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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · March 4, 1909 · Chapter 298

Chapter 298. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 298.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes. March 4, 1909.[[H. R. 28876](/us/bill/70/hr/28876).][[Public, No. 327](/us/pl/70/327).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United* *States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,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 nine, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Executive Office. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office for the fiscal yearContingent expenses. nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and eight cents. 908 For housekeeper for the Executive Mansion, at the rate of oneHousekeeper for Executive Mansion. thousand dollars per annum, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, inclusive, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For expenses of the proposed celebration during the first week ofLake Champlain.Celebrating three hundredth anniversary of discovery. July, nineteen hundred and nine, to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Lake Champlain by Samuel do Champlain, twenty thousand dollars. The payment of compensation and expenses to February first, nineteenTokyo Exposition.Allowance of payments made for.*Ante*, p. 183. hundred and nine, of the three commissioners-general, secretary, and other employees appointed under and by authority of the Act approved May tw-enty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, to provide for participation by the United States in an international exposition to be held at Tokyo, Japan, is hereby authorized, and the accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to audit and approve all payments that have been made: *Provided*, That no further expenditures*Provito.*Further expenses. authorized by said Act shall be incurred or allowed until further directed by Congress.
For the payment of the annual installments for the calendar yearsColombia.Annual payments to. nineteen hundred and eight and nineteen hundred and nine, of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each, under the assignment and transfer made by the Republic of Panama to the Republic of Colombia, in manner and form as contained in the treaty between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Panama of January ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, the recognition of which assignment and acceptance of notice thereof are given by the United States in Article V of the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Colombia concluded January ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, five hundred thousand dollars.
To enable the State Department to investigate the interests of theLiberia.Investigation of American interests in, United States and its citizens in the Republic of Liberia, with the consent of the authorities of said Republic, twenty thousand dollars. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Contribution.Vol. 20, p. 714. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seven cents.
To reimburse Thorvald Solberg, register of copyrights, for actualThorvald Solberg.Reimbursement. expenses incurred and paid by him while representing the United States as a delegate to the International Conference for the Protection of Works of Literature and Art, held at Berlin, October fourteenth to November fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Depart merit. Office of Treasurer: To reimburse the appropriation “CompensationTreasurer’s office.Employees iron Bureau of Engrav ing and Printing. of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, for the services of employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing detailed to the office of the Treasurer of the United States, to the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-two cents. 909 Office of Treasurer (National Currency to be ReimbursedNational Currency.Redemption Agency Sorters. by National Banks):
To reimburse the appropriation “Compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, for t he services of employees of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing detailed to the office of the Treasurer of the United States, to assort notes in the National Bank Redemption Agency to the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, sixty-eight thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty- four cents. Office of Auditor for the Navy Department:
For the followingAuditor for Navy Department.Clerks. increased force in the office of the Auditor for the Navy Department from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive: One clerk, class four; one clerk, class three; and one clerk, class two; in all, one thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus,Stationery. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, five thousand dollars. Transportation of Silver Coin:
To pay bills on hand and unpaid,Transporting silver coin. awaiting an appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eight thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents. Transportation of Fractional Silver Coin: For transportationTransporting fractional silver coin. of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, twenty-five 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*Proviso.*Deposit. 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, twenty- five thousand dollars.
Transportation of Minor Coin: For transportation of minorTransporting minor coin. coin, by registered mail or otherwise, five 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, 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 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 for “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and one cent. To pay bills on hand and unpaid, awaiting an appropriation, one thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-eight cents. Furniture and Repairs of Same for Public Buildings:
ToPublic buildings.Furniture, etc. supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, to enable the Treasury Department to equip twenty-two public buildings which were not reported by the Supervising Architect in time to be included in the appropriation for nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred dollars. Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings:
To pay theVicksburg Railway and Light Company. account of the Vicksburg Railway and Light Company, for electric current supplied the United States custom-house, Vicksburg, Mississippi, from July first, nineteen hundred and four, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, fifty-five dollars and twenty cents. Suppressing Counterfeiting and other Crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of 910 the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay anil bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying*Proviso*.Witnesses. the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used inUse for persons detailed, forbidden. payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may, at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: Authority isPublic Health and Marine-Hospital Service.Amount transferrec to supplies.*Ante.* p. 329. hereby granted to use the sum of ten thousand dollars of the amount provided by the sundry civil act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for “medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses at other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads,” for “purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies?’ Quarantine Service:
To supply a deficiency in the appropriationQuarantine service.Maintenance. for the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay or officers ami employees of quarantine stations at places named in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty thousand dollars. Collecting the Revenue From Customs: To defray the expenseCollecting custom 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 nine, five hundred thousand dollars.
For the expenses coimected with the seizure of certain horses inSeizure of horses. the customs district of North and South Dakota, in May, nineteen hundred anil four, fully set forth on page nine hi House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and six of the present session, said horses having been seized for violation of the customs revenue laws and subsequently turned over to the Department of Justice for the institution of forfeiture proceedings, with the result that the horses in question were forfeited and sold, but the proceeds from the sale were only sufficient to pay the expenses coimected with the forfeiture proceedings, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-four cents.
Refund to Southern Pacific Company: To refund to the SouthernSouthern Pacifie Company.Refund to. Pacific Company the sum of thirty-six dollars, which should have been paid by the collector of customs at Nogales, Arizona, under direction of the Treasury Department, to said company, but was erroneously deposited in the General Treasury by the collector to the credit of services of United States officers by certificates of deposit numbered five hundred and eighty-eight,May ninth,nineteen hundred ami seven, and numbered six hundred and twenty-eight, June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, and no refund made, thirty-six dollars.
Reimbursement of Philippine Islands: To enable the SecretaryPhilippine Islands.Reimbursement o tonnage tax. of the Treasury to deposit to the credit of the Philippine Islands special fund the sum of one hundred and thirty-six dollars and sixty- two cents, collected by the collector of customs at San Francisco, California, July twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, as tonnage tax 911 from the British steamship Sutherland, entered at the port of San Francisco from Manila, by way of Iloilo, Philippine Islands, and erron- ously covered into the General Treasury of the United States by certificate of deposit numbered one hundred and forty-five, dated July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and thirty- six dollars and sixty-two cents.
Payment to Kansas: To pay the amount certified in House DocumentKansas.Payment for expenses suppressing Indian hostilities, etc.*Ante*, p. 480. Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixteen of the present session, as audited and found due to the State of Kansas for interest and discount on moneys borrowed by said State for the purpose of repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, under authority of a provision contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, four hundred and twenty- five thousand and sixty-five dollars and forty-three cents.
Payment to Henry Frederick Wegner, Administrator, andHenry Frederick Wegner.Payment of French Spoliation Claim. so Forth: The amount appropriated to be paid under the clause reading as follows: “On the schooner Phoenix, James Coward, master, namely: Henry Frederick Wegner, administrator de bonis non of the estate of Albert Seekamp, four thousand four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-four cents,” in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and suppliesVol. 80, p. 1199. 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 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be paid to Henry Frederick Wegner, as administrator of the estate of Albert Seekamp, the amount so appropriated to be paid or distributed by said administrator to the next of kin of the deceased widow of said Albert Seekamp: *Provided*, That the same shall not be paid until the Court of Claims*Proviso.*Security to be given. shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that said administrator, or his successor in office, represents the next of kin of said widow, and the court which granted the administration shall certify that he has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the amount herein appropriated.
Relief of S. R. Green: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryS. R. Green.*Post*, p. 1402. to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of S. R. Green,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, eighty- five dollars. Reimbursement of S. R. Green: To enable the Secretary of theS. R. Green.*Post.* p. 1441. Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act to reimburse S. R. Green, postmaster of Oregon City, Oregon, for moneys lost by burglary,” approved February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and six dollars and forty cents.
Relief of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Mandan,Farmers and Merchants’ Bank.*Post*, p. 1442. North Dakota: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of the Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of Mandan, North Dakota,” approved February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, fifty-seven dollars. Relief of Charles S. Blood: To enable the Secretary of theCharles S. Blood.*Post*, p. 1445. Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Charles S.
Blood,” approved February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, five hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-five cents. Relief of George M. Stackhouse: The proper accounting officers,George M. Stackhouse.Credit in accounts. in settling and adjusting the accounts of George M. Stackhouse, paymaster, United States Navy, are hereby directed to credit said George. M. Stackhouse with the sum of one thousand six hundred and six dollars, which amount of Government funds he intrusted to Clerk F.
W. Jepson, of the paymaster’s office on United States steamship Kentucky, on January third, nineteen hundred and six, for disbursement, and which sum was stolen from safe in paymaster’s office by Yeoman Gordon II. Lanier, who absconded. 912 Payment to C. F. Sugg : To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryC. F. Sugg.*Post.* p. 1582. to carry out the provisions of “An Act to pay to C. F. Sugg, of Hales Point, Lauderdale County, Tennessee, seventy-nine dollars and ninety- five cents, for damages inflicted upon gasoline steamer Clyde by lighthouse tender Oleander.
” Refund of Duties on Anthracite Coal: To enable the SecretaryDuties on anthracite coal refunded.*Ante*, p. 590. of the Treasury to pay, under the Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and nine, authorizing the refund of certain duties on coal importations, the following amounts to the parties named, or so much thereof as may be found due, namely: To the Hazard Wharf Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, six thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-one cents; to the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, successors of the Consolidated Gas Company, of Baltimore, Maryland, seven thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-eight cents; to Alfred Winsor and Son sixty-seven dollars; to C.
P. Jameson six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents; to A. Winsor and Son sixty-five dollars and sixty- six cents; to Sanderson and Son six hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-seven cents; to C. P. Jameson six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and forty-three cents; to A. Winsor and Son sixty-five dollars and sixty-six cents; to A. Winsor and Son sixty-six dollars and thirty- three cents; to W. K. Niver Coal Company one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents; to American Woolen Company three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and seventeen cents; to entry by A.
C. McDormand, Metropolitan Coal Company owner, two thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty-one cents; to entry by A. C. McDormand, Metropolitan Coal Company owner, two thousand six hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents; to Metropolitan Coal Company three thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-four cents; to John R. White and Son two thousand five hundred and seventy- one dollars and forty-six cents; to C. P. Jameson forty dollars and twenty cents; to Murrell and Crocker two thousand nine hunched and one dollars and ten cents; to Murrell and Crocker two thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and nineteen cents; to Metropolitan Coal Company three thousand four hundred and twentyseven dollars and five cents; to Darrow, Mann Company, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-live cents; to John Driver eighty-three dollars and eight cents; to Stoddard, llas- erick, Richards and Company, sixty-seven dollar’s; to Boston Elevated Railway Company three thousand three hundred and eighty- two dollars and eighty-three cents; to Boston Elevated Railway Company three thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and one cent; to Boston Elevated Railway Company two thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and forty-seven cents; to A.
T. Nichols one hundred and fifty-two dollars and nine cents; to William C. Atwater and Company (Incorporated) two thousand three hundred and thirtyeight dollars and thirty cents; to W. K. Niver Coal Company two thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-six cents; to William C. Atwater and Company (Incorporated) two thousand six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-one cents; to Stoddard, Haserick, Richards and Company one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents; to John Driver sixty-two dollars and thirty-one cents; to Stoddard, Haserick, Richards and Company one hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-six cents; in all, sixty- one thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents: *Provided*, That before payment is made to said claimants they*Proviso.*Proof required. shall severally produce satisfactory proof to the Secretary of the Treasury that they were not reimbursed for said tariffs in the sales to the consumer. 913 public buildings.Public buildings.
General Expenses of Public Buildings: To enable the SecretaryGeneral expenses.*Ante*, p. 537. of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and under the limitations and provisions thereof, sixty-five thousand dollars to continue available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, this amount being additional to the sum of twenty- five thousand dollars provided for in the deficiency Act of May*Ante.* p. 489. thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purposes stated.
Detroit, Michigan, Public Building, Temporary Annex: ToDetroit, Mich.Temporary annex.*Post*, p. 919. enable the Secretary of the Treasury to erect a temporary annex on the west side of the federal building in Detroit, Michigan, to meet the necessities of the business of the post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; said temporary annex to take the place of the annex to be removed from the north side of the building during the erection of the permanent addition now under construction.
That the amount heretofore authorized for the enlargement, extension,Ellsworth, Me.Additional ground.*Ante.* p. 482. remodeling, or improvement of the post-office and custom-house at Ellsworth, Maine, so much thereof as may be necessary shall be available for the acquisition of additional land: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Limit of east not changed. limit of cost heretofore fixed shall not be exceeded in the acquisition of said site and the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of said post-office and custom-house. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, and others, thirteen dollars and seventy-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the TreasuryContingent expenses. on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six thousand and eighty-three dollars and forty cents. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices.
Authority is granted to use of the unexpended balance of fiftyDenver. Colo.Coining presses, etc.Vol. 34, p. 961. thousand dollars appropriated by the legislative Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, for contingent expenses, mint at Denver, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, the sum of five thousand dollars to make payment for two coining’presses furnished under contract made May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and the sum of three thousand dollars to make payment for t wo pairs of steel rolls furnished in October, nineteen hundred and eight, under order given March second, nineteen hundred and six.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for incidental and contingentPhiladelphia, Pa.Expenses. expenses of the mint at Philadelphia, including all objects mentioned under this title for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, occasioned by the payment of six thousand dollars for new designs for the gold coins, four thousand four hundred and seventy- two dollars and sixty-four cents. Mint At Carson, Nevada: For wages of workmen, five hundredCarson, Nev. dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, five hundred dollars. 914 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia.
Coboner’s Office: For amount required to pay the deputy coronerCoroner’s office.Deputy. for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and twenty- five dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five dollars. Judicial Expenses: For additional amount required to meet theJudicial expenses. objects set forth in the appropriation for judicial expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, seventy-one dollars and ninety cents.
Coroner’s Office: For additional amount required to meet theCoroner’s office. objects set forth in the appropriation for coroner’s office for the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-two dollars and ninety-seven cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one dollar and twenty-five cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven dollars and twenty- five cents. General Advertising:
For additional amount required forAdvertising. advertising, authorized and required by law, and for school and tax notices and notices in changes of regulations for the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fifteen dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, nine dollars and sixty cents. Postage: For postage for strictly official mail matter, one thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses: For additional amount required for use ofContingentexpenses. bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department, three hundred dollars.
Improvements and Repairs: Georgetown schedule: That the balanceImprovements and repairs.Georgetown schedule. of the appropriation for Georgetown schedule, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby made available for the paving of Thirty-fourth street northwest from Q street to Reservoir place. Northwest: Second street, south of Bryant street, grade and improve,Northwest schedule. seven thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of May twentysixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
Extension of Streets and Avenues: For additional amountExtension of streets, etc. 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 authorizing extension of W and Adams streets northwest,”W and Adams streets NW.Vol. M, p. 1008. approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and seven, eighty-two dollars and five cents;
“An Act authorizing the extension of Twenty-third street northwest,Twenty-third street NW.Vol. 34, p. 847. to Kalorama road,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; “An Act for the extension of Seventh street and Franklin streetSeventh and Franklin streets NW.Vol. 34. p. 844. northeast, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, ninety-eight dollars and fifteen cents; “An Act for the extension of Twenty-third street from S street toTwenty-third street NW.Vol. 33, p. 252.
California avenue,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, two dollars; “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, sixty-three dollars: 915 “An Act for the extension of Nineteenth street from Woodley roadNineteenth street NW.Vol. 33, p. 1007. to Baltimore street,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-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, sixteen dollars and fifty 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, three dollars; “An Act for the extension of Harvard street, Columbia Heights,Harvard street NW.Vol. 34. p. 856. District of Columbia,” approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, forty dollars and sixty 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, fifty dollars and five cents;
“An Act to extend Fourth street northeast,” approved JanuaryFourth street NE.Vol. 34. p. 857. twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-one dollars and three 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, eight dollars and ten cents; “An Act for the extension of Albemarle street northwest, District ofAlbemarle street NW.Vol. 34. p. 1225 Columbia,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, eight dollars and fifteen cents;
“An Act for the widening of a section of Columbia road east ofColumbia road NW.Vol. 34, p. 844. Sixteenth street,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, twelve dollars and eight cents; In all, five hundred and forty-two dollars and forty-six cents. Sixteenth Street: For additional amount required for the costsPiney Branch park way.Vol. 31. p. 1000. 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 Creek Park, District of Columbia,” thirty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.
Sewers: For additional amount required to pay the expenses ofSewers.Rights of way. purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers for the fiscal year nineteen hundred And eight, ten dollars and twenty-five cents. Equipment of School Playgrounds: For additional amountSchool playgrounds. required for equipment and maintenance of school playgrounds, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven dollars and sixty-five cents. Public Schools:
For additional amount required for furniturePublic schools.Furniture. for school buildings, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, thirtyeight dollars and seventy-five cents. Salaries of Teachers: That one of the minimum salaries ofTeachers.Transfer of salaries. class four, at eight hundred dollars, is hereby transferred to class six, at one thousand dollars; that one of the’ minimum salaries of class three, at six hundred and fifty dollars, is hereby transferred to class six, at one thousand dollars; that two of the minimum salaries of class three, at six hundred and fifty dollars, are hereby transferred to class four, at eight hundred dollars; in order to make the salaries above transferred equal to the minimum salaries of the respective classes as provided in the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulateVol. 34. p. 318. the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, from dates of appointments of teachers to the positions above referred to, there is hereby appropriated seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents.
That the provision contained in the District appropriation Act,Site restriction modified.*Ante*, p. 294. approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, “For purchase of ground for school in eighth division to replace Potomac 916 School, approximately twenty-five thousand square feet, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,” is hereby amended to read as follows: “For purchase of ground for school in eighth division to replace Potomac School, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
” Metropolitan Police: For additional amount required to payPolice.Promotions. salaries of privates of class two promoted to class three and privates of class one promoted to class two during the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand and nineteen dollars and fifty cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-seven cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand six hundred and nine dollars and thirty-three cents.
Fire Department: The Commissioners of the District of ColumbiaFire department.Fuel. are hereby authorized and directed to pay to W. J. Holtman the sum of two dollars and twenty-five cents for one thousand two hundred Sounds of bituminous coal furnished the fire department of the district of Columbia March twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, without the usual certificate of inspection required by law. For additional amount required for forage, four thousand nine hundredForage. dollars.
Health Department: The appropriation of twenty-five thousandHealth department.Tuberculosis registration.*Ante*, p. 299. dollars for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, providing for the enforcement of various laws to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, is hereby made available, in addition to the objects therein set forth, for the enforcement of an Act of Congress approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to provide*Ante*. p. 126. for the registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
For additional amount required for maintenance of the disinfectingDisinfecting service. service, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, one thousand dollars. Garfield Hospital Isolating Ward: For additional amountGarfield Hospital. required for isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital, maintenance, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Eastern Dispensary: For emergency care and treatment of, andEastern Dispensary. free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, three thousand 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 ami medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.
Home for the Aged and Infirm: For additional amount requiredHome for Aged and Infirm. for provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs ami medical sup- • plies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars. National Training School for Boys: For additional amountNational Training School for Boys. required for care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said school, three thousand three hundred dollars, or so much there of as may be necessary. 917 Board of Children’s Guardians:
For additional amount requiredBoard of Children’s Guardians.Care of children. for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars heretofore authorized a further sum not to exceed two thousand dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand dollars.
The sum of two thousand and ninety-four dollars and nineteen 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 eight, 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 to said institutions during said fiscal year.
Police Court: For additional amount required for compensationPolice court.Jurors. of jurors, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, thirty-six dollars. Juvenile Court: For services rendered by acting judge of juvenilecourtJuvenile court.Acting judge.Vol. 34, p. 73. during the absence of the judge of said court, as authorized by section three of the Act of March nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, creating said court, for the fiscal years: Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and eighty dollars.
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and five dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and forty dollars. That the unexpended balance of eighty-two dollars and sixteenFurniture, etc. cents of the appropriation provided for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the court-house and grounds of the juvenile court of the District of Columbia, is hereby transferred to and made available for similar purposes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.
Municipal Court: The unexpended balance of the appropriationMunicipal court.Salaries of justices.*Ante*, p. 623. for salaries, justices of the peace, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the payment of the judges of the municipal court of the District of Columbia for the period from February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. Writs of Lunacy: For additional amount required to meet theLunacy writs. objects set forth in the appropriations for writs of lunacy, District of Columbia, for the fiscal years that follow:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred ami fifty dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two dollars and fifty cents. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, ten dollars. Home for the Aged and Infirm: For additional amount requiredHome for Aged and Infirm. to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eight dollars and fourteen cents. Purchase of Land, Government Reservations:
For additionalCustom-house, enlarging.Vol. 34, p. 775. amount required to meet the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to section two of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to increase the cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public 918 buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes,” payable wholly from the revenues of the United States, two dollars and fifty cents.
Public Convenience Stations: For additional amount requiredPublic convenience stations. for maintenance of public convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, two hundred dollars. Hospital for the Insane: For additional amount required forGovernment Hospital for Insane. support of the indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs,Judgments. against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered Fourteen hundred and six, Fourteen hundred and fifty-one, and Fourteen hundred and sixty-nine of this session and letter of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, dated March first, nineteen hundred and nine, thirteen thousand and eighteen dollars and eighty cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Pay of Bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in eachSupreme court, D. C.Bailiffs, etc. court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, for the fiscal years that follow: Fiscal year nineteen bundled and nine, one thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundredand eight, fourteen dollars and one cent. Miscellaneous Expenses, Supreme Court:
For payment of suchMiscellaneous. miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the AttorneyGeneral for the supreme court of the District of Columbia ami its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars. Fees of Witnesses, Supreme Court: For fees of witnesses in theWitness fees. supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, for the fiscal years that follow:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation “Fees of witnesses, supreme court, District of Columbia/’ fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and ninety-one, dollars’ and fifty cents. Support of Prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail ofSupport of prisoners. the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years that follow:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty thousand dollars. Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five hundred and seventy- one dollars and ninety-five cents. Support of Convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department on account of the appropriation “Support of convicts 919 , District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and fifteen cents.
Militia : For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Naval BattalionNaval battalion.Instruction cruise. while on instruction cruise on United States ship Prairie, July seven-t teenth to twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, under General Orders, Numbered Eleven, Headquarters District of Columbia Militia, one thousand five hundred ami thirty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. For printing and stationery, including preparation, publication, and distribution of a compilation of orders and regulations and the necessary blank forms, two thousand dollars.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toPart from District revenues. meet deficiencies 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. M1LITARY ESTABLISHMENT.War Department. pay department.Army. For pav of officers and enlisted men of the army, four millionPay. dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedGerald E.
Griffin.Commutation of quarters. to allow the payment made by the Pay Department of the army to Gerald E. Griffin, veterinarian, Third Field Artillery, in the sum of two hundred and forty dollars, for commutation of quarters while serving in Cuba from July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow the payment made by the Pay Department of the army to Gerald E.
Griffin, veterinarian, Third Field Artillery, in the sum of seventy-two dollars, for commutation of quartern while serving in Cuba from April first, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. For amount of annuity granted to Mrs. Jennie Carroll, widow ofJennie Carroll.Annuity. James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, from May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month,*Ante.* p. 739.*Post.* p. 1325. as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents.
For amount of annuity granted to Mrs. Mabel H. Lazear, widow ofMabel H. Lazear.Annuity. Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, from May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars*Ante*, p. 739.*Post*, p. 1325. per month, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. headstones for graves of soldiers.
For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarkedHeadstones for sol-- diers’ graves. graves of Union soldiers, and so forth, including all objects mentioned under this head in sundry civil act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, t wo thousand dollars. office of the surgeon-general. For replacing medical and hospital supplies destroyed by fire at theArmy Medical Supply Depot.Replacing stores. Army Medical Supply Depot in New York City, November seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to be available for purchases during 920 the fiscal years nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and ten, fifty thousand dollars.
To reimburse Colonel John G. 1). Knight, Corps of Engineers, forJohn G. D. Knight.Reimbursement. moneys expended in inserting in certain newspapers an advertisement giving notice of a public nearing for consideration of plans for a bridge to be built across Delaware River near Trenton, New Jersey, said payment to be made from funds heretofore appropriated by Congress, eighty-six dollars and ninety-three cents. military academy.Military Academy. For expenses of the Board of Visitors, including mileage, being forBoard of Visitors. the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand and ninety-five dollars and thirty-six cents.
For postage and telegrams, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundredPostage, etc. and eight, eleven dollars and forty-four cents. quartermaster’s departmext.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, fifty thousand dollars. Incidental expenses: For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’sIncidental expenses.
Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seventy-live thousand dollars. Transportation of the Army and Its Supplies: For transportationTransportation. of the army ami its supplies, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, three hundred thou- sand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred thousand dollars.
For barracks and quartern for troops, including all objects mentionedBarracks and quarters. under this head in army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty thousand six hundred and sixtyeight dollars and thirty-two cents. war, miscellaneous. Arrears of Pay, Bounty: Back pay and bounty: For payment ofBack pay, bounty, and commutation of rations, volunteers. amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six,Vol. 14. p. 322. 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 nine, one hundred thousand dollars.
Relief of Captain Abraham P. Buffington: The accountingAbraham P. Buffington.Credit in accounts. officers of the Treasury are directed to credit the accounts of Captain Abraham P. Bullington, paymaster, United States Army, with the sum of one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents paid by him on forged deposit receipts, his voucher numbered eight hundred and fifty-four, for July, nineteen hundred and six, to James W. Wamsley, sergeant of the Hospital Corps, United States Army, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Relief of Major George T. Holloway: The accounting officersGeorgeT. Holloway.Credit in accounts. of the Treasury are directed to credit the accounts of Major George T. Holloway, paymaster, United States Army, with the sum of ninety-nine 921 dollars and eighty-six cents, said amount having been unavoidably lost in a sudden and severe windstorm on June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, during a payment to Company F, Twelfth Infantry, in a tent at Pine Camp, New York, ninety-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.
Relief of Color Sergeant William G. Hardy: The accountingWilliam G. Hardy.Continuous service record established. officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to regard the service of Color Sergeant William G. Hardy, Fourth United States Cavalry, as continuous from December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventv-four, to February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eight, the date of his retirement from active service; and to cover overpayments made to him between January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and February, nineteen hundred and eight, the sum of five hundred and ninety-seven dollars and thirty-eight cents is hereby appropriated.
Reimbursement of Major John E. Baxter: For the reimbursementJohn E. Baxter.Reimbursement. of Major John E. Baxter, quartermaster, United States Army, for the amount refunded by him on account of a. disallowance made by the Auditor for the War Department in the accounts of Captain Ira L. Fredendall, nineteen dollars and sixty cents. Relief of W. M. Hall: For the relief of W. M. Hall, assistantW. M. Hall.Reimbursement. engineer in the Engineer Department at large, for reimbursement of expenses necessarily incurred in defending a suit against him in the United States circuit court for the northern district of West Virginia for violation of the Act of August first, eighteen hundred and ninety- two, known as the eight-hour law, thirty-five dollars and eighty-cents.
Credit in the Accounts of Captain Harry Burgess: The accountingHarry Burgess.Credit in accounts. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain Harry Burgess, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, the sum of seventeen dollars and eighty-four cents, disallowed against him on t he books of the Treasury. Credit in the Accounts of Colonel G. J. Lydecker: The accountingG. J. Lydecker.Credit in accounts. officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Colonel G.
J. Lydecker, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, the sum of forty-one dollars and ninety-seven cents, disallowed against him and standing on the books of the Treasury. Payment to James E. Howard: To pay James E. Howard forJames E. Howard.Payment to. services rendered at the Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts, between June first and fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and four dollars and sixteen cents. Credit in the Accounts of Major Francis R. Shunk: TheFrancis R.
Shank.Credit in accounts. accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Major Francis R. Shunk, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, the sum of nine dollars and thirty- three cents, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, etc., Department building. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories,Printing blanks. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, being the amount necessary to reimburse the Government Printing Office for printing new blanks required in accordance with recent Treasury regulations, eighty-two dollars and forty-five cents.
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, includingSanta Monica, Cal. the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, for the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio, six thousand dollars. 922 NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTNavy. general account of advances. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the ActGeneral account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167. of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page 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, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and six, fifty-nine dollarsPay, miscellaneous. and eighty-five cents; For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, five hundred andMarine Corps. seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents; For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-four cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundredBureau of Medicine and Surgery. and four, fifty dollars and thirty-four cents;
For bringing home remains of officers and men, Navy and Marine Corps, who died abroad, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-five cents; For provisions, navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteenBureau of Supplies and Accounts. hundred and six, fourteen thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents; For provisions, navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and five, one thousand and thirty-nine dollars and thirty- four cents;
For provisions, navy. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and twenty- two cents; For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair,Bureau of Construction and Repair. nineteen hundred and six, four thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars and two cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteenBureau of Steam Engineering. hundred and six, two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-one cents; in all, twenty-three thousand two hunched and nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. bureau of navigation.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Pay of the navy” forPay. the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, one million sixteen thousand one hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-six cents. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Transportation,Bureau of Navigation.Transportation. Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, three hundred thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Transportation, Bureau of Navigation,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Transportation, Bureau of Navigation,” ’for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, fifty thousand dollars. To increase the appropriation “Maintenance, Naval Training Station,Training station, California. California.” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-seven cents. 923 bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance For miscellaneous items, namely, advertising, cartage, and expressMiscellaneous. 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, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, seven thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and sixty cents. bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment.
For the payment to the Electric Boat Company of the ten perElectric Boat Company. centum of the contract price withheld on account of their contract, Navy Pay Office, Norfolk, numbered six hundred and eighty-two, series nineteen hundred and six, for installing the storage battery on the. submarine boat Moccasin, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars. For express charges on equipment stores, packing boxes, andContingent. materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yardsand Docks.
Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks: For amount reportedMaintenance. by accounting officers of the United States Treasury, January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, as found in the adjustment of appropriations to be due the appropriation “General account of advances,” being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventeen thousand six hundred and eight dollars and forty-three cents. public works. For four timber dry docks (navy-yard, Mare Island, to complete),Mare Island, Cal.Dry docks. five hundred and four thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. marine corps.Marine Corps.
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 nine, fifty thousand ‘ dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eleven dollars and seventy-four cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, five dollars and seventy-two cents.
For forage, Marine Corps, including items specified under this headForage. in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, nine thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty-four dollars and thirty-three cents. 924 For fuel, Marine Corps, including items specified under this headFuel. in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seven thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and fifty-eight cents. For commutation of quarters, Marine Corps, including itemsCommutation of quarters. specified under this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, fifteen thousand dollars. For transportation and recruiting, Marino 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 seven, three hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-five cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven dollars and twenty cents. For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, including items specified underHire of quarters. this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-nine cents. For military stores, Marine Corps, including items specified underMilitary stores. this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand three hundred and four dollars and twenty- five cents.
For installing electric lights and heating system, marine barracks,Sitka, Alaska.Lighting and heating barracks. Sitka, Alaska, five thousand dollars, which sum shall be in addition to the five thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. To reimburse Fred Bender for loss of time and doctors’ fees onFred Bender.Reimbursement. account of injuries received while employed in the construction of the Office Building of the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For tìie care and custody of persons legally ad judged insane in theInsane, Alaska. district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty-two thousand dollars. To enable the, Secretary of the Interior to employ in the Office ofNorthern Arapahoe Indians.Determination of money due. Indian Affairs an expert accountant to state the account of the Northern Arapahoe Indians, in order to determine what sums of money, if any, are still due said Indians from appropriations made in fulfillment of the treaties with the Northern Cheyennes and Arapa- hoes ratified by the Acts of Congress approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight (Fifteenth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and fifty-five), and February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven (Nineteenth Statutes at Large, page twoVol. 15, p. 665. hundred and fifty-four), one, thousand five hundred dollars, or soVol. 19, p. 254. much thereof as may be necessary.
That all models of the Patent Office be retained by the InteriorPatent Office models to be retained. Department until provision is made for their care by Congress. To enable the Superintendent United States Capitol Building andDraftsmen. Grounds to pay for draftsmen’s services, in connection with H. R. 21985, first session Sixtieth Congress, eight hundred and forty-one dollars and fifty 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; ílagstaffs, halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and 925 laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, eight thousand dollars.
Lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the CapitolLighting building and grounds. and grounds about the same, including the House Office Building Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, eight thousand dollars. To pay the Potomac Electric Power Company for furnishingSenate Office Building.Electric current. electric current for the Senate Office Building for the months of November, December, and January, and estimated amounts for the months of February, March, April, May, and June, sixteen thousand and thirty-three dollars and seventy-two cents.
For amount required as a deficiency for the fiscal year, nineteenHouse Office Building.Electric current. hundred and nine, to pay the Potomac Electric Power Company for current furnished the House Office Building from November, nineteen hundred ami eight, to date, and estimated amount due to run until July first, next, on account of extra session, twenty thousand dollars. House Office Building: For completion of the building and toConstruction accounts. pay balances due under contracts, forty-seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For waterway for the heating, lighting, and power plant beingHeating, etc., plant.Waterway. constructed in connection with the Capitol Bunding, Senate and House office buildings, and other congressional buildings, ninetyeight thousand five hundred dollars. public lands service.Public lands. For payment of salaries, fees, and commissions earned by registersRegisters and receivers. of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices in excess of the amount appropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
To reimburse the appropriation for contingent expenses of landContingent expenses, land offices. offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, for per diem at three dollars in lieu of subsistence, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, of six clerks detailed from the General Land Office to temporary duty in assisting in renumbering entries of public lands pending in district land offices, and for the purchase of card-index sections and other office equipment, to keep record of entries in district land offices transferred from the system of separate serial numbers to new system of records in said offices, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For additional amount for clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedHearings in land entries.Transferor balances. to transfer the amount of the unexpended balance remaining to the credit of the appropriation for expenses of hearings in land entries, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, to the credit of the appropriation for expenses of hearings in land entries, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine; and the amount so transferred is hereby reappropriated and made available for the payment of expense’s incurred m t he conduct of such hearings during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, in addition to the appropriation provided in the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight: *Provided*, That any outstanding bills properly chargeable to the unexpended*Proviso.*Settlement of outstanding accounts. balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred 926 and eight, and presented for payment after the passage of this Act, shall be paid out of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedProtecting, etc.Transfer of balances. to transfer from the appropriation for protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, fiscal years nineteen hundred and eight and nineteen hundred and nine, to the credit of the appropriation for protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, such amount as may be required in the settlement of the audited accounts chargeable to the said nineteen hundred and eight appropriation.
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 lines of surveys embraced in their contracts and special instructions issued thereunder, being the balance of the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in the settlement of their accounts 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 thirty-five of House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and six, of the present session, three hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-one cents.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directedWilliam Janson.Payment to. to pay to William Janson, county surveyor of McKenzie County, North Dakota, out of the moneys in the Treasury to the credit of the fund of deposits by individuals for surveying public lands, the sum of seventy-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, being the excess of the deposit made by him on February tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States, and placed to the credit of the said fund of deposits by individuals for surveying public lands, per certificate numbered fifteen hundred and seventytour, First National Bank of Bismarck, North Dakota, over and above the actual cost of copies of certain township plats of the State of North Dakota furnished him by the United States surveyorgeneral of said State and by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
To pay M. F. Mann the amount due him for services rendered asM. F. Mann.Payment to. custodian of the Fort Keogh abandoned military reservation, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, from August tenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive, three hundred and twenty-four dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to rent additional rooms inGeological Survey.Additional rent. building used by the engraving and printing division of the Geological Survey during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, two thousand five hundred dollars.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.Indian Affairs. To pay amounts found due on account of the appropriation “Tele- gaphıng,Supplies. transportation, and so forth, of Indian supplies” for the cal year nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due on account of the appropriation “Telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, of Indian supplies” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eight thousand dollars. To pay Thomas G. Walker for salary and expenses as a member of aThomas G.
Walker.Services. commission to assist in the sale of the Huron Place Cemetery, at Kansas City, Kansas, one thousand five hundred and ninety-four dollars. To pay W. A. Simpson for salary and expenses as a member of aW. A. Simpson.Services. commission to assist in the. sale of the Huron Place Cemetery, at Kansas City, Kansas, seven hundred and forty dollars and ninety-five cents. 927 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Departmentof Agriculture. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “General expenses,Animal Industry Bureau.General expenses.
Bureau of Animal Industry,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified under the appropriation of nine hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, For fencing the national bison range, as provided for by the Act ofBison range, Mont.Fencing.*Ante*, p. 267.
May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, Thirty-fifth Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-seven, three thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. The Census Office: For preliminary expenses in preparation forCensus Office.Preliminary work, 13th Census. the Thirteenth Census, including experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, construction of such machinery, and technical and mechanical services in connection therewith, books of reference, and printing, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for “Contingent expenses,Contingeutexpenses. Department of Commerce and Labor,” including all objects of expenditure specified under this head in the. legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are herebyH.
R. Burrill.Credit in accounts. authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of H, R. Burrill, special disbursing agent, Department of Commerce and Labor, the sum of forty dollars, disallowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments from his account of disbursements for the quarter ended September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, on account of hire of an interpreter at Hongkong, China. Immigration Service: To supply an anticipated deficiency in theImmignition Service.Expenses. permanent annual appropriation tor expenses of regulating immigration and in order to meet all of the authorized charges against said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For payment to the law clerk and examiner of titles in full for allExaminer of titles.Extra services.*Ante*, p. 543. services to the commission created under section twenty-six of the Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (public buildings Act), to investigate the title of the United States in and to all lands in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriation of five thousand dollars for the expenses of said commission, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes of the United States, the sum of one thousand dollars.
To carry on the work required by section twenty-six of the publicTitles to land in District.Expenses of commission.*Ante*, p. 543. buildings Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. Contingent expenses: For the payment of the bill of the WesternContingent expenses. Union Telegraph Company for the month of June, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and t wenty-four dollars and forty-one cents. 928 miscellaneous.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits in claims. the necessary expenses 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 hundred and seven, one hundred and nine dollars and fifty cents.
For furnishing the proposed addition to the court-house of theBuilding for court of appeals.Additional. District of Columbia for the use of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, twenty-nine thousand six hundred dollars, to remain available during fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. For the erection of a fireproof addition to the court-house of the District of Columbia, for the use of the court of appeals of said District, including such fireproof vaults as may be necessary to protect from destruction the papers and records of said court, and proper heating and ventilating apparatus, to be constructed under the supervision of and on plans to ne furnished by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Groundsand approved by the Attorney-General, being the balance of the amount authorized for this purpose by the*Ante*, p. 544. public buildings Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts, Salaries, District Judges: For the salaries of the additional districtDistrict judges.Additional. Penn sylvania, Washington. and Oregon.*Ante*, pp. 656, 686. judges for the western district of Pennsylvania, the western district of Washington, and the district of Oregon, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum each, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, eighteen thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand dollars.
For the salary of the additional district judge for the southern districtNew York southern district.*Ante*, p. 685. of New York, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum, for the fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, six thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand dollars. Salaries, District Court, Territory of Hawaii: For the increaseHawaii.District judges.*Ante*, p. 838. in the salary of the existing district judge for the Territory of Hawaii and for the salary of the additional district judge for said Territory, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, seven thousand dollars.
Salaries, Governor, and so Forth. Territory of Alaska: ForAlaska.Increased salaries and new offices.*Ante*, p. 839. the increase in the salaries of the existing district judges and district attorneys in the District of Alaska, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; for the salarv of the additional district judge for said district, seven thousand five hundred dollars; for the salary of the additional district attorney for said district, five thousand dollars; for the salary of the additional United States marshal for said district, four thousand dollars; for the salary of the additional clerk of court for said district, three thousand five hundred dollars: for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, in all, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
Salaries, Governor, and so Forth, Territory of New MexicoNew Mexico.New associate Justice.*Ante*, p. 842. : For the salary of the additional associate judge for the Territory of New Mexico, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, three thousand dollars. 929 For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, ten thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, fifteen thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees.Miscellaneous expenses.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized 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: *Provided*, That in so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney*Proviso.*Alaska. -General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska, for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, fifteen thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred ami six, three, hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixty cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifteen cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixty-one dollars and ninety-six cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, thirty-one dollars and forty cents. For supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines for theSupplies.
United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eighty-eight dollars and two cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one dollar and sixtyseven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one dollar and twenty cents. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and of assistantsAssistants to Attorney-General, etc. to United States district attorneys, employed by the AttorneyGeneral 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, one thousand anil thirty- one dollars and seventy-eight cents.
For the reimbursement of Guion Miller, special commissioner ofGuion Miller.Reimbursing. the. Court of Claims, covering the payment by him of the account of Harold W. Ketron for expenses incurred in the matter of the arrest of R. R. Foot, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and ninetyeight cents. court of claims.Court of Claims. For payment to Lucien B. Howry, for services rendered the CourtLucien B. Howry. of Claims during the month of June, nineteen hundred and six, fifty- two dollars.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. For telegraphing, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eighteenTelegraphing. dollars and fifteen cents. OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.Postal service. For rent of suitable buildings for the use of the Post-Office Department,Mail-bag,etc., repair shop. including the mail-bag repair shop, lock-repair shop, and the division of supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand two hundred dollars. 930 For inland transportation by railroad routes, one million two hundredRailroad routes. and fifty thousand dollars.
Railway Mail Service: For substitutes for clerks on vacation, thirteenRailway Mail Service. thousand five hundred dollars. To pay to the Boston and Maine Railroad, for railway mail serviceBoston and Maine Railroad. furnished between Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and South Ashburnham, Massachusetts, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, to June seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and eighty-three cents. To pay the Grand Rapids Railway Company, of Grand Rapids,Grand Rapids Railway Company.
Michigan, for services rendered in collecting and carrying mail in boxes affixed to its cars from July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand and eighty-four dollars and fifty cents. To reimburse Frank Peters, a. railway postal clerk, for railroad fareFrank Peters.Reimbursing. paid by him in traveling, in June, nineteen hundred and seven, from Texarkana, Texas, via tattle Rock, to Van Buren, Arkansas, returning to his home after having been injured in a railroad wreck near Edgewood, Texas, while on duty as a railway postal clerk, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six dollars and seven cents.
For transportation of foreign mails: To pay the Pacific Mail SteamshipForeign mails.Hawaii to the Orient. Company and the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company for carrying mails from Hawaii to the Orient during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and one to nineteen hundred and six, fifty-three thousand and forty dollars and eighty-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department and certified in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and six, and Senate Document Numbered seven hundred and forty-nine, of the present session, as follows:
For clerk hire, third class, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight,Clerk hire. four hundred and eighty-six dollars and fourteen cents. For inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundredStar routes. and seven, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-two cents. For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred andPostmasters. eight, one Hundred and four thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-five cents. For special delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteenSpecial delivery. hundred and eight, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-nine cents.
For special delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eighty cents. For blank books, books, and printed matter of urgent or specialRegistry supplies. character, including the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of a pamphlet containing general postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate necessity for the registrv system, one thousand dollars. That the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed toArdmore, Okla.Rent of office. pay to Carter and Booker five hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirtv-seven cents for the rent due on the post-office at Ardmore, Oklahoma.
THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.Isthmian Canal. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expendedConstruction. under the direction of the President in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connectingVol. 32, p.482. the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two: For pay of members of the commission and officers and employeesSuiarles on the Isthmus. on the Isthmus other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil 931 engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, 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 temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus for the departments of construction and engineering, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, and expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, six hundred thousand dollars.
For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers,Labor. 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, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two million four hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment,Material, supplies, etc. including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, ami 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, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two million four hundred thousand dollars.
Authority is hereby granted for the payment of salaries and wagesPayment to retired officers.Limitation. accrued or hereafter earned of retired army and navy officers and enlisted men now in the employment of the Isthmian Canal Commission, in addition to their retired pay, where their compensation under such employment does not exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. In all for the Isthmian Canal, five million four hundred and fiftyeight thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative.
That the members of the National Monetary Commission, who wereNational Monetary Commission.*Ante*, p. 552.Continued. appointed on the thirtieth day of May, nineteen hundred and eight, under the provisions of section seventeen of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the national banking laws,” approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall continue to constitute the National Monetary Commission until the final report of said commission shall be made to Congress; and said National Monetary Commission are authorized to pay to such of its members as are not at the time in the public service and receiving a salary from the Government, a salary equal to that to which said members would be entitled if they were members of the Senate or House of Representatives.
All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this provision are hereby repealed. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the HouseCompensation. of Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first dav of February, nineteen hundred and nine, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W. A. Smith, Congressional Record clerk, for extra services during the second 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.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House ofExtra month’s pay to employees. Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President of the United States, March fourth, nineteen 932 hundred and nine, in accordance with such programme as may be adopted by the joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives appointed under a concurrent resolution of the two Houses,Inaugural ceremonies.Expenses., including the pay for clerical and other extra services, and including the pay for extra police three days, at three dollars per day, there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in addition to the sum appropriated by the joint resolution approved February ninth, nineteen hundred and*Post*, p. 1633. nine, the same to be immediately available. senate.
For mileage of Senators for the first session of the Sixty-first Congress,*Post.* p. 1164. forty-seven thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: For five annual clerks to Senator’s who are not chairman of committees,Senate. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, two thousand nine hundred and twenty-five dollars. For sixteen pages from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteenMileage. hundred and nine, four thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousandClerks to Senators. dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inPages. the service of the Senate, namely: For fifteen annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of committees,Miscellaneous items. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed toClerks to Senators. pay to Harry A.
Shaw, clerk to the Honorable Carroll S. Page, of Vermont, from October twenty-second to December sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, John Briar, clerk to the Honorable Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, from November twenty-fourth to December seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and to Cecil C. Wyche, clerk to the Honorable Frank B. Gary, of South Carolina, from March sixth to sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, for clerical sendees rendered, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the sendee of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
For payment to William M. Malloy for reporting hearings beforeHarry A.Shaw, John Briar, and Cecil C. Wyche.Payment to. the Committee on Foreign Relations, Sixtieth Congress, two hundred and ten dollars. For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant-at- Arms,William M. Malloy.Services. namely: For eighteen privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each, from March fifth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive, six thousand eighty-nine dollars and ninety-four cents.
To pay Pitman Pulsifer, for preparing the Navy Year Book for theSenate Office Building.Police force. first and second sessions. Sixtieth Congress, two thousand dollars. To pay F. H. Wakefield for extra services in preparing the historyPitman Pulsifer.Navy Year Book. of Senate legislation of the Sixtieth Congress and for carrying out the tracing and notification plan to the Senators during the second session of the Sixtieth Congress, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesF. H. Wakefield.Services. of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. 933 To pay the Chief Clerk for preparing a digest of the precedents andOfficial reporters.Extra services. decisions on points of order in the parliamentary practice of the Senate, with a full index, as authorized by the resolution of the Senate adopted May third, nineteen hundred and eight, four thousand dollars.
To pay Robert W. Earrar, for indexing and extra services as clerkChief Clerk.Digest of precedents on points of order. to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars. To pay Dennis M. Kerr, for services as assistant clerk by detail toRobert W. Farrar.Services. the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars. To pay C. E. Alden for services rendered and assistance employedDennis M. Kerr.Services. in preparing an index to the compilation of rules and regulations governing the various Executive Departments, fifteen volumes, one thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay J. II. Jones for extra services in the care of the SenateC. E. Alden.Services. chronometer and for the work in comiection therewith, one hundred dollars for the second session of the Sixtieth Congress. To pay for extra services rendered in transferring, rearranging,J. H. Jones.Services. remarking, cleaning, and refiling the bills, reports, documents, and laws in the Senate Document Room: To William Grant Lieuallen and William E. Burns, five hundred dollars each; in all, one thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay for extra servicesWilliam Grant Lieu- alien and William E. Burns.Services. rendered in transferring, rearranging, remarking, cleaning, and refiling the papers of the Senate: To Bavard C. Ryder, seven hundred dollars: Ansel Wold, four hundred dollars; Reese R. Dutton, three hundred dollars; George Payne, fifty dollars; Christopher Woodlen, fifty dollars. To pay William B. Turner for preparing the index to the finalBayard C. Ryder. Ansel Wold.
Reese R. Dutton,George Payne, and Christopher Woodlen.Services. report of the Board of Lady Managers to the Saint Louis Exposition, two hundred and fifty dollars. To R. H. Faxon, for recompiling the Biographical CongressionalWilliam B. Turner.Services. Directory and bringing the same to date, two thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the sum shall be paid until the work is completed and approved by the Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. house of representatives.Biographical Congressional Directory.Compiling.*Proviso.*Approval.
For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses ofHouse of Representatives. Resident Commissioners, for the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. The Speaker is hereby authorized to issue certificates of salaries toMileage. Members of Congress from the State of Oklahoma, elected to the Sixtieth Congress, covering that period of time only, for which they have not been paid their salaries as Members of the Sixtieth Congress, by the Sergeant-at-Arms.
To pay the daughters of R. C. Davey, late a Representative inOklahoma.Salaries of Representatives from. Congress from the State of Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the widow of A. A. Wiley, late a Representative in CongressR. C. Davey.Payment to daughters. from the State of Alabama, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the widow of William H. Parker, late a Representative inA. A. Wiley.Payment to widow. Congress from the State of South Dakota, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay the widow of C. T. Dunwell, late a Representative in Congress from the State of New York, seven thousand five hundred dollars. To pay the widow of Llewellyn Powers, late a Representative inWilliam H. Parker.Payment to widow. Congress from the State of Maine, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 934 To pay Miss Grace Granger, sister of D. L. D. Granger, late a RepresentativeC.T. Dun well.Payment to widow. in Congress from the State of Rhode Island, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expensesLlewellyn Powers.Payment to widow. incurred in contested-election cases, as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: Isaac Myers, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;D. L. D. Granger.Payment to sister. Alexander D. Dantzler, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; O. H. Larrazolo, two thousand dollars; W. H. Andrews, two thousand dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars. For allowance to Albert Estopinal for expenses incurred as respondentContested - election expenses. to the Memorial asking that he be declared not elected a Member of the Sixtieth Congress, five hundred eleven dollars and thirty-five cents.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, six thousand dollars.Isaac Myers.Alexander D. Dantzler.O. H. Larrazolo.W. H. Andrews. For erection of inaugural stand for the House of Representatives, three thousand dollars. For the following on account of additional services to the CommitteeAlbert Estopinal. on Ways and Means, namely: To pay W. K. Payne, two thousand five hundred dollars; W. W. Evans, two thousand dollars; Arthur Blauvelt, five hundred dollars; Herbert M. Lord, one thousand dollars, and Thomas J.
Doherty, one thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. To pay J. C. Stewart for caring for and regulating the HouseFuel and oil.Inaugural stand. chronometer, one hundred dollars. To pay H C. McCarthy for services as clerk to R. C. Davey, late aCommittee on Ways and Means.Additional services to. Representative in Congress from Louisiana, from December first to December twenty-sixth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and four dollars and seventy-eight cents.
To pay John D. Cremer for services rendered the House OfficeJ. C. Stewart. Building Commission, two hundred and fifty dollars. To continue the employment of the stenographer to the CommitteeH.C. McCarthy.Services. on Invalid Pensions, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, inclusive, at the rate of six dollars per day, two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The appropriation for furniture and repairs of furniture for theJohn D.
Cremer.Services. House of Representatives for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is hereby made available for furniture for the House Office Building. Toward the reconstruction of the Chamber of the House of Representatives,Invalid Pensions Committee.Stenographer. to be expended as provided by House Joint Resolution Two hundred and sixty-five, Sixtieth Congress, second session, twenty-five thousand dollars; and authority is hereby given to contract for any part or all of the construction authorized by said joint resolution up to the amount named therein.
For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal yearFurniture, etc., for HouseOffice Building. nineteen hundred and ten, one thousand dollars. To pay Amos A. Steele for services rendered as a clerk and stenographerReconstructing Chamber.*Poet*, p. 1168. to a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary during February and March, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and eighty-six dollars. To pay L. W. Busbey for services as clerk to the Committee onFolding.
Rules, one thousand dollars. To pay A. J. Halford for editing, compiling, and indexing the thirdAmos A. Steele.Services. edition of the Congressional Directory, first session, Sixtieth Congress, eight hundred dollars. To pay J. B. Holloway for compiling the laws of the United StatesL. w. Busbey.Services. to January first, nineteen hundred and nine, relating to claims growing out of all wars in which the United States has been engaged, including 935 notes and references to the decisions of the courts construing the aforesaid laws; also about twenty volumes, now his own property, containing list of all claims filed in the office of the Quartermaster-General, claims presented to the Southern Claims Commission, and reports of said Commission disallowing certain claims presented; also list of claims presented to the Senate and House of Representatives since the Forty-second Congress, including the French spoliation claims, three thousand dollars.
To pay Robert Coates for services rendered in caring for pressA. J. Halford.Congressional Directory. members’ lobby during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress and the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, two hundred dollars. To pay Robert II. Key for services rendered in caring for theLaws, etc., relating to claims.Payment to J. B. Holloway for compiling, etc. Speaker’s clerk’s room during the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, one hundred and forty dollars.
To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the officialRobert Coates.Services. stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and to John J. Cameron, two hundredRobert H. Key.Services. and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. For clerk to the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures,Official reporters and stenographers.Extra aervures. from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, inclusive, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, two thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the following, authorized by resolutions of the House and nowJohn J. Cameron. being paid out of the contingent fund, namely: Office of the Clerk: For assistant enrolling clerk, at the rate of twoCommittee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures.Clerk. thousand five hundred dollars per annum; janitor in lieu of laborer, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; and janitor to the journal clerk’s room, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; all from March fourth to June thirtieth, botìi inclusive, nineteen hundred and nine; in all, one thousand three hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty cents.
For assistant clerks to the committees on Banking and Currency,Employees paid from contingent fund. , Public Buildings and Grounds, Claims, and Public Lands, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum; to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; all from March fourth to June thirtieth, both inclusive, nineteen hundred and nine; in all, two thousand five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.
For assistant clerks to the committees on Agriculture, District of Columbia, Accounts, and Indian Affairs, at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum each, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both inclusive; in all, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For janitor to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, at theClerk’s office. rate of one thousand dollars per annum; and for janitors to the committees on Ways ami Means, Enrolled Bills, Patents, Census, Immigration and Naturalization, and Revision of the Laws, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, all from March fourth to June thirtieth, both inclusive, nineteen hundred and nine; in all, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars.
For three persons to continue the preparation, under the directionAssistant clerks. of the Clerk of the House, of a digest, summary, and alphabetical list of private claims, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per 936 annum each, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both inclusive; in all, six thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. For janitor to the index clerk’s room and guardroom, at the rate ofJanitors. eight hundred and forty dollars per annum, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both inclusive; in all, one thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars.
Office of the Sergeant-at-Arms: For police force of the House OfficeDigest, etc., of private claims.Preparing. Building: Captain, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; two lieutenants, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each: and fifteen privates, at the rate of one thousand and fifty dollars per annum each, all from March fourth to June thirtieth. both inclusive, nineteen hundred and nine: in all, six thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents.
Office of the Doorkeeper: For second assistant foreman of the foldingJanitor, index clerk’s room, etc. room, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; messenger in charge of the telephones (minority), at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; assistant clerk, House document room, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum: one folder, at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum; all from March fourth to June thirtieth. Loth inclusive, nineteen hundred and nine; in all, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
For messenger to press room from March fourth, nineteen hundredHouse Office Building.Police force. and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both inclusive, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, one thousand three hundred and twenty-five dollars. library of congress.Doorkeeper.Employees. For two messengers, at forty dollars per month each, during theMessenger to press room. extra session of the Sixty-first Congress, being from March fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for services in connection with, the House Office Building, three hundred and twelve dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. under the public printer.Library of Congress.
To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of theMessengers, extra session. law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, forty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The payment of fifty per centum in addition to the regular rate ofPublic Printer. pay for work performed on Sunday from and including January tenth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, by employees not receiving annual salaries, is hereby authorized.
To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De FontesLeaves of absence. as messengers on night duty during the second session of the present Congress tor extra services’, three hundred dollars each; in all, nine himdred dollars. public printing and binding.Sunday work.Extra pay for. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for theSamuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes. 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 District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office,and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees notwithstanding any limitation on such employments contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight; for 937 rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for bicycles, horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence of 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, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollare;
For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, fortyPrinting and binding. thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, HydrographicGeneral expenses. Office, of Hydrographic Office publications for issuance to the fleet and to all seafaring people, some due on January first, nineteen hundred and nine, and all due prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
For printing and binding for the executive office, one thousandTreasury Department.*Proviso.*Catalogue of Copyright Title Entries. dollare. The authority vested in the joint commission to examine into theHydrographic Office. general subject of the public printing and binding of Congress and the various executive departments, as now existing under authority of an Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and an Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby continued during the term of the Sixty-first Congress; and the said joint commissionExecutive office. shall, as now, consist of the Committee on Printing of the Senate and the Committee on Printing of the House of Representatives.
The sum of ten thousand dollare is hereby appropriated, outJoint Commission on Printing continued.Vol. 34, pp. 762, 13M. of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available for the purposes described in the aforesaid Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and disbursed in the manner therein provided. AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.Membership. To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionAppropriation for expenses. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Fourteen hundred and three anil Fourteen hundred and fifty-three, of the present session, one hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred ami forty-six dollare and forty cents.
JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsAwards.Vol. 31, p.879. of 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 States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-eight, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Interior Department, one thousand nine hundred andJudgments, United States courts. sixty-five dollars, together with such additional sums as may be 938 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 judgmentsPayment of.Vol. 24, p.505. herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Interior Department.
For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in*Proviso.*Appeal. Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and seventeen, and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-seven, at its present session, thirty-eight thousand and fifteen dollars; said judgments to be paidJudgments, Indian depredation claims. after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen Hundred andPayment ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, wluch 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 amountsDeductions. paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one ofVol. 26, p. 853. 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 or said cause.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Reimbursement. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of*Proviso.*Appeal. Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and five, and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-five, namely: Under the Department of State, one thousand three hundred andJudgmenta, Court of Claims, sixty-two dollars and thirty cents; Lnder the Treasury Department, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Under the War Department, fifty-five thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents;
Under the Navy Department, five hundred and thirty-two dollars and thirty-four cents; Under the Post-Office Department, twenty-one dollars and thirty- nine cents; I nder the Department of Agriculture, three thousand nine, hundred and seventy-nine dollars; Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, three thousand one hundred and seven dollars and fifty-nine cents: Under the Department of the Interior, ten thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and sixty-five cents; Under the Department of Justice, three hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-eight cents; in all, seventy-six thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-three cents: *Provided.* That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
That the general deficiency appropriation Act of June thirtieth,Payment. nineteen hundred and six, so far as the same provides for the payment of item two of the judgment of the Court of Claims of May eighteenth, 939 nineteen hundred and live, in favor of the Eastern Cherokees, shall he so construed as to carry interest on said item two up to such time as the roll of the individual beneficiaries entitled to share in said judgment shall be finally approved by the Court of Claims, and for the payment of said interest a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClassification. 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 ofEastern Cherokees,Payment of interestVol. 34, p. 664. the 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 six and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to CongressClaims certified by accounting officers. under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and fourteen, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For salaries, office of Secretary of the Treasury, thirty-two dollarsVol. 18, p. 110. and seventy-two cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, seven dollars and forty- five cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, one hundred dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, ninety-five dollars and fourteen cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, four dollars and ninety cents.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, sixty-eight dollars and twenty cents. For post-office, Delaware, Ohio, four dollars and forty-eight cents. For post-office, Demopolis, Alabama, one dollar and forty-seven cents. For subtreasury, New York, New York, four thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and nine cents. For rent of old custom-house, New York, New York, forty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-six cents. For Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and nine dollars and fifty-eight cents.
For collecting the revenue from customs, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents. For Life-Saving Service, five hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-five cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, five dollars and eighty-six cents. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, three hundred and three dollars and eighty-one cents. For redemption of stamps, two hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-four cents. Tor refund for stamps used on export manifests, eight thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and thirty-two cents.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, one hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. 940 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the army, seventeen thousand eight hundredVol. 23. p. 254. and ninety-four dollars and seventy-seven cents. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, ninety-six dollars and seventy-four cents. For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, twenty dollars and fifty cents.
For subsistence of the army, twenty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, six thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and nine cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, four hundred and eighty-six dollars anil seventy-two cents. For barracks and quarters, one thousand one hundred and twenty- six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For transportation of the army and its supplies, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents.
For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, two thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars. For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, eleven dollars. For headstones for graves of soldiers, thirty-six dollars and eighty cents. For burial of indigent soldiers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, forty-five dollars. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, three dollars and twenty cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Southern Branch, four dollars and fifty-three cents.
For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-live and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighteen dollare and twenty cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office,Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. twelve dollars and fifty-one cents. For pay of the navy, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and five dollars and ninety-six cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, two hundred and thirty-seven dollare and eighty-seven cents. For pay, Marine Corps, two thousand and sixty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, four dollars and fifty cents. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Coips, seven dollars and forty-six cents. For contingent, Marine Coips, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three dollare and seventy-one cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand five hundred and seventy-one dollare and thirty-six cents.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, two hundred anil seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, three dollars and fortyseven cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighty-six dollars and twenty cents. 941 For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation,six dollarsand eighteen cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, twenty dollars and twenty cents. For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, four hundred and one dollars and ninetv-nine cents.
For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nine hundred and ninety-one dollars and fifty-seven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordinance, thirty-two dollars and twenty-seven cents., For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, two thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, twenty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, twenty-four dollars and seventy-one cents.
For provisions, navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, six hundred and one dollars ami four cents. For freight, Bureau of Supplies anti Accounts, six thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and twenty-two dollars ami fifty-six cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, five thousand six hundred and one dollars and sixty-five cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, three hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty cents.
For indemnity for lost clothing, two hundred and thirty-live dollars and eighty-five cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven thousand four hundred and seven dollar and thirteen cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, seventy dollars and two cents. For Bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, three dollars. For enlistment bounties to seamen, two thousand five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-four cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For contingent expenses. Department of the Interior, three dollarsClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. and forty-five cents. For reproducing records, office of surveyor-general of California, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty dollars ami forty-six cents. For law library. Patent Office, nineteen hundred and eight, seven dollars and forty cents. For collecting statistics, Bureau of Education, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For building. Freedmen’s Hospital, two hundred and nine dollars and twenty-three cents. For Government Hospital for the Insane, five dollars. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, seventy- five dollars. For contingent expenses of land offices, twelve dollars and fifty-five cents. For expenses of hearings in land entries, sixty-one dollars and sixty cents. 942 For surveying the public lands, forty-one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-two cents.
For surveying private land claims, two thousand five hundred dollars. For Geological Survey, twenty-eight dollars and twenty-live cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, forty-one dollars and ninetyseven cents. For traveling expenses, Indian inspectors, nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-eight cents. For incidentals in California, employees, nineteen hundred and eight, ninety-four dollars. For incidentals in Indian Territory, including employees, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and ninety-eight dollare and thirtyseven cents.
For Indian school, Morris, Minnesota, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-two dollare and nine cents. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, buildings, six dollars and sixty-five cents. For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred dollare and thirty-five cents. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-four dollars and eighty cents. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty-three cents.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, twenty-two dollars and nine cents. For army pensions, one hundred and seventy-one dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, two dollare. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND ()T HER DEPARTM ENTS. Legislative: Contingent expenses, House of Representatives, miscellaneousClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. items, nineteen hundred and eight, eleven dollare and seventy cents. State Department :
For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and eight, eight thousand and forty-two dollars and ten cents. For transportation of diplomatic, and consular officers, nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand five hundred and thirty-seven dollare and seventy cents. For salaries and expenses, United States court for China, nineteen hundred and seven, eleven dollars and twelve cents. For rebuilding consular building at Tahiti, five hundred and ninety- four dollars ami twenty-five cents.
For relief and protection of American seamen, one thousand three hundred anil thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. Smithsonian Institution: For preservation of collections, National Museum, one dollar and nineteen cents. Department of Agriculture: For cotton boll weevil investigations, ninety-four dollars and thirty-five cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, seven hundred and twenty-live dollare and seventy-nine cents. For vegetable pathological investigations, five dollare and fiftyeight cents.
For tea-culture investigations, one hundred and fifty dollare and fourteen cents. For general expenses, Forest Service, thirty-three dollars and eightyseven cents. For soil investigations, twenty-two dollars and forty-three, cents. 943 For general expenses, Weather Bureau, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty-one cents. Department of Commerce and Labor: For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, nineteen hundred and eight, ten cents. For supplies of light-houses, thirty-six dollars and sixty-three cents.
For expenses of light-vessels, nine dollars and fourteen cents. For expenses of buoyage, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. For expenses of fog signals, twenty-four dollars and forty-two cents. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, sixty-two dollars and seventy- three cents. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, fifty-nine dollars and fourteen cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, two dollars and twenty-five cents. Department of Justice:
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, fourteen dollars. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, sixty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, six hundred and thirty-five dollars and forty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, fifteen dollars and eighty cents. For fees of jurors, United States courts, three dollars and ten cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, forty-two dollars.
For supplies for United States courts, ten dollars and forty-two cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, four hundred and thirty-three dollars and forty cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, one thousand sixClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety-three cents. For payment of rewards, three hundred and fifty dollars. For experimental rural free delivery, nineteen dollars.
For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, seventy-seven dollars and eighty-five cents. For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one hundred and eighty-five dollars. For inland mail transportation—star, ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dollars ami seventy-one cents. For inland mail transportation—railroad, two hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For inland mail transportation—star, six hundred and four dollars and twenty-two cents. For compensation to postmasters, eleven dollars and forty-four cents.
For clerk hire—separating, fifty-four dollars and fifty cents. For special-delivery service—fees, eight cents. For rural free-delivery service -carriers, thirty-six dollars. For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, furniture, and so forth, nine dollars. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toclaims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. 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 ofClaims allowed by \ udltor for Post-Office Department. the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, andAdditional claims certitied by accouni- eng officers. 944 under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to (Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 18, p. 110. eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and forty-six, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, two dollarsVol. 28, p. 254. and seventy-nine cents. For refund for stamps used on export manifests, two hundred and seventy-three dollars and twenty-four cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, fifty- nine thousand four hundred and ten dollars and fifty-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, anti so forth, of the army, three thousand and forty dollarsClaims allowed by Auditor for Tnwmrý Department. and twenty-nine cents- For mileage, to officers and contract surgeons, sixteen dollars and eighty cents.
For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, five dollars and fifteen cents. For transportation of the army and its supplies, three thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and thirty-four cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, thirty cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Danville Branch, six dollars and thirty-five cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-fiveClaims aHoweđ by Auditor for War De- partoient. dollars and sixty-four cents.
For pay, Marine Corps, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fourteen cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and one cent. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, two dollars and eight cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, twenty-six dollars. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, five hundred and fifty-seven dollars and ninety-three cents.
For construction and repair Bureau of Construction and Repair, four hundred and forty-eight dollars and twenty-one cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, three hundred dollars and eighty-seven cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, seventy-five dollars. For extra pay to officers and men who served in the Pacific, one hundred and fifty-three dollars. 945 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
For stationery, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Thj- partmcnt, eight, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents. For surveying the public lands, nineteen thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-six cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, eighty-three dollars and fifty-two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. State Department: For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, nineteenClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. hundred and eight, one thousand two hundred and fifty-three dollars and forty-eight cents.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteenClaims allowed by Anditor for State, etc., Departments, hundred and eight, nine hundred and forty-two dollars and eighty- five cents. Department of Agriculture: For general expenses, Weather Bureau, fifteen dollars and sixty cents. Department of Commerce and Labor: For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act, one hundred and twenty dollars. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-eight cents.
Department of Justice: For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred and ten dollars and sixty-fìve cents. For support of convicts, Ďistrict of Columbia, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT. For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, two hundred andClaims allowed by Anditor for Post Offiee Department. twenty dollars and fifteen cents.
For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, twenty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents. Approved, March 4, 1909.
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