Public Law 54–33

That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the TreasuryFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

OFFICE OF PUBLIC PRINTER. To pay H. L. Strawn for services rendered by him as inspector of paper and material in the Government Printing Office from March seventeenth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For printing and binding, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, as follows: For the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, namely: For printing advance copies of papers on the economic resources of the United States, as provided in the sundry civil Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand dollars. For printing five hundred thousand copies of Part two, of the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as required by section seventy-three of the Act entitled, “An Act providing for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred thousand dollar’s.

STATE DEPARTMENT. foreign intercourse. To enable the International Boundary Commission, appointed under the conventions of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and February eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty nine, to complete the survey and remarking of the boundary between the United States and Mexico by the preparation of the manuscripts, including tables and results, for the joint report, together with a map of the survey covering a belt of territory two and one-half miles wide on the American side of the boundary, to be incorporated with a similar map of the Mexican territory prepared by the Mexican section of the Commission; also the preparation of the special reports of the American section, including astronomical and geodetic tables and results, and a geographical map, a work requiring the employment of expert draftsmen, a clerk, the rent of an police, and the expenses of the Commissioners, twenty thousand dollars. For the purchase, subject to a ground rent of not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, from the Imperial Japanese Government of the present building and site occupied by the United States legation at Tokyo, sixteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment of cost of transportation furnished by certain railway companies in connection with the failure of the scheme, for the colonization of negroes in Mexico, necessitating their return to their homes in Alabama, as reported to Congress at its present session by the President in House Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine, five thousand and eighty-seven dollars and nine cents. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Matt W. Ransom, out of the appropriation for “Salaries of ambassadors and ministers, ” eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of two thousand eight hundred and six dollars and forty-eight cents, being the amount of the salary of the minister to Mexico from July first, to August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, during which period he performed the duties of minister to Mexico and has received no compensation therefor.

FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporarily in the Treasury Department, under such rules and regulations as lie may prescribe. not exceeding twenty-five expert money counters, at a rate not exceeding sixty dollars per month each, seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For purchase of horses and wagons, for police and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, one thousand dollars. Custom-House Building, Chicago, Illinois: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to cause such furniture and records used by the Government officials in the custom-house building in Chicago, Illinois, as may be necessary, to be removed to rented quarters; and for necessary expenses of such removal, for altering and fitting old counters, screens, and cases, so that they may be utilized in the rooms to which they are to be transferred, and for any additional furniture that may be necessary, he is authorized to expend not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars of the appropriation for furniture and repairs of furniture for public buildings made in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. 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, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public, money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, one hundred thousand dollars. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver coin, including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, forty-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub treasuries, 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. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for transportation of silver coin, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eleven thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and five cents. Recoinage of silver coins: For recoinage of the uncurrent fractional silver coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Medals and Diplomas, World’s Columbian Exposition: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for medals and diplomas, World’s Columbian Exposition, provided by the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as amended by the sundry civil act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty thousand six hundred dollars. For payment of the rental of a building for the division of awards, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, occupied by said Bureau in the execution of the work of preparing the awards of the World’s Columbian Exposition as authorized by the sundry civil act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from April twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at a rental of sixty dollars per mouth, eight hundred and sixty dollars. For the entire compensation of George R. Davis, Director-General of the World’s Columbian Exposition, in the work of preparing his final report, and for all sums expended or paid out by him upon such work, and for any sums due under agreements or contracts for assistants for such work, such sum to be in full for all claims therefor, eighteen thousand and six dollars and ten cents: Provided, That the originalFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. typewritten or written manuscript of such work, all illustrations, diagrams and plans incorporated in such work, and all plates and negatives of photographs taken therefor in the hands of the Director General shall be by him deposited with the Joint Committee on Printing. For the entire reimbursement of Thomas W. Palmer, for moneys paid by him for labor and expenses incurred in the preparation of a final report as President of the World’s Columbian Commission, as required by section thirteen of an Act to provide for celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-five cents. Collecting the revenue from customs: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighty-five thousand dollars. Revenue-Cutter Service: To supply deficiency for pay of officers on “ Permanent waiting orders list” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Nine captains, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; six first lieutenants, at nine hundred dollars each; two second lieutenants, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; one third lieutenant, at six hundred dollars; twelve chief engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; six first assistant engineers, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; three second assistant engineers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Life-Saving Service: Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay for commutation of quarters for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service the sum of five thousand one hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as maybe required, the same to be paid from the regular annual appropriation for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. National Academy of Sciences: To reimburse the National Academy of Sciences for expenses incurred in doing certain work in accordance with the Act of Congress approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to define and establish the units of electrical measure, sixty-nine dollars. Fishing boat Hector: To compensate Robert E. Ellis and Francis A. Ellis, owners of the fishing boat Hector, from Chatham, Massachusetts. for damages sustained in consequence of a collision with the Coast Survey steamer Blake on August twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Office of sealer of weights and measures: For the following from March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, namely: Sealer of weights and measures, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; assistant sealer of weights and measures, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; laborer, at the rate of twenty dollars per month; in all, five thousand two hundred and nine dollars. For livery of horse, horseshoeing, stationery, and other necessary items, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and sixty dollars. For horse, wagon, harness, office rent, furniture, stationery, and other necessary items, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four hundred and eighteen dollars. Defending suits in Court of Claims: For necessary expenses in examination of witnesses and procuring evidence and defending suitsFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. against the District of Columbia in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two thousand dollars. Fire department: For the force necessary to operate Truck D for the period beginning February first and ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, namely: One foreman at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; one tillerman at, the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; one hostler at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum, and nine privates at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum each; in all, three thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars and thirty cents. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty two thousand three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and twenty-one cents. That one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.

WAR DEPARTMENT. Harbor of New York: Not exceeding six thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the sum of forty-five thousand dollars appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the purchase or construction of a steam tug for service in the prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, may be used for the pay of crew and maintenance of said steam tug during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: That the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act approved December fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the expenses of the Government’s participation in this dedication of the. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, is hereby made available for the current work of establishing said park: Provided, That no monuments or memorials shall be erected upon any lauds of the park, or remain upon any lands which may be purchased for the, park, except upon ground actually occupied in the course of the battle by troops of the State which the proposed monuments arc intended to commemorate, except upon those sections of the park set apart for memorials to troops which were engaged in the campaigns, but operated outside of the legal limits of the park; arid the regulations of the commissioners of the park, as approved by the Secretary of War, promulgated December fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, are hereby affirmed. Engineer Department: For continuing improvement of harbor at Galveston, Texas, three hundred thousand dollars. To open Jupiter Inlet, in Florida, for the passage of bouts and small vessels, to be expended under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, five hundred dollars. Pay of the Army: For pay of officers of the line, thirteen thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-six cents; pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay, three thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars and eleven cents; pay to officers, general staff, seven thousand seven hundred and six dollars and fifty-nine cents; pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay, one thousand five hundred and eight dollars and thirty-two cents; pay of retired officers, seven thousand and fifteen dollars and eighty six cents; pay of retired officers for length of service, to be paid with current monthly pay, one thousand five hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-five cents; commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without troops, and so forth, one hundredFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. and sixty-two dollars; pay of enlisted men. thirteen thousand and forty-three dollars and sixty-two cents; all being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; in all, forty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty-one cents. Horses for cavalry and artillery: Purchase of horses for the cavalry and artillery and for the. Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the hospital corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number on hand, shall not at any time exceed the number of enlisted men and Indian scouts in the mounted service, and that no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection by such Department, all under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. Pay of Military Academy: For one first sergeant, difference in pay between a sergeant and first sergeant for one year, eighty-four dollars. State and Territorial Homes: For continuing aid to State or Territorial Homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight: Provided, That one half of any sum or sums retained by State Homes on account of pensions received by the inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seventy-five thousand dollars.

NAVY DEPARTMENT. Naval Academy: For expenses of the Board of Visitors to the Naval Academy, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and ten dollars and fifty-six cents. Navy-yard at Brooklyn, New York: For completion of dry dock numbered three, fifty thousand dollars. Naval War College and Torpedo School, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island: For repairs to roof of college building, two thousand dollars.

INCREASE OF THE NAVY. Equipment: Toward the completion of the equipment outfit of the new vessels heretofore authorized by Congress, fifty thousand dollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, nine thousand dollars. Government Hospital for the Insane: For completing electric plant for lighting and ventilating, nineteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents. Geological Survey: For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the renting of additional rooms for the use of the engraving and printing division of the Geological Survey for a period of four months, beginning with the first day of March, four hundred dollars. Classification of certain mineral lands in Montana and Idaho: For compensation of the twelve commissioners appointed under the Act of February twenty sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. to examine and classify certain lands within the land grant and indemnify land grant limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in the States of Montana and Idaho, with special reference to the mineral or nonmineral character of such lands, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For publication of the monthly reports filed by said commissioners in the office of the register and receiver of the Bozeman, Helena, and Missoula land districts, in the State of Montana, and the Cœur d’Alene land district, in the State of Idaho; and for the expenses pertaining to hearings ordered by and conducted before said registers and receivers, six thousand dollars; For the payment of stenographers employed by said commissioners when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the purpose of reducing testimony to writing in cases where it is found necessary to examine witnesses in order to establish the character of lauds examined by said commissioners, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-thousand dollars. Surveying and allotting for Chippewas in Minnesota: For completing the necessary surveys within the Chippewa Indian Reservation in Minnesota, including expenses of examining and appraising pine lands, under the provisions of the act approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of their lands, five thousand dollars. Commission, Puyallup Reservation (reimbursable): For continuing the work of the Puyallup Indian Commission appointed under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three (twenty-six Statutes at Large, six hundred and twelve), to select and appraise such portions of the allotted hinds within the Puyallup Indian Reservation, Washington, as are not required for homes for the Indian allottees; and also that part of the agency tract, exclusive of the burying ground, not needed for school purposes, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said Commission, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be available until expended, and to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of the agency tract and allotted lands, as provided in said Act. Payment for surveys of public lands: To pay F. W. Pettigrew for surveys executed by him and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in excess of the limit allowed by his contract, numbered one hundred, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred dollars and eighty cents. To pay the audited claim of Alonzo Gesner, United States deputy surveyor, for surveying the public lands in Oregon, under contract numbered six hundred and eight, dated April seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand four hundred dollars. To pay the audited claim of C. Clifford Stevenson and David O. Stevenson for surveying public lands, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-seven cents. To pay the audited claim of F. W. Pettigrew, United States deputy surveyor, for surveying public lands, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-one cents. Telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies: To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, and pay of necessary employees advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected there-with. including telegraphing, five thousand dollars. Indian school transportation: For collecting and transportation of Indian pupils to and from Indian schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools, and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, underFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. arrangements in which their proper care, support, and education shall be in exchange for their labor, eight thousand dollars. Eleventh Census: For salaries, rents, and necessary expense in continuing the work of compiling the results of the Eleventh Census, to continue available until exhausted, fifteen thousand dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For additional salary of clerk in charge of accounts, four hundred dollars. For stationery, six hundred dollars. For official transportation, Department of Justice, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repair of wagons and harness, eight hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for traveling expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney for the Territory of Alaska, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and two dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for rent of offices, and incidental expenses, for the marshal, district attorney, commissioners, Territory of Alaska, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and twelve dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS. Defending Suits in Claims Against the United States: 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 in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense of the United States in the matter of the French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

JUDICIAL. To pay the salaries and expenses of the judges, district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, marshals, deputy marshals, clerks, deputy clerks, commissioners, and constables of the United States courts in the Indian Territory, including the salary due James V. Walker resigned as district attorney of the central district of the Indian Territory from April first eighteen hundred and ninety five to July eighth eighteen hundred and ninety-five inclusive at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum. And the salary due Lucius L. Stowe now deceased as Marshal of the southern district of the Indian Territory from April third eighteen hundred and ninety-five to July twenty-seventh eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, being a deficiency to the appropriation for the service of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ten thousand dollars. Court of Private Land Claims: That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of sixteen thousand dollars made for salaries and expenses of the Court of Private Laud Claims, in the legislative appropriation Act approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby continued available for the same purposes until June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. united states courts. For payment of the fees and expenses of the United States marshals and deputies, nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, ThatFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3.3. 1896. not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Statutes: Provided further, That hereafter all fees for United States Attorneys, Marshals, Clerks of Courts and Special Counsel necessarily employed in prosecuting civil suits instituted by the Auditor for the Post Office Department through the Solicitor of the Treasury against the sureties on the official bonds of late post masters, as provided for by section two hundred and ninety-two, Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be paid from the appropriations for expenses of the United States Courts. For payment of fees and expenses of the United States marshals and deputies, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and thirty thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-four cents. For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being in payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy two thousand four hundred and sixty one dollars and seven cents. For fees of clerks for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifty-eight thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-seven cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, ten thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-six cents. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-five thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars and ninety-three cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eleven thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars and twenty cents. For fees of jurors, two hundred thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and three dollars and forty-five cents. For fees of witnesses, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For fees of witnesses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty thousand seven hundred and twenty-two dollars and thirty eight cents. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For rent of United States court rooms, fifty thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the. southern district of New York: Provided, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: And provided further, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners,FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. five dollars per day, nor exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seventy thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand six hundred and ninety eight dollars and forty-six cents. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, including the employment of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, twenty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in special cases, for the fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ten thousand and sixty-seven dollars and eighty-one cents. For eighteen hundred and ninety-four, fourteen thousand and four dollars and sixty-five cents. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, thirty-one thousand dollars. For payment of services and expenses of special assistants to the Attorney-General, in cases appealed from the Court of Private Land Claims to the Supreme Court, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for protecting property in the hands of receivers of United States courts for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty thousand five hundred and six dollars and eighty-six cents.

JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States, ” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty seven, which have not been appealed, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-five cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: Provided, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAMS. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in Senate Documents Numbered Seventy and Ninety-nine, four hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one dollars and eighty cents: Provided, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

LEGISLATIVE. building for the library of congress. For completion of the building for the Library of Congress and for each and every purpose connected with the same, four hundred and eighty thousand dollars. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33. 1896. library of congress. To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ three additional assistants, at the rate of seventy-five dollars a month each, for the remainder of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. senate. For compensation and mileage of Senators, five thousand dollars. For salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, six thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, ten thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twenty-nine cents. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five dollars and forty-two cents. For purchase of furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of furniture, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty-five dollars and twenty-three cents. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to Maltby Building, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety five, ten dollars and seventy-five cents. For amount due the Washington Gas Light Company, for coke, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-nine dollars and fifty-two cents. house of representatives. To pay to Charles H. Evans, for services to the Ways and Means Committee in preparing estimates of revenue from proposed tariff legislation, one hundred dollars. To pay to Joel Grayson, for services in the document room from January first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, seven hundred and fifty dollars. To pay to the mother of Lucien Davidson, deceased, late a page in the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, a sum equal to his salary as such page for six months: also the expenses attending his last illness and funeral, not to exceed one hundred dollars; in all, four hundred and sixty dollars. To pay R. C. Peacock for services performed as a page, twenty dollars. For two clerks to the Committees on Elections, authorized by resolution of the House December twenty third, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, until and including June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand and ninety-seven dollars and eighty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees for the fiscal years, as follows: For eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-two thousand dollars. For eighteen hundred and ninety-five, three thousand dollars. For furniture, and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s police and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitionsFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 33, 34. 1896. from the Clerk of the House under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), five thousand dollars.