Public Law 55–368

That the following sums be,

Deficiencies appropriations.

and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the payment of pensions, and for other objects, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, namely:

pensions. For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all acts of Congress, eight million seventy thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and forty-six cents: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: Provided further, That the amount paid to each of the several classes of pensioners shall be accounted for separately.

WAR DEPARTMENT. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, fifty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus, to be executed under the direction of the Public Printer, seventy-five thousand dollars. That no money appropriated by the “Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for support of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be paid as additional increased compensation to soldiers performing in time of war what is known as extra or special duty, such payment being prohibited by the “Act for the better organization of the line of the Army of the United States,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

NAVY DEPARTMENT. For one stenographer in the office of the Secretary of the Navy, from the date of the approval of this Act and during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For the following additional clerks in the office of the Auditor for the War Department and in the office of the Auditor for the Navy Department for a period not exceeding from the date of the approval of this Act until and including March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely: Office of Auditor for the War Department: For eight clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; and thirty clerks of class one; in all, seventy-eight thousand seven FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 368, 369. 1898.hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Office of Auditor for the Navy Department: For two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; and four clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-two cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

UNITED STATES COURTS. For fees of witnesses, ninety-five thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, seventy-five thousand dollars.

EXECUTIVE. Executive office: For the following additional clerks commencing June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and continuing during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, namely: Two clerks of class three, three thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SENATE. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Mary L. Walthall, widow of the Honorable Edward C. Walthall, deceased, late a Senator from the State of Mississippi, five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fifteen thousand dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, five thousand dollars.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For compensation and mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from the Territories, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars.