Chapter 912. Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 912.— An Act Making appropriations to supply additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes. February 9, 1907. [[H. R. 24541](/us/bill/59/hr/22584).] [[Public, No. 79](/us/pl/59/79).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums he, Urgent deficiencies appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. To enable the International Water Boundary Commission, United Mexican Boundary Commission.States and Mexico, to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. To rent four additional rooms in the Munsey Building, Washington, Auditor for Navy Department.Rent.District of Columbia, to accommodate a portion of the office force of the office of the Auditor for the Navy Department from February first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in Territories. Authority is hereby granted to pay out of the treasury of the Territory New Mexico.Legislative expenses, etc.Payments authorized.Vol. 20, p. 193.of New Mexico a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for additional employees and for contingent expenses of the legislature of said Territory; said sum to be expended notwithstanding the Act of Congress approved June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ninety-three), and the Act of Congress approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen Vol. 29, p. 161.hundred and ninety-six (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-one).
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval establishment. increase of the navy.Increase of Navy. Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels Equipment, etc., of new vessels.authorized, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public lands service.Public lands. Expenses of depositing public moneys: 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 Secre886tary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand dollars.
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, five thousand dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. New police court building.Furnishings.One-half from District revenues.Police court building: To complete titling up and furnishing the new police court building, two thousand five hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States.
JAMESTOWN EX POSITION.Jamestown Exposition. Additional aid granted.*Ante*, p. 766.That for the purpose of aiding in the payment of the cost of the construction, completion, and opening of the Jamestown TerCentennial Exposition on Hampton Roads, Virginia, on April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the said sum to be paid to the Jamestown Exposition Company on the request of the president of said company in amounts as follows:
Payments.Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars upon the passage of this Act, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars during the month of January, two hundred thousand dollars during the month of February, two hundred thousand dollars during the month of March, and one hundred thousand dollars during the month of April, nineteen hundred and Disbursements.seven. That to insure the application of all said money to the purposes for which the same is appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint a suitable person or persons whose duty it shall be to supervise the disbursement of the same when paid, as herein provided, and to make a full and complete report thereof to him as he may *Provisos.*Repayment by company.require: *Provided*, That the amount hereby appropriated when paid to the Jamestown Exposition Company, as herein provided, shall constitute an indebtedness of the said company to the Government of the United States and shall be repaid by said company to the Treasury of Lien on gross receipts.the United States.
That for the purpose of protecting the Government and insuring the repayment of said sum of one million dollars the Government shall have the first lien upon the gross receipts of said exposition company from all paid admissions to the grounds of said exposition and from all money received from concessions Guarantee required.after the opening of said exposition. That before tiny part of this appropriation is paid, as hereinbefore provided, the said Jamestown Exposition Company shall execute, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, an instrument in writing giving and securing to the Government a first lien upon its said gross receipts, and said exposition company shall at the same time guarantee to the said Government, under suitable penalties, that the said gross receipts are then entirely free from liens, mortgages, or other incumbrances, and that it will not pledge or in any way encumber or dispose of the said receipts so as to injure or affect the right of the Government to first receive therefrom the amount to be returned Method of payment.to the Treasury, as herein provided.
The said Jamestown Exposition Company shall repay into the Treasury of the United States the said sum of one million dollars, as follows: On the thirty-first day of May, nineteen hundred and seven, said Jamestown Exposition Company shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury in detail the total amount of all said gross receipts received by said company from April twenty-887sixth to May thirty-first, both inclusive, and forty percentum of such receipts shall at the same time be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, and thereafter, during said exposition and until the sum of one million dollars shall have been fully paid, as herein provided, a like detailed report of said gross receipts shall be made by said Jamestown Exposition Company on the fifteenth day and the last day of each month, respectively, and at the same time forty per centum of said gross receipts shall be paid by the said company to said Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That from and after the fifteenth day of July, Minimum payments.nineteen hundred and seven, and until the said sum of one million dollars shall have been fully paid, each of the said payments on the fifteenth and the last day of each and every month, respectively, shall not be less than one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if at Proceedings in case of default.any time after said exposit ion company has received the amount hereby appropriated it makes default in the application or in the repayment of said sum. or any part thereof, as herein required, then and in that case the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, by his agents and representatives, by him selected and appointed, to collect, receive, and control all the said gross receipts until the full sum of said one million dollars has been collected and repaid into the Treasury of the United States, as herein provided, and shall have access to and control of all books of accounts and contracts of said company.
And said Secretary of the Treasury shall in such case first pay out of the money so collected such operating expenses as in his judgment and discretion are necessary and appropriate. In accepting the amount hereby appropriated Acceptance of conditions.the said Jamestown Exposition Company shall be taken and held to agree to all the terms and conditions upon which the same is made and upon which the same is to be repaid into the Treasury of the United States. That April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby fixed Opening date changed.Vol. 33, p. 1017.Closing date changed.as the date for the opening of said celebration inaugurated by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and that November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby fixed as the date for the closing of the said celebration, and said dates shall apply to the participation of the United States and foreign countries in said celebration and in said exposition, as provided for by the Acts of Congress *Ante*, p. 764.approved March third, nineteen hundred and live, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.
Piers, Hampton Roads, Jamestown Exposition: For dredging Piers, Hampton Roads.Dredging channel.necessary to complete the channel of approach to said piers from deep water in Hampton Roads and for dredging Bush Creek to accommodate the needs of the life-saving exhibit, sixty-five thousand dollars. Approved, February 9, 1907.