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Chapter 510. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 510.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes. February 27, 1906. [[H. R. 12320](/us/bill/34/hr/12320).] [[Public, No. 28](/us/pl/34/28).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign Intercourse. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent expenses,Contingent expenses, missions. foreign missions,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty-one thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two thousand and twenty-eight dollars and forty-one cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryBringing home criminals. on account of the appropriation “Bringing home criminals,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryRelief, etc., American seamen. on account of the appropriation for “Relief and protection of American seamen,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent expenses,Contingent expenses, consulates. United States consulates,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty thousand dollars. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inUnforeseen emergencies. the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 291](/us/rs/s291), p. 49. Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, no part of which sum shall be disbursed for services rendered orRestriction. expenses incurred within the District of Columbia, except for the entertainment of visiting representatives of foreign governments. That not to exceed five thousand dollars of the unexpended balancePeking, China.Improvement of legation grounds at.Vol. 33. p. 1211. of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars made by the sundry civil Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, for furnishing complete the legation buildings in Peking, China, may be used for improving the legation grounds at Peking, China.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Cora B. Thomas herCora B. Thomas.Salary.Vol. 33, p. 1215. salary as a clerk of class three in the Treasury Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, deducting therefrom any salary paid her during said year as a clerk in said Department, four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to continue her name on the rolls of 28said Department with pay at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six for the period of five years, but if her death shall occur during this period this provision shall terminate.
Treasurer’s office.Expert counters, etc.Office of the Treasurer: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, namely: For eight expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; and four messenger boys, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars each per annum; in all. three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Additional employees.For the following additional force to be employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks) for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, namely:
For six expert counters, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum: six expert counters, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; and one charwoman, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum: in all, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Collecting customs revenue.Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue, from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending dune thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. one million five hundred thousand dollars.
Transporting silver coin.Transportation of silver coin: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-five cents. Recoinage of gold coins.Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the SecretaryR.S., sec. 3512, p.696. of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, three thousand dollars.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation ” Recoinage of gold coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. one hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents. Local appraisers’ meetings.Expenses.Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-four cents.
Vaults, safes, etc.Vaults, safes, and locks: 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, twenty-five thousand dollars. Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For an additional amount required for “Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings.” to equip United States buildings which have not been included in any previous estimate submitted to the Congress, ninety-one thousand three hundred dollars.
War with Spain.Arrears of pay, etc.Arrears of pay, war with Spain: The unexpended balances of the appropriations made for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five, for payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands, that were chargeable to the appropriations that had been carried to the surplus fund, are hereby reappropriated and made available for payment of all such amounts that may be certified to be 29due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
Payment to Lindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins: That outLindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins.Payment to, as bondsmen of Frank A. Webb.Vol. 33. p. 1726. of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the Port Penn range light, Delaware, there is reappropriated the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-seven cents, to be paid to Lindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins, sureties upon the bond of Frank A, Webb for the faithful performance of his contract for the construction, erection, and delivery of buildings for the new Port Penn light station.
Delaware (fourth light-house district), as authorized by the Act approved January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five, for the relief of said Lindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins. Payments to New York and Pennsylvania: To pay to the StateNew York and Pennsylvania.Payments to. of New York the sum of one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-four cents and to the State of Pennsylvania two hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents, said sums being certified to Congress at its present session, in House Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-seven, as having been ascertained to be due said States, respectively, under the provision in the general claims Act approvedVol. 33, p. 777.
February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five; in all, three hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents. collecting internal revenue.Internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers,Agents, gaugers, etc. salaries and expenses of storekeepers, and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue on account of fiscal year nineteen hundred and live, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRedemption of stamps. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Redemption of stamps” (certified claims), five thousand and nine dollars and fifteen cents. To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of theRefunding taxes. Treasury on account of the appropriation “Refunding taxes illegally collected” (certified claims), sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. quarantine stations.Quarantine Service The provisions in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscalHonolulu.
Hawaii.Quarantine station. year nineteen hundred and four, for the quarantine station at Honolulu. Hawaii, is hereby amended by decreasing the appropriation for constructionAllotment changed.Vol. 32. p. 1091. of a wharf from fifty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars, and increasing the appropriation for a runway to connect wharf with island from ten thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars, so as to read as follows: For construction of wharf at United States quarantine station, Honolulu,Construction of wharf, etc.
Hawaii, fifty thousand dollars; for a runway to connect wharf with the island, fifteen thousand dollars; for retaining wall around the island, ten thousand dollars; for laundry plant, five thousand dollars; in all. eighty thousand dollars, which sum shall be expended in such manner and under such plans as will complete in every detail each and every object mentioned in this paragraph. For the reclamation of Quarantine Island. Honolulu, Hawaii, fromQuarantine Island.Reclamation of. the materials now being dredged from the harbor of Honolulu, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, twenty thousand dollars. 30 revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
Expenses.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of Revenue Cutter Service for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars *Provisos.*Office of Captain of Engineers abolished.Vol. 29. p. 149.and fifty-two cents: *Provided*, That the office of Captain of Engineers in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States is hereby abolished from the date of the death of the late incumbent thereof, and Appointment of Engineer in Chief.that on and after the passage of this Act, the President may select and appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a chief engineer or said service, who has served not less than three years in that grade, as Engineer-in-Chief of the Revenue-Cutter Service, for a period of four years, and no longer, unless reappointed or sooner Rank. pay. etc.retired by reason of age or disability: *And provided further*, That the Engineer-in-Chief thus appointed shall thereafter receive the rank, pay, and allowances, while holding said appointment, that are now or may hereafter be prescribed for a Captain of the Revenue-Cutter Service, but nothing herein shall operate to increase the number of Chief Engineers now in the Revenue-Cutter Service. public buildings.Public buildings.
Denver, Colo.Mint.Denver, Colorado, mint building: For amount required to meet outstanding obligations incurred as a result of an apparent available balance under the appropriation due to a clerical error, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and one cent. Norwich, Conn.Payment to Buckley Construction Company.Norwich, Connecticut, post-office: To pay to the Buckley Construction Company the balance, due for shelving placed in the vaults of the new post-office building at Norwich, Connecticut, twenty dollars and six cents.
George A. Bartlett.Credit in accounts of.Credit in the accounts of George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury, under the following appropriations: Post-office, Pekin. Illinois, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents;
United States mint. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; custom-house, Portland, Oregon, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. Repairs and preservation.Thomas J. Hobbs.Credit in accounts of.Credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of twenty-one dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and five.
” That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of six hundred dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and five” That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of eight hundred and seventy-five dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Heating apparatus for public buildings, nineteen hundred and five.
” That the accounting officers of the Treasury’ be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of one thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars standing against him on the books of the Treas-31ury, under the appropriation “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and five.” Springfield, Illinois, court-house and post-office: For balance dueSpringfield, Ill.Court-house and post-office.
R. F. Kinsella on contract for painting old portion of court-house and post-office at Springfield, Illinois, two thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty cents. Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia: To payWashington, D. C.Treasury building. amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for annual repairs to Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, to adjust appropriations, fifty dollars.
Kansas City, Missouri, post-office and court-house: For completionKansas City, Mo.Post-office and court-house. of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For contiuationNashville. Tenn.Customhouse and post-office. of extension under present limit, five thousand dollars. Rome, Georgia, post-office: For continuation of building under presentRome, Ga.Post-office. limit, live thousand dollars. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings:
For rental of temporaryLos Angeles, Cal.Rent, etc. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, five thousand dollars. Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For improvementsChicago. Ill.Post-office and custom-house.*Post*, p. 638. and changes of a general nature, exclusive of furniture, in order to better fit the building for the transaction of the public business, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks, etc. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assisistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, two thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasurySan Francisco. Cal.Contingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.
For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, three thousand five hundred dollars. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, fifteen thousand dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Public schools: For fuel, thirty thousand dollars.Public schools. For salaries of janitors for the John W. Ross and Henry T. Blow schools, six hundred and twelve dollars.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toOne-half from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of seventy-five thousandRailway safety appliances.Vol. 33, p. 1167. dollars made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five to enable the Interstate Commerce 32Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” Vol. 27, p. 531.approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act. is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of said appropriation during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Washington. D. C.Army general hospital.Army general hospital. Washington, District of Columbia: For the construction and completion of an army general hospital in the District of Columbia, upon the site recently acquired for the purpose. within the present authorized limit of cost. two hundred thousand dollars. Fort Leavenworth. Kans.Military prison.Salaries of employees.Military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For the following (luring so much of the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six as may be necessary, namely:
For one clerk at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one clerk at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum: five foremen of mechanics, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each: one engineer at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one teamster at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; four teamsters, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; two night watchmen, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; one fireman at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; extra-duty pay for prison guard, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; in all. eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
National trophy and prizes for Army and militia contests.National trophy and prizes for Army and militia: For the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and fifty-six dollars.
Indiana state board of agriculture.Payment to.Payment to Indiana State board of agriculture: To pay the Indiana State board of agriculture the actual value of the use, occupation, and damage to their property by the United States military authorities for Government purposes during the war with Spain, as Vol. 33, p. 161.ascertained under the Act approved April seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and reported to Congress in House Document Numbered Forty-eight of this session, seven thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-eight cents.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military Establishment. pay department.Pay Department. Mileage to officers.For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars: *Provisos*.Allowances while on leave. *Provided*, That out of the sum herein appropriated mileage shall be allowed in accordance only with the following rule in cases where the station of an officer is changed while he is on leave of absence, to wit. that he shall be allowed mileage on joining his new station for the distance to the new station from the place Restriction.where he received the order directing the change: *Provided*, That the distance is not greater than that from the old station to the new station; 33bill if the distance he greater, he shall be entitled to mileage for a distance equal to that from the old to the new station only, subject to the same restrictions as to the shortest usually traveled routes and compensation over bond or land grant aided roads as now provided by law. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sSupplies. Department, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty thousand dollars. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers.Expenses. 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, 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. at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars.
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.Isthmian Canal. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expendedConstruction.*Ante.* p. 5.*Post.* pp. 611,761, 1368. 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,Vol. 32, p. 481. nineteen hundred and two. as follows: For miscellaneous material purchases in the United States, onePurchases in the United States. million dollars;
For miscellaneous material purchases on the Isthmus and miscellaneousPurchases, etc., on the Isthmus. expenditures, consisting of hotel and hospital and other supplies. transportation of labor from West Indies, four hundred thousand dollars; For amounts to pay the Panama Railroad Company for materialPanama Railroad Company.Material and services. and services, including construction of second main track, two hundred thousand dollars; For Isthmus pay rolls, two million one hundred thousand dollars;Pay rolls.
For salaries, incidental expenses, rents, cable and telegraph serviceSalaries, etc., in United States. in the United States, covering Washington office, including Commissioners, offices of assistant purchasing agents at New Orleans, New York, and Tacoma, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no*Proviso.*Restriction. part of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any Commissioner as compensation in addition to his salary as Commissioner; For new equipment purchases, one million five hundred and sixty-fiveNew equipment. thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars: in all. five million three hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, which shall continue available until expended: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*All expenditures from proceeds of bond sales. all expenditures from the appropriation herein and hereinafter 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,Vol. 32, p. 484. nineteen hundred and two.
To be used as an advance to the Panama Railroad Company to payPanama Railway Company.Reequipment of. for the reequipment of that company, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The provisions of the Act entitled “An Act relating to the limitationsEight-hour law.Not applicable to aliens. of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed 34upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Vol. 27, p. 340.Columbia,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, shall not apply to alien laborers employed in the construction of the Isthmian Canal within the Canal Zone.
William M. Black.Additional compensation.Payment to Lieutenant-Colonel William M. Black: For payment to Lieutenant-Colonel William M. Black. Corps of Engineers. United States Army, fifty per centum additional compensation to pay proper, for services rendered to the Isthmian Canal Commission in Isthmus of Panama from April ninth, nineteen hundred and three, to March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, being an equalization of pay similar to that paid other officers detailed with the Commission, and in pursuance of the understanding at the time when the assignment to duty with the Commission was tendered and accepted, one thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-two cents, to be paid from the appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal.
Mark Brooke.Additional compensation.Payment to Lieutenant Mark Brooke: For payment to Lieutenant Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineers. United States Army, fifty per centum additional compensation to pay proper, for services rendered to the Isthmian Canal Commission in the Isthmus of Panama from April ninth, nineteen hundred and three, to March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, being an equalization of pay similar to that paid other officers detailed with the Commission, and in pursuance of the understanding at the time when the assignment to duty with the Commission was tendered and accepted, five hundred and seventy-three dollars and ninety-eight cents, to be paid from the appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal.
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Leavenworth, Kan. At the Western Branch at Leavenworth. Kansas: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven thousand dollars. Danville. Ill.At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four thousand dollars.
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. three thousand five hundred dollars. Johnson City, Tenn.At the Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars. For completion of coal shed, one thousand dollars, and said coal shed may be constructed of steel or other suitable material. Hampton.
Va.At the Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For dredging and filling, twenty-one thousand dollars. State and Territorial homes.State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of Vol. 25. p. 450.disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine*Provisos*.Restriction. dollars and eighty-seven cents: *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 of section four of an Vol. 22. p. 564.Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at 35Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;” but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a barProhibition on sale of liquors. or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, War, and Navy Department building. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories,Fuel, etc. five hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to complete the distribution ofMedals to officers of Navy and Marine Corps, war with Spain. the medals commemorative of the naval and other engagements in the waters of the West Indies and on the shores of Cuba, to the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who participated in any of said engagements, as provided by public resolution numbered seventeen,Vol. 31. p. 1465. approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the medals herein authorized shall be transmitted*Proviso.*Distribution. to the person entitled to the same at the place where he is located at the time of transmitting the same.
NAVAL ESTABL1SHMENT.Naval Establishment. pay of the navy.Pay of Navy. Pay, miscellaneous: To pay amounts found due by the accountingMiscellaneous. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, six thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Coal and transportation: Purchase of coal and other fuel forCoal and transportation. steamers and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Contingent. Bureau of Equipment: Express charges on equipmentContingent. stores: packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad: ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent. Bureau of Equipment, ”fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. 36 bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Contingent.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.” fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-three cents. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Freight.Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts; All freight charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, seventy-five thousand dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps. Transportation and recruitingTransportation and recruiting.
Marine Corps: For transportation of troops, including ferriage and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred thousand dollars. Clothing.Clothing, Marine Corps: For clothing for noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred thousand dollars. Philippine Islands.Repairs to buildings.Public works, Marine Corps: For repairs and improvements to public buildings, Philippine Islands, destroyed and damaged by typhoon, eleven thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department.
Private secretary to Commissioner of Indian Affairs.Salary.For salary of private secretary, now appropriated for as confidential clerk in office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, from March tenth, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. inclusive, being three months and twenty-two days, five hundred and sixty dollars. George W. Evans.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit the accounts of George W.
Evans, disbursing clerk Department of the Interior, with the amount of twenty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents, on account of payments made to the Library Bureau Company for printed index cards furnished the Department of the Interior in the quarters ended December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, and March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, on properly approved vouchers. Capitol building.Repairs, etc.Vol. 33. p. 479.Capitol building: That the balance of the appropriations for work at the Capitol and repairs thereof made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
Heating, lighting, and power plant.Limit of cost extended.Vol. 33 p. 479.Heating, lighting, and power plant: The limit of cost of the heating, lighting, and power plant, authorized and provided for under the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby extended so that when said plant shall have been completed and of sufficient size and capacity to furnish heat, light, and power for the office building, House of Representatives, the Capitol building, the Congressional Library building, the office building, United States Senate, and for such other buildings as may hereafter be erected on grounds adjacent to the Capitol grounds at the east of the Capitol building and facing the same, the total expenditure shall not exceed Contracts authorized.one million three hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars; and contracts for any part or the whole of the work herein provided for under said extended limit of cost are authorized to be entered into by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the terms of the Act aforesaid. 37 Subway system:
For the construction of a subway system to connectSenate.New office building Subway system.Limit of cost. the office building of the United States Senate with the Capitol building an expenditure not to exceed one hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars is hereby authorized; and contracts forContracts. said subway system are authorized to be entered into within said sum by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision of the Commission on the Senate office Building created by the sundry civil Act, approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundredVol. 33, p. 481. and four, subject to appropriations to be hereafter made by Congress.
Office of surveyor-general of Nevada: For rent of officeNevada.Office of surveyor-general. for the surveyor-general, stationery, and drawing materials, post-office box rent, registering letters, telephone, ice, repair of furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For supportColumbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.Expenses. of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachableMaryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes.Maintenance, etc.Vol. 33. p. 901. age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized by an Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and live, four thousand five hundred dollars, one-half of this amount to be paid from the revenues of theOne-half from District revenues. District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for the Insane.
To reimburse Doctor William A. White, superintendent of theWilliam A. White.Reimbursement. Government Hospital for the Insane, for expenses incurred by him for printing, binding, engraving, and blank books for the use of the Government Hospital for the Insane, such expense having been disallowed in the accounts by the Comptroller of the Treasury under date of August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, upon the ground that the items should have been procured from the Government Printing Office, under section eighty-seven of the act of JanuaryVol. 28, p. 622. twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the purchase of fire extinguishers, hose, and other fire apparatusFire protection. and for furnishing and fixing in place fire escapes and for fireproofing buildings at the Government Hospital for the Insane, as required for the protection of the inmates thereof the unexpended balance of the thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars appropriated in the urgentVol. 38, p. 81. deficiency Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for fire escapes and fireproofing at the Government Hospital for the Insane, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes above mentioned during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven. geological survey.Geological Survey.
To enable the Director of the Geological Survey to complete theInvestigation of mineral black sands. investigation of the useful values contained in the black sands of the United States, under the conditions prescribed in the sundry civil ActVol. 33, p. 1187. approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two thousand dollars may beRent. expended for rent of rooms. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofMineral resources of Alaska.
Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. 38 indian affairs.Indian Affairs. Irrigation engineer.To supply a deficiency in salary of the United States Indian inspector designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of the Vol. 33, p. 1049.Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, as “chief engineer,” in connection with his appointment of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five, as “United States Indian inspector” (irrigation engineer) from March twenty-eighth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and eleven cents.
Purchasing supplies.To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation ”Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.
Transporting supplies.For the necessary transportation of Indian goods, provisions, and other supplies for the Indian service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of Indian supplies,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-six cents. Indian schools.Western Navajo, Ariz.Zuni, N.
Mex.To pay for outstanding indebtedness for the erection of school buildings and waterworks at Western Navajo School. Arizona, and Zuni School, New Mexico, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty-two thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents. Grand Junction, Colo.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado: Water system,” twenty dollars and fifty cents.
Flandreau, S. Dak.Payment to John H. Roberts.The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay John H. Roberts the sum of eight hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty cents, from the appropriations for the support of the Flandreau Indian School for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, being the amount disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department on his claim for net beef furnished the Flandreau Indian School under his contract during the fourth quarter, nineteen hundred and four, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four.
Indian Territory.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Idaho” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty dollars. Incidental expenses.Idaho.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in the Indian Territory, including employees,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred dollars and forty-eight cents. Montana.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Montana, including employees,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifty-two dollars and sixty-five cents.
South Dakota.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in South Dakota.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-eight dollars and fifty-five cents. Utah.To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Incidentals in Utah,” for the fiscal 39year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Indian TerritoryIndian Territory. and pay of employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestrictedRemoving intruders, etc. possession of their allotments, ten thousand dollars. For clerical work and labor connected with the sale and leasing ofCreek and Cherokee lands.Leasing, etc. Creek and leasing of Cherokee lands, ten thousand dollars. For special clerical force in the office of the United States IndianUnion Agency.Special clerical force. agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with payments for town lots, and issuance of patents and conveying same, four thousand dollars.
For necessary expenses and clerical force for removal of restrictionsFive Civilized Tribes.Removal of alienation restrictions.Vol. 33. p. 204. upon the alienation of lands allotted to members of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, of Indian blood, as provided by the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion ofCompleting work of Commission. the work heretofore inquired by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscalVol. 33, p. 1060.*Post*, 137. year nineteen hundred and six, being the amount required to complete the unfinished work devolving upon the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes within said fiscal year, seventy-five thousand dollars, said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryTown-site commissioners, Indian Territory. on account of the appropriation “Town-site commissioners. Indian Territory,” fifty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryIrrigation. on account of the appropriation “Irrigation. Indian reservations,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and five cents.
To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryCanton, S. Dak.Insane asylum. on account of the appropriation “Asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and ninety cents. For the care and support of insane persons in the Indian TerritoryIndian Territory.Care, etc., of insane. until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: *Provided*,* however*,*Proviso.*Expenditures.
That the Indian citizens in said Territory shall be cared for at the asylum in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and six: ForCanton asylum, S. Dak. the equipment and maintenance of the asylum, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees and necessary expenses of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, three thousand five hundred dollars.
PENSIONS.Pensions. For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorInvalid, etc., pensions. children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, three million five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid*Provisos.*Navy, from navy fund. for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shallAccounts. be accounted for separately. 40 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-five cents. Books, law library.For books for law library of the Department, five hundred dollars. Reform School, D. C.New buildings.*Post*, p. 751.To enable the Attorney-General to procure, through the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, plans for a new building or buildings to replace the main building of the Reform School, District of Columbia, recently destroyed by tire; said plans not to be upon a basis of construction of a building or buildings involving a total cost exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and no plan to be adopted unless approved by the Attorney-General and authorized by legislation hereafter to be enacted, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Rooting, etc.For rooting and repairing the main building at the reform school. District of Columbia, and for the purchase of storeroom and hospital supplies, bedding and bedsteads for dormitory, kitchen utensils, tableware and furniture for dining room, clothing material and clothing for inmates, and other necessary articles and supplies to replace those destroyed by fire recently, four thousand five hundred dollars. Court-house. D. C.Repairs.Court-house, Washington. District of Columbia:
For annual repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-three cents. Court of Claims.Miscellaneous.Court of Claims: For miscellaneous expenses, including furniture and repairs thereof, six hundred dollars. Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and thirty dollars; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. fifty dollars. Winchester Kelso.Refund to.To refund to Winchester Kelso the sum of fifty dollars, being the excess of penalty erroneously recovered from him and deposited in the Treasury in the ease of The United States against C. Carroll Walker, principal, and Louis Le Tulle and Winchester Kelso, sureties. in the district court of the United States for the western district of Texas, fifty dollars.
Indian depredation claims.Salaries, etc.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, live thousand dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. District attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven hundred and fifty dollars. 41 Salaries, district judges: For the salary of the additional districtNew Jersey.Salary, additional judge.Vol. 83, p. 987. judge for the district of New Jersey, appointed under the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, and the salary of the district judge for the eastern district of Washington. appointed under the Act ofWashington.Salary, district judge.Vol. 33. p. 824.
March second, nineteen hundred and five. creating an additional district in the State of Washington, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twelve thousand dollars. Salaries, governor, and so forth, Territory of Arizona: For theArizona.Salary, additional associate justice.Vol 33, p. 998. salary of the additional associate justice of the supreme court of the Territory of Arizona, appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. three thousand dollars. Salaries and expenses. United States courts, Indian Territory, nineteenIndian Territory.Salaries, additional judges. hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five: For the payment of the salaries of the four additional judges of the United States court in the Indian Territory, appointed under the Act of AprilVol. 33, p. 573. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, for the months of May and June, nineteen hundred and five, two thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents.
Salaries and expenses, court of appeals. District of Columbia: ForCourt D. C. of appeals.Stenographers. three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, from February one to June thirty, nineteen hundred and six. at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryDistrict attorneys. on account of the appropriation “Salaries and expenses of district attorneys.
United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twelve dollars and ninety cents. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedSpecial assistants. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and fifty dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of special assistant attorneys United States courts,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and ninety dollars and sixty-five cents.
For fees of jurors, one hundred thousand dollars.Jurors’ fees. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. fifteen thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Rent of court rooms. United States courts.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, nine hundred dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Attendance.[R.
S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, That noVacation. such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expensesExpenses of judges 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 42travel 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 eases, and of bailiffs in Jury commissioners.attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Draft horse.For the purchase of a draft horse for use in hauling supplies between the Post-Office Department and outlying offices, two hundred dollars. out of the postal revenues.Postal service.
Additional clerks.For the employment of three hundred additional clerks with compensation at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum in post-offices of the first and second classes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, sixty thousand dollars. Special delivery.For fees for special-delivery messengers, twenty thousand dollars. Repair shops.To defray the expenses of moving and installing the mail-bag and mail-lock repair shops, three thousand two hundred dollars. Money order supplies.For blanks, blank books, printed and engraved matter, binding, and carbon paper for the money-order service, fifteen thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Meat and pork inspection.Bureau of Animal Industry: Additional, to meet the demands for more meat inspection and for microscopic inspection of pork, sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. Manufactures Bureau.Assistant chief.Bureau of Manufactures: For assistant chief of bureau, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, during the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand and forty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Alaska seal fisheries.Janitors.Seal fisheries in Alaska: Two janitors at Government houses on Saint George and Saint Paul islands, Alaska, for services during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, at two hundred and forty dollars each, four hundred and eighty dollars. Shipping commissioners.Rent.Shipping Commissioners: For rent of office quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at San Francisco, California, not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars.
Coast, etc., Survey.Vessels.Coast and Geodetic Survey: For additional repairs to the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment. Light vessels.Expenses of light vessels: For the proper maintenance of light vessels, including extensive and extraordinary repairs to light vessels, purchase of much-needed mooring tackle, to supplement the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fifty thousand dollars. 43 LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate.
To pay to the widow of the Honorable William B. Bate, late a SenatorWilliam B. Bute.Payment to widow from the State of Tennessee, five thousand dollars. To pay to the widow of the Honorable Orville H. Platt, late a SenatorOrville H. Platt.Payment to widow. from the State of Connecticut, five thousand dollars. To pay to the widow of the Honorable John H. Mitchell, late aJohn H. Mitchell.Payment to widow. Senator from the State of Oregon, five thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed toClerks to Senators.William B.C.
Brown, Thomas B. Carroll, John B. Kelley. pay to William B. C. Brown, clerk to the Honorable William Warner, of Missouri, from April first, nineteen hundred and five, to December third, nineteen hundred and five; and to Thomas B. Carroll, clerk to the Honorable James B. Frazier, of Tennessee, from March twenty-second. nineteen hundred and five, to December fifth, nineteen hundred and five; and to John B. Kelley, clerk to the Honorable Frank B. Brandegee, of Connecticut, from May tenth, nineteen hundred and five, to December fifth, nineteen hundred and five, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and five and nineteen hundred and six.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifty thousand dollars.Miscellaneous items. For purchase of furniture, two thousand live hundred dollars.Furniture. To pay H. C. Adams for expert work done for the Committee onH. C. Adams.Services. Interstate Commerce of the Senate in compiling a digest of the hearings on the regulation of railway rates and for compiling certain appendices to the hearings under the direction of said committee, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay for extra services rendered to the Committee on InterstateRailway rates hearings.Extra services.
Commerce of the Senate during the consideration of the hearings on the regulation of railway rates from the adjournment of the Senate, March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, during and subsequent to the special meetings of the committee, as authorized by Senate resolution Numbered Two hundred and eighty-eight, as follows: To Colin H. Livingstone, one thousand five hundred dollars; E. H. McDermot, seven hundred and fifty dollars; John W. Fenton, junior, live hundred dollars;
William H. Gaskin, two hundred and fifty dollars; W. A. Smith, three hundred dollars; Peter Reily, two hundred dollars; John R. Williams, two hundred dollars: Beverly Hudnell. two hundred dollars. To pay E. C. Goodwin for expenses incurred and for services inE. C. Goodwin.Services. preparing an analytical index to the testimony taken before said committee, one thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Charles G. Phelps for extra services as clerk of the selectCharles G. Phelps.Sendees. committee appointed to consider the message of the House of Representatives relating to the impeachment of Charles Swayne, four hundred and fifty dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
To pay Miss Sue Pinckney, sister of J. M. Pinckney, late a RepresentativeJ. M. Pinckney.Payment to sister. in Congress from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars. To pay Miss Bertha J. Marsh, daughter of B. F. Marsh, late aB. F. Marsh.Payment to daughter. Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars. That the appropriation made for expenses of special and select committeesMiscellaneous items.Transfer of appropriation. of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available also for miscellaneous items including salaries and labor. 44 Furniture.For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Folding materials.Wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions Vol. 28 p. 624.from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-rive, for the public printing and binding), three thousand dollars.
Folding speeches.To enable the Doorkeeper to have speeches folded at rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, to remain available during the Fifty-ninth Congress, rive thousand dollars. Fred. G. Isell, John T. Hunt.Services.To pay Fred. G. Isell, fifty dollars, and John T. Hunt, one hundred dollars, respectively, for services rendered in place of and during illness of the late locksmith of the House; in all, one hundred and fifty dollars. Chief Clerk.Typewriting, etc.For allowance to Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives for stenographic and typewriter services, two hundred and fifty dollars. government printing office.Public printing and binding.
Leaves of absences to employees.Reappropriation.Vol. 33, p. 511.The sum of four thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents is hereby authorized to he transferred from the appropriation for “Public printing and binding” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, to the appropriation for “Leaves of absence. Government Printing Office,” for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and is hereby reappropriated to enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office during the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of claims.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seven, and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and sixty-six, and One hundred and eighty-five, namely: Classification.Under the Treasury Department, twenty-one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and thirty-six cents; Under the War Department, eighty-two thousand four hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents;
Under the Navy Department, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and two cents: Under the Department of the Interior, one thousand three hundred and forty dollars and sixty-five cents; Under the Post-Office Department, one hundred thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-three cents: Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, six hundred and eighty-five dollars and sixty cents; In all, eight hundred and ninety-five thousand four hundred and *Proviso.*Appeals.twenty-five dollars and twenty-four cents; *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, India depredation claims.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Fifty-three, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-two. forty-one thousand two hundred and ten 45dollars; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to beDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations.” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amountsReimbursement. paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments*Proviso*.Certificate of lack of ground for new trial. provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS, COMMISSION.Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionPayment of awards.Vol. 31, p. 877. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventy-six, and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and fifty-five. One hundred and seventy-seven, and One hundred and eighty-six of the present session, sixty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to beClaims certified by accounting officers. due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under sectionVol. 23, p. 254. two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, nineteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, ninety-three cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, eleven dollars and fifty-five cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, twenty-nine dollars and thirteen cents.
For collecting the revenue from customs, fifty dollars. For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-three cents. For quarantine service, one dollar. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents. For Life-Saving Service, nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents. 46 For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, one dollar and sixty-three cents.
For refunding taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty, forty-one dollars and sixty-nine cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, four hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For Signal Service of the Army, four dollars and fourteen cents. For pay and so forth of the Army, twenty thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighteen cents.
For subsistence of the Army, four hundred and one dollars and twenty-two cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-three cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred and forty-five dollars and nine cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-eight cents.
For barracks and quarters, two thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and forty-five cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, four dollars and five cents. For Medical and Hospital Department, eighteen dollars and seventy cents. For ordnance service, twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents. For ordnance stores, equipments, two hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-four cents. For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and six cents.
For horses and other property lost in the military service, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and forty-six dollars and two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, eighty-one dollars and fifty-six cents. For pay, Marine Corps, seven thousand six hundred and six dollars and ten cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, seven dollars and fifty cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, three dollars. For transportation, recruiting and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, forty-five dollars. For outfits for naval apprentices.
Bureau of Navigation, forty-five dollars. For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, three thousand and forty dollars and ninety-three cents. 47 For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and nine dollars and forty cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents. For contingent. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, three dollars and eighty-one cents. For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, thirty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents.
For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, twenty-eight dollars. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, one hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty dollars and sixty-five cents. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, forty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents.
For enlistment bounties to seamen, five hundred and fifty-two dollars and two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For expenses, special inspectors, Department of the Interior, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and forty-five cents. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven dollars and four cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska, one dollar and seventy-five cents.
For contingent expenses of land offices, eleven dollars and sixty-one cents. For surveying the public lands, twenty-three thousand two hundred and sixty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents. For surveying private land claims, one hundred and ninety dollars and seven cents. For surveying Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents. For Geological Survey, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents. For geological maps of the United States, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixteen dollars and fifty cents.
For surveying forest reserves, twelve dollars and twenty-three cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty-six cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, forty dollars and seventy-five cents. For support of confederated bands of Utes, employees, six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and two cents. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-three cents.
For army pensions, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents. For navy pensions, thirty dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, two dollars. For contingent expenses, pension agencies, two dollars and twenty-two cents. 48 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments. For public printing and binding, thirty-eight dollars. For improving Botanic Garden, forty-one dollars and seventy-six cents. .
For improving buildings. Botanic Garden, live dollars and twenty two cents. Vol. 33, p. 2009.For payment for contesting seats in Congress in contest entitled “Koonce against Grady,” Act March third, nineteen hundred and five, one thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers, sixty-five dollars and ninety-three cents. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty cents. For rent of buildings for legation in China, three dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For salaries, consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit, twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, ten dollars. For Interstate Commerce Commission, nine dollars and sixty cents. For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, eight dollars and twelve cents. For grass and forage plant investigations, one dollar and fifty cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, twenty-seven dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For general expenses, Weather Bureau, fifty-one dollars and sixty-one cents. For supplies of light-houses, one thousand seven hundred and four dollars and fifty-six cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, two dollars and twenty-three cents. For expenses of light vessels, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. For expenses of buoyage, fifty-three dollars and forty-nine cents. For miscellaneous expenses. Fish Commission, fifty-five cents. For defense in Indian depredation claims, nine dollars and forty-four cents.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, three hundred dollars. For fees of clerks. United States courts, two hundred and forty dollars. For fees of commissioners. United States courts, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For fees of jurors. United States courts, eighteen dollars and thirty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, forty-eight dollars. For supplies for United States courts, five dollars and eighty-seven cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, five dollars. Sec. 3. [R. S., sec. 8679 p. 723](/us/rs/s8679/p723), amended.Vol. 33, p. 1257. That section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by section four of the deficiency appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby further amended to read as follows: 49 " “Sec. 3679.
No Executive Department or other Government establishmentExpenditures in excess of appropriations forbidden. of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law. Nor shall any DepartmentVoluntary service. or any officer of the Government accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property.
All appropriationsAllotments to prevent deficiencies. made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent expenditures in one portion of the year which may necessitate deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year for which said appropriations are made; and all such apportionmentsExceptions in emergencies. shall be adhered to and shall not be waived or modified except upon the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, but this provision shall not apply to the contingentAppropriations for Congress.Written orders required. appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives; and in case said apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, the same shall be, waived or modified in writing by the head of such Executive Department or other Government establishment having control of the expenditure, and the reasons therefor shall be fully set forth in each particular case and communicated to Congress in connection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on account thereof.
Any person violating any provision of this section shall bePenalty for violations. summarily removed from office and may also be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one month.” " Approved, February 27, 1906.
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