Chapter 101. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine
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CHAP. 101.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. February 9, 1909.[[H. R. 26399](/us/bill/70/hr/26399).][[Public. No. 222](/us/pl/70/222).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United* *States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out ofUrgent deficiencies appropriations. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing:Bureau of Engraving and Printing, land for new building.*Ante*, p. 319. For the purchase of land, in addition to the amount appropriated by Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and forty-six thousand three hundred and four dollars and forty cents. Ithaca, New York, post-office: For completion of building, twoIthaca. N. Y.Post-office. thousand dollars.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under theRemoval of snow and ice.Vol. 28, p. 809. Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. For additional amount required, fiscal year nineteen hundred andNight schools.Salaries of teachers, etc. nine, for salaries of teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction; and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of dayOne-half from District revenues. schools, five thousand five hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. 615 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department.
That the internal-revenue taxes imposed by the Philippine governmentPhilippine Islands.Collection, etc., of Internal-revenue taxes in, ratified. and collected under sections one hundred and nine and one hundred and thirty-nine of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty- nine of the Philippine Commission, and under Acts Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-one and Seventeen hundred and sixty-one of the Philippine Commission are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore or hereafter is hereby legalized and ratified and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed.
That of the sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated for contingentContingent expenses.Amount for temporary labor Increased.*Ante*, p. 216. expenses of the War Department in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be expended for temporary labor, in lieu of the sum of one thousand dollars now provided by law. That hereafter no advertisement of any kind shall be displayed andWashington Monument.Advertisements, etc., prohibited. no articles of any kind, except a guide book to the Monument, shall be sold in or around the Washington Monument.
Grant Memorial: For continuing work for the erection of theGrant memorial. memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana: That the Secretary of War be,Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind.Purchase of land adjoining.*Ante.* p. 864. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, for military purposes, land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, appropriated by Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purchase of said land, is hereby made available. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
Mountain Branch at Johnson City, Tennessee: For transportationJohnson City, Tenn. of members of the home, one thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. For additional amount for special or extraordinary repairs of InteriorRepairs of buildings, etc. Department and Pension buildings and of the old Post-Office Department building, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, seven thousand two hundred dollars. indian affairs.Indian affairs.
For the erection of a new dormitory at the Osage Indian School,Osage Indian School, Okla.New dormitory. Oklahoma, to replace the one recently destroyed by fire, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Osage Nation of Indians, fourteen thousand dollars. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. To replace instruments, apparatus, supplies, file cases and other furniture,Replacing instruments, etc., destroyed by fire maps, books, and so forth, destroyed by fire, and to provide against similar loss in future, namely:
To provide for the purchase of instruments, apparatus, supplies, filePurchasing supplies, etc. cases and other furniture, maps, books, and so forth, to replace those destroyed by the fire of December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, in the building occupied by the United States Geological Survey, 616 including the repairs to instruments and equipment made necessary by said tire, these emergency purchases to be made under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, fifteen thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.
For improving and safeguarding the system of electric wiring inElectric wires. the building occupied by the United States GeologicaL Survey, two thousand dollars. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska.Investigation of mineral resources. Alaska, ninety thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “General expenses,Bureau of Animal Industry.General expenses.
Bureau of Animal Industry,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified under the appropriation of nine hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars under this title in the “Act*Ante*, p. 254. making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.” approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Laboratory, DepartmentBureau of Chemistry.La bora lory expenses.*Ante.* p. 260. of Agriculture,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand dollars.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Executive Office. For purchase, care, and maintenance of automobiles for use of theAutomobiles.Purchase, etc., of. President, twelve thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For fuel, oil. and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating andFuel, etc. electrical apparatus, exclusive of labor, twenty thousand dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For furnishing rooms of the Committee on Ways and Means, fifteenHouse Office Building.Furnishing rooms.Fixtures for postoffice. thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars.
For fixtures for the post-office located in the House Office Building, four thousand one hundred and twenty five dollars. For office fixtures for room of Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand oneSergeant - at - Arms’ room. hundred dollars. For additional amount for furniture and materials for repairs of theAdditional furniture. etc. same, five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committeesMiscellaneous extenses. , exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, forty thousand dollars. public printing and binding.Printing and binding.
For printing and binding for the Interior Department, ten thousandInterior Department. dollars. 617 For the Patent Office, as follows: For printing the weekly issue ofPatent Office.Weekly issue of patents, etc. patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations, for printing, exclusive of illustrations, and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, one hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars.
For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission,In terstatc Commerce Commission. forty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States,Supreme Court. seven thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, five thousandCourt of Claims. dollars. postal service.Postal service. The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to rent offices for divisionRailway Mail Service.Rent. headquarters, Railway Mail Service, in Washington, District of Columbia, for the remainder of the current fiscal year, out of the appropriation heretofore provided “for rent, light, fuel, telegraph,*Ante*, p. 414. and miscellaneous office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway mail clerks.
” Approved, February 9, 1909.