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CHAP. 227.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. May 30, 1908.[[H.R. 21946.]](/us/bill/70/hr/21946)[[Public, No. 167.]](/us/pl/70/167) *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 of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Deficiencies appropriations. To pay to the Government of Norway the moiety of the United StatesDepartment of State. of an award under the convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for the settlement of Samoan claims, which was signed at Washington on November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred dollars. To pay to the Government of Sweden the moiety of the United StatesSamoan claims.Norway.Vol. 31, p. 1876. of an award under the convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for the settlement of Samoan claims, which was 479 signed at Washington on November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
That the President be, and he is hereby, empowered and requestedSweden.Vol. 31, p. 1876. to direct the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Secretary of Agriculture to place at the disposition of the International Tuberculosis Congress, under such terms and conditions as the President may authorize or prescribe, such space, not now occupied, in the new National Museum and Agricultural buildings, respectively, as may be needed to properly provide for the meeting of such International Tuberculosis Congress, including exhibts, to be held in September and October of the present year, and the use of said buildings for such purposes is hereby authorized: and permanent occupancy of such buildings, respectively, shall be postponed in so far as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions; and the sum of fortyInternational Tuberculosis Congress.Use of new National Museum and Agricultural buildings for meeting.*Post*, p. 568. thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in accordance with the directions of the President for the payment of expenses in connection with the suitable temporary preparation of said buildings for such purposes, is hereby appropriated.
To pay to the owners of the Norwegian steamship Nicaragua in fullExpenses. for compensation for damage to said owners by reason of the rescue of an American citizen, John McCafferty, and the consequent quarantine of said ship at Mobile. Alabama, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.“Nicaragua.”Payment to owners. Office of Treasurer of the United States (National CurrencyTreasury Department. to be Reimbursed by National Banks):
For reimbursementTreasurer’s office. of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the services of employeesCounters. detailed to the office of the Treasurer of the United States to assort notes in the National Bank Redemption Agency from April sixth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-nine cents. Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: For freight,Contingent expenses. expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For rent of the third and fourth floors of the Union Building,Rent.Auditor for Interior Department. located on G street, between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, including light, heat, janitor, and elevator service, and repairs, for offices of Auditor for the Interior Department, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, thirteen thousand dollars. For shelving and transferring records, furniture, and files from theTransferring records, etc.
Treasury building, including the personal services of laborers and skilled mechanics in connection therewith, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Transportation of Fractional Silver Coin: For transportationTransporting fractional silver coin. of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, ten thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, fractional silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been*Proviso.*Deposits. deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. 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 seven, one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-five cents. 480 Contingent Expenses. Independent Treasury: For contingentIndependent Treasury. contingent expenses. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand dollars. Office of Director of the Mint: For examinations of mints,Directorof theMint.Examinations, etc.Use of balance. expenses in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations the sum of two thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of three thousandVol. 34, p. 966. five hundred dollars made by the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals of the United States, is hereby authorized to be expended for the purpose of such examinations, ana so forth, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
Contingent Expenses, Assay Office At New York: To reimburseNew York assay office.Andrew Mason.Reimbursement. Andrew Mason, late superintendent of the United States assay office at New York, the amount due for supplies furnished the assay office at New York by Arthur, Mountain and Company, in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and erroneously paid by said Mason from the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, which amount was disallowed by the accounting officers and repaid into the Treasury by said Mason from his private funds, forty-one dollars and ten cents.
Payment to Kansas: the Secretary of the Treasury is authorizedKansas.Claim for repelling invasions, etc., to be adjusted.*post*, p. 911. and directed to reopen, adjust, and audit the claim of the State of Kansas for interest and discount on moneys borrowed by said State for the purpose of repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostil ities, and ascertain and determine under the rules applied to theVol. 12, p. 276. claims allowed to States under the Act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the amount actually expended by said State for such interest and discount, and report the amount so ascertained to Congress for consideration.
Payment to Walter Hnnewell, Administrator of SamuelWalter Hunnewell.Payment of French Spoliation Claim To. Welles: the sum of five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty-two cents, heretofore appropriated to be paid toVol. 32, p. 232. H. Hollis Hunnewell, administrator of Samuel Welles, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (page two hundred and thirty-two of volume thirty-two of the United States Statutes at Large), be now paid to Walter Hunnewell, as administrator*Provio.*Certiflcate required. of Samuel Welles: *Provided, however*, That the same shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator, Walter Hunnewell, represents the next of kin of said Samuel Welles, on whose estate he has administered, and .the court which granted the administration to the said administrator shall certify that he has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the sum herein appropriated.481 internal-revenue service.Internal-revenue.
To pay W. H. M. Austin, sheriff of Rockdale County, Georgia, theW. H. M. Austin.Reward. reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who, on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, fired upon and wounded Deputy Collectors J. II. Surber and J. W. Martin after said officers had destroyed an illicit distillery near the house of Herd Kent, in Walton County, Georgia, two hundred dollars. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed toTmnsferof balance. transfer from the unexpended balance now to the credit of the appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents, as follows:
To the appropriation for compensation of employees, Bureau ofSalaries. Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents; and to the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses,Materials. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars; and to use the sums so transferred as though they had been originally appropriated for the purposes of said appropriations for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, and materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight.
To reimburse the appropriation “Compensation of employees, BureauCounters. of Engraving and Printing,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for the services of employees detailed from said Bureau to the office of the Treasurer of the United States to the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. For amount required to be added to appropriation expenses.
RevenueCutterIncreased pay, etc.*Ante*, pp. 61, 108. Service, nineteen hundred and eight, to carry out the provisions of Acts of April sixteenth and May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the remainder of the current fiscal year, fifty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-saven dollars and fifty-five cents. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For an additional amount for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscalSuperintendents, etc.Increased pay. year nineteen hundred and eight, made necessary by the increase in the compensation of the district superintendents, the keepers, and num her one surfmen in the Life-Saving Service, and the allowance of rations or commutation thereof for keepersand crews, under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of*Ante*, p. 46. the Life-Saving Service of the United States,” approved March twentysixth, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-one thousand dollars. public buildings.Public buildings.
Toward amounts requisite for public buildings, authorized under theAuthorizations in omnibus act.*Post*, p. 520. provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes”, passed at the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, namely: 482 Under the provisions and limitations of section one of said Act, asLimit of cost increased and construction authorized.*Post*, p. 520.Rome.
Ga.Burlington, Iowa. follows: Rome, Georgia, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars. Burlington, Iowa, post-office, five thousand dollars. Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office and court-house, six thousand twoCouncil Bluffs, Iowa. hundred and fifty dollars, for the purchase of additional land. Duluth, Minnesota, post-office, and so forth, ninety-five thousandDuluth. Minn.*Post*, p. 534. dollars. Saint Joseph. Missouri, post-office and court-house, twelve thousandSaint Joseph, Mo. dollars.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Johnstown, pa. Murfreesboro, Tennessee, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Murfreesboro, Tenn. Tyler, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Tyler, Tex. Salt Lake City, Utah, post-office, and so forth, sixty thousand dollars.Salt LakeCity, Utah. Fairmont, West Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Fairmont, W. Va. Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandWheeling, W. Va. dollars.
Platteville, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Platteville, Wis.Enlargement, etc.*Post*, p. 524. Under the provisions and limitations of section two of said Act. as follows: Montgomery. Alabama, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandMontgomery, Ala. dollars. Hot Springs, Arkansas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Hot Springs, Ark. Sacramento. California, post-office and court-house, thirty thousandSacramento, Cal. dollars. San Jose, California, post-office, two thousand dollars.San Jose, Cal.
New London, Connecticut, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.New London, Conn. Wilmington, Delaware, post-office and court-house, forty thousandWilmington, Del. dollars. Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandAthens, Ga. dollars. Augusta. Georgia, post-office and court-house, two thousand dollars.Augusta, Ga. Boise. Idaho, post-office and other Governmental Buildings, fortyBoise, Idaho. thousand dollars. Elgin, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Elgin, Ill.
Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house, ten thousand dollars.Peoria, Ill. Quincy, Illinois, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousandQuincy, Ill. dollars. Rock Island, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Rock Island, Ill. Davenport. Iowa, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousandDavenport, Iowa. dollars. Fort Dodge, Iowa, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Fort Dodge, Iowa. Emporia, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Emporia, Kans.
Kansas City, Kansas, post-office, forty thousand dollars.Kansas City, Kans. Lexington, Kentucky, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Lexington, Ky. Frankfort, Kentucky, post-office aud court-house, twenty thousandFrankfort, Ky. dollars. Paducah, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandPaducah, Ky. dollars. Richmond, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, ten thousandRichmond, Ky. dollars. Bath, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand dollars.Rath, Me.
Belfast, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousandBelfast, Me. dollars. Ellsworth, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousandEllsworth, Me.*Post*, p. 913. dollars. Jackson, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Jackson, Mich. Meridian. Mississippi, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars.Meridian, Miss. Beatrice, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Beatrice, Nebr. Fremont, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Fremont.
Nebr. 483 Manchester, New Hampshire, post-office and court-house, fifteenManchester, N.J. thousand dollars. Hoboken, New Jersey, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Hoboken, N. H.New Brunswick, N.J. New Brunswick, New Jersey, post-office, twenty thousand dollars. Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house, ten thousandTrenton, N.J. dollars. Goldsboro, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Goldsboro. N.C. Newbern, North Carolina, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandNewbern, N.C. dollars.
Raleigh, North Carolina, post-office and court-house, ten thousandRaleigh, N.C. dollars. Lima, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Lima, Ohio. Chester. Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Chester. Pa. Reading, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Reading. Pa. Pawtucket, Rhode Island, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Pawtucket. R. I. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, post-office and court-house, twentySioux Falls. S. Dak. thousand dollars.
Bristol, Tennessee, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandBristol, Tenn. dollars. Jackson, Tennessee, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandJackson, Tenn. dollars. Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Charlottesville. Va. Danville, Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandDanville, Va. dollars. Charleston. West Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty-fiveCharleston, W. Va. thousand dollars. Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, five thousandHuntington.
W. Va. five hundred dollars. La Crosse, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandLa Crosse, Wis. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section three of said Act, asConstruction authorized.*Post*, p. 526. follows: Demopolis, Alabama, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Demopolis, Ala. Troy, Alabama, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Troy, Ala. Santa Cruz, California, post-ofiice. twenty thousand dollars.Santa Cruz, Cal. Griffin, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Griffin, Ga.
Newnan, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Newnan, Ga. Way Cross, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Way Cross, Ga. Lewiston, Idaho, post-office and laud office, twenty thousand dollars.Lewiston, Idaho. Centralia, Illinois, post-ofiice, twenty thousand dollars.Centralia, Ill. Litchfield, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Litchfield, Ill. Columbus, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Columbus. Ind. Connersville, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Connersville.
Ind. Greencastle, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Greencastle, Ind. Jeffersonville, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Jeffersonville, Ind. Kokomo, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Kokomo, Ind. Peru, Indiana, post-office, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars.Peru. Ind. Decorah, Iowa, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.Decorah, Iowa. Estherville, Iowa, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Estherville, Iowa. Shenandoah, Iowa, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Shenandoah, Iowa Catlettsburg, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandCatlettsburg, Ky. dollars.
Beverly, Massachusetts, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Beverly. Mass. Marlboro, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Marlboro, Mass. Plymouth, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Plymouth, Mass. Webster, Massachusetts, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Webster, Mass. Woburn, Massachusetts, post office, fifteen thousand dollars.Woburn, Mass. Pontiac, Michigan, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Pontiac, Mich. Austin, Minnesota, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Austin, Minn.
Brainerd, Minnesota, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Brainerd. Minn. Rochester, Minnesota, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Rochester, Minh. 484 Hattiesburg, Mississippi, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Hattiesburg, Miss. West Point, Mississippi, post-office, no site.West Point, Miss. Carrollton, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Carrollton, Mo. Clinton, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Clinton, Mo. Independence. Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Independence, Mo.
Lexington, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Lexington, Mo. Macon, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Macon, Mo. Warrensburg, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Warrensburg, Mo. Missoula, Montana, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousandMissoula, Mont. dollars. Columbus, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Columbus, Nebr. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Plattsmouth, Nebr. Keene, New Hampshire, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Keene, N.
H. Amsterdam, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Amsterdam, N.Y. Malone, New York, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Malone. N.Y. Middletown, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Middletown, N. Y. Concord, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Concord, N.C. Henderson, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Henderson, N. C. High Point, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.High Point, N.C. Ashtabula, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Ashtabula.
Ohio. Delaware, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Delaware, Ohio. Enid, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandEnid, Okla. dollars. Bradford, Pennsylvania, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Bradford, Pa. Carbondale, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Carbondale, Pa. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Chambersburg, Pa. Easton, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Easton, Pa. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Greensburg.
Pa. Sewickley, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Sewickley, Pa. Shamokin. Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Shamokin, Pa. York, Pennsylvania, post-office and internal-revenue office, fiftyYork, Pa. thousand dollars. Aiken, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Aiken, S. C. Cleveland, Tennessee, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Cleveland, Tenn. Palestine, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Palestine, Tex. San Marcos, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.San Marcos, Tex.
Temple, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Temple, Tex. Bellingham, Washington, post-office and court-house, twenty-fiveBellingham, Wash. thousand dollars. North Yakima, Washington, post-office and court-house, twenty-fiveNorth Yakima, Wash. thousand dollars. Hinton, West Virginia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Hinton, W. Va. Appleton, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Appleton, Wis. Beloit, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Beloit, Wis.
Watertown, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Watertown. Wis. Lander. Wyoming, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandLander, Wyo. dollar. Under the provisions and limitations of section four of said Act. asPurchase of sites,etc.*Ante*, p. 528. follows: Ensley, Alabama, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Ensley, Ala. Eufaula, Alabama, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Eufaula, Ala. Talladega, Alabama, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Talladega, Ala.
Phoenix, Arizona, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars.Phoenix, Ariz. Hope, Arkansas, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.Hope, Ark. Jonesboro, Arkansas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Jonesboro, Ark. Paragould, Arkansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Paragould, Ark. Alameda, California, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Alameda, Cal. Santa Barbara, California, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Santa Barbara, Cal. Riverside, California, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Riverside, Cal.
Kort Collins, Colorado, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Fort Collins, Colo. Ansonia, Connecticut, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Ansonia. Conn. 485 Bristol, Connecticut, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Bristol, Conn. Danbury, Connecticut, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Danbury, Conn. Wallingford, Connecticut, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Wallingford. Conn. Miami, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and so forth, twentyMiami, Fla. thousand dollars.
Cordele, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Cordele, Ga. Dublin, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Dublin, Ga. Lagrange, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Lagrange. Ga. Milledgeville, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Milledgeville, Ga. Chicago Heights, Illinois, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Chicago Heights, Ill. Granite City, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Granite City, I11. Greenville, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Greenville, Ill.
La Salle, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.La Salle, Ill. Mattoon, Illinois, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Mattoon, Ill. Murphysboro, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Murphysboro, I11. Pana, Illinois, post-office, sixteen thousand dollars.Pana, Ill. Pontiac, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Pontiac, Ill. Bloomington, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Bloomington, Ind. Elwood, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Elwood, Ind.
Brazil, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Brazil, Ind. Goshen, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Goshen, Ind. Laporte, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Laportc, Ind. Princeton, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Princeton, Ind. Wabash, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Wabash, Ind. Ames, Iowa, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Ames, Iowa. Clay Center, Kansas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Clay Center, Kans.
Coffeyville, Kansas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Coffeyville, Kans. Great Bend, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Great Bend. Kans. Independence, Kansas, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.Independence, Kans. Parsons, Kansas, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars.Parsons, Kans. Wellington, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Wellington. Kans. Mount Sterling, Kentucky, post-office, eleven thousand dollars.Mount Sterling, Ky.
Somerset, Kentucky, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Somerset, Ky. Crowley, Louisiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Crowley, La. Franklin, Louisiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Franklin, La. Waterville, Maine, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Waterville, Me. Frostburg, Maryland, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Frostburg, Md. Athol, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Athol, Mass. Chelsea, Massachusetts, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Chelsea, Mass.
Milford, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Milford, Mass. Westfield, Massachusetts, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Westfield, Mass. Hillsdale, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Hillsdale, Mieh. Ionia, Michigan, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Ionia, Mich. Monroe, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Monroe, Mich. Mount Clemens, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Mount Clemens, Mich. Faribault, Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Faribault, Minn.
Virginia, Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Virginia, Minn. Wilmar, Minnesota, post-office, seventeen thousand dollars.Wilmar, Minn. Brookhaven, Mississippi, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Brookhaven, Miss. Corinth, Mississippi, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Corinth, Miss. Greenwood, Mississippi, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Greenwood, Miss. Maryville, Missouri, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.Maryville, Mo. Mexico, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Mexico, Mo.
Billings, Montana, post-office and land office, thirty thousand dollars.Billings, Mont. Fairbury, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Fairbury, Nebr. Holdrege, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Holdrege, Nebr. Goldfield, Nevada, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.Goldfield, Nev. North Platte, Nebraska, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars.North Platte. Nebr. 486 Asbury Park, New Jersey, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Asbury Park, N.J.
Burlington, New Jersey, post-office, twenty-live thousand dollars.Burlington, N. J. Plainfield, New Jersey, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousandPlainfield, N. J. dollars. Roswell, New Mexico, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandRoswell, N. Mex. dollars. Newark, New York, post-office, eighteen thousand dollars.Newark, N. Y. Penn Yan, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Penn Yan, N. Y. Gastonia, North Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Gastonia, N.
C. Lexington, North Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Lexington. N. C. Wilson, North Carolina, post-office, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars.Wilson, N. C. Bismarck, North Dakota, post-office and court-house, forty-fiveBismarck, N. Dak. thousand dollars. Minot, North Dakota, post-office and court-house, twenty-fiveMinot, N. Dak. thousand dollars. Alliance, Ohio, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Alliance, Ohio. Ironton, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Ironton, Ohio.
Mansfield, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Mansfield, Ohio. Massillon, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Massillon, Ohio. Muskogee, Oklahoma, post-office, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars.Muskogee, Okla. Albany, Oregon, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Albany, Oreg. La Grande, Oregon, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.La Grande, Oreg. Pendleton, Oregon, post-office, twenty-two thousand dollars.Pendleton. Oreg. Braddock. Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Braddock, Pa.
Bristol, Pennsylvania, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Bristol. Pa. Connellsville. Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-three thousand dollars.Connellsville, Pa. Homestead, Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Homestead, Pa. Steelton, Pennsylvania, post-office, forty thousand dollars.Steelton, Pa. Westerly, Rhode Island, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Westerly, R. I. Abbeville, South Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Abbeville, S.
C. Darlington, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Darlington, S. C. Gaffney, South Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Gaffney, S. C. Laurens, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Laurens, S. C. Newberry, South Carolina, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.Newberry, S. C. Orangeburg. South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Orangeburg. S. C. Union, South Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Union, S. C. Huron, South Dakota, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Huron, S.
Dak. Dyersburg. Tennessee, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Dyersburg, Tenn. Harriman, Tennessee, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.Harriman, Tenn. Union City. Tennessee, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.Union City, Tenn. Bonham. Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Bonham, Tex. Cleburne. Texas, post-ofiice. twenty thousand dollars.Cleburne. Tex. Corpus Christi, Texas, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand dollars.Corpus Christi, Tex. Del Rio, Texas, post-office and court-house, seventeen thousand dollars.Del Rio, Tex.
Hillsboro, Texas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Hillsboro, Tex. McKinney. Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.McKinney, Tex. Mineral Wells, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Mineral Wells, Tex. Port Arthur, Texas, post-office and custom-house, thirteen thousandPort Arthur. Tex. dollars. Sulphur Springs, Texas, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.Sulphur Springs, Tex. Terrell, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Terrell, Tex. Victoria.
Texas, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars.Victoria, Tex. Waxahachie, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Waxahachie, Tex. Wichita Falls, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Wichita Falls, Tex. Park City, Utah, post-office, eleven thousand dollars.Park City, Utah. Brattleboro, Vermont, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.Brattleboro, Vt. 487 Richford, Vermont, post-office and custom-house, fifteen thousandRichford, Vt. dollars.
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandBig Stone Gap, Va. dollars. Lexington, Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Lexington, Va. Suffolk, Virginia, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Suffolk, Va. Everett, Washington, post-office, and so forth, thirty-five thousandEverett, Wash. dollars. Walla Walla, Washington, post-office and court-house, thirty-fiveWalla Walla, Wash. thousand dollars. Morgantown, West Virginia, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Morgantown, W.Va.Point Pleasant, W.
Va.Stevens Point, Wis.Rock Springs, Wyo. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars. Stevens Point, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars. Rock Springs, Wyoming, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars. U nder the provisions and limitations of section five of said Act, asSites for buildings.*Post*, p. 582. follows: Cullman, Alabama, post-office, five thousand dollars.Cullman, Ala. Mobile, Alabama, post-office, one hundred and twenty-five thousandMobile, Ala. dollars.
Opelika. Alabama, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Opelika. Ala. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundredEureka Springs, Ark. dollars. Searcy, Arkansas, post-office, six thousand dollars.Searcy, Ark. Grass Valley, California, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Grass Valley, Cal. Pasadena, California, post-office, fifty thousand dollars.Pasadena, Cal. Grand Junction, Colorado, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Grand Junction, Colo. Greeley, Colorado, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Greeley, Colo.
Naugatuck, Connecticut, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Naugatuck. Conn. Washington, District of Columbia, post-office, five hundredWashington. D. C., poet-office. thousand dollars. Live Oak, Florida, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Live Oak, Fla. Lewes, Delaware, post-office, five thousand dollars.Lewes, Del. Saint Petersburg, Florida, post-office, seven thousand five hundredSaint Petersburg, Fla. dollars. Augusta, Georgia, post-office and other governmental offices, thirty-fiveAugusta, Ga. thousand dollars.
Bainbridge, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Bainbridge, Ga. Carrolton, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Carrolton, Ga. Cartersville, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Cartersville. Ga. Cedartown, Georgia, post-office,seven thousand five hundred dollars.Cedartown, Ga. Elberton, Georgia-, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Elberton, Ga. Savannah, Georgia. Marine Hospital, thirteen thousand five hundredSavannah, Ga., marine hospital. dollars.
Tifton, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Tifton, Ga. Pocatello, Idaho, post-office and court-house, ten thousand dollars.Pocatello, Idaho. Chicago, Illinois, post-office, one million two hundred and fiftyChicago, Ill., postoffice. thousand dollars. Duquoin. Illinois, post-office, five thousand dollars.Duquoin, Ill. Harrisburg, Illinois, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Harrisburg, Ill. Rochelle, Illinois, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Rochelle, I11.
South Chicago, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.South Chicago, I11. Sterling, Illinois, post-office, five thousand dollars.Sterling, Ill. Frankfort, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Frankfort. Ind. Denison, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Denison, Iowa. Fort Madison, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Fort Madison, Iowa. Iowa Falls, Iowa, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Iowa Falls, Iowa. Le Mars, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Le Mars, Iowa.
Red Oak, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Red Oak, Iowa. Abilene, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Abilene, Kans. Beloit, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Beloit, Kans. 488 Concordia. Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Concordia, Kans. Ottawa, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Ottawa, Kans. Ashland, Kentucky, post-office, twelve thousand dollars.Ashland, Ky. Bardstown, Kentucky, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Bardstown, Ky.
Cynthiana, Kentucky, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Cynthiana, Ky. Hopkinsville, Kentucky, post-office, twelve thousand dollars.Hopkinsville, Ky. Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, post-office, seven thousand five hundredLawrenceburg, Ky. dollars. Lafayette, Louisiana, post-office, five thousand dollars.Lafayette La. Biddeford, Maine, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Biddeford, Me. Camden, Maine, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Camden, Me. Gardiner, Maine, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Gardiner, Me.
Old Town, Maine, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Old Town, Me. Attleboro, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Attleboro. Mass. Boston, Massachusetts, custom-house, five hundred thousand dollars.Boston, Mass., custom-house.New Bedford, Mass. New Bedford, Massachusetts, post-office, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office, nineteen thousand five hundredBattle Creek, Mich. dollars. Petoskey, Michigan, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Petoskey, Mich.
Moorhead, Minnesota, post-office, five thousand dollars.Moorhead, Minn. Laurel, Mississippi, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.Laurel. Miss. Vicksburg, Mississippi, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandVicksburg, Miss. dollars. Aurora, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Aurora, Mo. Boonville, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollarsBoonville. Mo. Brookfield, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Brookfield, Mo. Chillicothe, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Chillicothe, Me.
Marshall, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Marshall, Mo. Poplar Bluff, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Poplar Bluff, Mo. Rolla, Missouri, post-office, five thousand dollars.Rolla, Mo. Trenton, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Trenton, Mo. Livingstone, Montana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Livingstone, Mont. McCook, Nebraska, post-office and court-house, eightthousand dollars.McCook, Nebr. Rochester, New Hampshire, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Rochester, N.
H. Morristown, New Jersey, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Morristown, N.J. Orange, New Jersey, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.Orange, N.J. Batavia, New York, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.Batavia, N. Y. Borough of Bronx. New York City, New York, post-office, oneBronx Borough, N. Y.City. hundred thousand dollars. Cortland, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Cortland, N.Y. Fulton, New York, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Fulton. N. Y. Hornell, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Hornell, N.
Y. Mount Vernon, New York, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.Mount Vernon, N.Y. Oneonta, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Oneonta, N. Y. Salamanca, New York, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Salamanca, N. Y. Syracuse, New York, post-office only, seventy-five thousand dollars.Syracuse. N. Y. Waterloo, New York, post-office,-ten thousand dollars.Waterloo, N. Y. Greenville, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Greenville, N. C. Hickory, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Hickory, N.C.
Monroe, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Monroe, N. C. Oxford, North Carolina, post-office, seven thousand five hundredOxford, N. C. dollars. Chickasha, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandChickasha, Okla. dollars. Guthrie, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, thirty-five thousandGuthrie, Okla. dollars. McAlester, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousandMcAlester, Okla. dollars. Tulsa, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, twenty thousandTulsa.
Okla. dollars. 489 Bellaire, Ohio, post-office. twenty thousand dollars.Bellaire. Ohio. Bellefontaine, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Bellefontaine, Ohio. Bowling Green, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Bowling Green, Ohio.Cambridge. Ohio. Cambridge, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars. Defiance, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Defiance, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Middletown, Ohio. Steubenville, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Steubenville, Ohio.
Tiffin, Ohio, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.Tiffin, Ohio. Van Wert, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Van Wert, Ohio. Wooster, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Wooster, Ohio. Xenia, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Xenia, Ohio. Corry, Pennsylvania, post-office, eighteen thousand dollars.Corry, Pa. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Gettysburg, Pa. Kittanning, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.Kittanning, Pa.
Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice, ten thousand dollars.Ridgeway. Pa. Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.Sunbury, Pa. Titusville, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Titusville, Pa. Rapid City, South Dakota, post-office, seven thousand five hundredRapid City, S. Dak. dollars. Brookings, South Dakota, post-office, seven thousand five hundredBrookings, S. Dak. dollars. Lebanon, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.Lebanon, Tenn.
Morristown, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.Morristown, Tenn. Pulaski, Tennessee, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Pulaski, Tenn. Shelbyville, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.Shelbyville, Tenn. Springfield, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.Springfield, Tenn. Austin, Texas, post-office, forty thousand dollars.Austin, Tex. Brenham, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Brenham, Tex. Brownwood, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Brownwood, Tex.
Clarksville, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.Clarksville, Tex. Cuero, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Cuero, Tex. Marlin. Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Marlin, Tex. Marshall, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Marshall, Tex. New Braunfels, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundredNew Braunfels.Tex. dollars. Nacogdoches, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.Nacogdoches, Tex. Navasota, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.Navasota, Tex.
Weatherford, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Weatherford, Tex. Bennington, Vermont, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Bennington, Vt. Covington, Virginia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Covington, Va. Wytheville, Virginia, post-office, five thousand dollars.Wytheville, Va. Bedford City, Virginia, post-office, seven thousand five hundredBedford City, Va. dollars. Olympia, Washington, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Olympia, Wash. Elkins, West Virginia, post-ofiice, ten thousand dollars.Elkins, W.
Va. Grafton, West Virginia, post-ofiice. fifteen thousand dollars.Grafton, W.Va. Parkersburg, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, thirty-fiveParkersburg, W. Va. thousand dollars. Sistersville, West Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Sistersville, W. Va. Menomonie, Wisconsin, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Menomonie, Wis. Merrill, Wisconsin, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.Merrill, Wis. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraisers’ stores, fifty thousand dollars.Milwaukee, Wis., appraisers stores.Waukesha, Wis.
Waukesha, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars. Casper, Wyoming, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Casper, Wyo. Douglas, Wyoming, post-office, ten thousand dollars.Douglas, Wyo. Under the provisions and limitations of section six of said Act, as follows: General Expenses of Public Buildings: To enable the SecretaryAdministrative expenses.*Post*, p. 537. of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of said Act. and under the limitations and provisions thereof, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and continue 490 available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, but this Act shall not be construed to repeal the allowances made for personal services, in the annual appropriations under the control of the Supervising Architect, carried in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.
Office of Supervising Architect: the services of skilled draftsmen,Supervising Architect’s Office.Skilled draftsmen, ete.Additional employees. civil engineers, computers, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessaryand specially order, may be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, in addition to those now authorized, only in the Office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for the construction of public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations made in whole or in part prior*Provisos.*Maximum. to July first, nineteen hundred and seven: *Provided*, That the additional expenditure on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each: *And provided further*, That the authorization of three hundred thousand dollars forApportionment o f expenses.*Ante*, p. 201. like services as above, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall be similarly charged against public building appropriations made in whole or in part prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seven.
Under the provisions and limitations of section seven of said Act,*Post*, p. 538. as follows: Danville. Illinois, post-office, court-house, and so forth, fifty thousandDanville, Ill. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section eight of said Act,*Post*, p. 538. as follows: Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office, court-house, and so forth, thirty thousandOttumwa, Iowa. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section ten of said Act,*Post*, p. 539. as follows: Peekskill, New York, post-office, and so forth, forty-five thousandPeekskill, N.
Y. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section eighteen of said Act,*Post*, p. 541. as follows: Honolulu, Hawaii, custom-house, court-house, and so forth, thirtyHonolulu, Hawaii. thousand dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section nineteen of said Act,*Post*, p. 541. as follows: Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, post-office, court-house, and so forth,Oklahoma City, Okla. twenty thousand dollars. Under the. provisions and limitations of section twenty of said Act,*Post*, p. 541. as follows:
Shreveport, Louisiana, court-house, and so forth, twenty-five thousandShreveport, La. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-one of said*Pott*, p. 542. Act, as follows: Minneapolis. Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.Minneapolis, Minn. Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-two of said Act,*Post*, p. 542. as follows: Dayton. Ohio, post-office, court-house, and so forth, twenty thousandDayton, Ohio. dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-four of said*Post*, p. 542.
Act, as follows: Wilmington. North Carolina, custom-house, and so forth, eightyWilmington, N.C. thousand dollars. 491 Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-nine of said*Post*, p.544. Act, as follows: Washington, District of Columbia, court-house, fifty thousand dollars.Washington, D.C.Court-house. Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty of said Act,*Post*, p. 545. as follows: Washington, District of Columbia, site for buildings for DepartmentsWashington, D.C.Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor.Site.*Post*, p. 545. of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor, two million five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty-one of said Act, as follows: Denver, Colorado, post-office, court-house, and so forth, fiftyDenver, Colo. thousand dollars. Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty-two of said*Post*, p.545.Point Pleasant, W. Va.Monument.Pond and Pond.Payment to. Act, as follows: Point Pleasant, West Virginia, monument, ten thousand dollars. To pay Pond and Pond the balance accruing to them for services as architects for the post-office building at Kankakee, Illinois, eighty-six dollars and fifty-eight cents.
Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay. fromPittsburg, Pa.Advertising bills. rental collections derived from the buildings occupying the site of the proposed new Federal building at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the bills for advertising certain of said buildings for rent, amounting in ail to four dollars and twenty cents, as set forth on page five of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session. Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, fromRichmond.
Va.Towel service. the appropriation, “Post-office, court-house, and custom-house, Richmond, Virginia.” to the Sanitary Towel Supply Company. Roscoe C. Nelson, trustee, the sum of twenty-four dollars, for towel service for the lavatories in the Shafer Building, Richmond, Virginia, during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven. Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from theSaint Louis. Mo.Post-office, sprinkling streets. appropriation for “Post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri,” the sum of twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents to the board of public improvements of the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, for services rendered in sprinkling streets adjacent to the site of the new post office building at Saint Louis, Missouri, during the calendar year nineteen hundred and five.
Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, from theWestchester, Pa.Cleaning snow. appropriation for “Post-office, Westchester, Pennsylvania,” the sum of eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents, to the widow of Frank B. Wheaton, for his services in cleaning snow from the sidewalks adjacent to the site of the new post-office building at Westchester, Pennsylvania, during the winter of nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of theWheeling.
W. Va.Advertising bills. cost of advertising for proposals for the purchase of the old customhouse property at Wheeling, West Virginia, authorized to be sold by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, upon the completion of the new building, as follows: Intelligencer Publishing Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, thirty-one dollars and ninety-six cents: News Publishing Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, thirty dollars and twenty-four cents: in all, sixty-two dollars and twenty cents.
Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from theBay City. Mich.Advertising. appropriation “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and seven,” the sum of two dollars and ten cents to the Bay Citv Times Company and the sum of two dollars and forty-five cents to the Bay City Tribune for advertising for bids for purchase of old brick taken from sidewalk surrounding the Federal building at Bay City, Michigan. 492 The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to refund to Allen J.Birmingham, Ala.Refund.
Krebs, of Birmingham, Alabama, from the appropriation for “ Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight,” the sum of fifty dollars, erroneously paid by him as rental for a portion of the grounds belonging to the Federal building site at Birmingham, Alabama, which said amount was covered into the Treasury to the credit of the general fund, as evidenced by certificate of deposit numbered two thousand three hundred and eighty-one, issued by the First National Bank of Birmingham on December eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay Rudge andLincoln, Nebr.Supplies. Guenzel Company, from the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight,” the sum of four dollars and seventy cents, for certain articles and supplies furnished the Federal building at Lincoln. Nebraska, during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, nineteen hundred and four, and nineteen hundred and five. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theGeorge A.
Bartlett.Credit in accounts. accounts of the late George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of twenty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury Department, under the appropriation “Post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri;” also the sum of seventy-five dollars standing against him under the appropriation “Court-house, Portland. Maine.” The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theThomas J.
Hobbs.Credit in accounts. accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, late disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-five cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury Department, under the appropriation, “Plans for public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight.” New York, New York, court-house and post-office: For alterationsNew York, N.Y.Post-office, alterations, etc. and repairs, including adjustment and rebuilding of screens, bridge over light court, new stamp booths, painting first and mezzanine stories and all work incident to completing this portion of the building for the needs of the Government business after the removal of the mailing division to quarters outside of the building, twenty thousand dollars.
Asheville, North Carolina: For rent of temporary quarters andAsheville, N. C.Rent. moving expenses, one thousand dollars. San Jose, California, post-office: For completing repairs, and placingSan Jose, Cal.Repairs, etc. lamp standards, and so forth, five thousand dollars. under the smithsonian institution.Smithsonian Institution. National Zoological Park: For defraying the expenses for witnessZoological Park.Court expenses. fees, court costs, professional services of physicians, and other necessary charges incurred in the defense of the suit by Hannah Jackson against Frank Baker, superintendent of the park, one hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy cents.
Washington Statue: For the transfer of the marble statue of Washington,Statue of Washington.Transferring to Smithsonian, etc. by Greenough, from the plaza in front of the Capitol to the Smithsonian Institution, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building*Post*, p. 576. and Grounds, including the construction of a foundation and a marble base, five thousand dollars. government in the territories.Government in the Territories.
Authority is hereby granted to pay out. of the treasury of the TerritoryNew Mexico.Additional expenses of New Mexico, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, for additional employees and for contingent expenses of the thirtyeighth 493 legislative assembly of said Territory of New Mexico, to be convened during the month of January, nineteen hundred and nine; said sum to be expended notwithstanding the Act of Congress approvedVol. 20, p. 198. June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ninety-three), and the Act ofVol. 29, p. 161.
Congress approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-one). DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’S Office: For amount required to pay the deputy coronerCoroner’s office.Deputy coroner. for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five hundred and fifteen dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty dollars. contingent expenses.Contingentexpenses.
For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in theJudicial expenses. appropriation for judicial expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents. For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in theCoroner’s office. appropriation for coroner’s office, for the fiscal years that follow: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars. For fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four dollars and twenty-five cents.
For fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three dollars and seventy-five cents. For additional amount required for general advertising, authorizedAdvertising. and required by law, and for school and tax notices and notices of changes in regulations, at rates not exceeding the commercial rates for advertising in the District of Columbia, being on account of the fiscal years that follow: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty dollars and forty cents. Hereafter there shall not be paid by the government of the DistrictCharges restricted. of Columbia, for general advertising authorized and required by law and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, rates exceeding those charged to individuals or commercial interests for similar advertising in the District of Columbia. For Georgetown Market: New roof for Georgetown market house,Georgetown market. six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Assessment and Permit Work: For additional amount required forAssessment and permit work. assessment and permit work, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two dollars and sixty-two cents. Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys: For additionalCondemning streets, etc. amount required for purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. Rent of Wharf Property: the Commissioners of the District ofStorage wharf.Rent, for construction material.
Columbia are hereby authorized to rent wharf property for storage of construction material, at a rate not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum, for a period of one year from March first, nineteen hundred and eight, saiα sum to be paid from the appropriations for improvements and repairs, District of Columbia, and sewers, District of Columbia. 494 Alleys: That hereafter in cases of condemnation proceedings forAlleys.Payment of costs in disallowed cases. opening, widening, and extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia, taken pursuant to law, which fail of confirmation and ratification by the court, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to pay all costs and expenses that may be incurred in connection with such proceedings from the appropriation for “Alleys, District of Columbia.
” Extension of Streets and Avenues: For additional amountExtension of streets and avenues. required to provide the necessary funds for the payment of costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to the following public acts, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia: “An Act for the extension of Eighth street northwest, or WrightsEighth street NW.Vol. 33, p. 247. road, District of Columbia,” approved April twentv-second, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-five cents:
“An Act authorizing the joining of Kalorama avenue,” approvedKalorama avenue.Vol. 33, pp. 514, 1010. April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, ninety-three, dollars and seventy-eight cents; “An Act to connect Euclid place with Erie street,” approved AprilEuclid place.Vol. 33, p. 516. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-four dollars and two cents; “An Act for the extension of Nineteenth street from Woodley roadNineteenth streetVol. 33, p. 1007. to Baltimore street.” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, five hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety cents;
“An Act for the extension of Euclid street in Meridian Hill. DistrictEuclid street.Vol. 34, p. 236. of Columbia.” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, five hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-five cents; “An Act authorizing the extension of Kalorama road northwest,”Kalorama road NW.Vol. 34, p. 616. approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, eighty-two dollars and thirty-three cents; “An Act for the opening of Macomb street northwest, District ofMacomb street NW.Vol. 34, p. 853.
Columbia,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-three dollars and eighty-two cents; “An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northwest, from RhodeMills avenue NW.Vol. 34, p. 1244. Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighteen cents; “An Act for the extension of M street east of Bladensburg road,M street.Vol. 33, p. 977. and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, fifty-seven dollars and three cents;
“An Act for the extension of T street, and for other purposes,”T street.Vol. 33, p. 1001. approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighteen cents; “An Act for the extension of Harvard street, Columbia Heights,Harvard street.Vol. 34, p. 856. District of Columbia,” approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and nineteen cents; “An Act for the opening of Fessenden street northwest, District ofFessenden street NW.Vol. 34, p. 855.
Columbia,” approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, four dollars and fifty-six cents; “An Act to provide for condemning the land necessary for joiningKalorama avenue.Vol. 33, p. 1010. Kalorama avenue and Prescott place,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, ten dollars and seventy-seven cents; “An Act for the extension of Rittenhouse street, and for other purposes,”Rittenhouse street.Vol. 33, p. 1088. approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-nine dollars and sixty-one cents;
“An Act to provide for the extension of Geneseo place and SummitSummit place.Vol. 34, p. 816. place. District of Columbia.” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, sixty-six dollars and twenty-two cents; 495 “An Act for the extension of Seventh street and Franklin streetSeventh and Franklin streets NE.Vol. 34, p. 844. northeast, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents; “An Act for the extension of Twenty-third street from S street toTwenty-third street.Vol. 33, p. 252.
California avenue,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and thirty-eight cents; “An Act for the extension of Albemarle street,” approved AprilAlbemarle street.Vol. 33, p. 534. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and thirteen cents; “An Act authorizing the extension of Rhode Island avenue northeast.”Rhode Island avenue NE.Vol. 34, p. 15. approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents;
“An Act for the extension of Albemarle street northwest, DistrictAlbemarle street NW.Vol. 34, p. 1225. of Columbia,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-five cents; “An Act authorizing the extension of Monroe street northeast.”Monroe street NE.Vol. 34, p. 1222. approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twelve cents; in all, two thousand nine hundred and three dollars and thirty-two cents.
Widening V Street Northwest: For additional amount requiredWidening V street.Vol. 33, p. 520. to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the widening of V street northwest,” to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, thirty-two dollars and seventy-six cents. Extension of Fourteenth Street Northwest: For additionalExtending Fourteenth street NW.Vol. 38, p. 371. amount required to provide the necessary funds for the cost and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to law. twelve dollars and thirty-seven cents.
Connecting Sixteenth Street With Rock Creek Park: ForRock Creek Park.Parkway from Sixteenth street.Vol. 31, p. 1000. additional amount required for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to the public Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of a connecting parkway along Piney Branch, between Sixteenth street and Rock (’reek Park, District of Columbia,” one hundred and twelve dollars and seventy cents.
Disposal of City Refuse: For additional amount required to meetDisposal of city refuse. the objects set forth in the appropriation for disposal of city refuse, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eight thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. Bathing Beach: For additional amount required for maintenanceBathing beach. of bathing beach, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five to nineteen hundred and six. forty dollars and sixty cents. Sewers: Condemnation of rights of way:
For additional amountSewersRights of way. required for purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers for the fiscal years that follow: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-three cents. For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five dollars and seventy-three cents. For fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy-six dollars and fifty cents. Public Schools: Kindergarten supplies:
For additional amountPublic schools.Kindergarten sup. plies. required for kindergarten supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. two dollars and forty cents. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized andFuel. directed to pay to George W. Thecker the sum of thirty-three dollars for wood furnished the public schools of the District or Columbia, on property clerk’s order numbered seventy-six hundred and thirty, without the usual certificate of inspection required by law, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. 496 Fire Department:
Forage: For additional amount required forFire department.Forage. forage, one thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars. For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in theContingent expenses. appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eight hundred and forty dollars and nine cents. Juvenile Court: For additional amount required for fuel, ice. gas,Juvenile court.Incidental expenses. and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. for the fiscal year nineteen him-dred and seven, fifty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Police Court: For additional amount required for compensationPolice court.Jurors. of jurors, for the fiscal years that follow: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five hundred and ninety-four dollars. Police Court Building: For additional amount required to payGround for building. costs incident to condemnation of additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine in the city of Washington, for site for new police court building, twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents.
Writs of Lunacy: For additional amounts required to meet theLunacy writs. objects set forth in the appropriations for writs of lunacy for the fiscal years that follow: For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and five dollars. For fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten dollars. Washington Asylum: For additional amount required for provisions,Washington Asylum. fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs, and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
Eastern Dispensary: For additional amount required for emergencyEastern Dispensary. care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent Eatients, under a contract or agreement with the Eastern Dispensary y the Board of Charities, two thousand five hundred dollars. Reforji School: For additional amount required for care and maintenanceReform School. of boys committed to the reform school by courts of the District of Columbia under contract with the Board of Charities by the authorities of said reform school, one thousand eight hundred dollars.
Board of Children’S Guardians: the sum of one thousand oneBoard of Childrens’ Guardians.Transfer of balances. hundred and four dollars and fifty cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for board and care of children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District and for temporary care of children pending investigation, or while being transferred from place to place, for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available for payment to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars authorized and paid from said appropriation to said institutions during the fiscal year.
Home for the Aged and Infirm: For additional amount requiredHome for Aged and Infirm. for additional steam boiler, including foundations, piping, and necessary expenses of installation, fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand one hundred dollars. Municipal Almshouse: For additional amount required for acquiring,Municipal almshouse.Additional land. by purchase or condemnation, additional ground, being part of lot seven in the subdivision of Bellevue or Blue Plains, containing nineteen acres, more or less, bounded on three sides by the ground 497 purchased by the District of Columbia for site for a municipal almshouse and burial place for indigent dead, six dollars and sixty cents.
Health Department: the unexpended balance of the appropriationHealth department.Contagious diseases.Balance reappropriated. of twenty-live thousand dollars for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven provided for the enforcement of various laws to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, is hereby reappropriated and continued available until .1 une thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, to meet the objects set forth in the law granting said appropriation, including expenditures for objects of like character necessary for the enforcement of an Act ofTuberculosis cases.*Ante*, p. 126.
Congress approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to provide for the registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, againstJudgments. the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty, of this session, twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety cents and for additional judgments amounting to ninety-six dollars and ninety-five cents, in all, twenty thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-five cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, atnot exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Support of Convicts: To pay amounts found due by the accountingSupport of convicts. officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of convicts, District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents. Hospital for the Insane: For additional amount required forHospital for Insane. support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Reimbursement of Philadelphia. Baltimore and WashingtonPhiladelphia. Baltimore And Washington Railroad Company.Careof Long Bridge. Railroad Company: For reimbursement of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company for the cost of maintenance of the Long Bridge from February Twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, to December eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six, six thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and sixteen cents. Reservations for United States Government:
For amountCondemnation of triangles. required to meet the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to section twenty-two of the Act of June thirtieth,Vol. 34, p. 787. nineteen hundred and six. entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” four hundred and thirty-threeWholly from United States revenues. dollars, payable wholly from the revenues of the United States.
Amendment of Section Two, District Appropriation Act,Temporary Employees on Streets, Etc.Vol. 34, P. 1155. Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred And Eight: That Section two of the District of Columbia appropriation Act, approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, placing a limitation on expenditures for purposes specified therein of sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby amended by increasingLimit increased. said limitation to sixty-six thousand dollars during said fiscal year.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toHalf 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.498 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Anny. pay department.Pay Department. For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, the unexpendedPay.Balances reappropriated. balances of the appropriations for pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.
For increased pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, underIncreased pay.*Ante*, p. 108. the provisions of the army appropriation Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Pay of Military Academy: Professor of ordnance and science ofMilitary Academy.Professor of ordnance and gunnery. gunnery: One. lieutenant-colonel in addition to pay as captain, mounted, one hundred and eleven dollars and twelve cents. For pay of officers and enlisted men at the Military Academy, underIncreased pay.*Ante*, p. 109. the provisions of the army appropriat ion Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars. miscellaneous.
For cost of survey of a portion of the Fort Caswell Military Reservation,Fort Caswell. N. C.Survey of reservation. near Wilmington, North Carolina, including services of engineer and assistants in making said survey under order of the court, in the case of Thompson versus Harmon, now pending in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of North Carolina, seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be assigned by the court. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedIra L.
Fredendall.Allowauce in accounts. to allow the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars in the settlement of the accounts of Captain Ira L. Fredendall, quartermaster, United States Army, being the cost of transportation of the remains of Sergeant Louis Lemay, Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, from Monterey, California, to his home in Marlboro, Massachusetts, af the request of the family of the deceased, one hundred and sixty-four dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theEdward N.
Johnston.Credit in accounts. accounts of First Lieutenant Edward N. Johnston, Corps of Engineers, the sum of one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in theMark Brooke.Credit in accounts. accounts of Lieutenant Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineers, the sum of eighty-five dollars now standing against him on the books of the Treasury. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to creditOran Perry.Credit in accounts. in the accounts of Brigadier-General Oran Perry, adjutant-general and disbursing officer, Organized Militia, State of Indiana, the sum of five hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury.
The. accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they arc hereby,G. S. Bingham.Allowance in accounts. authorized and directed to allow the sum of three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents in the accounts of Major G. S. Bingham, Quartermaster’s Department, on account of charges paid for the storage of baggage of officers on duty with the forces in military occupation of the island of Cuba during the interval between their return to New York on May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, and their subsequent assignment to stations in the United States.
The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized andCredit in accounts for furnishing officers quarters. directed to credit the following-named officers with the sums set oppo-site 499 their respective names in the settlement of their accounts for furniture purchased by them by authority of the Secretary of War for public buildings at posts, including expenditures for the equipment of messes for bachelor officers: Captain Charles C. Ballou. Twelfth Infantry, assistant quartermaster,Charles C.
Ballou. Presidio of Monterey, California, ninety-eight dollars and sixty-one cents. Captain Leon S. Roudiez, assistant quartermaster, Fort Riley, Kansas,Leon S. Roudiez. seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-three cents. Captain George C. Barnhardt, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, oneGeorge C. Barnhardt. thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-two cents. Lieutenant William J. Davis, Eighth Infantry, assistant quartermaster,William J. Davis. Fort Slocum, New York, one thousand live hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents.
Lieutenant Willis C. Metcalf, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Washington,Willis C. Metcalf. Maryland, two hundred and six dollars and seventy-seven cents. Captain Courtland Nixon, quartermaster’s department. Fort Oglethorpe,Courtland Nixon. Georgia, one thousand three hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety cents. To reimburse First Lieutenant Charles E. Morton, Sixteenth UnitedCharles E. Morton.Reimbursement.*Post*, p. 1324. States Infantry, the amount refunded by him to the United States Government to cover loss of public funds for which he was accountable, and which were stolen at Echague, province of Isabela, Luzon.
Philippine Islands, without fault or neglect on his part, one hundred and eighty-six dollars. The sum of sixty thousand dollars appropriated.for the erection andSan Juan. P. R.Military hospital.Reappropriation.Vol. 34, p. 1172. completion of a military hospital at San Juan, Porto Rico, under Construction and Repair of Hospitals, in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-Fourth Statutes, page eleven hundred and seventy-two), is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the erection and completion of said hospital.
For payment to the post exchange, Fort Moultrie, South Carolina,Fort Moultrie, S. C.Post exchange. of an amount pertaining thereto, which was erroneously deposited in the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” forty dollars. To provide for the payment by the Secretary of War of the sum ofJennie Carroll and Mabel H. Lazear.Annuities.*Post*, p. 1325. one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, major and surgeon, United States Army, and the like sum per month to Mabel H.
Lazear. widow of Doctor Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant contract surgeon, United States Army, as provided by law, three thousand dollars. For payment of certain claims approved by the Auditor of the WarForts Heath and Banks. Mass.Damages for artillery firing. Department for damages done to private property by the firing of heavy guns at Forts Heath and Banks. Winthrop, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For payment of twenty-four approved claims, exclusive of claimPhilippine Islands.Claims for damages. numbered two hundred thirty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, provided for in the preceding paragraph, for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States and the Philippine Islands, estimated for on page four hundred and six, House Document numbered twelve, Sixtieth Congress, first session, four thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents.
Claims for Property Taken From Confederate Officers AndProperty of Confederate Soldiers.Time Extended For Presenting Claims.Vol. 32, P. 43. Soldiers After Surrender: the time for filing claims under the provisions of the Act of February twenty-seventh, nine hundred and two, and amendments thereto, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, and for the payment thereof is extended for twelve months from the passage of this Act; and all claims not presented within this time shall be forever barred. 500 Payment to the State of Texas:
To reimburse the State of Texas,Texas.Reimbursement for defense of frontier. in full settlement of all claims of any nature whatever on account of moneys actually expended by that State after June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty, from appropriations made by the legislature of the State of Texas before that date in payment of State volunteers or rangers called into service by authority of the governor of Texas in defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations, for which reimbursement has not been made out of the Treasury of the United States, as ascertained under the Act ofVol. 33, p. 1224.
Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and certified in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine, first session Fifty-ninth Congress, twenty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-five cents. General Depot for United States Army Supplies At FortFort Mason, Cal., Depot.Construction Authorized To Proceed.Vol. 34, P. 257, Mason, California: the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to proceed with the construction of the General Depot for the Supply Departments of the United States Army at Fort Mason.
California, authorized by the Army Appropriation Act approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, without waiting for the completion of the condemnation proceedings which have been instituted with a view to the acquisition of certain submerged lands which are necessary for the construction of the wharves and buildings constituting said depot; andSecuring title waived.R. S., sec. 355, p. 60. the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby suspended in their application to this case.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. office of the secretary.Office of Secretary. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay from the appropriationsBallantyne and Sons.Payment to. for library, Navy Department, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, voucher in favor of Ballantyne and Sons, Washington. District of Columbia, for city directories, amounting to twenty-nine dollars, purchased for the library of the Navy Department, the Comptroller of the Treasury having decided, after the obligation was incurred, that the appropriation for library, Navy Department, being for “professional and technical books and periodicals,” was not available for said payment.
To pay Charles W. Stewart, for services in compiling the volumeCharles W. Stewart.Services. commemorative of John I’aul Jones, seven hundred and fifty dollars. hydrographic office.Hydrographic Office. To pay an account of Fred. A. Schmidt for three yards of mountedFred. A. Schmidt.Payment to. drawing paper, the bill for which was not received until after the balance of the appropriation had been carried to the surplus fund, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six dollars and ten cents. naval observatory.Naval Observatory.
For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals,Contingent expenses. and stationery; freight (including the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizer, and all contingent expenses, three hundred dollars. For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams: material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation: paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, four hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.501 NAVAL ESTABLASHMENT.Naval establishment. pay of the navy.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” forPay.Vol. 34, p. 1176. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, volume thirty-four, page eleven hundred and seventy-six, section one), four hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty cents. In computing the pay of retired officers of the Navy, the ten perRetired officers.Sea duty, etc., not to be computed.Pay of commodore.*Ante*, p. 128. cent additional pay allowed for sea duty or for shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall not be included, and the pay of commodore shall be the same in all respects as that of rearadmiral, second nine. general account of advances.
To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act ofGeneral account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167. June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes, one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:
For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred andPay. forty-seven dollars and forty-four cents: For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-six cents: For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents; For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and two, forty-eight dollars and sixty cents; For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and one, sixteen cents: For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred, fourteen cents:
For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred andPay. miscellaneous. forty dollars and five cents; For pay. miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand four hundred and forty-nine, dollars and eighty-live cents: For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and seven dollars and eighty-two cents; For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-three cents; For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred andContingent. thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents;
For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, two hundredMarine Corps. and fourteen dollars and forty-one cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, two dollars and thirty-two cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents; For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents; For provisions. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, six hundred and sixty dollars;
For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, fifteen dollars and seven cents; For clothing. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-one dollars and fourteen cents; For clothing, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, eighty-six cents; For clothing. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, ten dollars; 502 For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, twenty dollars and thirty-six cents; For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, ten cents;
For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and live, sixty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents: For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, fortyeight dollars and twenty-eight cents; For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, fifty-two dollars and seventy-six cents; For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents; For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred andBureau of Navigation. five, fifty-two dollars and eleven cents;
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents; For recruiting. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, three hundred find sixty-two dollars and ten cents; For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, forty cents; For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, twenty-seven dollars and eighty cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, thirteen dollars;
For transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two. one hundred and eighty-nine dollars; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents; For gunnery exercises. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents; For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, sixty-five dollars and six cents;
For outfits on first enlistment. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-six dollars and fifty-six cents: For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two. forty-five dollars; For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteenBureau of Ordnance. hundred and five, seventy-six dollars and seventy-eight cents; For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five dollars; For contingent.
Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and live, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-four cents; For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundredBureau of Equipment. and five, fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents: For equipment of vessels. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents; For equipment of vessels. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two. fifty-seven dollars: For coal and transportation, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, four dollars;
For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, eight hundred and seventy dollars: For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundredBureau of Yards and Docks. and five, fifty-one dollars and seventy-two cents; For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and four, fifteen dollars; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteenBureau of Medicine and Surger.v. hundred and four, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;
For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, fifty-one dollars and forty-five cents; 503 For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-live cents: For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and four dollars and thirty-nine cents; For contingent. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, seventeen dollars and forty cents;
For provisions. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundredBureau of Supplies and Accounts. and five, three hundred and ninety-nine dollarsand eighty-seven cents; For provisions, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, eight thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and twelve cents: For contingent. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-five cents; For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-seven cents;
For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and tweņty-six dollars and fifty-one cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-one cents; For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and fiftv-two cents;
For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundredBureau of Steam Engineering. and five, fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents; For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and two, three dollars and fifty cents; For relief of George T. Pettengill (Act January twenty-fifth, nineteenGeorge T. Pettengill.Vol. 34, p. 2306.*Ante*, p. 29. hundred and seven), four hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents: in all. forty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “ Pay of the Navy,” twoPay. million dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Outfits on first enlistment,”Outfits. one hundred thousand and eighty dollars. The members of the class of midshipmen graduated from the NavalCommissions to cetain midshipmen. Academy on September twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, and February eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven, shall, subject to the usual examinations, be commissioned as ensigns after two years’ sea service from the dates, respectively, of such graduation, and as in the case of other graduates from the Naval Academy. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
For miscellaneous items, namely, freight to foreign stations, advertising,Miscellaneous. cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and ninety-five dollars. For new powder magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, includingFort Mifflin, Pa., magazine.New building, etc. lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.504 bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
For purchase of coal and other fuel for steamer’s and ship’s use, andCoal and transportation. 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 year nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. To supplement the appropriation bringing home remains of officersBringing home remains. and men, Navy and Marine Corps, who die abroad, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
For expressage, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furnitureContingent. and interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses ot naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, ice, and other incidental expenses, ten thousand dollars. The auditor for the Navy Department is hereby authorized andHerbert E. Stevens.Credit in accounts. directed to credit, in the settlement of the accounts of Paymaster Herbert E.
Stevens, United States Navy, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-eight cents, being the value of clothing and small stores stolen from him by Chief Yeoman Oscar S. Kelley, United States Navy, and which has been charged against his accounts on the books of the Treasury Department. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. For amount reported by accounting officers of the United StatesSteam machinery. Treasury, April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, as found in the adjustment of appropriations to be due the appropriation “General account of advances.” being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. five thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-six cents. marine gorps.Marine Corps.
For amount of deficiencv in appropriation for pay of the MarinePay. Corps, reported by the Auditor for the Navy Department, under date of January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. Credit in Accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel George Richards,George Richards.Credit in Accounts. Assistant Paymaster, United States Marine Corps: the Auditor for the Navy Department is authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel George Richards, assistant paymaster, United States Marine Corps, for the second quarter, nineteen hundred and five, under the appropriation “Pay Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five,” the amount disallowed pursuant to decision by the Comptroller of the Treasury, August seventh, nineteen hundred and five, as excess travel allowance on discharge of certain enlisted men, aggregating fifty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.
For Provisions, Marine Corps: Including items specified underProvisions. this head in naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel, Marine Corps, including items specified under this headFuel. in naval appropriation Act, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. 505 For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, including items specified underHire of quarters. this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirteen cents.
For military stores, Marine Corps, including items specified underMilitary stores. this head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and ten dollars and ten cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, including items specified under thisContingent. head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifteen dollars and forty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-seven cents. For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, including items specifiedRepairs of barracks. under this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-three cents.
For provisions, Marine Corps, including items specified under thisProvisions. head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-nine dollars. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, including itemsTransportation and recruiting. specified under this head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-one cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ninety-six cents.
For hire of quarters. Marine Corps, including items specified underHire of quarters. this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety-four dollars and fifty-three cents. For fuel, Marine Corps, including items specified under this head inFuel. naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-six cents. miscellaneous. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ and pay, duringEmployment of classified employees from lump appropriations.*Ante*, p. 159. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, out of the lump appropriations of the several bureaus of the Navy Department, such classified civil-service employees as may be necessary to properly perform the clerical, drafting, inspection, messenger, and other classified work at the several navy-yards and stations: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Proviso.*Detailed estimates required.
Navy shall submit to Congress detailed estimates for all such classified civil-service employees that may be required to be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. and annually thereafter, andEmployment forbidden hereafter unless specially provided for. no such classified civil-service employees shall be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, or in any subsequent fiscal year, and paid from such lump appropriations except under specific authorization granted by law from year to year based upon estimates as herein required.506 INTERIOR DEPARTAIENT.Interior Department. capitol building and repairs.Capitol, The unexpended balances of the appropriations of the fiscal yearsRepairs, etc.Stupended items allowed. nineteen hundred and seven, and nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for payment of the items disallowed and suspended by the Auditor for the Interior Department against the appropriation Capitol Building and repairs, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, amounting to two thousand and five dollars and ninety-one cents, and for work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the eenter of the Capitol, flagstaffs, halyards and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers, purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books.
To reimburse George S, Cunningham and H. M. Sullivan for lossGeorge S. Cunningham and H. M. Sullivan.Reimbursement. of time and doctors’ fees on account of injuries received while employed in the construction of the office building for the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, five hundred dollars. To pay M. H. Mosman for material and labor for repairing damageM. H. Mosman.Payment to. due to accident in erection of bronze doors, House wing of Capitol, one thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for lighting the CapitolLighting.Fixtures for House Office Building. buildinganil grounds, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine for the purchase of lighting fixtures for the House Office Building. To pay the Potomac Electric and Power Company for furnishingHouse Office Building.Electric current. electric current for House Office Building for the, months of January, February, March.
April, and for estimated sum required for electric current for the months of May and June, nineteen hundred and eight, fifteen thousand one hundred and thirty dollars. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the necessarySenate kitehen.Balance for general repairs.Vol. 34, p. 653. improvements in the Senate kitehen. and so forth, provided for in the deficiency Act approved June, thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. public land service.Public lands.
For payment to Truman G. Daniells, register, and Sargent S. Morton,Truman G. Daniells and Sargent S. Morton.Payment to. late receiver, of the United States land office at Oakland, formerly San Francisco. California, the difference between the amount of compensation received by them for services rendered in the conduct of said office from June second, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and the maximum compensation of three thousand dollars per annum each allowed by law, but which they were deprived of earning owing to the destruction of the office at San Francisco by earthquake and fire on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six. four thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-two cents.
For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveysDeputy surveyors.Payment to. and resurveys of public lands executed by them and necessary to complete the surveys under their contracts, being the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, as fully set forth on page twenty-five of House 507 Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents.
To pay Howard B. Carpenter the balance due him forHoward B. Carpenter.Surveying Idaho and Montana boundary. survey of boundary line between the States of Idaho and Montana, under contract dated February tenth, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-four cents. indian office.Indian Office. For one clerk of class three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundredClerk. and nine, one thousand six hundred dollars. reclamation service.Reclamation service.
To reimburse certain disbursing agents of the United States ReclamationReimbursing disbursing agents. Service for losses sustained by them on service payments made during July and August, nineteen hundred and six, in accordance with prior regulations, the. notice of change in methods of payments forVol. 34, p. 763. services under the provisions of section six of the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, not having been brought to their attention until after such payments had been made, and which were subsequently disallowed in their accounts and the amounts repaid by them to the United States from their personal funds, as fully set forth on page twenty-six of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session, one hundred and four dollars and sixty-one cents.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.Indian Department. To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the IndianPurchasing, etc., supplies. Service, advertising, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing and telephoning, and for transportation of Indian goods and supplies for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand dollars. ’ To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey,Black feet Indian Reservation, Mont.Surveying, allotting, etc.Vol. 34, p. 1035. allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight,” three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That this sum shall be*Proviso.*Reimbursement. reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands and town sites of said reservation, three thousand dollars.
PENSIONS.Pensions. Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minorArmy and Navy. 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: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Navy from naval fund. the appropriation aforesaid 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: *And provided furthe*r, That the amount expendedSeparate accounts. under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately, ten million dollars.508 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. office of the secretary.Office of the Secretary.
The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are herebyWilliam L.Soleau.Credit in accounts. authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of William L. Soleau, disbursing clerk, Department of Commerce and Labor, the sum of four dollars and seventy-two cents, disallowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments, from his accounts for the quarter ended September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. bureau of immigration and naturalization.Immigration. For the installation of mechanical equipments and incidental constructionEllis Island, N.
Y.Contagious disease hospital buildings. work in the buildings of the contagious disease hospital group at Ellis Island, New York; and for leveling, tilling and grading approaches to these buildings, and constructing sidewalks, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for “Expenses of regulating immigration,” one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For refund to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique of anCompagnie Generale Transatlantique.Refund. amount erroneously collected from said company for hospital treatment of the aliens Öfeana and Sarqαis Persigian, from January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, to be paid from the appropriation “ Expenses of regulating immigration,” two hundred and seventy-three dollars.
For completing the restoration of the Point Arena light-station,Point Arena, Cal., light-station. California, five thousand dollars. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau. For the construction and repair of buildings at Baird, California,Baird, Cal.Fish hatchery. and auxiliary stations, and the improvement of water supply, eight hundred and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,Contingent expenses. foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and exchange of same, and other necessaries directly ordered by the Attorney-General, one thousand dollars:
For the purchase and installation of a heating plant at the UnitedMcNeil Island, Wash., penitentiary.Heating plant. States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, six thousand dollars. To enable the Attorney-General to employ, at his discretion, andOpinions of Attorney-General, Volume 26.Preparation. irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, such competent person or persons, as will, in his judgment, best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume twenty-six of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, five hund red dollars; the printingPrinting.R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63. of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes. For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessaryDefending suits in claims. 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, for the fiscal year nineteen bundled and seven, six dollars.
For the payment to Guard P. S. Petersen, at Fairbanks. Alaska,P. S. Petersen.Payment to. eight hundred and thirty-three dollars.509 UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. For salaries of district attorneys and marshals for Oklahoma, fromOklahoma.District attorneys and marshals. November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum each, ten thousand dollars. For fees of clerks for the fiscal years as follows:Clerks’ fees.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, forty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and nine cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty cents. To enable the Attorney-General to pay, on the certificate of theLand fraud cases.Payments to witnesses. clerk of the court, each of the witnesses in the trial of the case of the United States against Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider in the District of Columbia, who attend said trial from outside of the District of Columbia, in addition to the amounts that may be paid them under authority of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, a sum equal to three dollars per day for each day actually occupied in attendance on said trial, including the days necessarily occupied in traveling from and returning to their homes, the number of days consumed or to be consumed in such travel to be evidenced by affidavits filed with the clerk of the court, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. 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, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, sixty dollars and eighty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. ten thousand dollars. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to beSupplies. expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for pay of bailiffs andBailiffs, etc. criers of United States courts, including all objects of expenditure under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including all objects ofSupportof prisoners. expenditure under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars.
For support of inmates, including storeroom supplies and otherReform School, D. C. necessary articles and supplies, for the Reform School, Washington, District of Columbia, two thousand seven hundred dollars.510 COURT OF CLAIMS.Court of Claims. For contingent expenses, Court of Claims, fiscal year nineteenA. A. Birney. hundred and seven, to pay the account of A. A. Birney, administrator, of the estate of Allen C. McLean, for repairs made to furniture, thirteen dollars and eighty cents.
For contingent expenses, Court of Claims, fiscal year nineteenPope Manufacturing Company. hundred and six, to pay the account of the Pope Manufacturing Company for one bicycle tire furnished for use on the bicycle used by the court messenger, three dollars and fifty cents. For payment to Lucien B. Howry for services rendered the CourtLucien B. Howry. of Claims during the month of May, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and eight dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department.
For indexes and filing devices, one thousand dollars.Filing devices, etc. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.Postal service. To reimburse certain postmasters for amounts paid on account ofClerk hire. clerk hire during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, six hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirteen cents. For mail-messenger service, forty-seven thousand dollars.Mai1-messenger service.Wagon service. For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, forty-six thousand dollars. For necessary official expenses of assistant superintendents, railwayAssistant superintendents, railwaymail service.Indemnity, registered mail. mail service, not covered by per diem allowance, four hundred dollars.
For the payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first-class registered matter on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eight thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department and certified in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty, of the present session, as follows:
City delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred andCity delivery. five and prior years, three thousand and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents. Miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, nineteen hundredMiscellaneous, first and second class offices. and five and prior years, one thousand three hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents. Rural delivery service, rural agents, salary and per diem, nineteenRural delivery. hundred and five and prior years, fifty-four dollars.
Rural delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred and five and prior years, nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-nine cents. Compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred andPostmasters. seven, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents. Special-delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteenSpecial delivery. hundred and seven, forty dollars and forty cents. Inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred andStar routes. seven, seven thousand and forty-seven dollars and twenty cents.
Inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, forty dollars and seventeen cents. To close the account of the Doremus Machine Company for cancelingDoremus Machine Company.Payment to.*Proviso*, machines furnished during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars: *Provided*, 511 That said sum shall be accepted by said company in full of all claimAcceptance in full. and demand against the United States arising under their contract with the United States, dated May sixth, nineteen hundred and two.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofExtra month’s pay to employees. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eight, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W. A. Smith, Congressional Record Clerk, for extra services during the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law. the same to be immediately available. senate.Senate.
To pay Sara Alice Latimer, widow of Honorable Asbury C. Latimer,Asbury C. Latimer.Payment to widow. late a Senator from the State of South Carolina, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Emily J. Proctor, widow of Honorable Redfield Proctor, lateRedfield Proctor.Payment to widow. a Senator from the State of Vermont, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Janet G. A. Bryan, widow of Honorable William JamesWilliam James Bryan.Payment to widow. Bryan, late a Senator from the State of Florida, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay to Joseph Whyte and Clymer Whyte, sons, and to WilliamWilliam Pinkney Whyte.Payment to children and grandchildren. Pinkney Whyte, Charles G. Whyte, Mary T. Wallbrecht, and William Hollingsworth Whyte, grandchildren, of Honorable William Pinkney Whyte, late a Senator from the State of Maryland, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay to Ida Mallory, Stephen R. Mallory, Kathleen Mallory. RubyStephen R. Mallory.Payment to nephews and nieces. Mallory Fisher, Cora Mallory, Nellie Mallory Pasco, and Stephen R.
Mallory Kennedy, nephews and nieces of Honorable Stephen R. Mallory, late a Senator from the State of Florida, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries and mileage of Senators, eight thousand four hundredSenators.Pay and mileage. and forty dollars and sixty-two cents. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousandMiscellaneous items. dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Extra expenses. the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
To pay William M. Malloy for reporting hearings before the CommitteeWilliam M. Malloy.Services. on Foreign Relations on Wireless Telegraph Treaty and consular bill, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To pay Robert W. Farrar, for indexing and for extra services as clerkRobert W. Farrar.Services. to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr, for services as assistant clerk by detail toDennis M. Kerr.Services. the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars.
To pay for extra services rendered to the Committee on MilitaryCommittee on Military Affairs.Extra services to. Affairs during the investigation of the Brownsville affray, from January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seven, during the recess of the Senate, and until March eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, as authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, as follows: To L. M. Wells, two thousand dollars; to J. A. Brcekons. one thousand two hundred dollars; to C.
E. Lane, six hundred dollars; to Ray Colwell, one hundred 512 dollars; to Joseph Carter, one hundred dollars; to E. L. Cornelius, six hundred dollars; to Peter Roily, one hundred dollars; to John R. Williams, one hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the SenateJ. H. Jones.Services. chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the first session of the Sixtieth Congress.
To pay N. M. Wakefield for service rendered in preparing a tracerN. M. Wakefield.Services. of legislation, and notifying the members of the Senate of the movements of the Senate bills, one thousand dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, DelegatesCompensation, Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, thirteen thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and fourteen cents.
To pay the widow of Adolph Meyer, late a Representative in CongressAdolph Meyer.Payment to widow. from the State of Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the widow of A. L. Brick, late a Representative in CongressA. L. Brick.Payment to widow. from the State of Indiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expensesContested election expenses. incurred in contested election cases as audited and recommended by the committees on elections:
Stanley II. Kunz, two thousand dollars;Stanley H. Kunz. Charles McGavin, two thousand dollars;Charles McGavin. Adolph J. Sabath, two thousand dollars;Adolph J.Sabath. Anthony Michalek, two thousand dollars;Anthony Miehalek Aaron P. Prioleau, two thousand dollars;Aaron P. Prioleau. George S. Legare, two thousand dollars;George S. Legare. J. O. Patterson, two thousand dollars;J. O. Patterson. A. F. Lever, two thousand dollars;A.F. Lever. William B. Cravens, five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousandWilliam B.
Cravens. five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and selectMiscellaneousitems, etc. committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seventy-five thousand dollars. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives,Stationery. including stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For telephone service for House Office Building for last half of theHouse Office BuildingTelephone service. fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. For Eire of horses, feed, repair of wagons and harness for theDoorkeeper. Doorkeeper’s office, three hundred dollars. For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal yearFolding. nineteen hundred and nine, three thousand dollars. To pay J. E. Rose balance due on account for delivery of coal toJ.
E. Rose.Payment to. House Office Building instead of to House wing of Capitol building, five hundred and thirty-four dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the officialOfficial reporters and stenographer.Extra expenses. stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and to John J.
Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. To pay L. W. Busbey for services as clerk of the Committee onL. W. Busbey.Services. Rules, one thousand dollars. 513 To pay James Dent and J. F. Kelly one hundred dollars each forJames Dent and J. F. Kelly.Services.J. C. Stewart.Services. caring for rooms of Committee on Appropriations. To pay J. C. Stewart for caring for and regulating the House chronometer one hundred dollars. To pay Foster Scoll for services as additional clerk to the CommitteeFoster Scoll.Services. on Enrolled Bills one hundred and fifty dollars.
To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives,Alexander McDowell.Compiling, etc., contested election cases. the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Sixtieth Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled, “An Act relating to contestedVol. 24, p.445. elections, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eightyseven,” the sum of one thousand dollars, and an additional sum of live hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For janitor to the Committee on Arts and Expositions during theCommittee on Arts and Expositions.Janitor. fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seven hundred and twenty dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department arc authorizedBernard R. Green.Credit in accounts. and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Bernard R. Green, superintendent Library building and grounds, such sums as he expended during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, not exceeding the sum of three hundred and ten dollars, in compensation of certain employees of the Library for additional employment as guides for the building.
Library of Congress, sections seventeen hundred and sixty-four and seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, notwithstanding, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury. public printing and binding.Printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper forGeneral expenses. the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the Dist rict of Columbia, t he Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees; for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for bicycles, horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence or the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; for freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; for furniture, typewriters, and carpets; for traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising: for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings: for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, on account of the fiscal years, as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, including a sufficientCongress.Aeting Public Printer.Salary, etc. sum to pay the Acting Public Printer the difference between his salary and the salary of the Public Printer from the date of suspension of the Public Printer to the date of the qualification of his successor, and to 514 reimburse him the amount he paid for his bond as Acting Public Printer, live hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixtyeight cents.
For printing and binding for the Navy Department, for the use ofHydrographic Office. the Hydrographic Office, two thousand five hundred dollars. For printing, binding, and easing the Navy Code, to continue availableNavy Code. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, ten thousandDepartment of Justice. dollars. For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, eightCivil Service Commission. thousand seven hundred and three dollars and forty-nine cents.
For printing and binding for the Executive Office, one thousandExecutive Office. five hundred dollars. For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, thirty thousandTreasury Department. dollars. For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, three thousandCourt of Claims. five hundred dollars. For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission,Interstate Commerce Commission. ten thousand dollars. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,Messengers, night duty. as messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress, for extra services, five hundred dollars each: in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay William S. Rossiter for services in conducting, by directionWilliam S. Rossiter. of the President, an investigation of the affairs and operations of the Government Printing Office, and reporting thereon, one thousandServices. dollars. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For the paymentof the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims,Payment. reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-eight and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-eight, namely:
Under legislative—Miscellaneous, one thousand dollars.Classification. Under War Department, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents; Under Navy Department, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fourteen cents; Under Post-Office Department, seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty cents; Under Department of Justice, two thousand two hundred and fiftyeight dollars and seventy-five cents; Under Department of Commerce and Labor, three thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents;
Under Department of Agriculture, ten thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-eight cents; Under Department of Interior, seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred sixty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, nine hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eight cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein*Proviso.*Appeal. provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims.
For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in IndianPayment. depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and seventy-eight and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred, one hundred and forty-four thousand 515 and ninety-four dollars; said judgments to be paid after theDeductions. deductions required to be made under the provisions ot section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,Vol. 26, p. 853. entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and paymentof 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 amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the UnitedReimbursement.
States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to he for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Appeal. That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts.
For pavment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment. of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 24, p. 505. March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-four and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-nine, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the War Department, two hundred and twenty-two dollarsClassification. and fifty-four cents; Under the Navy Department, one thousand and forty-five dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall*Proviso.*Appeal. be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
For the payment of interest at the rate of four per centum perInterest.Vol. 24, p. 507. annum, in accordance with section ten of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, upon the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-five, the principal of which was provided for in the deficiency Act approved*Ante*, p. 26. February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, so much money therefor as may be necessary.
AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionAwards.Vol. 31, p. 879. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-nine, of the present session, two hundred and forty-four thousand and eighty-five 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 five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section 516 two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For collecting the revenue from customs, three hundred and thirty-nineClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. dollars and thirty-six cents. For redemption of stamps, fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, six hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-three cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, four hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand five hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. eight dollars and seventy-seven cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, four hundred and five dollars and seventy-eight cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eight dollars and sixteen cents. For barracks and quarters, one thousand and twenty dollars. For military post exchanges, ninety-seven dollars and forty cents.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, five thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-seven cents. For medical and hospital department, seven dollars and fifty cents. For contingencies of fortifications, including fieldworks, forty-five dollars. For headstones for graves of soldiers, one dollar and thirty-nine cents. For burial of indigent soldiers, thirty six dollars. For payment to State of Delaware, account of war of eighteen hundredDelaware. and twelve to eighteen hundred and fifteen, eighty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents.
For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and two cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, thirty-nine dollars and one cent. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, three thousand and eighteen dollars and fifty-fiveClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, six dollars and fifty-one cents. For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-seven cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, five thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-two cents. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, two dollars and twelve cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, seventeen dollars and five cents. 517 For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen thousand seven hundred and five dollars and eight cents.
For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, fifty-four dollars and fourteen cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-one cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, twenty-four dollars and eighty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents. For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, three thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents.
For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, one thousand and thirty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nine hundred and five dollars. For indemnity for lost property, naval service. Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, sixty dollars and forty-eight cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and one cent.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For surveying the public lands, fifty-eight thousand seven hundredClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. and twenty dollars and thirty cents. For Geological Survey, thirty-three cents. For Indian school buildings, four hundred dollars. For transportation of Indian supplies, eighty dollars and thirtyeight cents. For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, twenty dollars and seventy-five cents. For town-site commissioners, Indian Territory, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents.
For incidentals in North Dakota, nineteen hundred and seven, twentyeight dollars and four cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, six dollars and thirty-four cents. For surveying Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, four thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents. For irrigation. Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), six dollars and forty-nine cents. For pensions, widows and others, one hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-eight cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE. AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. For salaries and expenses. United States court for China, nineteenClaims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. hundred and seven, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventyeight cents. For salaries, consular service, ten dollars and eighty-three cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, twenty-five dollars and sixty-two cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. 518 For soil investigations, live dollars.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-nine cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, thirty-one dollars and thirteen cents. For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, eight dollars and six cents. For expenses of light vessels, five dollars and twenty-five cents. For expenses of buoyage, eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents. For general expenses. Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals. United States courts, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, seven dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. For compensation to postmasters, one dollar.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.
For city-delivery service, incidental expenses, two dollars and fifty cents. For clerk hire, separating, fifty dollars. For inland mail transportation, star, one thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-five cents. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirteen cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be 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 five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 28, p.254. as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, twoClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. thousand six hundred and ten dollars and forty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, six hundred and ninety-fiveClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. dollars and thirty-four cents. For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents.
For subsistence of the Army, seventy-seven dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents. 519 For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, four thousand seven hundred and five dollarsClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. and fourteen cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, three dollars and fifty-two cents. For contingent, Navy, seventy-six dollars. For pay, Marine Corps, three hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-five cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, six thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-two cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and three dollars and twenty-nine cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, six dollars and ninety-five cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For surveying the public lands, fourteen thousand five hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. seventy-one dollars and eighty-one cents.
For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-one dollars and one cent. For payment to estate of Wyatt Gilchrist, deceased, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, three hundred dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Treasury Department: To pay the State of Oklahoma the amountOklahoma.Interest on school fund.Vol. 34, p. 272. found due by the accounting officers as interest at three per centum per annum on the sum of five million dollars appropriated by section seven of the Act approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-seven), from June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seven, in accordance with the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and nine dollars and eighty-four cents.
Department of Agriculture: For protection of forest reserves, sixty dollars. Department of Commerce and Labor: For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. Department of Justice: For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-three cents. 520For fees of commissioners, United States courts, thirty-one dollars and forty cents. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act of March fourth, nineteenVol. 34, p. 1376. hundred and seven (Apache County), three thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and six cents.
Approved, May 30, 1908.