Chapter 7. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 7.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. August 5, 1909.[[H. R. 11570](/us/bill/61/hr/11570).][[Public, No. 6](/us/pl/61/6).] *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 appropria-119tions for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. for traveling expenses of the President of the United States, toPresident.Traveling expenses. continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten and to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, twenty-five thousand dollars. For additional amount for the additional accommodations to theExecutive Office.Addition to building. building erected for the 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 sums hereby and heretofore appropriated thirteen thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended by contract or otherwise, in the discretion and under the direction of the President, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
To enable the President to secure information and to assist theAdministration of customs laws.Securing information, etc.*Ante*, p. 83. officers of the Government in the administration of the customs laws, as provided in section two of the tariff bill, relating to the maximum and minimum rates, seventy-five thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. And a detailedStatement. statement of all expenditures under this provision shall be made to Congress at its next regular session.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Foreign trade and treaty relations: For defraying the necessaryForeign trade and treaty relations.Expenses. expenses incurred in connection with foreign trade relations which come within the jurisdiction of the Department of State, under tariff legislation and otherwise, and in the negotiation and preparation of treaties, arrangements, and agreements for the advancement of commercial and other interests of the United States, and for the maintenanceDivision of far eastern affairs. of a division of far eastern affairs in the Department of State, including the payment of necessary employees, at the seat of government or elsewhere, to be selected, and their compensation fixed, by the Secretary of State and to be expended under his direction, fiscal year, nineteen hundred and ten, one hundred thousand dollars.
ADetailed statement of expenditures, etc. detailed statement showing expenditures, including salaries or rates of compensation paid, under this appropriation shall be reported to Congress by the Secretary of State on the first day of each regular session;, and estimates for further appropriations hereunder shallEstimates. include in detail salaries for all persons to be employed and paid in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia. For defraying the expenses of the next meeting of the InternationalInternational Union for Protection of Industrial Property.Expenses of meeting.
Union for the Protection of Industrial Property, to be held at Washington, District of Columbia, in May, nineteen hundred and ten, ten thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay rent for vault spaceEmergency currency notes.Storage. in the Union Trust Building, Washington, District of Columbia, for the safe-keeping of emergency currency notes prepared under the provisions of “An Act to amend the national banking laws,” approvedVol. 35, p. 552.
May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, four thousand six hundred and thirty dollars and seventy cents. For balance of salary of the Treasurer of the United States as providedTreasurer.Salary.Vol. 35, p. 1065. by law, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June 120thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both dates inclusive, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, six hundred and fifty dollars.
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, two thousand dollars. Deposit Savings Association.Payment of creditors.Vol. 35, p. 1534.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of section three of “An Act for the relief of the creditors of the Deposit Savings Association of Mobile, Alabama,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-seven cents. E. J. Reed.Payment to.Vol. 35, p. 1536.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of E.
J. Reed,” approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, three hundred and one dollars and twenty cents. J. N. Newkirk.Reimbursement.Vol. 35, p. 1536.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act to reimburse J. N. Newkirk, postmaster of San Diego, California, for moneys lost by burglary,” approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventeen cents. New York, N. Y.Pneumatic tube, appraisers’ stores and custom-house.Vol. 35, p. 954.New York appraisers’ stores and custom-house:
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in expending the appropriation of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for the installation of pneumatic-tube service between the new custom-house and appraisers’ Acceptance of franchise.stores in the city of New York, to accept the franchise as granted by the government of the city of New York, and to enter into a contract with said city to abide by its terms, conditions, and requirements. Minneapolis, Saint Paul and Sault Sainte Marie Railroad Company.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Sault Sainte Marie Railroad Company money erroneously withheld for carrying the mail during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, as certified by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, one thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents.
W. E. Bainbridge.Payment to widow.The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to reimburse the widow of W. E. Bainbridge, who died in Paris, France, while in the discharge of his duty in the service of the Treasury, out of the appropriation for collecting the revenue from customs, the expenses incurred in and incident to caring for and transporting his remains to his late home in the United States and in the burial of the same. Documentary stamps on foreign drafts for exports.Time extended for claims for refund for.Vol. 35, p. 590.*Post*, pp. 779, 1291.The time within which claims may be presented for refunding the sums paid for documentary stamps used on foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries, specified in the Act entitled “An Act to provide for refunding stamp taxes paid under the Act of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries and authorizing rebate of duties on anthracite coal imported into the United States from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes,” approved February first, nineteen hundred and nine, be, and is hereby, extended to December first, nineteen hundred and nine.
Corporation tax.Expenses of collecting.*Ante*, p. 112.Expenses of collecting the corporation tax: For expenses of collecting the corporation tax authorized by the Act “To provide revenue, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” enacted at the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, one hundred thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. 121 public buildings.Public buildings. For such repairs, alterations, and other work incident thereto, in theTreasury building.Rooms for Supervising Architect. discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, as may be necessary to properly adapt the fourth floor of the Treasury building, on the south and west sides, to the use and accommodation of the Office of the Supervising Architect, and such other alterations and rearrangement of the Treasury building as the needs of the department may require, forty thousand dollars.
Not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of the appropriationPittsburg, Pa.Repairs, etc. for repairs and preservation of public buildings under the Treasury Department, made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, may be used for repair and extension of the platform and building annex to the post-office building at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. West Point, Mississippi, public building: The limit of cost of theWest Point, Miss.Cost of site increased.Vol. 34, p. 783. site for building is hereby increased to seven thousand five hundred dollars, but the limit of cost of site and building shall not exceed fifty-five thousand dollars.
Quincy, Illinois, post-office and court-house: The Secretary of theQuincy, Ill.Additional land.Vol. 35, p. 524. Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to acquire, by condemnation or otherwise, such additional land as may be necessary for the enlargement of the site of said building: *Provided*, That the total cost*Proviso*.Limit. of such land, and enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of said building, shall not exceed the total sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing, new building: The Secretary ofEngraving and Printing Bureau.Plans for equipping new building.Vol. 35, p. 319. the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to procure plans and specifications for the mechanical and electrical equipment of the new building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (exclusive of the special features relating to printing and engraving), at the usual rates of compensation for such services, from engineers specially competent by reason of their experience and familiarity with the unusual problems involved in the operations performed in a building of this character.
During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten all proceedsProceeds of work in,to be credited to Bureau. derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundredVol. 24, p. 227. and eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, the SecretaryFuel, lights, and water.Steam furnished postal pneumatic-tube service to be credited to. of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriation “Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the postal service, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriation. UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution.
For completion of the new building for the National Museum,National Museum.Completing building. eighty thousand and sixty-eight dollars and forty-one cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. To pay Charles Starek for services rendered the Interstate CommerceCharles Starek.Services. Commission from January sixteenth to June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, and expenses, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-nine cents. 122 District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Care, etc., of children.For additional amount required for board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of the Board of Children’s Guardians by the courts of the District or Columbia, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or -while being transferred from place to place, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, six thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Workhouse, and reformatory.Title to lands to be in United States.Vol. 35, p. 717.The titles to the tracts of land to be purchased for a workhouse and a reformatory provided for in the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine, being “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes,” shall be taken directly to and in the Condemnation proceedings.name of the United States; and in case satisfactory price can not be agreed upon for the purchase of either or both of said tracts, or in case the title to either or both of said tracts can not be made satisfactory to the Attorney-General of the United States, then the latter is directed to procure said tract or tracts of land by condemnation, and the expenses of procuring evidence of title, or of condemnation, or both, shall be paid out of the appropriations made for the purchase of the tracts.
National Training School for Boys.Water main to be laid forthwith.Vol. 35, p. 725.The twelve-inch main for the general use of and to afford fire protection to the National Training School for Boys, authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, shall be laid forthwith and the cost thereof paid from the revenues of the water department. Schools.Portable schoolhouses.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 35, p. 294.Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes,” to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable schoolhouses for temporary use.
War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. Gettysburg battlefield, Pa.Monuments to Regulars.Vol. 32, p. 838.For defraying the expenses incurred in the dedication of the monuments and markers authorized to be erected by Act of Congress approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, upon the battlefield of Gettysburg, in the State of Pennsylvania, six hundred dollars. Military establishment.military establishment. Brownsville, Tex., inquiry.Expenses of clerks, etc.Vol. 35, p. 836.For expenses of the court of inquiry provided for in chapter two hundred and sixty-five of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and thirty-six):
For services of clerks and reporters, witness fees, messenger and janitor service, and such other employees as may be required, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses; to be expended by the Pay Department of the Army under the direction of the Secretary of War, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, fifteen thousand dollars. Reenlistment of discharged troops.Payment to officers of board to pass on.To provide for payment of extra compensation for the officers composing the board appointed to pass upon the eligibility of colored troops discharged by executive orders on account of the Brownsville riot for reenlistment in the army, one thousand five hundred dollars 123each, seven thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be in full for extra compensation for their entire services connected therewith.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized andOrganized militia.Credit in accounts of States, etc., for participating in Army maneuvers. directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing officers of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia such amounts as have been, or may be, disallowed in their accounts for payments heretofore made by them on account of the participation of the organized militia in the encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army, under the provisions of section nine of the ActVol. 35, p. 402. of Congress approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to further amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes/approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.
” The appropriation “for six months’ additional pay to personsAdditional pay for officers, etc., dying in the service.Available to beneficiaries.Vol. 35, p. 739. designated to receive the same by officers and enlisted men on active service who have died from wounds or disease contracted in line of duty,” contained in the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten,” is hereby made available for payment to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men on the active list who die from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for rent of roomsPatent Office.Rent of rooms for model exhibit.Vol. 35, p. 229.Expenses of removal, etc. for Patent Office model exhibit in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, for the rent of building for the storage of the Patent Office models removed from the Union Building, and necessary expenses for removal and storage in new quarters.
For additional amount for constructing new stack and for repairingRepairs to building. and improving heating apparatus for the Interior Department buildings, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, five thousand dollars. Capitol: For work at Capitol and for general repairs thereof,Capitol.Repairs, etc. 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; being a deficiency for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and ten, three thousand five hundred dollars.
For repairs and improvements to the Senate kitchens and restaurantsSenate kitchens, etc. in the Capitol Building, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, five thousand dollars. For additional elevator service Senate wing of the Capitol, includingAdditional elevators, Senate wing. service of operators from December first, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, twenty-six thousand dollars.
Senate Office Building: For maintenance, including heating, lighting,Senate Office Building.Maintenance. and ventilation, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services for the Senate Office Building for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, thirty-six thousand dollars. That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, authorized to beMexican Kickapoo Indian lands, Okla.Fraudulent allotment prosecution expenses, allowed.Vol. 35, p. 985. expended out of the appropriation of one million dollars made by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, under the heading “Depredations on public timber, and so forth,” Public Numbered 124Three hundred and twenty-eight, shall be available for any and all expenses heretofore incurred, or to be incurred, in indictments and punishment for and recovery of damages for the violations of law in said item set forth.
Geological Survey.geological survey. Additional rent.Diversion of location.Vol. 35, p. 926.The appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars contained in the deficiency Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to rent additional rooms in building used by the engraving and printing division of the Geological Survey during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, may be expended for the rental of suitable additional rooms outside of the building now used by the engraving and printing division of the Geological Survey, wherever it may be practicable to obtain them in the city of Washington, District of Columbia.
Replacing articles destroyed by fire.To replace articles and material destroyed by fire, namely, to provide for the purchase of furniture, apparatus, reagents, fixtures, and so forth, to replace those destroyed by fire on the ninth of May, nineteen hundred and nine, in the chemical laboratory on the fourth floor of the building occupied by the United States Geological Survey, including the repairs to instruments and equipment made necessary by said fire, these emergency purchases to be made under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, four hundred and twenty-five dollars.
Public lands.Orville H. Southmayd.Payment to.To pay Orville H. Southmayd, United States deputy mineral surveyor, the amount found due him by the accounting officers of the Treasury as per certificate numbered eighty-five hundred and twenty-six, two thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and eighty-two cents. Colorado.Surveys.To pay the amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury for surveys of public lands in Colorado, as per settlement certificate numbered eighty-two hundred and eight, five thousand four hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-seven cents.
Indian Department.indian affairs. Winnebago Indians, Nebraska.Expenses of enrollment.Vol. 35, p. 798.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the moneys placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Winnebago Indians by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and ninety-eight), to carry out the provisions of the said Act and cause the enrollment of the Winnebago Indians to be made as provided therein.
Duchesne River, Utah.Constructing bridge at Myton.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to construct a bridge across the Duchesne River at or near Myton, Utah, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. La Pointe Agency, Wis.Relief of sufferers from floods.To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to pay expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred in the relief of suffering, destitution, and want among the Indians of the La Pointe Indian Agency, Wisconsin, by reason of the destruction of their homes and farms by floods, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to continue available *Proviso*.Report.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten: *Provided*, That a detailed report of all expenditures hereunder shall be made to the next session of Congress.
Fort Berthold Agency, N. Dak.Agent.For pay of Indian Agent at Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, one thousand eight hundred dollars. 125 house office building.House Office Building. For steel shelving equipment for the rooms assigned to the HouseLibrary.Equipment. library in the House Office Building, including necessary labor in moving books, four thousand two hundred dollars. The appropriation made for additional elevator service in theAdditional elevatorservice, House wing.
House wing of the Capitol, in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, shall be available for necessary services in operating the elevators erected thereunder during the said fiscal year. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for payment of assistantsAssistant attorneys in special cases. to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
This appropriation shall be available also for the payment ofForeign counsel. 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 section three hundred and sixty-six-, Revised Statutes of the United States. For payment of the salary of Oscar R. Hundley as United StatesAlabama northern district.Payment to Judge Oscar R. Hundley. district judge for the northern district of Alabama, on account of the fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six thousand dollars; For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, five thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; in all, twelve thousand seven hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. 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, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, ten thousand dollars.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for support of inmatesNational Training School for Boys, D. C.Maintenance. of the National Training School for Boys on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, including the objects of expenditure mentioned in said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, three thousand dollars. For rent of additional building or parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia for the use of Department of Justice, furnishing, care, and maintenance, including personal services and repairs, to continue available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, four thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For expenses of representing the interests of the Government in allCustoms litigation.Salaries, etc. matters of reappraisement and classification of imported goods and of litigation incidental thereto, including salaries, traveling expenses and rentals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. department of commerce and labor.Department of Commerce and Labor. Until otherwise provided by law no bond shall be accepted from anySurety bonds. surety or bonding company for any officer or employee of the United States which shall cost more than thirty-five per centum in excess of the rate of premium charged for a like bond during the calendar yearPremium limited. nineteen hundred and eight: *Provided*, That hereafter the United*Proviso*. 126 No payment by United States.States shall not pay any part of the premium or other cost of furnishing a bond required by law or otherwise of any officer or employee of the United States.
Joint Congressional Commission.To investigate and report on bonding charges.*Post*, pp. 891, 1317.That a Joint Commission consisting of three Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall inquire into the rates of premium heretofore and now being charged as well as those proposed to be charged by surety or bonding companies for bonds of officers or employees of the United States and report to Congress by bill or otherwise at its next session what regulation, if any, should be exercised Expenses.under law or otherwise over the same; for the expenses of said Commission, including all necessary expert, clerical, and other personal services, there is appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars, which expenses shall be paid upon vouchers approved jointly by the chairmen of said Commission.
Census Office.census office. Special agents.Salaries limited.The Director of the Census may fix the compensation of not to exceed twenty of the special agents provided for in section eighteen of *Ante*, p. 7.*Post*, p. 874.“An Act to provide for the thirteenth and subsequent decennial censuses,” approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, at an *Proviso*.Qualifications.amount not to exceed eight dollars per day: *Provided*, That such special agents shall be persons of known and tried experience in statistical work.
Light-House Establishment.light-house establishment. Delaware River.Post lights.Vol. 35, p. 160.The appropriation for “Lighting of rivers” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten shall be available for supplying and maintaining post lights on the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey, the establishment of said lights having been authorized by law. Immigration Service.immigration service. Ellis Island, N. Y.Contagious-disease hospital.Ellis Island Immigrant Station, New York, New York:
For the complete medical, surgical, and other equipment and usual hospital findings for the contagious-disease hospital, twenty thousand dollars; Electric installation.For the purchase and installation of additional engines, electric generators, switchboards, piping, and all other necessary materials essential to the proper installation of the engines, electric generators, and switchboards, eighty-one thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and one thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.
Naturalization of aliens.Clerks of courts, expenses.Vol. 35, p. 983.Vol. 34, p. 600.That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, to carry into effect a portion of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, Use of appropriation for prior services.page five hundred and ninety-six), is hereby made available to pay, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, for additional clerical assistance for the clerks of court which, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, collected naturalization fees in excess of six thousand dollars.
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate.senate. Officers, etc.For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, namely: 127 Sixteen pages for the Senate chamber, at the rate of two dollarsPages. and fifty cents per day each during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For purchase of an automobile, including driving, maintenance,Vice-President.Automobile, etc. and care of the same, for use of the Vice-President, six thousand dollars.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteenMiscellaneous items. hundred and nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of two thousandMaltby Building.Repairs. dollars for repairs to Maltby Building for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters.Expenses. of the Senate for expenses incurred during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, for clerk hire and other clerical services, three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For the following, on account of additional services to the CommitteeCommittee on Finance.Additional services to. on Finance, namely: To pay Arthur B. Shelton, two thousand five hundred dollars; C. E. Alden, one thousand dollars; Herbert M. Lord, one thousand dollars; Joseph Dierken, six hundred dollars; Joseph S. McCoy, one thousand dollars; R. II. Hillis, five hundred dollars; J. L. Klingaman, five hundred dollars; J. G. Thrall, four hundred dollars; H. L. Stevenson, three hundred dollars;
Leo Rullman, two hundred dollars; H. W. Kitzmiller, two hundred dollars, and Edwin F. Ludwig, two hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand four hundred dollars. To pay E. L. Cornelius on account of extra services rendered toE. L. Cornelius.Extra services. the Joint Committee on Inauguration, two hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House ofExtra months’ pay to Congressional employees. Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and the House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and nine, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W.
A. Smith, Congressional Record Clerk, for extra services during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Herschel Shaw,Elevator conductors. Eustace D. Smith, Harold S. G. Van Voorhis, W. P. Coe, William Watts, R. B. Alexander, C. A. Geisel, and T. A. Farley, elevator conductors, and John W. Evans, employed in connection with the SenateJohn W. Evans.Extra services.
Office Building, for extra services during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation paid them July first, nineteen hundred and nine. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Russell Williams,Russell Williams.Extra services. elevator conductor in the Senate Office Building, for extra services during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation now paid him. To pay J.
H. Jones for caring for and regulating the Senate chronometer,J. H. Jones.Services. one hundred dollars. To pay J. C. Stewart for caring for and regulating the House chronometer,J. C. Stewart.Services. one hundred dollars. Statement of Appropriations: The statement of appropriationsStatement of appropriations.Consolidation directed for 1st and 2d sessions. made during each session of Congress, including new offices created, offices omitted, and so forth, required by law to be prepared under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, shall be consolidated with the statement to be prepared of the appropriation bills for the second session of said Congress and included in the same volume. 128 House of Representatives.house of representatives.
Francis W. Cushman.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Francis W. Cushman, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Washington, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Speaker.Automobile for.For purchase of an automobile, including driving, maintenance, and care of the same, for use of the Speaker, six thousand dollars. Herbert D. Brown.Services.To pay Herbert D. Brown for services rendered in connection with inquiry respecting rates of premium for surety bonds of officers and employees of the United States, four hundred dollars.
Clerks to Committees on Expenditures in Navy Department, and Commerce and Labor.To continue during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress the employment of the clerk of the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department and the clerk of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor who served in such capacity during the second session of the Sixtieth Congress; in all, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Folding room.In House Office Building.For equipment of folding room in House Office Building, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Removal of books, etc.For removal of books and material from the annex folding room, numbered seventy L street northeast, and from the Capitol to the House Office Building, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, three thousand three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Employees during July, etc.For the following employees for the month of July, nineteen hundred and nine, and until the adjournment of the present session of Pages.Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; Post-Office messengers.Telephone operators.fourteen messengers in the Post-Office, at the rate of one hundred dollars per month each; and for three telephone operators at the rate of seventy-five dollars per month each; in all, six thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Folding speeches.For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, two thousand dollars. Official reporters and stenographers to committees.Expenses.To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the stenographers to committees for moneys actually expended for clerical assistance, and for extra clerical services on account of the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, five hundred dollars each, and to John J. Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
Judgment, United States court.JUDGMENT UNITED STATES COURT. J. Henry Harper.For the payment of a judgment rendered by the United States circuit court for the southern district of New York, under mandate of the United States circuit court of appeals for the second circuit, against Edward B. Jordan, collector of internal revenue, first district, New York, and in favor of J. Henry Harper, trustee under deed of trust executed by Mary S. Hoe, thirty-three thousand five hundred and eight dollars and sixty-one cents, as per certificate of settlement numbered sixty-seven hundred and fourteen of the Auditor for the Treasury Department, dated March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. 129 JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims.
For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and thirty-seven and one hundred and forty-three, namely; For payment of the judgment entered up by the Court of ClaimsJ. M. Ceballos and Company. June tenth, nineteen hundred and nine, on mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States in cause numbered twenty-three thousand six hundred and eighty-nine, in favor of J. M. Ceballos and Company, two hundred and five thousand six hundred and fourteen dollars and thirty-seven cents, being allowance under contract for transporting prisoners of war from the Philippine Islands to Spain under treaty of Paris;
To pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in the case of theAtlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company against the United States, numbered twenty-four thousand nine hundred and fourteen, in said court, twenty thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and eighty-four cents; To pay the judgment of the Court of Claims in the case of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company against the United States, numbered twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and eight, in said court, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty-five cents; in all, two hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-six cents: *Provided*, That none of the judgments*Proviso*.Appeal. herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
AWARDS, SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.Spanish Treaty Claims Commission. To pay certain awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims CommissionAwards.Vol. 31, p. 879. under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and forty-four at the present session in favor of the following, namely: Jose Antonio Mesa, two thousand five hundred dollars; Enriqueta S. de Barros, guardian of Louis Santa Maria, Alice Santa Maria, and Henry Santa Maria, surviving children of William Santa Maria, six thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars;
Adolfo Santa Maria, ten thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars; in all, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. The Public Printer is authorized to construct a steel bridge acrossBridge across alley. Jackson alley connecting the Government Printing Office buildings, at a total cost not to exceed one thousand dollars. To pay Samuel Robinson and William Madden, as messengers onSamuel Robinson, William Madden, Joseph De Fontes. night duty during the first session of the present Congress for extra services, four hundred dollars each, and Joseph De Fontes, two hundred dollars; in all, one thousand dollars.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. For balance of salary of the Register of Copyrights, as providedRegister of copyrights.Vol. 35, p. 1085. by section forty-eight of the Act entitled “An Act to amend and consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, five hundred dollars. 130 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION. Electric equipment.For additional wiring, repairs to wiring, electric current, lamps and renewals of lamps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Isthmian Canal.THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. Contracts authorized for completion.*Ante*, p. 117.The President is hereby authorized to cause to be entered into such contract or contracts, not to exceed the amount of the bond issue authorized in the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” enacted during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, and Acts supplementary thereto, as may be deemed necessary for the proper excavation, construction, and completion of such canal and harbors, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law.
National Waterways Commission.Payment of government employees for services to, authorized. National Waterways Commission: Any officer or employee of the Government heretofore or hereafter employed by the National Waterways Commission not to exceed three persons at any one time may receive compensation for such employment from the money appropriated for said commission, notwithstanding the provisions of [R. S., secs. 1763–1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1763–1765/p314).Vol. 28, p. 205.Revised Statutes, sections seventeen hundred and sixty-three, seventeen hundred and sixty-four, and seventeen hundred and sixty-five, and the Act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes,” and any other law whatsoever relating to such employment Expenses of persons detailed.and compensation; and, in addition to the traveling and other expenses of members of the commission and their employees, the actual necessary expenses of persons detailed by any department or bureau of the Government while accompanying said commission on any inspection trip in the United States or elsewhere may be paid from the money appropriated for said commission.
Approved, August 5, 1909.