Chapter 24. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 24.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes. January 5, 1905.[[H. R. 16445](/us/bill/34/hr/16445).][[Public, No. 5](/us/pl/34/5).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Urgent deficiences appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and live, and for other purposes, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Folding materials.For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerk's office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon Vol. 28, p. 624.requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), three thousand dollars. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous.
Messengers conveying electoral votes.For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for one distance only, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
Publication of electoral certificates.Vol. 24, p. 373.To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirements of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty- seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.
Public buildings.Chicago, Ill.Chicago, Illinois, post-office, court-house, and so forth: For mechanical devices and equipment for conveying and handling mails, two hundred thousand dollars. 603 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. washington monument.Washington Monument. For the purchase of new hoisting cablesElevator cables, etc. and counterweight cables for the elevator in the Washington Monument, two thousand five hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department public buildings.Public buildings.
For completing the acquisition of a site for and toward the constructionSenate office building. of a fire-proof building for committee rooms, folding rooms, and other offices for the United States Senate, and for necessary office rooms for Senators, to be erected on square numbered six hundred and eighty-six, in Washington, District of Columbia, authorized by the*Ante*, p. 481. Sundry Civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand five hundred dollars. geological survey.Geological Survey.
For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coalsTesting fuels, etc.*Ante*, pp. 33, 412. Post, p. 1187. and lignites of the United States, in order to determine their fuel values and most economic method for their utilization for different purposes, and for the purchase or rental of such additional equipment as is necessary for the proper conduct of the work, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available until expended.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Office of the purchasing agent: For salary of the purchasing agent,Purchasing agent. four thousand dollars. For salary of chief clerk, office of purchasing agent, at the rate ofChief clerk. two thousand dollars per annum from January first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, inclusive, one thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. For rent of office quarters for the various divisions of the BureauPlant Industry Bureau.Rent. of Plant Industry, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Approved, January 5, 1905.