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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 34 STAT. · June 30, 1906 · Chapter 3912

Chapter 3912. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 3912.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes. June 30, 1906. [[H. R. 20403](/us/bill/59/hr/20403).] [[Public, No. 381](/us/pl/59/381).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen and six, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
Department of State. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Foreign intercourse, foreign intercourse. Mileage. *Ante*, p. 288. 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, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, thirty 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, three hundred dollars. 635 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 five, one thousand and ninety-eight dollars and ninety-five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Interpreters, consulates. on account of the appropriation “Salaries, interpreters to consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-four cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Contingent expenses, missions. foreign missions,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, thirty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Contingent expenses, consulates. United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, forty thousand dollars. Payment to Germany: To pay to Germany the moiety of the United Samoan disturbances. Payment to Germany. States of forty thousand dollars, in full settlement of the German claims for losses incurred in connection with the disturbances in Samoa in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under the convention between the Vol. 31, p. 1876.
United States, Germany, and Great Britain of November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered Eighty-five of the present session, twenty thousand dollars. Payment to Denmark: To pay to Denmark the moiety of the United Payment to Denmark. States of one thousand five hundred and twenty dollars, in full settlement of the Danish claims for losses incurred in connection with the disturbances in Samoa in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under the Vol. 31, p. 1876. convention between the United States, Germany, and Great Britain of November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty of the present session, seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Payment to France: To pay to France the moiety of the United Payment to France. States of six thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents, in full settlement of the French claims for losses incurred in connection with the disturbances in Samoa in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, under the convention between the United States, Germany, Vol. 31, p. 1876. and Great Britain of November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and twelve of the present session, three thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirteen cents.
International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy: for International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, Italy, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, four thousand eight hundred dollars; for the salary of one member of the Permanent Committee, and for the actual and necessary traveling expenses of Delegates to be appointed to the Grand Assembly of the Institute of Agriculture, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
In all, thirteen thousand four hundred dollars, the said amount to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Office of Treasurer (national currency, reimbursable): For Treasurer’s Office. Reimbursement. reimbursement of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the services of employees detailed to the Office of the Treasurer of the United States to assort notes in the national bank redemption agency from September first, nineteen hundred and five, to February twenty-eighth, *Ante*, p. 28. nineteen hundred and six, from and after which date their 636 salaries were provided in the urgent deficiency Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, three thousand and forty dollars.
Internal revenue. Office of Commissioner. *Ante*, p. 408, amended. Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: The legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, as printed in the form of “Public—Numbered Two hundred and sixty-seven,” is hereby amended by inserting in line six of the paragraph making appropriations for the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue on page twenty-two, after the word “at” the word “two.
” Office of Supervising Architect. Employment of draftsmen, etc. Office of Supervising Architect: 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 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, in addition to those now authorized, 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 *Proviso*.
Maximum expenditure. equitably charged against such appropriations: *Provided*, That the additional expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five 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. Collecting customs revenue. Collecting the revenue from customs:
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, three million dollars. Inspectors at New York allowed additional pay. To pay the 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 for the same period (five Vol. 32, p. 753. dollars per diem), in accordance with the Act of Congress approved December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and two, thirty-one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Philippine Islands. Collection of tariff duties in, ratified. That the tariff duties both import and export imposed by the authorities of the United States or of the provisional military government thereof Vol. 32, p. 54. in the Philippine Islands prior to March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, at all ports and places in said islands upon all goods, wares, and merchandise imported into said islands from the United States, or from foreign countries, or exported from said islands, are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such duties prior to March eighth, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby legalized and ratified and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed.
Transportation of silver coin. Transportation of silver coin: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. Transportation of minor coin. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, ten thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Proviso*.
Deposit. *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury 637 on account of the appropriation for “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-nine cents.
Engraving and printing: For labor and expenses of engraving Engraving and printing. Plate printers’ wages. and printing: For wages of plate printers at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printer’s assistants, when employed, twenty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-three cents, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized Transfer of balances. and directed to transfer to the appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, twenty-one thousand three hundred and sixty dollars, from the unexpended balances now to the credit of the appropriation for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, and materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, as follows:
From the appropriation for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, three thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and five cents, and from the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety five cents, and to use the sums so transferred as though they had been originally appropriated for the purposes of said appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and six, said amounts to be so used in addition to the amount appropriated for plate printing in this Act.
Payment to Minnesota: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized Minnesota. Expenses of, in suppressing Indian hostilities. to reopen, adjust, and audit the claim of the State of Minnesota, for expenses incurred in suppressing Indian hostilities within the State in eighteen hundred and sixty-two, under the Act of Congress approved Vol. 12, p. 754. March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and ascertain and determine, under the rules applied in the cases of certain States for expenses in raising and equipping volunteers for the war of the rebellion, the amount actually expended by said State for interest on money Report. borrowed for expenses so incurred and report the amount so ascertained to Congress for consideration.
Accounts of Andrew J. West: The accounting officers of the Andrew J. West. Credit in accounts. Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Andrew J. West, disbursing officer of the organized militia of Georgia, the sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents, paid to him for services rendered in connection with the encampment of nineteen hundred and three under the orders of the governor of Georgia. Accounts of Francis A.
Macon: Authority is hereby granted the Francis A. Macon. Credit in accounts. proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow a credit of one thousand one hundred and ninety-four dollars and nineteen cents in the accounts of Colonel Francis A. Macon, disbursing officer, North Carolina organized militia, being the amount disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury in his disbursing accounts covering the encampments for the years nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission: To reimburse Claude Hough. Reimbursement. Claude Hough for services performed and expenses incurred as stenographer and clerk for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. collecting internal revenue. Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, Agents, gaugers, etc. and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers, 638 and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the *Proviso*.
Per diem. collection of internal revenue: *Provided*, That internal-revenue agents assigned to the duty of examining the accounts of collectors of internal revenue shall receive for per diem in lieu of subsistence, when absent from their legal residences on duty, a sum, to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed four dollars, for fiscal years as follows: Additional. *Ante*, p. 411. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, being additional to the sum appropriated for this purpose in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for that fiscal year, sixty thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fifty-five thousand dollars. Collectors, etc. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, and deputy collectors, and surveyors, and clerks in internal-revenue offices, being additional to the sum appropriated for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-five thousand dollars. Redemption of stamps. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps” (certified claims), two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.
Refunding taxes. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected” (certified claims), seven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-seven cents. Revenue-Cutter Service. revenue-cutter service. Reimbursement for losses in San Francisco fire. For reimbursement of Revenue-Cutter Service, nineteen hundred and six: To reimburse the United States Revenue-Cutter Service for ship chandlery, engineer stores, clothing, and other articles belonging to the Service destroyed by fire on or about April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six, at San Francisco, said articles being at the time in store on shore, required for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand dollars.
Public buildings. public buildings. Chicago, Ill. Post-office and custom-house. *Ante*, p. 31. For post-office, court-house, and so forth, Chicago, Illinois: Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from the appropriation “Post-office and court-house, Chicago, Illinois” (improvements and changes, Act of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six), the sum of six dollars and forty cents due the Chicago Evening Post Company; the sum of nine dollars and ten cents due the Tribune Company, and the sum of seven dollars and fourteen cents due the Inter-Ocean Newspaper Company, for advertising for bids for making changes in the basement of the post-office, court-house, etcetera, building at Chicago, Illinois.
New York, N. Y. Rent of old custom-house. New York, New York, rent of old custom-house: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars. Treasury building, Washington, D. C. Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For the Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of fifty-one dollars for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, to be carried to the credit of the appropriations named below, to adjust the accounts of the late George A.
Bartlett, disbursing clerk, Treasury Department, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury: Salt Lake City, Utah. Court-house and post-office, Salt Lake City, Utah, seventeen dollars. San Francisco, Cal. Post-office, court-house, and so forth, San Francisco, California, seventeen dollars. 639 Marine Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, seventeen dollars. Savannah, Ga. Marine Hospital. George A. Bartlett. Credit in accounts.Credit in the Accounts of George A.
Bartlett, Disbursing Clerk: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of the late George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, three sums of twenty dollars each, in all sixty dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury, under the appropriation “Post-office, Toledo, Toledo, Ohio. Ohio.” Credit in the Accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, Disbursing Clerk: Thomas J. Hobbs. Credit in accounts.
That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of twenty dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury, under the appropriation “Post-office, Toledo, Ohio.” Public Buildings on Pacific Coast: For reconstruction or repair Pacific coast earthquake. Reconstruction, etc. of public buildings on the Pacific coast, damaged by earthquake of April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, and conflagration which followed, namely:
Post-office and court-house at San Francisco, California, four hundred San Francisco, Cal. Post-office and custom-house. and forty-eight thousand and fifty-seven dollars; For mint building at San Francisco, California, sixty-five thousand Mint. dollars; For Subtreasury at San Francisco, California, thirty thousand dollars; Subtreasury. For appraisers’ stores at San Francisco, California, including auxiliary Appraisers’ stores. water-supply system, nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars;
For post-office at San Jose, California, thirty-four thousand dollars; San Jose, post-office. For post-office at Oakland, California, fifteen thousand dollars; Oakland, post-office. In all, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars. mints and assay offices. Mint and assay offices. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, Freight on bullion, etc. between mints and assay offices, fifteen thousand dollars. government in the territories.
Government in Territories. That no part of the appropriation for the salaries of members and Oklahoma. Expenses of legislative assembly. *Ante*, p. 417. officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, binding, fuel, lights, and incidental expenses appropriated for the expenses of the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall be available for any of the foregoing purposes, the said sum being hereby covered into the Treasury; and no election for members of the legislative No election in 1906. assembly or for any other officers authorized by the laws of the said Territory or Delegate to Congress shall be held under and in pursuance of said laws in the year nineteen hundred and six; and all persons Persons to continue in office, etc. heretofore elected to any of said offices now serving and performing the duties thereof shall continue to serve in their respective offices and perform all the duties thereof, with all the power and authority conferred upon them by the laws of said Territory, until such offices are terminated by the laws of the State of Oklahoma or until the officers provided for under the constitution of said State are duly *Provisos*.
Officers to continue on failure to adopt a constitution. *Ante*, p. 268. elected and qualified: *Provided*, That in case no constitution is adopted and ratified in accordance with the provisions of an Act for the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory into the Union as a State, approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, then said Territorial officers of Oklahoma shall continue to discharge the duties of their respective offices until their successors are duly elected and qual-640ified:
Care, etc., of Territorial institutions. Payments authorized. *Provided*, That the governor and other appropriate Territorial officers of said Territory, are hereby authorized and directed to carry out all contracts with the Territory of Oklahoma for the care and maintenance of charitable and penal institutions, and to make payments therefor out of the general fund of said Territory, and to properly maintain the various Territorial institutions until such time as the constitution and laws of the State of Oklahoma shall provide therefor.
District of Columbia. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 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: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and fifty-five dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten dollars. Contingent, etc., expenses. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For postage for strictly official mail matter, one thousand dollars. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District for the fiscal years that follow:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-eight cents. For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for the coroner’s office for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eight hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and fifty dollars and three cents.
For additional amount required for general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars and nine cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and sixteen dollars and ninety-three cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, sixty-two dollars and forty cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, sixteen dollars and eighty cents. For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia, fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven dollars and fifty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, eighty cents. For additional amount required for rent, fuel, light, fitting up rooms, and other contingent expenses, free public library, fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, ten dollars and fifty cents.
For additional amount required for resurvey of Beatty and Hawkins addition to Georgetown, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eighty-five dollars. Extension of Fourteenth street NW. Vol. 33, p. 371. Extension of Fourteenth street northwest: For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to law, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty cents. Widening V street NW. Vol. 33, p. 520. Widening V street northwest:
For additional amount required to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to public Act approved April twenty-641eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the widening of V street northwest,” to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District, fifteen dollars. Bathing beach: For additional amount required for the care, operation, Bathing beach. maintenance, and repair of bathing beach and floating baths, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, six dollars and thirty-six cents.
Harbor and river front: For additional amount required to meet Harbor and river front. the objects set forth in the appropriation for harbor and river front, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five dollars. Cleaning streets: For additional amount required to meet the Cleaning streets. objects set forth in the appropriation for sprinkling, sweeping, and cleaning streets, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, seven dollars and fifty cents. Extension of streets and avenues:
For additional amounts Extension of streets and avenues. 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-second, nineteen Eighth street NW. Vol. 33, p. 247. hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the extension of Eighth street northwest, or Wright’s road, District of Columbia,” twenty-five dollars and five cents;
Public Act approved April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and Kalorama avenue. Vol. 33, pp. 514 1010. four, entitled “An Act authorizing the joining of Kalorama avenue,” four hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-five cents; Public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and Zoological Park. Vol. 33, p. 522. four, entitled “An Act for the opening of connecting highways on the east and west sides of the Zoological Park, District of Columbia,” four hundred and ninety dollars;
Public Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, S street. Vol. 30, p. 1344. entitled “An Act to extend S street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” and public Act approved June sixth, nineteen Columbia road. Vol. 31, p. 665. hundred, entitled “An Act for the extension of Columbia road east of Thirteenth street, and for other purposes,” two thousand dollars; Public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, Wyoming avenue.
Vol. 33, p. 577. entitled “An Act for the extension of Wyoming avenue to Twenty-third street west,” fifteen dollars and forty-eight cents; Public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, Albemarle street. Vol. 33, p. 534. entitled “An Act for the extension of Albemarle street,” one hundred and seventeen dollars and ninety cents; Public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and Euclid place to Erie street. Vol. 33, p. 516. four, entitled “An Act to connect Euclid place with Erie street,” twelve dollars and sixty 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,” one hundred dollars; In all, three thousand two hundred and twenty-one dollars and eighty-seven cents. Electrical department: For additional amount required to meet Electrical department. the objects set forth in the appropriation for general supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, forty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents.
Public schools: For additional amount required to meet the objects Public schools. set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the fiscal years that follow: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-two cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents. For additional amount required for furniture for and equipment of Manual Training School No. 1. Manual Training School Numbered One, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, fifteen dollars and thirty-one cents. 642 Washington Aqueduct.
Washington Aqueduct: Engineering, maintenance, and general repairs: For payment for fifteen tons of coal ordered, used, and not heretofore paid for, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, fifty-four dollars. Metropolitan police. Metropolitan police: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for miscellaneous and contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one dollar and twenty-five cents. Fire department. *Ante*, p. 314.
Fire department: For the following for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, as authorized by the Act to classify the officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia, approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely: Salaries. For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-nine captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; nineteen engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; nineteen assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirty drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and sixty-eight privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four hundred and twenty-seven thousand one hundred and thirty dollars, including the sum of three hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars appropriated in *Ante*, p. 504. the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, under the title “Fire department,” and in the paragraph for pay of chief engineer and others, which latter sum is hereby reappropriated and diverted from the said Act to and for the purposes alone of meeting the requirements of this paragraph for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.
Forage. For additional amount required for forage, one thousand dollars. Health department. Health Department: For additional amount required for isolating wards for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, one thousand two hundred dollars. Police court. Police court: For additional amount required for compensation of jurors, two thousand dollars. Additional ground. For additional amount required to pay costs incident to the condemnation proceedings for additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine, in the city of Washington, for site for a new police court building, four dollars and eighty cents.
Board of Children’s Guardians. Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amount required for maintenance of feeble-minded children, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents. Washington Asylum. Washington Asylum: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses, one thousand dollars Toilets, etc. Vol. 33, p. 907. Any balance of the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars for installing new baths in workhouse buildings at the Wash-643ington Asylum, provided for in the District appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, which may remain unexpended after the completion of said work, is hereby made available for installing water-closets, urinals, and stationary wash basins in said buildings.
Writs of lunacy: For additional amount required to defray the Lunacy writs. expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments 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 five, nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three dollars and seventy-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one dollar and twenty-five cents. Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against Judgments. the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, Eight hundred and seventy-five, Eight hundred and eighty-three, Eight hundred and ninety-seven, and Nine hundred and seven of this session, sixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty 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.
Militia: For postage for strictly official mail matter, six hundred Militia. and fifty dollars. To reimburse George H. Harries, brigadier-general commanding George H. Harries. Reimbursement. the District of Columbia Militia, for amounts paid to members of the engineer force of the naval battalion, National Guard, District of Columbia, for services rendered on board the United States ship Puritan during the joint Army and Navy maneuvers, June eighth to nineteenth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other necessary expenses incident thereto, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-four cents.
Alleys: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Ingleside. Opening alley in block 6. authorized and directed to pay, from the appropriation for “Alleys, District of Columbia,” the sum of one hundred and seventy-five dollars, the amount due for services rendered by a jury in the matter of the condemnation of land for opening of an alley in Block six, Ingleside, the proceedings of said jury having been made null and void by the passage of an Act approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred Vol. 33, p. 733. and five, entitled “An Act to amend chapter fifty-five of an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia.’” Industrial Home School:
The Commissioners of the District of Industrial Home School. Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to pay to V. Baldwin Johnson the sum of twenty-one dollars and ninety-four cents, for fuel furnished the Industrial Home School, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, without inspection required by law. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to Half from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 644 War Department.
WAR DEPARTMENT. Fort Donelson National Cemetery. Fort Donelson National Cemetery: For completion of road from the river landing or its vicinity in the town of Dover, Tennessee, to the national cemetery near old Fort Donelson, two thousand three hundred dollars. Fort Niagara, N. Y. Fort Niagara, New York: The appropriation of one hundred and Vol. 33, p. 1198. fifty thousand dollars made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six for purchase of land for enlargement of Fort Niagara, New York, is hereby made available for the construction of buildings upon the present reservation of said military post.
Advertising. Advertising: To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements for proposals for dredging Skidaway Narrows, Georgia, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-seven of the present session, twenty-one dollars and forty-two cents. Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor. Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor: To equip with the proper machinery and lighting apparatus to light the Statue of Liberty Vol. 33, p. 498. at Fort Wood, Bedloes Island, New York Harbor, carrying out the plans of the Quartermaster-General of the United States Army, under the direction of the Secretary of War, including electric elevator and necessary repairs to place the statue, pedestal, foundations, and surroundings in safe condition, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Rochambeau Statue. Payment to DeB. Randolph Keim. Rochambeau Statue: To pay DeB. Randolph Keim for compiling, preparing, indexing, and superintending through the press of an account of the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the monument to Count de Rochambeau, on account of the entertainment of the foreign visitors and preparation of a commemorative sketch of the services of the French in America, one thousand dollars. California earthquake sufferers. Relief of. California earthquake sufferers:
Authority is hereby specifically given to the Secretary of War to use the appropriations for relief of sufferers from earthquake and conflagration on the Pacific coast, amounting in all to two million five hundred thousand dollars, not only to buy additional supplies as may be needed for the relief of the sufferers, *Post*, pp. 827, 828. as directed in the joint resolutions, approved April nineteenth, April twentieth, and April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, and for the purpose of replacing by purchase supplies which have been furnished by the Secretary of War for such relief from the stores on hand for the use of the Army and for the purpose of defraying all extra cost to the War Department incurred in mileage of officers, transportation of troops, and all other expenditures which would not have been necessary but for the relief measures herein described and authorized, but also for the expenditures for personal services of persons employed by the subsistence, quartermaster, medical, and signal bureaus in the measures undertaken by the Army for the furnishing and distribution of supplies and necessary sheltering of the sufferers and the needed sanitation of camps and other temporary settlements maintained by the War Department for such relief.
California Débris Commission. Expenses. Expenses, California Débris Commission: For furniture, stationery, instruments, photographic appliances, and all labor and materials necessary to restore records and property of all sorts destroyed during the earthquake and consequent conflagration of April, nineteen hundred and six, at San Francisco, California, five thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors.
State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support Vol. 25 p. 450. of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including 645 all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no *Provisos*.
Restriction. part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March. third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home Vol. 22, p. 564. Exception. located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;” but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Intoxicating liquors. shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold.
To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amount due the publishers Advertising. of the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah, for publishing advertisements for proposals for construction work, five dollars. Payment to Texas: To reimburse to the State of Texas, in full Texas. Reimbursement. settlement of all claims of any nature whatever on account of moneys actually expended by that State during the period of time between February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty, in payment of State volunteers or rangers called into service by authority of the governor of Texas, in defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations, for which reimbursement has not been made out of the Treasury of the United States, as ascertained under the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, Vol. 33, p. 1224. and certified in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine of this session, three hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and ninety-four cents.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Military establishment. pay department. Pay Department. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by Mileage. law, fifty thousand dollars. Under the chief signal officer: For the purpose of replacing Seattle, Wash. Replacing signal stores, etc. signal stores and equipments destroyed by lire while on storage in warehouse at Arlington Dock, Seattle, Washington, May seventh, nineteen hundred and six, to be made available during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, fifteen thousand dollars. quarter master’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 six, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred thousand dollars. replacing military’ stores. Replacing military stores. For replacing military stores destroyed by earthquake and fire at California earthquake. San Francisco, to remain available for expenditure during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, as follows:
For the purpose of replacing signal corps property, seven thousand Signal service. four hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-five cents; For replacing three-conductor harbor cable connecting Angel Island San Francisco, Cal. Harbor cable. 646 and Alcatraz, in the harbor of San Francisco, two thousand five hundred dollars; Quartermaster’s Department. 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 six, twenty-five thousand dollars;
Transportation of 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 six, one hundred thousand dollars; Clothing, etc. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred thousand dollars; Hospitals. Construction, etc. For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, forty-five thousand dollars;
Medical, etc., supplies, destroyed by fire. For special estimate of appropriation required to cover money value of medical and hospital supplies destroyed by fire in the medical supply depot, six hundred and fifty-five Mission street, San Francisco, California, one hundred thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence supplies, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred and twenty-three thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars;
Judge-Advocate’s office, books. For books for use of the office of the judge-advocate, Department of California, one thousand three hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents; In all, one million three hundred and four thousand eight hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty cents.. Navy Department. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Judge-Advocate-General’s Office. Additional salary for solicitor. Office of Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy: For additional amount for salary of the solicitor, assistant to the Judge-Advocate-General, as provided in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Naval establishment. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. General account of advances. Reimbursement. 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 two, two thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-seven Emergency fund. For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and one, eight thousand two hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents; For emergency fund, Navy Department, nineteen hundred, two thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty-four cents; Pay. For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-one cents;
For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-one cents; 647 For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred, one hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, sixty-one dollars and seventy-four cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and three, eighteen thousand Pay, miscellaneous. six hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty-five cents;
For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and one, ninety-five dollars and twenty-five cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred, ninety dollars and ninety-nine cents: For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand Contingent. four hundred and ten dollars and twenty-nine cents; For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-eight dollars and thirty-five cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-four thousand Marine Corps. six hundred and fifty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents;
For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-two thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-six cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, eight dollars and ninety-four cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred, seven dollars and sixty cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, five dollars and thirty-six cents; For fuel, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, five hundred and six dollars and sixteen cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, six hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-two cents;
For transportation, recruiting and contingent, navigation, Bureau Bureau of Navigation. of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, thirty-six thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and ninety-four cents; For transportation, recruiting and contingent, navigation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, two hundred and eight dollars and twenty-eight cents; For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, nine thousand six hundred and thirty dollars;
For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, two thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-seven cents; For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, sixty-six dollars and thirty cents; For outfits for landsmen, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents; For outfits for landsmen, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two, eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents;
For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand seven hundred and one dollars and twenty-one cents; For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents; For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen Bureau of Ordnance. hundred and three, one hundred and two dollars and ninety cents; For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and three, six dollars and ninety-two cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and three, two dollars and ten cents; 648 Bureau of Equipment. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-four thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and forty-four cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand three hundred and fifty-three dollars and eleven cents; For coal, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-three cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and three, forty-two dollars and forty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two, sixty cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty-eight cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and three, thirteen dollars and forty-seven cents; Bureau of Yards and Docks. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirty-nine cents;
For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and one, one thousand and thirty-three dollars and thirty-seven cents; For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred, fourteen dollars and fifty cents; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. For medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-six cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-nine cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-three cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and two, seven dollars; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, eighty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-five cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty-one cents;
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixteen cents; For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and one, fifty-five dollars and seventy-eight cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand one hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and two, five dollars and eighty-four cents;
For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and one, eight dollars and fifty-seven cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred, one dollar and forty cents; Bureau of Construction and Repair. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and three, six hundred and one dollars and ninety-six cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and two, four thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-three cents; 649 For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and one, sixty-five dollars and seventy-nine cents;
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred Bureau of Steam Engineering. and three, two thousand six hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and two, eight hundred and sixty-three dollars and ninety-two cents; For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nineteen hundred and Preservation of yards and docks. three, thirty-six dollars and thirty-four cents; For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nineteen hundred and two, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents;
For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nineteen hundred and one, fifty-three dollars and sixty-one cents; In all, three hundred and fifty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and forty-four cents. Pay miscellaneous: For pay miscellaneous including all objects Pay, miscellaneous. mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fifty thousand dollars. 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 five, thirty thousand dollars.
To pay bill of the Western Union Telegraph Company for transmission of telegrams, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three dollars and eighty cents. To pay bill of the Western Union Telegraph Company for transmission of telegrams, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one dollar and eighty-two cents. marine corps. Marine Corps. Pay: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on the Pay. active list, twenty-five thousand and ten dollars.
For pay of officers prescribed by law on retired list, thirty-four thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. For pay of enlisted men prescribed by law on active list, one hundred and five thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars. For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing undrawn, one hundred and one thousand two hundred dollars. For amount of deficiency on account of “Pay Marine Corps,” reported by the Auditor for the Navy Department under date of May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, a copy of such report being transmitted in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ninety-three thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-three cents.
Fuel: To reimburse the appropriation, “Coal and transportation,” Fuel. Navy Department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, for fuel furnished the Marine Corps, four hundred dollars. Transportation and recruiting: To pay account on file in favor of Transportation and recruiting. the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company, for transportation of recruits, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, eight dollars and fifty cents. To pay account on file in favor of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Record, for advertising for recruits, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifty-nine dollars and forty cents.
Contingent: For contingent expenses of the Marine Corps, including Contingent. all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, to per-650mit the reimbursement of the Quartermaster’s Department, United States Army, for certain supplies transferred by that Department to the Marine Corps, for use of the marine guard at Peking, China, five thousand two hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.
To pay accounts on file in favor, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, for freight charges, one dollar and eighty-eight cents, and the La Conner Trading and Transportation Company, for freight charges, three dollars and thirty-eight cents, Marine Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five dollars and twenty-six cents. San Francisco earthquake. Replacing stores, etc. Stores and supplies destroyed at San Francisco: For clothing, arms, accouterments, camp and garrison equipage, office furniture, fixtures, and so forth, for the Marine Corps, to replace stores and supplies destroyed by tire at San Francisco, California, on or about April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Bureau of Navigation. bureau of navigation. Transportation, recruiting and contingent. For transportation, recruiting and contingent: To pay the following vouchers for advertising and telegraph services not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three: Buffalo (New York) Courier, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixty cents; Lafayette (Indiana) Daily Courier, five dollars and eighty-eight cents;
Western Union Telegraph Company, fifty-five cents; in all, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and three cents. To pay the following voucher for advertising not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one: Waterbury (Connecticut) American, thirty-six dollars and ninety-three cents. To pay the following voucher for advertising, not received at the Department until after the balance under the appropriation named had been covered into the Treasury, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred:
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Record, ninety dollars and thirty cents. Coasters Harbor Island, R. I. Naval War College. Reappropriation. Naval War College, Rhode Island, buildings: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of six thousand five hundred dollars for altering the building formerly belonging to training station and fitting the same for occupancy by officers of the Naval War College, Rhode Island, made by the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen Vol. 33, p. 338. hundred and five, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of two thousand dollars for furniture for officers’ quarters in building numbered ten, formerly belonging to training station, made Vol. 33, p. 1104. by the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, are hereby reappropriated and made available for making necessary repairs and alterations to the buildings of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.
Naval training station. Naval training station, Newport, Rhode Island: To replace detention buildings at the training station, Newport, Rhode Island, destroyed by fire on January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, to be utilized in segregating recruits, including mess hall, mess and galley outfits, laundry, wash rooms, latrines, and other necessaries to make the same habitable and sanitary; in all, ninety-four thousand three hundred and twenty-one dollars. Bureau of Ordnance. bureau of ordnance.
Ordnance stores. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, one thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars and seventy-two cents. 651 To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, thirty-one thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Ordnance and ordnance stores,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, one hundred and sixty dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Contingent. Ordnance,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, in order to effect adjustment of “General account of advances” fifteen thousand four hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight dollars and thirty cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, twenty-nine dollars and ten cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. bureau of equipment. Bureau of Equipment. To pay the vouchers under appropriation “Equipment of vessels,” Equipment of vessels. which were not received until after the balance under the said appropriation had been covered into the surplus fund and which are set forth on page nineteen, of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, being for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, nine thousand four hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-four cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty dollars and fifty-eight cents. To pay the following voucher under appropriation “Equipment of vessels, nineteen hundred and one,” which was not received until after the balance under the said appropriation had been covered into the surplus fund: T. S. and J. D. Negus, three hundred and fifty dollars. To pay the following voucher under appropriation “Ocean and lake Ocean and lake surveys. surveys, nineteen hundred and one,” which was not received until after the balance under the said appropriation had been covered into the surplus fund:
T. S. and J. D. Negus, four hundred and twenty-five dollars. To pay the following voucher under appropriation “Contingent, Contingent. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and three,” which was not received until after the balance under the said appropriation had been covered into the surplus fund, La Conner Trading and Transportation Company, one dollar and sixty cents. To pay the following vouchers under appropriation “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two,” which were not received until after the balance under the said appropriation had been covered into the surplus fund:
La Conner Trading and Transportation Company, fifty-one cents; steamer Lady of the Lake, two dollars and ninety-three cents; in all, three dollars and forty-four cents. bureau of yards and docks. Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance, Yards and Docks: For general maintenance of yards Maintenance. and docks, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty thousand dollars. 652 For general maintenance of yards and docks, to pay voucher in favor of the Post-Intelligencer Company, of Seattle, Washington, for advertising during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, one dollar and ten cents.
Naval prison, Portsmouth. To complete administration building, naval prison, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to continue available during fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty thousand dollars. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. bureau of medicine and surgery. Medical Department. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, to pay approved vouchers as set forth on page twenty of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, eighty dollars and fifty cents.
Contingent. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, to pay approved vouchers and amounts as set forth on pages twenty and twenty-one of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one of this session, two thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and prior years, to pay approved vouchers as set forth on page twenty of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one of this session, fifty-eight dollars and seven cents. Bureau of and Accounts. Contingent. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: To pay accounts on file on account of contingent expenses, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, set forth on pages twenty-one and twenty-two of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one of this session, being for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, forty-four dollars and sixty-two cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, sixteen dollars and thirty-eight cents. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair: To pay accounts on file on account of Construction and Repair, as set forth on page twenty-two of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one of this session, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, nine dollars and seventy-two cents. Bureau of Steam Engineering. Steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering: To pay accounts on file on account of Steam Machinery, as set forth on page twenty-two of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one of this session, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, five hundred and twenty dollars and six cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents.
Miscellaneous. navy miscellaneous. Virginius Dabney. Expenses. To pay Doctor Virginius Dabney the difference between mileage and his actual necessary expenses while performing duty with travel-653ing recruiting parties in June and July, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixteen cents. To reimburse Lieutenant George T. Emmons, United States Navy, Lieut. George T. Emmons. Reimbursement. for commutation of quarters while serving on duty, under the Senate Committee on Territories, in Alaska and Washington from May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, amounting to three hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents, which by an error in the wording of his orders has been deducted from his pay by an order of the Treasury Department.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Department of the Interior. office of superintendent of the capitol. Capitol. To reimburse William H. Green for loss of time and doctor’s fees on William H. Green. Reimbursement. account of injury from an accident while employed at the House of Representatives Office Building, two hundred and fifty dollars. To reimburse John Brady for loss of time and for doctor’s fees on John Brady. Reimbursement. account of injury from accident while employed under the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Buildings and Grounds in nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For necessary improvements in the Senate kitchen, including laundry, Senate kitchen, etc. refrigeration, construction of cold-storage room, metal tables, lockers, kitchen furniture, and ovens for baking, and so forth, not exceeding seventeen thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. patent office. Patent Office. For work to be done in producing the Official Gazette, including Official Gazette. the letterpress, the weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, fifteen thousand dollars. indian office.
Indian Office. For chief clerk of the Indian Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred Chief clerk. and seven, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. general land office. General Land Office. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to reproduce Surveyor-general, California. Reproducing plats, etc., lost by earthquake. by photolithography or otherwise four thousand eight hundred and fifty-five copies, more or less, of the official plats of United States surveys constituting a part of the records of the office of the United States surveyor-general at San Francisco, California, which were destroyed by earthquake and fire on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveys Deputy surveyors. and resurveys of public lands executed by them in certain States, necessary to complete the surveys under their contracts, being the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-two, and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and thirteen of this session, two thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and four cents. 654 Surveys of Walker River, Uintah and Spokane reservations.
Vol. 32, p. 997. For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveys executed by them in the Walker River, Uintah and White River Utes, and Spokane Indian reservations under the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, necessary to complete the surveys under their contracts, being the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-two of this session, four thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents.
Contingent expenses. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five dollars and forty-four cents. Reindeer for Alaska. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two thousand and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents.
Public lands. public lands service. Surveyors-general. Alaska. For expenses incident to removing the records and public property in the office of the surveyor-general of Alaska from Sitka, its present location, to Juneau, to be immediately available, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred and fifty dollars. Montana. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten dollars and forty-two cents.
New Mexico. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven dollars and seventy-eight cents. Geological Survey. geological survey. James W. Spencer. Credit in accounts. That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of James W. Spencer, special disbursing agent of the United States Geological Survey, the sum of seventy-nine dollars and sixty cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Geological Survey, nineteen hundred and four.
” That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of James W. Spencer, special disbursing agent of the United States Geological Survey, the sum of two dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Surveying forest reserves, nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four.” Indian Affairs. indian affairs. Purchasing, etc., supplies. To pay claims found due for increased advertising and expenses in connection with the purchase of supplies for the Indian service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing, and purchase of 655 Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian 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, three thousand dollars.
For the necessary transportation of Indian goods, provisions, and Transporting, etc., supplies. other supplies for the Indian service for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, to pay claims found due, eight thousand dollars. To pay traveling and incidental expenses incurred by superintendents Incidentals. California. in California, including purchase of subsistence and medical attention for indigent Indians, two hundred dollars.
To pay traveling and incidental expenses of superintendents at Fort Fort Hall, Lemhi, and Coeur d’Alene. Hall, Lemhi, and Coeur d’Alene, two hundred dollars. To pay accounts set forth on page twenty-five of House Document Montana. Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Montana, including employees,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and ten cents. To pay traveling and incidental expenses of agents at Crow, Blackfeet, Agents, Crow, etc., agencies.
Tongue River, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, and Flathead, three hundred dollars. To pay traveling and incidental expenses and for additional supplies Additional supplies. for Indians, five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury New Mexico. Incidentals. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in New Mexico,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-five dollars and eighty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Utah.
Incidentals. on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Utah,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, forty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay traveling and incidental expenses of superintendents and Superintendents, etc. agents, including purchase of subsistence for indigent Indians, eight hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Chippewas of Minnesota. on account of the appropriation “Surveying and allotting for Chippewas in Minnesota (reimbursable),” two thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Indian Territory. Town-site commissioners. on account of the appropriation “Town-site Commissioners, Indian Territory,” six hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirteen cents. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Schools. Chilocco, Okla. on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma: Steam boilers,” eight dollars and ten cents. For transportation of pupils to and from the school at Carlisle, Carlisle, Pa.
Pennsylvania, during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand five hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to return twenty-two pupils Returning Alaska pupils. heretofore in the United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to their respective homes in Alaska, three thousand seven hundred and five dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Riverside, Cal. on account of the appropriation “Indian School, Riverside, California,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-nine cents. 656 Edgar Smith.
Services to Cherokees. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Edgar Smith from any tribal funds of the Cherokee Nation in the Treasury of the United States the sum of five thousand dollars, in full for his services as attorney for said Nation in the Supreme Court of the United States, in a certain cause entitled “In the matter of the enrollment of persons claiming rights in the Cherokee Nation by inter-marriage versus United States: Cherokee Nation, Intervenor,” more particularly described as numbers four hundred and nineteen to four hundred and twenty-two, inclusive, on the Calendar of said Court.
Ann Francis. The appropriation contained in the Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, in behalf of Ann Francis, a Chippewa Indian woman, Clerk’s costs. *Ante*, p. 381. is hereby extended to and made available for the payment of the estimated clerk’s costs in the case of Francis against Francis, pending in the United States Supreme Court, in addition to the purposes specified in said Act.
Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. Defending suits in claims. Defending suits in claims: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-one dollars and ninety-four cents. Henry E. Dean. Services. Payment to Henry E. Dean: For payment to Henry E. Dean for legal services rendered for the United States on April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and four, in cross-examining a witness in the case of Schwarzschild and Sulzberger Company versus H. A. Rucker, collector of internal revenue, fifteen dollars.
Alaska. Jail at Nushagak. United States jail, Alaska: The judge of the United States district court for the third division of the district of Alaska is hereby authorized to order the clerk of said court to pay to the proper claimants, from court funds, the sum of six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents, being the excess beyond the limit prescribed by law in the cost of the construction of the United States jail at Nushagak, Alaska. Hugh T. Taggart. Services.
Payment to Hugh T. Taggart: For payment to Hugh T. Taggart in full for services rendered as special assistant to the Attorney-General in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case commonly known as the “Potomac Flats” case, under appointment of January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five thousand dollars. S. W. Curriden. Allowance in accounts. Reform School, Washington, District of Columbia: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of S.
W. Curriden, treasurer of the Reform School, District of Columbia, payments heretofore made by him in good faith to instructors in music and military exercises and for officers’ uniforms on first appointment, in accordance with the regulations of the board of trustees. 657 JUDICIAL. Judicial. For salaries of four deputy clerks in the Indian Territory, for the Indian Territory courts. Deputy clerks. *Ante*, pp. 342, 343. fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, authorized by the Indian Appropriation Act, approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory, five hundred dollars. For the salary of the additional district judge for the southern district District judge, New York southern district. *Ante*, p. 202. of New York, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred dollars. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six thousand dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.
United States courts. For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Kansas, as follows: For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, six hundred dollars.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent of court rooms. ten thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, forty-five thousand dollars. Fees of clerks. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury District attorneys. on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and sixty dollars. 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, forty-five thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be Foreign counsel. available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred [R. S., 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post-Office Department.
The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to expend the sum of Mail-lock repair shop. Use of balance for Vol. 33, p. 679. seven hundred and fifty dollars from the unexpended balance of the appropriation of twelve thousand eight hundred dollars made by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of February third, nineteen hundred and five, “For rent of suitable buildings for the storage of post-office supplies and for the rural free-delivery service,” to defray the expenses of maintaining the mail-lock repair shop in a building separate from the mail-bag repair shop until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
Balance of account of William A. Machen, doing business as Machen William A. Machen. Fuel. Brothers, for coal furnished the Post-Office Department, sixty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. Repairs to cement walk around plumbing appurtenances adjacent to Repairs. the Post-Office Department building, fifteen dollars and ninety-one cents. To pay the claim of John N. Newkirk, postmaster at San Diego, John N. Newkirk. Credit in accounts. California, for credit on account of loss resulting from the burglary 658 of his office February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and six cents.
Walter L. Stowell. Postal losses. For payment to Walter L. Stowell, of San Francisco, California, in full settlement for loss sustained by burglary of the stamp office in the post-office at San Francisco, California, one thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars. File boxes, etc. For steel file boxes and cases for the division of appointments, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Postal service. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.
California earthquake. Emergency balance continued. *Ante*, p. 168. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of seventy thousand dollars made in the Act approved May third, nineteen hundred and six, to meet emergencies in the postal service in the State of California occasioned by earthquake and fire shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. Steamboat routes. For inland mail transportation by steamboat and other power-boat routes, thirty-three thousand dollars.
Railroad routes. For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars. Wagon service. For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, fifty-six thousand dollars. Railway Mail Service. Railway Mail Service: Tor per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, three thousand dollars. Foreign mails. For transportation of foreign mails, two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. Adrian Brick and Tile Machine Company. Street letter boxes. To pay the Adrian Brick and Tile Machine Company, of Adrian, Michigan, for street letter boxes manufactured by that company, as subcontractors, and furnished to the Post-Office Department by the contractor, Eugene D.
Scheble, of Toledo, Ohio, trading as the Michigan Steel Box Company, under his contract covering the period from July first, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, eighteen thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents. To pay the following, audited and certified by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, on pages thirty-two and thirty-three of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, namely: Foreign mails.
For transportation of foreign mails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty-seven thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-five cents. Packing boxes. For packing boxes, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nineteen dollars and forty-four cents. Miscellaneous, first and second class offices. For miscellaneous items first and second-class offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirteen cents.
City delivery. For city free-delivery service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, four hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-nine cents. Rural delivery. For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, ninety-one dollars and eight cents. Star routes. For inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents. Department of Agriculture.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: To pay the claims set forth on page twenty-six of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, on account of contingent expenses, Department of Agri-659culture, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-six cents. Library: To pay claim of G. E. Stechert, New York, New York, G. E. Stechert. Publications. for various periodicals furnished under requisitions dated April twenty-fifth and May third, nineteen hundred and four, used for reference in the Department library, being for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars and sixty cents.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Special agents. on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of special agents, Department of Commerce and Labor,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty-four cents. For the care of the fish ponds in the Monument grounds, the ground Fish Ponds, Monument grounds, D. C. around them and the buildings upon the same, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred dollars: *Provided*, That when said ponds, ground, and buildings, are *Proviso*.
Transfer. abandoned by the Bureau of Fisheries, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds is authorized to assume control of them and of any balance of the sum hereby appropriated that may remain unexpended at the date of said transfer. ADDITIONAL AIDS TO NAVIGATION IN THE LIGHT-HOUSE Light-houses, etc. *Ante*, p. 821. ESTABLISHMENT. For a light and fog-signal station at Isle au Haut, Maine, fourteen Isle au Haut, Me. thousand dollars. For a fog signal at Baker Island, Salem Harbor, Massachusetts, ten Baker Island, Mass. thousand dollars.
Toward a light vessel to be placed near the entrance to Buzzards Buzzards Bay, Mass. Bay, Massachusetts, to replace the one now known as the Hen and Chickens light-ship, fifty thousand dollars. For range lights at Bellevue Range, Delaware River, forty thousand Delaware River. Bellevue Range. dollars. Toward a light and fog signal at Miah Maul Shoal, Delaware River, Miah Maul Shoal. forty thousand dollars. Toward a light and fog-signal station on the Joe Flogger Shoal, Joe Flogger Shoal.
Delaware River, forty thousand dollars. Toward a light and fog-signal station at Ragged Point, Potomac Potomac River. River, fifteen thousand dollars. For a light-keeper’s dwelling at Sheboygan light station, Sheboygan, Sheboygan, Wis. Wisconsin, six thousand dollars. For a light-keeper’s dwelling at Menominee Harbor, Michigan, five Menominee, Mich. thousand dollars. For a dwelling for the keepers of the light-house on Horseshoe Horseshoe Reef, Buffalo, N. Y. Reef, entrance to Buffalo Harbor, New York, six thousand two hundred dollars.
For a light-keeper’s dwelling at Tibbetts Point light station, New Tibbetts Point, N.Y. York, four thousand dollars. Toward a light vessel to be placed off Martins Reef, northwest end Martins Reef, Lake Huron. of Lake Huron, Michigan, twenty-five thousand dollars. For range lights, Superior pierhead, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, Superior, Wis. twenty thousand dollars. For a light station and range lights at Honolulu Harbor, Territory Honolulu, Hawaii. of Hawaii, forty thousand dollars.
Toward a light and fog-signal station near Point Cabrillo, California, Point Cabrillo, Cal. twenty-five thousand dollars. 660 Robinson Point, Wash. For a light keeper’s dwelling at Robinson Point, State of Washington, five thousand dollars. Ediz Hook, Wash. For a fog signal at Ediz Hook light station, State of Washington, ten thousand dollars. Tender, thirteenth district. Toward a new tender for inspection service in the thirteenth lighthouse district, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Monongahela River, lights. Contracts. For post lights on the Monongahela River, five thousand dollars. And the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the construction of the foregoing additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment not to exceed the *Ante*, p. 321. limits of cost respectively fixed in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six. miscellaneous—commerce and labor.
William John Wright and others. Moiety of immigration fines. To pay William John Wright, William Angle, Charles Lewis, and Harry Johnson, in equal shares, the sum of two thousand dollars, the same being one-half of a judgment recovered by the United States from the Tile, Grate and Mantel Association of New York for violation of the alien contract labor law upon information given by the said William John Wright, William Angle, Charles Lewis, and Harry Johnson, two thousand dollars.
Mexican-American Steamship Company. Refund of fine. Vol. 32, p. 1215. To refund to the Mexican-American Steamship Company, of New Orleans, Louisiana, the amount of a tine imposed and paid under section nine of the immigration Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, since remitted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, one hundred dollars. Cunard Steamship Company. Payment of judgment. To pay the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) the amount of a judgment and costs obtained in the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York against the collector of customs at the port of New York on account of fines imposed against the steamship Vol. 32, p. 1215.
Slavonia under section nine of the immigration Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, because of five diseased aliens who were brought into this port by said vessel, five hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. 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 June, nineteen hundred and six, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the first 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. Robert Brent Mosher. Payment to. To pay Robert Brent Mosher for use of his plates in printing, for the use of Congress, one thousand five hundred copies of the Executive Register of the United States, seventeen hundred and eighty-nine to nineteen hundred and two, one thousand dollars.
Senate. senate. Stationery and newspapers. For stationery and newspapers for Senators and the President of the Senate and for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, oil, etc. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, five hundred dollars. 661 For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to 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, six thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, five thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items. To pay the widow of the Honorable Arthur Pue Gorman, late a Arthur Pue Gorman. Payment to widow. Senator from the State of Maryland, five thousand dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates Official reporters. Extra services. of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
To pay Ormsby McHarg for indexing and for extra services as Ormsby McHarg. Extra services. clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two 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, one thousand dollars. To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate J. H. Jones. Services. chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Compensation of Members and Delegates. Delegates from Territories, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty-four cents. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, one Stationery. hundred and twenty-five dollars. For compensation of Delegate from Alaska from August fourteenth, Delegates from Alaska. *Ante*, p. 169. nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, both inclusive, four thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-six cents; for mileage in attending the second regular session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expenses Contested-election expenses. incurred by them in contested-election cases as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: Henry M. Goldfogle, one thousand seven hundred dollars; Henry M. Goldfogle. J. K. Kalanianaole, two thousand dollars; J. K. Kalanianaole. C. P. Iaukea, two thousand dollars; C. P. Iaukea. A. J. Houston, two thousand dollars; A. J. Houston. M. L. Brooks, two thousand dollars; M.
L. Broocks. Ernest E. Wood, two thousand dollars; Ernest E. Wood. H. M. Coudrey, two thousand dollars; H. M. Coudrey. Thomas A. Smith, two thousand dollars; Thomas A. Smith. Charles C. Jacobs, two thousand dollars; Charles C. Jacobs. Asbury F. Lever, two thousand dollars; Asbury F. Lever. Isaac Myers, two thousand dollars; Isaac Myers. J. O. Patterson, two thousand dollars; J. O. Patterson. Aaron P. Prioleau, two thousand dollars; Aaron P. Prioleau. George S. Legare, two thousand dollars;
George S. Legare. Anthony Michalek, two thousand dollars; Anthony Michalek. In all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars. To pay the widow of G. A. Castor, late a Representative in Congress G. A. Castor. Pay to widow of. from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of G. R. Patterson, late a Representative in Congress G. R. Patterson. Pay to widow of. from the State of Pennsylvania, five thousand dollars. To pay the widow of R. E. Lester, late a Representative in Congress R.
E. Lester. Pay to widow of. from the State of Georgia, five thousand dollars. 662 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Furniture. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. Doorkeeper. Horses, etc. For hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness, for the Doorkeeper’s office, one hundred dollars.
Chaplain. To make the salary of the Chaplain of the House of Representatives one thousand two hundred dollars for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred dollars. Committees on Immigration and Naturalization, and Irrigation of Arid Lands. Annual clerks. For annual clerks to the Committees on Immigration and Naturalization, and Irrigation of Arid Lands, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, at two thousand dollars each; in all, four thousand dollars.
Superintendent, document room. For additional compensation of the superintendent of the House document room during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, live hundred dollars. Alexander McDowell. Contested-elections digest. To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Fifty-ninth Congress, Vol. 24, p. 445. as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to the contested elections, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven,” the sum of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents, and an additional sum of one thousand six hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all. three thousand four hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents.
L. W. Busbey. Services. To pay L. W. Busbey for services as clerk to the Committee on Rules, one thousand dollars. Harry West. Services. For additional compensation to Harry West as janitor and messenger to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, two hundred and eighty dollars. Official reporters and stenographers. Extra services. To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the official stenographers to committees of the House of Representatives for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical help and extra services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, 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. Additional employees, etc. For the following employees of the House of Representatives, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, authorized by resolutions adopted April fourth and May fifth, respectively, nineteen hundred and six, namely: Clerk’s document room. For one special employee in the Clerk’s document room, one thousand five hundred dollars; Superintendent reporters’ gallery.
For superintendent of the reporters’ gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. For additional clerk to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Additional clerk. Assistant file clerk. For assistant to the file clerk of the House of Representatives, one thousand five hundred dollars; Machinist. For machinist in the heating and ventilating department, under the Superintendent of the Capitol, one thousand two hundred dollars;
Committee on Patents. For clerk to the Committee on Patents, two thousand dollars; Clerk. House document room. For clerk in the House document room, one thousand four hundred dollars; Clerk. In all, ten thousand six hundred dollars. 663 The following employments provided for in the Legislative, Executive, Employments abolished. and Judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, for whom the foregoing positions are substituted, are hereby abolished, namely, messenger to the reporters’ gallery, at one thousand one hundred dollars; assistant session clerk to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, authorized by House resolution December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and five; assistant to the file clerk of the House, at one thousand, two hundred dollars; fireman, at nine hundred dollars, in the heating and ventilating department under the Superintendent of the Capitol; one session clerk assigned by resolution of the House to the Committee on Patents, and one assistant in the document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars. public printing and binding.
Public printing and binding. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes Messengers, night service. as messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress for extra services, five hundred dollars each; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, including Department of Interior. its several bureaus and offices and the Civil Service Commission, twenty-seven thousand dollars. EXECUTIVE.
Executive. Committee on Department Methods: For salaries or compensation Committee on Department Methods. Compensation. of persons not otherwise employed by the United States, and needed in the service of the Committee on Department Methods, appointed by the order of the President June second, nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize such expenditure as Reclamation service. Rent of offices. may be necessary, not exceeding a total of eight thousand dollars annually, for rent of office accommodations in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for the Reclamation Service, payable from the Reclamation fund, established by Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen Vol. 32, p. 388. hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.
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. 505. provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Documents Numbered Six hundred and twenty-eight and Eight hundred and fifty-three, and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and fifteen of this session, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, one thousand three hundred and Classification. seventy-five dollars and sixty-one cents; Under the War Department, four thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-five cents; Under the Navy Department, five thousand seven hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-five cents; Under the Department of Justice, three hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents; In all, eleven thousand nine hundred and twenty-one dollars, to-664gether with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum *Proviso*.
Appeals. from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for 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 Eight hundred and fifty-nine, and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and eleven, namely: Classification.
Under the Treasury Department, thirty-three thousand one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents; Under the War Department, one hundred and fifty-thousand six hundred and nine dollars and thirteen cents; Under the Navy Department, nine thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty-seven cents; Under the Department of the Interior, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-three cents; Under the Department of Justice, sixteen thousand and ninety-eight dollars and fourteen cents;
Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, one thousand two hundred and two dollars and forty-seven cents; Under the Post-Office Department, eighty-seven thousand and five dollars and fifty cents; In all, three hundred thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars *Proviso*. Appeal. and two cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Cherokee Claims. To pay the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims on May Vol. 32, p. 726. eighteenth, nineteen hundred and five, in consolidated causes numbered twenty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-nine, The Cherokee Nation versus The United States; numbered twenty-three thousand two hundred and fourteen, The Eastern Cherokees versus The United States, and numbered twenty-three thousand two hundred and twelve, The Eastern and Emigrant Cherokees versus The United States, aggregating a principal sum of one million one hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents, as therein set forth, with interest upon the several items of judgment at five per centum, one million one hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest, as authorized by law.
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 House Documents Numbered Eight hundred and fifty-four and Eight hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and ninety thousand three Deductions. hundred and twenty-eight dollars; said judgments to be paid after the Vol. 26, p. 853. 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 665 the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United Reimbursement.
States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph *Proviso*. Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. 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. AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission awards. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred Vol. 31, p. 879. and one, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-nine, Eight hundred and seventeen, Eight hundred and fifty, Eight hundred and sixty-four, and Nine hundred and two of the present session, at the end of sixty days from the date of said awards if no new trial or rehearing shall have been had, three hundred and three thousand two hundred and sixty-two dollars.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Claims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-six, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. DEPARTMENT. For salaries, Office of Auditor for the Navy Department, sixteen dollars and sixty-five cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, twenty-five cents. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, fifty-one cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, two thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-eight cents. For Life-Saving Service, one hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-nine cents.
For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, fifty-three dollars. For refunding moneys erroneously received and covered, one hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. DEPARTMENT. For salaries, office of Commissary-General, twenty dollars and ninety-three cents.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, six thousand two hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-six cents. 666 For subsistance of the Army, twenty dollars. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, sixty-two dollars and sixty-seven cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, eight thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, eighteen dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For barracks and quarters, five hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-six cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents. For artificial limbs, fifty dollars. For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, sixty-five thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-four cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, twelve dollars and thirteen cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, seven thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-five cents. For pay, miscellaneous, forty-six dollars and sixteen cents. For pay, Marine Corps, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirteen cents. For clothing, Marine Corps, seven dollars and fifty cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, thirty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents.
For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, fifteen dollars. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, seventeen dollars and ten cents. For coal, Bureau of Equipment, three hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty-two cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, one dollar and twelve cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-three dollars and forty cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, six dollars and sixty cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and thirty-two dollars and forty-two cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, eleven dollars and fifty-three cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, four hundred and eight dollars and thirty-five cents. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, one hundred and seventy dollars. 667 For reimbursements to receivers of public moneys, excess of deposits, thirteen dollars and thirty-five cents.
For surveying the public lands, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and sixty-nine cents. For Geological Survey, one hundred and fourteen dollars and fifty-one cents. For surveying forest reserves, four dollars and fifty cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, nine dollars and twenty-five cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and sixteen cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, four dollars and twenty-five cents.
For Indian school transportation, twelve dollars and seventy-five cents. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, two dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments. AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. For salaries, consular service, four hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, seventy-two dollars and sixty-five cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen dollars and sixty-two cents.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventeen cents. For preservation of collections, National Museum, twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, thirteen dollars and sixty-four cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, two dollars and fifteen cents. For forestry investigations, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents. For protection of forest. reserves, two hundred dollars and sixty-six cents.
For entomological investigations, twelve dollars. For collecting agricultural statistics, six dollars and sixty-five cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, fifteen dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, forty-four dollars and three cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, seventeen dollars and five cents.
For fees of witnesses, United States courts, two dollars and forty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, nineteen dollars and eighty-four cents. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, forty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. DEPARTMENT. For compensation to postmasters, two thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. 668 For assistant postmasters, thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.
For clerk hire, two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. For rent, light, and fuel, seventy-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, seventy-three dollars and thirty-seven cents. For special-delivery services, fees, forty cents. For rural free-delivery service, carriers, one hundred and forty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. For railroad transportation, one thousand and forty-four dollars and eighty cents.
For star transportation, five hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and seven cents. For advertising, six dollars and sixteen cents. For miscellaneous items, office of Postmaster-General, one dollar and seventy-five cents. For rewards, six hundred dollars. 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 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 three and prior years, unless otherwise Vol. 23, p. 254. stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and twelve, 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. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, three thousand one hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty cents. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-six cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and eighty-four dollars and seventy cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, six hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, eighty-three cents. For pay of the Navy, thirteen thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollars and eight cents. For pay, miscellaneous, three hundred and seventy-four dollars. For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-nine cents. 669 For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty-seven dollars and twenty cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty-nine dollars and fifty-seven cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. DEPARTMENT. for Geological Survey, seven dollars and thirty-one cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, five dollars and fifty cents. For investigating Indian depredations claims, nineteen dollars and fifty cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments. AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, six dollars and fifty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, four dollars and fifty-five cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, twenty-six dollars. For support of prisoners, United States courts, eleven dollars and twenty cents. To pay William F. M. McCarty for services and expenses as an expert employed by the Committee on the District of Columbia to aid them in investigating and reporting upon the cost and quality of gas furnished to the Government and to the people of Washington in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars.
Sec. 4. The provisions of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the Isthmian Canal. Eight-hour law not applicable to alien laborers. Vol. 27, p. 340. limitations of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to *Ante*, p. 33. supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, shall not apply to unskilled alien laborers and to the foremen and superintendents of such laborers employed in the construction of the isthmian canal within the Canal Zone.
Sec. 5. For salaries and other expenses of the United States court China. United States court. *Post*, p. 816. for China, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Approved, June 30, 1906.
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