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Chapter 62. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 62.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes. February 25, 1910[[H. R. 18282](/us/bill/61/hr/18282)][[Public, No. 62](/us/pl/61/62)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes, namely: 203 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures: For contributionInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Contribution.Vol. 20, p. 714. to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seven cents.
The President is authorized to cause to be transferred to theEcuador.Exposition building at Quito given to.Vol. 35, p. 380. Government of Ecuador, as a gift, the building erected by the United States in Quito, Ecuador, under and by virtue of the section of the Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses, approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, providing for participation by the United States in an exposition to be held at Quito, Ecuador, in nineteen hundred and nine.
To meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of theInternational Conference of American States.Expenses of representation at.*Post*, p. 877. United States to the Fourth International Conference of American States to be held at the city of Buenos Aires, beginning on the ninth day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, and of their clerical assistants, one hundred thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State, who is hereby authorized to direct the outgoing and return of the delegates and their clerical assistants in such manner and by such route as he may deem proper.
International Conference on Maritime Law: For expenses necessaryInternational Conference on Maritime Law.Expenses of representation at.Vol. 35, p. 1019. for the representation of the United States at the adjourned meeting of the Third International Conference on Maritime Law, at Brussels, Belgium, nineteen hundred and ten, for the purpose of considering conventions and projects relating to collisions at sea, salvage, liability of shipowners, and liens, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for representation of the United States at the Third International Conference on Maritime Law, to meet at Brussels in nineteen hundred and nine.
Saint John River Commission: To complete the work of the jointSaint John River Commission.Completing work.Vol. 34, p. 292. commission authorized in the diplomatic and consular Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, to investigate and report upon the conditions and uses of the Saint John River, and to make recommendations for the regulation of the use thereof by the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain, according to the provisions of treaties between the two countries, twenty thousand dollars.
International Agricultural Exhibition, and so forth, Buenos Aires,International Expositions, Buenos Aires, and Santiago.Expenses of participation. Argentine Republic: To enable the Government to participate in the International Agricultural Exhibition and the International Exposition of Fine Arts, to be held at Buenos Aires, Argentine Republic, beginning in May, nineteen hundred and ten, and to participate in the Exhibition of Fine and Applied Arts to be held at Santiago, Chili, beginning in September, nineteen hundred and ten, and to provide for the compensation and expenses of commissioners thereto on the part of the United States, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State and to continue available until expended.
Building, International Bureau of American Republics, maintenance:Bureau of American Republics.Maintenance of new building. For maintenance of the new building of the International Bureau of American Republics until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred hundred and ten, two thousand five hundred dollars. 204 Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Loans and currency division.Clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, Division of Loans and Currency: To continue the employment of the following- during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, namely:
One clerk of class one; seven clerks and counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; and two laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars each per annum; in all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Comptroller of the Currency.Clerks, etc.Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: To continue the employment of the following during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, namely: Fifteen clerks of class one; seven counters, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum; and one assistant messenger, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; in all, twelve thousand three hundred dollars.
Treasurer’s office. Clerk.Payments for emergency currency legalized.Vol. 35, p. 552.Office of the Treasurer of the United States: To continue the employment of one clerk of class one during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, five hundred dollars, and all payments heretofore made to persons employed or appointed in said Division of Loans and Currency, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Treasurer of the United States, and in the Government paper mill at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, occasioned by the passage of the emergency currency Act and paid from the indefinite appropriation made to enforce the same, are hereby legalized.
Investigating accounts, etc.Contingent expenses: For investigation of accounts and records, and to secure better methods of administration, including necessary traveling expenses in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses.For additional amount required for purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, one thousand dollars. For additional amount required for the purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, lineoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, two thousand dollars.
For additional amount required for the purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators; typewriters, including the exchange of same; wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, three thousand five hundred dollars. Ice-making plant.Ice plant, Treasury building:
To enable the Treasury Department to purchase and install an ice-making plant in the Treasury building, five thousand five hundred dollars. Distinctive paper.National currency.Expenses of national currency: For two million seven hundred thousand sheets of distinctive paper for national-bank currency, making thirty-two thousand four hundred pounds, at forty-four and one-half cents per pound, including transportation, fourteen thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars; mill expenses for thirteen days (salaries of employees), four hundred and eighteen dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.
United States securities.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For the following additional employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, 205namely, assistant register, at the rate of one thousand and fifty dollars per annum; counter, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; and laborer, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum; in all, one thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings:
To supply aPublic buildings.Furniture and repairs. deficiency in the appropriation “Furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to complete the equipment of thirty-one public buildings, said buildings not having been reported in time to be included in the estimates for the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, ninety-three thousand dollars.
Furnishing new post-office, custom-house, and court-house, Cleveland,Cleveland, Ohio.Furniture, new building. Ohio: For furniture equipment for the new post-office, customhouse, and court-house building at Cleveland, Ohio, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That the sum of nine hundred and eighty dollars, heretofore appropriatedLeigh Bonsai, administrator.Payment of French spoliation claim to.Vol. 30, p.1201. to be paid to David Stewart, administrator of Paul Bentalou, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (page twelve hundred and one of volume thirty of the Statutes at Large of the United States); that the sum of four hundred and ninety dollars, heretofore appropriated to be paid to David Stewart, administrator de bonis non, cum testamento annexo of estate of PaulVol. 32, p. 226.
Bentalou, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (page two hundred and twenty-six of volume thirty-two of the United States Statutes at Large); and the sum of one thousand two hundred and forty-one dollars and seventeen cents, heretofore appropriated to be paid to David Stewart, administrator of PaulVol. 33, p. 786.
Bentalou, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims reported by the Court of Claims, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five (page seven hundred and eighty-six of part one of volume thirty-three of the United States Statutes at Large), being in the aggregate the sum of two thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and seventeen cents, be now paid to Leigh Bonsai, administrator of Eloise Bentalou Sanger Michard: *Provided*, That the same shall not be paid until the Court of*Proviso*.Certificate required.
Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that said Leigh Bonsai as administrator represents the next of kin of said Eloise Bentalou Sanger Michard, and the court which granted the administration shall certify that said Leigh Bonsai, as administrator of said Eloise Bentalou Sanger Michard, has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the amount herein appropriated. 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 hundred and twenty-four thousand four hundred and seven dollars and thirty-five cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this*Proviso*.Large notes. sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or 206Vol. 31, p. 45.retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix 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.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and eight cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso*.Large notes.of the Treasury: *Provided*, That 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 Vol. 31, p. 45.Act “To define and fix 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.
Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except 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, thirty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-seven cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition.Refund to.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to refund from the unexpended balance of appropriation, “Materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and nine,” to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition the sum of one thousand two hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-four cents, on account of error of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in billing materials paid for by the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition under the Vol.,35, p. 390.provisions of section sixteen of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, which said amount was part of the sum covered into the Treasury to the credit of “Materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and nine,” according to certificate of deposit numbered sixty-three hundred and seventeen, issued by the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, Washington, District of Columbia, May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and nine.
Mints and assay offices.mints and assay offices. Carson, Nev.Wages, etc.Mint at Carson, Nevada: For wages of workmen, one thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, one thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty-two dollars and fifty-seven cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, thirty-five dollars and ninety-three cents. Public buildings.public buildings.
Treasury buildings.Allotment for repairs, etc.From the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings” not exceeding eighteen thousand dollars may be used for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, and of the appropriation for “Mechanical equipment for public buildings” not exceeding twelve thousand five hundred dollars may be used for these three buildings. 207 Ansonia, Connecticut, post-office: The provision in section thirty-fiveAnsonia, Conn.Exposure to streets modified.Vol. 35, p. 546. of the public building Act, approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, requiring sites to be bounded upon at least two sides by streets, shall not apply to the public building at Ansonia, Connecticut, but the limit of cost of site and building shall not thereby be increased.
Beverly, Massachusetts, post-office: For purchase of additionalBeverly, Mass. land, in addition to amount heretofore authorized, within the total limit of cost, one thousand dollars. Braddock, Pennsylvania, post-office: For purchase of site, in additionBraddock, Pa. to the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, two thousand five hundred dollars. Charleston, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For rent andCharleston, W. Va. expenses incident to moving, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Danbury, Connecticut, post-office: For purchase of site, in additionDanbury, Conn. to the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, fifteen thousand dollars. Danville, Virginia: Rent of buildings and moving expenses incidentDanville, Va. thereto, four thousand dollars. Fremont, Nebraska: Rent of buildings and moving expenses incidentFremont, Nebr. thereto, three thousand five hundred dollars. Grand Rapids, Michigan: For rental of temporary quarters, sixGrand Rapids, Mich thousand dollars.
Jackson, Tennessee: Rent of buildings and moving expensesJackson, Tenn. incident thereto, six thousand dollars. Kansas City, Kansas, post-office, and so forth: For rent of buildingsKansas City, Kans. and moving expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. Lima, Ohio: Rent of buildings and moving expenses incidentLima, Ohio. thereto, five thousand five hundred dollars. Los Angeles, California, post-office and court-house: For mechanicalLos Angeles, Cal. devices and equipment for conveying and handling mails, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Lynchburg, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For rental andLynchburg, Va. moving expenses, eight thousand dollars. Morgantown, West Virginia, post-office; For purchase of site, inMorgantown, W. Va. addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, eleven thousand dollars. Plainfield, New Jersey, post-office: For payment of purchasePlainfield, N.J. money for site, in addition to the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, fifteen thousand dollars.
Portland, Maine, court-house: For purchase of additional land andPortland, Me. continuation of the building within the total limit of cost, one hundred thousand dollars. Reno, Nevada, post-office: For completing the approaches andReno, Nev. retaining wall at the river front, five thousand dollars. Santa Rosa, California, post-office: For constructing a drain, withSanta Rosa, Cal. proper outlet, one thousand five hundred dollars. Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:Tacoma, Wash.
For completion of building, within the total limit of cost, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Waterville, Maine, post-office: For purchase of site, in addition toWaterville, Me. the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, nine thousand six hundred dollars. Westfield, Massachusetts, post-office: For purchase of site, in additionWestfield, Mass. to the amount heretofore appropriated for site and building, within the total limit of cost, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Indianapolis, Indiana, court-house and post-office: To pay RankinIndianapolis, Ind.Rankin and Kellogg, architects.Vol. 27, p. 468. and Kellogg the amount found due them as commissions for services performed under the provisions of the Act approved February twen-208tieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, as architects in charge of the construction of the court-house and post-office building, Indianapolis, Indiana, one thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-six cents.
General expenses.General expenses of public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section Vol. 35, p. 537.six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven, part one), and under the limitations and provisions thereof, this amount being additional to the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars provided for in the Vol. 35, p. 960.sundry civil act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the purposes stated, three hundred thousand dollars.
North Adams, Mass.Water.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay from the appropriation for “General expenses of public buildings, nineteen hundred and ten,” the sum of twenty dollars and thirty-two cents to the city of North Adams, Massachusetts, for water furnished for the use of the buildings on the site acquired at that point. William G. Smith.Services.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay William G. Smith, custodian of site of new post-office, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the sum of forty-five dollars, for his services as such custodian, for the period from February fifth to March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, the amount to be debited to the appropriation for “General expenses of public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight and nineteen hundred and nine.
” Henry D. Dillon.Allowance for expenses.Relief of Henry D. Dillon: The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby directed to allow, as a charge against the respective appropriations, as rendered, all vouchers and railroad accounts covering expenses incurred by Henry D. Dillon, an assistant inspector of furniture, including also his salary as such inspector, while traveling under instructions from the department and engaged in the work of inspecting furniture for public buildings, for the period between April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, and September sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for this purpose such settlements as have heretofore been made shall be reopened and readjusted.
Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and 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, thirty thousand dollars. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Contingent expenses.Printing building regulations.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:
To reimburse the appropriation for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, for cost of printing building regulations of the District of Columbia, seven hundred and sixty-eight dollars and nine cents. Sales of regulations authorized.Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to issue at not less than cost price and ten per centum thereof added, copies of building and other regulations of said District, and all moneys received from sale of said regulations shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts.
Public schools.Typewriting pay rolls.The action of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in paying from the appropriation for contingent expenses of the public schools of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine the sum of three hundred and twelve dollars for typewriting pay rolls of the public schools for said fiscal year is hereby approved. 209 Industrial Home School for Colored Children, District of Columbia:Industrial Home School for Colored Children.
For additional amount required for maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, three thousand dollars. The commissioners are authorized and directed to pay to S. M. Frazier the sum of thirty-five dollars for coal furnished the Industrial Home School for Colored Children during the month of July, nineteen hundred and nine, without the usual certificate of inspection required by law. Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs,Judgments. against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered four hundred and ninety-six and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-six, of this session, three thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and one cent, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Support of prisoners: For expenses for maintenance of the jail ofSupport of prisoners. the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, twenty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars and thirty-one cents.
Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneous expensesSupreme court.Miscellaneous expenses. as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, eighteen thousand dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and eighty-three cents. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in theOne-half from District revenues. appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. public buildings and grounds in and around washington.Public buildings and grounds, D.
C. Monument to General Count Pulaski: For completing and unveilingGeneral Pulaski.Completing, etc., monument to. the statue of General Count Pulaski, including cost of inspecting models, preparing site, superintending construction, and so forth, as follows: Granite coping around the monument, six hundred and forty dollars; asphalt walks, six hundred dollars; grading, soiling, and sodding, seven hundred and sixty dollars; unveiling monument, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspection, superintendence, final payment to sculptor, and so forth, five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.
Unveiling statue of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko: For preparingGeneral Kosciuszko.Unveiling, etc., statue to. site selected for the statue of General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, and for unveiling the statue, including all necessary expenses of inspection and superintendence, as follows: Granite coping around the monument, seven hundred dollars; granite coping and posts for park coping, three hundred dollars; asphalt walks, three hundred dollars; grading, 210 soiling, and sodding, seven hundred dollars; unveiling monument, inspection, and so forth, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Military establishment.MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Signal service.office of the chief signal officer. Canadian department of public works.Reimbursement.Reimbursement Canadian department of public works: To authorize the officer in charge of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system to reimburse the Canadian department of public works from receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system on account of telegraphic transfer business with the Dominion government telegraph system at International Boundary, Alaska, eighty-two dollars and thirty-nine cents. subsistence department.
Subsistence.For subsistence of the army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, including cost of actual subsistence of military convicts, *Proviso*.Limit to military convicts.one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of the last foregoing appropriation carried in this Act for subsistence of the army, including all objects mentioned under that head, shall be expended in payment for more than actual subsistence to military convicts serving sentence in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and in like prisons and in their several branches.
For subsistence of the army, including all objects mentioned under this head in army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and ninety thousand four hundred and ninety dollars. Quartermaster’s Department.quartermaster’s department. Fort Taylor, Fla.Wharf.Purchase of wharf at Fort Taylor, Florida: For the purchase of wharf at the foot of Fort street, Key West, Florida, ten thousand dollars. Shiloh, Tenn.Repairs to national cemetery.National cemetery, Shiloh, Tennessee:
For repairing damages wrought by the severe cyclone of October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, to the Shiloh National Cemetery, Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, for the construction of buildings destroyed, for replanting of trees blown down or ruined by the said storm, and for replacing broken headstones, and so forth, eighteen thousand dollars. Repairs to National Military Park.Shiloh National Military Park: For replacing property owned by the Government in the Shiloh National Military Park, destroyed by the cyclone of October fourteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, and removing débris from the park, including about ten thousand fallen trees and excluding repair of state monuments, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars.
Military Academy.MILITARY ACADEMY. Current expenses.Current and ordinary expenses, Military Academy: For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and for ferriages, and for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battlefield, Watervliet Arsenal, and Sandy Hook proving grounds, and for expenses of officers detailed to accompany cadets on these trips, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, four hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. 211 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.
Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For coal-handling equipment,Hampton, Va. twenty thousand dollars. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, five thousand dollars. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, includingSanta Monica, Cal. the same objects specified in the sundry civil appropriation bill for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten under this head for the Central Branch, four thousand dollars.
Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, includingLeavenworth, Kans. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, six thousand dollars. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, including theDanville, Ill. same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, four thousand dollars.
Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For transportationJohnson City, Tenn. of members of the home, one thousand dollars. State or territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: ForState or Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450.1 continuing aid to state or territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned*Provisos*.Intoxicants. to any state or territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, That for anyCollections from inmates. sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of 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.
ISTHMIAN CANAL.Isthmian Canal. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expendedConstruction.Vol. 32, p. 482. under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto: For pay of officers and employees, Canal Zone, Isthmian Canal:Canal Zone.Officers and employees, civil administration.
For pay of the member of the commission in charge, of 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, seventy-six thousand dollars. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Naval establishment. Naval station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii: Toward dredging an entrancePearl Harbor naval station, Hawaii. channel of a depth of thirty-five feet, three hundred thousand dollars.
The amounts hereinafter stated, deposited in the Treasury inUnexpended balances reappropriated.Vol. 35, p. 102 accordance with the requirements of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, section ten (Thirty-fifth Statutes at 212Large, page one thousand and twenty-seven), are hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure for the purposes for which Mare Island, Cal.Public works.they were originally appropriated, as follows, namely: Navy-yard, Mare Island, California:
Shipwright’s shop for construction and repair, nineteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and fifty-six cents; light and power station building, twenty-eight thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety cents; in all, forty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty-six cents. Naval Academy.naval academy. Heating and lighting.Heating and lighting, Naval Academy: Fuel, oil, waste, and other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the academy and band men’s quarters, ten thousand dollars.
Marine Corps.marine corps. Contingent.For contingent, Marine Corps, including items specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, forty thousand dollars. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Ice plant.Ice plant: For the purchase and installation in the Interior Department building of the necessary apparatus and machinery for the manufacture, storage, handling, and distribution of ice, six thousand two hundred dollars.
Vertical filing system.Completion of filing system, Interior Department: For continuing and completing the installation of the vertical system of filing in the General Land Office and the Office of Indian Affairs, nine thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available and remain available until used. Capitol.Senate kitchens, etc.For the Capitol: For additional amount for repairs, improvements, and equipment to the Senate kitchens and restaurants in the Capitol building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, thirty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.
General repairs, etc.For work at Capitol and for general 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, thirteen thousand five hundred and forty-one dollars and five cents. Senate Office Building.Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, including heating, lighting, ventilating, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the operation of the building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Office Building Commission, twelve thousand dollars.
Geological Survey.geological survey. Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, ninety thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. Indian Department.INDIAN AFFAIRS. Five Civilized Tribes.District agents.Vol. 35, p. 804.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and eighty-one), providing for the employment of district agents to perform like duties as those 213now performed among the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma in other portions of that State, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the classificationCoeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho.Classification, etc., of lands in.Vol. 34, p. 336.*Post*, p. 797. and appraisement of land within the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho, the same to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sales of the said lands, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be found necessary. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the classificationYakima Reservation, Wash.Classification, etc., of lands in.Vol. 33, p. 596.*Post*, p. 348. and appraisement of the lands of the Yakima Reservation, in the State of Washington, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington,” five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Reimbursement.
That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands of said reservation. For an additional amount to that appropriated in the Act of MarchRapid City, S. Dak.Water plant for Indian school.Vol. 35, p. 809. third, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and eighty-one), for the installation of a water plant at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, three thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. office of the attorney-general.
For furniture and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars.Contingent expenses. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters, and exchange of same, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, four dollars and eighty-one cents. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Defense in Indian depredation claims:
The Attorney-General isDefense in Indian depredation claims.Clerk hire. authorized to expend an additional sum, not exceeding one thousand dollars, out of the appropriation for the defense of Indian depredation claims for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, for necessary clerk hire and expenses in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. Investigation and prosecution of frauds: To defray the expensesProsecution of frauds. of the investigation and prosecution of frauds upon the revenues and other frauds upon the United States: *Provided*, That the Secretary*Proviso*.Pay of special assistant attorneys.Transfer of credits. of the Treasury shall cause to be transferred from this appropriation to the credit of the appropriation “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, nineteen hundred and ten,” such amount or amounts as may be reported to him by the Attorney-General as having been paid from the last-named appropriation in connection with the investigation and prosecution of frauds, seventy thousand dollars.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionProsecution of crimes. 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 commissioners, for which purpose all the records’ and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined 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, ten thousand dollars. 214 Alaska.Court expenses.Traveling expenses, district of Alaska:
For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars. Incidental expenses, district of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, one thousand dollars. Judicial.judicial. United States Court of Customs Appeals.Salaries established.*Ante*, p. 105.United States Court of Customs Appeals:
The salaries of the judges, officers, and employees of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, authorized by the Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” shall hereafter be at the rates per annum as follows: For the presiding judge and four associate judges, seven thousand dollars each; marshal, three thousand dollars; clerk, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; five stenographic clerks, one thousand six hundred dollars each; stenographic reporter, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, Amount.eight hundred and forty dollars; and for the payment of the said compensation for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, at the rates herein fixed, there is appropriated the sum of twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary;
Assistant Attorney-General.Pay fixed.The salary of the assistant attorney-general authorized in said Act is hereby fixed at the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum; Expenses of court.For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and furnishing same, for the United States Court of Customs Appeals; for necessary traveling expenses of the court, its officials, and employees; for books, periodicals, and stationery; for pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, fifteen thousand dollars;
Salaries of officers, etc.*Ante*, p. 108.Under the Department of Justice: One Assistant Attorney-General, at the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum; one Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, at the rate of seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum; four attorneys, at the rate of five thousand dollars each per annum; for salaries of necessary employees, including employees at Washington, District of Columbia, for furniture, supplies, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary;
In all for United States Court of Customs Appeals, seventy-one thousand four hundred and forty dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. United States courts.UNITED STATES COURTS. Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of *Proviso*.Alaska.records, on account of fiscal years as follows: *Provided*, That in so 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 the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, one hundred thousand dollars. 215 For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and four dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, forty-four dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedAssistant attorneys in special cases. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, including the payment of foreign counsel employed byForeign counsel. the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred[R.
S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, fifteen 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, fourteen dollars and eighty cents.
For supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines for theSupplies. United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five dollars and thirty-five cents. United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For miscellaneousLeavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, including all the objects specified for this institution under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand five hundred dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. General expenses, Bureau of Chemistry: To supply a deficiencyChemistry Bureau. in the appropriation “General expenses, Bureau of Chemistry,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of eight hundred and five thousand dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, or so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars.
National bison range: For additional expenses necessary in erectingNational bison range, Montana.Fencing, etc. and completing a fence on the national bison range, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and in constructing needed improvements thereon, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. immigration and naturalization. Immigration Commission: For the expenses of the commissionImmigration Commission.Expenses.Vol. 34, p. 909. provided for in section thirty-nine of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available until December fifth, nineteen hundred and ten: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Proviso*.Limitation. used for field work, nor shall any member of said commission be 216entitled to or receive any salary as such member after March first, nineteen hundred and ten.
And the said commission shall complete Final report.its entire work and make its final report and the commission shall cease on the first Monday of December, nineteen hundred and ten. Expenses regulating immigration.Expenses of regulating immigration: To supply a deficiency in the permanent annual appropriation for the expenses of regulating immigration, and in order to meet all the authorized charges against said appropriation for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred Angel Island, Cal., immigrant station.and nine, and the cost of furnishings and equipments for the immigrant station at Angel Island, California, as authorized by the Vol. 35, p. 330.Act of Congress approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page three hundred and thirty), there is appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
Ellis Island, N. Y., immigrant station.Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York: For further remodeling main building at Ellis Island, New York, and making additions and improvements thereto, so as to facilitate the examination of arriving aliens, sixty thousand one hundred dollars; For the purchase and installation of a passenger elevator in southwest tower, main building, seven thousand dollars; For the purchase and installation of a freight elevator in kitchen and laundry building, three thousand five hundred dollars;
For the purchase and installation of hot-water circulating system on main and hospital islands, five thousand dollars; Automatic oiling system in power house, main island, two thousand five hundred dollars; Rental of wharf.For rental of wharf for use of Immigration Service adjacent to the Barge Office, New York, New York, during reconstruction of latter, commencing January first, nineteen hundred and ten, and continuing to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
Temporary building.For construction of temporary building for use of Immigration Service upon wharf adjacent to Barge Office, New York, New York, ten thousand dollars; in all. ninety thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Standards Bureau.bureau of standards. Testing machine for physical constants, etc.Testing machine: Toward procuring a testing machine to cost not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and for services in connection therewith, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, to be immediately available, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
Freight truck.Freight truck: For the purchase of a truck for the transportation of freight and heavy material between the laboratories of the bureau and the city, four thousand dollars. Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate.senate. James V. Brooke, and Hancock Robinson.Services.The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to pay to James V. Brooke, clerk to the Honorable F. L. Thompson, of North Dakota, from November eleventh to December sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, and to Hancock Robinson, clerk to the Honorable James Gordon, of Mississippi, from January first to January fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. 217 For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations. including compensation to stenographers to committees at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For additional amount for purchase of an automobile, includingVice-President.Automobile. driving, maintenance, and care of the same, for use of the Vice- President, one thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars.Furniture. To pay George H. Boyd for compiling customs tariffs, two hundredGeorge H. Boyd. and fifty dollars. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, pasteboard,Folding materials. paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth,Vol. 28, p. 624. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), three thousand dollars.
For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal yearFolding speeches. nineteen hundred and eleven, five thousand dollars. government printing office.Public printing and binding. The allotment for printing and binding for Congress authorized inAllotment for Congress increased.Vol. 35, p. 1022. the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is hereby increased to one million eight hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and ninety dollars, such increase not to involve any increase in the total appropriation under “Government Printing Office” in said Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
And the amount authorized to be expended for machinery outMachinery. of the appropriation for printing and binding during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten is hereby increased from fifty thousand dollars to seventy-five thousand dollars. The allotment for printing and binding for Congress is hereby madeNational Monetary Commission.Documents authorized. available for the printing, under provisions of existing law and the rules of the Senate and House of Representatives relating to public printing, as public documents of such of the publications of the National Monetary Commission as the Commission may designate.
And the Superintendent of Documents is hereby authorized to orderReprints for sale. reprinted, from time to time, such public documents of the National Monetary Commission as may be required for sale. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs ofPayment of.Vol. 24, p. 505. suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney- General in House Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-five, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the War Department, two thousand eight hundred andWar Department. thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents; Under the Navy Department, four thousand and fourteen dollarsNavy Department. and eighty-five cents; 218 Department of Commerce and Labor.Under the Department of Commerce and Labor, three thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifteen cents; Department of Justice.Under the Department of Justice, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and forty cents; Interest.In all, ten thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-four cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this *Proviso*.Appeal.appropriation is made: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Payment.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty, at its present session, twenty-six thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars; said judgments Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hun- , dred and ninety-one, entitled, “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary Reimbursement.requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the *Proviso*.Appeal.interests of the Indian service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-seven, and Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-seven, namely: Classification.Under Treasury Department, one hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-five cents; Under War Department, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-four cents;
Under Navy Department, two thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and two cents; Under Department of the Interior, forty-seven thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-one cents; Under Department of Justice, eight hundred and forty-two dollars and twenty-three cents; in all, seventy-seven thousand four hundred *Proviso*.Appeal.and seventy-six dollars and five cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION. Awards.Vol. 31, p. 879.To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Four hundred and thirty-six, and five hundred and one, of the present 219session, two hundred and seventy-four thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents; except that the awardPedro C.
Casanova and Albert Wright. certified in favor of Pedro C. Casanova, Albert Wright, as administrator of the estate of Ricardo Casanova, deceased, and Maria Luisa Casanova Montalvan, for forty thousand four hundred dollars, included in House Document Numbered Five hundred and one, of the present session, shall be paid to Pedro C. Casanova and Albert Wright as adminstrator of Ricardo Casanova, deceased, as finally awarded by the commission: *Provided*, That none of said awards shall be paid*Proviso*.Appeal. until the right of appeal shall have expired.
Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and underVol. 18, p. 110. appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-four, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For salaries, office of Secretary of the Treasury, four dollars.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For salaries, office of Auditor for State and other Departments, three dollars and thirty-three cents. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, forty-three dollars and thirty-eight cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, eighteen dollars and eleven cents. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For Quarantine Service, one dollar and ninety-two cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, twelve dollars and eighty cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, one thousand one hundred and sixteen dollars and forty-nine cents. For Life-Saving Service, five thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and fifty-four cents.
For refund of duties on anthracite coal, Act February first, nineteenAnthracite coal refund.Vol. 35, p. 590. hundred and nine, thirty-five thousand six hundred and two dollars and fifteen cents. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, fifteen dollars. For redemption of stamps, nine thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixty-two cents. For refund for stamps used on export, manifests, two thousand three hundred and seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, sixty thousand and ten dollars and forty-three cents.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, twelve dollars and fifty cents. 220 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the army, one hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-six cents. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, sixty-eight dollars and two cents. For mileage to officers traveling without troops, fifty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents. For officers’ transportation, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and prior years, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars.
For Signal Service of the Army, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, four hundred and forty-one dollars and seventeen cents. For expenses of recruiting, seventy dollars and seventy-seven cents. For subsistence of the army, one hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-one cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, forty-three dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For horses for cavalry, artillery, and engineers, one hundred and ten dollars. For barracks and quarters, two thousand two hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-six cents. For transportation of the army and its supplies, except the claim numbered ninety-seven hundred and eighty-seven, forty thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-three cents. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-six cents. For construction and repair of hospitals, twenty-five dollars.
For replacing ordnance and ordnance stores, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, one dollar and eighteen cents. For manufacture of arms, fifty-five dollars and fifty cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and ninety-four cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, eighteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For burial of indigent soldiers, forty dollars. For expenses California Débris Commission, six dollars and ten cents.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, thirty-nine dollars. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Western Branch, twelve dollars and ninety-five cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, seventy-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, three hundred and thirty dollars and sixteen cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars.
For expenses of Rogue River Indian war, fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents. For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, sixty-five dollars and fifty-five cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty-four dollars and fifty-five cents. 221 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the navy, four thousand nine hundred and ninety-eightClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. dollars and seventy-six cents.
For pay, miscellaneous, two hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty-three cents. For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand one hundred and one dollars and eleven cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, one dollar. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eleven dollars and sixty-nine cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixteen cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, four thousand seven hundred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, four hundred and sixty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, twenty-five dollars and twenty-three cents. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, thirty-six dollars and forty-two cents. For outfits to naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, seventeen dollars and eighty cents.
For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and eleven dollars. For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, seventy dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, four cents. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, four thousand and forty-six dollars and forty-two cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-five cents.
For contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks, forty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. For repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, one thousand and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty cents. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, three thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-three cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, forty dollars and seventy-nine cents.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, seven thousand three hundred and ten dollars and five cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars and five cents. For housing torpedo vessels, three dollars and eight cents. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-four cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second,Lost property.Vol. 28, p. 962. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, except the claim numbered eighty-eight hundred and fifteen, two thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, ninety-three dollars and twenty-one cents. 222 For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, thirteen dollars and three cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, five hundred and eighty-two dollars and eighty-two cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For expenses, special inspectors, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and nine, four hundred and six dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand three hundred and one dollars and six cents. For collecting statistics, Bureau of Education, seventeen dollars and forty-three cents. For reindeer for Alaska, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventeen cents. For Sequoia National Park, eighty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Washington, one dollar and eighty-one cents.
For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, one hundred and one dollars and ninety-one cents. For contingent expenses of land offices, forty-three dollars and eighty-four cents. For expenses of hearings in land entries, thirteen dollars and forty-five cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, nine dollars and forty-seven cents. For surveying the public lands, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-nine cents. For surveying private land claims, one thousand and twenty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For surveying forest reserves, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents. For resurveys in San Diego County, California, one hundred and eight dollars. For Geological Survey, eighteen dollars and eleven cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations, five hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-one cents. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-five dollars and forty cents. For Indian school transportation, fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents.
For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and fifteen cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-seven cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, two hundred and four dollars and thirty-one cents. For traveling expenses, Indian inspectors, nineteen hundred and eight, eight dollars and ten cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, nineteen hundred and nine, nine hundred and thirty dollars.
For pay of Indian agents, four hundred and twenty-one dollars and forty-three cents. For incidentals in Arizona, nineteen hundred and nine, sixty-seven dollars and thirty-six cents. For incidentals in Montana, nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. 223 For irrigation system, Tongue River Reservation, Montana, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and ninety-nine cents. For Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, buildings, ninety-six dollars.
For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, buildings, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-five cents. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and eight, eleven dollars and twenty-one cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, twenty-five dollars and eighty-four cents. For support of Yakimas and other Indians in Washington, nineteen hundred and nine, fifty-four dollars and seven cents. For support of Shoshones in Wyoming, nineteen hundred and nine, seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents.
For Indian exhibit, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, fourteen dollars and ninety-eight cents. For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty JuneChickasaw Indians.Vol. 11, p. 611. twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, eight thousand and fifty dollars. For army pensions, twenty-four dollars. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. For contingent expenses, House of Representatives, miscellaneousClaims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., departments. items, nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-one dollars and ninety-eight cents.
For increase of Library of Congress, seven dollars and twenty cents. For lithographing, Department of State, nineteen hundred and nine, six dollars and seventy-five cents. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand six hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-nine cents. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixteen cents.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, sixty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, forty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents. For salaries, consular service, three hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy-two cents. For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifteen dollars and sixteen cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, two hundred and forty-one dollars and nineteen cents. For support of convicts, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents.
For support of prisoners, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventeen cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, twenty-three dollars and twenty-six cents. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, sixteen dollars and forty-four cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, twenty-five dollars and forty-five cents. 224 For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, four hundred and eighty dollars and twenty-five cents.
For general expenses, Forest Service, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-two cents. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, Bureau of Chemistry, three dollars and sixty-three cents. For soil investigations, two dollars and sixty-two cents. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty-six cents. For salaries and expenses, attorneys, examiners, and so forth, Bureau of Corporations, ninety-eight cents. For naturalization of aliens, ninety-six cents.
For enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act, one dollar and eighty-four cents. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, four dollars and eleven cents. For salaries, keepers of light-houses, thirty-five dollars and forty-two cents. For expenses of light-vessels, twenty-one dollars. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, forty cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, seven dollars and eighty-nine cents.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, forty-three dollars and seventy-four cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and nine, thirteen thousand and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-one dollars and ninety-three cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, eight hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy cents. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, eighty-three dollars and seventy cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one hundred and forty-two dollars and thirty cents. Indians in Arizona.Vol. 34, p. 1376.For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, six hundred and four dollars and thirty cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.Transportation of foreign mails, three thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and five cents. City free-delivery service, incidental expenses, four hundred and three dollars. Inland mail transportation—boat, two hundred and ten dollars. Rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, twenty dollars and fifty cents. Rural free-delivery service, supplies, tolls, and so forth, fifty-one dollars and fifty-nine cents. Inland mail transportation—railroad, four thousand eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and thirty-three cents.
Inland mail transportation—star, one thousand and ninety-eight dollars and eighty-four cents. Payment of rewards, fifty dollars. Indemnities for losses by registered mail, one thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. 225 Compensation to postmasters, twenty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. Special-delivery service, fees to messengers, five dollars and sixty-eight cents. Clerk hire, third class, thirty-six dollars. Clerk hire, separating, twenty dollars and ninety-two cents.
Canceling machines, twenty-seven dollars. Railway Mail Service, salaries, eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. Rural free-delivery service, carriers, eighty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Three hundred and thirty-three, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For transportation of fractional silver coin, nineteen hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. nine, one thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and sixty-six cents. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, twenty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. For redemption of stamps, six hundred and nine dollars and ninety-five cents. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and sixteen cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the army, sixty-eight thousand nineClaims allowed by Auditor for War Department. hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, thirty-one dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, thirty-three dollars and eleven cents. For transportation of the army and its supplies, one thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-two cents.
For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents. For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and eight, four dollars and seventy-seven cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, sixty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the navy, six hundred and eighty-four dollars andClaims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department twelve cents.
For pay, Marine Corps, two hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-three cents. 226 For contingent, Marine Corps, eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, twenty-three dollars and seventy-six cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, one hundred and five dollars and forty-four cents. For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars. For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, three dollars and eighteen cents.
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For expenses, special inspectors, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and eight dollars and twenty-five cents. For photolithographing, Patent Office, nineteen hundred and nine, six dollars and twenty cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Arizona, nineteen hundred and nine, eight dollars and thirty-seven cents. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and thirty dollars and fifty-three cents.
For Indian schools, support, thirty-nine dollars and twelve cents. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars and thirty-two cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, two dollars and forty-five cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, nineteen hundred and nine, three hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-one cents. For incidentals in Arizona, nineteen hundred and nine, one dollar and thirty-five cents.
For Indian school, Riverside, California, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred dollars and one cent. For incidentals in Montana, nineteen hundred and nine, forty-seven dollars and thirty-five cents. For support of Pawnees: Schools, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and nine, eleven dollars and four cents. For Indian school, Pierre, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and nine, sixteen dollars and forty-six cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., departments.For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-seven cents.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteen hundred and ten, five hundred and three dollars and five cents. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-five cents. For contingent expenses, Territory of Alaska, nineteen hundred and ten, one dollar. For contingent expenses, Territory of New Mexico, nineteen hundred and nine, two dollars and seventy-four cents.
For general expenses, Forest Service, one hundred and one dollars and three cents. For collecting statistics relating to commerce, nineteen hundred and nine, fifty-one cents. 227 For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, seven dollars and seventy-six cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and nine, one thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and fifty-nine cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and eight, fourteen dollars and forty-five cents.
For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act March fourth, nineteenArizona Indians.Vol. 34, p. 1376. hundred and seven, two thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with thisInconsistent laws repealed. Act are repealed. Approved, February 25, 1910.
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