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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 34 STAT. · March 4, 1907 · Chapter 2919

Chapter 2919. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 2919.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 4, 1907. [[H. R. 25851](/us/bill/59/hr/25851).] [[Public, No. 254](/us/pl/59/254).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Deficiencies appropriation.and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For additional compensation of the Vice-President, from March Vice-President.Additional compensation.*Ante,* p. 993.fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. civil service commission.Civil Service Commission. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting Traveling, etc., expenses.under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, one thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For additional compensation of the Secretary of State, from March Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante,* p. 993.fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. For the following additional force in the Department of State for Additional clerks.the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, namely: For two clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; in all, seven thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
International Maritime Exposition: To enable the Government International Maritime Exposition.of the United States to participate in the International Maritime 1372Exposition to be held at Bordeaux, France, from May first to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, fifteen thousand dollars. John Bassett Moore.Reimbursement.Vol. 29, p. 584.Digest of International Law: For reimbursement to John Bassett Moore, the editor of the Digest of International law, prepared under the Act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for all expenses incurred including the service of copyists, Type writers, and other clerical service employed during the eight years the work was in preparation, eight thousand dollars.
Foreign intercourse.foreign intercourse. Mileage.To pay the cost of transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of five cents per mile, not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, fifteen thousand dollars. Charges d’affaires ad interim.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, nine thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and eighty-three cents.
Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 993.Office of the Secretary: For additional compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. Double-entry book-keeping system.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to effect a change in the methods of bookkeeping in the Treasury Department, and to install a double-entry system of bookkeeping, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to remain Services.available until expended; said sum to be used by the Secretary of the Treasury, as he shall determine, in payment for services of such of the force of the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants of the Treasury [R.
S., secs, 170, 1763–1765, pp. 27, 314](/us/rs/s170/1763–1765/pp.27/314).Department as may be needed to carry the change into effect, notwithstanding the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy, seventeen hundred and sixty-three, seventeen hundred and sixty-four, and seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes. Supervising Architect’s office.Employment of draftsmen, etc.Office of the Supervising Architect: And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed only in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for the construction of public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged *Proviso.*Maximum expenditures.against such appropriations: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Chief of equipment division authorized.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to appoint and employ in the Office of the Supervising Architect during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight a chief of division of equipment and to pay his compensation at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum out of appropriations for construction of public buildings. Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department.Counters.Office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department:
For fifteen female operatives who have had experience in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing as money, stamp, or paper counters, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, three thousand three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1373 Contingent expenses: To enable the Treasury Department to pay Contingent expenses.Potomac Electric Power Company.the Potomac Electric Power Company, Washington, District of Columbia, for balance found due for electric current furnished the Treasury building and annexes in Washington during the month of June, nineteen hundred and live, six hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty cents.
To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department, miscellaneous items,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, to adjust appropriations, sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Bureau of the Mint: For examinations of mints, expense in visiting Bureau of the Mint.Examinations, etc.mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, one thousand dollars.
Examination of national banks and bank plates: For expenses National currency.Examinations, etc.of special examination of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. Customs Service: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Customs.Inspectors at New York.to certain inspectors of customs of the port of New York the difference between the per diem salary of four dollars paid them during the months of October.
November, and December, nineteen hundred and five, and their proper per diem salary of five dollars for the same period, nine hundred and forty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, under rules and regulations Refund of documentary stamps.to be prescribed by him, to audit and refund the sums paid for documentary stamps used on export ships’ manifests, such stamps representing taxes which were illegally assessed and collected, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said refund to be made whether said stamp duties were paid under protest or not, and without being subject to any statute of limitations.
Hereafter the salary of the appraiser of merchandise at the port of Appraiser at New York, salary.New York shall be at the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum. Revenue-Cutter Service: To reimburse officers and enlisted men Revenue-Cutter Service.Losses, San Francisco earthquake.of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service who were on duty under orders at San Francisco during the earthquake and tire in that city on or about April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six, for losses of uniforms, equipment, and other personal effects sustained by them through said tire: *Provided,* That such reimbursement shall be made *Proviso.*Regulations.under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and upon vouchers approved by him, five thousand dollars.
For completion of ocean-going tug for the North Pacific coast, in Tug. North Pacific coast.addition to the authorized limit of cost, thirty thousand dollars. Independent Treasury, contingent expenses: For contingent Independent Treasury, contingent expenses.expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money; and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, forty thousand dollars.
Examinations of sub-treasuries and depositories: Salaries of Examinations, etc.special agents and for actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several sub-treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes; also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, one thousand five hundred dollars. Transportation of silver coin:
For transportation of silver coin, Transportation of silver coin.including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, and 1374in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of charge, *Proviso*.Deposit.silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such sub-treasuries by the applicant or applicants; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, six thousand and forty-three dollars and thirty cents.
Transportation of minor coin.Transportation of minor coins: For transportation of minor coin, and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of *Proviso.*Deposit.charge, minor coin, when requested to do so: *Provided,* That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such sub-treasuries by the applicant or applicants; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation, ten thousand dollars.
Public buildings.Furniture.Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings: For an additional amount required for “Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, to equip United States buildings which have not been included in any previous estimate submitted to the Congress as Burlington, Vt.follows: Burlington, Vermont, post-office and custom house, nine Fargo, N. Dak.thousand five hundred dollars;
Fargo, North Dakota, post-office and Macon, Ga.custom-house, two thousand five hundred dollars; Macon, Georgia, Natchitoches, La.court-house and post-office, eighteen thousand dollars; Natchitoches, Louisiana, post-office, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Reno. Nev.Winston, N. C.Reno, Nevada, post-office, four thousand dollars; Winston. North Carolina, post-office, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars. Minnesota.Suppressing Indian hostilities.*Ante,* p. 637.Payment to Minnesota:
To reimburse to the State of Minnesota the amount ascertained, under the Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, to be due for Expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities within the State in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-three cents. Edward King.*Post*, p. 2151.Relief of Edward King: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief Edward King, of Niagara Falls, in the State of New York,” approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, ninety dollars.
Etienne De P. Bujac.*Post,* p. 2308.Relief of Etienne De P. Bujac: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Etienne De P. Bujac,” approved January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand and twenty dollars. Jacob Livingston and Company.*Post,* p. 2309.Relief of Jacob Livingston and Company: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Jacob Livingston and Company,” approved January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and forty dollars and forty-four cents.
Delia B. Stuart.*Post,* p. 2310.Relief of Delia B. Stuart: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Delia B. Stuart, widow of John Stuart,” approved January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty dollars. Louise Power McKee.*Post,* p. 2311.Relief of Louise Powers McKee: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Louise Powers McKee, administratrix,” approved January twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-five cents.
Postal Telegraph Cable Company.*Post,* p. 2312.Relief of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company,” approved 1375January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand one hundred and fifty-live dollars and nineteen cents. collecting internal revenue.Internal Revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, Agents, gaugers, etcsalaries and expenses of storekeepers, and storekeepergaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue on account of fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty-five thousand dollars.
The appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Collectors, etc.Payment of messengers, etc.*Ante,* p. 957.eight, for salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, and surveyors, and clerks, shall also be available for payment of necessary messengers and janitors in internal-revenue offices. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Refunding taxes.Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected.” three thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and ninety-six cents.
For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, ten thousand Paper and stamps.dollars. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Redemption of stamps.Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps.” four hundred and six dollars and one cent. To pay Hiram N. Davis, of Glover, Vermont, amount due for bounty on maple sugar produced in the spring of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. public health and marine-hospital service.Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
That the accounting officer of the Treasury Department be and he R. H. von Ezdorf and H. P. Huddleson.Reimbursement.is hereby, authorized to pay to R. H. von Ezdorf, passed assistant surgeon, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-three cents, and H. P. Huddleson, clerk, fifty eight dollars and fifty cents, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, nineteen hundred and six, to reimburse them for actual expenses incurred under Department approval while on duty at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Authority is hereby granted to use the sum of fifteen thousand Transfer of appropriations.*Ante,* p. 708.dollars of the amount provided by the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for “Pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists.” for “Pay of all other employees.” and the sum of five thousand dollars of the amount provided for “Medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief at other than marine hospitals, and to be used for like purposes as were the tonnage taxes prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six,” for “Freight, transportation, and traveling expenses.” public buildings.Public buildings.
To pay amount due I. N. Bryson, junior, publisher of the Press-Journal, I. N. Bryson, jr.Payment to.for advertising for proposals for purchase of site and for construction of the post-office building at Louisiana. Missouri, live dollars and sixteen cents. To reimburse D. C. Ernest Laub, superintendent of construction of public buildings, for freight and drayage paid on official records, stationery, and letterpress shipped from Hartford. Connecticut, to Providence. Rhode Island, and returned to Hartford, five dollars and seventy-two cents. 1376 government in the territories.Government in the Territories.
Arizona.Claims for prosecuting Indians to be examined.The Auditor for the State and other Departments is authorized to examine all claims which have been or may be presented in proper form by the different counties in Arizona Territory, and to ascertain the amount due each of said counties on account of legal costs and Vol. 23, p. 385.expenses incurred from March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in the prosecution of Indians under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five (Twenty-third Statutes, page three Vol. 25, p. 1004.hundred and eighty-five), for which the United States is liable under Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-five, page one thousand and four), and which have been paid by said counties; and the amounts so found shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress for consideration Pawhuska, Okla.Incorporation, etc., ratified.The incorporation of the city of Pawhuska, in the Osage Indian Reservation, Territory of Oklahoma, as a city of the first class; the election of the board of education thereof and the vote of school bonds authorized by the residents therein, to the amount of twenty thousand dollars, payable in fifteen years, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, are hereby severally ratified and confirmed, and the acts and municipal ordinances of said city heretofore had and passed shall not be deemed invalid because of any defect in the incorporation of said city provided the same are not otherwise inconsistent with the laws of said Territory.
Mints and assay offices.mints and assay offices. Freight on bullion and coin.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, twenty thousand dollars. Philadelphia mint.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses of the mint at Philadelphia, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand dollars. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Assessor’s office.Assessment cards, etc.Assessor’s office: To enable the assessor to prepare a complete set of water-main assessment cards, general arrears cards, and book of arrears, in conformity with the system of assessment and taxation Vol. 33, p. 737.completed November first, nineteen hundred and six under the Act of February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from the revenues of the water department exclusively: *Proviso.*Employees. *Provided,* That employees of the assessor’s office may be allowed to do this work outside of office hours and to receive therefor reasonable additional compensation.
Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office: For amount required to pay the deputy coroner for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty-five dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For additional amounts required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, for the fiscal years that follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. 1377 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two dollars. Wholesale Producers’ Market: For additional amount required Wholesale producers’ Market.to extend the period of employment of one watchman from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven one hundred and sixty dollars.
For additional amount required for hauling refuse, three hundred dollars. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For postage for strictly Postage.official mail matter, four hundred dollars. General advertising: For additional amount required for general Advertising.advertising authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six three hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. Extension of Fourteenth street northwest:
For additional Extension of Fourteenth street NW.Vol. 33, p. 371.amount required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to law, eleven dollars and fifty-two cents. Extension of streets and avenues, District of Columbia: For Extension of streets and avenues.additional amounts required to provide the necessary funds for the payment of costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to the following public Acts, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, namely:
Public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled Kalorama avenue.Vol. 33, pp. 514, 1010.“An Act authorizing the joining of Kalorama avenue,” forty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. Public Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled Nineteenth street.Vol. 33, p. 1007.“An Act for the extension of Nineteenth street from Woodley road to Baltimore street.” seventy-five dollars and forty-three cents. Public Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled M street.Vol. 33, p. 977.“An Act for the extension of M street east of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” thirty-three dollars and sixty-five cents.
Public Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled T street.Vol. 33, p. 1001.“An Act for the extension of T street, and for other purposes,” one hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents. Public Act approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, Rhode Island avenue.*Ante,* p. 15.entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Rhode Island avenue northeast,” six hundred and twenty dollars. That the auditor and disbursing officer of the District of Columbia Public schools.Salary payments authorized.are hereby authorized to audit and pay the following-named amounts from the appropriation for salaries, public schools, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow said payments in the settlement of the accounts of said disbursing officer:
First. The salaries of the following-named officers from July first, Assistant superintendent and director of intermediate instruction.nineteen hundred and six, to the dates of their respective appointments, namely: One assistant superintendent, who was newly appointed, three hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; director of intermediate instruction, three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-seven cents. Second. The salaries of eleven supervising principals from July first, Supervising principals.nineteen hundred and six, to the date on which they were reappointed and continued in service by the board of education, four thousand two hundred and thirty-five dollars.
Third. The salary of the secretary of the board of education from Secretary of board.July first, nineteen hundred and six, to the date on which he was appointed by the present board of education, twenty-seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. 1378 Fourth. Reappointed teachers. The salaries of one hundred and seventy-three teachers from September first, nineteen hundred and six, to the dates on which they were respectively reappointed and continued in service by the board of education, two thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-six cents.
Fifth. Readjustment of salaries.*Ante,* p. 318. That the amounts specifically appropriated for salaries of teachers of public schools in the appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, when not in conformity with the rates established by the Act approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” are hereby reduced and increased to pay said teachers in accordance with the rates established by said Act of June twentieth, nineteen hundred six, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and any unused balance of the appropriation for salaries, public schools, for said fiscal year, is hereby made available for the purpose aforesaid.
Sixth. Use of balances for principals of grade schools. That any unused balance of the appropriation for salaries, public schools, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available to pay the principals of grade schools the amounts to which they are respectively entitled during said fiscal year for session rooms under the provisions of the Act approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia.
” Seventh. M. C. Brown.Payment to allowed. That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia the amount of twenty-two dollars paid AL C. Brown, teacher in the public schools of said District, for salary for the month of September, nineteen hundred and six. Fire department.Fire boat.Ice-breaking equipment.Vol. 33, p. 382.Fire department: That the unexpended balance, not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars, of the appropriation of sixty- three thousand dollars contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, for construction, under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, of a fire boat, is hereby made available for such work as may be necessary to equip and re-enforce said boat for ice breaking.
Johnson Brothers.Fuel.The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to pay the firm of Johnson Brothers the sum of one hundred and eighteen dollars and sixty-five cents for emergency fuel furnished the tire department, without the inspection required by law, on the occasion of the destruction of wharf property by fire, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow said payment in the accounts of the disbursing officer of said District.
Militia.Militia: For equipment, machinery, and repairs for practice ships, one thousand five hundred dollars. For apparatus for instruction in seamanship and signaling, two hundred and fifty dollars. Eastern Dispensary.Eastern Dispensary: For additional amount for emergency care and treatment of and free dispensary service to indigent patients during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, under a contract or agreement to he made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, two thousand dollars.
Health department.Dairy inspector.Health department: For additional amount required for the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors while traveling outside the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, three hundred dollars. 1379 For additional amount required for special services in connection Food inspection.with the detection of the adulteration of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two dollars and ninety-seven cents.
The appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Prevention of contagious diseases.*Ante,* p. 1145.Appropriations available for new laws.eight for the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the spread of scarlet fever and diphtheria in the District of Columbia,” approved December twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and an Act entitled “An Act to require eases of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District,” approved February fourth, nineteen hundred and two, are hereby made available for the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act for the prevention *Ante*, p. 889.of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia,” approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Garfield Hospital: For additional amount required for isolating Isolating ward.Garfield Hospital.ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, two thousand dollars. For additional amount needed for support of the indigent insane of Support of insane.the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Juvenile court: That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, or Juvenile court.Contingent expenses.*Ante,* p. 507.so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation for compensation of jurors in the juvenile court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby transferred to and made available for the contingent expenses of said court for said fiscal year.
Police court: For additional amount required for compensation Police court.of jurors in the police court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, thirty-five dollars. For miscellaneous items, including fuel, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of temporary quarters, seventy-five dollars. Support of convicts: To pay amounts found due by the accounting Support of convicts.officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of convicts, District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty cents.
Washington Asylum: Contingent expenses: For additional amount required Washington Asylum.for provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, eight thousand dollars. Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amount required Board of Children’s Guardians.for maintenance of feeble-minded children, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, forty-five dollars and twenty cents.
That the sum of one thousand one hundred and five dollars and Transfer of balance.thirty-two cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available for payment to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars authorized and paid from said appropriation to such institutions during the fiscal year.
Writs of lunacy: For additional amount required to defray the Lunacy writs.expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and 1380commitments thereunder, in all cases of indigent insane persons, committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fifty dollars and twenty cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten dollars. Judgments.Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four of this session, four thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Educational and religious properties.Refund of taxes on.*Ante,* p. 869.Relief of the Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, and so forth, District of Columbia: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of the Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February first, nineteen hundred and seven (Public Act Numbered Forty-six), four thousand one hundred and one dollars and thirty-nine cents, to be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Half from District revenues.Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante,* p. 993.Office of the Secretary: For additional compensation of the Secretary of War from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses of the War Department on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, including all objects specified under this title of appropriation in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for said fiscal year, three thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and ten cents. Advertising.Miscellaneous advertisements: To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work, and so forth, as set forth on page fifteen of House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four, of this session, forty-three dollars and thirty-six cents.
R. W. Collins.Refund to.Refund to Lieutenant R. W. Collins: For refundment to R. W. Collins, first lieutenant. Artillery Corps, quartermaster, artillery district of New London. Connecticut, of the amounts paid by him to newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work at Fort Michie. New York, as set forth on page sixteen of House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four, of this session, sixty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers:
For continuing the work of 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, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred dollars. 1381 Claims for property taken from Confederate officers and Property of Confederate soldiers.Vol. 32, p. 43.soldiers after surrender:
For payment of claims tiled with the Quartermaster-General under Act of February twenty-seven, nineteen hundred and two and amendments thereto, for horses, saddles, and bridles, taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, forty thousand dollars. Rock Island bridge, Rock Island, Illinois: For operating and Rock Island Arsenal.Bridge expenses.care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, four thousand and fifty dollars. For the destruction of a dangerous ice gorge in the Missouri River Missouri River.Ice gorge.near Vermillion, South Dakota, under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars.
That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, John W. McHarg.Allowance in accounts.authorized and directed to relieve John W. McHarg from a charge of six hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty-eight cents which was made against him while he was serving as acting commissary of subsistence in Cuba, in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred, and which was due to the embezzlement of one Gomez, a Cuban interpreter. M1LITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military establishment.
The President is hereby authorized to receive from the treasury of Cuban Republic.Reimbursement from authorized.the Cuban Republic and pay into the Treasury of the United States from time to time such amounts to reimburse the United States for the expenditures from the United States Treasury made necessary on account of the present intervention as he may consider the Cuban treasury then able to pay without serious embarrassment. For expenses incident to stay of United States troops at the Jamestown Jamestown Exposition.Expenses of troops.Tercentennial Exposition and of visiting foreign military organizations in attendance upon such Exposition at the invitation of the United States Government, including preparation and sanitation of a camp site for such troops, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the *Proviso.*Supervision.police, discipline, sanitation, and exercises connected with visiting military organizations of foreign Governments and of the National Guard shall be under supervision and control of the Secretary of War, and for this purpose the President is authorized to accept from the State of Virginia the necessary temporary cession of jurisdiction over the camp sites of all such troops and organizations. pay department.Pay department.
For additional ten per centum increase to three hundred and eighty Ten per cent, officers in Cuba.officers serving on the island of Cuba, sixty-four thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents; For additional twenty per centum increase to six thousand enlisted Twenty per cent, enlisted men in Cuba.men serving on the island of Cuba, one hundred and eighty-four thousand our hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-one cents. In all, two hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and ninety-six cents.
For net additional amount required to supply a deficiency in the Pay.Artillery.*Ante*, p. 861.appropriation for pay of the Army, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, occasioned by the increase of officers and enlisted men of the artillery arm under Public Act Numbered Thirty-three, approved January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and twenty-six thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighteen cents. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Regular supplies.Department, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appro- 1382priation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seven hundred thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. Transportation.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two million six hundred and forty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighteen cents.
Horses.Horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers: For horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and sixty-one thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses: For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents.
Signal Service.signal service. Cuban expenses.For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army on account of the army of Cuban pacification, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, in the purchase of equipment, stores, and supplies, the engagement of services personal and not personal, and all other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, seventy-four thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-one cents.
State, War, and Navy Department building.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. Renewing heating, etc., plant.*Ante*, p. 968.The appropriation for renewing the heating, lighting, and power plant of the State, War, and Navy Department building made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight shall be available for the employment of Skilled assistants.such skilled assistants, as draftsmen and inspectors, as may be necessary.
Military Academy.MILITARY ACADEMY. Pay of professors.For pay of one superintendent of the United States Military Academy (colonel) in addition to pay as major from September first, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For pay of professor of military hygiene (lieutenant-colonel) in addition to pay as major from July first, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, five hundred dollars.
For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major) in addition to pay as captain for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred dollars. Volunteer Soldiers’ Homes.NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Current expenses.For current expenses at the several Branches, to be disbursed in the discretion of the Board of Managers, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven for such objects of amusement as have heretofore been supported, in whole or in part, out of the post funds of the several Branches, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Hampton, Va.At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch 1383in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, Leavenworth, Kans.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand dollars.
Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For household, including the Danville. Ill.same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, four thousand dollars. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand dollars. State or Territorial Homes for disabled soldiers and sailors:
State or Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450.For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, ninety-three thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-three cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department.
Office of the Secretary: For additional compensation of the Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante,* p. 993.Secretary of the Navy, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to continue to Use of lump appropriations for bureaus.employ and pay out of the lump appropriations of the several bureaus of the Navy Department such classified civil-service employees as may be necessary to properly perform the clerical, drafting, inspection, messenger, and other classified work at the several navy-yards and stations, and that he be directed to submit to Congress, at the beginning Estimates.of the next session, the amounts probably to be required during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine for such services under the several lump appropriations referred to for employees performing classified work at navy-yards and stations.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and empowered to Jamestown Exposition.Anchorage grounds to be established at Hampton Roads.Vol. 33, p. 1047.*Ante,* p. 764.define and establish suitable anchorage grounds in Hampton Roads and the adjacent waters during the continuance of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition to be held in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and the Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby further authorized to make such rules and regulations regarding the movements of all vessels in the roadstead and harbor named as may be necessary in order to insure the proper and orderly conduct of the naval features of the Exposition and provide for the safety of the vessels participating therein, and such rules and regulations when so issued and published shall have the force and effect of law.
The Auditor for the Navy Department is hereby directed to credit Lawrence G. Boggs.Credit in accounts.in the settlement of the accounts of Pay Director Lawrence G. Boggs, United States Navy, the amounts paid by him on vouchers numbered seven thousand and seven, second quarter, nineteen hundred and five, numbered six thousand nine hundred and fifteen, third quarter, nineteen hundred and five, numbered seven thousand one hundred and fifty-three, fourth quarter, nineteen hundred and five; in all, four thousand three hundred and four dollars and seventy-seven cents.
The Auditor for the Navy Department is authorized and directed to Recruiting duty.Allowance of officers’ expenses.allow, in lieu of mileage, in the settlement of the accounts of officers of the Navy while on duty with traveling recruiting parties under 1384orders of the Secretary of the Navy between June second, nineteen hundred and two, and August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, actual and necessary expenses incurred by them while in the performance of their duties and approved by the Secretary of the Navy, in all eases, whether the travel was or was not repeated: *Provided,* That *Proviso*.Resettlement of accounts.where settlements have been made and the officers have been charged the Auditor is hereby directed to resettle said accounts in accordance with this Act and refund to any such officers the amounts they may have deposited or that may have been deducted from their claims out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Contingent expenses.Thomas A. Brown and Son.Contingent expenses: The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay voucher in favor of Thomas A. Brown and Son, Washington, District of Columbia, for varnishing three thousand one hundred and seventy square feet of floor space at the Navy Department Annex, amounting to fifty-five dollars and forty-eight cents, from the appropriation for contingent expenses. Navy Department, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, the Comptroller of the Treasury having decided, after the obligation was incurred, that said appropriation is not applicable to said expense.
Naval Observatory.Apparatus, etc.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory: For apparatus and instruments and for repairs of the same, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three hundred and fifty dollars. Naval establishment.NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. General account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167.General account of advances: To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
Emergency fund.For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven cents; Pay.For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty cents: For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and two, nine hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents: For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and one forty-three dollars and thirty-five cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two dollars and sixty-seven cents;
Pay miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and four one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents: For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and three six hundred and forty-seven dollars and seven cents: For pay miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and fourteen cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and one, sixty-nine dollars and thirty-eight cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred, twenty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents;
Contingent.For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred, three hundred and thirteen dollars and thirteen cents; Marine Corps.For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand and ninety dollars and four cents: For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, sixty-four cents: 1385 For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, six hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixteen cents: For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one dollar and ten cents:
For provisions. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-one dollars and ninety-two cents; For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, three dollars and seventy-live cents; For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, seventy-three dollars and forty-nine cents; For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and Bureau of Navigation.four, five dollars and five cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen and four, five dollars and forty cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand and three dollars and eighty cents; For out fits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, three thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-seven cents; For out fits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, sixty-four dollars and seventy-five cents;
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents; For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, twenty dollars; For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, thirty dollars; For Naval War College, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four, live hundred dollars; For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen Bureau of Ordinance.hundred and four, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and eighteen cents;
For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and five dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents; For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred Bureau of Equipment.and two, thirty dollars and sixteen cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, six thousand and eighty-five dollars and ninety-two cents;
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred three, one hundred and ninety dollars and thirty cents; For coal and transportation, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four nine thousand five hundred and thirty-three dollars and ten cents: For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, fifteen dollars; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, four dollars and fifty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and three, six dollars and thirty-two cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two, two dollars and eighty-eight cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred Bureau of Yards and Docks.and four, two hundred and twenty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-five dollars and eight cents; 1386 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents;
For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, eighty-two dollars and thirty-five cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and seventy-four dollars and sixty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, seventeen dollars; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, eleven thousand seven hundred and eight dollars and ninety-one cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty dollars and sixty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixteen cents; Bureau of Construction and Repair. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand six hundred and thirty-four dollars and two cents;
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and three, forty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-one cents; Bureau of Steam Engineering. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and four, three thousand eight hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-four cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and three, thirty-nine dollars and six cents;
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and two hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-eight cents; Repairs and preservation. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-seven cents; in all, fifty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-one cents. Pay, miscellaneous. Pay, miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury (to reimburse "General account of advances") for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty thousand five hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-four cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Pay, miscellaneous," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four thousand and ninety-six dollars and fifty-two cents; in all, twenty-four thousand six hundred and thirty-nine dollars and six cents. Bureau of Navigation. bureau of navigation. Transportation. For the transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, seventy-five thousand dollars. 1387 bureau of ordnance.
Bureau of Ordnance. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Ordnance and ordnance Ordnance and ordinance stores.stores" for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and eighty-six cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Contingent, Bureau of Contingent.Ordnance," for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents. bureau of yards and docks.
Bureau of Yards and Docks. For extraordinary expenses that have arisen on account of damages Pensacola.from storm at the Pensacola Navy-Yard, seventy-five thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. To pay James E. Bly, fireman, navy-yard, New York, for services James E. Bly.rendered on Sundays from October first, nineteen hundred and five, to August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six inclusive, forty-eight days, at two dollars per diem, ninety-six dollars. marine corps.
Marine Corps. Provisions: To pay accounts on file for provisions, Marine Corps, Provisions.for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, eleven dollars. Transportation and recruiting: To pay accounts on file for transportation Transportation and recruiting.and recruiting, Marine Corps, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, nine dollars and fifteen cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and five dollars and ninety-seven cents. Repairs of barracks: To pay account on file for repairs of barracks, Repairs of barracks.Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five dollars and eighty-two cents. Clothing: For clothing for noncommissioned officers, musicians, Clothing.and privates, twenty-five thousand dollars. Hire of quarters: For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, including Hire of quarters.the same objects specified under this head of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eight thousand dollars.
Contingent: For contingent expenses, Marine Corps, including the Contingent.same objects specified under this head of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-five thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. office of the secretary. For additional compensation of the Secretary of the Interior from Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 993.March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase from the reporter Supreme Court reports.of the Supreme Court of the United States, at three dollars per copy, five hundred and seventy-six copies of a digest prepared by him of opinions contained in volumes one hundred and eighty-seven to two hundred and two, inclusive, of the reports of said court, and to distribute such digests in the same manner and to the same persons as the five hundred and seventy-six copies of reports of said court are 1388now distributed by him under the several Acts of Congress relating thereto; and that the amount necessary to pay for said digests is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated; in all, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Pension Office: During the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, on the recommendation of the Commissioner of Pensions, vacancies in the clerical force of the Bureau of Pensions may be filled by original appointments or transfers from other bureaus *Proviso*.Restriction.or Departments: *Provided*, That appointments or transfers hereunder shall not be so made as to authorize a greater number of employees in the Pension Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight than has been appropriated for.
Patent Office.Official Gazette. Patent Office: For work to be done at the Government Printing Office, in producing the Official Gazette, including the letterpress, the weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, fifteen thousand dollars. Capitol.Repairs, etc. Office of Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds: To pay W. B. Moses and Sons for certain interior benches and desk fittings, being incidental repairs during the reconstruction of the Vol. 31, p. 1157.central portion of the Capitol, under the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.
R. Lowen, C. Morgan, and E. Bailey.Reimbursement. To reimburse R. Lowen, C. Morgan, and E. Bailey for loss of time and doctor’s fees on account of injuries received while employed in the construction of the office building for the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Reroofing terrace.Balance available for painting, etc.*Ante*, p. 723. That the unexpended balance appropriated in the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for reroofing that portion of the terrace of the Capitol which is occupied by committee rooms, be reappropriated and made available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight for the purpose of painting the Dome and central portion of the Capitol, for the restoration of Statuary Hall and adjacent corridors, and for the installation of revolving doors for entrances in the Capitol building not now provided for.
Alaska.Care of insane. Care and custody of the insane, district of Alaska: For the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-three thousand dollars. Public lands. public land service. Contingent expenses. For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district *Proviso*.Authorization.land offices, twenty thousand dollars: *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 authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Orville H. Southmayd.Payment to. To pay amount found due to Orville H. Southmayd, United States deputy surveyor, for the survey of certain lands in South Dakota under contract dated April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, made with him by the General Land Office, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ten cents. Indian Affairs. indian affairs. Eastern Cherokees.Payment to councilors, etc. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to pay, out of the sum allowed to the Eastern Cherokees under the judgment of the Supreme Court, October term, nineteen hundred and five, to those individuals and councilors entitled to the same under resolutions of 1389April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four, and May eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, of the permanent council of the Eastern Cherokees and the order of said council of August seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six, the sum of four thousand four hundred and five dollars.
To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Supplies.Purchase, etc.service and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing and telephoning, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the necessary expenses of transportation of Indian goods, provisions, Transportation.and other supplies for the Indian service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six fifteen thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in salary of the United States Indian inspector, Irrigation engineer.Vol. 33, p. 1049.designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, as "Chief engineer," in connection with his appointment of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, as " United States Indian inspector" (irrigation engineer), from March twenty-eighth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, inclusive, the appropriation of two hundred and sixty-one dollars and eleven cents made for this purpose for the period from March twenty-eighth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February *Ante*, p. 38.twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available.
PENSIONS. For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, Pensions.minor children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, one million dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for *Provisos*.Navy from navy fund.navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall Accounts.be accounted for separately.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. For additional compensation of the Attorney-General from March Attorney-General.Additional pay.*Ante*, p.993.fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. For the reimbursement of the appropriation "Arming and equipping Militia.Reimbursing appropriation.the militia," for the value of certain stores turned over to the United States marshal for the district of Idaho, in eighteen hundred and ninety-four, by the governor of the State of Idaho, nine hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-six cents. miscellaneous.
Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims.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 French spoliation claims.spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-five dollars and twenty cents. 1390 Fernando M.
Vidal.Legal services. Payment to Fernando M. Vidal: For payment to Fernando M. Vidal for legal services rendered as attorney for the United States in the matter of the settlement of the estate of Dona Catalina Estorino, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Alaska.Incidental expenses. Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses for the offices of the marshals and attorneys in the district of Alaska, one thousand dollars.
Judicial. JUDICIAL. District judges.Oklahoma. For the salaries of the United States district judges for the eastern and western districts of the State of Oklahoma, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight twelve thousand dollars. Alabama northern district.*Ante*, p. 931.Ohio southern district.*Ante*, p. 928.Nebraska.*Ante*, p. 997. For payment of the salaries of district judges for the northern district of Alabama and the southern district of Ohio, appointed or to be appointed under Acts approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, and the salary of the district judge for the district of Nebraska, appointed or to be appointed under an Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eighteen thousand dollars. Court of Claims.Lucien B. Howry. The Court of Claims is hereby authorized to appoint Lucien B. Howry as an auditor to said court or any judge thereof. United States courts. UNITED STATES COURTS. Marshals. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, thirty thousand dollars.
Jurors’ fees. For fees of jurors, United States courts, thirty thousand dollars. Witness fees.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. Bailiffs, etc. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one *Provisos*.crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, Actual attendance.[R.
S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).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*, Employment during vacation.Traveling expenses.That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred 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: of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs Jury commissioners.in attendance upon the, same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, ten thousand dollars.
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, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fifty thousand dollars. 1391 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifteen dollars.
For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be Supplies.expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent of court rooms.ten thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, fifteen thousand dollars. Clerks’ fees. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United Special assistants.States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases.
This appropriation shall be available also for the payment Foreign counsel.of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in [R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand and thirty-five dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department. For additional compensation of the Postmaster-General from March Postmaster-General.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 993.fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred dollars. To pay the claim of the White Oak Coal Company for one ton of White Oak Coal Company.coal delivered to the Post-Office Department stables October thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, six dollars and fifty cents.
To pay Annie E. Knight, widow of Asa P. Knight, a former employee Annie E. Knight.of the Post-Office Department, the unpaid balance of salary due, twenty-three dollars and seventy cents. The Postmaster-General is authorized to pay Mrs. Augusta H. Sawyer, Augusta H. Sawyer.wife of John F. Sawyer, late assistant superintendent of salaries and allowances, Post-Office Department, the unpaid salary of the latter from May first to June third, nineteen hundred and five, inclusive: *Provided*, That no payment shall be made hereunder until the warrants drawn in favor of the said John F.
Sawyer in payment for his services for the period named shall have been returned to the Post-Office Department for cancellation without payment. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES. Postal service. The provisions of section six of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen Temporary services.Payment for actual service.*Ante*, p. 763.hundred and six, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not be construed to prevent acting or substitute city letter carriers, rural letter carriers, post-office clerks, railway mail clerks, and other employees connected with the postal service, who are temporary employees, being paid during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven at the usual rate for each day’s actual service.
For fees for special-delivery messengers for fiscal years as follows: Special-delivery fees. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-eight cents. For inland mail transportation by star routes, for fiscal years, as Star routes.follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. 1392 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fifteen thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and fifty-four cents.
Steamboat routes. For inland mail transportation by steamboat and other power-boat routes, thirteen thousand dollars. Railroad routes. For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, one million four hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars. For the manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, fifty thousand dollars. Stamped envelopes and wrappers.Edward F. Jones.Scales. To pay claim of Edward F. Jones, for scales delivered during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, thirty-five dollars and fifty cents.
Rural delivery. To pay amounts found due by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, on account of the appropriation for rural delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred and four, and prior years, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents. International Time Recording Company.Keys. For city free delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred and four, and prior years, to pay the International Time Recording Company, Binghamton, New York, keys for Bundy time clocks, three thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty cents.
W. C. Walsh Company.Wagon service. For compensation to the W. C. Walsh Company in connection with the performance of screen-wagon service in the city of Chicago, Illinois, being service to and from Kinzie Station, from October second, nineteen hundred and five, to January seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and for extraordinary service in the receipt and delivery of mails at the general post-office from October thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, to September sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six eleven thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-two cents.
Department of Agriculture. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 993. For additional compensation of the Secretary of Agriculture from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars. Department of Commerce and Labor. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. office of the secretary. Secretary.Additional pay.*Ante*, p. 993. For additional compensation of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to pay from the appropriation for contingent expenses the sum of two hundred and eighty dollars to J. E. Hurley for furnishing and installing tubes in the boilers located in the basement of the Willard Building. Naval officers.Reimbursement. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to reimburse from the available balance of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, nineteen hundred and five," the subsistence expenses of officers of the United States Navy who were detailed by the President to assist in the investigation of the Steamboat-Inspection Service, amounting in all to four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty cents, as set forth on page twenty-three of House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-four of this session.
W. T. Burwell.Reimbursement. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to reimburse from the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, nineteen hundred and six," the subsistence expenses of W. T. Burwell, captain, United States Navy, for the period from February fourteenth to February twenty-eighth, nine-1393teen hundred and six, both dates inclusive, during which period he was serving as a member of the committee appointed to inquire into the wreck of the steamer Valencia, such reimbursement not to exceed the sum of sixty-two dollars and sixty cents. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. To reimburse the United States Express Company for the transportation United States Express Company.of one box weighing fourteen pounds from Washington, District of Columbia, to New York, in February, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-five cents. To reimburse the Adams Express Company for the transportation of Adams Express Company.one box weighing seventeen pounds from London, England, to Washington, District of Columbia, together with the custom-house fees and charges thereon, in February, nineteen hundred and three, five dollars and eighty-five cents.
To reimburse Aug. F. Rodgers, assistant, Coast and Geodetic Survey, Aug. F. Rodgers.chief of party, for repairs to a hired boat necessary in making a survey of the immigrant reservation at Angel Island, San Francisco, California, twenty dollars. light-house establishment. Light-House Establishment. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed Army and Navy officers.Reimbursement.to allow and credit in the accounts of officers of the Army and Navy detailed for service in connection with the Light-House Establishment for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven such sums as were expended by said officers of the Army and Navy as reimbursements for actual expenses of travel on public business between points inaccessible by ordinary means of conveyance, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.
For a light and fog signal station at the entrance of Huntington Huntington and Lloyd harbors, N.Y.Light station.*Ante*, p. 995.Harbor and Lloyd Harbor, New York, forty thousand dollars. miscellaneous. For two janitors at Government houses on Saint George and Saint Alaska seal fisheries.Janitors.Paul islands, Alaska, for services during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, four hundred and eighty dollars. To refund of fine to Henry Weber, master of the steamer Despatch, Henry Weber.Refund of fine.four hundred and ninety dollars.
The Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor is hereby Canadian Pacific Railway.Reimbursement.authorized to pay, out of the existing appropriation for the enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion laws, to the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, the sum of one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents, for reimbursement of cost of maintenance of alleged native-born Chinese in the years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four for the period during which, by order of the courts under habeas corpus proceedings, said Chinese were detained in the detention station at Richford, Vermont, until said Chinese were delivered to said company for deportation to China.
EXECUTIVE. Executive. For additional compensation for the Secretary of the President, Secretary of the President.Additional pay.fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars, and from March fourth to the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty cents; in all, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and fifty cents. 1394 Legislative. LEGISLATIVE. Congressional employees.Extra month’s pay. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and seven, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law, the same to be immediately available. Printing investigation commission.Work continued. The Committee on Printing of the Senate, with three members of the present House of Representatives who are reelected to the next Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall constitute a commission to continue the work of the Vol. 33, p. 1249.Scope of inquiry.Printing Investigation Commission appointed under the provisions of an Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and shall have power to inquire into the general subject of the public printing and binding for Congress and the various Executive Departments, bureaus, boards, and other offices of the Government and the distribution of public documents; and to inquire concerning the accumulations, if any of Government publications stored in warehouses and public buildings for which no legal method of distribution now exists and the rental of buildings, if any, now occupied for the storage of such Reports.accumulated documents; and to report from time to time during the Sixtieth Congress such remedial legislation as the Commission may deem proper; and to continue the inquiry into the necessity for the continuance of the various branch printing offices and other offices maintained by the various Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of Clerical, etc., assistance.the Government, and to report the economies, if any, which would be effected in the consolidation of such offices with the Government Printing Office; and to employ a secretary and such clerical assistance as may be necessary, such employees to be paid such compensation as said Commission may deem just and reasonable; and said Commission is authorized to send for persons, books, papers, or documents, and through its chairman or acting chairman, or the chairman of any subcommittee thereof, to administer oaths, examine witnesses, books, papers, or documents respecting all matters pertaining to the duties of said Commission; said Commission to sit, if necessary, Appropriation.during the recesses of Congress: and the sum of twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid out by the disbursing officer of the Senate on vouchers approved Immediately available.by the chairman, or acting chairman, of the said Commission.
Said appropriation shall be immediately available. Jamestown Exposition.Expenses of joint committee of Congress.*Post*, p. 2840. To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of the Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress of the United States on the occasion of the formal opening ceremonies of the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition to be held at Norfolk, Virginia, April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, seven thousand Distribution.dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum three thousand dollars shall be accredited to the Senate, to be expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and four thousand, dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives upon vouchers to be approved by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and by the Committee on Accounts of the House, respectively.
Senate. senate. Compensation of Senators. For compensation of Senators, seventy-five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to pay 1395the following persons from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven: E. B. Shurter, clerk to Honorable Henry A. du Pont, of Delaware, E. B. Shurter.Services.for clerical services rendered from October first to December second, nineteen hundred and six;
Mary Lajord, widow of Thomas Lajord, late a messenger on the rolls Thomas Lajord.Pay to widow.of the Senate, the salary of a messenger from July first to July seventh, nineteen hundred and six, the date of his death; Clerk to the Select Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics, salary Committee on Ventilation and Acoustics.Pay of clerk.at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum from January ninth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, sixty thousand dollars, Miscellaneous items.to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations.including compensation of stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, sixty thousand dollars to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. To pay to the widow of the Honorable Russell A. Alger, late a Senator Russell A.
Alger.Payment to widow.from the State of Michigan, five thousand dollars. To reimburse the Honorable Reed Smoot for expenses incurred in Hon. Reed Smoot.Expenses.the matter of the protest against his right to retain his seat in the Senate of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay the persons who prepared the four volumes of Consolidated Consolidated Index to Statutes.Payment for expenses, etc.Index to the United States Statutes at Large, from March fourth, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, to March third, nineteen hundred and three, under Senate resolution of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two, for expenses incurred and for services, five thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee, of the United States, and be paid upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate.
To pay Pitman Pulsifer for labor in compiling and indexing the Pitman Pulsifer.Compiling Navy Yearbook.annual appropriation laws covering what is known as the new navy, and in preparing tabular statements relating to appropriations for and vessels and personnel of the Navy (now known as the Navy Yearbook), for the second and third sessions of the Fifty-eighth Congress, and the first and second sessions of the Fifty-ninth Congress, five thousand dollars. To pay George R. Butlin for services in the preparation of an analytical George R.
Butlin. Services.index to testimony taken before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, five hundred dollars. To pay J. B. Haynes for services in the preparation of an analytical J. B. Haynes. Services.index to testimony taken before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, five hundred dollars. To pay Ernst H. Djureen for services rendered in the preparation Ernst H. Djureen. Services.of an analytical index to testimony taken before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals, five hundred dollars.
To pay Ormsby McHarg for indexing and for extra services as Ormsby McHarg.Services.clerk to the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr for services as assistant clerk by detail to Dennis M. Kerr.Services.the Committee on Pensions, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay William M. Malloy for reporting hearings before the Committee William M. Malloy.Reporting.on Foreign Relations during the Fifty-ninth Congress, two hundred and two dollars.
To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate J. H. Jones.Extra services.chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. 1396 Official reporters. Extra expense. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Interstate Commerce Committee.Extra services railway rate hearings. To pay for extra services rendered to the Committee on Interstate Commerce of the Senate during the consideration of the hearings on the regulation of railway rates, from the adjournment of the Senate, March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, during and subsequent to the special meetings of the Committee (the employees named herein were inadvertently omitted from the urgent deficiency Act), as authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight, as follows:
J. F. Sellers, two hundred dollars: S. A. Mary man, two hundred dollars; F. L. Thompson, two hundred dollars; Parker Williams, two hundred dollars; J. F. Siebert, two hundred dollars, and William McCaffrey, two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars. Appropriations Committees of both Houses.Extra compensation to clerks. For additional compensation to the clerks to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; and the salaries of said clerks are fixed at four thousand dollars per annum each, and for such increased salaries there is appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars each.
William B. Turner.Services. To pay William B. Turner for preparing an index to the report of the French Venezuelan Claims Commission, two hundred dollars. Woodbury Pulsifer.Extra services. To pay Woodbury Pulsifer, Clerk to the Committee on Commerce, for extra services in preparation of report on river and harbor bill, one thousand dollars. House of Representatives. house of representatives. Compensation of Members, Delegates, and Porto Rico Commissioner. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Commissioner from Porto Rico, and Delegates from Territories, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Widows of deceased Members. To pay the widow of H. C. Adams, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Wisconsin, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of R. R. Hitt, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of Rockwood Hoar, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, live thousand dollars. To pay the widow of J. H. Ketcham, late a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, five thousand dollars.
To pay the widow of W. H. Flack, late a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of J. F. Rixey, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Virginia, five thousand dollars. Contested-election expenses. For allowance to the following contestants for expenses incurred by them in contested election cases, as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: John A. Noland. John A. Noland, two hundred dollars; W.
H. Jackson. W. H. Jackson, two thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars. Porto Rico Commissioner.Traveling expenses. For traveling expenses of the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, for attendance on the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, one hundred and thirty dollars. Miscellaneous items, etc. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Fuel and oil. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, five thousand dollars. Sergeant-at-Arms. Horse and wagon. For hire of horse and wagon for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred dollars. 1397 For folding speeches at the rate of one dollar per thousand, to continue Folding speechesavailable until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars. To pay L.
W. Busby for services as clerk to the Committee on L. W. Busby.Services.Rules, one thousand dollars. To pay E. P. Walker for services as clerk to the Committee on E. P. Walker.Services.Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, three hundred and twenty dollars. For the following employees of the House of Representatives from Additional to employees, etc.March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, as authorized by resolutions adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and five, January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, January fourteenth, January twenty-second, February seventh, February sixteenth and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seven, namely:
For janitor to the tile room, at sixty dollars per month, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars; for two messengers to disbursing officers, at nine hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars; for additional assistant enrolling clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, two thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars; for additional compensation of the enrolling clerk, at five hundred dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for additional compensation of assistant doorkeeper, at five hundred dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for additional compensation of Department messenger, at two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-six cents; for additional compensation of superintendent of the folding room, at five hundred dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for additional compensation of the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, at five hundred dollars per annum, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for additional compensation of chief clerk of the folding room, at two hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; for additional compensation of the assistant Department messenger, at two hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; for additional compensation of four clerks in folding room, at four hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars and four cents; for additional compensation of the foreman of the folding room, at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; for stenographer to journal clerk, at seventy-five dollars per month, one thousand one hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents; for assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions from March third, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, two thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-six cents; for additional compensation of the messenger to the Speaker, at two hundred and forty dollars per annum, three hundred and eighteen dollars; for additional compensation to R.
E. Fleharty, assistant stationery clerk, by detail, at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, five hundred and thirty dollars; for additional compensation of messenger to chief clerk, at three hundred dollars per annum, three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents; for additional compensation of the assistant in the Clerk’s office at two hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety cents; for additional compensation of the assistant in the disbursing office at two hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety cents; for additional compensation to two chief pages at three hundred dollars each per annum, seven hundred and ninety-five dollars; for additional compensation for the two telegraph operators at two hundred dollars 1398each per annum, five hundred and thirty dollars; for additional compensation of the superintendent reporters’ gallery at two hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-five dollars; for an annual clerk to the Committee on Enrolled Bills (in lieu of a session clerk) at two thousand dollars per annum, two thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety cents; for a janitor to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, index clerk’s office and guard room at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and six cents.
For additional compensation of the two special employees of the House of Representatives, John T. Chancey and Paul D. Porter, three hundred dollars each, six hundred dollars. For additional compensation to the janitor of the House document room, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, at one hundred and twenty dollars per annum, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars. Official reporters and stenographers. To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the official stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and to John J.
Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. Government Printing Office. government printing office. Leaves of absence.Transfer of appropriation. The sum of sixty-five thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be transferred from the appropriation for "Public printing and binding" for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, to the appropriation for "Leaves of absence, Government Printing Office," for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and is hereby reappropriated to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Advertising sale of documents. The Public Printer may expend, out of the appropriation for public printing and binding for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, not exceeding four thousand dollars for advertising for sale documents which have accumulated in the office of the superintendent of documents. Messengers, night duty. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes as messengers, on night duty during the second session of the present Congress for extra services, three hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred dollars.
Printing and binding. printing and binding. Hydrographic Office. Printing and binding for the Navy Department (Hydrographic Office), which sum is in addition to the fifteen thousand dollars authorized to be expended for the work of the Hydrographic Office by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand two hundred dollars. Index to Statutes at Large.*Post*, p. 1399. The Public Printer shall cause the new index to the Statutes at Large, now being prepared in accordance with the plan approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress, to be printed, bound and distributed in the manner now provided by law for the printing, binding and distribution of the United States Statutes at Large.
Court of Claims. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, three thousand dollars. Bureau of American Republics. For printing and binding for the Bureau of American Republics, six thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. 1399 That the provisions of section three of an Act to amend an Act providing Superintendent of documents.Payment of expenses of office.*Ante*, p. 1014.for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not become operative until July first, nineteen hundred and eight, and, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, the Public Printer is hereby directed to keep separate account Accounts to be kept.of the expense of the administration of the office of the superintendent of documents of the Government Printing Office, and also a separate account of the cost of the printing and binding of such publications of the Government as are directed by law to be supplied to State and Territorial libraries and other designated depositories.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Library of Congress. To expedite the preparation of that part of the new index to the Index to Statutes at Large.Preparation.Statutes at Large, which is an index to the statutes enacted since the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and to provide for the additional service in the Law Library necessary to the printing of the said index, namely, for typewriting a printer’s copy of the card index and for proof reading, five thousand dollars, the same to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to Vol. 24, p. 505provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States," reported to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Four hundred and forty-seven and Five hundred and four, and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-eight, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, six hundred and fifteen dollars and Classification.thirty cents: Under the War Department, four hundred and nine dollars and ninety-eight cents; Under the Navy Department, one thousand four hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-eight cents; Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, two hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-two cents; Under the Treasury Department, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-two cents; Under the Department of Justice, two hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty-six cents.
In all, four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars and fifty-six cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for *Proviso*.Appeal.shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-six, and in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and sixty-nine, and in Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and seven, first session Fifty-ninth Congress, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, seventy-two thousand eight hundred Classification.and sixty dollars and thirty-seven cents; 1400 Under the War Department, one hundred and twenty thousand two hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents; Under the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-four cents; Under the Department of Justice, six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and eighty-seven cents; Under the Post-Office Department, eight hundred and forty dollars and twelve cents;
Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, two thousand six hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-two cents; In all, three hundred and sixty thousand two hundred and one *Proviso*.Appeal.dollars and seventy-one cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Judgments, Indian depredation claims. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy, fifty-five Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.thousand two hundred and nine dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations," shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary Reimbursement.requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for *Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial.the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. Awards.Vol. 31, p. 879. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Four hundred and forty-nine, Five hundred and forty-seven, and Seven hundred and twelve of the present session, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.
Sec. 2. Claims certified by accounting officers. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under Vol. 23, p. 254.section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and ninety-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 1401 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURYClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.
DEPARTMENT. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, four dollars and forty cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, four dollars and thirty cents. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, sixteen dollars and fifty-five cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, two hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety cents. For Life-Saving Service, two hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-seven cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and two cents.
For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, sixty five dollars. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, forty dollars. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, thirty dollars. For payment of judgments against internal revenue officers, five, thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and forty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WARClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand three hundred and forty-seven dollars and eleven cents.
For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, nineteen hundred and five, fourteen thousand and sixty-one dollars and forty-two cents. For subsistence of the Army, three hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty cents. For regular supplies. Quartermasters Department, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-three cents. For incidental expenses. Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-five dollars and thirty cents. For barracks and quarters, two thousand four hundred and eighty- two dollars and one cent.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars and ten cents. . For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and sixty-one cents. For bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad, nineteen dollars and fifty cents. For bringing home remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports, one hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-five cents. For medical and hospital department, three hundred and one dollars and forty-seven cents.
For artificial limbs, seventy cents. For ordnance stores: Equipments, eighteen dollars. For ordnance stores: Manufacture, and so forth, one hundred and fifty dollars. For ordnance stores: Repairs, twenty-five dollars. For Coast Artillery fire-control installations, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and seventy-nine cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, one hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, one dollar and eighty-two cents.
For return of proceeds of Government property, one dollar and fifty cents. 1402 Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, three thousand eight hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-eight cents. For pay, miscellaneous, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and eleven cents. For pay, Marine Corps, live thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-eight cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, seventy-eight dollars and twenty cents.
For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, fifty-four dollars and seventy-two cents. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, five dollars and thirteen cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, fifty-one dollars and seventy-seven cents. For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, twenty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents. For ordnance and ordnance stores. Bureau of Ordnance, six thousand and forty dollars and fourteen cents.
For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, eight thousand and sixty-three dollars and eighty-six cents. For equipment of vessels. Bureau of Equipment, three thousand and thirty-five dollars and eighty cents. For contingent. Bureau of Equipment, five dollars and ninety-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, two hundred and five dollars and forty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy--seven dollars and ninety-five cents. For contingent.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, five hundred and eighty-two dollars and eighteen cents. For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, seven thousand one hundred dollars and fourteen cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, six hundred and sixteen dollars and three cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-live, six hundred and fifty-five dollars. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, two hundred and four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, one dollar and sixty-eight cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-five cents. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For Capitol building and repairs, nineteen hundred and six, twenty-seven dollars. For contingent expenses of land officers, fourteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. For reimbursement to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits, fifteen dollars and sixty-live cents.
For surveying the public lands, twenty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents. For geological maps of the United States, three dollars and fifty cents. For surveying forest reserves, eight dollars and eighty-seven cents. 1403 For transportation of Indian supplies, one thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents. For support of Pawnees: Schools, nineteen hundred and five, twenty- one dollars and forty-five cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, twenty-five dollars and two cents.
For surveying Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, three thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars and seven cents. For Army pensions, forty-eight dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, fifteen dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, thirty-six dollars and ninety-nine cents. For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, fifty-seven dollars and eighteen cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-two cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents. For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, seven dollars and twenty-three cents. For botanical investigations and experiments, one hundred and three dollars and seventeen cents.
For grass and forage plant investigations, sixty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents. For protection of forest reserves, eighty dollars and ninety-six cents. For collecting agricultural statistics, twenty-eight dollars. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, sixty-nine dollars and three cents. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and five, forty-six dollars and eighty-six cents. For miscellaneous expenses. Bureau of Fisheries, eight dollars and nineteen cents. For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, sixty dollars.
For defending suits in claims against the United States, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-one dollars and ninety-four cents. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-five cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals. United States courts, four thousand and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, one thousand and thirty- nine dollars and seventy cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, thirty dollars and eighty cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, two hundred and ninety-four dollars. For support of prisoners, United States courts, two hundred and eight dollars and fifteen cents. 1404 Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, five hundred and seven dollars and twenty-nine cents. For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and one cent. For rewards, two hundred dollars. For star transportation, one thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and fifty-three cents. For compensation to postmasters, forty-seven dollars and eighty- nine cents. For clerk hire, seven dollars and ninety-one cents. For special-delivery service, fees, eight cents.
Sec. 3. Additional claims. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted orVol. 18, p. 110. carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to CongressVol. 23, p. 254. under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy-one, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Additional compensation to certain employees in the Civil ServiceVol. 14, p. 569. at Washington. District of Columbia, under joint resolution of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-two cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, one hundred and thirty dollars.
For Life-Saving Service, two hundred dollars. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-five cents. For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and fifty dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, five dollars and ninety cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, one thousand three hundred and three dollars and sixteen cents. For ordnance service, twenty-five dollars. For bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad, five dollars and sixty-six cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, thirty-eight dollars and sixty- six cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, seventy-eight dollars and eighty cents. 1405 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVYClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and eighty- six cents. For pay. Marine Corps, three hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-two cents. For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, one thousand five hundred and forty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, sixteen dollars. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, thirteen cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-live, two hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, fifty-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, nine dollars. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, seventy-six dollars and ninety-five cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIORClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. DEPARTMENT. For surveying the public lands, eleven thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and twenty-two cents.
For transportation of Indian supplies, two dollars and twenty-three cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATEClaims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Legislative: For public printing and binding, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eight cents. State Department: For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and six, three hundred and two dollars and eight cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, forty-eight dollars and eighty-three cents.
Department of Commerce and Labor: For salaries of keepers of light-houses, twenty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents. For supplies of light-houses, two hundred and ninety dollars and thirty-one cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, seven dollars and ninety-live cents. For expenses of light-vessels, seventy-five dollars and thirty-four cents. For expenses of buoyage, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-four cents. For expenses of fog-signals, one dollar and twenty cents.
For Point Arguello light-station. California, five dollars and forty--eight cents. Department of Justice: For fees of clerks, United States courts, twenty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, seven dollars and fifteen cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, thirteen dollars and eighty cents. 1406 Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, nine dollars.
For star transportation, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and forty-five cents. Approved, March 4, 1907, 11 a. m.
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