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Public Law 55–646
Making appropriations to pay session employees of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
Approved July 8, 1898
Statutory text
An Act
Making appropriations to pay session employees of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That there is hereby appropriated
House of Representatives.
Payment of certain session employees.
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as follows: A sufficient sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to pay the following session employees of the House of Representatives from and including the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, until the close of the present session of Congress, at the rates of compensation specified in the Act making appropriations for the legislative,
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executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: One assistant index clerk in the office of the Clerk; thirty-three pages,
Assistant index clerk, pages, clerks to committees, etc.
two messengers, three folders, and ten laborers, under the Doorkeeper; seven messengers under the Postmaster; and eighteen clerks to committees during the session.
To pay Henry C. Brewster for expenses in contested election case of
Henry C. Brewster.
Payment to.
Ryan against Brewster, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy cents.
collecting internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and
Collectors, etc.
surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen
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hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act
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of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty thousand dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at places outside of the limits of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars.
Approved, .