the Act entitled ‘An Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States,’ approved September thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same are hereby, reenacted, extended, and continued, without modification, limitation, or condition; and said laws shall also apply to the island territory under the jurisdiction of the United States, and prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers, not citizens of the United States, from such island territory to the mainland territory of the United States, whether in such island territory at the time of cession or not, and from one portion of the island territory of the United States to another portion of said island territory: *Proviso*.Transit permitted in insular possessions.*Provided, however*, That said laws shall not apply to the transit of Chinese laborers from one island to another island of the same group; and any islands within the jurisdiction of any State or the District of Alaska shall be considered a part of the mainland under this section.
” " Approved, April 27, 1904.
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