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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · April 28, 1904 · Chapter 1762

Chapter 1762. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 1762.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. April 28, 1904.[[H. R. 14416](/us/bill/58/hr/14416).][[Public, No. 194](/us/pl/58/194).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Sundry civil Expenses appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Allentown, Pa. Allentown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. 453 Anderson, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under Anderson, Ind.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars, Anniston, Alabama, post-office: For continuation of building under Anniston, Ala.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of Athens, Ga.building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Atlantic, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under present Atlantic, Iowa.limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Atlantic City, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building under present Atlantic City, N. J.limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, custom-house: For continuation of building Baltimore, Md. Custom-house. Additional land.under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the properties known as the Peabody and Gunton properties, immediately adjacent to the site of the said custom-house building, abutting on Water street, Exchange place, and Post-Office avenue, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, at a cost not to exceed the sum of ninety thousand dollars; and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to use for that purpose the sum of twenty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents remaining available from the purchase of the Merchants National Bank property, together with the further sum of sixty-five thousand and eleven dollars and nineteen cents, which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose.
And the sum of one hundred Payment for damages by fire.and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to make good the damage to the Baltimore, Maryland, custom house by the great fire in Baltimore on February seventh and eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and not covered by insurance, and the contractors, Henry Smith and Sons, are released to the extent of said Release of contractors.sum or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine may be necessary to replace any work or materials in said custom-house destroyed or injured by said fire: *Provided,* That said release *Proviso.* To be in full.shall operate as a bar to any claim of said Henry Smith and Sons for any damages incurred by them in constructing said building in excess of said sum of one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars.
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Rent.Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Bangor, Maine, custom-house and post-office: To reimburse the Bangor, Me.appropriation for construction the amount necessarily used in repairing the foundation, six thousand dollars. Baraboo, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building under Baraboo, Wis.present, limit, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Batesville, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuation Batesville, Ark.of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building Battle Creek, Mich.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Centerville, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under Centerville, Iowa.present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Champaign, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under Champaign, Ill.present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation Charlottesville, Va.of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Chicago, Illinois, temporary building for post-office: For rental of Chicago, Ill. Rent.temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-nine, cents. 454 New building.
Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. Chillicothe, Ohio. Chillicothe, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty-two thousand dollars. Colorado Springs, Colo. Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Deadwood, S. Dak. Deadwood, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dekalb, Ill. Dekalb, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Detroit, Mich. Detroit, Michigan, post-office and court-house: For repairs and improvements to enlarge the accommodations of the post-office room in the post-office and court-house building at Detroit, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
Durham, N. C. Durham, North Carolina, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Elkhart, Ind. Elkhart, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Evanston, Wyo. Evanston, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fargo, N. Dak. Fargo, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For commencement of work under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Findlay, Ohio. Findlay, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Flint, Mich. Flint, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Florence, S. C. Florence, South Carolina, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Fond du Lac, Wis. Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building raider present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
Fresno, Cal. Fresno, California, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Fla. Gainesville, Florida, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Gainesville, Tex. Gainesville, Texas, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Geneva, N. Y. Geneva, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Georgetown, S. C. Georgetown, South Carolina, post-office and custom-home: For continuation of building under present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Gloversville, N. Y. Gloversville, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Goldsboro, N. C. Goldsboro, North Carolina, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Grand Forks, N.
Dak. Grand Forks, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Grand Haven, Mich. Grand Haven, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Green Bay, Wis. Green Bay, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Greenville, Tenn. Greenville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house :
For continuation of building under present limit, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Greensboro, N, C. Rent. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Greensboro, North Carolina, and for expenses incidental thereto, five thousand five hundred dollars. 455 Hammond, Indiana, post-office and court-house: For continuation Hammond, Ind.of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Harrison, Arkansas, post-office and court-house:
For continuation Harrison, Ark.of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Hastings, Nebraska, post-office: For continuation of building under Hastings, Nebr.present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Holyoke, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of building Holyoke, Mass.under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation Huntington, W. Va.of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Hutchinson, Kansas, post-office; For continuation of building under Hutchinson, Kans.present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Indianapolis, Indiana, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary Indianapolis, Ind. Rent.quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-two thousand dollars. Iowa City, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under Iowa City, Iowa.present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and so forth:
For Jacksonville, Fla.completion of extension under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Jacksonville, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under Jacksonville, Ill.present limit, ten thousand dollars. Kankakee, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under Kankakee, Ill.present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Kingston, New York, post-office: For continuation of building under Kingston, N. Y.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Lawrence, Kansas, post-office:
For continuation of building under Lawrence, Kans.present limit, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Lawrence, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of building under Lawrence, Mass.present limit, thirty-five, thousand dollars. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building Lebanon, Pa.under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Logansport, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under Logansport, Ind.present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary Los Angelos, Cal. Rent.quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. Louisiana, Missouri, post-office: For continuation of building under Louisiana, Mo.present limit, ten thousand dollars. Marblehead, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of building Marblehead, Mass.under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Marshalltown, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under Marshalltown, Iowa.present limit, twenty thousand dollars, Martinsville, Virginia, post-office: For completion of building under Martinsville, Va.present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Maysville, Kentucky, post-office: For continuation of building Maysville, Ky.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. McKeesport, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building McKeesport, Pa.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Memphis, Tennessee, custom-house, court-house, and post-office: Memphis, Tenn.For completion of extension under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Moberly, Missouri, post office: For completion of building under Moberly, Mo.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Muncie, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under Muncie, Ind.present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Nashua, New Hampshire, post-office: For continuation of building Nashua, N. H.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office; For continuation Nashville, Tenn.of extension under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Natchez, Mississippi, post-office: For continuation of building under Natchez, Miss.present limit, ten thousand dollars. 456 Natchitoches, La. Natchitoches, Louisiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Nevada, Mo. Nevada, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
New York, N. Y. Custom-house. New York, New York, custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Rent. New York, New York, rent of old custom-house: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain government officials, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars. Appraisers’ warehouse. New York, New York, appraisers’ warehouse: For necessary alterations in order to facilitate the business of the customs service, twelve thousand dollars.
Norristown, Pa. Norristown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Northampton, Mass. Northampton, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Norwich, Conn. Norwich, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Oak Park, Ill. Oak Park, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Oil City, Pa. Oil City, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ottawa, Ill. Ottawa, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollar's. Owosso, Mich. Owosso, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Pekin, Ill. Pekin, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Perth Amboy, N. J. Perth Amboy, New Jersey, post-office and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Pierre, S. Dak. Pierre, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Portland, Oreg.Rent, etc. Portland, Oregon, rent of buildings: For moving expenses, rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Providence, R. I. Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Reno, Nev. Reno, Nevada, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Richmond, Ind. Richmond, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Rock Hill, S. C. Rock Hill, South Carolina, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Rome, Ga. Rome, Georgia, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Rent. For the rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, at Rome, Georgia, five thousand dollars. Saint Joseph, Mo. Saint Joseph, Missouri, post-office: For continuation of extension of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, California, custom-house:
For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Saratoga Springs, New York, post-office: For commencement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Savannah, Ga. Savannah, Georgia, marine hospital: For Continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Seattle, Wash. Seattle, Washington, court-house, custom-house, and post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. 457 Selma, Alabama, post-office: tor continuation of building under Selma, Ala.present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Spokane, Washington: Post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Spokane, Wash.For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Springfield, Illinois, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary Springfield, Ill.quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, seven thousand dollars. Sterling, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under Sterling, Ill.present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Stillwater, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building under Stillwater, Minn.present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Superior, Wis.For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Tacoma, Wash.For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Torrington, Connecticut, post-office: For continuation of building Torrington, Conn.under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
Traverse City, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuation Traverse City, Mich.of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Vincennes, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under Vincennes, Ind.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Waco, Texas, rent of building: For rental of temporary quarters Waco, Tex. Rentfor the accommodation of certain Government officials and for expenses incident thereto, seven thousand dollars. Washington, Pennsylvania, post office:
For continuation of building Washington, Pa.under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Waterbury, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of building Waterbury, Conn.under present limit, fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Waterloo, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For continuation of Waterloo, Iowa.building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars, Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building under Wausau, Wis.present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
West Chester, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building West Chester, Pa.under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Wheeling, W. Va.For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Yankton, South Dakota, post-office: For continuation of building Yankton, S. Dak.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Zanesville, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under Zanesville, Ohio.present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the limitation *Proviso.* Time for acquiring sites extended.
Vol. 32, p. 321.of two years fixed in the proviso to section five of the “Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, in which to acquire a suitable site in any city mentioned in said Act, is hereby extended for one year, to June sixth, nineteen hundred and five. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia:
For Washington, D. C. Treasury buildings.repairs to Treasury, Buller, and Winder buildings, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars. Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of the Fire-alarm system.automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Bureau of Engraving and Printing building, Washington, District Engraving and Printing Bureau.of Columbia: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. 458 Repairs and preservation.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs 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 *Proviso.* Superintendents, etc.Treasury Department, exclusive of marine, hospitals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of the sum herein' appropriated 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.
Heating, etc., apparatus. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and exclusive of marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting *Proviso.* Minneapolis, Minn.
Elevators.work done on heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus: *Provided,* That it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be expended the whole, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for heating, hoisting and ventilating apparatus contained in the Act of Congress making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies, and so forth, *Ante*, p. 23.approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for the installation of adequate elevators in the public building at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Vaults, safes, and locks. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of persona] services, except for work done by contract, forty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done.
Plans, etc. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. Electrical protection. Vol. 32, p. 1091. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For maintenance of the electrical protective devices installed under authority of the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand dollars. marine hospitals.
Marine hospitals. Cairo, Ill. Cairo, Illinois, marine hospital: For addition to attendants’ quarters, five thousand dollars. San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, California, marine hospital: For isolation ward and mortuary, eight thousand dollars. quarantine station’s. Quarantine stations. Reedy Island. Reedy Island. Delaware River, quarantine station: For reclamation of ground, and lighting plant, eight thousand dollars. Cape Fear. Cape Fear quarantine station: For infectious hospital, five thousand three hundred dollars.
Savannah, Ga. Savannah, Georgia, quarantine station: For new wharf and laundry building, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. San Juan, P. R. San Juan, Porto Rico, quarantine station: For lazaretto, executive 459building, laundry, and attendants’ quarters, on Miraflores Island, ban Juan Harbor, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. life-savings service. Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: Superintends. Salaries.
For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast, of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for tire coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware. Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one, thousand seven hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington. Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and eighty-three keepers of life-saving Keepers.and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-five thousand one hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surf men employed at the life-saving and life-boat Crews. Louisiana Purchase Exposition station.stations, including the old Chicago station and at the building to be erected on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at Saint Louis, Missouri, under authority of section fifteen of the Act Vol. 31, p. 1443: Vol. 32, p. 445.of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine: pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same: rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Commutation of quarters.Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved Vol. 22, p. 57.May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and 460their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million five hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
New stations. For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be *Proviso.* Private use of phone lines.available until expended, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That private messages may, with the consent and authority of the Secretary sof the Treasury, he transmitted over any and all telephone lines controlled by the Treasury Department, whenever it does not interfere with Government business, at such rates and on such terms and conditions as may from time to time be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the proceeds thereof to be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. revenue-cutter service.
Revenue-Cutter Service. Salaries and expenses. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers, assistant engineers, and constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and surgeons and pilots employed, and rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards. cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of Seal fisheries.the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the, enforcement of the provisions of Anchorage.
Vol. 25, p. 151. Vol. 27, p. 431. Vol. 30, p. 1081. Vol. 29, p. 54. Vol. 31, p. 682.law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Mary’s River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and an Act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the Kennebec River at or near Bath, Maine, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred; for temporary leases and unproven it of property for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. engraving and printing.
Engraving and printing. Salaries. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million one hundred thousand dollars, to be *Proviso.* Large notes.expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* that no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing Vol. 31, p. 45.may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. 461 For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to extend the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of *Proviso.* Large notes.this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of Vol. 31, p. 45.value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials.distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the. Secretary of the Treasury. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office Department Rent.to supervise the distribution of stumps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a rental of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. under smithsonian institution.
Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international International exchanges.exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals twenty-seven thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six estimates shall be submitted hereunder embracing all sums expended for this service out of other appropriations made by Congress.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches American ethnology.among the American Indians under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars.
National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum. Furniture.required tor the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic Heating, etc.service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the Preserving, etc., collections.collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum, and all other necessary incidental expenses.
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in Books, etc.the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, Repairs.including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. 462 Rent. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred, and eighty dollars. Postage. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars.
National Zoological Park. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures and providing seats in the park; care subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, ninety-five thousand Half from District revenues.dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. interstate commerce commission.
Interstate Commerce Commission. Salaries. Vol. 21, p. 886. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; Expense. Vol. 24, p. 379. For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to give effect to the provisions of the “Act to regulate commerce,” and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; of which stun not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office.
In all, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Arbitration of railroad differences. Balance reappropriated. Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090. Vol. 32, p. 1101. The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved dune first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and throe, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.
Railway safety appliances. Vol. 27, p. 531. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, sixty-five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Miscellaneous. Paper and stamps. Paper and stamps:
For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, seventy thousand dollars. Punishing violations of Internal-revenue laws. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue mall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum. and also a detailed statement of all Miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for 463which appropriation is made in this Act: *Provided,* That necessary *Proviso.* Purchase of books, et.books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent Contingent expenses. Independent Treasury. R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719.expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin:
For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin, Transporting silver coin.by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin, when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency *Proviso.* Deposits.shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury Report of cost.shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, Transporting minor coin.eighteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have *Proviso.* Deposits.been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress Report of cost.the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins Recoining 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. 8512, p. 696.of the Revised Statutes of the United States, six thousand dollars. Denver, Colorado, Mint: For new machinery, appliances, and Denver, Colo.
Mint, machinery.furniture, and to complete the equipment necessary to inaugurate coinage operations, ninety thousand fifty-five dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, United States securities. Distinctive paper.including transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, three counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, two Hundred and forty-three thousand dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities:
Witness, destruction.For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials Sealing and separating.required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printers' varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including National currency expenses.express, mill, and other necessary expenses, forty thousand dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive Canceling, etc.paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. 464 Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.
Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollar's each; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Public buildings. Assistant custodians and janitors. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors:
For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the cure of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Inspector of supplies. General inspector of supplies for public buildings:
For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture, etc. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Furniture and repairs. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million and forty thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the *Proviso.* Gas governors.Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury Pneumatic tube prohibition.shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
Suppressing counterfeiting, etc. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody 465of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasure notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven R.
S., sec. 4718, p. 919hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Witnesses.That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts:” *Provided further,* Reimbursement.That the investigation of claims for the reimbursement of expenses of the hist sickness and burial of deceased pensioners shall be at the instance and under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and no part of any accrued pension shall hereafter be used to reimburse any State, county, or municipal corporation for expenses incurred by such State, county, or municipal corporation under State law for expenses of the last sickness or burial of a deceased pensioner.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of Compensation in lieu of moieties.moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessary Loca1 appraisers’ meetings.expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Customs Service in New Jersey:
The collector of the district of Burlington, N. J., custom district.Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, may reside at any point within the district, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, Lands, etc.care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, four hundred dollars. quarantine service.
Quarantine service. For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers Maintenance.and employees of quarantine stations at Portland, Maine, Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Cumberland Sound, Saint Johns River, Biscayne Bay, Ivey West, Roco Grande, Tampa Bay, Cedar Key, Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass), Pensacola, Gulf, Sun Diego, Sun Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred Printing.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.” Books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Books, etc.Bureau may be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five at a cost not. to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. 466 prevention of epidemics.
Prevention of epidemics. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in ease of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated Vol. 32, p. 1112.by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, and one hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and sup-pressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any Quarantine laws which may be then in force.
UNDEK THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. immigration stations. Immigration stations. Ellis Island, N. Y. Ellis Island, New York, immigrant station: For widening present ferry house, nine thousand dollars: Dredging. For dredging in and about the Ellis Island channel and slip, ten thousand dollars; Cutter. For the purchase and construction of a tugboat to be used as a boarding cutter by the immigration officials at New York, seventy-five thousand dollars; in all, ninety-four thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.
San Francisco, Cal. Report on plans for station, Angel Island. San Francisco, California, immigrant station: The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby directed to investigate into conditions of the immigration service at the port of San Francisco, California, and to report in detail a plan for an immigration detention station on Angel Island, in the harbor of San Francisco; said report shall cover in detail all buildings or improvements of every kind necessary for the completion of said station and the aggregate cost of the same.
Light-Houses, Beacons, and Fog Signals. Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Portland, Me. Ram Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine: For completing construction of a light-house and fog signal on Ram Island Ledge at the entrance to Portland Harbor, thirty-three thousand dollars. Boon Island, Me. Boon Island light station, Maine: For construction of a keeper’s dwelling, four thousand dollars. Boston, Mass. The Graves. The Graves light, station, Broad Sound Channel, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts:
For completion of a first-order light and fog signal at The Graves, on a granite tower, to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel in Boston Harbor, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars. New London, Conn. Black Ledge light and fog-signal station, Connecticut: For establishing a light and fog-signal station at or near Black Ledge, entrance to New London Harbor, Connecticut, sixty thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel, N. Y. *Post,* p. 1171. Ambrose Channel light station.
New York: Detailed estimates shall be submitted to Congress at its next session for a complete system of lighting Ambrose Channel, including the number and character of lights required, and the cost of each. Throgs Neck, N. Y. Throgs Neck light station, New York: For moving the light station now in front of the batteries of Fort Schuyler to another site at Fort Schuyler, Throgs Neck, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Rockland Lake, N. Y. Rockland Lake light station, New York:
For rebuilding the ice breaker to protect Rockland Lake light-house in Hudson River, New York, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. 467 Staten Island light-house depot, New York: For continuing repairs Staten Island light-house depot, N. Y.and improvement in erecting a carpenter shop, a boathouse, a blacksmith shop, a buoy shed on the north wharf, a watch house at the lower gate, and a watch house at the upper gate at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Delaware Bay and River, namely: For establishing light-house and Delaware River and Bay.fog signal on Elbow of Cross Ledge, seventy-five thousand dollars. Patapsco River light station, Maryland: For completing the construction Patapsco River, Md.of the light and fog-signal station in the Patapsco River, Maryland, sixty thousand dollars. Cape Lookout light station, North Carolina: For construction of a Cape Lookout, N. Y.keeper’s dwelling, five thousand dollars. Cape San Blas light station, Florida:
The sum of seven thousand Cape San Bias, Fla. Vol. 31, p. 594.dollars of the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars for the removal of Cape San Blas light station to a new and safe site, made by the Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, may be used for the construction of two dwellings for light keepers at said station. Oyster Bayou light station, Louisiana: For completing the, light-house Oyster Bayou, La.at the mouth of Oyster Bayou, near the Louisiana coast, in the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand dollars.
Sabine Bank light and fog-signal station. Texas: For completing the Sabine Bank, Tex.light and fog-signal station on Sabine Bank, in the Gulf of Mexico, off Sabine Bank, ten thousand dollars. Depot for the ninth light-house district: For establishing at or near Depot, ninth district.the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a depot for the ninth light-house district, including the purchase of a site therefor, seventy-five thousand dollars. Conneaut Harbor light station. Ohio: Any balance remaining from Conneaut, Ohio.
Vol. 32, p. 431.the appropriation made by sundry civil Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for constructing a light-house and raising the existing structure on the old pierhead is hereby made available for addition to and remodeling of keeper’s dwelling at Conneaut Harbor, Ohio. Cleveland west breakwater light station, Ohio: For the repairing, Cleveland, Ohio.remodeling, and making permanent the foundation, and so forth, of the Cleveland west breakwater light station, Ohio, five thousand dollars, Buffalo light-house depot, New York:
For continuing the construction Buffalo, N. Y., depot.of the light-house depot at Buffalo, New York, seventy-four thousand dollars. Presque Isle light station, Michigan: For construction of a dwelling Presque Isle, Mich.for the assistant light keeper at Presque Isle light station, Lake Huron, Michigan, five thousand dollars. Spectacle Reef light station, Michigan: For reconstructing the foundation of the Spectacle Reef, Mich.light and fog-signal station on Spectacle Reef. Lake Huron, Michigan, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.
Point Conception light station, California: For building an oil house Point Conception, Cal. Oil house.at Point Conception light station, California, one thousand five hundred dollars. Point Conception light station, California: For construction of a Dwelling.double dwelling for light keepers, nine thousand dollars. New Dungeness light station, Washington: For construction of a New Dungeness, Wash.light-keeper’s dwelling at New Dungeness light station, Straits of Juan de Fuca, Washington, five thousand dollars.
Tender for the inspector, fourth light-house district: Toward constructing, Tender, fourth district.equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, anew steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the fourth light-house district, to take the place of the worn-out tender Zizania, fifty thousand 468Contract.dollars; and the total cost, of said tender, tinder a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty- five Plans, etc.thousand dollars; and the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily at Washington not exceeding three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare the plans for the tenders for which appropriations are made by this Act; such draftsmen to be paid from and equitably charged to the appropriations for building such vessels; such employment to cease and determine on or before the date when, the plans for such vessels being finished, proposals for building said vessels are invited by advertisement.
Tender, sixth district. Tender for the inspector, sixth light-house district: Toward constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the sixth light-house district, to take the place of the worn-out tender Wistaria, fifty thousand dollars; and the, total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Tender, eleventh district.
Tender for Lake Superior to be used by the inspector of the eleventh light-house district: Toward constructing, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, a new steam tender for buoyage, supply, and inspection in the eleventh light-house district, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Peshtigo Reef, Wis. Vessel. Peshtigo Reef light vessel, Wisconsin:
For additional amount for completing the light vessel and fog signal at or near Peshtigo Reef, Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, five thousand dollars. Transferring vessels, New York to San Francisco. For expenses of transfer of the two light vessels for the Pacific coast, now being constructed in New York and New Jersey, to San Francisco, or the twelfth light-house district, authority is hereby given to use not to exceed twenty thousand dollars of the unexpended balances Vol. 32, p. 1093.of the appropriations for constructing light vessels provided for in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three. light-house establishment.
Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such Supplies, etc.other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, floats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc. Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. 469 Salaries of keepers of light-houses:
For salaries, fuel, rations, Keepers’ salaries.rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house, and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, eight hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of light vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, Light vessels.salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and Buoyage.maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crows of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, Fog Signals.and improving fog signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers, and at light-house depots, two hundred and five thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-house Lighting of rivers.tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River, between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River, between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland;
York River, James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, three hundred thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, Survey of sites.surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses Oil houses. *Proviso.* Limit.for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Porto Rican light-house service: For maintaining existing aids Porto Rico.to navigation and to establish and maintain additional clay marks and beacon lights and buoys, where required on Porto Rico and adjacent islands, including purchase of land for same and the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspector and light-house engineer and at the light-house depot, seventy-five thousand dollars. 470 Great Lakes.
Maintenance of lights on channels of Gue at Lakes: To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same cannot properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars. Pointe au Lake Pelee Erie.
Pointe an Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie: For maintenance of a light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe an Pelee Passage. Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Survey of coasts under jurisdiction of United States. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and cur-rent observations along the coast and throughout the Gill f Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations: and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time, prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, *Proviso.* Advances.and under the following heads: *Provided,* That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall he made unless to a commissioned officer, or ton civilian chief of party, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct.
Field expenses. For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be *Proviso.* Island limitation.immediately available, and to continue available until expended: *Provided,* That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars.
Pacific coast. For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars.
Coast Pilot. For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the 471United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines Magnetic observations.in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points Points to State surveys.to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished: for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars. , , For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Special surveys.Board or other proper authority, and contingent, expenses incident thereto, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, twelve thousand dollars.
For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneousincluding the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Department of Commerce and Labor regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American Geodetic Association.delegate at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars. *Provided,* That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be *Proviso.* Interchangeable expenditures.available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation.
In all, for field expenses, two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance Vessels.of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Pay, etc.all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including pay and subsistence of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and ten thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars.
Salaries Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, five thousand dollars; Salaries. Superintendents. For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Assistants.Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars: For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars;
For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each: For four assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: 472 For six aids, at nine hundred dollars each; For twenty-three aids, at not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Office force. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars: For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely:
For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each: For one, at eight hundred dollars; For nine, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars;
For eight, at one thousand dollars each: For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, At one thousand two hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each: For one, at seven hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely:
For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For ten, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; 473 For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; In all, one hundred and sixty thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials Office expenses.and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, other than for buildings, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
For the discussion and publication of observations, one thousand Publication, etc., of observations.dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances.Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.
Bureau of Fisheries. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars; Salaries. Commissioner, etc.deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Office of accounts: Disbursing agent, two thousand two hundred Office of accounts.dollars; examiner of accounts, one thousand six hundred dollars; property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars, one clerk of class one; bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand Office of architect and engineer.two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars: draftsman, nine hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. 474 Division of fish culture.
Office. Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Station employees. Central station. Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station, Washington, District of Columbia:
Clerk, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars: in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Aquaria. Aquaria, Central Station: Superintendent, nine hundred and sixty dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Fish ponds. Fish ponds, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: in all, four thousand nine, hundred and eighty dollars.
Green Lake, Me. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and eighty dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Craigs Brook, Me. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand nine hundred dollars.
Saint Johnsbury, Vt. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Woods Hole, Mass. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars. Cape Vincent, N. Y. Cape-Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
Battery Island, Md. Battery Island (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Bryans Point, Md. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Wytheville, Va, Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish-culturist, six hundred and sixty dollars: laborer, five hundred and forty dollars: laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars: in all, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Put in Bay, Ohio. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville, Mich. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; 475three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred Alpena, Mich.dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Duluth, Minn.dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars: fish-culturist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Neosho, Mo.dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Leadville, Colo.dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish-culturist, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five San Marcos, Tex.hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent, Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.one thousand five, hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Clackamas, Oreg.dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Manchester, Iowa,dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Bozeman, Mont.dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars: two Laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred Erwin, Tenn.dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Nashua, N. H.five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Edenton, N. C.five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine, hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Baker Lake, Wash.five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Cold Springs, Ga.hundred dollars: fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Spearfish, S. Dak. 476hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish-culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Tupelo, Miss. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Boothbay Harbor, Me. Booth bay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five, hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all. seven thousand one hundred dollars. Mammoth Springs, Ark. Mammoth Springs (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Employees at large. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturist, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each: two cockswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, N. C. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Custodian and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Division of statistics, etc. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries; Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hand red and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessels. “Albatross.” Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.” Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, three hundred dollars. “Grampus.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred 477and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For contingent expenses of the office of Administration expenses.the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, telegraph and telephone service, furniture, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations Propagation expenses.of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels.including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For field and contingent expenses of Inquiry respecting food fishes. Field, etc., expenses.the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior in the interest of fish-culture; for the investigation of the fishing-grounds of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with the view of determining their food resources, in the. development of the commercial fisheries, expenses of necessary travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For necessary traveling and contingent expenses Statistical inquiry.in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous Interchangeable expenditures.expenses of the work of the Commission shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. For the completion of lobster hatchery at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Stations. Lobster hatchery, Me.including purchase of land, construction and repair of buildings, ponds, and wharves, purchase of equipment, boats, and other necessary improvements, ten thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.including the purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, and improvement to waiter supply, eleven thousand dollars. For the fish-cultural station at Leadville, Colorado, improvement of Leadville, Colo.water supply and repair of buildings and ponds, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the fish-cultural station at Neosho, Missouri, purchase of land Neosho, Mo.and water rights, the construction and repair of pipe lines, and other improvements to the water supply, eleven thousand dollars. Marine biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: For completion Biological Station, N. C.of the biological laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina, including the construction of wharf, piers, jetties, and buildings, and general improvement of grounds, six thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Tupelo, Mississippi: For completion of the fish-cultural Tupelo, Miss.station at Tupelo, Mississippi, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, improvement to water supply, and purchase of equipment, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Fish hatchery, Craigs Brook, Maine; For construction and repair of Craigs Brook, Me.buildings and improvement to water supply, nine thousand three hundred dollars. 478 Green Lake, Me. Fish hatchery, Green Luke, Maine: For construction of pipe line from Rocky Pond, and other improvements to water supply, fifteen thousand dollars. Gloucester, Mass. Fish hatchery, Gloucester, Massachusetts: For improvements to buildings, construction of pier and telephone line, five thousand five hundred dollars. Wytheville, Va. Fish hatchery, Wytheville, Virginia: For improvement of water supply and repair of buildings and ponds, two thousand dollars. Manchester, Iowa. Fish hatchery, Manchester, Iowa: For protection of the station against floods, five thousand dollars. Northville, Mich. Fish hatchery, Northville, Michigan: For constructing and repairing bass ponds, improving water supply, sewage, and drainage system and protecting station against floods, five thousand dollars. “Fish Hawk.” Repairs. Steamer Fish Hawk: For repairs to the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk, including the necessary alterations and additions to the machinery, boilers, hull, and rigging, and to the purchase and installation of an electric-light plant, seven thousand five hundred dollars. “Albatross.” Repairs. Steamer Albatross: For purchase, installation, and repairs to the scientific equipment of the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, ten thousand dollars. Battery Island, Md. Launch. Launch for Battery Island Station, Maryland: For purchase or construction of launch for use at the fish-cultural station at Battery Island, Maryland, two thousand dollars. Salmon fisheries, Alaska. For the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, including salaries of one agent, at two thousand five hundred dollars, and one assistant agent, at two thousand dollars, to be appointed by the President, by Agents.and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to be in lieu of any and all agents or inspectors now authorized by law for this purpose, seven thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor. Miscellaneous. Alaskan seal fisheries. Agents’ salaries, etc. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. Food for natives. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Chinese exclusion. Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of *Ante,* p. 428.suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard Additional compensation.for deportation, six hundred thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General *Proviso.* Identification. Vol. 28, p. 1211.of Immigration as additional compensation: *Provided,* That so much of the amount hereby appropriated, or hereafter appropriated for similar purposes, as may be necessary shall be available for the establishment and maintenance of the Bertillon system of identification at the various ports of entry; but this proviso shall not apply to persons embraced in Article Three of the treaty with China of eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Shipping commissioners. Contingent expenses shipping service: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping com-479missioned offices, seven thousand dollars; and this sum shall be in full for all such expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and shall be so disbursed as to prevent a deficiency therein. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs Repairs.of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars. For preservation and repair of steam beating and electric lighting plants and elevators, buildings, Department of the Interior, five thousand dollars. Rent of buildings: For rent of buildings for the Department of Rent.the Interior, namely: For the rent of the fifth door of the Union Building on G street northwest, for the Patent Office models, six thousand five hundred dollars. For removing from the Patent Office building and placing in position Removing patent models, etc.on the fifth floor of the Union Building on G street northwest, the eases and models which are at present in the model halls of the Patent Office building, and for the construction of shelving, repairs to the space in the Patent Office building vacated, and other necessary expenses connected therewith, five thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs Capitol. Repairs, etc.thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty-two thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the appropriation *Proviso.* Reappropriation.for work at Capitol and repairs thereof made by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. To provide flags for the east and west fronts of the Flags.center of the Capitol, to be hoisted daily under the direction of the Capitol police board, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Cleaning works of art.the Capitol, including the repairing of frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Toward the construction of a building for a heating, lighting, and Heating, lighting, and power plant.power plant in connection with the office building for the House of Representatives, the installation of necessary machinery, for labor and material, construction of ducts, beating mains, subways, and traction system connecting the Capitol building, and for all other appliances, and for each and every purpose in connection with all of the foregoing, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said building *Proviso.* Capacity.for heating, lighting, and power plant, when constructed, shall be of sufficient size and capacity to furnish the necessary heat, light, and power for the office building of the House of Representatives, the Capitol building, the Congressional Library building, and for such other public buildings which may hereafter be erected on grounds adjacent to the Capitol grounds at the east of the Capitol building and facing the same: *Provided further,* That when complete and ready Limit of cost.for operation for the purpose of supplying heat, light, and power for the Capitol building, office building for the House of Representatives, and Congressional Library building, the total cost of said heating, lighting, and power plant, including building and all necessary apparatus, shall not exceed the sum of seven hundred and fifty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars, and that of the subway system 480connecting the Capitol building, the sum of one hundred and sixty-eight Contracts.thousand five hundred dollars; and contracts for any part or the whole of the work herein provided for are authorized to be entered into by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, who shall have charge of the construction of said building and equipment and subway system, and the employment of skilled and Vol. 32, p. 1114.other services, subject to the direction and supervision of the House Commission appointed to direct and supervise the construction of the office building for the House of Representative: *Provided further,* Location.That the said building and its appurtenant constructions shall be located in that portion of reservation seventeen bounded by Virginia avenue as extended through said reservation. South Capitol street, E street south, and New Jersey avenue, and in such manner that the main building shall not project beyond the building lines of any of the Siding.streets or avenues named; and a siding from the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad for the use of said building, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to cross, at grade or otherwise, the proposed extension of Virginia avenue through the reservation: *And provided further,* Easements.That such ducts, heating mains, subways, and appliances maybe constructed in and across any public street, avenue, alley, or reservation where necessary to carry out the purpose of this provision; and when same shall be constructed in or under any street, avenue, or alley they shall be located under plans approved by the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia. Washington Terminal Company. Upon payment into the Treasury of the United States by The Washington Terminal Company of the sum of forty thousand dollars, and the Subsurface easement through square 690.undertaking of said company at its expense to construct and maintain a siding from a connection with the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company to a heat, light, and power building intended to be established and maintained at a point on Government Reservation numbered seventeen, near the line of New Jersey avenue extended, in connection with and appurtenant to the fireproof building for committee rooms, folding room, and other offices for the Vol 32, p. 1113.House of Representatives, authorized by Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes,” the said The Washington Terminal Company, its successors and assigns, shall have and be possessed of the right and easement to occupy and use for the location, construction, and operation Vol. 32, p. 909.of its railroad authorized by Act of Congress, approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” a subsurface parcel of land through and beneath square six hundred and ninety in the city of Washington, recently acquired by the United States as the site for said fireproof building, of such width, not exceeding seventy feet, as shall be required for the location, construction, and operation of said company’s railroad on the route thereof as located conformably to the requirements of said Construction.last-mentioned Act. The said railroad to be located and operated in a tunnel, which shall be constructed in such manner and of such structural strength as to assure the safe, and convenient use of said square six hundred and ninety for the purposes of said building site, in accordance with plan of construction to be approved in duplicate original by the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, and also by the chief engineer of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and one of such duplicates shall be tiled with said superintendent and the other delivered to said The Washington Terminal Company. 481 To acquire a site for and toward the construction of a fireproof New office building for Senate.building for committee rooms, folding rooms, and other offices for the United States Senate and for necessary office rooms for Senators, to Location.be erected on square numbered six hundred and eighty-six, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, bounded by B street northeast, First street northeast, C street northeast, and Delaware avenue northeast, Construction.seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said site shall be acquired and said building constructed under the direction and supervision Commission.of a commission, which is hereby created, to lie composed of three Senators, namely: Honorable Shelby M. Cullom, of Illinois, Honorable Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and Honorable Francis M. Cockrell, of Missouri, and said building shall be constructed in accordance with architectural plans to be secured by said Limit of cost.commission in such way as they may deem advisable. The cost of said building, exclusive of site, shall not exceed two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the construction thereof and letting of contracts therefor, including employment of skilled and other services, shall be under the control of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the direction and supervision of said Acquiring site.commission. The said commission may acquire said site or any portion thereof by direct purchase, if the prices are reasonable; such portion of said site as cannot be so purchased shall be acquired by condemnation, as follows: The said commission shall notify the Secretary of the Interior in writing of such failure, whereupon the said Secretary of the Interior shall, within thirty days after the receipt of said notice, proceed to acquire such portion of said site in the manner prescribed for providing a site for an addition to the Government Printing Office in so much of the Act approved July first, eighteen Vol. 30, p. 648.hundred and ninety-eight, as is set forth on pages six hundred and forty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine of volume thirty of the Statutes at Large, and for the purpose of such acquisition the Secretary of the Interior shall have and exercise all powers conferred upon the Public Printer in said Act. The appropriations herein and hereafter made for said site and Disbursement of appropriations.building may be used for the payment of necessary expenses not compensation or salaries of the commission hereinafter provided for, and shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Interior. Any vacancy occurring by resignation or otherwise in the membership Vacancies.of the said commission shall be filled by the presiding officer of the Senate. A joint commission composed of three Senators, namely, Honorable Capitol extension. Joint commission to report on plans for.George P. Wetmore, of Rhode Island, Honorable Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, and Honorable Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, and three members of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth Congress, namely, Honorable Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois, Honorable William P. Hepburn, of Iowa, and Honorable James D. Richardson, of Tennessee, which is hereby created, is authorized to inquire and report to Congress at its next session plans in detail and estimates of cost for the extension and completion of the Capitol building, in accordance with the original plans therefor by the late Thomas U. Walter, with such modifications thereof as they may deem advantageous or necessary, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the employment of such professional and other services as they may deem requisite, and for such other expenses as said joint commission may authorize or incur, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the direction and supervision of said commission, or such commission as shall be authorized by Congress, shall conduct the making of all contracts for said construction, whenever and not before the same shall be authorized by Congress, after 482 Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds. Powers of.proper advertisements and the reception of bids, and said Superintendent, subject to the direction and approval of such commission, shall employ such professional and personal services in connection with said Vacancies.work, when authorized as aforesaid, may be necessary. Any vacancy occurring by resignation or otherwise in the membership of said commission shall be filled by the presiding officer of the Senate or House, according as the vacancy occurs in the Senate or House representation on said commission. Capitol grounds. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement, of the Capitol grounds and for care of the grounds, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting Capitol and grounds. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs, stable, etc. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house and Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and court-yards of same, one thousand rive hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. Public lands. Registers and receivers. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, six hundred thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and *Proviso.* Per diem, etc.twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books of and assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, Restriction on expenses.including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific and horization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Depositing moneys. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, three thousand dollars. Timber depredations, protecting public lands, and swamp claims. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public land, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Proviso.* Agents’ per diem.*Provided,* That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. 483 Protection and administration of forest reserves: To meet the Forest reserves. Expenses of protecting. Vol. 30, p. 31.expenses of executing the provisions of the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the care and administration of the forest reserves, to meet the expenses of forest inspectors and assistants, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and for the employment of foresters and other emergency help in the prevention and extinguishment of forest tires, and for advertising dead and matured trees for sale within such reservations, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That forestry *Provisos.* Selection of employees, etc.agents, superintendents, and supervisors, and other persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That forestry agents, superintendents, supervisors, Additional duties.and all other persons employed in connection with the administration and protection of forest reservations shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory in which said forest reservation is situated in relation to the protection of fish and game. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings Hearings in land entries.held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law. nine thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of Reproducing plats of surveys.the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the Desert lands. Examinations of selections.Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August Vol. 28, p. 422.eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks of the *Proviso.* Expenses.Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For Transcripts from records.furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided,* That persons employed under *Provisos.* Compensation.this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand: *Provided further,* That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation Restriction.shall be expended in any one month of the year for which it is available. surveying the public lands. Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand Surveys, rates.dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference *Provisos.* Preferences.shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen Vol. 25, p. 676. Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. 484hundred and ninety, and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories maybe entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except in rest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, Extra rates, heavily timbered, etc., lands.mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work cannot be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and Lands in California, etc.twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further,* That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441.dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to Resurveys, etc.all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general Per diem.to select, at such compensation not exceeding six dollars per day, and such per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as lie may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and Inspecting mineral lands, etc.for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys, office examination of surveying returns, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. Surveyor confirmed private land claims. For survey of private land claims in the States of Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming, and Utah, and in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, Vol. 26, p. 854.confirmed under the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Court of Private Land Claims, and to provide tor the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the resurvey of such private land claims heretofore confirmed as may be deemed necessary, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be also available for office work on such surveys and for the examination of the surveys in the field. 485 That all the powers now exercised by the Court of Private Land Court of Private Land Claims. Powers conferred on Commissioner of General-Land Office.Claims in the approval of surveys executed under its decrees of confirmation shall be conferred upon and exercised by the Commissioners of the General Land Office from and after the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and four. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned Abandoned military reservations. Vol. 23, p. 103.military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. Casa Grande. For pay of a custodian of Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation, Fort Sherman, Idaho. *Proviso.* Part granted Coeur d’Alene, for park.Idaho, four hundred and eighty dollars: *Provided,* That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to set apart from the Fort Sherman abandoned military reservation in the State of Idaho, twenty acres of land on the southeast corner thereof, immediately west of the depot grounds, extending forty rods along the lake front and eighty rods back, and the same is hereby granted and donated to the town of Coeur d’Alene, in the State of Idaho, for the use of said municipality as a public park, and which shall be used for such purpose exclusively. The title of said land so detached is hereby vested in the town of Coeur d’Alene for the purposes above specified. For the reestablishment, by permanent and conspicuous monuments, South Dakota. Reestablishing west boundary line.of the west boundary line of the State of South Dakota, the same being the boundary line between the State of South Dakota and the States of Wyoming and Montana, an estimated distance of two hundred and six miles, at a rate per mile to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. united states geological survey. Geological Survey. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Salaries of Director, etc.Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists, Scientific assistants.at font thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Expenses.Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the 486pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington. District of Columbia, and al! other necessary expenses, including telegrams, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: Skilled laborers. For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars; Topographical surveys. For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Geological surveys. For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Paleontologic researches. For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, ten thousand dollars; Chemical, etc., researches. For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, twenty thousand dollars; Illustrations. For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; Mineral resources. For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, including phosphates, which report shall be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the aim mil report, fifty thousand dollars; Books, etc. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, not to exceed two thousand dollars; Maps. For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars; Water supply. For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, two hundred thousand dollars; Survey of forest reserves. For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Reclamation service office. Rent. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize such expenditure as may be necessary, not exceeding three thousand dollars, for rent of office accommodations in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, Vol. 32, p. 388.for the reclamation service, established by Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of and lands.” Law books, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase of such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and Vol. 32, p. 388.examination authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of and lands,” and such expenditures shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department or the interior. Miscellaneous. Hot Springs, Ark. Protection, etc. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For protection and improvement, as follows: For construction of gutters for completed mountain roads on reservation, eight thousand dollars. Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protection 487of the Yellowstone National Park to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including two thousand tire hundred dollars for maintenance of buffalo, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite National Park: For protection and improvement of the Yosemite Park.Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand four hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to examine into the Report on reducing area, etc. *Post,* p. 702.conditions and situations in the United States Yosemite Park in the State of California for the purpose of ascertaining what portions of said park are not necessary for park purposes but can be returned to the public domain, and also at what place a good and substantial road can be built from the boundary of said park to the Yosemite Valley Grant, including the length and cost of the same; and for the purposes of said examination the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available. Sequoia National Park: For the protection and improvement of Sequoia Park.the Sequoia National Park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars. General Grant National Park: For protection and improvement General Grant Park.of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. Crater Lake National Park: For protection and improvement Crater Lake Park.of the Crater Lake National Park, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Wind Cave National Park: For the management, improvement, Wind Cave Park.and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisions Supreme Court Reports.of the Supreme Court for one hundred and fifty-six copies of volume one hundred and ninety, eighty copies each of volumes one hundred and ninety-one to one hundred and ninety-four, inclusive, and two hundred and sixty copies of volume one hundred and ninety-five, official edition and two dollars per volume, under the provisions of section two Vol. 25, p. 661.of the Act of February twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and of Act of July first, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four Vol. 32, p. 630.hundred and seventy-two dollars. To pay the publishers for thirteen copies of volumes forty-seven and forty-eight of the decisions of the Supreme Court, Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, one hundred and thirty dollars. Map of the United States: For printing for the Department of United States map. Printing copies for sale.the Interior five thousand copies of the map of the United States prepared by the General Land Office, latest edition, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said maps mounted on rollers ready for use, to be sold by the Secretary of the Interior at one dollar per copy. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, Alaska reindeer.for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of Government Hospital for Insane.the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from 488the 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 insane since, their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, two hundred and ninety-six thousand one hundred and twenty dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may he required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. Buildings and grounds. For the building and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane as follows: For general repairs and improvements, thirty thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. For additional wells and water filters, six thousand dollars. For additional laundry buildings and machinery, ten thousand dollars. For kitchen in building “R,” two thousand five hundred dollars. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Expenses. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty thousand dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, three thousand dollars. Howard University. Maintenance. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will he paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, thirty-five thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the industrial department, seven thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies, and use in laboratories, including eases and shelving, two hundred dollars; For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, forty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital. Appropriation for new building continued. Vol. 32, p. 1113. *Proviso.* Lands retroceded to Howard University. Freedmen’s Hospital: The appropriation of fifty thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four is hereby continued for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five: *Provided,* That the tract of land lying and being between Sixth and Fourth streets and between Pomeroy and College, streets, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, containing approximately eleven acres of ground, be, and the same is hereby, retroceded to Howard University, upon the condition that the said Howard University shall make and execute to the United States a perpetual Hospital on deeded lands.lease for the nominal rental of one dollar per annum, and that upon the execution of such lease to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, said Secretary shall cause to be erected on the ground so retroceded and leased the new hospital for freedmen provided for by the Act above referred to. 489 To enable Providence Hospital to obtain the amount of money Providence Hospital. Mortgage authorized to pay indebtedness.necessary to pay the indebtedness incurred in the construction, reconstruction, and completion of the buildings used for hospital purposes on square seven hundred and sixty-four in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, the directors of said hospital are hereby authorized to raise, by mortgage or other incumbrance on the real estate and improvements on said square, a sum not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which said sum shall be in addition to the two hundred thousand dollars which was authorized to be raised by the directors of the Providence Hospital by Act approved February Vol. 31, p. 762.sixth, nineteen hundred and one, and said sums heretofore and hereby authorized shall be a first lien on said real estate and improvements. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For storehouse Frankford, Pa.for storage of small arms cartridges, forty-six thousand dollars; For extension of shop used for loading small arms cartridges, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Manila Ordnance Depot, Manila, Philippine Islands: For completion Manila, P. I.of a building for office, sixteen thousand dollars. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For completing the Rock Island, Ill. Manufacture of small arms.installation of the plant and the purchase of tools, fixtures, and other appliances for the manufacture of small arms in the armory shops at Rock Island Arsenal, to be available until expended, seventy-five thousand dollars. For one set of officers’ quarters, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For machinery and shop fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and Care, etc.care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rode Island Bridge and Bridge.Viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For rebuilding and Sandy Hook proving ground.repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, storehouses, and quarters, eight thousand dollars; For one passenger and freight boat, in addition to the sixty-five Passenger, etc., boat. Vol. 32, p. 1121.thousand dollars appropriated by Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, ten thousand dollars; For the purchase and installation of engine and generator for electric-lighting purposes; for purchase of material and installation of the necessary wiring for carrying power for lighting new barracks, laboratories, refrigerator and heating plant for testing powders, addition to brick house, wharf, and grounds; for extension of present telephone system, and for the enlargement, care, and maintenance of present electric storage battery, seven thousand dollars; For brick building for housing three locomotives and one locomotive crane, six thousand dollars; In all, thirty-one thousand dollars. Powder depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For five storehouses Dover, N. J. Powder depot.for reserve supply of war material, sixty thousand dollars; For one additional magazine for high explosives, nineteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; For extension of railroad system of the post, fifteen thousand dollars; For purchase and installation of power plant, five thousand dollars; For extension to the present reservoir to increase water supply, four 490thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one hundred and four thousand four hundred dollars. Springfield, Mass. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars; For one oil house of brick, with storage tanks, one thousand five hundred dollars; In all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Watertown, Mass. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For alteration of the lighting plant at Watertown Arsenal, six thousand dollars: *Proviso.* Right of way for park purposes.*Provided,* That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to grant unto the Common wealth of Massachusetts, through its board of metropolitan park commissioners, for public use as a park and park drive along the Charles River, in continuation of other parks and drives being laid out and constructed along said river by the said Common-wealth of Massachusetts, a right of way through the portion of the lands of the Watertown Arsenal, within said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, along the southerly side thereof between its easterly and westerly boundaries; the width of the strip of land granted for said right of way to be such as the Secretary of War in his discretion may deem wise; and the said right of way to include the right of care, Conditions.management, and police jurisdiction: *Provided further,* That any said grant of right of way be upon terms and conditions which shall reserve the right to make such use of the river front and of the lands comprised in the right of way as the Secretary of War may deem necessary for the uses of the arsenal and to temporarily close them to the uses herein authorized. Testing machines. Testing Machines, Watertown Arsenal: For labor and materials in earing for, preserving, and operating the United States testing machines at Watertown Arsenal, including such new tools and appliances as may he required, fifteen thousand dollars. Watervliet, N. Y. Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: For replacing iron bridge across the Erie Canal, to connect the east and west portions of the arsenal, four thousand dollars. Repairs. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington. Buildings and grounds District of Columbia. Improvement and care. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of green houses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. Monument grounds. For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annex (Potomac Park) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. Old canal. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred *Proviso.* Expenditure.dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; manure, and hauling the same, and removing snow and ice; purchase and repair 491of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, white, washing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or other-wise. as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement, care and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying asphalt walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. For stone coping for Franklin Park, two thousand dollars. For completing the improvement of the portion of Potomac Park Potomac Park.between the tidal reservoir and the Washington Monument grounds and extending from Seventeenth street and Virginia avenue northwest to Maryland avenue and Fourteenth street southwest, twenty thousand dollars. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in Half from District revenues.and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and sixty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. To defray the expenses incident to the erection and dedication, upon Frederick the Great. Dedication of statue.War College grounds Washington Barracks, of the statue of Frederick the Great, the gift to the United States of His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars. To enable a commission, which is hereby created, to be composed of Thomas Jefferson. Commission on statue to Thomas Jefferson.the Secretary of State, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, and the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-eighth Congress to select a site on the public grounds in the District of Columbia for a statue of Thomas Jefferson to cost complete not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and to procure plans and designs for the same to be reported to Congress during its next, session, five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, two thousand dollars. 492 Executive Mansion. Repair, etc. Executive Mansion: For care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of conservatory and greenhouses, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to and reerection of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. For building two new greenhouses, six thousand dollars. Lighting Executive Mansion and grounds. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas titters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, twenty thousand dollars: *Proviso.* Maximum per lamp.*Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than twenty dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping t he lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as Part from District revenues.may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further,* That three, thousand four hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Higher candle-power lamps.Treasury of the United States: *And Provided further,* That not more than five thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above, and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty-eight dollars per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. Electric lights. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin. Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, four thousand five hundred and five dollars one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Repairs of water pipes. Repair of water pipes: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and for cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. Government telegraph. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. 493 Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument.Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month: one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car at seventy-five dollars per mouth; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses.brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. For constructing a reception room on the lower floor of the Reception room.Monument, two thousand five hundred dollars. engineer department. Engineer department. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under Rivers and harbors.contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina: For continuing Charleston, S. C.improvement, seventy-three thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred Vol. 29, p. 202.and ninety-six, as follows: Improving harbor at. Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Cleveland, Ohio.twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars. Improving Cumberland Sound, Georgia and Florida: For continuing improvement, Cumberland Sound, Ga. and Fla.fifty-five thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, West Virginia: For completing Monongahela River, W. Va.improvement by the construction of six locks and dams on the Upper Monongahela River, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing San Pedro, Cal.construction of breakwater, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Winyaw Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement Winyaw Bay, S. C.of harbor at Win yaw Bay, seventy thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred Vol. 30, p. 1121.and ninety-nine, as follows: Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuing Gowanus Bay, N. Y.improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvement Black River, Ohio.of harbor at mouth of Black River, Lorain, Ohio, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gulfport, Mississippi: For maintenance of Gulfport, Miss.channel from Gulfport to Ship Island Harbor, including anchorage basin, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvement Ambrose Channel N. Y.of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor of refuge at Sand Beach, Michigan: For continuing Sand Beach, Mich.improvement in completion of contract limit, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Toledo, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Toledo, Ohio.seventy thousand dollars. For works authorized by the rivet and harbor Act of nineteen hundred Vol. 32, p. 331.and two, as follows: Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement Boston, Mass.by providing channels thirty-five feet deep, and Of authorized 494widths, from the navy-yard at Charlestown and the Chelsea and Charles River bridges to President Roads, and thence by route designated as numbered three through Broad Sound to the ocean, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Gloucester, Mass. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement in accordance with the approved and modified project, one hundred thousand dollars. New London, Conn. Improving harbor at New London, Connecticut: For completing improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Lake Erie, N. Y. Black Rock Harbor. Improving Lake Erie Entrance to Black Rock Harbor and Erie Basin, New York: For continuing improvement, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Savannah, Ga. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement in accordance with approved or modified project as authorized, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Galveston, Tex. Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing work of restoration of channel and jetties in accordance with approved or modified plan as authorized, one hundred thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement in accordance with the plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Conneaut, Ohio. Improving harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: For continuing improvement, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Waukegan, Ill. Improving harbor at Waukegan, Illinois: For completing improvement in accordance with the modified project as authorized, five thousand dollars. Oakland, Cal. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement in completion in contract limit, nineteen thousand dollars. Delaware River, Pa. and N. J. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement from Christian Street, Philadelphia, to Delaware Bay, one million dollars. Great Pedee River, S. C. Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of upper portion of river, ten thousand dollars. Saint Johns River, Fla. Improving of Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvement from Jacksonville to the ocean in accordance with the approved and modified project, three hundred and ninety-five, thousand dollar. Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, numbered one, two, and three in the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Pascagoula River, Miss. Improving Pascagoula River, Mississippi: For continuing improvement in completion of contract limit from three miles above the mouth of Dog River to the seventeen-foot contour in Mississippi Sound, twenty-five thousand dollars. Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Tex. Improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: For continuing improvement to a uniform depth in divisions one and two, two hundred thousand dollars. Mississippi River. From the Ohio to the Missouri. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis, Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minn. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minnesota, four hundred thousand dollars. Ohio River. Dam No. 8. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement in completion of contract limit by the construction of dam numbered eighty fifty thousand dollars. Dam No. 11. For continuing improvement in completion of contract limit by the construction of dam numbered eleven, fifty thousand dollars. Stockton and Mormon channels, Cal. Improving Stockton and Mormon channels, California: For continuing improvement by dredging and by the construction of a canal to 495divert the waters of Mormon Channel in Calaveras River at and near the city of Stockton, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Columbia River at Three-Mile Rapids, Oregon and Washington: Columbia River, Oreg. and Wash. Canals, etc.For continuing improvement between the foot of The Dalles Rapid and the head of Celilo Falls by means of canals and the improvement of the channel of the river, in accordance with the approved or modified project, as authorized, one hundred thousand dollars. under the mississippi river commission. Mississippi River Commission. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi From Head of Passes to the Ohio.River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. national cemeteries. National cemetries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national Maintenance.cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of Superintendents.seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of Headstones for soldiers’ graves.furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, fifty thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to Roadways.roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted *Proviso.* Encroachments by railroads forbidden.upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be Restriction.used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Burial of indigent soldiers.Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war and soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain who die in the District of Columbia, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, and of such soldiers, sailors, and marines who die in the District of Columbia and are buried in the immediate vicinity thereof, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, California: Road to Presidio, Cal.For continuation of stone wall on the boundary line of the reservation of the Presidio of San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars. Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, Wisconsin: For the improvement Fort Crawford, Wis.and repair of the military cemetery on the Fort Crawford Reservation at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and for the purpose of purchasing a suitable approach to said cemetery, the sum of three thousand dollars heretofore appropriated is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. 496 Antietam battlefield, Md. Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. Superintendent. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to he selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. Bringing home remains from abroad. Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at. sea, forty thousand dollars. Bringing home remains of civil employees and soldiers dying on transports. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died, or may hereafter die, while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, five thousand dollars. Confederate Mound, Chicago. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Camp Chase, Ohio. Confederate cemetery. Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Ohio: For reconstruction of stone wall inclosing the Confederate cemetery at Camp Chase, Ohio, the unexpended balance of the sum of two thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, together with the further sum of one thousand six hundred dollars. Graves in post cemeteries. Marking civilian graves in post cemeteries: For supplying stone markers for civilian graves in post cemeteries, five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, war department. Miscellaneous. Military posts. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement of buildings at such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary; for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted project for seacoast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, one million five hundred thousand dollars, and from this appropriation there shall be expended for construction of two double barracks, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Des Moines, Iowa.brick, for four troops of cavalry at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, one hundred and five thousand dollars; for construction of two double barracks, brick, for four troops of cavalry at Des Moines military Fort Meade, S. Dak.post, Iowa, one hundred and five thousand dollars; for construction of one double barrack, brick, for two companies at Fort Meade, South Indianapolis, Ind.Dakota, fifty-five thousand dollars; and toward the construction of necessary buildings for a garrison of regimental headquarters, band, and twelve companies of infantry, on land recently acquired for that purpose near Indianapolis, Indiana, including plumbing and plumbing 497fixtures and sewer connections, and heating and lighting appliances five hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter *Proviso.* Purchase of future sites.in acquiring sites for fortifications it shall he the duty of the Secretary of War, in every case of such acquirement, to purchase or otherwise procure at the same time, under this and future appropriations for this purpose, sufficient land for necessary barracks and quarters for the artillery troops required in connection with each of such fortifications: but no part of the money appropriated for military Restriction.posts shall he used for the purchase of any land except us herein specifically provided. That so much of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations Fort Sheridan, Ill. Vol. 32, p. 1129, amended.for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, under the head “Miscellaneous objects, War Department,” and subhead “Military posts” as relates to the purchase of land adjoining the military post at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, be made, to read as follows: For the purchase of about eighty-four acres of land adjoining the Area of land for buildings reduced.military post at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and lying between that post and the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, the same being required for sites for the additional buildings necessary for the accommodation of the increased garrison and for drill ground, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. In lieu of the appropriation made of the proceeds of the sale of the Columbus, Ohio. Vol. 32, p. 515.barracks of the United States Army at Columbus, Ohio, authorized by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three,” the sum of one hundred and eighty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchaser of about two thousand acres of land required and Site for new post.heretofore selected by the War Department fora military post at or near Columbus, Ohio, to be available when said barracks have been sold and when the proceeds of such sale have been covered into the Treasury of the United States; and the Secretary of War is hereby Reappraisal and sale of old barracks.authorized and directed to cause said barracks property to be reappraised and to be sold, after due advertisement, at not less than three- fourths of the value of such appraisement, at either public or private sale, to the highest an d best bidder. To enable claims to the ownership of land which has been gained Fort Wayne, Mich. Determination of western boundary, etc.from the Detroit River by natural accretion to be adjusted the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the owner of the premises adjoining the military reservation at Fort Wayne, Michigan, to determine a location for the western boundary of said reservation and to give a quitclaim deed to all land west of the line so determined upon receiving from said owner a proper quitclaim deed to all land east of said line. For the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military Presidio, Cal.Reservation, at San Francisco, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Fort Crockett Reservation, Galveston, Texas: For the construction Fort Crockett, Tex. Construction of sea wall.along the entire front of the Fort Crockett Reservation, except those parts of said front where the protected fortifications already act as a breakwater, a sea wall, embankment , and fill, as designated, specified, and described in the report of the board of engineers Vol. 32, p. 311.constituted in accordance with section one of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, four hundred and ten thousand dollars, and upon the conveyance in fee simple to the Further extension.United States of the land lying between Thirty-ninth and Forty-fifth streets and south of Avenue U, in the city of Galveston, Texas, the said sea wall in front of the Fort Crockett Reservation shall be extended 498and completed under the direction of the Secretary of War from Thirty-ninth street to the west line of Fortt street in the city of Galveston. Texas, as designated, specified, and described in the report Vol. 32, p. 341.of the Board of Engineers, constituted in accordance with section one of the river and harbor Act, approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two. and for this purpose the sum of one bundled and eighty- one thousand and forty-six dollars and twenty-five cents is hereby appropriated. Governors Island, N. Y. Enlargement Governors Island, New York: For continuing plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island, New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and filling, two hundred thousand dollars. Statue of Liberty, N. Y. Receipt from executive committee. Statue of Liberty, Belloes Island, New York: The Treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized and directed to receive the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, more or less, from the executive committee of the Statue of Liberty erected on land belonging to the United Slates on Bedloes Island, New York Harbor; and the Secretary Maintenance.of War is hereby authorized to keep the said statue in repair, and to pay for the same from the appropriation for “Regular supplies,” under the Quartermaster’s Department, in the appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year in which such expenses shall be incurred. Jamestown Island, Va. Protecting. Protecting Jamestown Island, Virginia: For the extension and completion of the sea wall and the construction of any other necessary works for protecting Jamestown Island, in the State of Virginia, from the encroachments of James River, fifteen thousand dollars. Fort Monroe, Va. Fort Monroe, Virginia: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, painting, repairs to roof, brooms, shovels, and so forth, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and seventy dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars. Roads, etc. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to streets, macadamizing, brick, cement, terra-cotta drainpipe, and catch basins; electric lights for streets; two thousand and five dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer policing roads, four hundred and eighty dollars; to all, two thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, one thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents. Sewer system. Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum to be supplied by the United States, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Yellowstone Park. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For the improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, in accordance with the approved project, including maintenance and repair of existing improvements, to be extended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expanded. Mount Rainier Park. Mount Rainier National Park: For continuing the construction of the wagon road into said park heretofore surveyed and commenced under the direction of the Secretary of War, thirty thousand dollars, of which sum six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be used by the Secretary of War in surveying and estimating the cost of a wagon road along the most practicable route 499from the eastern boundary of the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve into said park. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga.the establishment of tin1 Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze: iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, inclosing Point Park; in all, forty thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of Shiloh.establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, and historical tab-lets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing Gettysburg.the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, sixty thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of Vicksburg.establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners, the secretary and historian: for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; these and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Maps, War Department: For publication of maps for use of the Maps.War Department, inclusive of war maps, one thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: Transportation of reports, etc.For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. 500 Providence Hospital. Destitute patients. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of Half from District revenues.the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the Half from District revenues.District, of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. California Debris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. New York Harbor. Deposits. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: Inspectors, etc. For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; Crews, tugs, etc. For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch, sixty-three thousand dollars; In all, seventy-three thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. National Home for Disabled Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio. Current expenses. At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and lire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Proviso.* Effects of dead members.*Provided,* That nil receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall be also available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty thousand dollars. Subsistence. For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the Branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars; Household. For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the Branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-501house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, Hospital.hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carnage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the rare of the sick; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, and for the quartos of the assistant surgeons, nurses, and other civilian employees attached to the hospital permanently employed and residing at the Branch; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining-room employees; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Transportation.Home, three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, Repairs.carpenters, painters gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-seven thousand dollars; For dairy barn, nine thousand dollars; Barn. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, Farm.farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; for rent of leased lands, and for repairs not done by the Home, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and ninety-one thousand five hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For Milwaukee, Wis. Current expenses.current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eight Transportation.hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same, objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For elevators for barracks, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Elevators. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, Togus, Me. Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; 502 Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-three thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-six thousand dollars; Hospital additions For extension and alterations of the hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars; Stable. For new stable, ten thousand dollars; Water mains. For new water mains and additional hydrants, six thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fourteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; In all, three hundred and sixty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars Hampton, Va. Current expenses. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars; New boilers. For new boilers, eight thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified raider this head for the Central Brunch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred dollars. Leavenworth, Kans. Current expenses. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-four thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-five thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, including not exceeding six hundred and fifty dollars tube immediately available for the purchase of additional land, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars. Santa Monica, Cal. Current expenses. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one Hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-four thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this bead for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; 503 For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Transportation. Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For additional boilers, four thousand dollars: For septic tank for hospital, four thousand one hundred and forty-five Hospital addition.dollars; For completion of additional wing to hospital and detention ward, six thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-six thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current Marion, Ind. Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars; Transportation. Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, and including bathroom in hospital, forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriations for repairs for any of *Proviso.* Restriction use of amounts for repairs.the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For improvement of Water supply, eleven thousand five hundred Water supply.dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for Farm.necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, ten thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current Danville, Ill. Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branchy one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand five Transportation.hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For addition to hospital, fifty thousand dollars; Hospital addition. Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eleven thousand nine hundred dollars: In all, three hundred and seventy-two thousand nine hundred dollars. At the Mountain Branch, at Johnson City, Tennessee: For Johnson City, Tenn. All expenses.current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch, two hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars; 504 Sewage disposal. For sewage-disposal plain, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand dollars. Hot Springs, S. Dak. All expenses. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars. Completing buildings. For the completion of said sanitarium and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including all buildings necessary in the discretion of and approved by the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in addition to amounts heretofore appropriated, seventy-five, thousand dollars. Clothing for all Branches. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, sliced socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, material, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. Salaries, etc., Board of Managers. R. S., sec. 4827, p.936. For salaries for officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general, three thousand dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors-general, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, twelve thousand dollars; messenger service for president's office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, three thousand nine hundred dollars; agents, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand three hundred and forty-four dollars. In all, three million eight hundred and seven thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars. State and Territorial homes. Vol. 25, p. 450. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled *Provisos.* Restrictions.Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or territorial Home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the Vol. 22, p. 503.pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”; but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial Home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are Prohibition on sale of liquors.admitted and maintained: *And provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial Home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. Back pay and bounty. Vol. 14, p. 322. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of Juh twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of 505the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account War with Spain. Arrears of pay, etc.of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. Boundary Line, United States and Canada: For the more effective Canadian boundary. Marking, etc., west of Rocky Mountains. Vol. 9, p. 869.demarcation and mapping of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada along the forty-ninth parallel west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, as established by the Commission of eighteen hundred and fifty-six to eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-six, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to he immediately available and continue available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie necessary. International Railway Congress: For the participation by the International Railway Congress. Participation.United States in the International Railway Congress to lie held in the city of Washington in May, nineteen hundred and five, four hundred dollars. International Congress to consider subjects relating to collisions international Marine Congress. Delegate.and salvage: For expenses of a delegate to represent the United States at an international congress to be held to consider two drafts of international conventions relative to collisions and salvage, which were adopted at the last meeting of the International Maritime, Committee held at Hamburg in nineteen hundred and two, two thousand dollars. International Sanitary Bureau: For the annual share of the International Sanitary Bureau. Contribution.United States for maintenance of the Bureau, as recommended in Senate Document Numbered Thirteen of the present session, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents. Legation buildings at Peking, China: For completion of new China. Legation building, Peking.buildings for the United States legation at Peking, China, including approaches, and securing a suitable supply of water, fifty thousand dollars. International Exposition at Liege, Belgium: To enable the International Exposition, Liege, Belgium.Government to take official part in the international exposition to be held at Liege, Belgium, during the year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no liability in excess of the *Proviso.* Limit of liability.appropriation shall be incurred and that the commissioners, to be selected by the Department of State, shall serve without compensation. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual Court-house, D. C.repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five thousand dollars. For special repairs and fireproofing of roof, and construction of a Special repairs.file room for use of the court of appeals in the attic story of the court-house, Washington, District, of Columbia, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuing construction Penitentiaries. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.of the new United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, two hundred and forty thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended: *Provided,* That no part *Proviso.* Residences.of this sum shall be used for the construction of a warden’s residence 506costing, complete, in excess of ten thousand dollars, or a deputy warden’s residence costing, complete, in excess of eight thousand dollars. McNeils Island, Wash. Use of balances. Vol. 32, p. 1144. United States Penitentiary, McNeils Island, Washington: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for the construction of additional suitable buildings, prison wall, additional lands, including clay deposit, and wharf for the United States Penitentiary at McNeils Island, Washington, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United 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, fifty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States Commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, forty-five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant .Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-two thousand dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Traveling, etc., expenses. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Prosecuting and collecting claims. Prosecution and collection of claims: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. Mission Indians, counsel. Counsel for Mission Indians: To enable the Attorney-General to employ a special attorney for the Mission Indians of southern California, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, one thousand dollars. Care, etc., of rented buildings. Care of buildings rented by Department of Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be 507selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General and to be expended under his direction, ten thousand dollars. Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, Alaska. Incidental expenses.books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, rive thousand dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and Traveling expenses.necessary expenses of file judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Insular and territorial affairs: For defraying the necessary Insular, etc., affairs.expenses incurred in the conduct of insular and other territorial matters and affairs within the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, including the payment of necessary employees at the seat of government or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to be expended under his direction, twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That estimates under this appropriation *Proviso.* Future estimates.shall hereafter be submitted under Legislative, Executive and Judicial expenses. Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Coal mission: Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. Defense of suits.For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to Vol. 31, p. 877.be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of Marell second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference. Enforcement of antitrust laws: That the balance of the appropriation Antitrust laws. Balances available for enforcing. Vol. 32, p. 903.of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of the provision of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States courts. Expenses of the United States Courts: For defraying the Expenses.expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals’ salaries, etc.and their deputies, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in Advances.accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen 508hundred anti four, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four or prior y ears. District Attorneys’ salaries, etc. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred *Proviso.* Services during vacancies.and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the offices of the United States district attorney. District attorney, D. C. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. Regular assistant attorney. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Special assistants. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, eighty-five thousand dollars. Clerks’ fees. For fees of clerks, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Commissioners’ fees, etc. R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section ten hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees. Witnesses’ fees. Rent. For fees of jurors, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Bailiffs, etc. *Provisos.* Actual attendance. R. S., sec. 715, p. 136. 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.That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable Traveling, etc., expenses.expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of judges of the circuit courts of appeals, not to exceed ten dollars per clay: of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, Jury commissioners.five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous expenses. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Indian Territory. Salaries. For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges, in the Indian Territory seventy-five thousand dollars. Supplies. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. New York, southern district, district attorney’s fees. For fees of district attorney for the southern district of New York, under section eight hundred and twenty-five, Revised Statutes, one hundred dollars. Support of prisoners. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after 509conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, and not exceeding three thousand dollars for repair of United States jails, seven hundred and Jail repairs.fifty thousand dollars. For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth Kans., penitentiary. Maintenance.Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty thousand dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such Clothing, etc.clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-four thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, Miscellaneous.for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, other furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treating cut of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and Hospital.surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand two hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Salaries.Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, three hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, eight hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; guards, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars; two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, nine hundred dollars; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred dollars; 510 Foremen. For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and seventy-seven thousand four hundred dollars. Atlanta, Ga., penitentiary. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta. Georgia, as follows: Maintenance. For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, forty thousand dollars; Clothing, etc. For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, eighteen thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils, and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plank electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables; policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library, books, newspapers, and periodicals; elect retail supplies; for payment of water supply; for telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; and for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; Salaries. For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden. four thousand dollars; deputy’ warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thou sand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; captains of watch, one thousand eight hundred dollars; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, one thousand dollars: two teamsters, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, baker, tailor, and blacksmith, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; In all, one hundred and thirty-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of appropriations. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and Mouse of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the, salaries of which have been omitted, 511increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-eighth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, Vol. 25, p. 687.eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to Botanic Garden.buildings, heating apparatus, and foot walks, and for further repairs to foundations and for renewing the water anti gas pipes in bottom of Bartholdi fountain, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, five thousand five hundred dollars. Power house for public buildings: For the preparation, by the Powerhouse for public buildings, D. C. Plans to be submitted by Superintendent of library Building.Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds, of preliminary plans and estimates of cost for the location, construction, and equipment of a power house with distributing mains for heat, steam, and electric power to the existing and projected Government buildings on the Mall and in the vicinity of the White House, said Superintendent to report thereon in full to Congress at its next session, five thousand dollars. Purchase of bust of General Lafayette: For the purchase by General Lafayette. Purchase of bust.the Joint Committee on the Library of a marble bust of General Lafayette, by David d’Angers, to replace the one destroyed by fire in eighteen hundred and fifty-one, two thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for All expenses.paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the deflates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees; for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for horses, wagons, and harness and the care and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes; for bicycles, freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service: for furniture, typewriters, and carpets; for traveling expenses, stationery, postage and advertising; for city directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding three hundred dollars; for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar' character; for repairs; for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, six million five thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-two cents; and from the said sum hereby appropriated pointing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotment of appropriation. For Congress.and debates, and for rents, three million thirty-five thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-two cents. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, thirty-five thousand dollars. Departments, etc. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 512 For the War Department two hundred and thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office. For the Navy Department, one hundred and forty-rive thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, four hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing labels and blanks, and for the “Bulletins” and “Proceedings” of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not be less than three thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, sixty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, twenty thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the Money-Order Office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including twenty-five' thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including thirty thousand dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and one hundred and seventy thousand dollars for the Census Office, five hundred thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court, of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department, and the binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Division of appropriations. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for *Proviso.* Agricultural Report. Vol. 28, p, 612.preceding quarters may be expended: *Provided,* That so much as may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, 513eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotment. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Annual leaves.law granting thirty days annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sec. 2. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers Sums for salaries to be in full.and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 3. No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be Carriages, etc,, to have name of service painted an them.used for purchase, maintaining, driving, or operating any carriage or other vehicle, other than those authorized for personal purposes in section two of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, unless the same shall have conspicuously painted thereon at all times the full name of the Executive Department or other branch of the public service to which the same belong and in the service of which the same are used. Sec. 4. That the annual compensation of officers, agents, and Division of annual salaries into twelve equal installments.employees of the United States for, services rendered subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, shall be divided into twelve equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payments fora fractional part of a month, one-thirtieth of one of such installments, or of a monthly compensation, shall be the rate to be paid for each day. For the purpose of computing such compensation each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any month, thus excluding the thirty-first day of any month from the computation, and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Medals for, to be coined.directed to prepare or have prepared suitable dies with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory; from which dies, under the supervision of the said Secretary of the Treasury, there shall be coined, at some mint of the United States, medals to be awarded by the said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company to exhibitors in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress entitled “An Vol. 31, p. 1140.Act to provide for celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by the United States,” and so forth, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one; that the devices, emblems, and inscriptions for said dies and medals shall be furnished by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, and said medals shall be made and coined from such material as the said exposition company may, at its own expense, furnish; and authority may Duplicates to holders.be granted by the Secretary of the Treasury to the holder of any medal properly awarded to any exhibitor to have duplicates thereof made, at any time, at any of the mints of the United States, from gold, silver, or bronze, at the expense of the person desiring the same; said medals shall be coined and the dies therefor prepared subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of the coinage Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage Act against counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals struck and used under the provisions of this Act. Approved, April 28, 1904.
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