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Public Law 48–360
making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.
Approved March 3, 1885
Statutory text
An act
making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, namely:
UNDER LEGISLATIVE. botanic garden. For concreting walks, reconstructing plant-house numbered thirteen with iron ribs, extending water supplies, and for general repairs, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, five thousand five hundred dollars.
UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT. For payment, under the final award made by the late French and American Claims Commission against the United States, of the claims of French citizens against this Government, under the treaty of January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, between this country and France, five hundred and ninety-four thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars and four cents, being the amount of said awards after the deduction provided for in the tenth article of the convention between France and the United States concluded on the fifteenth day of January, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty. International boundary survey, United States and Mexico: To enable the President to execute the engagements of the convention of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, between the United States of America and the United States of Mexico, providing for an international boundary survey to relocate the existing frontier-line between the two countries west of the Rio Grande, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the President to bestow testimonials, as recommended in his message of January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, upon those officers and subjects of the Russian Government who extended aid comfort to the survivors of the Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition and assistance to the parties dispatched by the Government of the United States to relieve and succor the said survivors, and to convey to the Government and people of Russia an expression of the high appreciation in which the Government and people of the United States hold the humane services so rendered, the sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available.
FORTY-EIGHT CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 360. 1885
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings. For courthouse and post-office at Abingdon, Virginia: For completion under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fitting up the building known as the “clubhouse,” Sitka, Alaska, as a temporary jail, four thousand dollars. For repairing Government building for courtroom at Sitka, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairing Government building for courtroom at Wrangel, five hundred dollars. For repairing courtroom and jail at Ounalaska, one thousand dollars. For constructing a frame or log courthouse and jail at Juneau City, four thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation of building, two hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars. For not exceeding one-half the cost of constructing stone abutments and piers for the protection of the United States customhouse and post-office building, and approaches, situated in the Kenduskeag Stream, at Bangor, in the State of Maine, the sum of eighteen thousand dollars, the expense of such works to be borne in equal proportions by the United States and by said city of Bangor: Provided, That the plan of construction of said works shall be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury : And provided, further, That the entire amount to be thus contributed by the United States shall not. exceed the sum hereby appropriated. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to sell at public auction, in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, to the highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in six of the principal newspapers published in the city of Boston, the land and premises known as the old United States courthouse in said city, on the corner of Tremont street and Temple Place, the time and place of said sale in said city to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at a date not later than ninety days after the passage of this act, and at a price not less than two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, with power to reject any or all bids and to readvertise and offer the said property in like manner as often as may lie necessary to secure the value thereof; and the cost to be paid from proceeds of sale. And it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause inquiry to be made as to the value of this property; and if it shall appear that the price above named is inadequate, lie is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three persons in the employ of the United States to assess the value of the said property, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, when the sum fixed by this board shall be the minimum price at which the property may be thus sold. For post-office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For completion, fifteen thousand dollars. For post-office at Brooklyn, New York; For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. For customhouse and post-office at Buffalo, New York: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For marine hospital at Cairo, Illinois: For completing hospital buildings, seven thousand dollars; and for filling and grading, twenty thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Charleston, West Virginia: For completion of the building and to meet outstanding liabilities, one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty cents. For customhouse and subtreasury at Chicago, Illinois: For cleaning and pointing stonework and extensive repairs necessary for preservation of the building, forty thousand dollars. For customhouse at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of repairs and remodeling, three thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Columbus, Ohio: For extension and completion of building, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For making the public building at Harrisonburg, Virginia, fireproof, fifteen thousand dollars. For making the public building at Abingdon, Virginia, fireproof, twelve thousand dollars. For enlarging the plan of the public building at Lynchburg, Virginia, and making the same fireproof, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Concord, New Hampshire: For completion under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For continuation of public building at Council Bluffs, Iowa, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Dallas, Texas. For completion of the building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the cost of said building, including site, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuation of building, twenty eight thousand dollars, For the execution of the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the erection of a public building at Detroit Michigan,” approved May twenty-fifth, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-two, or for the execution of the provisions of the act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for the purchase of a site and the erection of a public building thereon at Detroit, Michigan, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine according to law, two hundred thousand dollars, under the limit of existing law. For courthouse and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa: For extension and completion, forty-five thousand dollars. For customhouse at Dubuque, Iowa: For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, eight thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Frankfort, Kentucky: For paving, fences, and grading approaches, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and for retaining-wall of lot, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Fort Wayne, Indiana: For completion of building, sixty thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twelve cents. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, out of any money heretofore appropriated for the purpose of purchasing a site and erecting a public building in the city of Galveston, Texas, to purchase and acquire three additional lots of ground adjoining those already purchased fora public building in Galveston, Texas, as he may deem necessary, at a cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars. For customhouse at Galveston, Texas: For completion under present limit, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Greensboro, North Carolina: For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For post-office at Hannibal, Missouri: For completion of building, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Harrisonburg, Virginia: For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Jackson, Tennessee: For approaches, grading, fencing and paving, ten thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Jefferson City, Missouri: For completion of the building, thirty-two thousand dollars; and the entire cost of said building, including site, shall not exceed one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars. For custom house and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: For com- pletion of approaches, clock, and sewer connections, twenty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Marquette, Michigan, For completion under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For court house and post office at Keokuk Iowa: For purchase of site and completion of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For customhouse and post office at Saint Joseph, Missouri: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the entire cost of said building and approaches, including site, shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Louisville, Kentucky, For continuation, two hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Lynchburg, Virginia, For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For completion of building, fifty thousand dollars. For court house and post-office at Macon, Georgia: For purchase of site and commencement, of building, seventy five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Montgomery, Alabama: For tower-clock and completion of approaches, five thousand dollars. For post-office, internal-revenue, and other Government offices at Minneapolis, Minnesota, For continuation of building, one hundred and ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the entire cost of such building shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. For custom house at New Orleans, Louisiana: For repairs, plumbing, and drainage, fifteen thousand dollars. For post office and courthouse at Peoria, Illinois: For continuation of building seventy-five thousand dollars. For post-office at Poughkeepsie, New York: For completion of building, thirty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to sell at public auction, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the highest bidder, after thirty days’ notice in four of the principal newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia, in one or more lots, the laud and premises known as the old court house and post-office in said city, lying upon Chestnut street and extending back to Library street, and between Fourth and Fifth streets and adjoining the present customhouse site in said city; the time and place of said sale in said city to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury at a date not later than ninety days after the passage of this act, and at a price not less than three hundred thousand dollars, with power to reject any or all bids and to readvertise and offer the said property in like manner as often as may be necessary to secure the value thereof, and the cost to be paid from the proceeds of sale; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause inquiry to be made as to the value of this property, and if it shall appear that the price above named is inadequate, he is authorized and directed to appoint a board of three persons in the employ of the United States to assess the value of the said property, and report the same to the Secretary of the Treasury’, when the sum fixed by’ this board shall be the minimum price at which the property may be thus sold. For post-office and courthouse at Quincy, Illinois: For completion of building, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For post-office at Reading, Pennsylvania: For purchase of site and completion of building, eighty thousand dollars. For public building at Richmond, Virginia: For enlargement of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Rochester, New York: For completion under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. For post-office at Sacramento, California: For purchase of site and completion of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For marine hospital at Saint Louis, Missouri: For laundry house and laundry apparatus complete, ten thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Shreveport, Louisiana: For approaches, grading, fencing, and paving, five thousand dollars. For post-office and courthouse at Syracuse, New York : For completion of building, fifty-eight thousand dollars. For post-office at Terre Haute, Indiana: For completion under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. For customhouse and courthouse at Toledo, Ohio: For completion of building under present limit, seventy-two thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-two cents For court house and post office at Troy, New York: For purchase of site and commencing the erection of building, one hundred thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Tyler, Texas: For purchase of site and completion of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Wichita, Kansas: For purchase of site and completion of building, fifty thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Williamsport, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For courthouse and post-office at Fort Scott, Kansas: For purchase of site and erection of building thereon, fifty thousand, dollars. That the appropriations herein made for approaches, grading, fencing, and paving for public buildings shall be so expended as to complete the object of said appropriations. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia : Extensive repairs to roof, six thousand four hundred dollars; and annual re pairs to Treasury building eight thousand six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, post-offices, and other public buildings under the control of Treasury Department, one hundred and sixty-two thousand, five hundred dollars. For repairs and preservation of marine hospitals, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Public Printer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, to purchase a site in the vicinity of the Public Printing Office, and to erect thereon a storehouse for the reception of certain material connected with the Public Printing Office, fifteen thousand dollars; the storehouse to be erected under the supervision of the Architect of the United States Capitol; the cost of the site and building not to exceed the sum herein appropriated, which may be available from the passage of this act. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at Montpelier, in the State of Vermont, a substantial and commodious public building, with fire proof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, court house, and internal-revenue office. The site, and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of seventy-five thousand dollars;. and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of Vermont shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to procure a proper site, and cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, with fire proof vaults, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, for the accommodation of the United States district court, post-office, and other Government offices in said city, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, including cost of site; and the said sum of seventy-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose herein mentioned: Provided, That no money shall be used or applied for the purpose mentioned until a valid title to the land for the site of such building shall be vested in the United States; and no expenditure of money shall be made on the building proposed to be erected on said site until the State of Nebraska shall duly release and relinquish to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site, or the property of the United States that may be thereon, and shall cede jurisdiction over the same during the time that the United States shall remain the owner thereof. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected thereon, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation for the United States circuit and district courts, post-office, and other Government offices, at the city of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware. The plans and specifications, and full estimates for said building shall be previously made and approved according to law, and shall not exceed, for the site and building complete, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than forty feet, including streets and alleys; and no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Delaware shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to be erected, a suitable building, with fireproof vaults therein, for the accommodation of the United States courts, post-office and internal-revenue and other Government offices, at the city of Winona, Minnesota. The site, and building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury shall not exceed the cost of one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys; and that no money appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site for said building shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Minnesota shall have ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owners thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended in the purchase of said site and toward the construction of said building. For courthouse and post-office at New Albany, Indiana: For purchase of site and erection of building thereon, one hundred thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase a site for, and cause to erected thereon, a suitable building, with commodious fireproof vaults, for the accommodation of the post-office, pension-office, the United States courts, internal-revenue office, and other Government offices, at the city of Manchester, in the State of New Hampshire. The site and the building thereon, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That no money in be appropriated for this purpose shall be available until a valid title to the site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of New Hampshire shall have ceded her jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of civil process therein: Provided, That the site shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of not less than fifty feet, including streets and alleys. That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be used and expended for the purpose provided in this act. That the Secretary’ of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase, at private sale, or by condemnation in pursuance of the statute of the State of Kentucky, such lot or lots of land in the city of Lexington, in the State of Kentucky, as he may consider necessary as a convenient and proper site for a public building, and to cause to be erected thereon a suitable building, with fireproof vaults extending to each story, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, internal-revenue offices, and other Government offices in said city; the site and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made mid approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury : Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States, and the State of Kentucky shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase or otherwise provide a suitable site, and cause to be erected thereon, at the city of Springfield, in the State of Ohio, a substantial and commodious public building, with fireproof vaults, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, internal-revenue office, pension office, and for other Government uses. The site, and the building thereon, when completed according to plans and specifications to be previously made and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, shall not exceed the cost of one hundred thousand dollars; and the site purchased shall leave the building unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings by an open space of at least fifty feet, including streets and alley; and for the purposes herein mentioned the sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be expended until a valid title to the said site shall be vested in the United States: and the State of Ohio shall cede to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the same, during the time the United States shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the administration of the criminal laws of said State and the service of any civil process therein.
light-houses, beacons, and fog-signals. Bonier Shoal Light-Station, New York: For establishing a light on Romer Shoal, in the Lower Bay of New York, twenty-five thousand dollars. Winter-Quarter Shoal Light-Ship, Virginia: For the construction and establishment of an iron light ship, with a fog-signal, for Winter-Quarter Shoal, Virginia, thirty thousand dollars to be immediately available. For the construction of a light-house at Plantation Inlet, near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bush’s Bluff Light-Stat ion, Virginia: For a light-house and fog-bell on Bush’s Bluff, Elizabeth River, near Norfolk, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars. For completing the construction of a light-house at Grand Marais, Minnesota, nine thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars. Hunting Island Light-Station, South Carolina: For protecting the site of the light-house at Hunting Island, South Carolina, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Mosquito Inlet Light-Station, Florida: For continuing the light-house at Mosquito Inlet. Florida, forty thousand dollars. Anclote Keys Light-Station, Florida: For establishing a light at Anclote Keys, Florida, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Apalachicola Range-Lights, Florida: For range-lights to guide into the Apalachicola River, Florida, six hundred dollars. For the establishment of a small range-light at Northwest Passage, Key West, Florida, two hundred dollars. For the establishment of range-lights at the New Cut-off Channel, entrance to Baltimore, Maryland, twenty-five thousand dollars. Niagara River Ranges, New York: For range-lights to guide into the entrance of the Niagara River, New York, the lease of the necessary sites being hereby authorized, two hundred and fifty dollars. Port Sanilac Light-Station, Michigan: For completing the construction of a light-house at or near Tort Sanilac, Lake Huron, Michigan, ten thousand dollars. Pipe Island Light Station, Michigan : For establishing a light upon Pipe Island, Michigan, to form a range to guide into the Detour Passage, Saint Mary’s River, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Saint Mary’s River Ranges, Michigan: For erecting range-lights to guide through the dredged cut in Saint Mary’s River, near Round Island, Michigan, twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Detroit River light-house: For the completion of the light-house at or near the mouth of the Detroit River, in Lake Erie, eighteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Northwest Seal Rock Light-Station, California: For continuing the construction of a light-house on Northwest Seal Rock, off Point Saint George, California, forty thousand dollars. Angel Island Fog-Signal, California: For establishment of a fog-signal on Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California, four thousand five hundred dollars. Destruction Island Light-Station, Washington Territory: For establishing complete a first-order light and fog signal on Destruction Island, Washington Territory, forty thousand dollars.
life-saving stations. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: On the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, one, and on the coast of Massachusetts, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars each ; on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; of one assistant superintendent on the coasts of Rhode Island and Long Island, who shall reside on the mainland of the State of Rhode Island, one thousand dollars. For salary of one superintendent on the coast of New Jersey, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of superintendents on the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one, at one thousand five hundred dollars; on the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, one, at one thousand eight bundled dollars. For salary of one superintendent for life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand two hundred dollars; of one superintendent for the life-saving and life boat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars; and of owe on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving and life-boat Stations: one on the coast of Lakes Huron and Superior, one on the coast of Lake Michigan, and one on the coasts of Washington Territory. Oregon, and California, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each. For salaries of two hundred and twenty-three keepers of life-saving and life boat stations and of houses of refuge, one hundred and fifty six thousand one hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat stations, during the period of actual employment; compensation of Volunteers at life-saving and life-boat stations, for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster, or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of Volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge: repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; for carrying out the provisions of section seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draught animals, and maintenance of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, repairs to apparatus, medals, labor, stationery, advertising, and miscellaneous expenses, that cannot be included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, seven hundred and ten thousand dollars. For establishing new life saving stations and life boat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, forty thousand dollars.
revenue-cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay of captains lieutenants, engineers, cadets, and pilots employed, and for rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, seamen, cooks, stewards, boys, coal-passers, and firemen, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship-chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; traveling expenses of officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; instruction of cadets; commutation of quarters; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and miscellaneous expenses which cannot be included under special heads, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
engraving and printing. For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, and for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), including labor of workmen skilled in engraving, transferring, plate-printing, and other specialties necessary for carrying on the work of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, and national-bank notes, the pay for such labor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, at rates not exceeding the rates usually paid for such work; and for other expenses of engraving and printing notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States and national-bank notes; for materials other than distinctive paper required in the work of engraving and printing; for purchase of engravers’ tools, dies, rolls, and plates; for machinery and repairs of same; and for expenses of operating macerating machines for the destruction of the United States notes, bonds, and oilier obligations of the United States authorized to be destroyed, four hundred and seventy-five thousand seven hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury; and from said sum work may be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the following purposes, namely: For engraving, printing, and finishing United States notes, gold and silver certificates, registered bonds for transfers and other securities, three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars. For engraving (except face plates), printing, and finishing circulating notes for national banking associations, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For engraving, printing, and finishing certificates of letters patent, seven hundred dollars.
light-house establishment. For supplies of light houses: For supplying the light-houses, beacon-lights, and fog signals on the Atlantic, Gull, Lake, and Pacific coasts with illuminating and cleansing materials, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption, including the expenses of inspection and delivery of the same; for books and furniture for stations, and other incidental and necessary expenses, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. g For repairs of light-houses: For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses and stations; for rebuilding, renovating, and improving the same, and buildings connected therewith ; for the establishing and repairing of pier-bead lights; and for the purchase and repair of illuminating apparatus and machinery, three hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters, where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of one thousand and fifteen light-keepers and fog-signal keepers, five hundred and eighty thousand dollars. For expenses of light vessels : For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and incidental expenses of thirty lightships, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of buoyage: For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, removing, and supplying losses of buoys, spindles, and day-beacons, and for the maintenance of whistling-buoys and bell buoys, and for chains, sinkers, and similar necessaries, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For expenses of fog signals: For establishing, renewing, duplicating, and improving fog-signals and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs and incidental expenses of the same, sixty thousand dollars. For inspecting lights: For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights and other aids to navigation, including rewards paid for information as to collisions, three thousand dollars. For lighting and buoyage of rivers: For maintenance of post-lights and buoys on the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri Rivers, and at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana: Savannah River, Georgia; Saint John’s River, Florida; Cape Fear River, North Carolina, and Hudson River, New York, the light-house Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars: Provided, That so much as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for lighting and buoyage of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, may be used to defray the expense of repairing the light-house tenner Lily, damaged by fire September twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty four. For survey of light-house sites: For examination and survey of sites for proposed light houses, and preparing plans for proposed structures, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the light appropriated for by the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to be established on the west jetty at Saybrook, Connecticut, may be placed on either jetty, as the light-house Board may select. For maintenance of lighted buoys: For the maintenance of light-buoys now in use, five thousand dollars.
coast and geodetic survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tidewater or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coasts and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; a magnetic map of North America; and including compensation not otherwise appropriated for of persons employed on the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of the Treasury, and including allowance for subsistence to officers of the Navy attached to the Survey, not exceeding one dollar per day, as allowed by act of Congress approved June twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and also including the repairs, outfit, and equipment of vessels used in the Survey, to be expended under the following heads. For party expenses. For continuing the survey of the coast of Maine eastward from Englishman’s Bay toward Quoddy Head, nine thousand dollars, of which sum one thousand five hundred dollars shall be immediately available. For examination of reported dangers and changes on the eastern coast, five hundred dollars. For continuing resurvey of Long Island Sound, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum two thousand five hundred dollars shall be immediately available. For completing resurvey of Delaware Bay, including current observations, four thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing examination of changes and resurveys on the sea-coast of New Jersey, one thousand eig’t hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of estuaries of Chesapeake Bay, and of sounds and tidewater passages in North and South Carolina not heretofore surveyed, three thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the western coast of Florida from Estero Bay southward and from Saint Joseph’s Bay northward, and hydrography of the same, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For supplementary surveys on the east side of the Mississippi Delta, two thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Louisiana west of the Mississippi Delta, and hydrography on the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, eight thousand dollars. For making the requisite verification of the work near the boundary, and for examination of entrances on the coast of Texas, one thousand dollars. To make off shore soundings along the Atlantic coast and current and temperature observations in the Gulf Stream, nine thousand dollars. For continuing the researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, four thousand dollars. For determinations of geographical positions (longitude party), four thousand dollars. To continue the primary triangulation from Atlanta toward Mobile, three-thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing an exact line of levels from the Gulf to the transcontinental line of levels between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, one thousand five hundred dollars. To continue tide observations on the Atlantic coast, two thousand dollars. To continue magnetic observations on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, five hundred dollars. To continue gravity experiments, three thousand five hundred dollars. To continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the topographical survey of the coast of Southern California, including the necessary supplementary surveys near San Francisco, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the primary triangulation of California, including a line of precise levels from Sancelito to the transcontinental line of levels, eleven thousand dollars. For continuing hydrography off the California coast, five thousand dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Oregon, including offshore hydrography, and the survey of Columbia River and Willamette River to the head of ship navigation, six thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing the survey of the coast of Washington Territory, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For continuing explorations in the waters of Alaska, and making hydrographic surveys in the same, nine thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of officers and men of the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that maybe required by the light-house Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, three thousand dollars. For continuing tide observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand five hundred dollars. For magnetic observations on the Pacific coast, two thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of the Superintendent and his party on duty of inspection, one thousand two hundred dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, four thousand dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; in all, for party expenses, one hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred dollars. For furnishing points for State surveys, sixteen thousand three hundred dollars. Transcontinental geodetic work: For transcontinental geodetic work, including line of leveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, twenty thousand dollars. For resurvey of New York Bay and Harbor, including East River to Throgg’s Neck, to be immediately available, thirty thousand dollars. Pay of field officers: For pay of the Superintendent, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at four thousand dollars per annum, eight thousand dollars. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand six hundred dollars per annum. For pay of one assistant, at three thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two assistants, at three thousand dollars per annum, six thousand dollars. For pay of two assistants, at two thousand eight, hundred dollars per annum, five, thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four assistants, at two thousand four hundred dollars per annum, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of three assistants, at two thousand three hundred dollars per annum, six thousand nine hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars per annum, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of six assistants, at two thousand dollars per annum, twelve thousand dollars. For pay of ten assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, eighteen thousand dollars. For pay of nine assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For pay of three subassistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars per annum, four thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of two subassistants, at one thousand three hundred dollars per annum, two thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of four subassistants, at one thousand one hundred dollars per annum, four thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of eight aids, at nine hundred dollars per annum, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For pay of one aid, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum. Total pay in field, one hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, at two thousand five hundred dollars. For one accountant, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one accountant, at one thousand four hundred dollars. For one general office assistant, at two thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand one hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at two thousand and fifty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars. For three draughtsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars, four thousand two hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at four dollars and twenty-five cents per working day, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-five cents. For one draughtsman, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For two draughtsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one draughtsman, at three dollars and fifty cents per working-day. one thousand and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents. For one draughtsman, at three dollars per working-day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For two computers, at one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars, three thousand seven hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand three hundred dollars. For one computer, at one thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. For one computer, at one thousand one hundred dollars. For one tidal computer, at two thousand dollars. For one tidal computer, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For one engraver, at two thousand and sixty dollars. For one engraver, at six dollars and thirty-nine cents per working day, two thousand dollars. For one engraver, at six dollars and twenty-five cents per working day, one thousand nine hundred and fifty six dollars and twenty-five cents. For two engravers, at five dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, three thousand six hundred dollars. For one engraver, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one engraver, at four dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-five cents. For one engraver, at four dollars and fifty cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and eight dollars and fifty cents. For one engraver, at three dollars per working-day, nine hundred and thirty-nine dollars. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed two thousand one hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum. For one contract engraver, contract not to exceed eight hundred dollars per annum. For one electrotypist, at two thousand dollars ; For one electro typist’s helper, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working day, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For one copper plate printer, at five dollars and fifty cents per working-day, one thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents. For two copperplate printers, at four dollars and twenty-five cents per working day, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars and fifty cents. For one copperplate printer, at four dollars per working day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For two plate-printers’ helpers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand four hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents. For one chief mechanician, at two thousand dollars. For one mechanician, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one mechanician, at four dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and twenty-five cents. For one mechanician, at four dollars per working-day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For one mechanician, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working day, one thousand one hundred and seventy three dollars and seventy-five cents. For one mechanician, at two dollars and eighty-two cents per working-day, eight hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty-six cents. For one mechanician, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per working day, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. For one carpenter, at five dollars per working-day, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. For one carpenter, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per working-day, seven hundred and four dollars and twenty-five cents. For one carpenter, at one dollar and eighty-two cents per working-day, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-six cents. For one map-mounter, at three dollars anti twenty-five cents per working-day, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. For one librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand fire hundred dollars, three thousand dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars, two thousand four hundred dollars. For one clerk, at one thousand dollars. For one clerk, at nine hundred dollars. For one clerk, at three dollars and seventy-five cents per working-day, one thousand one hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For one map colorist, at seven hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, at nine hundred dollars. For one writer, at eight hundred and forty dollars. For six writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. For one writer, at six hundred dollars. For one messenger, at two dollars and forty cents per day, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. For one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars. For three messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per day, two thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-five cents. For three messengers, at one dollar and seventy-five cents per day, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-five cents. For one fireman, at two dollars per day, seven hundred and thirty dollars. For one fireman, at one dollar and fifty cents per day, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. For one packer and folder, at two dollars and twenty five cents per day, eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For one packer and folder, at two dollars per working day, six hundred and twenty-six dollars. For two laborers, at two dollars per working day, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. For two laborers, at one dollar and seventy five cents per working-day, one thousand and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents. For one laborer, at one dollar per working-day, three hundred and thirteen dollars. For one laborer, at one dollar per day, three hundred and sixty five dollars. For one janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars. For three watchmen, at two dollars and forty-five cents per day, two thousand six hundred and eighty-two dollars and seventy five cents. Total for pay of office force, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-two cents. Office expenses : For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument-shop, carpenter-shop, and drawing division, and for books, maps and charts, twelve thousand dollars. For copper plates, chart-paper, printer’s ink ; copper, zinc, and chemicals for electro typing; engravers’ and printers’ supplies; for extra engraving; and for photolithographing charts for immediate use, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For stationery for the office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies; office wagon and horses; fuel; gas; telegrams; ice; washing; extra labor; and for allowances to the assistants in charge of office details, in accordance with the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, thirteen thousand three hundred dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture and repairs, and for traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, four thousand dollars. Total general expenses of office, forty thousand eight hundred dollars, For rent of office buildings: For rent of buildings for offices, work rooms, and workshops in Washington ten thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of fireproof building numbered two hundred and five New Jersey avenue, including rooms for standard weights and measures; for the safekeeping and preservation of the original astronomical, magnetic, hydrographic, and other records, of the original topographical and hydrographic maps and charts, of instruments, engraved plates, and other valuable property of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, six thousand dollars. Publishing observations: For continuing the publication of observations and their discussion, made in the progress of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including compensation of civilians engaged in the work, the publication to be made at the Government Printing Office, six thousand dollars. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, twenty six thousand dollars.
miscellaneous objects under the treasury department. Paper and stamps: For paper and stamps for the Bureau of internal Revenue, four hundred and ten thousand dollars; the engraving and printing of said stamps to be done in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws, or conniving at the same, including pay meats for information and detection of such violations, fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has ex pended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal-Revenue for which appropriation is made in this act. Contingent expenses independent Treasury : For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, seventy thousand dollars. Freight on bullion and coin: For freight on bullion and coin between the mints and assay-offices, fifteen thousand dollars. Expenses of the national currency: For paper, express charges, and other expenses, thirty thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For paper, including mill expenses, transportation, examination, counting, and delivery thirty five thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, fifty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of gold coin. For the transportation of gold coin from San Francisco to New York, one hundred thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin between subtreasury offices, fifty thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold and silver coins: For recoinage of gold and silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, ten thousand dollars. Propagation of food fishes : For the introduction by the United States Fish Commission into and the increase in the waters of the United States of food fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shell fish, and for continuing the inquiry into the fisheries of the United States and their subjects, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to detail from time to time for duty under the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries any officers and men of the Revenue Marine Service whose services can be spared for such duty. Rent of office United States Fish Commission : For rent of rooms in the city of Washington, two thousand dollars. Maintenance of fish-ponds: For the preparation and maintenance of fish-ponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of the eggs and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, cod, carp, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars. Maintence of vessels : For the maintenance of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and the other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty five thousand dollars. Fish Commission buildings, Wood’s Holl, Massachusetts: For increasing the facilities at Wood’s Holl, Massachusetts, station for the artificial propagation of useful marine animals, such as cod, halibut, mackerel, lobsters, oysters, and so forth, and the investigations connected therewith, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars. Sailing-vessel, food fishes: For construction of a suitable sailing-vessel for the purpose of collecting the spawning cod and other useful food-fishes on their breeding-grounds off the coast and conveying them to the shore station of the Commission, to be made immediately available, fourteen thousand dollars: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized and directed to transfer from the Navy to the United States Fish Commission a sailing-vessel suitable for such service, if any such vessel can be spared from said service, in which event the above sum shall not be expended. International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution : For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars. North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution : For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. Smithsonian Institution building: For finishing and completing the furnishing of the eastern portion of the Smithsonian Institution building, five thousand six hundred dollars. Inspect or of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings : To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, and other current expenses, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. Heating apparatus for public buildings, including new buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, including new buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars. Plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings : For fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture, and heating-apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, six hundred thousand dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of furniture, including carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the public building at Cleveland, Ohio, and including marine-hospitals, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for new buildings, three hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the. present regulation plans for furniture or not. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For the expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars. Lands and other property of the United States : For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs-revenue laws, forty thousand dollars.
alaskan seal-fisheries. For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars. For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska : To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the Government on the seal-islands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. National Board of Health: For salaries and expenses of the National Board of Health, five thousand dollars. For suppression of epidemic diseases: The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever, to use the unexpended balance of the sum reappropriated therefor by the act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, together with the further sum of three hundred thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and for maintaining quarantine and maritime inspections at points of danger. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to issue a warrant in favor of the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for the sum of six thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-two cents, which sum is hereby reappropriated, being the amount appropriated for said Hartford and New York Transportation Company under the act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes, and now unpaid. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse ex-President R. B. Haves for amount paid for expenses of the Commission appointed to go to Louisiana in April, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-three cents.
UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of the Navy to pay to W. P. Wood for services rendered in connection with the detection and exposure of parties concerned in defrauding the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, two thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall be accepted by the said Wood in full compensation for such services. To pay in full the claim of the owners of the schooner Druid for dam ages occasioned by the collision of that vessel with the United States steamer Powhatan, in October, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, eleven thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. To pay in full the claim of the owners of a Japanese junk for damages occasioned by the collision of the same with the United States steamer Ashuelot, while in Japanese waters, in August, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and eighty-four cents. To pay in full the claim of the Messageries Maritimes Steamship Company for damages resulting from a collision which occurred May tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, at Hong-Kong, between the United States flag ship Trenton and a barge owned by the said company, seven hundred and forty-four dollars and twenty cents.
navy-yards and stations. For navy-yard, New York : For dredging, thirty thousand dollars. Navy yard, Mare Island, California: Continuation of stone dry dock, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; for continuing artesian well, ten thousand dollars ; for iron crane, forty thousand dollars; to complete sewerage system, six thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and seventy-six thousand dollars. For the care and preservation of the building on Coasters’ Harbor Island formerly known as the “Asylum,” and the adjoining buildings and grounds, given to the United States for naval purposes by the State of Rhode Island, and for improvements, furniture, fixtures, heating, lighting, water, and for books and stationery, eight thousand dollars. Naval Training Station, Coaster’s Harbor Island, Rhode Island: For completing wharf, and for the maintenance, and repair of seawall, roads, and grounds, and the necessary labor and implements required for the proper preservation of the same, twenty-five thousand dollars. For repairs and preservation at navy-yards and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. For an additional Assistant Secretary’ of the Interior, who shall be known and designated as First Assistant Secretary of the Interior, four thousand five hundred dollars. The representative of the Department of the Interior appointed by executive order dated May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as a member of the Government Board charged with preparing a Departmental exhibit for the United States at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans is hereby authorized to have reproduced five thousand copies of the “ Growth of Industrial Art”, illustrated, prepared by him for said exposition, and to pay the cost of the same out of the amount heretofore appropriated for paying the expense of the Departmental exhibit under his charge: Provided, That the unexpended balance to the credit of said Departmental exhibit is sufficient to pay the cost of such reproduction and all other expenses incident to said exhibit. Of said reproduction one thousand two hundred copies shall be for the use of the Senate, three thousand five hundred copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and three hundred copies for the use of the Department of the Interior.
public buildings. For casual repairs of the Interior Department building: For casual repairs of the Department building, five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. For the Capitol: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics, workmen, and fresco-painter, thirty five thousand dollars. For completing the cleaning of the outside walls of the House and Senate wings of the Capitol, and the approaches thereto, three thousand dollars. For improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including the pay to landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, thirty-five thousand dollars. For continuing the construction of the terrace and grand stairways of the Capitol, as shown on plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury (Executive Document Number Nine, first session Forty-eighth Congress) including wages of mechanics and laborers, two hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be immediately available. For lighting the Capitol and Grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate and House stables: For gas, electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamp lighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas or electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For new floor in engine-house near Senate stable, and for general repairs of engine-house and Senate stable, three hundred dollars. For completion of the Pension Office building, thirty thousand dollars. For introduction of gas-pipes into the new Pension Office building, eleven thousand dollars. For the payment of all sums reserved from the vouchers of George W. Cook for artificial-stone pavement laid by him on the Capitol Grounds, under contract of September eighteen hundred and seventy-five, two thousand four hundred and four dollars and eighty-eight cents.
indian affairs. To reimburse W C. Oburn for cattle taken from him in the Indian Territory by the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, as shown by the letter of the Secretary of the Interior (House Executive Document Number One Hundred and Ninety-seven), transmitting report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs recommending payment therefor, forty-six thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-one cents ; the same to be paid out of the annuities or other moneys due or to become due the said Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, as stipulated in the first article of the treaty with said Indians concluded October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
hot springs improvement. To complete the improvement of Hot Springs Creek down to the southern boundary of the reservation and across Reserve avenue, to provide convenient access to the Army and Navy Hospital, eight thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available.
expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys at district land-offices, at. not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several land-offices, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing money received from the sale of public lands, fifteen thousand dollars. To meet expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, ninety thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp lands, and for indemnity for swamp lands, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under the three preceding paragraphs, while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation. For expenses of hearings to be held and investigations to be made by registers and receivers, under instructions from the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, twenty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Interior shall report in detail all expenditures under the four preceding paragraphs. To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land officers with the same, twenty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for the manuscript proofreading and other necessary expenses of the third edition of House Executive Document Number Forty-seven, part four, as provided by joint resolution approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty two, two thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be immediately available.
surveying the public lands. For surveying the public lands, three hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander miles, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow, for the survey of standard and meander lines through lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, a sum not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard lines, eleven dollars for township, and seven dollars for section lines ; or where, for any cause not provided for by law, in Oregon or Washington Territory, he is unable to get the necessary surveys made at the rates aforesaid, he may allow a sum not exceeding twelve dollars per linear mile for standard lines, ten dollars for township lines, and six dollars for section lines; and of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding fifty thousand dollars thereof may be expended for occasional examinations of public surveys in the several surveying districts, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for the making of such other surveys or examinations as may be required fur identification of lauds for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. For such resurveys of the public lands as, in the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, may be considered necessary, fifteen thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in New Mexico, at a rate not exceeding eleven dollars per linear mile, and office expenses, three thousand dollars. For survey of confirmed private land-claims in California, at the rates prescribed by law, including office expenses incidental to the service, three thousand dollars. For survey of private land claims in Louisiana, at the rates prescribed by law, confirmed by decrees of courts or by private acts of Congress, five thousand dollars. That hereafter in all cases of the survey of private laud-claims the cost of the same shall be refunded to the Treasury by the owner before the delivery of the patent. To complete the survey of the boundary-line between the Territories of Dakota and Montana, estimated at two hundred and eighty miles, eight thousand four hundred dollars. For completing remarking the boundary-line between the State of Colorado and the Territory of Utah, estimated at two hundred and ten miles, six thousand three hundred dollars. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of’abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That all appropriations herein under public lands shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior. For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park : For every purpose and object necessary for the protection, preservation, and improvement of the Yellowstone National Park, including compensation of superintendent and employees, forty thousand dollars, two thousand dollars of said amount to be paid an- nually to a superintendent of said park, and not exceeding nine hundred dollars annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and reside continuously in the park, and whose duty it shall be to protect the game, timber, and objects of interest therein; the balance of the sum appropriated to be expended in the construction and improvement of suitable roads and bridges within said park, under the supervision and direction of an engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that purpose.
united states geological survey. For the United States Geological Survey: For the. Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the Geological structure, mineral resources, and products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of the scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For salary of five geologists, at four thousand dollars each ; For salary of two geologists, at three thousand dollars each; For salary of one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars ; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each ; For salary of two geologists, at two thousand dollars each ; For salary of one paleontologist, four thousand dollars; For salary of one paleontologist, two thousand dollars; For salary of one chemist, three thousand dollars; For salary of one chemist, two thousand dollars; For salary of one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For salary of three geographers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For salary of one general assistant, three thousand dollars; For salary of three topographers, at two thousand dollars each, in all, sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. government hospital for the insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, two hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars; and not exceeding one thousand dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars. Special improvements, namely: For renewing gas holder, one thousand one hundred dollars; for workshop for the inmates, three thousand dollars; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. For completion of stock and hay barn, two thousand dollars to be immediately available. For dining-hall for the detached buildings nine thousand five hundred dollars.
columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. For current expenses of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, for general repairs, and improvements fifty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. For the extension of the buildings of the institution for the purpose of providing additional schoolroom accommodation, seventeen thousand dollars.
howard university. For maintenance of the Howard University to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, a portion of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of buildings four thousand dollars. For increase of library, of cabinet and of philosophical and chemical apparatus, and improvements in the rooms containing the same two thousand dollars.
freedmen’s hospital and asylum. For the Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence twenty-two thousand dollars; for salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, two assistant surgeons, engineer, clerk, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers thirteen thousand dollars; for rent of hospital buildings and grounds four thousand dollars; for fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines, and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, forty nine thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of one force pump, to be immediately available, four hundred dollars.
national museum. For heating and lighting the National Museum : For expense of heating. lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new Museum building, nine thousand dollars. For the preservation of collections of the National Museum : For the preservation and exhibition and increase of the collections received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees ninety-five thousand dollars. For the preservation of collections of the National Museum in the Armory Building: For care of the Armory Building and grounds, and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the property of the National Museum and of the United States Fish Commission contained therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, two thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture and fixtures of the National Museum: For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of the United States National Museum, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For completing shop II, an iron-finishing shop for the armory, three thousand five hundred dollars. For Armory shop K, an iron-finishing shop fifty thousand dollars. For completing storehouse numbered four, five thousand seven hundred dollars. For commencing and completing fireproof stone building for offices for both the armory and arsenal thirty thousand dollars. For erecting lumber storehouse fourteen thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvement; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, seventeen thousand dollars. That any balance of the appropriation of eighteen thousand five hundred dollars for the completion of the improvement of the water-pool above the dam at the Rock Island Arsenal, made by the sundry civil appropriations act for eighteen hundred and eighty-five, remaining unexpended at the close of the current fiscal year, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for and during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six. For the Rock Island bridge as follows: For care and preservation of the Rock Island bridge, and expenses of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For protecting the Rock Island bridge by means of sheer-booms, two hundred and fifty dollar’s. For the Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairs and preservation of grounds, buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, fifteen thousand dollars. For Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For permanent repairs of post and fences, six thousand dollars. For the San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For repairs of buildings, roads, and drains, four thousand dollars. For laying concrete sidewalks on Flores and Arsenal streets, four thousand and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents. For Piccatiny Powder Depot, Dover, New Jersey: For grading grounds, erecting magazines and other necessary buildings, and all expenses incident thereto, forty thousand dollars. For Sandy Hook Proving Ground, New Jersey : For clearing, leveling, grading, and building roads and general repairs, three thousand dollars. For repairs of arsenals: For repairs of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures at arsenals as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, thirty thousand dollars. Testing-machine, Watertown Arsenal; For caring for, preserving, using, and operating the United States testing machine at Watertown Arsenal, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the tests of iron and steel and other materials for industral purposes shall be continued, and report thereof shall be made to Congress : And provided further, That in making tests for private citizens the officer in charge may require payment in advance, and may use the funds so received in making such private tests, making full report thereof to the Chief of Ordnance; and the Chief of Ordnance shall give attention to such programme of tests as may be submitted by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the record of such tests shall be furnished said society, to be by them published at their own expense. buildings and grounds in and abound washington. For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows : For improving, care, and maintenance of grounds south of the Executive Mansion, six thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For improving reservation on South Carolina avenue, between Fourth and Sixth streets east, one thousand five hundred dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars. For care and improvement of reservation numbered three (Monument Grounds), one thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall he expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For repair of iron fences, five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, five thousand dollars. For painting iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp posts two thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree-stakes, lime, whitewashing and stock for nursery, three thousand dollars. For removing snow and ice, one thousand dollars. For flower pots, twine, baskets, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars. For care construction, and repair of fountains in the public grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars. For improving, care, and maintenance of various reservations twelve thousand dollars. For improvement, maintenance and care of Smithsonian Grounds, five thousand dollars. To complete improvement of Washington Circle including removal of fence, two thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows: For care and repair of and refurnishing the Executive Mansion, including four thousand dollars for new roof, sixteen thousand dollars. Fur fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, three thousand dollars. For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars. For lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas-fitters plumbers, gas fitting and plumbing, purchase and erection of lamps and lamp posts, purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, stables, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fifteen thousand dollars : Provided, That for each six-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty-two dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this act; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose. For repair of water pipes and fire plugs: For repairing and extending water-pipes, purchase of apparatus to clean them, and cleaning the springs, and repairing and renewing the pipes to the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars. For telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of the same, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the building for the State, War and Navy Departments : For continuing the construction of the walls and Hoots of the several stories of the west and center wings, and for each and every purpose connected with the construction of the building including the rent of necessary office room, four hundred thousand dollars. Washington Monument: For completion of the Washington Monument, namely: For iron work of stairs and platforms and elevator fronts, engine-house and approaches, insertion of presentation blocks, cementing interior walls, paving floor and covering drum pit, closures of doorways, doors and passages, change in elevator car and machinery, new boiler-house and boiler, office expenses, including rent of necessary office-rooms, and for each and every purpose connected with the completion of the monument, seventy five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the joint commission created by the act of August second eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Yorktown Monument: That not exceeding five thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the erection of the Yorktown Monument may be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, for the erection of an iron railing around said monument. army and navy hospital. Army and Navy hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas: For labor and material to put the hospital in a thorough state of completion, as indicated by the architect, but not included in the present contract, twenty thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. For completely furnishing the hospital including furniture for rooms for patients (officers) and of wards for enlisted men, necessary bedding, hospital clothing and miscellaneous articles, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. military posts. For the construction of buildings at and the enlargement of such military posts as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars; fifteen thousand dollars of which sum may be used for the purchase of a site near Atlanta, Georgia for the erection thereon of a ten company post. signal service. To be expended by the Secretary of War; For the observation and report of storms: For expenses of the meteorological observation and report of storms by telegraph and signal, or otherwise announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of the commerce and agriculture throughout the United States as follows: For the manufacture, purchase, and repair of instruments, ten thousand dollars. For telegraphic reports, one hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars. For expenses of storm, cautionary, off shore, and other signals on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators (where not otherwise provided for), lanterns, and flags, eleven thousand dollars. For continuing the connections of signal stations at life saving Stations and light-houses, including services of operators, repairmen, materials (such as cable, wire, poles, and insulators), and general service connected therewith, thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That such connections, in the opinion of the Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service and the light-house Board, shall be deemed necessary. For manufacture, purchase, and repair of instrument shelters, two thousand dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, heating supplies, stationery, ice, repairs, and other expenses of offices maintained for public use in cities and ports receiving reports, outside of Washington, District of Columbia, forty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For river and flood reports, and expenses incidental thereto, ten thousand dollars. For maps and bulletins to be displayed in chambers of commerce and boards of trade rooms, and for distribution, twenty-five thousand dollars. For cotton-belt reports, seven thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the work of no other Department, Bureau, or Commission authorized by law shall be duplicated by this Bureau. For maintenance and repair of military-telegraph lines, twenty four thousand dollars. Pay: For pay of one brigadier-general and sixteen second lieutenants, twenty nine thousand five hundred dollars; for longevity pay to officers of the Signal Corps, to be paid with current monthly pay, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for pay of one hundred and fifty sergeants, thirty corporals, and three hundred and twenty privates, including payment due on discharge, two hundred thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-one cents; for mileage to officers when traveling on duty under orders, five thousand dollars; for pay of contract surgeon, one thousand two hundred dollars; for commutation of quarters to commissioned officers at places where there are no public quarters, seven thousand two hundred dollars; in all two hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred and one dollars and fifty one cents. And the Secretary of War is authorized, in his discretion, to detail for the service in the Signal Corps not to exceed four commissioned officers, exclusive of the second lieutenants of the Signal Corps authorized by law, and of two officers lately serving in the Arctic Seas. Subsistence: For the subsistence of Signal Service enlisted men, and for commutation of rations of Signal Service enlisted men, including nine thousand and ninety dollars and ninety cents, for subsistence stores, authorized articles for sales to officers and enlisted men and Company messes, as allowed by paragraph twenty-one hundred and ninety-nine, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. Regular supplies: Fuel, authorized allowance for enlisted men at Fort Myer, Virginia, and for various offices at Fort Myer, Virginia, and on the United States military-telegraph lines, six thousand two hundred dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and twenty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at nine dollars each per month, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars; commutation of fuel for two hundred and forty enlisted men of the Signal Corps, at eight dollars each per month, twenty three thousand and forty dollars; forage for twenty five mules and six horses, three thousand one hundred dollars; straw for thirty-one animals, at seven dollars each per annum, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety eight, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, two hundred and seventeen dollars; for forage for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at one bundled and fifteen dollars each per annum, one thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars; for straw for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety, Army Regulations, and the act making appropriations for the support of the Army approved February twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, at eight dollars and forty cents each per annum, one hundred and nine dollars and twenty cents ; straw for forty enlisted men at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, and for hospital at that post, as allowed by paragraph eighteen hundred and ninety-six, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, sixty seven dollars and twenty cents; stationery, one hundred dollars; stoves and repairs to heating apparatus, four hundred dollars ; lights, one hundred and fifty dollars ; in all, fifty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-eight dollars and forty cents. Incidental expenses: For office furniture for post of Fort. Myer, Virginia, one hundred dollars ; horse and mule shoes, five hundred dollars; shoes and shoeing once each month for thirteen horses kept by officers in the public service, atone dollar and fifty cents each per month (paragraph three hundred and one, Army Regulations, eighteen hundred and eighty-one), two hundred and thirty four dollars; blacksmiths’ and miscellaneous tools, three hundred dollars; veterinary supplies, three hundred dollars; fire apparatus and disinfectants, two hundred dollars; for interment of officers and men, two hundred dollars; for apprehension of deserters, one hundred and twenty dollars ; in all. one thousand nine hundred and fifty four dollars. Transportation : For transportation of material and funds, twenty-five thousand dollars; for transportation of men, eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; means of transportation, namely, five mules, at not exceeding two hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; for harness, and for leather, iron, and timbers for repairs to means of transportation, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, thirty-five thousand five hundred and five dollars. Barracks and quarters: For commutation of quarters to enlisted men of the Signal Corps, eighty four thousand one hundred and eight dollars. Work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eighty-five thousand six hundred and eight dollars. Clothing, camp and garrison equipage: For purchase of the necessary axes, flags, halyards, brooms, and brushes for post of Fort Myer, Virginia, seventy three dollars and eighty nine cents; clothing issues in kind, say complete outfits for sixty-four men of the Signal Corps, at an average of forty three dollars and seventy-five cents per man per annum, two thousand eight hundred dollars: in all. two thousand eight hundred and seventy three dollars and eighty-nine cents. Medical department: For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, five thousand dollars; medical attendance and medicines for officers doing duty in connection with the Signal Service, one hundred dollars; medical and hospital supplies at Fort Myer. Virginia, seven hundred dollars; medicines furnished to officers and enlisted men from purveying depots and Army dispensaries, one thousand dollars; work and supplies at Fort Myer, Virginia, three hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred dollars. For materials for preservation and care of ordnance and ordnance stores at post of Fort Myer, Virginia, one hundred dollars. That the joint commission, consisting of three Senators and three Representatives, to consider the present organizations of the Signal Service, Geological Survey, Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Hydro-graphic Office of the Navy Department, provided for in the act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government,” and so forth, approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty four, be, and the same is hereby, continued, with power to sit during the recess of Congress in the city of Washington; and the said commission shall report to their respective Houses on —before the third Monday in December, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, or as soon thereafter as may be, by bill or otherwise; and the present President pro tempore of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint respectively a Senator and Representative to take the places on said commission of the Senator and Representative whose terms of office expire with the present Congress. national cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, one hundred thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-three superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty thousand four hundred and forty dollars. For the construction and completion of a road from Marietta, Georgia, to the national cemetery near that city, five thousand dollars. For the construction and completion of a road from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to the national cemetery near that city, six thousand dollars. For the completion of the macadamized road from Springfield, Missouri, to the national cemetery near that city, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated by the three preceding paragraphs shall be expended upon any public highway. miscellaneous objects. To enable the Secretary of War to pay, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars made by the act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, for payment of awards growing out of the illness and burial of the late President Garfield, to Mrs. Mary T. Barnes, widow of the late Surgeon-General Joseph K. Barnes, five thousand dollars, for especial and meritorious services rendered by her husband in the last illness of President Garfield. For erecting a monument, in lieu of headstones, at Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the memory of Union soldiers killed at or near that place, on the sixth day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, four thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War. To enable the Secretary of War to acquire good and valid title for the United States to the Fort Brown Reservation, Texas, and to pay and extinguish all claims for the use and occupancy of said reservation by the United States, the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid until a complete title is vested in the United States; and the full amount of the price, including rent shall be paid directly to the owners of the property. For publication of maps for use of the War Department, five thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators, and electrotyping copper plates for chart printing, three thousand dollars. For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institute, two hundred dollars. For artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and appliances, or commutation therefor, and transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, four hundred thousand dollars. For appliances for disabled soldiers: For providing surgical appliances for persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States and not entitled to artificial limbs, two thousand dollars. For the support and medical treatment of transient paupers : For the support and medical treatment of seventy-five transient paupers, medical and surgical patients in the City of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, fifteen thousand dollars. Garfield Hospital : For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to transient persons unable to pay therefor, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Maintenance of Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas : For means of transportation for use of the hospital and maintenance of the same; hire of employees (steward, apothecary, clerk, Butler, cooks, wardmasters, nurses, engineer, laundresses, and all necessary service); medicines, hospital stores, dressings, instruments, fuel, gas, ice, stationery, and other necessary expenses, nineteen thousand dollars. For the expenses of military convicts : For payment of costs’ and charges of State penitentiaries for the care, clothing, maintenance, and medical attendance of United States military convicts confined in them, ten thousand dollars. For the publication of the official records of the war of the rebellion, both of the Union and Confederate armies as follows: For continuing the publication of the official records and printing and binding, under direction of the Secretary of War, of a compilation of the official records, Union and Confederate, of the war of rebellion, so far as the same may be ready for publication during the fiscal year, to be distributed as required by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, thirty-six thousand dollars: Provided, That the time during which said publication shall be subject to the order of Senators, Representatives and Delegates shall be extended from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty five, until July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six. Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation: For the improvement of roads on the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. Quartermaster and Commissary Depot at Saint Paul, Minnesota : For the completion of the public building for a quartermaster and commissary depot at Saint Paul, Minnesota, to be used as offices for officers of Department of Dakota, and for heating the same, thirty thousand dollars. For purchasing hospital and other records of the war pertaining to the New England Soldiers’ Relief Association, five thousand five hundred dollars. For the purpose of erecting a statue, with suitable emblematic devices thereon, on one of the public reservations in the city of Washington, to the memory of General La Fayette and his compatriots, fifty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, and the Architect of the Capitol are authorized to contract for and erect the said statue, and to designate a suitable public reservation in the city of Washington as the site for said statue. united states military prison at fort leavenworth. For the support of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas as follows: For subsistence for prisoners, five teamsters, and two watchmen, twenty eight thousand four hundred dollars. For oil, wicking, and for lamps, lanterns, and chimneys for illuminating buildings and grounds, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; For tobacco Tor prisoners on special or excessive hard labor, five hundred and forty dollars; For hay for prisoner’ bedding, five hundred and forty two dollars and fourteen cents; For grain and bay for horses and mules, used exclusively at the prison, three thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars; For stationery and blank books for offices of governor, adjutant, quartermaster; stamped envelopes and letter paper for use of prisoners; and for books, periodicals, and newspapers for prison library, nine hundred and fifty dollars; For advertising for proposals for supplies, one hundred dollars; For hard wood, or its equivalent in coal, for making steam, heating and cooking and for rubber hose, belting, oil cotton waste, steam-pipes, and fixtures; tools and material in shops, laundry, stables, and articles for police purposes; disinfectants; horse medicines; horse and mule shoes and nails; machine-oil; miscellaneous stores; machinery and repairs; stoves and stovepipe; bricks and cement, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars; For expenses for pursuing escaped prisoners, and rewards for their capture, three hundred dollars; For donations of five dollars each for prisoners on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For bats and material for clothing for prisoners’ wear and for issue to prisoners on discharge, blankets and material for bed-sacks, sewing-machines, needles, thirteen thousand dollars; For one new steam-engine, two thousand five hundred dollars; For medicines, medical and surgical appliances, and articles required in the care and treatment of the sick, hospital furniture, and supplies, one thousand five hundred dollars; For extra-duty pay to eight members of the prison guard, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and seventy cents; For pay of civilian employees ; One clerk, at one hundred and fifty dollars per month; one clerk, at one hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents per month ; one clerk, at one hundred dollars per month ; six foremen of mechanics, at one hundred dollars per month each; two nightwatchmen, and five teamsters, at thirty dollars per month each ; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety two cents; For construction and repair of prison buildings, and repairs to Hospital, officers’ and guards quarters, three thousand dollars; In all, ninety-one thousand one hundred and sixty-seven dollars and seventy-six cents. For the Artillery School at Fortress Monroe, Virginia : To provide for means of instruction, such as text books, instruments, drawing materials, chemicals, and material necessary in the science of engineering and artillery, stationery, and miscellaneous necessaries for use of the school, five thousand dollars. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer soldiers as follows: For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Central Branch, at Day ton, Ohio, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the North western Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For current expenses, including construction and repairs, at the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia, one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, For Southern Branch, additional ward to hospital, thirty-seven thousand dollars; For extension of breakwater, five thousand dollars; For estimated number of members of the branch of the National Home west of the Mississippi, at Leavenworth, Kansas, authorized by act of Congress, approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighty thousand dollars; For clothing and bedding for seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-two members of the Home, two hundred thousand dollars; For out door relief and incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, one million four hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars. And hereafter there shall annually be submitted to the Secretary of War a detailed statement of the expenses of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, who shall submit the same to Congress at the beginning of each session thereof. For the collection and payment of bounty, prize-money, and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors: For payment of agents; rent of offices; stationery, office-furniture, and repairs; mileage and transportation of officers and agents ; telegraphing, postage, and post-office money-orders, two thousand dollars.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For repairs to heating apparatus, three hundred dollars. For repairs to the court house at Washington, District of Columbia, For annual repairs to the court house in the city of Washington. District of Columbia, per estimate of Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars. Reform School, District of Columbia: For repairs to buildings, including new roof on main building and new piers in basement, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Penitentiary for Utah Territory : For construction and completion of the penitentiary for Utah Territory, fifty thousand dollars. Penitentiary for Montana Territory: For completion of the penitentiary for Montana Territory, twenty five thousand dollars.
MISCELLANEOUS. For the expenses of Territorial courts in Utah Territory: For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, the fees and per diems of the United Spates commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, twenty six thousand dollars. For defending suits in claims against the United Slates: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and the District of Columbia pending in any Department, and for necessary expenses incurred in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum three thousand dollars shall be immediately available. For the prosecution and collection of claims: For expenses to be incurred in the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars. For punishing violations of the intercourse acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies and agents and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars. For the prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment, and for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of ‘.he United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty five thousand dollars. For the support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, eight thousand dollars. The Attorney-General is authorized and directed to pay Charles H. Reed and George Scoville, attorneys at law, any sums, not exceeding three thousand dollars to Charles H. Reed, and not exceeding two thousand dollars to George Scoville, for services rendered in the case of the United States versus Charles J. Guiteau, to be immediately available. To enable the Attorney-General to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the seventeenth and eighteenth volumes of the opinions of the Attorneys-General, one thousand dollars.
JUDICIAL. united states courts. For expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States and of the District of Columbia; of jurors and witnesses; of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution for offenses committed against the United States; of the safe keeping of prisoners ; and of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty six of the Revised Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, namely, those stated in the following itemized list: For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For payments of United States district attorneys and their assistants, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of United States courtrooms, fifty thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers: of expenses of district judges who may be sent out of their districts to hold court; of meals for jurors when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors, watchmen, interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is a party in interest, and other miscellaneous expenses, three hundred thousand dollars.
UNDER THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. To pay rent of building occupied by the Washington City post-office, at a rate not exceeding five thousand dollars per annum, five thousand dollars; and for payment of rent of same from November fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to the close of the current fiscal year, at same rate, three thousand one hundred and twenty five dollars, to be immediately available.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. That in all contracts hereafter made for service for the House of Representatives involving the employment of horses, the expense of keeping such horses shall be covered by the contract; and no money hereafter appropriated for contingent or other expenses of the House of Representatives shall be expended for stables or forage. To pay J C. Courts for services as clerk to the Select Committee on Ordnance, authorized by the resolution of the House of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, two hundred dollars. To pay Charles Carter for services in caring for extra room of the Committee on Appropriations sixty dollars. To pay William H. Smith, assistant librarian House of Representatives, for additional services during the first and second sessions of the Forty-eighth Congress, six hundred and fifty dollars. To pay James P. McCann the difference between his salary and that of a messenger, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, from July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. For one chief page (Alvin H. Pickens), at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum, from April fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. To pay the tour pages now employed by resolution of the House the same compensation and for the same period as is provided for the payment of session pages employed by the House, two hundred and seventy dollars, to be immediately available. To reimburse the Postmaster for postage stamps, seventy dollars, to be immediately available. To reimburse N. A. Fuller, late cashier in the office of the Sergeant-at Arms of the House of Representatives for payment of a certain check forged in the name of a member of the House in August eighteen hundred and eighty three, one hundred and sixty five dollars.
WORLDS INDUSTRIAL AND COTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. For final aid to the Worlds Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, now being held in the city of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, not to exceed the sum of three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and to be used first in payment of the indebtedness now outstanding of said exposition which is due to persons, firms, or corporations living and doing business outside of the State of Louisiana, including debts due to foreigners or foreign nations and such as are due to States and Territories from said exposition ; secondly, in payment of all premiums heretofore awarded or which shall be hereafter awarded by said exposition in accordance with the list i of awards heretofore published; said money to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall make proper rules and regulations for the form and verification of vouchers in proof of such indebtedness, and shall detail a proper agent of his Department to disburse said funds as directed by said Secretary, who shall make a detailed statement of his transactions to the Treasury Department. Also for the womans’ department, of the said exposition, fifteen thousand dollars, And no part of the foregoing sums shad be paid until statements and exhibits in detail, satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, are made of all expenditures under the appropriation made by act, of May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and that said expenditures have been made for the purposes and in the manner provided for in said act; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress, at the beginning of the next session, all such detailed statements made to him of the expenditures under said appropriation and also under this appropriation; and the necessary expenses of these examinations shall be paid from this appropriation.
PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding may be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely : For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, one million two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents; for the State Department, nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; for the Treasury Department, two hundred and sixty-four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; for the War Department, one hundred and thirty eight thousand six hundred dollars of (which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-Generals Office); for the Navy Department, fifty-nine thousand five hundred and twelve, dollars and fifty cents; for the Interior Department, three hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars (of which sum ten thousand dollars is appropriated for rebinding tract books for the General Land Office); for the Department of Justice, seven thousand and eighty seven dollars and fifty cents; for the Post-Office Department, one hundred and seventy-eight thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; for the Agricultural Department, seventeen thousand six hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents, for the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand three hundred anti twelve dollars and fifty cents; for the supreme court of the District of Columbia, nine hundred dollars; for the Court of Claims, eleven thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; and for the Library of Congress, ten thousand two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in The two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. To enable the Public Printer to continue the operations under joint resolution approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the removal and storage of certain property of the Government mentioned therein, three thousand dollars to be immediately available, Provided, That the building now occupied for storage purposes shall be surrendered as soon as the building provided for in this act is ready for occupancy. To enable the Joint Committee on Public Printing to complete the preparation, proofreading, indexing and revising the classified, analytical, and descriptive catalogue of Government publications, and of publications of public interest purchased by the United States for use or distribution, eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the final completion of the work’, which may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or employee of the United States, the same to be immediately available. For payment to sixty-one printers regularly employed on the Congressional Record sixty dollars each for time unemployed during the present session, three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1885.