Chapter 3914. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 3914.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes. June 30, 1906. [[H. R. 19844](/us/bill/59/hr/19844).] [[Public, No. v](/us/pl/59/383).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled.*, That the following sums be, Sundry civil expenses appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Allentown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building Allentown, Pa.under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, custom-house: For completion of building Baltimore, Md.under present limit, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, post-office: Toward the construction of an Post-office.addition under present limit of total cost of the building, seventy-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of said addition under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the total cost of said building shall not hereafter be held to exceed the amount heretofore appropriated there-for, together with the sum herein authorized for an addition thereto.
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Rent.Government officials at Baltimore. Maryland, one thousand dollars. Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building Battle Creek, Mich.under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Biloxi, Mississippi, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For Biloxi, Miss.completion of building under present limit, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Buffalo, New York, marine hospital:
For completion of building Buffalo, N. Y.under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Burlington, Vermont, post-office and custom-house: For completion Burlington, Vt.of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters Cedar Rapids, Iowa.*Post,* p. 1296.for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, including necessary moving expenses, ten thousand dollars.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, public building: For completing approaches, Cheyenne, Wyo.subdividing and finishing the attic story, and increasing the business facilities of the building, fifteen thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: For Cleveland, Ohio.continuation of building under present limit, eight hundred thousand dollars. Chicago, Chicago, Ill.Illinois, post-office and court-house: The appropriation made in the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, for improvements and changes of a general nature is hereby made available also for the interior decoration of the building. 698 Cleveland, Ohio.
Rent. Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents. Colorado Springs, Colo. Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Deadwood, S. Dak. Deadwood, South Dakota, Post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Dekalb, Ill. Dekalb, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Elizabeth City, N.C. Elizabeth City, North Carolina, court-house and post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Evanston, Ill. Evanston, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, seventeen thousand live hundred dollars. Evanston, Wyo. Evanston, Wyoming, post-office and court house: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-nine thousand dollars.
Fargo, N. Dak. Fargo, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For completion of work under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Geneva, N. Y. Geneva, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Hammond, Ind. Hammond, Indiana, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars; for necessary subdrainage, five thousand dollars: in all, forty thousand dollars. Huntington, W.
Va. Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Laredo, Tex. Laredo, Texas, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Lebanon, Pa. Lebanon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Los Angeles, Cal.Rent. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings:
For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Macon, Ga. Macon, Georgia, court-house, post-office, and so forth: For continuation of extension under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Rent. Macon, Georgia: Rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and all expenses incident thereto, including necessary moving expenses, six thousand and eighty dollars.
McKeesport, Pa. McKeesport, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Muncie, Ind. Muncie, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Muskegon, Mich. Muskegon, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Nashville, Tenn. Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, five thousand dollars.
Newcastle, Pa. Newcastle, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. New York, N. Y.Custom-house. New York, New York, custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, eight hundred thousand dollars. Post-office.Repairs, etc. New York, New York, court-house and post-office: For special repairs, as follows: For the purchase and installation of a passenger elevator and its approaches, to replace freight elevator on the Broad-way side of building, ten thousand dollars; extension of mailing plat-699form on north front of building, including necessary grading on property of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars; raising vault lights under portico outside of the main entrance, southern end. and such changes in grade of said lights as will cause the grade to be away from the building, eight hundred dollars; purchase and installation of ash elevator and conveyors on the Broadway side, five thousand five hundred dollars; furnishing and equipping additional toilet rooms, four thousand live hundred dollars; renewal of and new electric wiring and improvements in electric wiring, nine thousand live hundred dollars; in all, forty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
New York, New York, rent of old custom-house: For rental of temporary Custom-house.Rent.quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred dollars. Niagara Falls, New York, post-office: For continuation of building Niagara Falls, N. Y.under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Ogden, Utah, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building Ogden, Utah.under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Pierre, South Dakota, post-office and court-house:
For completion of Pierre, S. Dak.building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, mint: For coal bunkers and necessary Philadelphia, Pa.Mint.mechanical appliances in connection therewith, to be constructed partly under the sidewalk, twenty thousand dollars. Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Marine Hospital: For completion of Pittsburg, Pa.Marine Hospital.building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:
Providence, R. I.For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. San Francisco, California, custom-house: For continuation of San Francisco. Cal.building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. The appropriations heretofore made or which may hereafter be Appraisers’ stores.made for the construction of the custom-house building at San Francisco. California, are hereby made available for installing in the appraisers’ stores building adjacent thereto the necessary machinery, appliances, and fixtures for supplying heat, light, or power to the custom-house building, including all necessary incidental changes in the present heating and power plant, appliances, and fixtures in the appraisers’ stores building.
Sherman, Texas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of Sherman, Tex.building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Spartanburg, South Carolina, post-office: For completion of building Spartanburg, S. C.under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For Superior, Wis.continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Washington, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of building Washington, Pa.under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Wheeling, W. Va.For continuation of building under present limit, ninety thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs Washington, D. C.Treasury building.to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eighteen thousand dollars. Fire-alarm system. Treasury Department: For maintenance of the Fire alarm.automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation Repairs, etc.Sitka, Alaska.of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, marine hospitals and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof, and of sites acquired 700for public buildings, under the control of the Treasury Department, *Proviso.*Superintendents, etc.four hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.
Heating apparatus. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and sixty-five Mechanics, etc.thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting work done on heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus.
Vaults, safes, and locks. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, sixty thousand dollars: but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done.
Plans, etc. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, two thousand live hundred dollars. Electrical devices. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installation and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the Vol. 32, p. 1091.Indianapolis and San Francisco.sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including reinstallation of such devices in the post-office buildings in Indianapolis and San Francisco, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Washington, D. C.Purchase of land for State Department, etc., buildings authorized.Repealed, *post,* p. 840. Buildings for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the whole of squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-seven, two hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and twenty-nine, and two hundred and thirty, in the city of Washington, and toward the erection Appropriation.Description of land.of one or two buildings thereon, three million dollars.
That part of C street, Ohio avenue, D street, and E street lying between the squares named herein is hereby made a part of the site authorized by Condemnation proceedings.this Act. That should the Secretary of the Treasury decide to institute condemnation proceedings in order to secure any or all of the land herein authorized to be acquired, such proceedings shall be in Vol. 26, p. 412.accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office (United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, chapter eight hundred and thirty-seven).
Commission.Members of.That a commission to be composed of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney-General, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the Superintendent of the. Capitol Building and Duties.Grounds, which is hereby created, shall report to Congress preliminary plans and an estimate of cost for one or two buildings to be erected on said site, for the use of the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor, and for other governmental purposes, said preliminary plans and estimate of cost to be paid for out of the appropriation herein made. 701 marine hospitals.
Marine hospitals. Key West, Florida, marine hospital: For improvements to present Key West, Fla.breakwater, and completion of new breakwater, including all necessary filling and grading, four thousand five hundred dollars. New York, New York, marine hospital: For improvement of fences, New York, N. Y.roadways, and walks, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. quarantine stations. Quarantine stations. To pay the city of Portland, Maine, for its quarantine property on Portland, Me.Payment to.House Island, Portland Harbor, purchased and taken possession of by the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, two thousand dollars.
Biscayne Bay quarantine station: For new launch, three thousand Biscayne Bay.five hundred dollars. Boca Grande quarantine station: For boarding launch, three thousand Boca Grande.dollars. San Francisco quarantine station: For laundry, ballast, cars, and San Francisco, Cal.track, and improvements to station, nine thousand dollars. life-saving service. Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: Superintendents’ salaries. For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars: For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars: in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and eighty-seven keepers of life-saving Keepers.and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty- six thousand nine hundred dollars.
For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat Crews.stations, including the old Chicago station, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations Compensation of volunteers.for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster 702or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury Fuel, repairs, etc.may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for ship-wrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers Commutation of quarters.Vol. 22, p. 57.under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the pro-visions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance;
Contingent expenses.for telephone lines and care of same: and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million six hundred and two thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service.Pay, etc. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service:
For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief, chief engineers, assistant engineers, and constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, commissioned surgeon; two contract surgeons, two civilian instructors, and pilots employed, and rations for the same; for pay of warrant and petty officers, ships’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department;
Seal fisheries.commutation of quarters; Anchorage.Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 30, p. 1081. for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, Vol. 29, p. 54.*Ante,* p. 136.eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchor-age and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March Vol. 31, p. 682.sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and an Act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the Kennebec River at or near Bath, Maine, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred; for temporary leases and Arundel Cove, Md., depot.Vol. 33, p. 1164.improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel (Jove.
Maryland, purchased under authority of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and live; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million six hundred thousand dollars. Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Neuse River, N. C.Revenue cutter. For the completion of a steam revenue cutter of the first class for service in the waters of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds and Neuse River, North Carolina, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Special repairs. For special repairs to revenue cutters, two hundred thousand dollars. Transfer of “Bancroft.” The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer the Ban-croft, with her outfits and armament, to the Treasury Department for the use of the Revenue-Cutter Service. North Pacific coast.First-class tug. Toward the construction for and under the supervision of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service of a first-class ocean-going tug for service in saving life and property in the vicinity of the North Pacific 703coast of the United States, and the equipment of the same with wireless-telegraph apparatus, surfboats, and such other life and property saving appliances as may be deemed useful in assisting vessels and rescuing persons and property from the perils of the sea, as authorized by Act *Ante,* p. 123.of Congress approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, said vessel to cooperate with the life-saving station at or near Neah Bay, the construction of which is also authorized by said Act, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of Contract.the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such construction, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and seventy Maximum cost.thousand dollars, the limit fixed by said Act.
Toward the construction of a steam vessel specially fitted for and Wrecking vessel.adapted to service at sea in bad weather, for the purpose of blowing up or otherwise destroying or towing into port wrecks, derelicts, and other floating dangers to navigation, said vessel to be operated and maintained by the Revenue-Cutter Service under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, as authorized by the Act *Ante,* p. 190.of Congress approved May twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or Contract.Maximum cost.contracts for such construction at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the limit fixed by said Act.
For a steam or naphtha launch suitable for use in the customs collection Norfolk, Va.Steam launch.district of Norfolk, Virginia, but which, as occasion may require, may be used elsewhere in the customs service, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, five thousand dollars. engraving and printing. Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of Salaries.all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million one hundred and seventy-seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-four dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this *Proviso.*Large notes.sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to Vol. 31, p. 45.maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million five hundred and fifty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be expended *Proviso.*Large notes.for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity Vol. 31, p. 45.of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials, etc.distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the Director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred and sixty-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 704 UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
Smithsonian Institution.International exchanges. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. American ethnology. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, five thousand dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
Astrophysical Observatory. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand live hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fourteen thousand dollars.
National Museum.Building. Building for National Museum: For continuing the construction of the building for the National Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, five hundred thousand dollars. Cases, furniture, etc. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. Heat, light, etc.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. Preservation, etc., of collections. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum.
Books, etc. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. Repairs. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. Rent. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand live hundred and eighty dollars. Postage. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars.
National Zoological Park. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise, improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, 705the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, ninety-five thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. interstate commerce commission.
Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the “Act to regulate Salaries of Commissioners.Vol. 24, p. 386.commerce,” thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the “Act to regulate commerce,” three thousand five hundred dollars; For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to Expenses.Vol. 24, p. 386.*Ante,* p. 584.*Post,* pp. 823, 824.give effect to the Act to regulate commerce, and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, including the joint resolution “instructing the Interstate Commerce Commission to make examinations into the subject of railroad discriminations and monopolies in coal and oil, and report on the same, from time to time,” approved March seventh, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars, together with the further sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which is hereby transferred to said Commission, and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, from the balance of the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of “An Act to regulate commerce” and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, Vol. 32, p. 903.executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six by the sundry civil appropriation Act, under the Department Vol. 33, p. 1207.Employment of counsel.of Justice; of which sums not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding Books, etc.one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office: *Provided,* That no *Proviso.*Restriction.other part of the sums appropriated in this paragraph for the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be expended for printing.
The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated Arbitration of railroad differences.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 33, p. 1166.for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531.*Post,* p. 838.regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, eighty-five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Miscellaneous. Paper for internal-revenue Paper and stamps.stamps:
For paper for internal- revenue stamps, including freight, sixty-five thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For Punishing violations, internal-revenue laws.detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including 706payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation *Proviso.*Purchase of books, etc.is made in this Act: *Provided,* That necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty- three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars. Transporting silver coin. Transportation of silver coin:
For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when *Proviso.*Deposits.requested to do so: *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. Transporting minor coin. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, twelve 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 *Proviso.*Deposits.so: *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. Recoining gold coins.R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand dollars. United States securities.Distinctive paper, etc. Distinctive paper for United States securities:
For distinctive paper for United States securities, including expenses of transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, four counters, five watchmen, one skilled laborer, and of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, three hundred and eight thousand nine hundred dollars. Witness, destruction. Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars.
Sealing and separating. Sealing and separating United States securities: For mate-rials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, two thousand dollars. National currency, expenses.Distinctive paper. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including transportation, mill, and other necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars.
Canceling, etc. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; 707and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely:
One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributors of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant Public buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors.custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million four hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one Inspector of supplies.general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: Inspector of furniture, etc.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suit-able person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, including expenses of assistant, not exceeding three thousand dollars: in all, five thousand five hundred dollars.
For assistant inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public Assistant inspector.buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs Furniture and repairs.of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, four hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred dollars.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. For furnishing complete in every detail the new custom-house in New York, N. Y.Custom-house.New York City, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase Fuel, lights, and water.of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million two hundred thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by 708*Proviso.*Gas governors.the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.Expenses. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws including one thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident R.S., sec. 4718, p. 919.Vol. 28, p. 965.to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the.
Revised Statutes, the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand *Proviso.*Witnesses.dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Compensation in lieu of moieties. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Customs.Scales. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, twenty-five thousand dollars. Local appraisers’ meeting.
Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars. Lands, etc. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, two hundred dollars.
Marine-Hospital Service.Expenses.Pay, etc. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: Expenses of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows: For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For pay of all other employees, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; Freight, etc. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars; Fuel, etc.
For fuel, light, and water, seventy thousand dollars; Furniture, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, nine thousand dollars; Supplies, etc. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, twenty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Rent. For rent of building or floor space for purveying depot in Wash-709ton, District of Columbia, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, fifteen thousand dollars;
Hygienic Laboratory. For maintenance of marine-hospital stations, including subsistence, Maintenance of stations.and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That of this sum, such portion equal in amount to the cost Proviso.Restriction.of maintenance and subsistence of any given marine hospital station during the current fiscal year, shall not be expended in case the said hospital station be closed during any part of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven;
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all Medical examinations.other persons entitled to relief at other than marine hospitals, and to be used for like purposes as were the tonnage taxes prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; For books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine Books, etc.Hospital Bureau during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars;
In all, one million one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, of which sum one hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration. Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, Quarantine service. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Port-land, Maine, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Cumberland Sound, Saint Johns River, Biscayne Bay, Kev West.
Boca Grande, Tampa Bay, Port Inglis, Cedar Key, Punta Rassa, Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass), Pensacola. Gulf, San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara. San Francisco, Eureka, Columbia River and substations, Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred Printing.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.
” Prevention of epidemics: The President of the United States is Prevention of epidemics.hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved Vol. 33, p. 1170.March third, nineteen hundred and five, and two hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be. necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available.
Leprosy hospital. Hawaii: The unexpended balance of the fifty Hawaii.Leprosy hospital.Vol. 33; p. 1010.thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, for maintenance of the leprosy hospital, Hawaii, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same objects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby710authorized and directed to expend from the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars provided for in section five of said Act, such an Road.amount as may be necessary, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to construct a road from the hospital station at Kalawao to the landing site at Waikolu, Molokai, and a landing stage on the landing site at Waikolu, including the necessary appliances for landing supplies.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. immigration stations. Immigration stations.San Francisco, Cal.Angel Island. San Francisco, California, immigrant station: For completion of a main building and other necessary buildings for an immigration detention station on Angel Island, in the harbor of San Francisco, and furnishing the same, including wharf landings, improvement of grounds, and other necessary objects, one hundred thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.
LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS. Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Holland Pierhead Range, Mich.Vol. 30, p. 601. Holland Pierhead Range, Lake Michigan, Michigan: The LightHouse Board is authorized to expend not to exceed six thousand dollars, out of the appropriation made by the Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for building South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, light station in the establishment of Holland Pierhead Range light station, Michigan. Stonington Breakwater, Conn.
Stonington Breakwater, Connecticut: For erection of a suitable double dwelling for the keepers of the light station at Stonington Breakwater, Connecticut, six thousand dollars. California earthquake.Restoration of buildings. For the following, damaged or destroyed by the earthquake in California, namely: Cape Mendocino. Cape Mendocino light station, California: For rebuilding of keeper’s dwelling, five thousand four hundred dollars. Point Arena. Point Arena light station, California:
For rebuilding of light station and keepers’ dwellings, seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars. Bonita Point. Bonita Point light station, California: For rebuilding of double dwelling for assistant light keepers, six thousand dollars. Point Pinos. Point Pinos light station, California: For rebuilding of light station, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Aids to navigation.*Ante,* p. 321. For the following, authorized by the Act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely:
Nantucket Shoals, Mass. Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts: Toward the construction of a light vessel to be placed off Nantucket Shoals, Massachusetts, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light vessel, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel, New York Bay. Ambrose Channel, New York Bay: Toward the construction of a light vessel for the sea entrance to the channel, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light vessel, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Staten Island, N. Y.Light-house, etc. For a light-house on Staten Island, New York, and raising West Bank light: Toward establishing a light-house on Staten Island, New York, and raising West Bank light, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light-house, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. 711 For two lens lanterns and structures for range on the bend, twelve thousand dollars. For moving North Hook beacon light, six thousand dollars.
North Hook. For a tank light vessel, fifteen thousand dollars. For a stone beacon with gas illuminant on Craven Shoal, twenty thousand dollars. For thirteen gas buoys in Ambrose Channel and eleven gas buoys Gas buoys.in the Gedney and Main Ship channel, forty-three thousand two hundred dollars. For temporary structure to maintain West Bank light while light West Bank.is being raised and temporary structure for North Hook beacon light while it is being moved, ten thousand dollars.
Harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay: For additional amount for Delaware Bay.Harbor of refuge.establishing a light and fog-signal station on the new breakwater, harbor of refuge, Delaware Bay, twenty thousand dollars. Pungoteague Creek, Virginia: For a light station at Pungoteague Pungoteague Creek, Va.Creek, Virginia, eight thousand dollars. Light vessel, Brunswick, Georgia: For additional amount for light Brunswick, Ga.Light vessel.vessel to be placed off the outer bar of Brunswick.
Georgia, twenty-five thousand dollars. Southwest Pass light station, Louisiana: For dwellings for three Southwest Pass, La.light-house keepers at Southwest Pass light station. Louisiana, twelve thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Toward the construction Milwaukee, Wis.of a light and fog-signal station on the south end of the breakwater, harbor of refuge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station, under a contract hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
Niagara River, New York: For four range lights, Strawberry Island Niagara River, N. Y.Cut and channel leading thereto, Niagara River, New York, thirteen thousand dollars. Isle aux Peches, Michigan: For two range lights, Isle aux Peches, Isle aux Peches, Mich.Lake Saint Clair, Michigan, eighteen thousand dollars. Rock of Ages, Lake Superior: Toward the construction of a light Rock of Ages, Lake Superior.and fog-signal station on Rock of Ages, Lake Superior, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
Makapuu Point, Oahu, Hawaii: For a light station at Makapuu Point, Makapuu Point, Oahu, Hawaii.at the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, sixty thousand dollars. Humboldt Bay, California: For a fog signal at the entrance to the Humboldt, Cal.harbor at Humboldt Bay, California, fifteen thousand dollars. Twelfth light-house district: Toward the construction of a steam Tender, twelfth district.tender for the use of the light-house engineer of the twelfth light-house district, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said steam tender, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Columbia River, Oregon: Toward the construction of a light vessel Columbia River, Oreg.Light vessel.for use off the mouth of the Columbia River. Oregon, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light vessel, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Swiftsure Bank: For a steel steam light vessel, equipped with the Swiftsure Bank.Light vessel.*Post,* pp. 842, 1319.latest improved light and fog signals, to be anchored upon Swiftsure Bank, off the entrance to Juan de Fuca Strait, at a point at or near thirteen miles north, seventy-four degrees west, magnetic, from Cape Flattery, Washington, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Hinchinbrook entrance. Prince William Sound, Alaska: Toward Hinchinbrook entrance, Alaska.the construction of a light and fog-signal station at Hinchinbrook 712entrance, Prince William Sound, Alaska, twenty-live thousand dollars; and the total cost of said light and fog-signal station, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor small not exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment. Light-House Establishment.Supplies, etc. Supplies of light-houses:
For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Repairs, etc. Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Keepers’ salaries. Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Light vessels. Expenses of light vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, six hundred thousand dollars.
Buoyage. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, six hundred thousand dollars. Fog signals. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals including submarine signals, and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers, and at light-house depots, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Lighting rivers. Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the 713Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland;
Monongahela River, York River, Janies River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior Bays, at the head of Lake Superior: in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, Survey of sites.and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses Oil houses.*Proviso.*Limit.for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enable Great Lakes.the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting water-ways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars.
Pointe au Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie: For maintenance of a Pointe au Lake Erie.Light vessel.light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. Guantanamo, Cuba, naval station light-house service: For Guantanamo, Cuba.maintaining existing aids to navigation, to establish and maintain additional lights, day marks, and beacon lights where required: and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers at light-house depots, six thousand dollars.
COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of Survey of coasts under jurisdiction of United States.the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and cur-rent observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys: the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing Coast Pilot.researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted 714by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper Commutation.authority; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each; outfit, equipment, Repairs.and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, *Proviso.*Advances.and under the following heads: *Provided,* That no advance of money to chiefs of field parties under this appropriation shall be made unless to a commissioned officer, or to a civilian chief of party, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct.
Field expenses. For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of *Proviso.*Island limitations.outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided,* That not more than twenty-five, thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars. Pacific coast. For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean *Proviso.*Employment, etc., of Filipinos.under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided,* That this appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Physical hydrography. For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars. Coast Pilot. For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars.
Magnetic observations. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels Points to State surveys.between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished: for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.
Special surveys. For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, including the expenditures authorized *Ante,* p. 203.under Public Act Numbered One hundred and eighty-one, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and contingent expenses incident thereto, five thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance under this appropriation for nineteen hundred and six and prior years which is hereby reappropriated and made available on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.
Miscellaneous. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Department of Commerce and Labor 715regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American Geodetic Association.delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars. *Provided,* That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be *Proviso.*Interchangeable expenditures.available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation.
In all, for field expenses, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance Vessels.of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, thirty thousand dollars. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For all Pay, etc.necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including pay and subsistence of professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and ten thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars.
Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, five Salaries.Superintendent.thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Assistants.Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars: For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars;
For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For four assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; Aids. For thirteen aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and ten aids at seven hundred and twenty dollars each:
In all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand five Office force.hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, Chart correctors, etc.and copyists, namely: For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For nine, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars: For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars;
For two, at two thousand dollars each; 716 For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; Computers. For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each;
For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For nine, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;
For two, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at seven hundred dollars; Electrotypers, etc. For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For eleven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each;
For six, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For two, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For four, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each;
In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. Office expenses. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photo-graphing. and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationary for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not. charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. 717 That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances.Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.
Bureau of Fisheries. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars; Salaries.Commissioner, etc.deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand one hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand Office of architect and engineer.two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousand Division of fish culture.seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station and Station employees.Central station.Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, one thousand five hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Green Lake, Me.hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Craigs Brook, Me.hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and eighty dollars. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Saint Johnsbury, Vt.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Gloucester, Mass.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Woods Hole, Mass.five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars. 718 Cape Vincent, N.
Y. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Bryans Point, Md. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Wytheville, Va. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.
Put in Bay, Ohio. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville, Mich. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena, Mich. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth, Minn. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Neosho, Mo. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville, Colo. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos, Tex. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Baird, and Battle Creek, Cal. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas, Oreg. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester, Iowa. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman, Mont. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin, Tenn. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at 719five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Nashua, N. H.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Edenton, N. C.five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Baker Lake, Wash.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Cold Springs, Ga.hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Spearfish, S. Dak.hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five Tupelo, Miss.hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Boothbay Harbor, Me.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, seven thousand one hundred dollars. Mammoth Springs (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand Mammoth Springs, Ark.five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand five Yes Bay, Alaska.hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand Employees at large.eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two cockswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand two hundred Distribution employees.dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, two Division of inquiry.thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dol-720lars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, N. C. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Custodian and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Division of statistics. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessels.“Albatross.” Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. “Fish Hawk.” Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, four hundred and eighty dollars. “Grampus.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. “Phalarope.” Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. “Curlew.” Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Administration expenses. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the Commissioner, including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, furniture, purchase and care of necessary horses and vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of Commissioner, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor: telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Propagation expenses. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes.Field, etc., expenses. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior, the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, in the interest of fish culture and the commercial fisheries, expenses of travel and prepara-721tion of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-live thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation of Statistical inquiry.the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous Interchangeable expenditures.expenses of the work of the Bureau shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Fish hatchery, Wytheville, Virginia: For the purchase of land and Stations.Wytheville, Va.construction and repair of buildings and ponds, five thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Erwin, Tennessee: For purchase of additional land, Erwin, Tenn.fifty dollars. Fish hatchery, Manchester, Iowa: For the construction and repair of Manchester, Iowa.buildings and ponds, seven thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Baird, California: For the construction and repair of Baird, Cal.buildings at Baird and auxiliary stations, and the improvement of water supply, ten thousand dollars. Repairs to schooner Grampus: For repairs to the Bureau of Fisheries Schooner “Grampus.”Repairs.schooner Grampus, including the purchase and installation of auxiliary motor, with all necessary machinery and accessories, and repairs to hull and rigging, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Steam launch for Alaska: For the purchase or construction of a Alaska.Steam launch.steam launch for use in the propagation of salmon in Alaska, eight thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Cold Springs, Georgia: For the purchase of additional Cold Springs, Ga.land and construction of buildings, two thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Saint Johnsbury, Vermont: The sum of twenty thousand Saint Johnsbury, Vt.Vol. 31, p. 607.Auxiliary station.dollars, appropriated by the Act making appropriations for sun-dry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, for completion of the Saint Johnsbury Station, Vermont, and for acquiring an additional supply of water at said station, including the purchase of the necessary land and water rights, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the establishment of an auxiliary fish-cultural station in connection with the fish-cultural station at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, at a point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, including purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, and purchase of equipment. Steam launch for Boothbay Harbor, Maine: For the purchase or construction Boothbay Harbor, Me.Steam launch.of a steam launch for use at the fish-cultural station at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, five thousand dollars. Agents at salmon fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, two thousand Alaska.Agent, etc.five hundred dollars; and one assistant agent, two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor. Miscellaneous. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries of agents at seal fisheries in Alaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc.Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; janitor service at the Government buildings at the Pribilof Islands, not exceeding four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, Food, etc., for natives.fuel, and clothing, and other necessaries of life, to the native inhabit-ants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. 722 Chinese exclusion. Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, five hundred thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, and of said sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration as additional compensation. Henry John Wright.Payment to. To pay to Henry John Wright, of England, for information furnished, which information led to the collection of five hundred dollars tine for importing aliens under contract from England in violation of the immigration Acts, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, two hundred and fifty dollars. McKay Steamship Line.Refund.Vol. 82, p. 1217. To refund to the McKay Steamship Line, of Key West, Florida, the sum erroneously received from it under section fifteen of the immigration Act of nineteen hundred and three, and covered into the Treasury as an immigration fine in February, nineteen hundred and five, forty dollars. Oscar Klocker.Refund. To refund to Oscar Klocker, British vice-consul at Port Townsend, Washington, the sum paid by him on behalf of the master of the British steamship Linlithgowshire in pursuance of an erroneous assessment, Vol. 32, p. 1217.under section fifteen of the immigration Act of nineteen hundred and three, said amount having been erroneously covered into the Treasury as an immigration fine in March, nineteen hundred and five, thirty dollars. Shipping commissioners. Contingent expenses shipping service: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, seven thousand dollars; and this sum shall be in full for all such expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and shall be so disbursed as to prevent a deficiency therein. Rent. Rent of office quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at San Francisco, California, not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars. Census Office.Publishing names of heads of families in the First Census. Census Office: The Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed to publish, in a permanent form, by counties and minor civil divisions, the names of the heads of families returned at the First Census of the United States in seventeen hundred and ninety; Sale of publications.Proceeds.and the Director of the Census is authorized, in his discretion, to sell said publications, the proceeds thereof to be covered into the Treasury of the United States, to be deposited to the credit of miscellaneous receipts on account of “Proceeds of sales of Government property:” *Proviso*.Restriction. *Provided,* That no expense shall be incurred hereunder additional to appropriations for the Census Office for printing therefor made for Report.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven; and the Director of the Census is hereby directed to report to Congress at its next session the cost incurred hereunder and the price fixed for said publication and the total received therefor. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. public buildings. Public buildings.Repairs. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Capitol.Repairs. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of 723the Capitol, flagstaffs, halliards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary books, thirty thousand dollars. For reroofing that portion of the Terrace of the Capitol which is Reroofing Terrace of Capitol.occupied by committee rooms, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For revolving doors for entrances to the Capitol building, six thousand Revolving doors.dollars. For equipping the Senate post-office with steel counter, letter boxes, Steel counters, etc.and cabinets, and for metal furniture, three thousand dollars. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee New office building for Senate.Vol. 33, pp. 481, 1182.rooms and offices for the United States Senate provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee New office building for House of Representatives.Vol. 32, p. 1113; Vol. 33, p. 1182.rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, provided for in the sundry civil appropriations Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical and other books, five hundred thousand dollars, to continue available until expended. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Repairing works of art.the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the Capitol grounds.improvement of the Capitol grounds, care of the grounds, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and Lighting Capitol and grounds.grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Senate Repairs, stables, etc.and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, One thousand five hundred dollars. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For Registers and receivers.salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses.other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall *Provisos.*Per diem.be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expenses chargeable to Restriction on expenditures. 724the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Depositing moneys. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand dollars. Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Agents per diem.That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. Hearings in land entries. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, nine thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Desert lands.Examinations of selections.Vol. 33, p 483. Examinations of desert lands: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of one thousand dollars made by the Act of Congress approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, during the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and five, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under Vol. 28, p. 422.the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure in such examinations that may be *Proviso.*Expenses.made during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven: *Provided,* That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Forest reserves.Advertising. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, five thousand dollars. Transcripts from records. Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven *Provisos.*Compensation.hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided,* That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed, at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may Restriction.demand: *Provided further,* That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be expended in any one month of the year for which it is available. 725 surveying the public lands. Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand Surveys, rates.dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference *Provisos.*Preferences.shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred Vol. 25, p. 676.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, Extra rates, heavily timbered, etc., lands.mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines, and in eases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further,* That in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Lands in California, etc.Nevada, Oregon. Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska, there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township, and twenty dollars for section lines; the provisions R. S., sec. 2411, p. 441.of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there Resurveys, etc.may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, Per diem.not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber Inspecting mineral lands.districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required 726for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding Montana.Surveys.in behalf of the United States. Authority is hereby given for the survey of townships twenty-eight north, ranges thirty-seven and thirty-eight east; twenty-seven north, ranges thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty east; twenty-nine north, range forty east, and fractional range forty-one east; twenty-six north, ranges thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and forty east, and thirty north, range forty east, and fractional range forty-one east, Valley County, Montana; also for the survey of the unsurveyed townships lying between the Big Muddy River in Valley County, Montana, and the Dakota line; and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers’ applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived. Abandoned military reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including Casa Grande.a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, three thousand dollars. Utah.Reimbursement.Vol. 28, p. 395. To reimburse the State of Utah, as provided in the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for moneys advanced by said State to the United States on May eighteenth, nineteen hundred, to secure the survey of lands granted to said State in township twelve south, range two east, Salt Lake meridian, five hundred and fifty-five dollars. Idaho and Montami.Boundary line survey. For the completion of the ascertainment, survey, marking, and permanent establishment of that portion of the boundary line between the States of Idaho and Montana from the intersection of the thirty-fourth meridian of west longitude from Washington with the continental divide; thence northwestwardly following said continental divide and the crest of the Bitter Root Range of mountains to the intersection with the thirty-ninth meridian of west longitude from Washington, an estimated distance of one hundred and fifty miles, Compensation.including the expense of an examination of the survey in the field, the rate of compensation per mile to the surveyor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the same to include the cost of the preparation of the plats and field notes of the survey in triplicate, to be immediately available, fifteen thousand dollars. Arizona.Resurvey. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to resurvey town-ship twenty-two south range sixteen east Gila and Salt River meridian and also township one north range two west same base and meridian, located in the Territory of Arizona. Louisiana.Survey. For a survey to be made of all of the unsurveyed public lands in Louisiana lying north of the Louisiana base line and thirty-first degree of north latitude together with such resurveys and retracements as may be found necessary in order to complete the original surveys *Ante,* p. 199.herein provided for, as authorized by Act of May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, five thousand dollars. united states geological survey. Geological Survey.Salaries of Director, etc. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars 727each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-live thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists, Scientific assistants.at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand live hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to permit scientific Assignments of pay.and other employees of the United States Geological Survey, employed in the Held, to make assignments of their pay, under such Regulations.regulations as he may prescribe, during such time as they may be in the employ of the United States Geological Survey. And the Secretary Reimbursement.of the Interior is further authorized, in his discretion, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to reimburse the scientific and other employees for expenses incurred by them in the discharge of their duties in the field and paid from their personal funds. For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Geological Expenses.Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams, and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other absolutely necessary expenses, including telegrams, furniture, stationery, telephones, and all other necessary articles required in the field to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty Skilled laborers.thousand dollars; For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographical surveys.three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geological surveys.two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United Paleontologic researches.States, ten thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical, etc., researches.United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations.eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources.United States, which report shall hereafter be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, seventy-five thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Books, etc.and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps of the United Maps.States, one hundred thousand dollars; The Director of the Geological Survey shall, if the regular map Furnishing copies.work of the Survey is in no wise interfered with thereby, hereafter furnish to any person, concern, institution, State or foreign government, that shall pay in advance the whole cost thereof with ten per centum added, transfers or copies of any cartographic or other engraved 728or lithographic data in the division of engraving and printing of the Survey, and the moneys received by the Director for such transfers or copies shall be deposited in the Treasury. Water supply. For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Structural material. For the investigation of the structural materials belonging to and for the use of the United States such as stone, clays, cements, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars; Testing coal, etc. For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to the United States, in order to determine their fuel value and so forth, under the super-vision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be Provisos.Investigations.immediately available, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in examinations, hereby authorized, of fuel materials for the use of the Government of the United States, or for the purpose of increasing the general efficiency or available supply of the fuel resources in the United States, the Director of the Geological Survey may have the necessary materials collected from any part of the United States where they represent extensive deposits: and it shall be the duty of the Director of the Geological Survey to have examined, without Fuels for use of Government.charge, the fuels required for use by the Government of the United States, and to give these examinations preference over other work: *Provided further,* That in publishing the results of these investigations, Restriction.the materials examined shall not be credited to any private party or corporation, but shall be collected and described as representing such extensive deposits; Surveys of forest reserves. For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves; one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Rent. For rent of basement of the addition to the main building of the Survey, required for additional storage of documents, maps, and so forth, and workroom, one thousand five hundred dollars. International Seismological Association. For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, and the expenses of the United States delegate in attending the meetings of the commission, one thousand three hundred dollars. In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million four hundred and sixty-three thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Reclamation service.Rent. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize such expenditure as may be necessary, not exceeding three thousand dollars, for rent of office accommodations in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, Vol. 32, p. 388.for the reclamation service, established by Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories to the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands.” Law books, etc. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase of such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and examinations Vol. 32, p. 388.authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” and such expenditures shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. 729 The Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, authorize payment Chief disbursing clerk.Payment to.to the chief disbursing clerk of the United States Geological Survey from the reclamation fund, while acting, after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, as disbursing officer of said fund, of a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum, in addition to the compensation now received by that officer, in consideration of the additional duties devolving upon him in connection with the reclamation service. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior. Miscellaneous. Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protection Yellowstone Park.of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, including two thousand five hundred dollars for maintenance of buffalo, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement Yosemite Park.of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Sequoia National Park, California: For the protection and Sequoia Park.improvement of the Sequoia National Park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars. General Grant National Park. California: For protection and General Grant Park.improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon : For protection and Crater Lake Park.improvement of the Crater Lake National Park, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For improvement of Mount Rainier Park.Mount Rainier National Park, management, protection, and improvement, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For the management, Wind Cave Park.improvement, and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand four hundred dollars. Ruin of Casa Grande, Arizona: For protection of Casa Grande Casa Grande Ruin.Ruin, in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, and for excavation on the reservation, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three thousand dollars. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisions Supreme Court Reports.of the Supreme Court for two hundred and sixty copies of volumes two hundred to two hundred and six, inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, and for thirteen copies of volumes fifty and fifty- one of the decisions of the Supreme Court. Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, three thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in Alaska.Education, etc., of natives.his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general Pay, etc., of agents, etc.agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and 730other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, one hundred thousand *Proviso.*Limit.dollars: *Provided,* That any person or persons employed hereunder as special agents or inspectors, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall not receive as compensation exceeding one hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty outside of the District of Columbia. Idaho.Removal of Lemhi Indians to Fort Hall Reservation.Vol. 25, p. 689. Removal of Lemhi Indians to Fort Hall Reservation. Idaho: The sum of five thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, for the removal of the Lemhi Indians to the Fort Hall Reservation, which amount was carried to the surplus fund of the Treasury on June twenty-ninth, Reappropriation.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for said removal during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. Reindeer for Alaska. Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, nine thousand dollars; and all reindeer owned by the United States in Alaska shall as soon as practicable be turned over to the missions in Alaska, to be held and used by them under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Government Hospital for Insane. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps. Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicle for official use of the superintendent, three hundred and five thousand eight hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. Buildings and grounds. For the buildings and grounds of the Government. Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, thirty-five thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, ten thousand dollars. Railroad switch. For change of location of part of railroad switch to overcome the present difficulty with settling and sliding, three thousand dollars. Plans for assembly hall. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to procure plans and specifications for an assembly hall, to cost not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, complete in every detail, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Deposit of pension moneys of deceased inmates in Treasury.Vol. 33, p. 731. All moneys belonging to deceased inmates of the Government Hospital for the Insane and deposited in the Treasury by the superintendent as agent prior to February twentieth, nineteen hundred and five, shall, if unclaimed by the legal heirs of such inmate within the period of five years from the date of the passage of this Act, be covered Covered into Treasury after five years if unclaimed.into the Treasury, and all moneys so deposited by the superintendent as agent after February twentieth, nineteen hundred and five, and belonging to inmates who have died since that time, or may hereafter die, shall likewise be covered into the Treasury unless claimed 731by his or her legal heirs within five years from the death of the inmate. And the superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane is hereby authorized and directed, under such regulations as may be Regulations.prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to make diligent inquiry in every instance after the death of an inmate to ascertain the whereabouts of his or her legal heirs. Claims may be presented hereunder at any time, and when established by competent proof in any case more than five years after the death of an inmate shall be certified to Congress for consideration. Care and custody of the insane, district of Alaska: For the Alaska.Care, etc., of insane.care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, twenty-three thousand dollars. , Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.Expenses.the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, five thousand dollars. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University, Howard University.Maintenance.to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, thirty-five thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the school of Manual Arts, seven thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures, for the law and general libraries, nine hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, two thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; . For fuel, two thousand five hundred dollars; In all, forty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For salaries and compensation Freedmen’s Hospital.Salaries.of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; assistant surgeon, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, matron, seamstress, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, sixteen thousand dollars; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, Expenses.medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For general care, Rock Island, Ill.Care, etc.preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds and roads, twenty-five thousand dollars. For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five Power plant.hundred dollars. For quarters for hospital steward, with necessary accommodations Hospital steward’s quarters.for dispensary, emergency hospital treatment, and surgeons’ office, ten thousand dollars. 732 For stable, nine thousand dollars. Water supply. For increase of water supply for fire protection by the enlargement of the present pump house, including extra machinery, eighteen thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars. Bridge. For the Rock Island Bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridge and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For reconstruction of bridge and viaduct between the city of Rock Island and Rock Island Arsenal. Illinois, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Sandy Hook proving ground, N. J. Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For rebuilding and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, store-houses, and quarters, four thousand dollars; For the procurement and installation of a conduit system for transmitting power, lighting, and messages, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; For completion of barracks for enlisted men, including plumbing, heating, ventilation, and lighting, twelve thousand dollars; New buildings. Toward the erection of one machine and smith shop, carpenter and plumber shop, power house, and paint shop, including power plant, shop tools, fixtures, and accessories, seventy-five thousand dollars, and the total cost of the objects provided for in this paragraph under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. In all, ninety-two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. Dover, N. J.Powder depot. Powder depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For storehouses for reserve supply of war material, twenty-four thousand dollars; For machinery for the new shops, twenty thousand dollars; For increase of transportation facilities, ten thousand dollars; For increasing the facilities for fire protection, nine thousand dollars; For increase of the water supply, four thousand dollars; In all, sixty-seven thousand dollars. Springfield, Mass. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, including not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars for macadamizing so much of the reservation as is known as Pearl street, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For increase of the water supply, four thousand dollars; In all, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. Watertown, Mass. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown. Massachusetts: For increase of transportation facilities, ten thousand dollars. Testing machines. Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For the necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of United States material for constructions, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, fifteen thousand dollars. Watervliet, N. Y. Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: For repairs to the steam heating system, five thousand dollars; For repair of the present wooden railway trestle to the coal bins at the gun shops, five thousand dollars; For one oil house, six hundred dollars; In all, ten thousand six hundred dollars. Manila, P. I.Powder magazine. Ordnance depot, Manila, Philippine Islands: For one powder magazine, six thousand dollars; Repairs. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so 733much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around washington. Buildings and grounds, District of Columbia. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, Improvement and care.as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annex (Potomac Park) Monument grounds.to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of reservation numbered Old canal.seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided,* That no part thereof shall be expended *Proviso.*Expenditure.upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or other-wise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehiches, for official use, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars. For resurfacing asphalt roadways in the Smithsonian grounds, five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For necessary repairs of the approaches and walks in Judiciary Park abutting the Pension Office building, six thousand dollars. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, two thousand dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. For cement foot walk around the ellipse in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park between the Potomac Park.causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, three thousand dollars. For constructing a macadam roadway along the north and west sides Roadway.of the tidal reservoir in Potomac Park from the terminus of the Seventeenth street roadway opposite the bathing beach to the Potomac River entrance to the reservoir, and for improving the grounds on either side of the said roadway, in accordance with plans prepared in the office of 734public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, sixty thousand dollars. One half from District revenues. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Limit for concrete, etc., pavements. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and sixty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to duly first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. For new steam roller, three thousand dollars. Executive Mansion.Care, etc. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand dollars. Repairs, etc. For extraordinary repairs of the Executive Mansion, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of conservatory and greenhouses, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. Lighting Executive Mansion and grounds. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas titters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, nineteen thousand five *Provisos.*Maximum per lamp.hundred dollars: *Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further,* Part from District revenues.That four thousand dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: *And provided further, *Higher candle-power lamps.That not more than six thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing and painting 735park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty-five dollars per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds Electric lights.within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, and fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, four thousand five hundred and five dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. For lighting twenty-seven arc lights in Potomac Park driveway, at Lights for Potomac Park driveway.not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of installing, lighting, and maintaining in good order each electric light on said driveway, and authority for laying single-duct conduits through public grounds and making connections for said lights is hereby granted, two thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the Half from District revenues.revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: Government telegraph.For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument.Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month: one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attend-ant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month: three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses.brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Repairs of Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting Building where Abraham Lincoln died.and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars. Grant memorial: For continuing work for the Repairs.Grant memorial.*Provisos.*Location.erection of the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the memorial may be located in the unoccupied portion of the Botanic Garden grounds between First and Second streets, as recommended by the Grant Memorial Commission: *Provided further,* That Foundation.such portion of the funds heretofore appropriated for said memorial 736and now available may be used in constructing extra foundation for the memorial if the character of the soil on the site selected shows such extra foundation to be necessary. Statue of George B. McClellan. Statue of General George B. McClellan: For expenses attending the unveiling of the statue of General George B. McClellan, two thousand five hundred dollars. under engineer department. Engineer Department.Rivers and harbors. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Vol. 29, p. 202. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Portland, Me. Improving harbor at Portland, Maine: For continuing improvement, eighty thousand dollars. San Pedro, Cal. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Vol. 30, p. 1121. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Gowanus Bay, N. Y. Improving channel in Gowanus Bay. New Fork: For continuing improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Black River, Lorain, Ohio. Improving harbor at Black River, Ohio: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, of harbor at mouth of Black River, Lorain, Ohio, forty-six thousand dollars. Bridgeport, Conn. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For continuing improvement, seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars. Ambrose Channel, N. Y. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvement of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Ohio River, below Pittsburg, Pa. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, one hundred and sixty thousand four hundred dollars. Vol. 32, p. 331. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, as follows: Boston, Mass. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement by providing channels thirty-five feet deep, and of authorized widths, from the navy-yard at Charlestown and the Chelsea and Charles River bridges to President Roads, and thence by route designated as numbered three through Broad Sound to the ocean, six hundred thousand dollars. Gloucester, Mass. Improving harbor at Gloucester, Massachusetts: For completing improvement in accordance with the modified project as authorized, seventeen thousand and eighty-three dollars. Lake Erie, N. Y.Black Rock Harbor. Improving Lake Erie entrance to Black Rock Harbor and Erie Basin. New York: For completing improvement, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand six hundred and forty-three dollars. Arthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel from Kill von Kull to Raritan Bay, fifty thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement in accordance with the plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. San Pablo Bay, Cal. Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For completing improvement by constructing a channel between the Straits of Carquinez and the Golden Gate, off Point Pinole, Point Wilson, and Lone Tree Point, fifty-three thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and forty-one cents. 737 Improving Kennebec River, Maine: For continuing improvement Kennebec River, Me.between Gardiner and Augusta, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement Passaic River, N. J.from the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge to deep water in Staten Island Sound, forty-six thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama: Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivere, Ala.For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One, Two, and Three in the Tombigbee and Warrior rivers, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: For continuing Mississippi River.South Pass.improvement in completion of contract authorization, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuing Ouachita and Black rivers, Ark. and La.improvement of Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana, in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of Lock Numbered Four, near Monroe, Louisiana, and of Lock Numbered Six, near Roland Raft, Arkansas, ninety-one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For continuing Big Sandy River, W. Va. and Ky.improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of locks and dams on Big Sandy River and Tug and Levisa forks of the same, forty thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvement Detroit River, Mich.from Detroit to Lake Erie, in accordance with “Plan A,” and in completion of contract authorization, three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Middle and West Neebish channels, Saint Marys River, Saint Marys River, Mich.Michigan: For continuing improvement, one million dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: For continuing improvement in Trinity River, Tex.completion of present authorization, twenty-five thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred Vol. 83, p. 1117.and five, as follows: Improving Aransas Pass and Bay. Texas: For continuing improvement Aransas Pass and Bay, Tex.of Aransas Pass in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied to the construction of the project in accordance with the design and specifications of the Aransas Pass Harbor Company, and in continuation of the work heretofore done, and to such additional work as may be necessary for strengthening the jetty. Improving Black Rock Harbor and Channel, New York: For New York.Black Rock Harbor.continuing improvement, two hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama: Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Ala.For continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two in the Tombigbee River, and the completion of Lock and Dam Numbered One in the Tombigbee River near Demopolis, and those Numbered Two and Three in the Warrior River next above, and by the construction of dredge and lock houses as authorized, five hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars. Improving Bayou Plaquemine, Louisiana: For completing improvement, Bayou Plaquemine, La.one hundred thousand dollars. Improving mouth of Brazos River, Texas: For continuing improvement Brazos River, Tex.in completion of contract authorization, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina: For continuing Cape Fear River, N. C.improvement at and below Wilmington, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing Cumberland River, Tenn.improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-one, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. 738 Calumet River, Ill. and Ind. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars. Mouth of Columbia River, Oreg. and Wash. Improving Month of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, three hundred thousand dollars. Columbia River, Wash. Improving Columbia River. Washington: For continuing improvement, between the mouth of Willamette River and the city of Vancouver, Washington, thirteen thousand dollars. Between Dalles Rapids and Celilo Falls. Improving Columbia River at Three-Mile Rapids, Oregon and Washington: For continuing improvement of Columbia River between the foot of The Dalles Rapids and the head of Celilo Falls by means of a canal and locks, in accordance with the modified project and in completion of contract authorization, two hundred and fifty thousand Columbia and Lower Willamette, Oreg. Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette rivers, below Portland, Oregon: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Delaware River, Pa. and N. J. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, one million dollars. Detroit River, Mich. Improving Detroit River. Michigan: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, four hundred thousand dollars. Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior. Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Galveston Harbor, Tex. Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing improvement ill completion of contract authorization, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Tex. Improving Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: For continuing improvement to a point at or near the head of Long Reach, in accordance with the modified project and in completion of contract authorization, two hundred thousand dollars. Allegheny River, Pa.Dams. Dam at Herr Island, Allegheny River, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For completing improvement by the construction of locks and dams at Herr Island, at head of Six-Mile Island, and at Springdale, two hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-three cents. Hillsboro Bay, Fla. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: For completing improvements, Saint Johns River, Fla.with a view to obtaining a depth of twenty feet from the lower bay to the mouth of Hillsboro River, three hundred and forty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Huron, Ohio. Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Holland, Black Lake, Mich. Improving harbor at Holland, Black Lake, Michigan: For continuing improvement of harbor at Holland, seventy thousand dollars. Honolulu, Hawaii. Improving harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, two hundred thousand dollars. Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Illinois and Mississippi Canal: For completing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Lynn, Mass. Improving harbor at Lynn, Massachusetts: For completing improvement, ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars. Monongahela River, Pa. Improving Monongahela River. Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, by the reconstruction of Lock and Dam Numbered Three, three hundred and eighty-nine thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars. Mississippi River.From mouth of Missouri River to Saint Paul. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis Minnesota: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minnesota, three hundred thousand dollars. 739 For continuing improvement of Mississippi River at Moline, Illinois, Moline, Ill.one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River between Saint Locks and Dams, Nos. 1 and 2.Paul and Minneapolis by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two, thirty thousand dollars. Maintenance of South Pass Channel, Mississippi River: For expenses South Pass Channel.of maintenance, to remain available until expended, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing Ohio River, Pa.improvement by the completion of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, Three. Four, and Five, and the modification of said locks and dams, and of Lock and Dam Numbered Six, so as to secure a stage of nine feet in the pools belonging thereto, one million two hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred and seventy-six dollars. For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of Locks Numbered Eight and Eleven, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement, Oakland, Cal. with a view to obtaining a channel three hundred feet wide and twenty-five feet deep from San Francisco Bay to Fallon street, eighty- one thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: For continuing Point Judith, R. I.improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars, to be applied in extending the easterly or shore arm of the breakwater and continuing it to the shore, with a view of providing a shelter for a landing place for the passengers, crews, and car-goes of vessels in distress, and other vessels, and for the lifeboats of the Point Judith life-saving service. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For continuing Providence River and Harbor, R. I.improvement, including Green Jacket Shoal, three hundred and five thousand dollars. Improving Patapsco River. Maryland: For continuing improvement Patapsco River, Md.of channel to Baltimore, including shoals in Chesapeake Bay off York Spit, five hundred thousand dollars. Harbor of refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: For continuing Sandy Bay, Mass.improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement, Savannah, Ga.one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: For completing improvement from Jacksonville to the ocean, three hundred and nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Improving Sabine and Neches rivers. Texas: For continuing Sabine and Neches rivers, Tex.improvement by connecting Sabine and Neches rivers with Taylors Bayou, or a point in Sabine Lake near the mouth of said bayou, by a channel at or near the west shore of Sabine Lake, four hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Sandusky, Ohio.one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement Saint Marys River, Mich.at the falls, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: For continuing improvement, Trinity River, Tex.eighty-six thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama, Tennessee River, Tenn., Ala., and Ky.and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals by the construction of a lateral canal, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, Scotts Point.Lock gates.by the partial construction of lock gates at the lock projected at 740or near Scotts Point (Hales Bar), together with the cost of superintendence and the preparation of plans to lie made by the United States, forty thousand dollars. Tacoma, Wash.Vol. 33, p. 1144. Improving harbor at Tacoma, Washington: For continuing improvement of the Puyallup waterway in accordance with the terms and conditions named in the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Wilmington, Cal. Improving harbor at Wilmington, California: For continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Woods Hole Channel, Mass. Improving Woods Hole Channel, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. under the mississippi river commission. Mississippi River Commission.From Head of Passes to the Ohio. For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, of Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. national cemeteries. National Cemeteries.Maintenance. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Old Fort Mackinac, Mich.Repairs.Fort Crittenden, Utah. For care, maintenance, and necessary repairs to the post cemetery at Old Fort Mackinac, Michigan, one thousand dollars. For inclosing and putting in proper condition the post cemetery at old Camp Floyd, subsequently Fort Crittenden, Utah, two thousand dollars; and the cession from Utah of the land upon which said cemetery is located is hereby accepted. Superintendents. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars. Headstones for soldiers’ graves. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, Vol. 17, p. 845.Vol. 20, p. 281.naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, forty-nine thousand live hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents. Repairs to roadways. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special *Provisos.*Encroachments by railroads forbidden.authority of Congress: *Provided,* That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, twelve thousand Restriction.dollars: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Burial of indigent soldiers. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war and soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain who die in the District of Columbia, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, or in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and of such soldiers, sailors, and marines who die in the District of Columbia and are buried in the immediate vicinity thereof, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, 741at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars. Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, Antietam battlefield, Md.Repairs, etc.tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg. Maryland, three thousand dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent Superintendent.to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. For grading, improving, and inclosing with rubble stone wall, topped McKinley monument.with wrought-iron fence, the lot on Antietam battlefield in which the monument in memory of the late President William McKinley was erected by the State of Ohio; and for grading and improving the approach road thereto from the Burnside Bridge, three thousand dollars. Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad: Bringing home remains from abroad.To enable the Secretary of War. in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action, or who die in the field or hospital in Alaska, and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, twenty-two thousand dollars. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports: Bringing home remains of civil employees and soldiers dying on transports.To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, two thousand five hundred dollars. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, Confederate Mound, Chicago.protection, and maintenance of the plot of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For continuing grading, Arlington, Va.draining, making roads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Arlington, Virginia, National Stable.Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. For construction of a new stable at the Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery, to replace one destroyed by fire: for the installation of a water main and proper fire system, and for placing a heating system in the mansion at that national cemetery, twelve thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Cemetery, Pennsylvania: For the construction Gettysburg, Pa.of a lodge for the use of the superintendent, six thousand dollars. National Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee: For construction of Knoxville, Tenn.a lodge for the use of the superintendent and for new gateway, six thousand dollars. Marking civilian graves in post cemeteries: For completing Civilian graves in post cemeteries.the marking of the civilian graves in post cemeteries, two thousand dollars. Cemetery, San Juan, Porto Rico: For the purchase of two acres San Juan, P. R.Purchase of land.of land near San Juan, Porto Rico, for use as a post cemetery, three hundred dollars. 742 Yorktown, Va.Vol. 21, p. 163. Monument, Yorktown, Virginia: For the construction of an iron fence to inclose the grounds surrounding the monument erected by the Government at Yorktown, Virginia, to commemorate the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and his forces October nineteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, and for placing the grounds in proper condition, five thousand dollars. Madison Barracks, N. Y. Cemetery, Madison Barracks, New York: For the purchase of thirteen and ninety-eight one-hundredths acres of land for cemetery purposes for the post of Madison Barracks. New York, six hundred and ninety-nine dollars. miscellaneous objects, war department. Miscellaneous.Military posts. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement of buildings at such military posts as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary: for the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with adopted project for seacoast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, eight hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand dollars may be used under direction of the Secretary of War for examination, survey, and plans for an adequate, water sup-ply for Fort William Henry Harrison in the State of Montana: but no part of the money appropriated for military posts shall be used for the purchase of any land except as herein specially provided. Fort McIntosh, Tex. Fort McIntosh, Texas: For the purchase of about forty acres of land near Laredo, Texas, now rented and used by the United States as a target range, three thousand dollars. Fort Wright, Wash. Fort Wright, Washington: For the purchase of about fifty-four acres of land lying in the bend of the Spokane River and to the east of the Fort Wright Military Reservation near the city of Spokane, Washington, eight thousand dollars. Fort Screven, Ga. Fort Screven, Georgia: For the construction of about four thousand feet of sea wall along the front of the reservation at Fort Screven, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Monroe, Va.Additional land. Fort Monroe, Virginia, additional land: For cost of land heretofore selected to be purchased adjacent to the military reservation at Fort Monroe, Virginia, at the Attorney-General’s estimate of the value of the land, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: For the purchase of a tract of land near the new army post in Chickamauga Park, Georgia, known as the Catoosa Springs tract, about one thousand two hundred and five acres, for a target range, twenty thousand dollars. Camp Douglas, Wis.Land for target range. Land for target range: For the. purchase of five thousand four hundred acres of land, more or less, near Camp Douglas, in Juneau County, Wisconsin, as a site for a target range for infantry and light artillery, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum shall be available until the State of Wisconsin shall have made a valid grant to the United States of the right to use the State encampment grounds near Camp Douglas exclusive of buildings thereon for infantry and *Proviso.*Restriction.artillery practice without cost to the United States so long as said grounds are used and owned by the State for encampment purposes. Fort Crockett, Tex.Embankment, etc. Fort Crockett, Texas: For the construction of an embankment and till behind the sea wall built by the United States Government on land adjacent to the Fort Crockett Military Reservation from Thirty-ninth street to the west line of Forty-fifth street in the city of Galveston, Texas, as designated, specified, and described in the report of the Board of Engineers constituted in accordance with section one of the Vol. 32, p. 341.river and harbor act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and fifty-743three dollars and seventy-five cents: *Provided,* That appropriations *Proviso.*Use of appropriation.Vol. 33, p. 497.heretofore made by the Act of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, for Fort Crockett Reservation, Galveston, Texas, for construction of a sea-wall embankment and till in front of said property and the appropriation herein authorized shall be available for embankment and till and other improvements on both the Fort Crockett Reservation and the land lying between Thirty-ninth and Forty-fifth streets, in the city of Galveston, Texas, that has been conveyed to the United States. Fort Moultrie, South Carolina: For the purchase of the wharf Fort Moultrie, S. C.Purchase of wharf, etc.and property of the Charleston Consolidated Railway and Electric Company at the lower portion of Sullivans Island, South Carolina, and repair of same, and for the building of a spur track four hundred yards in length, with the view to giving the Quartermaster’s Department better access to Fort Moultrie, twenty-six thousand dollars. International Waterways Commission: For continuing the work International Waterways Commission.Vol. 32, p. 373, continued.of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars. And retired officers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Retired officers, Engineer Corps, etc.Army shall be eligible for service on said commission. Fort Snelling, Minnesota: For cavalry and artillery drill hall, Fort Snelling, Minn.fifty thousand dollars. Port Monroe, Virginia: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and Fort Monroe, Va.Wharf, etc.maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing closets, painting, repairs to doors, brooms, shovels, and so forth, six thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; laborer, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be sup-plied by the United States, three thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and Roads, etc.general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadways, macadamizing, paving, drainpipe; electric lights for streets; two thou sand three hundred and five dollars; driver for police cart, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers policing roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, three thousand seven hundred and forty- five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. Maintenance of sewer system: For coal and wood, waste, oil, and Sewer system.pump repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each: two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-live dollars. Military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For one clerk, one Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Military prison.thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; five foremen of mechanics, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one teamster, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four teamsters, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two night watchmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; extra-duty pay for prison guard, two thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance Yellowstone Park.and repair of improvements, fifty-five thousand dollars, to be 744expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War; and to be immediately available. Mount Ranier Park. Mount Ranier National Park: For continuing the construction of the wagon road into said park from the west side, under the direction of the Secretary of War, fifty thousand dollars. Military Parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses: foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages: for roads and their maintenance, completing the inclosing of Point Park; the purchase of small tracts of lands, the purchase of which has heretofore been authorized by law; in all, thirty thousand dollars. Bridge over Pea Vine Creek. Ga. For a reinforced concrete bridge over Pea Vine Creek, Georgia, on the road from Reed’s bridge to Ringgold, four thousand five hundred dollars. Alexander bridge. For the partial reconstruction of the Alexander bridge over the Chickamauga River on the eastern boundary of the Chickamauga Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. Shiloh. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, monuments to troops of the Regular Army, and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, twenty-four thousand dollars. Gettysburg. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg. Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, seventy- two thousand dollars. Vicksburg. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of land, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars. Maps. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, three thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available, seventy-five thousand dollars. Artificial limbs. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed 745under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the Providence Hospital.Destitute patients.support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of Half from District revenues.the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States, nineteen thousand dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance to enable it to Garfield Memorial Hospital.provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, one half of which sum shall be paid from Half from District revenues.the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States, nineteen thousand dollars. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor.Deposits.deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses Inspectors, etc.of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch, Crews, tugs, etc.seventy thousand dollars; In all, eighty thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and tire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home: and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided,* That all receipts on account of the effects of *Proviso.*Effects of deceased members.deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, sixty thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary Subsistence.clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department: the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the Branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty-six thousand dollars; 746 Household. For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters: for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the Branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, and for the quarters of the assistant surgeons, nurses, and other civilian employees attached to the hospital permanently employed and residing at the Branch; for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances, including aprons, caps, and jackets for hospital kitchen and dining room employees: carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins: for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, sixty-two thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas titters, electrical workers, plumbers, tin-smiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, *Proviso.*Restriction.seventy-one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; Water-softening plants. For water-softening plants at main power house, Wagner Wells, and Lake pumping station, ten thousand dollars: Annex to hospital. For annex to hospital for eye and ear ward, three thousand six hundred dollars; Farm. For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances: for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park: and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the Home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, six hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred dollars. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-nine thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty-eight thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars: Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 747 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For repair shop, three thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, Togus, Me.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, thirty-nine thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred Transportation.dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars: For toilet rooms for hospital, five thousand dollars; Toilet rooms. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current Hampton, Va.Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For improvement of Jones Creek, six thousand dollars; Jones Creek. For elevator in hospital, six thousand dollars; Elevator. For purchase of additional land, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand Additional land.dollars, to be immediately available; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, nine thousand five hundred dollars; In all, five hundred and seven thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current Leavenworth Kans.Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, ninety-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars: For building with mess hall and kitchen, fifteen thousand dollars; New buildings. For addition to quartermaster’s storehouse, eight thousand dollars; For addition to mess hall, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one combination barrack, fifty thousand dollars; 748 Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars. Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-four thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-live thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; Wagon, etc., shed. For wagon, carriage, and implement shed, one thousand two hundred dollars: Nurses’ quarters. For nurses’ quarters, ten thousand dollars; Shop building. For shop building, ten thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and sixty-three thousand two hundred dollars. Marion, Ind.Current expenses. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-nine thousand dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, forty-eight thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-nine thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Danville, Ill.Current expenses. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy-five thousand dollars; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-eight thousand dollars; Transportation. For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand five hundred dollars; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars: Oil house. For oil house, five hundred dollars; For construction of chaplain’s quarters, four thousand dollars; Barrack. For combination barrack, fifty thousand dollars; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses. At the Mountain Branch, at Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; 749 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, sixty-six thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for Hospital.the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, five thousand dollars; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars; For cement walks, to be immediately available, seven thousand five Cement walks.hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, nineteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: For Hot Springs, S. Dak.All expenses.current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For the grading and improvement of grounds, the construction and Grading, etc.completion of roads and walks, and the acquisition of land necessary for such purposes, which may be acquired either by purchase or condemnation, forty thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, Clothing for all Branches.underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls: also all sums expended for labor, material, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, Salaries, etc., Board of Managers.and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general and chief surgeon, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector--general, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors-general, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president and general treasurer, fourteen thousand dollars; messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars; agents, one thousand four hundred dollars, of which sum not more than two hundred dollars shall be paid to the agent at Washington, District of Columbia; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-five thousand and forty-four dollars. In all, four million two hundred and twelve thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation *Proviso.*Intoxicants.shall be available after March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, except on condition that no bar or canteen shall be maintained at said Homes for the sale of beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors after said date. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: State and Territorial homes.For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved Vol. 25, p. 450. August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled 750Volunteer Soldiers, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provisos.*Restrictions. *Provided,* That no 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 Vol. 22, p. 564.of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of (Columbia, and for other purposes;” but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of Prohibition on sale of liquors.soldiers are admitted and maintained: *And provided further,* That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. Back pay and bounty. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their Vol. 14, p. 322.widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred thousand dollars. War with Spain, etc., arrears of pay, etc. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on ac-count of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Amounts due deceased officers and enlisted men. Hereafter, in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers or enlisted men of the Army, where the amount due the decedent’s estate is less than five hundred dollars and no demand is presented by a duly appointed legal representative of the estate, the accounting officers may allow the amount found due to the decedent’s widow or legal heirs Distribution to heirs.in the following order of precedence: First, to the widow; second, if decedent left no widow, or the widow be dead at time of settlement, then to the children or their issue, per stirpes; third, if no widow or descendants, then to the father and mother in equal parts, provided the father has not abandoned the support of his family, in which case to the mother alone; fourth, if either the father or mother be dead then to the one surviving; fifth, if there be no widow, child, father, or mother at the date of settlement, then to the brothers and sisters and *Proviso.*Funeral expenses.children of deceased brothers and sisters, per stirpes: *Provided,* That this Act shall not be so construed as to prevent payment from the amount due the decedent’s estate of funeral expenses, provided a claim therefor is presented by the person or persons who actually paid the same before settlement by the accounting officers. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice.Court-house, D. C. Repairs. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five thousand dollars. Court of Claims building. Court of Claims building: For making alterations in the building now occupied by the Court of Claims for the purpose of providing rooms for the judges and for furnishing the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuing construction of the new United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, two hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and 751to remain available until expended, which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For continuing Atlanta. Ga.Penitentiary.the construction of the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall surrounding same, eighty thousand dollars, to be avail-able immediately and to remain available until expended, and so much of the appropriation for the same purpose in the sundry civil Act of Vol. 33, p. 1209.March third, nineteen hundred and five, as shall be now unexpended is hereby made available until used, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For McNeil Island, Wash.Penitentiary.the construction of additional suitable buildings, prison wall, and brick plant for the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washing-ton, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, six thousand dollars, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars for similar purposes made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and Vol. 32, p. 1144.three, is hereby continued to be available until expended, the money thus appropriated to be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. Reform School, District of Columbia: Toward the construction Reform School, D.C.New building.of new buildings to replace the main building of the Reform School, District of Columbia, recently destroyed by fire, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, and the total cost of said buildings under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars: said buildings to be erected in accordance with the plans prepared by the Architect of the Treasury, under the provisions of the Act making appropriations *Ante,* p. 40.for urgent deficiencies, approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, upon the preparation of the necessary working drawings, and their approval by the board of trustees of the school and the Attorney-General. Court-house and jails in Alaska: For the erection of a jail, repairs Alaska.Court-house and jail, Nome.*Post,* p. 1358.to the court-house, and construction of fireproof vaults for the records of the clerk of the court, all at Nome, Alaska, ten thousand dollars. And the former marine-hospital building, not now in use, located on the reservation at Nome, Alaska, under the control of the Treasury Department, may be remodeled and used as a jail when turned over by that Department to the Department of Justice, and for the purpose of such remodeling so much of this sum as may be required may be used; For erection of court-house, with fireproof vaults, at Fairbanks, Fairbanks.Court-house.Alaska, to replace the one destroyed by fire, fifteen thousand dollars: For the erection of a jail at Fairbanks, Alaska, ten thousand dollars: Jail. For the improvement of the jail at Valdez, Alaska, five thousand Jail at Valdez.dollars: in all forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, and to be expended under the direction of the courts of the respective divisions in which the buildings are located, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Miscellaneous. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For Defending suits in claims.defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington. District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court 752of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty-five thousand dollars. Prosecution of crimes. Prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment: the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, sixty-five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty thousand dollars. Punishing violations of intercourse acts. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such tees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Traveling, etc., expenses. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Care of buildings. Care of buildings rented by Department of Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General and to be expended under his direction, ten thousand dollars. Alaska.Incidental expenses. Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, five thousand dollars. Traveling expenses. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.Defense of suits. Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to Vol. 31, p. 877.be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, ninety-two thousand dollars. Taking testimony abroad. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For expenses of taking testimony abroad, twenty thousand dollars. Antitrust laws.Balance available for enforcing.Vol. 24. p. 379; Vol. 33, p. 507. Enforcement of antitrust laws: That the balance of the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act entitled. “An Act to regulate commerce.” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all 753Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts Vol. 32, p. 903.*Ante,* p. 584.mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. Opinions of the Attorney-General: To enable the Attorney-General Opinions of Attorney-General.Publication of volume 25.R. S., sec. 1765, p.314.to employ, at his discretion, and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, such competent person or persons as will, in his judgment, best perforin the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume twenty-five of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars; the printing of said volume to be done Printing.R. S., sec. 385, p. 64.in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes. To systematize the preparation of law indexes and so forth and to provide trained law clerks therefor: Library of Congress.Systematizing indexes, digests, etc., of laws.To enable the Librarian of Congress to direct the Law Librarian to prepare a new index to the Statutes at Large, in accordance with a plan previously approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress, and to prepare such other indexes, digests and compilations of law as may be required for Congress and other official use, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars to pay for five additional assistants in the Law Library: One at eighteen hundred dollars, one at twelve hundred dollars, one at nine hundred dollars and two at seven hundred and twenty dollars each and for the Law Librarian five hundred dollars, the said sum to be paid to the Law Librarian notwithstanding seventeen R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314.hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the Expenses.expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the courts in the Indian Territory; of the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals’ salaries.and their deputies, one million three hundred and eighty thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise; and the annual salaries of the United States marshals for the district of Idaho and the southern district of California are hereby fixed at four thousand dollars, respectively. Advances Advances.to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys’ salaries, etc.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and the annual salaries of 754the United States district attorneys for the district of Idaho and the southern district of California are hereby fixed at four thousand dollars, *Provisos.*Services during vacation.respectively: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the New York, southern district.Payment to clerks, etc.offices of the United States district attorney: *Provided further,* That clerks and messengers in the office of the United States district attorney for the southern district of New York shall hereafter be paid from this appropriation and subsequent appropriations for salaries and expenses of district attorneys, by the disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice, in such number and at such salaries as may be fixed by the Office expenses.Attorney-General, and that such office expenses of said district attorney as may be approved by the Attorney-General shall also be paid in the same manner and from the same appropriations as similar expenses R.S., sec. 836, p. 158.in other judicial districts, notwithstanding the provisions of section eight hundred and thirty-six, Revised Statutes. District attorney, District of Columbia. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. Regular assistant attorneys. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Special assistants. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in Foreign counsel.special cases, ninety thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the R. S. sec., 366, p. 62.Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Clerks’ fees. For fees of clerks, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Proviso.*Receipts on account of judgments, etc.Report. *Provided,* That the Attorney-General shall hereafter, under rules and regulations prescribed by him, require the clerks of the United States circuit and district courts, clerks of the. Territorial courts, clerks of the United States courts for the Indian Territory, and the. clerks of the United States courts in Alaska to report and account for all moneys received by them on account of or as security for fees and costs, and to report and account for all amounts collected or received by them on behalf of the United States on account of judgments, fines, forfeitures, Other receipts.penalties, and costs. The Attorney-General shall also hereafter require such clerks to report and account for any other moneys received by them in their official capacity, whether on behalf of the United States Record of.or otherwise, and the Attorney-General shall hereafter prescribe such docket or dockets or other books as he may deem proper to be kept and used by such clerks in recording, reporting, and accounting for moneys mentioned above in this paragraph, and in recording all fees and emoluments earned by them, which dockets or other books shall be kept and used by said clerks in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney-General. Commission to re- vise the laws.Final report by December 15, 1906.Vol. 30, pp. 58, 1116. On and after December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, no sums of money shall be payable under and by virtue of the Act of Congress of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, providing for the revision and codification of the criminal and penal laws of the United Vol. 31, p. 1181.States and the subsequent Acts of Congress of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and March third, nineteen hundred and one, enlarging the duties of the commissioners appointed under said Act, but the said commission so created shall, on or before said December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, complete the duties imposed upon them thereby and shall present their final report thereon to Congress in accordance with the provisions of said Act of March third, nineteen Vol. 33, p. 1285.hundred and one, and of joint resolution of March third, nineteen hundred and five, before said date, and shall turn over to the Attorney-755General all papers, documents and correspondence pertaining to the *Post,* p. 2831.work of the. commission, and all furniture, books, and so forth, in their possession and employed by them in the prosecution of their duties under said appointment, and all Acts and parts of Acts relative to their Repeal.duties, powers, and employment shall thereupon be repealed. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace Commissioners’ fees.R. S.,sec. 1014, p. 189.acting under section one thousand and fourteen. Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars. Jurors’ fees. For fees of jurors, one million and seventy-five thousand dollars. Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses and Witness fees.for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, R. S., sec. 850, p. 160.eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, Rent.ninety-five thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one Bailiffs, etc.*Provisos.*Actual attendance.R. S., sec. 715, p. 136.crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided,* That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further,* Employment during vacation.Traveling expenses.That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States: of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiff’s in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not Jury commissioners.exceeding three days for any one term of court, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous expenses.by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in so *Proviso.*Alaska.far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska. For compensation and expenses of a special master, to be appointed George Edward Adams.Compensation, etc., of special master in suit against.by the United States district judge presiding in the United States circuit court for the ninth circuit, in the western district of Washington, to take testimony in the case of United States against George Edward Adams, on such notice to the defendant or his counsel as the court may prescribe, and to find therefrom the extent and amount of the embezzlement of gold dust from the United States assay office at Seattle, Washington, and the names of depositors to whom said gold dust belonged, together with the amount and value of gold dust so embezzled belonging to each such depositor, such special master to have the full powers and status of a master in chancery, and the provisions of sections fifty-three hundred and ninety-two and fifty-three hundred R. S., secs. 5392, 5393, p. 1045.and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States to apply to all proceedings had before him, the findings of said special master to be final and binding upon the depositors whose gold dust shall be found to have been embezzled, and upon the United States in so far as 756concerns the matter of settlement with said depositors, a sum not *Proviso.*Non-liability of the United States. exceeding twelve thousand dollars: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed as admitting or implying any liability on the part of the United States for gold dust embezzled by said Adams; Expenditures.all money expended hereunder shall be taxed by the court as a part of the cost in said judicial proceedings. Indian Territory.Salaries, etc.Vol. 28, p. 695. For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory; also salaries of the deputy clerks in the Indian Territory appointed under the Act of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and Acts amendatory thereto, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, one hundred and two thousand four hundred dollars. Supplies. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. Hawaii.Books. For purchase under the direction of the Attorney-General of necessary books for use of the courts in Hawaii, ten thousand dollars. Support of prisoners. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, seven hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth, Kans., penitentiary. United States Penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils; and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty-five thousand dollars; Clothing, etc. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-five thousand dollars; Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office. photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron hunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; tor pay of extra guards when deemed neces-757sary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, thirty-four thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and Hospital.surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Salaries.Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, six hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and store-keeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; two captains of watch, at nine hundred dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, forty-two thousand three hundred dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; engineer and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand dollars; in all, sixty-four thousand three hundred dollars; For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and eighty-five thousand six hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support of Atlanta. Ga., penitentiary.the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy Supplies, etc.warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils: farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice, if necessary, thirty thousand dollars; For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can be Clothing, etc.made at the penitentiary: for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, fifteen thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, Miscellaneous.for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils, and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners: for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables: policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library, books, newspapers, and periodicals; electrical supplies, for payment of water supply; for telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical Hospital. 758instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars: Salaries. For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars: chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars: physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer. nine hundred dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: telephone operator, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer and electrician, one thousand three hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand dollars; two captains of watch, at nine hundred dollars each: steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; one teamster, six hundred dollars: cook, and baker, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: guards, at seventy dollars per month each, one of whom, because of special qualifications, may be appointed and transferred from the roll of teamster, twenty-six thousand dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand and twenty dollars; For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, and carpenter, when necessary, three thousand two hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-six thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Reform School, D. C.Salaries. Reform School, District of Columbia: For superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand seven hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars: four matrons of families, at two hundred and forty dollars each; two foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, florist, engineer, baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two dining-room servants, seamstress, and chambermaid, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; watchmen, not to exceed six in number, one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars; Miscellaneous. For support of inmates, including groceries. flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance. stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, twelve thousand dollars; Repairs. For repairs, one thousand dollars; In all, thirty thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State.Bureau of American Republics and Columbus Memorial Library. Permanent quarters. For the purchase of land and the entire, contribution of the United States towards the erection of a building to be used as permanent quarters in the city of Washington by the International Bureau of the American Republics and the Columbus Memorial Library, two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended upon the order of the Secretary of State. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture.Construction of new buildings. For continuation of construction of buildings for the Department of Agriculture now in process of erection, three hundred thousand dollars. 759 UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of Appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations.of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred Vol. 25, p. 587.and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Charters and Constitutions: For the purchase from Professor Charters and constitutions.Purchase of Francis N. Thorpe’s manuscript of.Francis N. Thorpe of the manuscript for a new edition of charters, constitutions, and organic laws of all the States, Territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States, and any Acts of Congress relating thereto, prepared by him, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That he shall prepare a complete index of the work and do *Proviso.*Index.all proof reading in connection with the preparation, printing, and publication thereof; and the Public Printer shall print and bind six Printing and distribution.thousand copies of the work, of which two thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and four thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives. Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to Botanic Garden.Repairs.buildings, heating apparatus, foot walks, and roadways, and for reconstructing plant houses numbered one and two, south side of Maryland avenue, with cast-iron sills and gutters, wrought-iron rafters and purlines, gulf-cypress sash bars, and reglaze with twelve inch by sixteen inch double thick glass, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars. PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for Public printing and binding.the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees; for the purchase and installation of, and instruction in, cost, audit, and inventory systems: for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice: for bicycles, horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer: for freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; for furniture, typewriters, and carpets; for traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; for directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding five hundred dollars; for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; for repairs; for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, five million one hundred thousand dollars; and from the said sum Amount.hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotments.Congress.and debates, and for rents, two million ninety-three thousand five 760hundred dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc. For the Department of State, forty-two thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five *Proviso.*Catalogue of copy-right entries.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this stun shall be expended for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office. For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydro-graphic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars. . . For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, tor the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty-nine thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, twenty-one thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the Report on Mineral Resources, forty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the Report on Mineral Resources, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; and said amounts shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, twenty-three thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Vol. 28, p. 612.*Post*, p. 825.Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the provisions of public resolution Numbered Thirteen of the present session, three hundred thousand dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the Census Office, five hundred thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. 761 For the Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, two hundred and five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, fifty-eight thousand dollars. For the Bureau of American Republics, twenty thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated Restriction.shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Annual leaves.law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. Isthmian Canal. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended Construction.Vol. 32, p. 482.*Ante,* p. 611.under the direction of the President in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two: *Provided,* That no part of the sums *Provisos.*Restriction.herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of a canal of the so-called sea level type, as follows: For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian Salaries in the United States.Canal Commission, including inspectors of material, examiners, assist-ant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, two hundred and fifty-one thousand and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph service, Incidental expenses.supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal Rent.building in the District of Columbia, twelve thousand dollars, and text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars), one hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-six cents; For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled Construction, etc., departments.Pay of officers, etc., on the Isthmus.labor on the Isthmus, for the construction and engineering and administration departments, two million six hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and twelve dollars; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, for the departments Labor.of construction and engineering and administration, nine million fifty thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars; For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment for Purchase of mate-rial, etc.the construction and engineering and administration departments on the Isthmus of Panama, nine million thirty-two thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-four cents; To continue the reequipment of the Panama Railroad, to be disbursed Panama Railroad.directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million dollars; no part of said sum shall have been so expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per cent interest payable to the United States shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and by him accepted. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, station-Miscellaneous. 762ery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus for the construction and engineering and administration departments, four hundred and thirty-four thousand live hundred and fifty dollars: Government of Canal Zone.Pay of officers and employees. For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, six hundred thousand dollars; Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, fifty thousand dollars; Material, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses for account of the government of the Canal Zone, three hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred dollars; Health and sanitation.Pay of officers, etc. For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama, five hundred and seventy-nine thousand and sixty-eight dollars; Material, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses of the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus, eight hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifteen cents; Amount.*Proviso.*Expenditures paid from proceeds of bond sales.Vol. 32, p. 484. In all, twenty-five million four hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and eight cents: *Provided,* That all expenditures from the appropriation herein made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two. Regular annual estimates for all printing and binding required. Sec. 2. Hereafter there shall be submitted in the regular annual estimates to Congress under and as a part of the expenses for “Printing and binding,” estimates for all printing and binding required by each of the Executive Departments, their bureaus and offices. and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, Restriction.for each fiscal year: and after the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven no appropriations other than those made specifically and solely for printing and binding shall be used for such purposes in any Executive Department or other Government establishment in the District of *Proviso.*Stamped envelopes, etc.Columbia: *Provided,* That nothing in this section shall apply to stamped envelopes, or envelopes and articles of stationery other than letter heads and note heads, printed in the course of manufacture. Joint Commission to continue investigations. Sec. 3. The authority vested in the Joint Commission to examine into the general subject of the public printing and binding of Congress and the various executive departments, authorized and appointed Vol. 33, p. 1249.under the provisions of the Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, shall be continued in force during the term of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and the said Commission is hereby directed to continue its investigations Branch printing offices.and report to Congress at its next session. And the said Commission is hereby directed to enquire into the necessity for the continuance of the various branch printing offices and printing offices maintained in the various executive department bureaus or independent offices of the Report.Government and to report what economies, if any, would be effected in the abolition of these printing offices or branch printing offices and the execution of the work now performed therein in the Government Printing Office. Collecting customs revenue.Employment of counsel.Vol. 28, p. 848, amended.Board of General Appraisers. Sec. 4. So much of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page eight hundred and forty-three, at page eight hundred and forty-eight) relative to the employment of counsel to protect the interests of the Treasury Department in cases before the Board of General Appraisers is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 763 That the Attorney-General shall, at the request of the Secretary of Solicitor to be appointed.Assistants.the Treasury, appoint a solicitor of customs and such assistants, not to exceed three, as the Secretary may deem necessary to protect the interests of the United States in all cases and matters before the Board of General Appraisers; and the said solicitor and his assistants shall, Duties.whenever so directed by the Attorney-General, appear in courts of the United States in any cases appealed from said Board of General Appraisers and take such part in the management, conduct, and trial of such cases as the Attorney-General may deem advisable. That the salary of said solicitor shall be five thousand dollars per Salaries.annum, and of said assistants not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, to be fixed by the Attorney-General, and all of said salaries shall be paid out of the general appropriation for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs. That said solicitor and assistants shall be appointed without compliance Not subject to civil- service law.Vol. 22, p. 403.with the conditions prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and amendments thereof. Chicago.Salary of appraiser.R. S., sec. 2730. p. 532, amended.Proceeds of public property.Statements made annually to Congress. And the salary of the Appraiser of Merchandise for the Port of Chicago is hereby fixed at four thousand five hundred dollars. Sec. 5. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall require, and it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department or other Government establishment to furnish him, within thirty days after the close of each fiscal year, a statement of all money arising from proceeds of public property of any kind or from any source other than the postal service, received by said head of Department or other Government establishment during the previous fiscal year for or on account of the public service, or in any other manner in the discharge of his official duties other than as salary or compensation, which was not paid into the General Treasury of the United States, together with a detailed account of all payments, if any, made from such funds during such year. All such statements, together with a similar statement applying to the Treasury Department, shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. Sec. 6. Hereafter, where the compensation of any person in the Salaries of Government employees.service of the United States is annual or monthly the following rides for division of time and computation of pay for services rendered are hereby established: Annual compensation shall be divided into twelve Division.equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payments for a fractional part of a month one- thirtieth of one of such installments, or of a monthly compensation, shall be the daily rate of pay. For the purpose of computing such Computation.compensation and for computing time for services rendered during a fractional part of a month in connection with annual or monthly compensation, each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any calendar month, thus excluding the thirty-first of any calendar month from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Any person entering the service of the United States during a thirty-one day month and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to pay for that month from the date of entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both days inclusive; and any person entering said service during the month of February and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to one month’s pay, less as many thirtieths thereof as there were days elapsed prior to date of entry: *Provided,* That for one Proviso.Forfeiture.day’s unauthorized absence on the thirty-first day of any calendar month one day’s pay shall be forfeited. Sec. 7. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and six, all of Supreme court, D.C.Expenses.the expenses of the supreme court of the District of Columbia mentioned below, to wit, fees of witnesses, fees of jurors, pay of bailiffs 764and criers, including salaries of deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or Half from District revenues.criers, and all miscellaneous expenses of said court, shall be paid one half *Proviso.*Estimates.from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the revenues of the United States: *Provided,* That estimates for like expenditures for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight and annually thereafter, shall be submitted to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for transmission to Congress with the annual estimates for the District of Columbia. Sums for salaries to be in full. Sec. 8. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for Repeal.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Restriction or. payments. Sec. 9. No Act of Congress hereafter passed shall be construed to make an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States, or to authorize the execution of a contract involving the payment of money in excess of appropriations made by law, unless such Act shall in specific terms declare an appropriation to be made or that a contract may be executed. Jamestown Exposition.*Post.* p. 2997.Government exhibits. jamestown exposition. Sec. 10. That there shall be exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition by the Government of the United States from the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, and the Library of Congress such articles and materials of an historical nature as will serve to impart a knowledge of our colonial and national history, and such Government exhibit shall also include an exhibit from the War and Navy Departments, the Life-Saving Service, the Revenue-Cutter Service, the Army, the Navy, the Light-House Service, the Bureau of Fisheries, and an exhibit from the Island of Porto Rico. And the Bureau of American Republics is hereby invited to make an exhibit illustrative of the resources and international relations of the American Republics, and space in any of the United States Government exhibit buildings shall Selection of articles.be provided for that purpose. The Jamestown Tercentennial Com-mission, created by an Act of Congress, approved March third, nineteen Vol. 33, p. 1047.hundred and five, shall, in addition to the authority and duties conferred and imposed by said Act, be authorized and empowered and it shall be their duty to select, prepare, transport and arrange for the exhibition and return of the Government exhibits herein authorized. Additional articles.In addition to the articles and materials which the said Jamestown Tercentennial Commission may select for exhibition as aforesaid, the President of the United States may in his discretion designate other and additional articles and materials. Officers and employees.Extra compensation prohibited. The officers and employees of the Government who may be appointed by the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission to carry out the provisions of this section and any officers and employees of the Government who may be detailed to assist them, including the officers of the Army and Navy, shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and necessary Per diem.Detail of retired officers.traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed four dollars. The officers of the Army and Navy shall receive said allowance in lieu of subsistence and mileage not allowed by law and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy may in their discretion detail retired Army and Navy officers for Prior laws not applicable.such duty. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in the employ of the United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed to duty in connection with said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition. Appropriation.And to carry out in full all of the provisions of this section not herein 765otherwise specifically appropriated for, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be expended in accordance with law and under such rules and regulations as the said Jamestown Tercentennial Commission may prescribe. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause suitable buildings to Government buildings.be erected on the site of the said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition for said Government exhibit, including a suitable building for the exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service; a fisheries building, including an aquarium; also a building for use as a place of rendezvous for the soldiers and sailors of the United States Navy and Army and of the foreign navies and armies participating in said celebration; also a building for use as a place of rendezvous for the commissioned naval and army officers participating in said celebration; also the preparation of the grounds for, the approaches thereto, and the lighting of all of said buildings. Said buildings shall be erected, as far as practicable, Colonial style of architecture.on the colonial style of architecture from plans prepared by the supervising architect of the Treasury, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed Contracts.to contract for said buildings in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United States: *Provided,* *Proviso.*Maximum cost.That the aggregate cost of all of said buildings, including the preparation of grounds, approaches, and lighting, shall in no event exceed the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not Appropriation.otherwise appropriated. At the close of the exposition the Secretary Disposal of buildings, etc., at close of exposition.of the Treasury is authorized and directed to dispose of said buildings or the materials composing the same, and of the piers which are provided for in this Act, or the materials thereof, giving preference to Preference.the Jamestown Exposition Company to the extent that it shall have the option to purchase the same at an appraised value to be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine. That to the end that free and ready communication between the Piers and basin for small craft.ships and the shore may be had, and in order to furnish ample and safe harbor for the small craft necessary to convey the soldiers and exposition visitors from the grounds to the fleet, there shall be constructed, from plans to be furnished by the Jamestown Exposition Plans.Company and approved by the Secretary of War, two piers extending from the exposition grounds into the waters of Hampton Roads, the ends of said piers to be surmounted with towers for the exhibit, if practicable, of the Light-House Service and wireless telegraph service. Said piers shall be connected by an arch sufficiently high to permit small craft to enter under it into a basin or harbor, which shall be dredged to a sufficient depth to accommodate boats drawing not more than ten feet of water at mean low tide. And the Contract.Secretary of War is directed to contract for the construction of said piers and basin in the same manner and under the same regulations as for public structures of the United States, but the contract price shall not Maximum cost.exceed the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriation.*Provisos.*Management, etc.money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: *Provided,* That before the appropriation made by this section shall become available, the Jamestown Exposition Company shall file with the Secretary of the Treasury an agreement that it will, at its own expense, operate and manage said piers and basin during the period of the exposition, and that it will, at its own expense, illuminate the same: *Provided further,* That all small craft attached to any naval vessel of this or any foreign country, whose fleet is in the waters of Hampton Roads Small craft of foreign fleet.Use of piers, etc., by, free of cost.to participate in the celebration, shall have access to and use of said 766basin and piers for the purpose of communication with the exposition grounds without any charge therefor and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe: *Provided further,* Use by United States.That the same right, of access and use of said basin and piers during the exposition, shall be, and is hereby, reserved to the United States, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to impose upon the United States any obligation to maintain or keep in repair such piers or basin or approaches thereto or to reimburse any individual or corporation for any damage sustained in consequence of the use of said piers and basin. Appropriation for aid. That in aid of the said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be paid to the Jamestown Exposition Company upon satisfactory Condition.evidence being furnished the Secretary of the Treasury that the said company has expended the sum of five hundred thousand dollars on Vouchers.account of said exposition. Said two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury upon vouchers and satisfactory evidence that it has been expended for the purposes *Proviso.*Sunday closing.of the exposition other than salaries: *Provided,* That as a condition precedent to the payment of this appropriation in aid of said exposition, the Jamestown Exposition Company shall agree to close the grounds of said exposition to visitors on Sunday during the period of said exposition. Jamestown Island.Permanent landing pier. That for the erection of a permanent landing pier at Jamestown Island on the frontage owned by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, the precise location to be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and said association and to be donated by said association Appropriation.to the United States, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any Contract.money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Secretary of War is directed to contract for the construction of said pier in the same manner and under the same requirements as tor public structures *Proviso.*Lease, etc., of present pier.of the United States: *Provided, however,* That if any pier now constructed and suitable for landing persons and material for the erection of the monument on said Jamestown Island heretofore authorized can be leased or purchased within the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars hereby made, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to expend the sum hereby appropriated for the leasing or purchase of said pier and of a sufficient and proper amount of land adjacent thereto to give free access to the grounds owned by such association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and the monument to be erected Vol. 33, p. 1047.thereon under the provisions of an Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five. Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.Policing grounds of, etc. For the policing during the exposition period of the grounds owned by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, upon Jamestown Island, and for erecting thereon suitable retiring rooms and rest stations for the visiting public, and for providing drinking water at suitable places thereon, and for such benches and other Appropriation.accommodations as visitors to such island will need, the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Restriction on expenditures.The moneys appropriated by this paragraph shall be expended by and under the direction of the Tercentennial Commission, and shall not be expended until such provisions are made with such association as will insure the free access to every part of the grounds of said association of all visitors who may come during the period of the said exposition, and will insure free access always to that part of the grounds upon which said monument is located. Exhibits admitted free of duty. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign countries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition upon which there 767shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of the payment of such duty, customs, fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any Sale of.time during the exposition to sell, for delivery at the close thereof, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings or on the grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: *Provided,* That all such *Provisos.*Subject to duty if sold, etc.articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal, and on articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use, and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: *Provided further,* That nothing in this section contained shall be construed as No invitation to import, etc.an invitation, express or implied, from the Government of the United States to any foreign government, state, municipality, corporation, partnership, or individual to import any such articles for the purpose of exhibition at the said exposition. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions Medals to be made at mint.commemorative of said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition and of the awards to be made to the exhibitors thereat and to successful contestants in aquatic and other contests shall be prepared for the James-town Exposition Company by the Secretary of the Treasury at some mint of the United States, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second Vol. 17, p. 432.R. S., sec. 3551, p. 702.section of the coinage Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, upon the payment by the Jamestown Exposition Company of a sum equal to the cost thereof; and authority may be given by the Secretary of Duplicates.the Treasury to the holder of a medal properly awarded to him to have duplicates thereof made at any of the mints of the United States from gold, silver, or bronze upon the payment by him for the same of a sum equal to the cost thereof. That in aid of the Negro Development and Exposition Company of Negro Development and Exposition Company.the United States of America to enable it to make an exhibit of the progress of the negro race in this country at the said exposition, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriation for exhibits.money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. This sum shall be expended by the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission under rules and regulations prescribed by it and for such objects as shall be approved by both the said Negro Development and Exposition Company of the of the United States of America and the said Commission: *Provided, however,* *Proviso.*Building.That a reasonable proportion of said appropriation shall be expended for a building within which to make such exhibit. That except to the extent and in the manner by this Act provided Limit of liability of the United States.and authorized the United States Government shall not be liable on any account whatever in connection with the said exposition, and nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to create any liability upon the part of the United States Government, direct or indirect, for any debt or obligation incurred, or for any claim for aid or pecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in sup-port of or in liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said Tercentennial Commission, or any other board, commission, or any person or persons whomsoever, acting or claiming to act by authority of this Act in excess of the appropriations provided for by this Act. The United States shall in no event be liable, directly or indirectly, upon any ground or for any cause whatsoever in connection with or on account of its participation in said Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition beyond the sums expressly appropriated by the Act of March Vol. 33, p. 1047.third, nineteen hundred and five and by this Act. 768 Report on expenditures. That all moneys appropriated by this Act which the Jamestown Tercentennial Commission is authorized to expend shall be drawn out of the Treasury in such manner and under such regulations as such Commission may determine, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury; and at the close of the exposition period, and after the work of such Commission is completed, such Commission shall make a complete report of their actions hereunder and a complete statement of all expenditures for each of the purposes herein specified to the President of the United States for transmission to Congress. Approved, June 30, 1906.