Chapter 137. Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight
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CHAP. 137.— An Act Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. April 7, 1908.[[H. R. 19955](/us/bill/70/hr/19955).][[Public, No. 92.](/us/pl/70/92)] *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 eight, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, one thousand five hundred dollars. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval Establishment. increase of the navy.Increase of Navy. Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for vesselsArmament and armor. authorized, two million dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Pay of The Army: For mileage to officers and contract surgeonsMileage. when authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.House of Representatives. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, four thousandFurniture, etc. dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, twenty thousand dollars.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.Public printing and binding. For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, eighty-fiveInterior Department. thousand dollars. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Police Court: For fuel, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing,Police court.Incidental expenses. preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, and all other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, five hundred dollars.
Garfield Hospital: For additional amount required for isolatingGarfield Hospital.Isolating ward. ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, two thousand dollars. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriationsOne-half from District revenues. 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. Approved, April 7, 1908.