Chapter 2. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 2.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes. December 19, 1906. [[H. R. 22584](/us/bill/59/hr/22584).] [[Public, No. 2](/us/pl/59/2).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Urgent deficiencies appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Agricultural Department. To carry out, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, the Pure food act.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 768.provisions of the Act of Congress of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for other purposes,” to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture for all expenses necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the 841 842said Act, including rent and the employment of labor in Washington and elsewhere, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Denver mint.Allowance for clerks, etc., increased.Authority is hereby granted to expend of the appropriation for wages of workmen and adjusters at the mint at Denver, Colorado, for the current fiscal year, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for other clerks and employees. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. inidian affairs.Indian affairs. Five Civilized Tribes.Completing commission’s work.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and its successor, the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriations as provided in the Acts of Congress approved March Vol. 33, p. 1060.*Ante*, p. 340.third, nineteen hundred and five (Thirty-third Statutes, one thousand and sixty), and June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Public— Numbered Two hundred and fifty-eight), making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, being the amount absolutely required to complete the unfinished work devolving upon the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five thousand dollars; said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Commerce and Labor Department. immigration service.Immigration service. Ellis Island station.For two pavilions at Ellis Island, twenty thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration.” light-houses. beacons, and fog signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. Eighth light-house district.Repairs, etc.For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing such aids to navigation and buildings connected therewith in the Eighth light-house district as were damaged or destroyed by the hurricanes of October last, and to have the appropriation made immediately available, sixty-nine thousand dollars.
Twelfth light-house district.Repairs, etc.For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing such aids to navigation and buildings connected therewith in the Twelfth light-house district as were damaged or destroyed by the earthquake of April, nineteen hundred and six, the appropriation to be made immediately available, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Swiftsure Bank.Appropriation for light-vessel repealed.*Ante*, p. 711.*Post*, pp. 996, 1319.The provision of an Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes,” appropriating one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a steel steam light vessel, to be anchored upon Swiftsure Bank, off the entrance to Juan de Fuca 843Strait, at a point at or near thirteen miles north, seventy-four degrees west magnetic from Cape Flattery, Washington, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military establishment. pay department.Pay department. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by Mileage to officers.law, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Approved, December 19, 1906.