Chapter 27. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 27.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes. February 15, 1908.[[[H. R. 14766.]](/us/bill/70/hr/14766)[[[Public, No. 24.]](/us/pl/70/24) *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: 9 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. office of the secretary.Secretary’s Office.
For compensation of the following employees in the office of theCompensation of employees. Secretary of the Treasury for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, namely: Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For one bookkeeper, at theBookkeeping and warrants division. rate of two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; in all, three thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Division of public moneys: For two clerks of class two; in all, onePublic moneys division. thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Offices of disbursing clerks: For one clerk of class three, six hundredDisbursing office. and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. office of comptroller of the treasury.Comptroller’s office. For one clerk of class three for the balance of the fiscal year nineteenClerk. hundred and eight, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bankComptroller of the Currency.Special examinations. plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and seventy-five dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessaryInvestigation of accounts, etc. traveling expenses and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, treasury.Miscellaneous.
Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentIndependent Treasury.Contingent expenses.R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719. 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, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.
Transportation of Silver Coin: For transportation of silver coin,Transportation of silver coin. including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fourteen thousand and fifty-three dollars and nineteen cents; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal amount in coin or*Proviso*.Deposit. currency shall have been 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. 10Transportation of Minor Coin: For transportation of minor coin,Transportation of minor coin. on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-two cents; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal*Proviso*.Deposit. amount in coin or currency shall have been 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. Furniture and Repairs of Furniture: For an additional amountPublic buildings.Furniture, etc. required for “Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, to equip United States buildings which have not been included in any previous estimate submitted to the Congress, as follows: Fresno, California, court-house and post-office;
Crawfordsville, Indiana, post-office extension; Dallas, Texas, court-house and post-office extension; Newport, Rhode Island, custom-house extension; Rockford, Illinois, post-office extension; Washingion, District of Columbia, custom-house extension; Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office extension; and to equip United States buildings which were included in the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, but not completed in time therefor, and will be turned back into the Treasury:
Evanston, Wyoming, court-house and post-office; Macon, Georgia, court-house and post-office; Superior, Wisconsin, custom-house, sixty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For an additional amount required for furnishing new custom-house,New York Custom-House.Furnishings. New York, New York, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, ten thousand dollars. Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings: To supply aFuel, etc. deficiency in the appropriation for fuel, lights, and water for public buildings on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-three cents.
Collecting the Revenue from Customs: To defray the expenseCollecting customs revenue.R. 8., sec. 3687, p.724. of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, eight hundred thousand dollars. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Prevention of Epidemics: To supply a deficiency in the appropriationPrevention of epidemics. to enable the President of the United States in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, two hundred thousand dollars.
Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: Authority isPublic Health and Marine-Hospital Service.Maintenance of marine hospitals.Vol. 34, p. 1316. hereby granted to use the sum of ten thousand dollars of the amount provided by the sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, for “fuel, light, and water,” for “maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads.” There is hereby added to the appropriation for “pay of all otherPay of employees. employees” the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration. 11Relief of Patrick J.
Madden: To enable the Secretary of thePatrick J. Madden.Vol. 34, p. 2659. Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Patrick J. Madden,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-one cents. Relief of David McClelland: To enable the Secretary of theDavid McClelland.Vol. 34, p. 2813. Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of David McClelland for loss sustained at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-one cents.
Relief of Henry O. Bassett: To enable the Secretary of theHenry O. Bassett.Vol. 34, p. 2819. Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Henry O. Bassett, heir of Henry Opeman Bassett, deceased,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents. Relief of James W. Kenney and the Union Brewing Company:James W. Kenney and the Union Brewing Company.Vol. 34, p. 2824. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of James W.
Kenney and the Union Brewing Company,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twelve cents. public buildings.Public buildings. Athens, Ohio, post-office building: For site and for commencementAthens, Ohio.Site, etc. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. To reimburse the appropriation “Special repairs to revenue steamers,Steamer “Manning.”Repairs. nineteen hundred and eight,” United States Revenue-Cutter Service, the amount required to make urgent and necessary repairs to the United States revenue cutter Manning, which vessel, while performing duty in Bering Sea, struck an uncharted rock off the eastern shore of Knights Island, Prince William Sound, twenty-three thousand dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service.
Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay,Heat and light to detailed officers. from the regular annual appropriation for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for the allowance for heat and light, from March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, furnished to officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service. internal revenue.Internal Revenue.
For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc.Salaries and expenses. law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fees and expenses of gaugers and salaries and expenses of storekeepersFees, etc. and storekeeper-gaugers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fifty-five thousand dollars. office of the director of the mint.Director of the Mint.
For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations of mints, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, one thousand dollars. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight on bullion, etc. between mints and assay offices, sixty thousand dollars. 12 mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Mint at Denver, Colorado: For wages of workmen and adjusters,Denver, Colo.Wages. two thousand five hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including melter andContingent expenses. refiner’s wastage and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiner’s sweeps, five thousand dollars. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: For wages of workmen and adjusters,New Orleans, La.Wages. and not exceeding two thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, seven thousand dollars. Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For wages of workmen andPhiladelphia, Pa.Wages. adjusters, and not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, fifty thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machineryContingent expenses. and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, melters’ and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, fifteen thousand dollars. Mint at Carson, Nevada: To enable the assayer in charge to employCarson, Nev.Additional clerk. an additional clerk during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six hundred dollars.
To enable the assayer in charge to employ an additional melterAdditional melter. during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six hundred and fifty dollars. government in the territories.Government in Territories. Territory of Oklahoma: For salaries of the following from July firstOklahoma.Salaries. to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, namely: For governor at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; chief justice and six associate judges at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum each; and secretary at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; in all, twelve thousand three hundred dollars.
To pay accounts for legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma,Legislative expenses. as set forth on page sixteen of House Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-eight of the present session of Congress, five hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Executive Office: For additional amount required for EngineerExecutive office.Engineer Commissioner’s salary. Commissioner (to make salary five thousand dollars per annum) for the fiscal years that follow:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and ten cents. Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses: For postage for strictlyContingent expenses.Postage. official mail matter, two thousand dollars. For additional amount required for the purchase of enamel metalTags for motor vehicles. identification number tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, two hundred and fifty dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to amend the regulations controlling motor vehicles so as to provide that for such identification tag and registration thereof the owner of each motor vehicle shall pay the sum of two dollars and the secretary of the automobile board shall, afterFee. the payment of said fee to the collector of taxes.
District of Columbia, issue to said owner the identification number tag. Municipal Building: For furnishing and equipping complete inMunicipal building.Furnishing, etc. every detail by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the new 13 municipal building, for repairing and renewing old furniture, and cost of removal to new building, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, to continue available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. For expense of maintaining the new municipal building during theMaintenance. fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, including personal services of such employees as may be authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That no person employed under this appropriation*Proviso*.Maximum compensation. shall receive compensation at the rate of exceeding one hundred dollars per month.
Anacostia Bridge: For completing the grading and paving of theAnacostia bridge.Grading, etc., approaches.Time of completion extended.Vol. 34, p. 1130. approaches to the Anacostia bridge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the time within which this bridge shall be completed is hereby extended to January first, nineteen hundred and nine. Sewers: Of the sums appropriated for sewers for the fiscal yearSewers. nineteen hundred and eight, not exceeding three thousand dollars may be used for procuring rights of way for sewers.
For additional amount required for cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, nine thousand dollars. Bathing Beach: For additional amount required for temporaryBathing beach. services, maintenance, and repairs, five hundred dollars. Public-convenience stations: For additional amount required forPublic-convenience stations. maintenance of public-convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, one thousand two hundred dollars. Public Schools, District of Columbia:
That not exceeding thePublic schools.Instruction of atypical and ungraded classes. sum of five thousand dollars of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars provided to meet the expenses due to the operation of the compulsory education law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby made available for the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction provided for atypical and ungraded classes. Municipal Almshouse: For additional amount required forMunicipal almshouse.Additional ground. acquiring, 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 purchased by the District of Columbia for a site for a municipal almshouse and burial place for the indigent dead, two thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-seven cents.
Reform School for Girls: To pay for plumbing in the buildingReform School for Girls.Plumbing. for male employees in the Reform School for Girls, authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and ninety-one dollars. Elimination of Grade Crossings: Toward carrying out the provisionsUnion Station.Eliminating grade crossings.Vol. 31, p. 767.Vol. 32, p. 913. of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollarsSpecial counsel, etc. per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 14Washington Asylum:
That any unexpended balance in the appropriationWashington Asylum.Payment of nurses. for pupil nurses at the Washington Asylum Hospital for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight is hereby made available for the payment of any nurses that in the judgment of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may be necessary in the work of the hospital. Columbia Hospital for Women: To reimburse Columbia HospitalColumbia Hospital for Women.Reimbursement. for Women and Lying-in Asylum for expenditures for indigent patients sent to said hospital by the Board of Charities in excess of the appropriations by Congress, from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toOne-half from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Military Establishment. under the chief signal officer.Signal Service. For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army on account of theCuban expenses.
Army of Cuban Pacification during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, in the purchase of equipment, stores, and supplies, the engagement of services personal and not personal, and all other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, ten thousand dollars. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular Supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies.
Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and five cents. For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty cents.
Incidental Expenses: For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’sIncidental expenses. Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred thousand dollars. Barracks And Quarters: For barracks and quarters for troops,Barracks and quarters. including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, four thousand dollars.
For barracks and quarters for troops, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and nine thousand and thirty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents. Transportation of the Army and its Supplies: For transportationTransportation. of the Army and its supplies, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one million three hundred and eighteen thousand and seventy-seven dollars and eighteen cents.
Transportation of the Army and its supplies on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-four 15 cents. Clothing and Camp and Garrison Equipage: For cloth, woolens,Clothing, etc. materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, four hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty-one cents.
For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventy thousand dollars. For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents. miscellaneous objects, war department.Miscellaneous.
For furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers,Headstones for soldiers’ graves. sailors, and so forth, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this head in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, sixty-three dollars and sixty cents. MILITARY ACADEMY.Military Academy. For one professor of military hygiene (lieutenant-colonel), in additionPay of professor, etc. to pay as major, five hundred dollars.
For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and for ferriages, and for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battlefield, Watervliet Arsenal, and Sandy Hook proving grounds, two hundred and forty-six dollars and eleven cents. For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, five hundred dollars. For one associate professor of mathematics, major, in addition to pay as captain, not mounted, two hundred dollars. For reimbursing the Corps of Cadets, United States MilitaryJamestown Exposition.Reimbursing Cadet Corps.
Academy, an amount equal to the per diem commutation of rations at thirty cents each (provided for in the appropriations for the support of the Military Academy, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight), for the battalion of cadets while absent from the Military Academy attending the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, one thousand and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents. ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.Armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island bridge, as follows: For operating andRock Island, Ill.Care of bridges, etc. care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, four thousand and fifty dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Dayton, Ohio.
Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For hospital, including the same object specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand six hundred dollars. Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For furnishing and equippingDanville, Ill. new combination barracks, four thousand seven hundred dollars. state or territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors.State or Territorial homes. For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support ofVol. 25, p. 450. disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved 16 August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eighteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-seven cents: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Provisos*.Restriction. apportioned to any State or Territorial home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March third,Vol. 22, p. 564. eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;” but the above proviso shall notException. apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: *And provided further*, ThatIntoxicating liquors. no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. back pay and bounty.Back pay and bounty.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three yearArrears of pay, etc. volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs,Vol. 14, p. 322. for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred thousand dollars.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay voucher inW. A. Copenhaver.Payment to. favor of W. A. Copenhaver, Washington, District of Columbia, for embossing two thousand sheets of note paper and two thousand envelopes, eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Navy Department, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval Establishment. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Transportation, BureauTransportation. of Navigation,” one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Outfits on first enlistment,”Outfits. three hundred thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Heating and lighting,Naval Academy.Heating and lighting. Naval Academy,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Naval training station,California.Naval training station. California—maintenance,” ten thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, NavalNaval Academy.Steam machinery, etc. Academy,” subhead “Gas and steam machinery,” one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Purchase of coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and otherPurchase of coal, etc. equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, one million dollars. 17 bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For naval prison fittingsPortsmouth, N. H., Navy-Yard. for immediate use, six thousand dollars. For fittings and tools for pattern shop, twenty-nine thousand dollars. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundredBookkeepers, etc. and eight, namely: Two chief bookkeepers, at the rate of two thousand dollars each per annum; two clerks of class two; in all, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for Medical Department,Medical Department. including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. To supplement the appropriation bringing home remains of officersBringing home remains of officers and men, etc. 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, two thousand two hundred dollars. marine corps.Marine Corps.
For contingent, Marine Corps: Including all objects specified underContingent. this head in naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, being additional to the amount appropriated for said fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to marine barracks and officers’ quarters,Camp Elliott, Canal Zone.Repairs. Camp Elliott, Isthmian Canal Zone, Panama, ten thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department of Interior. To pay the United States Express Company for expressage furnishedExpress charges. the office of the Secretary of the Interior March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, for transportation of one trunk containing official papers, sent from the General Land Office, Washington, District of Columbia, to E.
B. Linnen, special land inspector, Phoenix, Arizona, ten dollars and sixty-nine cents. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, five thousand dollars. patent office.Patent Office. That the sum of seventeen thousand dollars, or as much thereof asOfficial Gazette. may be necessary, of the appropriation for printing the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, be, and is hereby, made available for completing the work on the Official Gazette for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven. 18 public land service.Public lands.
For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices andRegisters and receivers. receivers of public moneys at district land offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand dollars. For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the districtContingent expenses. land offices, seventy thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriation*Provisos*.Per diem. shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices, and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That no expensesRestriction. chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of theHearings in land entries. General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, twenty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transferUnexpended balance available. the unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of hearings in land entries, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, to the credit of the appropriation for said purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, the said amount to be made available for expenditure during the year nineteen hundred and eight, in addition to the foregoing appropriation.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertisingNational forests.Advertising. the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, ten thousand dollars. geological survey.Geological Survey. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska.Investigating mineral resources. Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. indian affairs.Indian Affairs.
For an additional amount to enable the President to cause, underAllotments in severalty. the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of land inVol. 24, p. 388. severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said. Act and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For an additional amount for survey and subdivision of Indian reservationsSurveying and allotting. and of lands to be allotted to Indians and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars. For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among theSuppressing liquor traffic. Indians, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand five hundred dollars. 19For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of the Interior toWalker River Indians, Nev.Uintah and White River Utes, Utah.Surveying, etc., allotted lands.Vol. 32, p. 260. complete the necessary surveying and otherwise carry out the purposes of so much of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two making appropriation for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes, as provides for the allotment of the Indians of the Walker River Reservation in Nevada, and the Uintah and White RiverSpokane Indian Reservation, Wash.Allotments.Vol. 32. p. 744.
Utes in Utah, and the joint resolution of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two, providing for the allotment of the Indians of Spokane Reservation in Washington, ten thousand dollars. For an additional amount for support of Indian day and industrialSchools. schools and for other educational purposes, fifty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to place on the books ofLower Brule Sioux Indians, S. Dak.Purchase of stock, etc. the Treasury to the credit of the Lower Brule Sioux Indians in South Dakota, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of cattle, mares, and stallions, or for such other purposes as he may deem to be for the best interests of the Indians: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Reimbursement.
That the same shall be reimbursed to the United States, from the first proceeds received from the sale of the lands described in the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourthVol. 34, p. 125. Statutes at Large, one hundred and twenty-five), belonging to said Lower Brule Indians. For the erection complete of a suitable school building to replaceHaskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.School building. the one destroyed by fire at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars.
The Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourthPierre, S. Dak., School.Vol. 34, p. 1047. Statutes at Large, one thousand and forty-seven), appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars for completing the irrigation plant at the Pierre Indian School, South Dakota, is hereby so modified as to permit the expenditure of so much of said amount as may be necessary in completing the work on the artesian well appropriated for by theArtesian well.Vol. 34, p. 370. Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, three hundred and seventy), at said school.
For expense of surveys, allotment of lands to Indians, salaries andFlathead Indian Reservation lands, Mont.Appraisement, sale of, etc., expenses. expenses of the Commission heretofore appointed for the classification of the Flathead Indian Reservation lands, and other incidental expenses in connection with the appraisement, classification, and sale of the lands embraced in the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, the same to be reimbursable from the sale of said lands.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. census office.Census Office. That the Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed toPublishing names of heads of families in the First Census. expend so much of the appropriation for printing for the Department of Commerce and Labor allotted by law to the Census Office for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as may be necessary to continue and complete the publication of the names of the heads of families returned at the First Census of the United States, as authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. bureau of immigration and naturalization.Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.Salaries.
Salaries, Division of Naturalization: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight: One clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class 20 one; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Immigration Station, Ellis Island, New York: For addition to oldEllis Island, N. Y.Additions to hospitals. Ellis Island hospital building, complete, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;
For additional buildings in contagious-disease hospital group, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For new water main between Ellis Island and Jersey City, eighteenWater main. thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration.” light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of the Light-House Board in attending meetings of Board at Washington, actual hire of special conveyance when necessary to inspect light stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, ten thousand dollars.
Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries,Light-vessels.Expenses. supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, eighty thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, andBuoyage.Expenses. maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, ten thousand dollars. light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.
Lake Borgne Light Station, Mississippi: For rebuilding the light-house,Lake Borgne, Miss.Rebuilding lighthouse, etc. fog signal, and wharf, and quarters for keeper, seven thousand dollars. Saint Marys River, Michigan: For lighting Neebish channel,Saint Marys River, Mich.Lighting. twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney-General: For the following for the balance ofAttorney - General’s Office.Salaries. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, namely, for one assistant engineer, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; one messenger, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; one laborer, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum; one fireman, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; three charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars each per annum; in all, one thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 21For 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, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six’, eleven dollars and ninety cents. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits in claims. the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-three cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy dollars and sixty-three cents. Costs in the Supreme Court of the United States: For the paymentCosts. of the costs in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Addison Johnson, agent and warden of Sing Sing prison, appellant, against Charles C. Browne, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents. Costs in circuit court of appeals, third circuit:
For the payment of the costs in the United States circuit court of appeals, third circuit, in the case of Nathaniel G. Macrum and others against the United States, appellee, eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. JUDICIAL.Judicial. For the salary of the United States district judge for the northern districtCalifornia northern district.District judge.Vol. 34, p. 1253. of California, appointed under the Act of March two, nineteen hundred and seven; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six thousand dollars. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. All expenses that may be incurred and otherwise chargeable toPayment of costs in the Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider case. the United States and District of Columbia in the approaching trial of the case of the United States against Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider in the District of Columbia shall be chargeable wholly to the United States and be paid from the respective appropriations made for expenses of United States Courts out of the Treasury.
Whenever anyWitnesses for defense. defendant in the case herein described makes affidavit, setting forth that there are witnesses whose evidence is material to his defense; that he cannot safely go to trial without them; what he expects to prove by each of them; and that he is not possessed of sufficient means, and is actually unable to pay the fees of such witnesses, the court may in its discretion order that such witnesses be paid as herein provided. All witnesses subpoenaed and appearing for the Government andWitnesses’ fees and expenses. those appearing for the defense as above authorized, in the case mentioned in this paragraph, shall be paid out of said appropriations, the per diem fees allowed by law to witnesses in other cases together with actual, reasonable expenses of travel incurred in coming from and returning to their places of residence, which said actual expenses shall be sworn to and shall be subject to the inspection, revision and 22 approval of the court and shall be in lieu of mileage now authorized by law to witnesses in other cases; and the tender of a sum sufficient to cover such actual expenses and the per diem fees shall be as effective for all purposes as the tender of mileage and per diem now allowed by law.
For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals. and their deputies, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, forty thousand dollars. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For fees of jurors, two hundred thousand dollars.Jurors. Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses andWitnesses’ fees, etc.R. S., sec. 850, p. 160. for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crierBailiffs, etc.*Provisos*.Actual attendance.R. S., sec. 715, p. 136. in each court, except in the southern district of New York: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, That noVacation employment prohibited.Traveling expenses, etc., judges. such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendanceJurors. upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days forJury commissioners. any one term of court, five thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. 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 three, thirty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifty-four dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to beSupplies. expended under the direction of the Attorney-General for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedSpecial assistant attorneys.
States district attorneys, employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, namely for the fiscal years as follows: 23For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eight thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and of assistantsNaturalization cases. to United States district attorneys, employed by the Attorney-General to represent the United States in naturalization and other proceedings, and for other necessary expenses in connection with such proceedings and cases, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, ninety-three thousand dollars. For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expensesIndian Territory courts.Salaries, etc. of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven; also salaries of the deputy clerks in the Indian Territory appointed under the Act ofDeputy clerks.Vol. 28, p. 695.
March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and Acts amendatory thereto, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum, from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven; also salaries of four deputy clerks in the Indian Territory, authorized by the Indian appropriation Act approved June twenty-first,Vol. 34, p. 342. nineteen hundred and six, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum, from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, forty-one thousand dollars.
For Reform School, Washington, District of Columbia: ForReform School, D.C.Salaries. the following for the balance of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, namely, one additional teacher at the rate of fifty-five dollars per month, one assistant teacher at the rate of forty-five dollars per month, one watchman at the rate of thirty dollars per month, and one matron of family at the rate of twenty dollars per month; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For purchase of live stock, one thousand five hundred dollars.Live stock. For purchase of furniture required in the new family building,Furniture. three thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Contingent Expenses: For telegraphing, fiscal year nineteen hundredContingent expenses. and seven, three dollars and twenty cents. For furniture, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundredFurniture. and sixty dollars. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and wagons, andHorses and wagons. repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For repair of roofs of Post-Office Department Building, two thousandRepairs. eight hundred and ninety dollars. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.Postal service. For compensation to clerks at first and second class offices, sevenSalaries, clerks. hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For temporary clerk hire at first and second class offices, twenty-fiveTemporary clerks. thousand dollars. For compensation to substitutes for clerks on vacation, ten thousandSubstitutes. dollars. For rent, light, and fuel at Presidential post-offices, fifty thousandRent, etc. dollars.
For miscellaneous and incidental expenses at first and second classMiscellaneous offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. 24For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers,City delivery.Letter carriers. at new offices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, twenty thousand dollars. For horse hire allowance and rent of vehicles, fifteen thousandHorses and wagons. dollars. For car fare and bicycle allowance, ten thousand dollars.Car fare, etc. For electric power and light, and repair of machinery in buildingsElectric power, light, etc. for the use of the Post-Office Department, including the mail-bag repair shop, lock-repair shop, and the division of supplies, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
Railway mail service: For actual and necessary expenses of generalRailway mail service. superintendent, assistant general superintendent, chief clerk and assistant chief clerk, office of general superintendent, division of railway mail service, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office DepartmentTraveling expenses. and away from their several designated headquarters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-four dollars.
The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is transferred fromTransfer of appropriation. the appropriation for: “Mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and labor and material necessaryMail locks, etc. for repairing equipment and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteenVol. 34, p. 1211. hundred and eight, to the appropriation for: “Mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and labor and material necessary for manufacturing and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.
For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes andStamped envelopes, etc.Distribution. newspaper wrappers and expenses of agency, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the compensation of special counsel appointed by the Attorney-General,Special counsel, second - class mail suits. upon the request of the Postmaster-General, for the prosecution and defense on behalf of the Post-Office Department of suits affecting the second-class mailing privilege, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For pay of agent and assistants to distribute registry envelopes, fiveRegistry envelopes. thousand and sixty dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute official envelopes, fiveOfficial envelopes. thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For supplies for the city delivery service, including letter boxes,City delivery, supplies. and so forth, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and prior years, forty-three dollars and twenty cents. For wrapping twine and tying devices, one hundred thousand dollars.Wrapping twine, etc.
For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred andPostmasters. seven, five hundred and. seventy-seven thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-eight cents. For special delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteenSpecial delivery. hundred and seven, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty cents. For inland mail transportation by star routes, fiscal year nineteenStar routes. hundred and six, five hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirteen cents.
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.Isthmian Canal. For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the IsthmianSalaries in the United States. Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars. 25For pay of officers and employees on the Isthmus other than skilledConstruction, etc., departments.Pay of officers, etc., on Isthmus. and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrument men, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, wagon masters, stewards, hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessarily and temporarilyTemporary details. detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two hundred and ten thousand and seven hundred dollars.
For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers,Labor, etc. conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and other artisans, and their helpers, janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursements, and labor, quarters and subsistence, five million five hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment,Purchase of materials, etc. including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the Commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian Canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, six million and eighty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationeryMiscellaneous. and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation departmentHealth and sanitation.Skilled and unskilled labor. on the Isthmus of Panama, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars:
Appropriations made for the construction of the Isthmian Canal inAppropriations continued available. the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March fourth, nineteenVol. 34, p. 1368. hundred and seven, and in this Act shall continue available until expended. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay to Mary E. and Cornelia I. Morgan, daughters of the HonorableJohn T. Morgan.Payment to daughters of. John T. Morgan, late a Senator from the State of Alabama, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay to Lucy T. Roberts, Mary N. Lacy, Alice Pettus, andEdmund W. Pettus.Payment to grandchildren of. Edmund W. Pettus, junior, grandchildren of the Honorable Edmund W. Pettus, late a Senator from the State of Alabama, seven thousand five hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed toWilliam B. Bankhead, Edward Douglas Johnston and Amos E. Lewis.Payment to. pay William B. Bankhead, clerk to the Honorable John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, from July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight; and to Edward Douglas Johnston, clerk to the Honorable Joseph F.
Johnston, of Alabama, from August ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, to December first, nineteen hundred and seven; and to Amos E. Lewis, clerk to the Honorable William J. Bryan, of Florida, from December twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, to January eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. 26For superintendent of the document room at two thousand five hundredSuperintendent of document room.Vol. 34, p. 935. dollars per annum, to be payable from the balance appropriated for said office under the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government, approved March third, nineteen hundred and seven.
For postage stamps for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, seventy-fivePostage stamps. dollars. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, for heating and electricalFuel, etc. apparatus, twelve thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, seventy-five thousandMiscellaneous. dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andClerks to Senators.Payments to, allowed. directed to reopen the accounts of the Secretary of the Senate of the United States for the quarter ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and allow in said settlement all the salaries paid by said Secretary to additional clerks to Senators not chairmen ofHouse of Representatives. committees, therein disallowed. house of representatives.
To pay the widow of Campbell Slemp, late a Representative in CongressCampbell Slemp.Payment to widow. from the State of Virginia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the widow of George W. Smith, late a Representative in CongressGeorge W. Smith.Payment to widow. from the State of Illinois, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay Robert Coates for services rendered in caring for pressRobert Coates.Services. members’ lobby and the Speaker’s clerk’s room during the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, one hundred and forty dollars.
To pay Robert H. Key for services rendered in caring for pressRobert H. Key.Services. members’ lobby and the Speaker’s clerk’s room during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, sixty dollars. To pay C. Barnwell Robinson account on file for services renderedC. Barnwell Robinson.Services. as veterinary surgeon for horses belonging to the Doorkeeper’s department, fiscal years nineteen hundred and five, nineteen hundred and six, and nineteen hundred and seven, ninety-six dollars and fifty cents.
To enable the Doorkeeper to have speeches folded at a rate notFolding speeches. exceeding one dollar per thousand, to remain available during the Sixtieth Congress, five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, eighteen thousand dollars.Fuel and oil. library of congress.
Distribution of card indexes: To enable the Librarian of CongressDistributing card indexes, etc. to secure the additional service necessary in connection with the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, one thousandPrinting and binding. five hundred dollars, or so much thereofLibrary of Congress. as may be necessary. printing and binding. For printing and binding the annual report of the Commissioner ofAnnual report of Commissioner of Education. Education for nineteen hundredJudgments, United States courts. and seven, twenty thousand dollars.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofPayments.Vol. 24, p. 505. suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United 27 States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-five, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, one thousand two hundred andClassification. thirty-three dollars and thirty-six cents; Under the War Department, four thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eleven cents; Under the Navy Department, eight hundred dollars; in all, six thousand four hundred and one dollars and forty-seven cents. To pay balance due the Atlanta Machine Works, of Atlanta, Georgia,Atlanta Machine Works. four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and two cents. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.
For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-five, and Senate DocumentJudgments, Court of Claims.Payments. Numbered One hundred and ninety-six, namely: Under legislative—Public Printer, eight hundred and thirteen dollarsClassification. and eighty-nine cents; Under War Department, forty-two thousand six hundred and seven dollars and nine cents; Under Navy Department, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-one cents;
Under Post-Office Department, thirteen thousand and one dollars and fifty-nine cents; Under Department of Justice, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars; Under Department of Interior, one hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents; in all, one hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-two cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein*Proviso*.Appeal. provided for shall beSpanish Treaty Claims Commission. paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionAwards.Vol. 81, p. 879. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-four, of the present session, fifty-two thousand two hundred and. thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. 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 the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. 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. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy-three, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For pay of assistant custodiansClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. and janitors, thirty dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, one thousand four hundred and nine dollars and seventy-six cents. 28 For suppressing the slave trade, twenty-five dollars and fifty-one cents. For post-office, court-house, and so forth, Binghamton, New York, ten dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents.
For contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle, nineteen hundred and six, six dollars and thirty cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, eighteen dollars and thirty-five cents. For life-saving service, forty-four dollars and forty-one cents. For redemption of stamps, twenty dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, four thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, one hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and nineClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. dollars and fifty-one cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For contingent expenses, War Department, twenty-five dollars and ten cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-seven cents. For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents. For subsistence of the Army, six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eight cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-four dollars and thirty-three cents. For barracks and quarters, five thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-eight cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, four hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents. For contingencies of fortifications at Memphis, Tennessee, six dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, twenty-eight dollars and sixty cents. For pay of Florida volunteers, one hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. ninety-seven dollars and eleven cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, six thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, seven hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents. For emergency fund, Navy Department, thirty-one dollars and eight cents. 29 For pay, Marine Corps, four thousand and forty-seven dollars and three cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, sixty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents. For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighty-one dollars and fifteen cents.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, thirty-three dollars and ninety-two cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, forty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents. For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, one hundred and forty-six dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, forty-four dollars and thirty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two hundred and fifty-one dollars and eleven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy-three dollars and sixty-seven cents.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, twenty-six dollars and forty-two cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, forty-four dollars and twenty cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-two cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents. For relief of George T. Pettengill, lieutenant, United States NavyVol. 34, p. 2306.*Post*, p. 503. (Act January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven), two hundred and sixty-three dollars and three cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For repairs, Government Hospital for Insane, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand andClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. fifteen dollars and eight cents.
For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada, nineteen hundred and six, nine dollars and twenty-six cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, one dollar and seventy-two cents. For surveying the public lands, forty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. For Geological Survey, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. For geological maps of the United States, twenty-five cents. 30For surveying forest reserves, twenty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.
For Indian school transportation, thirty-six dollars and twenty-six cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, ninety-five cents. For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, sixty dollars and fifty-five cents. For payment to Fond du Lac Chippewas for timber depredations, twelve dollars and ten cents. For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and seven, twelve dollars and thirty-seven cents. For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-three dollars and forty-four cents.
For support of Confederated bands of Utes, subsistence, two hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-two cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, twenty-six dollars and fifty-three cents. For surveying Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, fifteen dollars and ten cents. For Army pensions, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, seven dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments.
For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, three hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-five cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, seventy-eight dollars and forty-six cents. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, twelve dollars and thirty-three cents. For soil investigations, two dollars and thirty-eight cents. For agricultural experiment stations, twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents. For tea culture investigations, four dollars and seventy-five cents.
For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, one hundred and five dollars and seventy-four cents. For expenses of buoyage, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, one dollar and fifty cents. For lobster hatchery, Maine, twenty dollars and fifty cents. For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, three hundred and sixty-five dollars. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy cents.
For fees of clerks, United States courts, four thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-nine cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, five dollars. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, seven dollars and sixty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, sixty-six dollars and forty-five cents. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, one hundred and ninety-two dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, UnitedClaims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department. States courts, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.31 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For star transportation, fifty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents. For rural free delivery, incidental expenses, twelve dollars. For rewards, two hundred dollars. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, one thousand and nineteen dollars. For city-delivery service, incidental expenses, two dollars.
For railroad transportation, freight, and cartage, sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents. For rent, light, and fuel, four dollars and fifty cents. For clerk hire, separating, fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents. For compensation to postmasters, fifty dollars and ninety cents. For special-delivery service, fees, sixteen cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to beAdditional claims. 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 the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. 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. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One 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 collecting the revenue from customs, one thousand three hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. eighty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, one thousand six hundred dollars. For refunding taxes illegally collected, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, twenty thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars andClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. twenty-three cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-four cents. For subsistence of the Army, six hundred and eighty-one dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, four dollars and ninety cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seven hundred and fifty-one dollarsClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. and ninety-eight cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
For pay of the Navy, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-nine cents. For pay, miscellaneous, forty dollars and twenty cents. For pay, Marine Corps, five hundred and eight dollars and twenty-three cents. 32For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, twenty-six dollars and forty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighty-two cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents.
For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifteen dollars and seventy cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and sixClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. dollars and sixty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents.
For surveying the public lands, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-three cents. For Geological Survey, five dollars and seventy cents. For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, two hundred and twoClaims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments. dollars and fifty-two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. For public printing and binding, forty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents. For salaries of interpreters to legations, three dollars and twenty-five cents.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred and eight dollars and thirty-five cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-four cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, three dollars and sixty-eight cents. For botanical investigations and experiments, six dollars and twenty cents. For forestry investigations, four dollars and twelve cents.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, eighty-three dollars and twenty cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, seventeen dollars and seventy-seven cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, four dollars. Approved, February 15, 1908.