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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 35 STAT. · March 4, 1909 · Chapter 299

Chapter 299. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 299.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. March 4, 1909.[[H. R. 28245](/us/bill/70/hr/28245).][[Public, No. 828.](/us/pl/70/828)] *Be. it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stiites of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Sundry civil expensses appropriations. and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department public buildings.Public buildings. Aiken, South Carolina, post-office: For completion of buildingAlken, S, C. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Albuquerque, New Mexico, post-office: For completion of buildingAlb tiq tier que, N. Mex. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Alexandria, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion ofAlexandria, Minn. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. 946 Alliance, Ohio, post-office:
For site and continuation of buildingAlliance, Ohio. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Alton, Illinois, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingAlton, Ill. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Americus, Georgia, post-office: For site and completion of buildingAmericus, Ga. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ames, Iowa, post-office: For site and completion of building underAmes, Iowa. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Amsterdam, New York, post-office:
For continuation of buildingAmsterdam, N. Y. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Anderson, South Carolina, post-office and court-house: For site andAnderson, S. C. completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Appleton, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of buildingAppleton, Wis. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Asbury Park, New Jersey, post-office: For site and continuation ofAsbury Park, N. J. building under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Ashtabula, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building underAshtabula, Ohio. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For completion of theAthens, Ga. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-three thousand dollars. Athens, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingAthens, Ohio. under present limit, including five thousand dollars for acquisition of additional land for site, twenty thousand dollars.
Atlanta, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For completion ofAtlanta, Ga. building under present limit, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Auburn, Maine, post-office: For site and completion of buildingAuburn, Me. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Austin, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building underAustin, Minn. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, post-office, court-house, and so forth: ForBaltimore, Md. Post-office, etc. completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Baltimore, Maryland, post-office: Not to exceed five thousandInstalling stree railway tracks. dollars of the appropriation heretofore made for the extension of the post-office is made available for the installation of street railway tracks on the site of said building, including the necessary connections with the street railway tracks in adjacent streets. Bar Harbor, Maine, post-office: For site and completion of buildingBar Harbor, Me. under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Barre, Vermont, post-office: For site and completion of buildingBarre, Vt. under present limit, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Bath, Maine, post-office and custom-house: For completion of theBath, Me. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Beatrice, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Beatrice, Nebr. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Beaumont, Texas, public building: Not to exceed eight hundredBeaumont, Tex.Additional land. dollars of the appropriation heretofore made for the public building at Beaumont, Texas, is made available to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, additional land for enlargement of site for said building. Bedford, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underBedford, Ind. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Belfast, Maine, post-office and custom-house: For completion ofBelfast, Me. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, seventeen thousand dollars.
Belleville, Illinois, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingBelleville, Ill. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Bellingham, Washington, post-office:. For continuation of buildingBellingham, Wash. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. 947 Beloit, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building underBeloit, Wis. present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Belvidere, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingBelvidere, Ill. under present limit, eight thousand dollars.
Beverly, Massachusetts, post-office: For additional land and continuationBeverly, Mass. of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Bismarck, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For site andBismarck, N. Dak. continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Bluefield, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For completionBluefield, W. Va. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Boise, Idaho, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Boise, Idaho. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Boulder, Colorado, post-office: For site and completion of buildingBoulder, Colo. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Bowling Green, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For siteBowling Green, Ky. and completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Bradford, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingBradford, Pa. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Brainerd, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building underBrainerd, Minn. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Brattleboro, Vermont, post-office and court-house: For site andBrattleboro, Vt. continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Brazil, Indiana, post-office: For site and completion of buildingBrazil, Ind. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Bridgeton, New Jersey, post-office and custom-house: For site andBridgeton, N. J. completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Bristol, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For completion ofBristol, Tenn. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Calais, Maine, post-office and custom-house: For site and completionCalais, Me. of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Canandaigua, New York, post-office: For site and completion ofCanandaigua, N. Y. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Cape Girardeau, Missouri, post-office and court-house: For site andCape Girardeau, Mo. completion of building under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. Carbondale, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice: For continuation of buildingCarbondale, Pa. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and completion ofCarlisle, Pa. building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Carrollton, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underCarrollton, Mo. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Carthage, Missouri, post-office: For site and completion of buildingCarthage, Mo. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Catlettsburg, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For continuationCatlettsburg, Ky. of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For additionalCedar Rapids, Iowa. land and for completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certainRent. government officials at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, four thousand five hundred dollars. Centralia, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building underCentralia, Ill. present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation ofChambersburg, Pa. building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Charleston, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuationCharleston, W. Va. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. 948 Chelsea, Massachusetts, post-oilice: For site and continuation ofChelsea, Mass. building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Chester, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Chester, Pa. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Chicago Heights, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion ofChicago Heights, Ill. building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and completion ofChippewa Falls, Wis. building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Cleburne, Texas, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingCleburne Tex, under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: ForCleveland, Ohio. completion of building under present limit, one million and twenty-five thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quartersRent. for the accommodation of government officials, fifty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Cleveland, Tennessee, post-office: For completion of buildingCleveland, Tenn. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Clifton Forge, Virginia, post-office: For site and completion ofClifton Forge, Va. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Clinton, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underClinton, Mb. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Coldwater, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of’Coldwater, Mich. building under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house: ForColorado Springs, Colo, additional land and completion of building under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. Columbus, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underColumbus, Ind. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Columbus, Mississippi, post-office: For site and completion ofColumbus, Miss. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Columbus, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of buildingColumbus, Nebr. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Columbus, Ohio, post-office and court-house: For completion ofColumbus, Ohio. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of governmentRent. officials at Columbus, Ohio, ten thousand dollars. Concord, North Carolina, post-office: For completion of buildingConcord, N. C. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Connellsville, Pennsylvania, post-office:
For site and continuationConnellsville, Pa. of building under present limit, twenty thousand, dollars. Connersville, Indiana, post-office: For completion of buildingConnersville, Ind. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Corinth, Mississippi, post-office: For site and completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Corsicana, Texas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingCorinth, Miss. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office and court-house:
For additionalCorsicana, Tex. land and continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters, at Council Bluffs, Iowa, andCouncil Bluffs, Iowa. moving expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Crookston, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion ofRent. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dallas, Texas, court-house and post-office: For construction ofCrookston, Minn. lookout gallery, three thousand dollars. 949 Dalton, Georgia, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingDallas, Tex. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Danville, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationDalton, Ga. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Danville, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion ofDanville, III. building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Danville, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For completion ofDanville; Ky. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Davenport, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For additional land,Danville, Va. and completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Dayton, Ohio, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofDavenport, Iowa. addition to present building, and under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Decorah, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under presentDayton, Ohio. limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Delaware, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building underDecorah, Iowa. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Demopolis, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building underDelaware, Ohio. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Denison, Texas, post-office: For site, and completion of buildingDemopolis, Ala. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Denver, Colorado, post-office: For continuation of building underDenison, Tex. present limit, two hundred thousand, dollars.
Des Moines, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building underDenver, Colo., postoffice. present limit, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Detroit, Michigan, post-office.and court-house: For completion ofDes Moines, Iowa. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Devils Lake, North Dakgta, post-office and court-house: For siteDetroit, Michl and completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Dixon, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingDevils Lake, N. Dak. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dothan, Alabama, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingDixon, Ill. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Dover, New Hampshire, post-office: For site and completion ofDothan, Ala. building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. East Liverpool, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building underDover, N. H. present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Easton, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building underEast Liverpool Ohio. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. East Saint Louis, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For site andEaston, Pa. completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Elgin, Illinois, post-office: For completion of the enlargement, extension,East Saint Louis, Ill. remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Ellsworth, Maine, post-office and custom-house: For completion ofElgin, Ill. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Elizabeth, New Jersey, post-office: For completion of building underEllsworth, Me. present limit, seventy-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Elwood, Indiana, post-office: For site and completion of buildingElizabeth, N.J. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Emporia, Kansas, post-office:
For completion of the enlargement,Elwood, Ind. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. 950 Enid, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofEmporia, Kans. building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Escanaba, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingEnid, Okla. under present limit, fourteen thousand dollars. Estherville, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building underEscanaba, Mich. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Eugene, Oregon, post-office: For site and completion of buildingEstherville, Iowa. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Everett, Washington, post-office and custom-house: For continuationEugene, Oreg. of work under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Fairbury, Nebraska, post-office: For site and completion of buildingEverett, Wash. under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Fairmont, West Virginia, post-office: For site and continuation ofFairbury, Nebr. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Faribault, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion ofFairmont, W. Va. building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Fayetteville, Arkansas, post-office: For completion of buildingFaribault, Minn. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Fayetteville, North Carolina, post-office: For site and completionFayetteville, Ark. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Fernandina, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and court-house:Fayetteville, N. C.
For site and continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Collins, Colorado, post-office: For site and completion of buildingFernandina, Fla. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Fort-Dodge, Iowa, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Fort Collins, Colo. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and movingFort Dodge, Iowa. expenses incident thereto, seven thousand dollars.
Frankfort, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For completionRent. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Fredericksburg, Virginia, post-office: For site and completion ofFrankfort, Ky. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Fremont, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Fredericksburg, Va extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Gadsden, Alabama, post-office: For site and completion of buildingFremont, Nebr. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Florida, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingGadsden, Ala. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Georgia, post-office: For site and completion of buildingGainesville, Fla. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Gonzales, Texas, post-office: For completion of building under presentGainesville, Ga. limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Grand Island, Nebraska, post-office and court-house: For completionGonzales, Tex. of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Grand Rapids, Michigan, post-office and court-house: For completionGrand Island, Nebr. of building under present limit, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of governmentGrand Rapids,Mich. officials at Grand Rapids, Michigan, two thousand dollars. Green Bay, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house:
For site andRent. completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Greencastle, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underGreen Bay, Wis. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingGreencastle, Ind. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Greenville, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingGreensburg, Pa. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. 951 Greenville, Mississippi, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingGreenville, Ill. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Greenville, Texas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingGreenville, Miss. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Griffin, Georgia, post-office: For completion of building under presentGreenville, Tex. limit, thirty thousand dollars. Gulfport, Mississippi, post-office: For site and continuation ofGriffin, Ga. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Hamilton, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building underGulfport, Miss. present limit, forty thousand dollars. Harriman, Tennessee, post-office: For site and completion of buildingHamilton, Ohio. under present limit, forty-two thousand dollars. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, post-office: For continuation of buildingHarriman, Tenn. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Hazleton, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and completion ofHattiesburg, Miss. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Henderson, North Carolina, post-office: For completion of buildingHazleton, Pa. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Highpoint. North Carolina, post-office: For completion of buildingHenderson, N. 0. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Hillsdale, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingHighpoint, N. C. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Hinton, West Virginia, post-office: For completion of buildingHillsdale, Mich. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.
Hoboken, New Jersey, post office: For completion of the enlargement,Hinton, W. Va. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Holdrege, Nebraska, post-office: For site and continuation ofHoboken, N. J. building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Honolulu, Hawaii, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: ForHoldredge, Nebr. continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Hope, Arkansas, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingHonolulu, Hawaii. under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Hot Springs, Arkansas, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Hope, Ark. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Houston, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion ofHot Springs, Ark. building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. Hudson, New York, post-office: For site and completion of buildingHouston, Tex. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Independence, Kansas, post-office: For site and completion ofHudson, N. Y. building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Independence, Missouri, post-office: For additional land and continuationIndependence, Kans. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Ionia, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingIndependence, Mo. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Ironton, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingIonia, Mich. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Jackson, Michigan, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Ironton, Ohio. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Jackson, Mississippi, post-office and court-house: For completionJackson, Mich. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Jackson, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For completion ofJackson, Miss. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Jacksonville, Florida, post-office and court-house: For tower clock,Jackson, Tenn. and all work incident to its installation, four thousand dollars. 952 Jeffersonville, Indiana, post-office: For completion of buildingJacksonville, Fla. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Jersey City, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of buildingJeffersonville, Ind. under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Johnson City, Tennessee, post-office: For site and completion ofJersey City, N.
J. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Jonesboro, Arkansas, post-office: For site and continuation ofJohnson City, Tenn. building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Kearney, Nebraska, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingJonesboro, Ark. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Keene, New Hampshire, post-office: For continuation of buildingKearney, Nebr. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Kenosha, Wisconsin, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingKeene, N. H. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Kewanee, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingKenosha, Wis. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Kinston, North Carolina, post-office: For site and completion, ofKewanee, Ill. building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Knoxville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For additionalKinston, N. C. land and for completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Kokomo, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building underKnoxville, Tenn. present limit, forty thousand dollars. La Crosse, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house: For completion ofKokomo, Ind. the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. La Grande,Oregon, post-office: For site and completion of buildingLa Crosse, Wis. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Lake Charles, Louisiana, post-office and court-house:
For site and forLa Grande, Oreg. continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Lancaster, Ohio, post-office: For site and completion of buildingLake Charles, La. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lander, Wyoming, post-office: For continuation of building underLancaster, Ohio. present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Lead, South Dakota, post-office: For site and completion of buildingLander, Wyo. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Lebanon, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion of buildingLead, S. Dak. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lewiston, Idaho, post-office: For continuation of building underLebanon, Ky. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Lexington, Kentucky, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Lewiston, Idaho. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Lexington, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underLexington, Ky. present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Lima, Ohio, post-office: For completion of the enlargement, extension,Lexington, Mo. remodeling, or improvement of building under” present limit, forty thousand dollars. Lincoln, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingLima, Ohio. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Litchfield, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building underLincoln, Ill. present limit, forty thousand dollars. Little Rock, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For completionLitchfield, Ill. of enlargement, extension, remodeling, and improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Logan, Utah, post-office: For site and completion of building underLittle Rock, Ark. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. London, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationLogan, Utah. of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. 953 Los Angeles, California, post-office and court-house: For completionLondon, Ky. of building under present limit, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings:
For rental of temporaryLos Angeles, Cal. quarters for the accommodation of certain government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, thirty thousand dollars. Lynchburg, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For completionRent, etc. of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Macon, Missouri, post-office: For completion of building underLynchburg, Va. present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Malone, New York, post-office:
For completion of building underMacon, Mo. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Manchester, New Hampshire, post-office and court-house: ForMalone, N. Y. completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Manchester, Virginia, post-office: For site and completion ofManchester, N. H. building under present limit, five thousand dollars. Manhattan, Kansas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingManchester, Va. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Manistee, Michigan, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingManhattan, Kans. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Manitowoc, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and continuation ofManistee, Mich. , building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Marietta, Georgia, post-office: For site and completion of buildingManitowoc, Wisl under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Marietta, Ohio, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMarietta, Ga. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Marinette, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building underMarietta, Ohio. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Marion, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building underMarinette, Wis. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Marion, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingMarion, Ind. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Marlboro, Massachusetts, post-office: For continuation of buildingMarion, Ohio. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Mason City, Iowa, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMarlboro, Mass. under present limit, five thousand dollars. Massillon, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingMason City, Iowa. under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Mayfield, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMassillon, Ohio. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. McKinney, Texas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMayfield, Ky. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Meadville, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and completion ofMcKinney, Tex. building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Meriden, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of building underMeadville, Pa. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Meridian, Mississippi, post-office and court-house: For completionMeriden, Conn. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Michigan City, Indiana, post-office:
For site and completion ofMeridian, Miss. building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Middletown, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingMichigan City, Ind. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Milford, Delaware, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMiddletown, N. Y. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Milford, Massachusetts, post-office: For site and completion ofMilford, Del. building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. 954 Minneapolis, Minnesota, post-office:
For continuation of buildingMilford, Mass, under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Missoula, Montana, post-office: For continuation of building underMinneapolis, Minn. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Mitchell, South Dakota, post-office and land office: For site andMissoula, Mont. completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Moline, Illinois, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingMitchell, S. Dak. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Monroe, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMoline, Ill. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Montgomery, Alabama, court-house, post-office, and so forth: ForMonroe, Mich. completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Moscow, Idaho, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationMontgomery, Ala. of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Mount Clemens, Michigan, post-office:
For site and completion ofMoscow, Idaho. building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Mount Sterling, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion ofMount Clemens, Mich. building under present limit, fifty-four thousand dollars. Murfreesboro, Tennessee, post-office: For site and completion ofMount Sterling, Ky. building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Murphysboro, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion ofMurfreesboro, Tenn. building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Muskogee, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house: For continuationMurphysboro, Ill. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Nevada, Missouri, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMuskogee, Okla. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Newark, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingNevada, Mo. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. New Britain, Connecticut, post-office: For site and completion ofNewark, Ohio. building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
New Brunswick, New Jersey, post-office: For completion of theNew Britain, Conn. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. New London, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of theNew Brunswick, N.J. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Newnan, Georgia, post-office: For completion of building underNew London Conn. present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
New Orleans, Louisiana, custom-house and post-office: For constructionNewnan, Ga. of lookout gallery, eight hundred dollars. New Ulm, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion ofNew Orleans, La. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. New lork, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingNew Ulm, Minn. under present limit, one million five hundred thousand dollars. New York barge office: For continuation of reconstruction ofNew York, N. Y., post-office. annex, and building pier in connection therewith, one hundred thousand dollars.
New York, appraiser’s stores and custom-house: For the purchaseBarge office. of necessary materials and equipment and for all necessary services ipr the installation, at a cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, of a pneumatic tube service between the new custom-house and the appraisers’ stores in New York, New York, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Niles, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingPneumatic tube service.Appraiser’s stores and custom-house. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Norfolk, Virginia, court-house and post-office: For constructionNiles, Mieh. of lookout gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars. 955 North Platte, Nebraska, post-office and court-house: For site andNorfolk, Va. continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. North Yakima, Washington, post-office: For continuation ofNorth Platte, Nebr. building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Ocala, Florida, post-office and court-house: For site and completionNorth Yakima, Wash. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Ogden, Utah, post-office and court-house: For completion ofOcala, Fla. building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post-office: For site for and continuationOgden, Utah. of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. Olean, New York, post-office: For site and completion of buildingOklahoma City, Okla. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofOlean, N. Y. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For rental of temporary quarters at Ottumwa, Iowa, and movingOttumwa, Iowa. expenses incident thereto, eight thousand dollars. Owosso, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingRent. under present limit, five thousand dollars. Palestine, Texas, post-office: For completion of building underOwosso, Mich. present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Pana, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingPalestine, Tex. under present limit, fifty-four thousand dollars.
Paris, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingPana, Ill. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Paris, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion of buildingParis, Ill. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Parsons, Kansas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingParis, Ky. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Pawtucket, Rhode Island, post-office: For completion of theParsons, Kans. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For additional land,Pawtucket, R. I. and completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty-two thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters, for the accommodation of governmentPeoria, Ill. officials, at Peoria, Illinois, eleven thousand dollars. Perry, Oklahoma, post-office: For extraordinary repairs, remodeling,Rent. and heating apparatus, three thousand dollars. Peru, Indiana, post-qffice:
For continuation of building underPerry, Okla. present limit, forty thousand dollars. Petersburg, Virginia, post-office and custom-house: For completionPeru, Ind. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Petersburg, Virginia, andPetersburg, Va. moving expenses incident thereto, one thousand dollars. Pine Bluff, Arkansas, post-office: For completion of building underRent. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
Pittsburg, Kansas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingPine Bluff, Ark. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Platteville, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and completion ofPittsburg, Kans. building under present limit, twenty-two thousand dollars. Plattsmouth, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of buildingPlatteville, Wis. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Pontiac, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building underPlattsmouth, Nebr. present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Portland, Maine, court-house: So much of section one of the publicPontiac, Mich. buildings Act, approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as applies to the post-office at Portland, Maine, and the acquisition of additional ground therefor is hereby made applicable to the court-house in that city, and the sum of forty thousand dollars, in addition 956 to the amount heretofore authorized for purchase of site, may be used for that purpose, but the limit of cost for site and building shall not be exceeded.
Portsmouth, Virginia, post-office and custom-house: For additionalPortland, Me.Transfer of amount from post-office to court-house.*Ante*, p. 521. land and completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and customhouse:Portsmouth, Va. For finishing quarters in attic for Civil Service Commission, five thousand dollars. Quincy, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofProvidence, R. I. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For rental of temporary quarters at Quincy, Illinois, and movingQuincy, Ill. expenses incident thereto, eight thousand dollars. Rawlins, Wyoming, post-office: For site and completion of buildingRent. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Reading, Pennsylvania, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Rawlins, Wyo. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Red Wing, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion of buildingReading.
Pa. under present limit, including two thousand five hundred dollars to reimburse the construction fund for extraordinary expensesRed Wing, Minn. incurred on account of foundation work, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Richford, Vermont, post-office and custom-house: For site andRichford, Vt. completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Riverside, California, post-office: For site and continuation ofRiverside, Cal. building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of governmentRichmond, Va.Rent. officials at Richmond, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Roanoke, Virginia, and movingRoanoke, Va.Rent. expenses incident thereto, six thousand dollars Rochester, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building underRochester, Minn. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Rock Island, Illinois, post-office: For completion of the enlargement,Rock Island, Ill. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars, of which sum not exceedingfive thousand dollars may be expended for the purchase of additional land adjoining the present site.
For rental of temporary quarters at Rock Island, Illinois, andRent. moving expenses incident thereto, eight thousand dollars. Rock Springs, Wyoming, post-office: For site and completion ofRock Springs, Wyc building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Rome, Georgia, post-office: For completion of building underRome, Ga. present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Ruston, Louisiana, post-office: For completion of building underRuston, La. present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
Sacramento, California, post-office and court-house: For continuationSacramento, Cal. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Saint Louis, Missouri, post-office: For site and for continuationSaint Louis, Mo. of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars. Salisbury, North Carolina, post-office: For site and continuationSalisbury, N. C. of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.
San Angelo, Texas, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationSan Angelo, Tex. of building under present limit, thirtv-three thousand dollars. San Antonio, Texas, post-office and court-house: For continuationSan Antonio, Tex. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. 957 San Francisco, California, mint building: To protect the additionalSan Francisco, Cal.Mint, alterations, etc. machinery and appliances which are required to be installed in the United States mint building at San Francisco, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for parting and refining bullion is hereby authorized to be used to construct a skylight roof over the inner court of said building, to lay floors of the proper materials, and do the necessary excavating for a foundation for machinery and appliances, and for making piping connections with the mechanical plant of the building.
San Juan, Porto Rico, post-office and court-house: For continuationSan Juan, P. R. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. San Marcos, Texas, post-office: For completion of building underSan Marcos, Tex. present limit, forty thousand dollars. Santa Barbara, California, post-office: For site and continuationSanta Barbara, Cal. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Santa Cruz, California, post-office: For continuation of buildingSanta Cruz, Cal. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Santa Rosa, California, post-ofiice: For site and completion ofSanta Rosa, Cal. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Saulte Sainte Marie, Michigan, post-ofiice: For continuation ofSault Sainte Marie, Mich. building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Selma, Alabama, post-office: For site and completion of buildingSelma, Ala. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Sewickley, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice: For completion of buildingSewickley, Pa. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Shamokin, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingShamokin, Pa. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Sharon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and completion ofSharon, Pa. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Shenandoah, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building underShenandoah, Iowa. present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sheridan, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationSheridan, Wyo. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Shreveport, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For continuationShreveport, La. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Shreveport, Louisiana, andRent. moving expenses incident thereto, eight thousand dollars. Sioux Falls, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For completionSioux Falls, S. Dak. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars.
Spokane, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:Spokane, Wash. For site and completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Springfield, Massachusetts, post-office and custom-house: For additionalSpringfield, Mass. land, and completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Springfield, Ohio, post-office: For additional land, and completionSpringfield, Ohio. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twelve thousand dollars.
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and completion ofStevens Point, Wis. building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Sulphur Springs, Texas, post-office: For site and completion ofSulphur Springs, Tex. building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Sumter, South Carolina, post-office: For site and completion ofSumter, S. C. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Temple, Texas, post-office: For completion of building underTemple, Tex. present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Terrell, Texas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingTerrell, Tex. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. 958 Toledo, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under presentToledo, Ohio. limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house: For completionTrenton, N. J. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Trinidad, Colorado, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingTrinidad, Colo. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Troy, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building under presentTroy, Ala. limit, twenty thousand dollars. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, post-office and court-house: For completionTuscaloosa, Ala. of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Versailles, Kentucky, post-office: For site and completion of buildingVersailles, Ky. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Valdosta, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For completionValdosta, Ga. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Virginia, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion of buildingVirginia, Minn. under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Warrensburg, Missouri, post-office: For completion of buildingWarrensburg, Mo. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Watertown, New York, post-office: For completion of new buildingWatertown, N. Y. on site of present post-office, under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
For rent of temporary quarters for accommodation of governmentRent. officials at Watertown, New York, three thousand dollars. Watertown, South Dakota, post-office: For site and completion ofWatertown, S. Dak. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Watertown, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of buildingWatertown, Wis. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Waycross, Georgia, post-office: For additional land and continuationWaycross, Ga. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Webster, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of buildingWebster, Mass. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Wellington, Kansas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingWellington, Kans. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Wichita Falls, Texas, post-office: For site and completion of buildingWichita Falls, Tex. under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Willimantic, Connecticut, post-office: For site and completion ofWillimantic, Conn. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Wilmar, Minnesota, post-office: For site and completion of buildingWilmar, Minn. under present limit, thirty-three thousand dollars. Wilmington, Delaware, post-office and court-house: For completionWilmington, Del.Additional land, etc. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to purchase such additional land as may be necessary for the enlargement of the post-office and court-house at Wilmington, Delaware, provided for in the public buildings Act, approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred*Ante*, p. 524. and eight, the cost of such land not to exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the total appropriation of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars authorized in said Act for such enlargement.
Wilmington, North Carolina, custom-house and appraisers’ stores:Wilmington, N. C.Custom-house, etc. For additional land and continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Winchester, Virginia, post-office: For site and completion of buildingWinchester, Va. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Woburn, Massachusetts, post-office: For completion of buildingWoburn, Mass. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Yazoo, Mississippi, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingYazoo, Miss. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. 959 York, Nebraska, post-office: For completion of building underYork, Nebr. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. York, Pennsylvania, post-office: For additional land, and continuationYork, Pa. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Youngstown, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quartersYoungstown, Ohio. for the accommodation of government officials, three thousand dollars.
Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing:Washington, D. C.Bureau of Engraving and Printing. New building. For site and continuation of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars; and said building may be so constructed, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as to afford quarters and accommodation for the division of issue of the Office of the Treasurer of the United States. Authority is hereby given to close C street southwest, betweenClosing of C street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets SW., authorized.
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, bounded on the north by block two hundred and thirty-one and on the south by block two hundred and thirty-two in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for use in connection with the erection of the building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. *Provided*, That no part of apy appropriation made in this Act shall*Proviso.*Restriction. be paid to members of the so-called Council of Fine Arts created by executive order under date of January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, as compensation or for expenses; and no part of any such appropriation shall be expended in the preparation or formulation of any plans which have been submitted to, or approved or suggested by, said Council of Fine Arts.
Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance ofFire-alarm system, Treasury building. the automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs, and preservationRepairs and preservation. of custom-houses, court-houses and post-offices, quarantine stations and marine hospitals, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof, including necessary wire screens, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That of this amount not exceeding one hundred thousand*Proviso.*Marine hospitals, etc. dollars may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire screens for same, and not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, at Washington, District of Columbia.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, until their removalRent of buildings on acquired sites. becomes necessary, to rent any building or buildings not reserved by the vendors on lands heretofore or hereafter acquired for building sites or for the enlargement of building sites, the proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury, and a report thereof to be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. Mechanical equipment for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,Mechanical equipment. plumbing, gas piping (except for furniture lighting), ventilating, and refrigerating apparatus, vacuum cleaning systems, interior pneumatictube and call-bell systems for all purposes, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, and including not exceeding forty thousand dollars for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding nine thousand dollars for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, four hundred thousand dollars. 960 Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings:
For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks for same, and repairs thereto, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the lock-box equipment and repairs to same in completed and occupied buildings, exclusive of personal services,, except for work done by contract, seventy thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technicalBooks, chemicals, etc. periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and subscriptions to technical periodicals and journals published abroad may be paid in advance, two thousand dollars.
Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installationElectrical burglai alarms.Vol. 32, p. 1091. and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including the post-office, court-house, and so forth,Chicago, Ill.Boston, Mass. building at Chicago, Illinois, and the post-office and subtreasury building at Boston, Massachusetts, thirty-five thousand dollars. General expenses of public buildings:
To enable the Secretary ofGeneral expenses.*Ante*, p. 537. the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven, part one): ForDraftsmen, etc., in Architect’s office. compensation of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, to be employed only in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect public building legislation: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the*Provisos.*Limit. fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not : exceed four hundred thousand dollars; for compensation of supervisingSuperintendents, in spectors, etc., at buildings. superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, inspectors of public buildings, and inspectors of mechanical and electrical engineering, in connection with the erection and inspection of work on public buildings, at rates of compensation to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case exceeding those heretofore authorized to be paid out of appropriations for public buildings: *Provided*, That the expenditures on thisLimit. account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars; for compensation of mechanical labor force, including carpenters, plumbers,Mechanical 1abor force. machinists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, including the compensation of superintendents and assistant superintendents of repairs, engaged in work incident to repair of buildings, mechanical equipment, and vaults, safes, and locks, at such rates of compensation as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case to exexceed for any one person the rates current for similar services at the time and in the place where such services are performed: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year endingLimit.
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed one hundred and twelve thousand five hundred dollars; for expenses ofTraveling and miscellaneous expenses. superintendents, including traveling expenses of inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty in connection with work on public buildings, under orders from the Treasury Department, office rent, and expenses incident thereto, for superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance incident to the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; for commissions to disbursing agents in accordance with law; for cost of advertising; for office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines and exchange of same, and equipment, stationery, and such other articles and supplies as the 961 Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve for the use of the office of the Supervising Architect; for contingencies of every kind and character, including surveys, plaster models, photographs, test pit borings, mill and shop inspections, compensation and expenses of judges to select plans, care of sites acquired for public buildings, commissions to architects underCommissions to architects.Vol. 27, p. 468. the provisions of the Act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, telephone service at completed public buildings for use of custodians, and such other minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings and the acquisition of sites, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve;in all, for the foregoing objects for general expenses of public buildings, eight hundred thousand dollars. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals.
Cleveland, Ohio, marine hospital: For construction of new ironCleveland, Ohio. stairway in marine hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Wilmington, North Carolina, marine hospital: For filling and gradingWilmington, N. C. grounds, marine hospital, Wilmington, North Carolina, three hundred and fifty dollars. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Reedy Island Quarantine Station: Trestle, tank, pump, and soReedy Island. forth, for water supply, three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; extension of gangway to disinfecting wharf, nineteen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars; coal bin, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
Charleston Quarantine Station: Flood gate to tidal basin, andCharleston. repairs to present buildings, three thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars; boathouse and breakwater, seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars; sea wall for protection of reservation and medical officers’ quarters from encroachments of the sea, five thousand dollars; water system, high tank, trestle, pump, and distribution, three thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars.
Savannah Quarantine Station: Water distribution system, highSavannah. tank and trestle, three thousand five hundred dollars. San Francisco Quarantine Station: Oil-burning apparatus for stationSan Francisco. steam plant, one thousand two hundred dollars. Honolulu Quarantine Station: Electric wiring and fixtuies, twoHonolulu. thousand six hundred dollars; water system and distribution, nine thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred dollars. San Juan Quarantine Station:
For lazaretto, executive building,San Juan. attendants’ quarters, and laundry now authorized twenty-five thousand dollars; disinfecting building on shore one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand two hundred dollars. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, asSuperintendents. follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars; 962 For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand nine hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand two hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and ninety keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and seventysix thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of seventy dollars per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of sixty-five dollars per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or commutation thereof for keepers and surfmen; compensationCompensation, etc., of volunteers. of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel forFuel, repairs, etc. stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutationCommutation of quarters, etc. of quarters and allowance for heat and light for officers of the Revenue- Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; forDisabilities, etc.Vol. 22, p. 57. carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising,, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, two million and eighty-seven thousand and forty dollars.
Not exceeding ten thousand five hundred dollars of the unexpendedExhibit at Seattle Exposition. balance of appropriations for establishing new life-saving stations and 963 lifeboat stations on the sea and Lake coasts of the United States authorized by law, or so much as may be necessary, are hereby made immediately available for the construction of a life-saving station suitable for exhibition purposes on the grounds of the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific Exposition. The United States Government board of managers of the Alaska-Workshops, etc., preparing exhibit.
Yukon-Pacific Exposition is authorized to rent such workshops, storage and office rooms in the District of Columbia as may be required in connection with the preparation, safe-keeping, and return of the government exhibit authorized by Act of Congress, approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight. revenue-cutter service.Revenue – Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowancesPay, etc. of captain commandant and officers of that rank, senior captains, captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief, and officers of that rank, captains of engineers, lieutenants of engineers, two constructors, cadets, cadet engineers, commissioned surgeon, two contract surgeons, two civilian instructors, and pilots employed, and rations for pilots; for pay of warrant and petty officers, ships’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for allowance for clothing for enlisted men; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in theSeal fisheries. protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; forAnchorage. maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relatingVol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 30, p. 1081.Vol. 29, p. 54. to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, and in the Kennebec River, and the movements and anchorage of vessels in Saint Marys River; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel Cove, Maryland; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two million four hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars.
For special repairs to revenue cutters, seventy-five thousandSpecial repairs. dollars. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Large notes. no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fixVol. 31, p. 45. the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That*Proviso.* no 964 portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notesLarge notes. or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standardVol. 31, p. 45. of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the Director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred and forty-four thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institntion.
International Exchanges : For expenses of the system of internationalInternational ex changes. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, thirty-two thousand dollars. American Ethnology : For continuing ethnological researchesAmerican ethnology. among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty-two thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding One thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.
For removing the office furniture, records, manuscripts, documents,Removing records etc., to Smithsoniar Building. and other appurtenances from the present quarters to the space to be assigned in the Smithsonian Building, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature : For theInternational Catalogue of Scientifit Literature. cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, six thousand dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.
Astrophysical Observatory : For maintenance of AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand dollars. National Museum : For cases, furniture, fixtures, electrical andNational Museum.Cases, furniture, etc. other appliances required for the exhibition and safekeeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, two hundred thousand dollars.
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonicHeat, light, etc. service for the National Museum, sixty thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of thePreserving, etc., collections. collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. 965 For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for referenceBooks, etc. in the National Museum, two thousand dollars.
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum,Repairs. including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the NationalPostage. Museum, five hundred dollars. For moving collections, furniture, and other property of theMoving collections to new building. National Museum in connection with the occupancy of the new building for the National Museum, including all expenses incidental thereto, to be immediately available, four thousand dollars.
National Zoological Park : For continuing the-construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, ninety-five thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paidHalf from District revenues. from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. interstate commerce commission.Interstate Commerce Commission.
For salaries of seven commissioners, at ten thousand dollars each,Salaries of commissioners. seventy thousand dollars. For salary of secretary, five thousand dollars.Secretary. For all other authorized expenditures, necessary in the executionExpenses. of laws to regulate commerce, eight hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding three thousand dollarsCounsel. may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, the unused and unexpended balance, not exceeding twoUse of unexpended balance.*Ante*, p. 324. hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, of the appropriation of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, remaining unexpended at the close of that fiscal year is hereby reappropriated for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, together with the further sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engagedArbitration of railroad differences.Vol. 30, p. 424. in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531. regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, including the employment of inspectors, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Hereafter ah inspectors employedReports on mail cars. for the enforcement of said Act shall also be required to make examination of the construction, adaptability, design, and condition of all mail cars used on any railroad in the United States and make report thereon, a copy of which report shall be transmitted to the Postmaster- General. 966 To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate inInvestigation block systems, etc. regard to the use and necessity for block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains and any appliances or systems intended to. promote the safety of railway operation which may be furnished in completed shape, including experimental tests, at the discretion of the commission, of such of said systems and appliances only as may be furnished in connection with such investigation, free of cost to the Government,, fifty thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous.
Paper for Internal -Revenue Stamps : For paper for internal-revenueInternal revenue.Paper for stamps. stamps, including freight, eighty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money coveredRefund of taxes.*Ante*, p. 325. into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars. Punishment for Violations of Internal -Revenue Laws : ForPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act.
Transportation of Fractional Silver Coin : For transportationTransporting fractional silver coin. of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, sixty 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.*Deposits. 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. Transportation of Minor Coin : For transportation of minor coin,Transporting minor coins. 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, minor coin when requested to do so: *Provided*, That an equal*Proviso.*Deposits. amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury : For contingentContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.R. 8., sec. 3653, p. 719. expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Recoinage of Gold Coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoinage of gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelveR. S., sec. 3512, p. 696. of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand dollars. Distinctive Paper for United States Securities : For distinctiveUnited States securities.Distinctive paper. paper for United States securities, including expenses of transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, four counters, five watchmen, one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 967 Special Witness of Destruction of United States Securities :Witness of destruction.
For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Sealing and Separating United States Securities : For materialsSealing and separating. required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printer’s varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, two thousand dollars.
Expenses of National Currency: For distinctive paper, includingDistinctive paper for national currency. transportation, mill, and other necessary expenses, sixty-six thousand dollars. Canceling United States Securities and Cutting DistinctiveCanceling, etc. Paper : For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars.
Custody of Dies, Rolls, and Plates : For pay of custodian ofCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, one at one thousand six hundred dollars, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.
Pay of Assistant Custodians and Janitors: For pay of assistantPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. custodians and janitors, including all personal services for the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, and washing towels, sprinkling streets, and removing rubbish, in connection with said buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million nine hundred and two thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
General Inspector of Supplies for Public Buildings : For oneInspector of supplies. general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to inspect public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and report on the efficiency of the custodians’ forces, and the use of fuel, lights, water, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary traveling expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.
Inspector of Furniture and other Furnishings for PublicInspector of Furniture. Buildings : To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary traveling expenses, including actual traveling expenses of assistant, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars. For assistant inspector of furniture and other furnishings for publicAssistant inspector. buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars.
Furniture and Repairs of Furniture : For furniture and repairsFurniture and repairs. of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, nine hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not more than three hundred 968 thousand dollars may be expended in other than new buildings.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furnituie or not. Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings : For the purchaseFuel, lights, and water. of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governprs, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Gas governors. no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.
Suppressing Counterterfeting and other Crimes: For expensesSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of 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 and bounty laws, including one thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, the*Post*, p. 1058.R.
S., sec.4718,p. 919.Vol. 28, p. 965.Limitation. Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five 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 inPayment to 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 ten have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Compensation in Lieu of Moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Customs Service : To defray the expenses of collecting the revenueCollecting customs revenue, additional. from customs, five million dollars, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten. And the provisions of the ActDetection of fraud, etc.Vol. 20, p. 386: Vol.33, p. 396, amended. of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the 969 Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are hereby further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten to two hundred thousand dollars.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty-five thousandAutomatic scales.Balance available.Vol. 34, p. 708. dollars made by the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
Lands and other Property of the United States : For custody,Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of ^ales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, three hundred dollars. Public Health and Marine -Hospital Service : Expenses ofPublic Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows: For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc. medical officers and pharmacists, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;
For pay of all other employees, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars; For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, thirty-five thousandFreight, etc. dollars; For fuel, light, and water, eighty thousand dollars;Fuel, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, eight thousand dollars;Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospitalSupplies. supplies, forty thousand dollars; For rent of building or floor space for purveying depot in Washington,Rent.
District of Columbia, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, fifteen thousand dollars;Hygienic Laboratory.Maintenance of hospitals. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two hundred and forty thousand dollars; For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment ofMedical examinations, etc. all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses at other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars;
For journals and scientific books, for use of the Public-Health andBooks, etc. Marine-Hospital Bureau; subscriptions for journals for use of the service may be paid for in advance, five hundred dollars; In all, one million two hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundredInspection of aliens. and fifty dollars, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act of Congress approved February twentieth, nineteen hundredVol. 34, p. 903. and seven, and the provision of said section of said Act requiring the reimbursement by the immigration fund for said expenses is hereby repealed.
Maintenance of leprosy hospital, Hawaii: For maintenance of theLeprosy hospital, Hawaii. leprosy hospital, Hawaii, forty-five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to accept the proposal ofExtending water supply. the proper authorities of the Territory of Hawaii, in amount not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars, to make sufficient extension 970 of the present water-supply system of the leper settlement on Molokai to provide an adequate water supply also to the leprosy investigation station of the United States, provided that the right is granted to said adequate water supply in perpetuity by the Territory of Hawaii, four thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available.
For constructing boat landing at the leprosy investigation station,Boat landing. Flawaii, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Quarantine Service : For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Portland, Maine; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear; Newbern, N rth Carolina; Washington, North Carolina;
Georgetown, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Beaufort, South Carolina; Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; BiscayneBay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Pensacola; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto (repairs and rehabilitation for New Orleans Quarantine Station when title perfected, ’to be payable from the appropriation Act of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six);
Pascagoula; Gulf; San Diego; San Pedro and adjoining ports; Santa Barbara; San Francisco, Port Harford, California; Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Oregon; Newport, Oregon; Coos Bay, Oregon; Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, four hundred thousand dollars. An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurredPrinting. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.
” Prevention of Epidemics : The President of the United States isPrevention of epidemics. hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriatedBalance available.*Ante*, p. 330.Additional. and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. light-houses, Beacons, and Fog Signals.Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals. For completing a tender for the first light-house district, one hundredTender, flrstdistrict. thousand dollars. Point Judith breakwater lights, Rhode Island: For establishingPoint Judith, R. I. lights and fog signals on the breakwaters of the National Harbor ofBreakwater, lights. Refuge, Point Judith, Rhode Island, twelve thousand dollars.
Southwest Ledge light station, Connecticut: For completing SouthwestSouth west Ledge, Conn. Ledge light-house near New London, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, sixty thousand dollars. 971 Staten Island and West Bank light stations, New York: For completingStaten Island, N. Y. Staten Island light station, New York, fifty thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel, New York: For the purchase of buoys and equipment,Ambrose Channel, N. Y.Buoys, etc.Use of sum for tank vessel.Vol. 34, p. 322. forty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
The sum of fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for a tank light-vessel for Ambrose Channel, New York Bay, may be used, together with the foregoing sum, for the purchase of buoys, to be immediately available. Ilinchinbrook Entrance light station, Alaska: For completingHinchinbrook, Alaska. Hinchinbrook light and fog signal station, Alaska, fifty thousand dollars. North Point light station, Wisconsin:
For raising the tower ofNorth Point, Wis. North Point light station thirty feet, which station is hereby reestablished, ten thousand dollars. Rock of Ages light station, Lake Superior: For the purchase andRock of Ages, Lake Superior. installation of a modern lens, fifteen thousand dollars. Duluth Harbor Entrance, North Pier light station, Minnesota: ForDuluth, Minn.North Pier. establishing a light on the north pier, entrance to Duluth Harbor, Lake Superior, Minnesota, four thousand dollars.
Alcatraz light station, California: For remodeling and reconstructingAlcatraz, Cal. the Alcatraz light station, California, thirty-five thousand dollars. For establishing, under the direction and supervision of the Light-Alaskan waters.Necessary aids. House Board, such aids to navigation in Alaskan waters as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be considered advisable and necessary, sixty thousand dollars. light-house establishment.Light-House Establishment.
Supplies of Light -Houses : For supplying fog signals, lighthouses,Supplies. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of the Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, actual hire of special conveyance when necessary to inspect light stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the lighthouse inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars.
Repairs of Light -Houses : For repairing, protecting, and improvingRepairs, etc. light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same; for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Salartes of Keepers of Light -Houses : For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers’ salaries. rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand seven hundred light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 972 Expenses of Light -Vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,Light-vessels. salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, nine hundred and sixty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Expenses of Buoyage : For expenses of establishing, replacing,Buoyage. and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, nine hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars. Expenses of Fog Signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals, including submarine signals, and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
Lighting of Rivers : For the pay of officers and crews of lighthouseLighting of rivers. tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland;
Monongahela River, York River, James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior;
Fox River; Lake Winnebago and connecting lakes and channels; in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; the Light- House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Oil Houses for Light Stations : For establishing isolated oilOil houses. houses for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Limit.
That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Maintenance of Lights on Channels of Great Lakes : ToGreat Lakes. enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars.
Neebish Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan : For maintainingSaint Marys River,Mich.*Ante*, p. 20. lights provided for in the Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, for lighting Neebish Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan, three thousand dollars. 973 Pointe Au Pelee Light -Vessel, Lake Erie : For maintenance ofPointe au Pelee, Lake Erie. a light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. Repairs to Light -House Tender Pansy :
For repairs of the lighthouse“Pansy,” tender. Repairs. tender Pansy for general service, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, That hereafter any and all proposals for bids for any new machinery or other new equipment necessary in the repair of any*Proviso.*Competitive bids required. vessel in the Light-House Service shall be on specifications prepared and submitted that will secure competition in the bids for furnishing such machinery or equipment. Hereafter there shall be submitted, following each estimate underDetailed statements to be made with estimates. the foregoing appropriations for support of the Light-House Establishment, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in each of said estimates.
Authority is hereby given the accounting officers of the TreasuryL. C. Heilner.Credit in accounts. Department to allow and credit in the accounts of Commander L. C. Heilner, United States Navy, inspector of the thirteenth light-house district for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, the sum of six hundred and twenty-five dollars paid by him from the appropriation “Supplies of light-houses, nineteen hundred and six,” for raising the light-house tender Manzanita. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofExpenses. the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and under the following heads: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Advances.
That advances of money under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties. For Field Expenses :
For surveys and necessary resurveys of theField expenses. Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Island limitations. That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the PacificPacific coast.
Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Employing, etc.,Filipinos. this appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating toPhysical hydrography. harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars;
For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on theCoast Pilot. coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, 974 and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars; For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridianMagnetic observations. lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to state surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State surveys. in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars;
For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-HouseSpecial surveys. Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, including expenses of surveys in aid of the shellfish commission of the State of Maryland, which expenses, including cost of plats and charts, shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars in any one year, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent,Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, to be paid as directed by the superintendent, in accordance with the Department of Commerce and Labor regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the International GeodeticGeodetic Association.
Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars; For the erection of a tidal gauge in the new Seamen’s Home onTidal gauge, Seamen’s Home, N. Y. West street, New York City, one thousand dollars; *Provided*, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be*Proviso.*In terchangeable expenditures. available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation; In all, for field expenses, three hundred and twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at his discretion, mayCumulative leave, force in Philippines. hereafter grant to officers of the field force of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on duty in the Philippine Islands, at one time the whole or any portion of the annual leave accrued and unused during a period of three years. For Repairs and Maintenance of Vessels : For repairs and maintenanceVessels. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses- of the person inspecting the repairs, forty thousand dollars.
Officers and Men, Vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey : ForPay, etc. all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey : For Superintendent, sixSalaries. Superintendent. thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as theAssistants.
Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; 975 For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For eight assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at one thousand one hundred dollarsAids. each; For thirteen aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and ten aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; In all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of office force : For one disbursing agent, two thousand fiveOffice force. hundred dollars;
For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eightClerical. hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For eight, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For six, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen,Draftsmen. namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each;
For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers,Computers. namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For nine, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers,Engravers. namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each;
For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and theirElectrotypers, etc. helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For one, at two thousand dollars;
For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars ; For twelve, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; 976 For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers,Watchmen, etc. and laborers, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each ; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For three, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For four, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For two, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; In all, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. Office Expenses : For the purchase of new instruments for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone including the operation of switchboard, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries. Office of Commissioner : For commissioner, six thousand dollars;Salaries.Commissioner, etc. deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand one hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; clerk to commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; inspector of fisheries in Alaska, one thousand eight hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, twoOffice of architect and engineer. thousand two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish culture. seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, 977 one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station andStation employees.Central Station. Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSaint Johnshury, Vt. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandGloucester, Mass. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandWoods Hole, Mass. five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousandCape Vincent, N.Y. five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred andBryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveWytheville, Va. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
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(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredPut in Bay, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNorthville, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundredAlpena, Mich. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveDuluth, Minn. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredNeosho, Mo. dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven 978 hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveLeadville, Colo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveSan Marcos, Tex. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred dollars. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: SuperintendentBaird and Battle Creek, Cal. , one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveClackamas, Oreg. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveManchester, Iowa. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveBozeman, Mont. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredErwin, Tenn. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousandNashua, N. H. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousandEdenton, N. C. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBaker Lake, Wash. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent one thousand fiveCold Springs, Ga. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSpearfish, S. Dak. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveTupelo, Miss. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBoothbay Harbor, Me. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; custodian 979 of lobster pounds, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars. Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousandMammoth Springs, 4rk. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand fiveYes Bay, Alaska. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveAfognak, Alaska. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Biological Station, Fairport, Iowa: Director, at the rate of oneFairport, Iowa.Biological station. thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; superintendent of fish culture, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; scientific assistant, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; scientific assistant, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; foreman, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; shell expert, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; engineer, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; two firemen, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum each; two laborers, at the rate of six hundred dollars per annum each; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at oneEmployees at large. thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand twoDistribution employees. hundred dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiry. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Superintendent andBiological station, N. C. director, one thousand five hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics. charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. 980 Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessels.“Albatross.” eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, four hundred and eighty“Fish Hawk.” dollars. Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars;“Grampus.” first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and nine hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the engineer*Proviso.*Engineer transferred to classified service. who has heretofore been employed in this position is hereby transferred to the classified service. Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;“Phalarope.” engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer,“Curlew.” one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Steamer Gannet: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;“Gannet.” engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. Steamer Osprey: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;“Osprey.” engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissionerAdministration expenses. , including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, furniture, purchase and care of necessary horses and vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of commissioner, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, eight thousand dollars. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operationsPropagation expenses. of the fish-cultural stations of the bureau, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels andMaintenance of vessels. launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For expenses of the inquiry into theInquiries respecting food fishes.Field expenses. causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior, the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts in the interests of fish culture and the commercial fisheries, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, thirty thousand dollars. 981 Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilationStatistical inquiry. of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeableexpenditures. expenses of the work of the bureau shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Agents at salmon fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, two thousandSalmon fisheries, agent. five hundred dollars; and one assistant agent, two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Fish Hatchery, Put in Bay, Ohio For construction or purchasePut in Bay, Ohio.Steamboat. of steamboat, fifteen thousand dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are herebyWilliam L. Soleau.Credit in accounts. authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of William L. Soleau, disbursing clerk, Department of Commerce and Labor, payments made by him for subsistence of regular employees at the United States, fish hatcheries at Yes Bay, Alaska, and Baker, Washington, paid prior to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the upper MississippiUpper Mississippi River Valley.Establishment of station in. River Valley for the collection and propagation of fishes indigenous to that region and as a necessary auxiliary to the biological station at Fairport, Iowa, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment, at some suitable place to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, twenty-five thousand dollars. For establishing fish-cultural stations in Puget Sound, or its tributariesPuget Sound, Wash.Stations.*Ante*, p. 589. in the State of Washington for the propagation of salmon and other food fishes and for each and every purpose necessary in connection therewith and authorized in the Act approved January twentyninth, nineteen hundred and nine, fifty thousand dollars. Fish Hatchery, Green Lake, Maine : For completion of roadwayGreen Lake, Me. from said station to county road, two thousand seven hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor.Miscellaneous. Alaskan Seal Fisheries : For salaries of agents at seal fisheriesAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc. in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; janitor service at the government buildings at the Pribilof Islands, not exceeding four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food,Food, etc., for natives. fuel, and clothing and other necessaries of life to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Repairs to public buildings on the Pribilof Islands, Alaska: ForRepairs to buildings. repairing the government buildings on the fur-seal islands, Saint George and Saint Paul, Alaska, including repairs to guardhouses and coal house, three thousand dollars. Expenses of Regulating Immigration : For all expenses of theImmigration of aliens.Expenses enforcing laws. enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; for the costs of the reports of decisions of the federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration; for salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws; for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act ofVol. 34, p. 898. February 982 twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States” (Thirtyfourth Statutes, eight hundred and ninety-eight); for expenses of necessary supplies, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; also for preventing the unlawful entry ofChinese exclusion. Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and the expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for the refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidenceRefunding head tax. showing conclusively that collection was erroneously made; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, two million four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided*, That*Provisos.*Employees on contract labor.Vol. 34, p. 906. not to exceed fifty thousand dollars of said sum may be expended as provided in section twenty-four of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States:” *Provided*, That the expendituresChinese exclusion expenses. for the enforcement of the Chinese-Exclusion Act shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and nine, all head tax collectedHead tax, etc.To be covered into the Treasury.Vol. 34, p. 898, amended. pursuant to the provisions of section one of the said Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, together with all fines, rentals collected, and moneys received from other sources under the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. For the expenses of the commission provided for in section thirty-nineJoint commission on immigration.Expenses.Vol. 34, p. 909. of said Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, including the salaries of the commissioners and their clerks and other employees, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the saidTermination of work. commission shall complete their entire work and make their final report, and the commission shall cease on the first day of March, nineteen hundred and ten. Towards the purchase of ground for and the complete erection andBoston, Mass.Immigration station, site, etc.*Ante*, p. 643. furnishing of a new fireproof immigration station at the Port of Boston in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred thousand dollars. The Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eightEllis Island, N. Y. Harbor.Immigration station.*Ante*, p. 330, amended. (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page three hundred and thirty), is hereby amended by striking out the following: “Immigration station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor: For dredging new channel to afford landing facilities for arriving aliens and their baggage, sixty-five thousand dollars” and inserting: Immigration station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor: For dredgingWharf authorized. new channel and constructing new wharf to afford landing facilities for arriving aliens and their baggage, sixty-five thousand dollars. Hereafter there shall be submitted, following the estimates underDetailed estimates required. the foregoing appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in said estimates. Special Examiners, Division of Naturalization : For compensationNaturalization division.Special examiners, clerks, etc. , to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Division of Naturalization, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, provided forVol. 34, p. 596. by the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and 983 to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe; and for the actual necessary traveling expenses of theTraveling expenses. officers and employees of the Division of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. A detailed report ofReport. the expenditures under the appropriations for this service shall be annually submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. For the purpose of carrying into effect that part of section thirteenClerks of courts.Allowance for clerical assistance in naturalization cases.Vol. 34, p. 600. of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, five hundred and ninety-six), which provides: “And in case the clerk of any court collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any one year, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow to such clerk from the money which the United States shall receive additional compensation for the employment ofadditional clerical assistance, but for no other purpose, if in the opinion of the said Secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance,” twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total compensation*Proviso.*Limit. for the additional clerical assistants authorized by that portion of the said section quoted above to be employed by the clerks of courts, shall in no case exceed one-half the gross amount of fees collected by such clerks in naturalization cases (luring the fiscal year, and that the expenditures from this appropriation shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. Refund to Compagnie Generate Transatlantique : for RefundCompagnie Generale Transatlantique.Refund to. to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique the amount erroneously collected from said company for hospital treatment of the aliens Perl and Abraham Goldfeder, from July twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, to february twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, to be paid from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration,” four hundred and sixty-five dollars. Payment to William Black : For payment of fee to WilliamWilliam Black Informer’s fee. Black, informer against John Fluggins, under the alien contract-labor law, being one-half of the penalty imposed and collected in Black’s own case, five hundred dollars. Payment to Thomas Windridge and Others : To pay toThomas Windridge, James Greenwood, William Cameron, and Robert Jones.Informers’ fees. Thomas Windridge, James Greenwood, William Cameron, and Robert Jones, for information furnished that led to the conviction of the Allis-Chalmers Company for importing aliens under contract from England in violation of the immigration laws, for which a fine of four thousand dollars was imposed and collected,- five hundred dollars each, two thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses Ship Ping Service : For rent (includingShipping service.Contingent expenses rent of office quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at San Francisco, California, not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars), stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, nine thousand one hundred dollars. For rent of temporary quarters for the United States shipping commissionerNew York.Rent. at New York, New York, and cost of removing present office and fixtures, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Bureau of Standards: Toward procuring a testing machine toBureau of Standards.Testing physical constants. cost not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and for services in connection therewith, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars to be immediately available. 984 UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of Buildings, Interior Department : For repairs ofRepairs. Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, twenty thousand dollars. For repairing the operating machinery of the electric elevator, inElectric elevator. the west wing of the Patent Office building, four thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For the Capitol : For work at Capitol and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs. thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inWorks of art. the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committeeSenate Office Building.Construction,Vol. 33, p. 481. rooms and offices for the United States Senate, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of necessary technical books, one hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of thirty thousandMaintenance.Unexpended balance available.Vol. 33, p. 481. dollars made for maintenance, including heating, lighting, and ventilation, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services for the Senate Office Building, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. Improving the Capitol Grounds : For the care and improvementCapitol grounds.Improving. of the grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate Office Building, and House Office Building, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, for fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, twenty-seventhousand five hundred dollars. Light in G the Capitol and Grounds : For lighting the Capitol andLighting Capitol and grounds. grounds about the same, including the Senate Office Building, 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; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and SenateRepairs, stables, etc. and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. Conference Room, Supreme Court : For steel fixtures, shelves,Supreme Court, conference room.Shelves, etc., for library. and cases for the conference room library of the Supreme Court, six thousand five hundred dollars. Court of Claims Building, District of Columbia : For plumbingCourt of Claims Building, D. C.Plumbing, etc. , painting, and revolving door, for the Court of Claims building, seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars. 985 public lands service.Public lands. Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers : ForRegisters and receivers. salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses of Land Offices : For clerk hire, rent, andContingent expenses. other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars : *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment*Provisos.*Per diem. of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That no expensesRestriction on expenditures. chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Expenses of Depositing Public Moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, ‘by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the- Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, andTimber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims. settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, one million dollars, to be immediately available, of which sum seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is for the purpose of bringing up the work of the General Land Office hereunder so as to make the same current, and not exceeding twenty-fiveMexican Kickapoo Indians, Okla.Punishing frauds concerning allotments to, witness fees, etc. thousand dollars of this appropriation may be used for the payment, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, of fees of witnesses and of the actual expenses of witnesses summoned before the state grand jury or other juries to indict and try persons guilty of violation of the law in connection with the execution of deeds covering lands allotted in Oklahoma to the Mexican Kickapoo Indians, or before state courts at the trial of persons so indicted, and not exceedingDistrict land offices.Additional rent, etc. fifty thousand dollars additional for clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, and not exceeding fifty thousand dollars additional for expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law: *Provided*, That agents and others employed*Proviso.*Per diem. under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in the district of Alaska, they mayException. be allowed not exceeding six dollars per day each, in lieu of subsistence. Expenses of Hearings in Landentries: For expenses of hearingsHearings in land entries. held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, thirty-five thousand dollars. 986 Reproducing Plat S of Surveys : To enable the Commissioner ofReproducing plats of surveys. the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Examinations of Desertlands : To enable the Secretary of theDesert lands to States. Interior to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the StatesExamination of selections.Vol. 28, p. 422. under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand dollars: *Provided*, That if such examinations be made by detailed*Proviso.*Expenses. clerks or employees of the department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Restoration of Lands in Forest Reserves : To enable the SecretaryForest reserves.Advertising. of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, twelve thousand dollars. Transcripts of Records and Plats, General Land OfficeTranscripts of records. : For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven*Provisos.*Compensation. hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, at a compensation of sixty dollars per month each, and shall be entitled to the same leave of absence or leave for sickness with pay as is allowed by law to other employees of the executive departments:Restriction. *Provided further*, That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be expended in any one month of the year for which it is available. Opening Indian Reservations (Reimbursable ): To meet theOpening Indian reservations to entry.Expenses.*Proviso.*Reimbursement. expenses of opening to entry and settlement ceded lands within Indian reservations, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively. surveying the public lands.Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred and twenty-fiveRates. thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township and five dollars for section lines: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation*Provisos.*Preference. preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of landsVol. 25, p. 676.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land OfficeExtra rates, heavily timbered, etc., lands. may allow for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, 987 eleven dollars for township and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work cannot be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township, and twelve dollars for section lines: *Provided further*, ThatLands in California, etc. in the States of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township and twenty dollars for section lines; the provisions of section twenty-fourR. S.,sec. 2411, p. 441. hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expendedResurveys, etc. such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, wherePer diem. a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspectingInspecting mineral, etc., lands. mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not exceedingMonuments for section corners. twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandonedAbandoned m i1itary reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approvedVol. 23, p. 103. July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, fourCounties in Utah.Completing office work. thousand dollars. To enable the United States surveyor-general of Utah to execute*Ante*, p. 348. and complete the office work necessary to the surveys of public lands in Garfield, Iron, Kane, San Juan, and Washington counties, in the State of Utah, authorized by the Act of Congress approved MayMinnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana.Completing drafting, etc. twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinishedCalifornia.Plats of mineral surveys in. drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana, caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors-general in those States, six thousand five hundred dollars. 988 To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office, under theGeological Survey. direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to reproduce the plats of mineral surveys in California for the United States Surveyor-General’s Office, to be immediately available, eight thousand dollars. united states geological survey.Salaries of Director, etc. Office of the Direct Or of the Geological Survey : ForScientific assistants. director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; two assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirtyfour thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey :Expenses. For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. Forgeneral Expenses of the Geological Survey : For theSkilled laborers. Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying national forests, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other absolutely necessary expenses, including telegrams, furniture, stationery, telephones, and all other necessary articles required in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,Topographical surveys. twenty thousand dollars; For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States,Geological surveys. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,Chemical and physical researches. two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology ofIllustrations. the United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Mineral resources. eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theWater supply. United States, which report shall hereafter be published in two octavo volumes and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, seventy-five thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theBooks, etc. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, one hundred thousand dollars; 989 For the purchase of necessary books for the library, includingMaps. directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps, one hundred thousandStructural materials investigation. dollars; For the continuation of the investigation of the structural materialsTesting fuels. both belonging to and for the use of the United States, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars; For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites,Forest reserve surveys. and other mineral fuel substances belonging to or for the use of the United States, in order to determine their fuel value, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, one hundred thousand dollars; For continuation of the topographical surveys of the public landsMine inspectors.Vol. 26, p. 1104. that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized by the Act approvedPer diem. March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars. For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the SecretaryInvestigation of mine explosions. of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For continuing the investigations as to the causes of mine explosionsCopies of photograph slides, etc.Sale of, authorized. with a view to increasing safety in mining, to be immediately available, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; The Director of the Geological Survey shall hereafter furnish to anyProceeds. person, concern, or institution, in the interest of education and the dissemination of knowledge, that shall pay in advance the whole cost of material and services thereof, copies of any photographs or lantern slides in the possession of the United States Geological Survey; andMiscellaneous. the moneys received by the director for the same shall be deposited in the United States Treasury. In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million four hundred and seven thousand three hundred and ninety dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior. Expenses of Testimony in Disbarment Proceedings : For actualDisbarment proceedings.Expenses. ami necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department of the Interior, its bureaus and offices, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisionsSupreme Court Reports. of the Supreme Court for two hundred and seventy copies of volumes two hundred and fourteen to two hundred and eighteen, inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Care and Custody of the in Sane of Alaska : For the care andAlaska.Care of insane. custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Education in Alaska : To enable the Secretary of the Interior,Education of natives. in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for textbooks and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling 990 expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, two hundred thousand dollars, so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or*Provisos.*Limit of pay. inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from their designated and actual posts of duty: *Provided*, That of theServices, Washington, D. C. sum hereby appropriated not exceeding seven thousand dollars may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. All expenditure of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures. in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Reindeer for Alaska : For the support of reindeer stations inReindeer. Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, twelve thousand dollars; and all reindeer owned by the United States in Alaska shall, as soon as practicable, be turned over to missions in or natives of Alaska, to be held and used by them under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the sale of surplus male reindeer and make regulations for the same. The proceeds of such sale shall be turned into the Treasury of the United States. Protection of Game in Alaska : For carrying out the provisionsProtection of game*Ante*, p. 102. of an Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Yellowstone National Park : For the administration and protectionYellowstone Park. of the Yellowstone National Park, five thousand five hundred dollars. For procuring feed for buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, twoCare of buffaloes. thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite National Park, California : For protection and improvementYosemite Park. of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, thirty thousand dollars. Sequoia National Park, California : For the protection andSequoia Park. improvement of the Sequoia National Park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. General Grant National Park, California : For protectionGeneral Grant Park and improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, two thousand dollars. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon : For protection and improvementCrater Lake Park. of the Crater Lake National Park and repairing and extension of roads, three thousand dollars. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado : For protection andMesa Verde Park. improvement of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, including the lands within five miles of the boundaries of said reservation, which, under the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, are to be administered by the same service established for the custodianshipVol. 34, p. 617. of the park, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 991 Mount Rainier Nation Al Park, Washington : For protectionMount Rainier Park. and improvement of Mount Rainier National Park, construction ofWind Cave Park. bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, three thousand dollars. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota : For the improvementPlatt Park.Sewer, etc. and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement of Platt National Park, payable out of funds in*Proviso.*Division of expense. the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, to the credit of the park, sixteen thousand dollars, to be expended as follows: For repair of roads and bridges, five hundred dollars, for a stone culvert at Sulphur Run, near Pavilion Springs, five hundred dollars, for construction of a sanitary sewer with laterals to intersect with others connecting with the sewer system of the city of Sulphur, fifteen thousand dollars: *Provided*, The municipality of, Sulphur expend in the constructionGovernment Hospital for Insane. of said sewer system through the park an equal amount. Government Hospital for the Insane : For current expensesBuildings and grounds. of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicle for official use of the superintendent, three hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for thePower, etc., plant. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, forty thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, five thousand dollars. For centralizing the power, heating, and lighting plant, remodelingVol. 33, p. 731. the electric lay out, and substituting electrically-driven for steam-driven machinery, and for certain othor purposes incident thereto, one hundred thousand dollars, which sum shbe paid from money in the Treasury which has accrued to the hospital from pensions, under the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and five. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb : For support ofColumbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty-five thousand dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, five thousand dollars. Howard University : For maintenance of the Howard University,Howard University. to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, forty-nine thousand dollars; 992 For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, nine thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures, for the libraries, three thousand dollars; For scientific building and equipment, in addition to donations therefor, ninety thousand dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars; Medical department: To meet in part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, and apparatus, five thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and naturalhistory studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; For fuel and light, three thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and sixty-two thousand two hundred dollars; Freedmen’s Hospital : For salaries and compensation of the surgeonFreedmen’s Hospital. in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine,Addition to hospital building. medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars. For an additional wing to Freedmen’s Hospital building, fifty-fiveDraining. thousand seven hundred dollars. For draining around the north wall of wings two, three, and fourGrand Canyon, Ariz.Memorial to John Wesley Powell. of the hospital building, removing earth and back fill with broken tile or cinders, clearing and relaying drains, cement aprons, and removal of excavated material, one thousand dollars. Memorial to John Wesley Powell : For the purpose of procuring*Proviso.*Design, etc. and erecting on the brink of the Grand Canyon, in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in Arizona, a memorial to the late John Wesley Powell, with a suitable pedestal, if necessary, in recognition of his distinguished public services as a soldier, explorer, and administrator of government scientific work, five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the design for said memorial and the site for the same shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : For oneFrankford, Pa.Powder magazine, etc. powder magazine, six thousand five hundred dollars. For additional equipment for shop building for the manufacture of artillery ammunition, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois : For one artilleryRock Island, Ill.Artillerystorehouse, etc. storehouse, sixty thousand dollars; For extension of railroad tracks and improvement of facilities for handling material received in bulk, seven thousand seven hundred dollars; For an oil-fuel plant in forge shop and foundry, fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars; For a steam heating plant for barracks, four thousand two hundred dollars; For repairs to bridge connecting Rock Island Arsenal and the city of Davenport, sixty thousand dollars; 993 For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For the Rock Island bridge, as follows: For operating and care andBridge. preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred dollars. Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey : For the alterationSandy Hook proving ground, N. J. of the old barrack building, three thousand one hundred dollars; For purchase and installation of electrical machines and apparatus for instruction of student officers, two thousand dollars; For protecting the east shore line of the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, thirty thousand dollars; In all, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey : For extension of fillingDover, N. J.Picatinny Arsenal. house, ten thousand dollars; For increasing facilities for fire protection, five thousand dollars; For enlargement of the powder factory, including the necessaryEnlargmentof powder factory. accessories and buildings for housing employees, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. The public funds heretofore accounted for under the title “PowderChange of name. depot, Dover, New Jersey,” will hereafter be accounted for under the title “Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey.” Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massa Chusetts: For increasingSpringfield, Mass.Fire protection, etc. the facilities for fire protection, five thousand one hundred dollars; For increase of transportation facilities, forty thousand dollars; In all, forty-five thousand one hundred dollars. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For changingWatertown, Mass. and rehabilitating the machine tools of the machine shop and for independent motors, thirty-seven thousand dollars; For improvement of sanitary conditions and the convenience of workmen, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all, sixty-two thousand dollars. Testing Machines, Watert Own Arsenal : For the necessary professionalTesting machines. and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, fifteen thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York : For new roofWatervliet, N. Y. for coal bins at gun shops, two thousand dollars. Ordnance Depot, Manila, Philippine Islands : For converting aManila, P. I.Officers’ quarters. storehouse into a set of officers’ quarters, nine thousand dollars; For repairs to casemates and shops, three thousand three hundred dollars; In all, twelve thousand three hundred dollars. Repairs of Arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals,B.epairs. and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. 994 buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds, D. C. That the application of the rules and regulations heretofore prescribedCare, etc., of sidewalks and carriageways around. or that may be hereafter prescribed by the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, under the authority granted by section six of an Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight,Vol. 30, p. 571. for the government and proper care of all public grounds placed by that Act under the charge and control of the said Chief of Engineers, is hereby extended to cover the sidewalks around the public grounds and the carriageways of such streets as lie between and separate the said public grounds. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia,Improvement and care. as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For extraordinary repairs of the greenhouses at the nursery, three thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annexMonument grounds. (Potomac Park) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehicles, for official use, twenty-six thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, three thousand five hundred dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park betweenPotomac Park. the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park along the north and west sides of the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars. 995 For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park extending along the river side between the inlet to the tidal reservoir and the foot of Twenty-sixth street west, three thousand dollars. For continuing the improvement of Potomac Park: To complete work of continuing north B street from Virginia avenue westward to the Potomac River as a park roadway along the northern boundary of Potomac Park, according to plans prepared in the office of public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, five thousand dollars. For continuing the southern half of north B street from Virginia avenue eastward to Fifteenth street west, as a park roadway according to plans prepared in the office of public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, ten thousand dollars. For commencing the improvement of the interior portions of section one of Potomac Park, grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and laying out walks, fifteen thousand dollars. One-half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in andHalf from District revenues. around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeLimit for concrete, etc., pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and office building of the House of Representatives as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. Executive Mansion : For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishingExecutive Mansion.Care etc. of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For additional accommodations to the building erected for theOffice building.Imprvements. offices of the President, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including heating apparatus and light fixtures, and furniture, all to be done according to plans, the details of which shall be approved by the President, and completed in every respect within the sum hereby appropriated, forty thousand dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, in the discretion and under the direction of the President, to be immediately available. For extraordinary repairs of the White House, for re-covering walls,Extraordinary repairs. reupholstering and re-covering furniture, painting, decorating, purchase of draperies, and so forth, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, fifteen thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion greenhouses and stable, sixFuel. thousand dollars. 996 For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and Public Grounds : For gas,Lighting ExecutiveManson and public grounds. pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That for each five-foot*Provisos.*Maxiumperlamp. burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further*, That four thousand two hundred dollars of thePart from District revenues. foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: *And provided further*, That not more than six thousand dollars ofHigher candle-power. said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion groundsElectric lights. within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds, as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, and twenty-seven in Potomac Park driveway, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. For laying conduit, erecting forty poles and lamps, and lighting same on macadam roadways in sections one and two of Potomac Park, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights, three thousand four hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other hair from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to Connect the Capitol with the DepartmentsGovernment Telegraph. and Government Printing Office : For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand dollars. For purchase and installing cables in underground conduits already in place, and for taking down and removing the present system of overhead wires and poles, three thousand dollars. Grant Memorial : For continuing work for the erection of theGrant memorial. memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, forty-two thousand dollars. 997 Was hing to n Mon umen t : For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument.Mainenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at seventy dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty-five dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at fiftyfive dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month ; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Restiction on sales, etc. That hereafter no advertisement of any kind shall be displayed and no articles of any kind shall be sold in or around the Monument, except upon the written authority of the Secretary of War. Repairs of Building Where Abraham Lincoln Died : For paintingBuilding where Abraham Lincoln died.Wakeield, Va. and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars. Improvements, Wakefield, Virginia : For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, one hundred dollars. **ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.**Engineer Department. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contractRivers and harbors.Vol.29, p. 213. and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing constructionSan Pedro, Cal. of breakwater, one hundred thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundredVol. 30, p. 1121. and ninety-nine, as follows: Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuingBay Ridge and Red Hook channels, N. Y. improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvementAmbrose Channel, New York Harbor. of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, one hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River, below Pittsburg, Pa.DamsNos. 13 and 18. improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, forty thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteenVol. 32, p. 331. hundred and two, as follows: Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuingArthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. improvement of channel from Kill van Kull to Raritan Bay, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvementCleveland, Ohio. in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, one hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River, below Pittsburg, Pa.Lockand Dam 37. improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 998 For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteenVol. 33, p. 1117. hundred and five, as follows: Improving Hay Lake and Neebish Channels, Saint Marys River,Saint Marys River Mich. Michigan: For continuing improvement, three hundred and ninetyfive thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River between SaintMississippi River.Lock and dams. Paul and Minneapolis by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement,Oakland, Cal. in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and forty-six thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuingOuachita River, Ark. and La. improvement, in completion of contract authorization, of Ouachita and Black rivers, Arkansas and Louisiana, by the construction of Lock Numbered Four, near Monroe, Louisiana, and of Lock Numbered Six, near Roland Raft, Arkansas, forty thousand three hundred and twelve dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvementSaint Marys River, Mich. at the falls, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Tacoma, Washington: For completing improvementTacoma, Wash. of the Puyallup waterway in accordance with the terms and conditions named in the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundredVol. 33, p. 1144. and five, forty thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteenVol. 34, p. 1073. hundred and seven, as follows: Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas: For continuing improvementAransas Pass and Bay, Tex. in completion of contract authorization, ninety thousand dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: ForBig Sandy River, W. Va. and Ky. continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, by the construction of Dam Numbered One, Levisa Fork, and Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Biscayne Bay, Florida: For continuing improvementBiscayne Bay, Fla. in completion of contract authorization, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers,Black Warrior, etc., rivers, Ala. Alabama: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, one million dollars. Improving Black Rock Harbor, New York: For continuing improvementBlack Rock Harbor, N.Y. in completion of contract authorization, one million dollars. Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvementBoston, Mass. of thirty-five foot channel, one million two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Brazos River, Texas: For continuing improvement fromBrazos River, Tex. Old Washington to Waco by the construction of lock and dam at Hidalgo Falls, fifty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For continuingBridgeport, Conn. improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For completing improvement,Brunswick, Ga. forty-seven thousand dollars. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For completingCalumet River, III. and Ind. improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Cape” Fear River, North Carolina: For continuingCape Fear River, N. C. improvement at and below Wilmington, in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvementCleveland, Ohio. in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. 999 Improving Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For continuing improvement,Cold Spring Inlet, N. J. with a view to securing a depth of twenty-five feet, two hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars. Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: ForColumbia River, Oreg. and Wash. continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Columbia River at Three-Mile Rapids, Oregon andColumbia River, Three-Mile Rapids. Washington: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization of Columbia River between the foot of The Dalles Rapids and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: ForCumberland River, above Nashville, Tenn. continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: ForDelaware River, Pa. and N.J. maintenance of improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvementDetroit River, Mich. of Livingstone channel in accordance with plan “B,” east route, three million dollars. Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing improvementGalveston, Tex. by extension of the jetties and by dredging, in completion of contract authorization, seventy thousand dollars. Improving Galveston ship channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: ForShip channel and Buffalo Bayou, Tex. continuing improvement to a point at or near the head of Long Reach, in accordance with the modified project and in completion of contract authorization, fifty-five thousand dollars. Improving inland waterway on coast of Texas: For continuingInland waterway, Tex. improvement in completion of contract authorization, fifty-five thousand dollars. Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvementGrays Harbor, Wash. of harbor and bar entrance by means of north jetty in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: For continuing improvementHilo, Hawaii. in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: For continuing improvementKennebec River, Me. from the mouth to Gardiner, seventy thousand dollars. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvementKentucky River, Ky. in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Twelve and Thirteen, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For continuing improvement,Ludington, Mich. two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis,Mississippi River.From mouth of Ohio to the Missouri. Minnesota: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouthFrom the Missouri to Minneapolis. of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, Minnesota, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: For continuing improvementMobile, Ala. in completion of contract authorization, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: For continuing constructionMonongahela River, Pa. of Lock and Dam Numbered Five in completion of contract authorization, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island: For completingNewport, R. I. improvement, fifty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. 1000 Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvementAmbrose Channel, New York Harbor. of Ambrose Channel, four hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars. Improving Harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvementNorfolk, Va. of harbor and approaches, from deep water in Hampton Roads to the junction of the eastern and southern branches, including removal of shoals at the mouth of the eastern branch, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvementOakland, Cal. in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River.Locks and dams.No. 8. construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, three hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eleven,No. 11. three hundred thousand dollars. For continuing construction of Locks and Dams Numbered ThirteenNos. 13 and 18. and Eighteen, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-six,No. 26. three hundred thousand dollars. For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven,No. 37. one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Osage River, Missouri: For completing lock and dam,Osage River, Mo. sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oswego, New York: For continuing improvementOswego, N. Y. in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuingOuachita and Black rivers, Ark. and La. improvement, in completion of contract authorization, of Ouachita and Black rivers, Louisiana and Arkansas, by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, near Catahoula Shoals, Louisiana, and Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, near Franklin Shoals, Arkansas, one hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars. Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvementPassaic River, N. J. of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For completing improvementPatapsco River, Md. of channel to Baltimore, including shoals in Chesapeake Bay off York Spit, nine hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: For completing improvementRappahannock River, Va. in accordance with the modified project, thirty-two thousand dollars. Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improvement, inSabine Pass, Tex. completion of contract authorization, ten thousand dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvementSaint Marys River, Mich.New canal. at the falls by the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Harbor of Refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: ForSandy Bay, Mass. continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For continuing improvement,San Juan, P. R. three hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California: For continuingSan Luis Obispo, Cal. improvement, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement,Savannah, Ga. in completion of contract authorization, four hundred thousand dollars. Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: For continuingMississippi River, Southwest Pass. improvement in completion of contract authorization, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 1001 Improving Stockton and Mormon channels, California: For continuingStockton and Mormon channels, Cal. improvement in completion of contract authorization, fifty-six thousand and seventy-nine dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama,Tennessee River, below Chattanooga, Tenn. and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: For the construction of locks andTrinity River, Tex. dams, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving waterway from Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana: ForWaterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La. completing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina:Waterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N.C. For continuing improvement, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: For completing improvementWithlacoochee River, Fla. of channel following route F, fifty thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement ofMississippi River Commission. Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. For National Cemeteries : For maintaining and improvingMaintenance. national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For Superintendents of National Cemeteries : For pay of seventy- sixSuperintendents. superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Headst Ones for Graves of Soldiers : For continuing the work ofHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundredVol. 17, p. 345. and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine,Vol. 20, p.281. also for continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under theCivilians. Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and JuneVol. 33, p. 496.Vol. 34, p. 740. thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Repairing Road Ways to National Cemeteries : For repairs toRepairs to roadways. roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permittedProvisos.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided further*, That no part of this sumRestriction. shall be used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Burial of Indigent Soldiers : For expenses of burying in theBurial of indigent soldiers. Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honourably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive, of cost of grave, three thousand five hundred dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 1002 Antietam Battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments,Antietam battlefield.Repairs, etc. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at Ins discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. Bringing Home the Remains of Officers and Soldiers who Die Abroad:Bringing Home Remains from Abroad. to enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes, or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authorities, the remains of officers and enlisted men of the army who die in line of duty, including civilian employees of the army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad (inclusive of Alaska) and officers or enlisted men or civilian employees of the army who die on army transports, fifty thousand dollars. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care,ConfederateMound, Chicago. protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For continuing grading,Arlington. Va. draining, making roads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas: For the constructionLittle Rock. Ark. of a lodge for use of the superintendent of the national cemetery at Little Rock, Arkansas, seven thousand dollars. National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas: For the constructionSan Antonio. Tex. of a lodge for use of the superintendent of the national cemetery, San Antonio, Texas, seven thousand dollars. Camp Butler National Cemetery, Near Riverton, Illinois:Camp Butler, Ill. For the construction of a lodge for use of the superintendent of the Camp Butler National Cemetery, near Riverton, Illinois, seven thousand dollars. Chalmette National Cemetery, Louisiana: The Secretary ofChalmette. La.Conveyance of lands, etc. War is hereby authorized to accept a conveyance of the lands and servitudes described in articles of agreement entered into the thirty- first day of July, nineteen hundred and five, between J. B. Bellinger, major and quartermaster, United States Army, acting for and on behalf of the United States of America, of the first part, and the New Orleans Terminal Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Louisiana, of the second part, for the enlargement of the Chalmette National Cemetery, and in consideration thereof to permit the closing of the roadway to said cemetery, known as the “River road,” which was constructed and maintained by the United States, upon the terms and conditions specified in said articles of agreement. For inclosing and otherwise improving addition to be made to the Chalmette (Louisiana) National Cemetery, five thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects. war department.Miscellaneous. Military Posts: For the construction and enlargement at militaryMilitary posts. posts of such buildings as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, eight hundred thousand dollars, including 1003 the installation therein of plumbing, and of heating and lighting apparatus; but no part of this sum shall be used for the purchase of land, for construction of buildings at coast artillery posts, nor for the establishment of any military prison: *Provided*, That no money appropriated*Proviso*.Limit of quarters for officers. for military posts shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the army, or for barracks and quarters for the artillery, the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, of a colonel or an officer above the rank of captain, twelve thousand dollars, and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, nine thousand dollars. For the construction and enlargement of barracks and quartersBarracks and quarters for seacoast artillery. for the coast artillery and of other buildings in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, one million five hundred thousand dollars, including the installation therein of plumbing, and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary: *Provided*, That no part of*Proviso*.Limit of quarters for officers. this sum shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters to cost in excess of the limits established in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight. For completing the reconstruction, on land owned by the UnitedSan Francisco Harbor. Cal.Military prison. States, of the military prison in San Francisco Harbor, one hundred thousand dollars. The sum hereby appropriated shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. Water Supply, Presidio of San Francisco: For the purchasePresidio, San Francisco.Water supply. of land and acquirement of water rights on Lobos Creek, California, to protect the water supply of the Presidio of San Francisco and to provide an independent water supply for military purposes in San Francisco Harbor, California, one hundred thousand dollars. Target Range, Sparta, Wisconsin: The unexpended balance ofSparta, Wis.Target range. the appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purchase of seven thousand six hundred acres of land, more or less, near Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin, as a site for a target range, under the provisions of the sundry civil Act, approved May twenty-seventh,Ante, p. 364. nineteen hundred and eight, be, and is hereby, made available for the purchase of such additional land contiguous to the land already purchased as in the opinion of the Secretary of War may be necessary. The appropriation of sixteen thousand five hundred dollars madeFort Oglethorpe, Ga.Target range.*Ante*, p. 364. in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, for the purchase of nine hundred and twenty-four acres of land adjoining Catoosa tract and Target Range, Fort Oglethorpe. Georgia, is hereby made available for the purchase of seven hundred and twenty-four acres of said land. Military Camp, Pine Plains, New York: For the purchase ofMilitary camp. Pine Plains, N.Y.Purchase of lands. about eleven thousand acres of land known as “Pine Plains, New York,” for use as a permanent military camp of instruction and concentration, seventy-five thousand dollars. Seacoast Defenses, Philippine Islands and Hawaii: For thePhilippine Islands and Hawaii.Seacoast defenses. construction of the necessary accommodations for the seacoast artillery in Philippine Islands aiid Hawaii, six hundred thousand dollars. Army Supply’ Depot, Fort Mason, California: To continue theFort Mason, Cal.Supply depot. construction, on the military reservation at Fort Mason, California, of a general supply depot for the supply departments of the United States Army, and” to construct thereon the necessary storehouses, offices, shops, stables, sheds, power houses, quarters, and other buildings, together with wharves for the accommodation of at least four ships of the army transport service, four hundred thousand dollars. 1004 Military Post, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii: For filling in pondsWaikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii.Coast artillery post. on additional land purchased by the Engineer Department, in connection with the construction of a four-company coast artillery post at Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, fifty thousand dollars. Fort Bayard, New Mexico: For the construction of a cold storage,Fort Bayard, N.Mex.Power plant. and central power plant at the United States Array General Hospital, Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and the installation therein of an icemaking and refrigerating plant, and a power pumping plant for water supply, and for generating electricity to light the post, eighty thousand dollars. Cavalry Post, Hawaii Territory: For the construction of theHawaii.Officers’ quarters, etc. officers’ quarters, barracks, storehouses, and so forth, necessary for the accommodation of headquarters and two squadrons of cavalry, two hundred thousand dollars. Fort Meade, South Dakota: For building reservoirs on theFort Meade, S. Dak.Water supply. timber reservation of Fort Meade, South Dakota, for impounding the water, and for the construction of a pipe line to bring the water down by gravity to the post mains, one hundred thousand dollars. Enlargement of Governors Island, New York: For continuingGovernors Island N. Y.Enlarging. plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island, New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and filling, seventy- five thousand dollars. Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California:Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.Improvement. For continuing the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuingFort Leavenworth, Kans.Reconstructing military prison. the reconstruction, upon land owned by the United States, of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, this amount to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the iņmates of the prison, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Proviso.Control. That hereafter the government and control of the United States Military Prison shall, under the Secretary of War, be vested in the Board of Commissioners of the United States Soldiers’ Home, which board shall consist as at present of the Surgeon-General, the Commissary-General, the Adjutant-General, the Quartermaster-General, the Chief of Engineers, the Judge-Advocate-General, and the Governor of the Home, and the president of said board, who shall be the senior in rank of the members thereof, shall submit annually to the SecretaryReport. of War, for transmission to Congress, a full statement of the financial and other affairs of both the home and the prison for the preceding fiscal year. Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas: For the preservationFort Riley Military Reservation. Kans.Protecting from damage by erosion. of the bank line of Republican River in front of the Fort Rilev Military Reservation, by revetment and such other work as may be necessary to protect the said reservation from damage by erosion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Fort Monroe, A Virginia: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair andFort Monroe, Va.Wharf, etc. maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing urinals and closets, painting, repairs, brooms, shovels, and so forth, nine hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, four thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars: for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, tlíree thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, andRepairs, etc. general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms: repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; 1005 repairs to street drains; electric lights for streets; repairs and renewal to poles, wires, and so forth, four thousand dollars; four laborers cleaning roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand eight hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-three cents. Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, and pump and boilerSewer system. repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, two thousand dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each: in all, six thousand dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, four thousand dollars. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For maintenanceYellowstone Park. and repair of improvements, sixty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War; and to be immediately available. Mount Rainier National Park: For completion of the wagonMount Rainier Park. road into said park, from the west, heretofore surveyed and commenced, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bridge Across Mississippi River At Fort Snelling, Minnesota:Mississippi River.Bridge across, at Fort Snelling, Minn.Vol. 34, p. 66. For payment of any and all expenses to be borne by the United States in connection with the construction and completion of a bridge and approaches across the Mississippi River between the Fort Snelling Military Reservation and the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, twenty thousand dollars. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuingMilitary parks.Chickamauga and Chattanooga. the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for state, monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, including twenty thousand dollars for continuing the improvement and maintenance of the road owned by the Government from Stevens Gap by way of Davis’s Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs in the Park; in all, fifty-five thousand dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work ofShiloh. establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences ami gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, seventy-five thousand dollars. 1006 Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the workVicksburg. of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars. For the construction of a memorial, to cost not to exceed two hundredNaval memorial. thousand dollars, commemorative of the services of the Union Navy in the operations of the Vicksburg campaign and siege, March twenty-ninth to July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, at the site and in accordance with the design heretofore approved by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, fifty thousand dollars. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for useMaps. of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Artificial Limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus,Artificial limbs, etc. or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. Appliances for Disabled Soldiers: For furnishing surgicalSurgical appliances. appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service or the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, two thousand dollars. Trusses for Disabled Soldiers: For trusses for persons entitledTrasses.R.S.,sec. 1176, p. 211. thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereofVol. 20, p. 353. approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, six thousand dollars. Support and Medical Treatment of Destitute Patients: ForProvidence Hospital.Destitute patients. the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paidHalf from District revenues. from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it toGarfield Hospital.Destitute patients. provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one-half of whichHalf from District revenues. sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other halt from the Treasury of the United States. For additional repairs and for furniture and covered way connectingRepairs, etc. the main building and the new children’s ward, ten thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. The damages assessed against Garfield Memorial Hospital for sixExtension of Eleventh street. NW.Damages assessed as benefits remitted. thousand seven hundred dollars for benefits by the verdict of the jury on June sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and confirmed by the supreme court of the District in the case in that court of “In re The Extension of Eleventh Street Northwest, Numbered Five hundred and fifty-six, District court,” are remitted to said hospital, which is hereby relieved from all obligation to pay the same in whole or in part. 1007 California Debris Commission: For defraying the expenses ofCalifornia DébriR Commission. the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesDeposits. of office, ten tho sand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and oneInspectors. launch, seventy-five thousand dollars; In all, eighty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. International Waterways Commission: For continuing theCrews, etc. work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor ActInternational Waterways Commission. approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.Vol. 82, p. 873. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, At Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses,National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; also payments for chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of theDayton, Ohio.Current expenses. effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, seventy-four thousand two hundred dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissaryProviso.Effects of deceased members. clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all diningroom and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, two hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officersSubsistence. quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the. branch, and for their repair, if they are. not repaired by the home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the home, one hundred and twentyseven thousand dollars. 1008 For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Household. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards, for hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining-room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; tor tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, seventy-three thousand dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theHospital. home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Transportation. carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation forRepairs. repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Proviso.Restriction. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and outer conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; For increase and improvement of water supply, twenty thousandFann. dollars. In all, six hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, At Milwaukee, Wisconsin : ForWater supply. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisMilwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the home, one thousand eightHospital. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars; For electric elevators in hospital, five thousand three hundred dollars; For chaplains’ quarters, four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch, At Togus, Maine: For current expenses,Farm. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars: 1009 For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisTogus, Me.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, eighty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, one thousand twoHospital. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For commissary storehouse and bakery, including equipment,Repairs. forty-two thousand dollars; For two new boilers, with necessary connections with hospital, six thousand dollars; For flagstaff, five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this headBakery, etc. for the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, four hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars. At the Southern Branch, At Hampton, Virginia: For currentFarm. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisHampton. Va.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Hospital. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For addition to and removal of nurses’ cottage, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For two barracks, one hundred and eight thousand dollars; For chapel, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.Repairs. For farm, including the same objects specified under its head forChapel. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and thirty-nine thousand and fifty dollars. At the Western Branch, At Leavenworth, Kansas: For currentFarm. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisLeavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand dollars: *Provided*,Household. That no part of this sum shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headProriso.Restriction. for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, four thousand dollars;Hospital. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For mortuary chapel and morgue, eight thousand dollars: For truss roof to general mess kitchen, five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars. 1010 At the Pacific Branch, At Santa Monica, California: For currentFarm. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSanta Monica, Cal.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred anil fifty-seven thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, fifty-nine thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, three thousandHospital. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For commissary storehouse, seventeen thousand dollars; For cast-iron pipe line from lake to home junction, nine thousandRepairs. six hundred dollars; For water pipe line in Mandeville Canyon, twenty thousand dollars; For iron fence and gate house, twelve thousand two hundredPipe lines. dollars; For alterations of laundry building and for machinery, five thousandIron fence, etc. dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forLaundry. the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and forty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, At Marion, Indiana: For current expenses,Farm. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisMarion, Ind.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and three thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, anil preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, fortyeight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand dollars;Hospital. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars; For insulation of hot water and steam pipes, fifteen thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For currentFann. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisDanville. III.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, eighty thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand fiveHospital. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand dollars; 1011 For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred dollars. At the Mountain Branch, At Johnson City, Tennessee: ForFarm. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisJohnson City, Tenn.Current expenses. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and four thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, three thousandHospital. dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headTransportation. for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For an additional boiler, three thousand eight hundred dollars,Repairs. to be immediately available; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; In all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: ForHot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses. current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, ten thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, sixteen thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; For nurses’ cottage, fifteen thousand dollars;Nurses’ cottage. In all, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For clothing for all of the branches, namely: Expenditures forClothing for all branches. clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, andSalaries, etc., Board of Managers. for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, five hundred dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general and chief surgeon, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, three thousand dollars: assistant inspector-general, three thousand dollars; assistant inspector-general, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector-general and chief surgeon, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars; agent, six hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; 1012 for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars: in all, sixty- five thousand one hundred dollars. In all, for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, four million three hundred and twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be*Proviso*.Intoxicants. expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. In addition to those classes of discharged soldiers and sailors nowPhilippines, China, and Alaska.Admission for service in. admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who have served in the Philippines, in China, or in Alaska, who are now or who hereafter may become disabled by disease or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, shall hereafter be admitted thereto. State Or Territorial Homes for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors:State and Territorial homes. For continuing aid to state or territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the ActVol. 25, p. 450. approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall*Provisos*.Intoxicants. be apportioned to any state or territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates ofCollections from inmates, etc. such state or territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any state or territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. Back Pay and Bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears ofBack pay and bounty. 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,Vol. 14, p. 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutationCommutation of rations. of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, 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 ten, four hundred thousand dollars. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances onWar with Spain. account of service of officers and men of the army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, fifty thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Court-House, Washington, District of Columbia: For annualCourt-house, D. C. repairs, five thousand dollars, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Construction: For continuingLeavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. construction of the new United States penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kansas, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, Construction: For the continuingAtlanta. Ga.Penitentiary. the construction of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall around same, one hundred thousand dollars, to 1013 be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington:McNeil Island.Penitentiary. For continuing construction, including necessary material and machinery, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended and to be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. National Training School for Boys: For construction of a hospitalNational Training School for Boys.Hospital. building and equipment, fifteen thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Defending Suits in Claims Against the United States: ForDefending suits in claims. defraying 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, twenty thousand dollars. Detection and Prosecution of Crimes: For the detection andProsecution of crimes. prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment ; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioner’s, for which purpose all the records and documents of said officers, without exception, shall be exandned by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; the inspection of the United States prisoners and prisons; collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of state and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty thousand dollars. Defense in Indian Depredation Claims: For salaries and expensesDefense in Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding six thousand dollars for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. Traveling and Miscellaneous Expenses: For traveling andTraveling, etc., expenses. other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred andR. S., see. 3648, p. 718. forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Incidental Expenses, District of Alaska: For furniture, fuel,Alaska.Incidental expenses. books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, six thousand dollars. Traveling Expenses, District of Alaska: For the actual andTraveling expenses. necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Defense of Suits Before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission:Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.Defense in suits. For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to be expended under his direction, so much of the provisionsVol. 31, p. 877. of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, sixty thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference. 1014 Enforcement of Antitrust Laws: That the balance of the appropriationAntitrust laws.Balance for enforcement available.Ante, p. 375. of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, entitled “Enforcement of antitrust laws, nineteen hundred and nine,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and an additional appropriation of oneAdditional appropriation. hundred thousand dollars is hereby made for the same purposes. Suits to Set Aside Conveyances of Allotted Lands: For theConveyances of allotted lands.Expenses of suits to set aside. payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the AttorneyGeneral, to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*,Proviso.Oklahoma western judicial district. That the sum of ten thousand dollars of the above amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in the prosecution of cases in the western judicial district of Oklahoma. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Expenses of the United States Courts: For defraying theExpenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; or the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals’ salaries, etc. and their deputies, one million three, hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals,Advances. in accordance with existing law may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursement shall be made prior to July first, nineteenRestriction. hundred and nine, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, five hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That this appropriationProviso.Services during vacancies. shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney. For fees of United States district attorney for the District ofDistrict of Columbia.Fees, district attorney. Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,Regular assistants. who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedAssistants in special cases. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. ThisForeign counsel. appropriation shall be available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with sectionOath. three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States.R. S., sec. 366, p.62. For fees of clerks, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. 1015 For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceUnited States commissioners, etc., fees.R. S., sec. 101-1, p. 189. acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, one million two hundred and fifty thousandJurors fees. dollars. Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses andWitness fees. for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by sectionR.S., sec. 850, p. 160 eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. ninety-five thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employedProvisos.Actual attendance.R. S., sec. 715, p.136. undersection seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual at tendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travelTraveling, etc., expenses, judges. and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be a lowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; of reasonable expenses actually incurred fortravel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollarsJury commissioners. per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That in soProviso.Alaska. far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska. 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, thirty-five thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, for the expense of care and medical treatment of guards employed by the United States, who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For theLeavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. support of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputySubsistence. warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room 1016 furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty thousand dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including suchClothing, etc. clothing as can be made at the penitentiary ; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-five thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners: for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing munity, forty thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medicalHospital. and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, six hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars: chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; two captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, forty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seventy-five thousand six hundred and sixty dollars; For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. 1017 United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For supportAtlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. of the. United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, thirty-five thousand dollars; For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specifiedClothing, etc. under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, twenty thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, twenty-four thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital. this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, two thousand dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; cook, and baker, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, forty-two thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, four thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: ForMcNeil Island.Penitentiary. support of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specifiedSubsistence. under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, ten thousand dollars; For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specifiedClothing, etc. under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, six thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for such other purposes as may be directly ordered and approved by the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars: For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital supplies. this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, one thousand dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees as follows:Salaries. For warden, two thousand dollars; deputy warden, one thousand two hundred dollars; physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, seven hundred and twenty dollars; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; In all, forty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. 1018 National Training School for Boys, District of Columbia:National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries. For superintendent, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; five matrons of families, at two hundred and forty dollars each; foremen of and skilled helpers in industries, three thousand eight hundred dollars; farmer, six hundred dollars; assistant farmer, four hundred and twenty dollars; florist, engineer, baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; laundress, three hundred and sixty dollars; two dining-room attendants, and housemaid, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; nurse, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not to exceed eight in number, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; office clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant office clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; parole officer, nine hundred dollars; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand dollars; For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dryMaintenance. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, sixteen thousand dollars; For extraordinary repairs to buildings, and for connecting buildingsRepairs. of the school with the city water supply and with city sewerage system, and for approaches to buildings, two thousand three hundred dollars; For furniture for new wings, two thousand dollars, to be immediatelyFurniture. available; In all, forty-eight thousand three hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Payment to the Catholic Church in Porto Rico: To give effectPorto Rico.Payment to Roman Catholic Church of. for certain lands etc., in. on the part of the United States to the basis of settlement of all matters in dispute between the Roman Catholic Church in Porto Rico on the one part and the United States and the people of Porto Rico on the other part, signed at San Juan, Porto Rico, on August twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight, by commissioners for the United States, the Roman Catholic Church of Porto Rico, and the people of Porto Rico, respectively, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to the Bishop of Porto Rico as the representative and trustee of the Roman Catholic Church in that island, and for the exclusive benefit of the Roman Catholic Church in Porto Rico, the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, in full satisfaction of all claims of every nature whatsoever relative to the properties claimed by the Roman Catholic Church in Porto Rico which are now in the possession of the United States, to wit, the building known as the Santo Domingo Barracks and the land pertaining thereto, and the site of the building formerly known as the Ballaja Barracks, now known as the Infantry Barracks, both properties in the city of San Juan, Porto Rico: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Title. That the Roman Catholic Church shall guarantee the title to, and shall relinquish all rights and actions regarding said properties, and that the said properties shall belong exclusively to the United States: *And provided further*, That upon the acceptance of this sum 1019 the Roman Catholic Church shall relinquish all claims of any kindRelinquishment of all claims. whatsoever against the United States arising in Porto Rico prior to the approval of this Act. Bureau of American Republics: To enable the InternationalBureau of American Republics.Exhibit at Alaska-Yukon Exposition by. Bureau of American Republics to provide and maintain an exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. International Conference on Maritime Law: For expensesInternational Conference on Maritime Law.Representation at Brussels. necessary for the representation of the United States at the Third International Conference on Maritime Law to be held at Brussels, Belgium, during the year nineteen hundred and nine, for the purpose of considering draft conventions relating to collisions, salvage, the liability of shipowners, and cognate subjects, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. For the following additional sums for the Civil Service Commission, namely:Civil Service commission. For four clerks of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollarsAdditional appropriation forclerks, etc. each; in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For traveling expenses, one thousand dollars. For contingent expenses, six hundred dollars. For stationery, five hundred dollars. For rent of additional buildings or rooms, two thousand dollars. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of Appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of theStatement of appropriations. Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have beenVol. 25, p. 587. omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Sixtieth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, four thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs toBotanic Garden. buildings, heating apparatus, resurfacing foot walks and roadways,Repairs, etc. and general repairs to plant houses; new metal roofs on wagon shed, packing shed, tool room, workshop, coal bins; also new roof on north side greenhouse numbered nine, all south side Maryland avenue, and one new steam boiler and connection in main conservatory, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance, etc. items, and for all necessary services, thirty-one thousand six hundred dollars. Bust of President Zachary Taylor: To enable the Joint CommitteePresident Zachary Taylor.Purchasing bust of. on the Library to purchase of Mistress Lola Wood, widow and sole executrix of John Taylor Wood, esquire (who was a grandson of President Zachary Taylor), a bust of President Zachary Taylor in her possession, to be placed in the Capitol Building, two thousand dollars, or so much as may be necessary. 1020 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Office of the Public Printer: Public Printer, five thousandPublic Printer, purchasing agent, etc. five hundred dollars; purchasing agent, three thousand six hundred dollars; attorney, three thousand dollars; secretary to the Public Printer, two thousand five hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant purchasing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and paymaster, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant accountant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief timekeeper, two thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars; telegrapher and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; ten clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; eighteen clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; paymaster’s guard, one thousand dollars; one doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, one thousand dollars; six messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; delivery man, one thousand two hundred dollars; five delivery men, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; five messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty- four thousand seven hundred dollars. Office of the Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer,Deputy Public Printer, inspector, etc. four thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of paper and material as provided for in section twenty of an Act to provide for the publicVol. 28, p. 603. printing and binding approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. Watch Force: Captain of the watch, one thousand two hundredWatch force. dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; and sixty-four day and night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-nine thousand and eighty dollars. Doorkeepers: One chief doorkeeper, one thousand two hundredDoorkeepers. dollars; five assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand dollars each; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars. Telephone Operators: One telephone switchboard operator,Telephone operators. seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant telephone switchboard operators, at six hundred dollars each; in all, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Office of the Superintendent of Documents: SuperintendentSuperintendent of documents, etc. of documents, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of documents, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; four clerks of class one; twelve clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; seventeen clerks at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one cataloguer, in charge, one thousand six hundred dollars; three cataloguers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one index clerk, one thousand dollars; sixteen cataloguers, at nine hundred dollars each; one cashier, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant cashier, one thousand two hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; one shipper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one helper, one thousand dollars; one stock keeper, nine hundred and sixty dollars; nine stock keepers, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three 1021 mailers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; three folders, at six hundred and twenty-six dollars each; fifteen laborers, at six hundred and twenty- six dollars each; seven messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and three thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machinesContingent expenses. and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; wrapping paper, including wrappers for Congressional Record and Patent Office Gazette; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, toilet paper, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars; for stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies; for binding reserve remainders; and for supplying books to depository libraries; in all, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Control. That the office of the superintendent of documents shall be under the control of the Public Printer as heretofore; the disbursements on account of salaries or other expenses of the office of the superintendent of documents shall be made by the Public Printer, and a statement thereof shall be included in his annual report for each fiscal year. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisionsHolidays. of the law granting holidays and the executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government. Printing Office, two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Leaves of Absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply withLeaves of absence. the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing” Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Except the appropriations for salaries in the office of the superintendentApportioning allotments for printing and binding. of documents, and for stores and general expense for the office of the superintendent of documents, all appropriations made herein under “Government Printing Office” shall be considered in apportioning the allotments for printing and binding to the Congress and the several executive departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government: *Provided*, That no other fund appropriated by*Proviso*.Restriction. this Act, or any other Act, shall be used for services or other purposes in the Government Printing Office, or in the office of the superintendent of documents, of the character specified in the foregoing paragraphs, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written order of the Public Printer: and the aggregate of all salaries or other expenses thus paid, in addition to those specifically appropriated for above, shall be reported to CongressReport to Congress. each year in connection with the annual estimates. public printing and binding.Public printing and binding. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper forAggregate amount. the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation,Office expenses. or wages of all necessary employees additional to the foregoing specific sums, including the compensation of the foreman of binding, which shall hereafter be at the rate of two thousand five hundred 1022 dollars per annum; for 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 the 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 directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding five hundred dollars; for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; purchase and installation of storage batteries; machinery (not exceeding fifty thousand dollars); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor interior alterations to buildings; for necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for theSupplies for emergency room. emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous itemsMiscellaneous items, etc. authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, four million six hundred and thirty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotments.Congress. and debates, and for rents, one million one hundred and forty-eight thousand and thirty dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, forty-two thousand dollars.Departments, etc. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be*Proviso*.Catalogue of copyright entries. expended for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office. For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand do lars. For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, two hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. For the Patent Office, as follows: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations, for printing, exclusive, of illustrations, and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, six hundred and thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall 1023 not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty-four thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, twenty-one thousand dollars; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, two hundred dollars; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, one hundred dollars; the National Zoological Park, two hundred dollars; the Astrophysical Observatory, two hundred dollars; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, seven thousand dollars; in all, seventy-two thousand seven hundred dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, thirty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, thirty-three thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed twenty- five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the ActVol. 28, p. 612. approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered ThirteenVol. 84, p. 825. of the first session Fifty-ninth Congress, and also including not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this allotment shall be expended for*Proviso.*Census Bureau. printing and binding for the Bureau of the Census. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twenty thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, two hundred and two thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the International Bureau of the American Republics, twenty thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum herebyRestriction. appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either 1024 of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. That the serviceable books now contained in the GovernmentBooks. Printing Office library, except those which in the judgment of the Public Printer should be retained for reference, shall be turned overTransfer to Public Library. d. C., etc. to the Public Library of the District of Columbia, and that all unserviceable books be condemned and sold as waste paper. The Public Printer may hereafter, in his discretion, pay printerMachine composition.Maximum pay per hour.*Proviso*.Additional for Sunday work. linotype operators and printer monotype keyboard operators at a rate not exceeding sixty cents per hour: *Provided*, That when the exigencies of the service require that work be performed on Sunday the Public Printer may, in his discretion, pay to employees, not receiving annual salaries, not exceeding fifty per centum in addition to the regular rate paid for such work. 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 connecting theVol. 82, p. 482. waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary there to: First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian CanalCanal Commission.Salaries in the United States. Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than five thousand dollars of*Proviso*.Pay of secretary. this appropriation shall be paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission: Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraphIncidental expenses. service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the PanamaRent. Canal building in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars, text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts of the Isthmian Canal, one thousand dollars), seventy-five thousand dollars. Third. For pay of members of the commission and officers andCommissioners.Construction, etc., departments.Pay of officers on the Isthmus. employees on the Isthmusother thanskilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen and stewards, including those temporarily detailedTemporary details. for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, three million eight hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars; Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, includingLabor. engineers, 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, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements, and examination of accounts, twelve million dollars: Fifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies and equipment,Purchase of material, etc. including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and 1025 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, quartermaster, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, ten million five hundred and seventeen thousand dollars; Sixth. To continue the equipment and construction of the PanamaPanama Railroad. Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, seven hundred thousand dollars: no part of said sum shallRestriction. be expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof, and drawing four per centum interest, payable to the United States, shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and by him accepted. Seventh. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraphMiscellaneous. service, stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trains, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and employees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on official business; and all other incidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for. for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, one million dollars. Eighth. For pay of the member of the Commission in charge, ofGovernment of Canal Zone.Pay of Commissioner, officers, etc. officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including foremen, subforemen, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the department of civil administration, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, four hundred and seventy thousand dollars; Ninth. For skilled and unskilled labor for the department of civilLabor. administration, twenty thousand dollars; Tenth. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairsMaterial, etc. of buildings, and contingent expenses of the Department of Civil Administration, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; Eleventh. For pay of the member of the commission in charge, ofSanitation department.Pay of officers and employees. officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, attendants, messengers, office boys, foremen, subforemen, watchmen, and stewards, of the department of sanitation on the isthmus, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Twelfth. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind,Labor. for the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Thirteenth. For material, supplies, equipment, construction andMaterials, etc. repairs of buildings, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. Fourteenth. For the payment of the cost of relocating the PanamaRelocating Panama Railroad, etc. Railroad, including salaries, wages, cost of material, supplies, and all other expenses incident thereto, one million nine hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For salaries, wages, cost of material, supplies, and all other expensesPanama and Colon.Grading and paving streets, etc. incident to continuing the extension, grading, and paying of streets, building sewers, and extending water mains in the cities of Panama and Colon, eight hundred thousand dollars. In all, thirty-three million six hundred and thirty-eight thousandAmount. dollars, the same to be available until expended: *Provided*, That all*Proviso*.Expenditures paid from proceeds of bond sales.Vol.32, p. 484. expenditures from the appropriation herein and hereinafter made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two. 1026 Ten percentum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyTen per cent interchangeable. for expenditure on objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation: *Provided, however*, That any surplus in the appropriations for any of*Proviso*.Use of surplus for construction department. the above classified heads may be used for expenditure under any of the classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering. No part of the foregoing appropriations for the Isthmian CanalLongevity.Restriction on allowances for. shall be applied to the payment of allowances for longevity service or layover days other than such as may have accumulated under existing orders of the commission, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nine. Sec. 2. The foregoing appropriations shall be available to reimbursePanama Railroad Company.Reimbursement for marine and fire losses. the. Panama Railroad Company for marine losses, or for losses due to destruction of or damage to its plant, equipment, or commissary supplies by fire: *Provided, however*, That the Panama Railroad*Proviso*.Insurance to cease. Company shall carry no insurance against loss from causes covered by this appropriation. Sec. 3. All funds hereafter collected by the government of theDistribution of revenues. Canal Zone from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the zone postal service, and from court fees and fines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund of ten thousand dollars, to the maintenance of the public-school system in the zone; to the construction and maintenance of public improvements within the zone; to the maintenance of the administrative districts; to the maintenance of Canal Zone charity patients in the hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and to the maintenance of administrative district prisoners. A detailed and classified statementStatement to Congress. of all receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. Sec. 4. All funds realized during the fiscal year nineteen hundredFunds from services, sales, etc.Reappropriated for construction. and ten by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the. performance of services by the commission, or from rentals, or from the sale of materials and supplies under the custody and control of the commission, are hereby reappropriated for expenditure under any of the foregoing classified appropriations for the. department of construction and engineering, and a full and separate report in detail of all transactions hereunder shall be made to Congress. Sec. 5. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company is authorizedThomas Jefferson.Monument to commemorate Louisiana purchase.Vol. 31, p. 1444. to expend not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars out of the amount which may be due the United States under the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and one, in the erection at Saint Louis, Missouri, of a monument to Thomas Jefferson in commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase: *Provided*, That the city of Saint*Proviso*.Contribution by Saint Louis and Exposition Company. Louis, Missouri, and said Exposition Company shall jointly contribute an amount at least equal to that used from said fund due the United States as aforesaid toward the erection of said monument, and the total amount so expended shall not be less than two hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of site, and the use of any funds of the United States as herein authorized shall finally discharge the United States and the government of the Philippine Islands from all claims of every character whatsoever by said Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company. Sec. 6. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and all laws or parts of laws 1027 in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 7. Immediately upon the receipt of the regular annualAnnual estimates estimates of appropriations needed for the various branches of the Government it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to estimate as nearly as may be the revenues of the Government for the ensuing fiscal year, and if the estimates for appropriations, including the estimated amount necessary to meet all continuing and permanent appropriations, shall exceed the estimated revenues the Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit the estimates to Congress as heretofore required by law and at once transmit a detailed statement of all ofStatement to President if estimated revenue is exceeded. said estimates to the President, to the end that he may, in giving Congress information of the state of the Union and in recommending to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary,Recommendations of reductions, or new taxes, etc. advise the Congress how in his judgment the estimated appropriations could with least injury to the public service be reduced so as to bring the appropriations within the estimated revenues, or, if such reduction be not in his judgment practicable without undue injury to the public service, that he may recommend to Congress such loans or new taxes as may be necessary to cover the deficiency. Sec. 8. In case of the sickness or unavoidable absence of any disbursingDisbursing officers.Substitutes authorized in case of illness, etc. clerk or disbursing agent of any executive department, independent bureau, or office, in Washington, District of Columbia, he may, with the approval of the head of the department, independent bureau, or office, in which said disbursing clerk or agent is employed, authorize the clerk of highest grade employed therein to act in his place, and to discharge all the duties by law or regulations of such disbursing clerk or agent. The official bond given by the principal ofBond to cover act of substitute. the office shall be held to cover and apply to the acts of the person appointed to act in his place in such cases. Such acting officer shall, moreover, for the time being, be subject to all the liabilities and penalties prescribed by law for the official misconduct in like cases, of the disbursing clerk or disbursing agent, respectively, for whom he acts, and such acting officer shall be required by the head of the department,Bond of acting officer. independent bureau, or office, to give bond to and in such sum as the disbursing clerk or disbursing agent may require. Sec. 9. That hereafter no part of the public moneys, or of any appropriationCommissions, etc.Compensation, etc., of. unless created by law, forbidden. heretofore or hereafter made by Congress, shall be used for the payment of compensation or expenses of any commission, council, hoard, or other similar body, or any members thereof, or for expenses in connection with any work or the results of any work or action of any commission, council, board, or other similar body, unless the creation of the same shall be or shall have been authorized by law; nor shall there be employed by detail, hereafter or heretofore made, orDetails prohibited. otherwise personal services from any executive department or other government establishment in connection with any such commission, council, board, or other similar body. Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all unexpendedUnexpended balances covered into the Treasury. balances of appropriations which remained on the books of the Treasury on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and four, except permanent specific appropriations, judgments and findings of courts, trust funds, and appropriations for fulfilling treaty obligations with the Indians, to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury: *Provided*, That such sums or said balances as may be needed*Proviso*.Existing contracts. to pay contracts existing and not fully discharged at the date of tins Act shall remain available for said purposes. For the purposesSpecific terms to create permanent appropriations. herein declared no appropriation made prior to July first, nineteen hundred anil four, shall be construed to be a permanent specific appropriation unless by its language it is specifically and in express terms made available for use until expended. 1028 Approved, March 4, 1909.
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