Public Law 55–9

That the following sums be, and

Deficiencies appropriations.

the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

STATE DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses: For care and subsistence of horses and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable and wagon shed, care of clocks, telegraphic and electric apparatus, and repairs to the same, and for miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 9. 1897. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, thirty-three dollars. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase of passport paper, one thousand dollars. Editing and distributing laws: For expenses of editing and distributing the laws enacted during the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, one thousand five hundred dollars. International Exposition at Paris: That the invitation of the Republic of France to take part in an exposition of works of art and the products of manufactures and agriculture of all nations, to be held in Paris, commencing the fifteenth day of April and closing the fifth day of November, nineteen hundred, is accepted; and the governors of the several States and Territories be, and are hereby, requested to invite the people of their respective States and Territories to make a proper representation of the productions of our industry and of the natural resources of the country, and to take such further measures as may be necessary in order to secure to their respective States and Territories the advantages to be derived from this beneficent undertaking. That the President shall appoint a special commissioner to represent the United States in the proposed exposition, who shall take all proper measures to provide for the representation of the industries and natural resources of the United States by their citizens in said exposition and shall procure proper space and privileges therefor and shall make report to the President, to be submitted to Congress, on the first day of its next regular session, containing his proceedings hereunder, with such recommendations as he may deem proper. For the compensation of said special commissioner, not to exceed five thousand dollars, and for all necessary expenses and employment attendant thereon, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to continue available until expended. Relief of a subject of Germany: To pay, out of humane consideration without reference to the question of liability therefor, to the German Government, as full indemnity to Christopher Schmidt, a German subject, for injuries received on the fourteenth day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, on the public highway near the rifle range of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, by a shot fired by one of a party of United States soldiers engaged in target practice, three thousand dollars. Relief of subjects of Italy: TO pay, out of humane consideration and without reference to the question of liability therefor, to the Italian Government, as full indemnity to the heirs of three of its subjects, Salvatore Arena, Giuseppe Venturella, and Lorenzo Salardino, who were taken from jail and lynched in Louisiana in eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six thousand dollars. foreign intercourse. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: TO pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-nine thousand and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-six cents. Salaries, consular service: TO pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Salaries, consular service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, United States consulates,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety six, twenty thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-six cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six hundred and ninety-four dollars and twenty cents. For contingent expenses. United States consulates, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two. to pay the John L. Murphy Publishing Company for advertising two death notices in August, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and February, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, one dollar and fifty cents. Loss by exchange, diplomatic service: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation, “Loss by exchange, diplomatic service,” tor the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eighty-seven cents. Publication of consular and commercial reports: For preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, two thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for publication of consular and commercial reports for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three thousand eight hundred and three dollars and fifty-six cents. Legation to Spain: For clerk hire at legation to Spain, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars. Payment to Thomas E. Heenan: To pay Thomas E. Heenan balance of salary due him as United States consul at Odessa, Russia, for the period extending from March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents. Payment to master of Swedish bark Adele: For payment to the Government of Norway and Sweden, to reimburse T. Pearson, master of the Swedish bark Adele, costs and expenses incurred by him in proceedings connected with his imprisonment by a State court, contrary to article thirteen of the treaty of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, with Sweden and Norway, two hundred and ninety-five dollars and sixty-four cents. Secretary of Embassy to Italy: For second secretary of embassy to Italy, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand five hundred dollars. Accounts of Owen N. Denny and Others: That the accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to examine the accounts of Owen N. Denny, late consul-general at Shanghai, China, and report to Congress the amount of foes received by him during his service as such consul-general which by the rules and construct ion then followed were unofficial and were retained by him, and also the amount of such fees so received by him, which by such rules were not considered unofficial and were accounted for and paid into the Treasury and have been since decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to be unofficial, and also whether all or any other consuls-general or consuls at other places would have similar claims.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses: For purchase of horses and wagons, for office 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. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and eleven cents. For miscellaneous items, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four dollars and fifty 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 eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to restore the compensation of employees at the ports of Baltimore, Maryland; Buffalo, New York; Plattsburg, New York; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Cedar Keys, Florida; Detroit, Michigan; Kansas City, Missouri; Mobile, Alabama; Newport News, Virginia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Port Huron, Michigan; Pensacola, Florida; Pembina, North Dakota, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, whose salaries were reduced by him in order to avoid a deficiency in the appropriation for collecting revenue from customs from the date that such reduction was ordered, forty-one thousand three hundred and eighty three dollars and fifty-two cents. Amounts due the Central Pacific Railroad Company: To pay the amounts due the Central Pacific Railroad Company as set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and eighty-four of second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, twelve thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-three cents. Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, upon return to him of Treasury warrant numbered thirty, issued in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for five hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents, and made payable to the order of the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company, in payment of the appropriation in that amount made by the deficiency appropriation Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, “To reimburse the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and others, defendants, for costs paid by them for printing in case of the United States of America, plaintiff, versus The lies Moines Navigation and Railroad Company and others, defendants, in the United States circuit court for the northern district of Iowa, in pursuance of stipulation made between the parties and approved by the court in relation to said costs of printing,” to issue his warrant to A. J, Van Duzee, clerk of the United States district court for the northern district of Iowa in the same amount, who shall distribute and pay to the parties entitled thereto as provided by said stipulation. Payment to the North American Commercial Company: To pay the North American Commercial Company for supplies and necessaries furnished by their agent at Wood Island, Alaska, to seventeen members of the crew of the wrecked American sealing schooner C. G. White in eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars. Payment to Ella M. Hendricks: To pay Ella M. Hendricks the sum of eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents erroneously collected by the Government and deposited in the Treasury as rent received from E. S. Cummings under lease by the United States of lot twenty-three, in Wager Six-Acre Reservation, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, it since appearing that the title to said lot was not vested in the United States but was and is the property of the aforesaid Ella M. Hendricks. Internal revenue: For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gangers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and clerks, including transportation of public funds and also including expenses incident to enforcing the provisions of the Act of August second, eighteen 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, fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to W. L. Hall, for money expended by him in the discharge of his duty as deputy United States internal-revenue collector during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Reimbursement of D. N. Morgan: To reimburse D. N. Morgan, Treasurer of the United States, for five sheets of silver certificates, lost in his office without negligence on his part, two hundred dollars. Reimbursement of Walter H. Graef and Company: For reimbursement of Walter H. Graef and Company for value of two cases of silk goods stolen from the New York custom house in eighteen hundred and eighty-four by an officer of the Government in whose custody they were, such amount as may be found just by the Secretary of the Treasury. not to exceed nine hundred and forty three dollars and sixty-five cents. Ford’s Theater disaster: To provide for the payment of employees of the Government for injuries received and for losses sustained, and for three death cases, at the Ford’s Theater disaster, which occurred on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, thirty-four thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars, which sum shall be paid out by the Secretary of the Treasury to the persons and in the amounts as follows: Thomas I). Anderson, two hundred dollars; Ethelbert Baier, two thousand five hundred dollars; Edward C. Carroll, three hundred dollars; George R, Garnett, one thousand five hundred dollars; Thomas Morley, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Charles R. Miller, three thousand five hundred dollars; Mrs. Otillia M. Smoot, widow of George W. Smoot, one thousand two hundred dollars; Smith Thompson, two thousand dollars; Nathan F. White, one thousand five hundred dollars; H.P. Willey, three hundred dollars; James A. White, one thousand dollars; Mrs. Georgie R. Baldwin, legatee under the last will of David Henry Porter Brown, five thousand dollars; Nina A. Kime, legatee under the will of her husband, five thousand dollars; to the legal representative of William Schrieber, deceased, five thousand dollars; Wilson II. Thompson, one thousand dollars; Sherman Williams, two thousand dollars; Charles G. Smith, seventy-five dollars; Richard C. Jones, two hundred dollars; for compensation to E. V. Brookshire as a member of the Ford’s Theater Commission for twenty-three days subsequent to the expiration of his term in the House of Representatives and since May eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at ten dollars per day, two hundred and thirty dollars: Provided, That the provision of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, appointing a joint commission, consisting of the select committee of five Senators, appointed by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House of Representatives, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to investigate and report upon the Ford’s Theater disaster, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For rental of building for the division of awards, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, occupied by said Bureau in the execution of the work of delivering the awards of the World’s Columbian Exposition, at a rental of sixty dollars per month, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Pay of assistant custodians and janitors,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty cents. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three dollars and sixty cents. For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, one thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold coins: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Recoinage of gold coins,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety-one cents. Transportation of silver coin: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation tor transportation of silver coin, thirty thousand dollars. 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, fifty thousand dollars. Transportation of minor coins: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of minor coins,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-one cents. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: To supply deficiency in the appropriation for “Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes,” five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and fifty-four dollars and ninety-five cents. Supplies for native inhabitants, Alaska: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Supplies for native inhabitants, Alaska,” being for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand four hundred and one dollars and ten cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars. Protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska: Publishing the President’s proclamation concerning seal fisheries of Bering Sea, and for protecting salmon fisheries of Alaska, as required by Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, “To provide for the protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” and for expenses of carrying out lease and protecting seal life on islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, under sections nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and nineteen hundred and seventy-one, Revised Statutes, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and thirty six dollars and nine, cents. Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and ten dollars and thirty-eight cents. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses of the quarantine service, to enable the service to continue in commission the boarding steamer Sternberg at San Francisco, California, quarantine, and the steamer Foster at Key West (Tortugas), to the end of the fiscal year, six thousand dollars. Payment of judgment to Joan Olive Dunsmuir: For payment of judgment rendered against Charles M. Bradshaw, collector of customs for the district of Puget Sound in the United States district court for the district of Washington, in accordance with the mandate from the United States circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit, in a suit to recover a fine imposed by said collector of customs in the case of the steam tug Lorne, for an alleged violation of section forty-three hundred and seventy of the Revised Statutes, said judgment being in the sum of eight hundred and eighty-four dollars, together with one hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents costs, one thousand and eight dollars and seventy-five cents. For interest on eight hundred and eighty-four dollars at six per centum from April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, until the time when an appropriation is made for payment of the above-mentioned judgment, so much as may be necessary for such purpose is hereby appropriated. Refund of fine, schooner Fannie Adele: To refund to the collector of customs at Los Angeles, California, for repayment by him to P. S. Murchison, or the person or parties entitled to receive it, the sum of one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents, imposed and collected in the case of the schooner Fannie Adele for a violation of section forty-one hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes and covered into the Treasury, but since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, one hundred and one dollars and fifty cents. Refund of fine, sloop Cherub: TO refund to the collector of customs at Key West, Florida, for repayment by him to .1, L. Sandlin, or the person or parties entitled thereto, the sum of forty-five dollars, being that portion of a fine of fifty dollars imposed in the case of the sloop Cherub for a violation of section forty-three hundred anti twenty-five of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, forty-five dollars. Refund of fine, British bark Alice: To refund to the collector of customs at Calveston, Texas, for repayment by him to the person or parties entitled thereto, the sum of one hundred and ninety dollars, being that portion of a fine of two hundred dollars imposed in the case of the British bark Alice for a violation of section forty-two hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, one hundred and ninety dollars. Credit in accounts of George W. Goethals: The Secretary of the Treasury be, and is hereby, authorized and directed, in settling the disbursing accounts of George W. Goethals, captain, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, to cause to be passed to the credit of said Captain Goethals “voucher numbered eighty two of his accounts for disbursements for fourth quarter of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, appropriation for improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky,” being amount paid by him for expenses incurred in examining title and preparing deeds to three tracts of land purchased by the United States at Locks Two, Five, and Nine, Muscle Shoals Canal, amounting to seventy-two dollars. Credit in accounts of Colonel C. B. Comstock and Colonel George H. Mendell: Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of Colonel C. B. Comstock, brevet brigadier-general, United States Army, the sum of forty-two dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury; and to allow and credit in the accounts of Colonel George H. Mendell the sum of four hundred and seventy-two dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury. Credit in accounts of Colonel H. L. Abbott: Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of Colonel H. L. Abbott, brevet brigadier-general, United States Army, the sums of fifty dollars and eight cents and twelve dollars and forty eight cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury, for disbursements on account of mileage. Credits in accounts of Maj. Thomas W. Symons: Authority is hereby granted to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury to allow and credit in the accounts of Maj. Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engineers. United States Army, the sum of fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury for disbursements on account of mileage. Relief of Brigadier-General William P. Carlin: That Brigadier-General William P. Carlin, retired, be, and he is hereby, relieved and discharged from any and all liability for the amount of one thousand one hundred and eight dollars and eighty-five cents, expended by Captain J. McE. Hyde, assistant quartermaster, by his direction, while in command of the Department of the Columbia, for expenses incurred in the search for, and rescue of, a party of citizens lost among the Bitter Root Mountains in a great snowstorm in the autumn of eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Relief of George Z. French and sureties: That upon the receipt by the Secretary of the Treasury of the full amount of all dividends heretofore paid or hereafter to be paid by the receiver of the First National Bank of Wilmington, in the administration of the assets of said bank, upon the claim of George Z. French, all further liability of said George Z. French and of his sureties to the United States of America upon his official bond as postmaster at Wilmington, North Carolina, shall cease and determine as to and to the extent of certain funds belonging to the United States which were deposited and upon deposit by the said French in said First National Bank at the time it closed its doors and ceased to do business and went into the hands of the receiver: Provided, however, That nothing in this Act contained shall operate as a release to the said French and his sureties on his official bond of any liabilities to the United States which may have been incurred by said French while acting as postmaster at Wilmington, other than as to the amount so deposited and on deposit in said bank as aforesaid. Office assistant treasurer, New York: For reimbursing employees in the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York the amount lost in the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two by reason of the forgery of Edward Ecroyd and made good by said employees, three hundred dollars. Protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Protection of salmon fisheries of Alaska,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty-four dollars and thirty-six cents. World’s Columbian Exposition: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Synopsis of department reports, World’s Columbian Exposition,” ninety-eight dollars and forty-five cents. For payment to N. E. Dawson, for services rendered the World’s Columbian Commission, five hundred dollars. public buildings. For temporary building for post-office at Chicago, Illinois: For payment of outstanding liabilities, eighty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents. For court-house and post-office at Helena, Arkansas: For completion of approaches, four thousand dollars. For post-office at York, Pennsylvania: For completion of building, one thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Saint Albans, Vermont: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to make such alterations in the plans and specifications for the rebuilding and repairing of the custom-house and post-office building at Saint Albans, Vermont, or to enlarge said building as he may deem expedient in the interest of the public service, such alterations or enlargement in no event to increase the cost of rebuilding and repairing said building to an amount beyond the appropriation already made for said purpose. Authority is hereby given the Secretary of the Treasury, if he shall deem it expedient and in the interest of the public service, to expend the balance of the original sum of one hundred thousand dollars appropriated for the public building now in process of construction at Racine, Wisconsin, in the betterment and finishing of said building and of the approaches thereto; said balance and apparent surplus being about five thousand dollars according to the estimates made in the office of the Supervising Architect: Provided, That in no event shall the original appropriation and limit of cost of said building be exceeded. For custom-house and post office at Bridgeport, Connecticut: To carry out the following provision in the sundry civil appropriation Act for eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: “That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such additional land as he may deem necessary, and to cause to be erected an addition or extension to the United States custom-house and post-office building at Bridgeport, Connecticut, for the use and accommodation of the Government offices, the cost of said additional land and extension or addition not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars,” the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. For marine hospital reservation at Evansville. Indiana: For the erection of a retaining wall for the protection of the Government property, and to prevent further sliding of the embankment, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six thousand dollars. Immigrant Station, Ellis Island, New York: That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected buildings suitable for an immigrant station on Ellis Island, New York Harbor, New York, to consist of not exceeding three principal structures, all to be so built of stone, brick, and iron, or such fireproof materials as the Secretary may select, as to be completely fireproof, and the large pavilion building for the reception and examination of immigrants and the building used as a dormitory to have opening from the main floor so many doors swinging outward and to be so surrounded by spacious outside balconies made of iron with iron stair-cases leading therefrom as to afford speedy exit for immigrants in ease of lire; and the Secretary is hereby authorized to enlarge the said Ellis Island, not exceeding three acres, by placing bulkheads and filling in behind the same; the whole cost of the buildings and improvements hereby authorized not to exceed the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, of which sum there is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of procuring plans, drawings, and specifications and beginning the work hereby authorized, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract for the erection of all the buildings or of any one thereof or of any portion of either subject to appropriations to be made within the limit of cost above provided. Repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of marine hospitals and quarantine stations under the control of the Treasury Department, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine, stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one thousand five hundred dollars. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, five hundred dollars. United States Mint, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to contract for the construction of the whole or any portion of said building within the limit heretofore fixed, subject to appropriations made or to be made therefor by Congress. Coast and Geodetic Survey: To pay the George W. Knox Express Company balance due for freight and drayage on six boxes of instruments, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar and sixty-five cents. revenue-cutter service. For completing the revenue steamer for Pacific coast Hugh McCulloch, to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twelve thousand six hundred dollars. For armament and equipments for said vessel, to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-four dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Expenses of the Revenue Cutter Service,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fourteen thousand nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-two cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for Refuge Station, Point Barrow, Alaska, three hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents. eight-house establishment. Salaries, keepers op light-houses: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries of keepers of light-houses, ten thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of buoyage, ten thousand dollars. Credit in accounts of certain light house inspectors and engineers: The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized to allow and credit in the accounts of officers of the Army and Navy acting as light-house inspectors and engineers the amounts expended by them under proper authority, but which were disallowed by the accounting officers in the settlement of their accounts on the ground that they were not properly chargeable to the appropriation from which paid, the same being fully set forth on page six, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and not to involve any further expenditure from the Treasury. mints and assay offices. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses, assay office at Boise, nine hundred dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for contingent expenses, assay office at Charlotte, three hundred and fifty dollars. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, twelve thousand dollars. territorial governments. For salaries of four additional commissioners in and for the District of Alaska, authorized by the sundry civil Act approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, atone thousand dollars each, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand dollars. For salaries of four additional deputy marshals for said district, authorized by the foregoing Act, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, three thousand dollars. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for the payment of the accounts set forth on page seven, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, three hundred and forty-four dollars and fifteen cents. To pay Caleb W. West his salary as governor of the late Territory of Utah, from January first to January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, both days inclusive, forty-three dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay Charles C. Richards his salary as secretary of the late Territory of Utah, from January first to January sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, both days inclusive, thirty dollars. To pay W. L. Cook for services as clerk and custodian of records of the United States second judicial district court of the late Territory of Utah from January sixth to March tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, both days inclusive, two hundred and eighty dollars. To compensate G. W. Parks, of Salt Lake City, Utah, special disbursing agent under appointment by the Treasury Department for the disbursement of the sums appropriated by Congress under the Act of June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for “contingent expenses of the Utah Commission,” one thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents, and “compensation and expenses of officers of election, Utah,” twenty-three thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents, the same to be paid to him upon the final rendering of his accounts and proper settlement of the same, five hundred dollars.

UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. For expenses of heating the United States National Museum, one thousand and ninety-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar and seventy-nine cents.

FISH COMMISSION. For rebuilding fish-transportation cars numbered one and three, which have worn out in the service, ten thousand dollars. For rebuilding steam launch in use on Potomac River in connection with shad-hatching station thereon, two thousand dollars. For the construction of a dwelling house for the superintendent at the station of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries at Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, two thousand five hundred dollars. For completion of ponds and other purposes, fish hatchery, San Marcos, Texas, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For completing the construction of the fish-hatchery station at Manchester, Iowa, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty cents. For the investigation and selection of a fish-cultural station in the State of Georgia, at some suitable point to be determined by the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, the site and necessary grounds for the same to be donated to the Government for such purpose, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and report of proceedings hereunder shall be made to Congress at its next session. The foregoing sums under Fish Commission to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. For the payment of outstanding liabilities incurred during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, on account of expenses of administration, Western Union Telegraph Company’s account, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and one cent. To pay accounts of the Western Union Telegraph Company for telegraphic service for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. For the construction and installation of new boilers for the steamer Fish Hawk, and other necessary general repairs, to continue available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eleven thousand dollars.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Executive office: For amount required to make the salary of the Engineer Commissioner five thousand dollars per annum, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eight hundred and forty-four dollars. For amount required to make the salary of the Engineer Commissioner five thousand dollars per annum, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and six cents. Coroner’s office: To pay Doctor Larkin W. Glazebrook, deputy coroner, for services for twenty-two days during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for sixteen days during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at five dollars per diem; in all, one hundred and ninety dollars. For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirty eight cents. General advertising: To pay accounts for general advertising set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, for fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twenty one dollars and fifty-two cents. Contingent expenses: To pay amounts set forth on page eight, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one dollar and ninety-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twenty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, seventy-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Special repairs to market houses: For amount required to repair damages caused by cyclone of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars. Permit work: To pay H. L. Cranford for repairs to cuts in concrete pavements, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, forty-eight dollars and fifty-two cents. Parking commission: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the parking commission, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five thousand dollars. Construction of county roads: To pay the Washington Gas Light Company for moving lamp, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety four, eight dollars. To pay Henry Naylor, junior, the ten per centum retained under contract fifteen hundred and fifty-three, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen handed and ninety-two, two hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-seven cents. To pay Henry Naylor, junior, interest on amount retained under contract numbered fifteen hundred and fifty-three, two hundred and ninety nine dollars and ninety-seven cents, five years, at three and sixty-five one-hundredths per centum per annum, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty-four dollars and seventy-five cents. Sewers: To pay McMahan, Porter and Company for pipe under contract numbered nineteen hundred and five, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety four, ninety six dollars and ninety-nine cents. To pay James McCandlish the ten per centum retained under contract numbered twelve hundred and sixty-seven, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and seven dollars and five cents. To pay Andrew Gleeson the ten per centum retained under contract numbered thirteen hundred and eighty-six, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents. To pay James McCandlish interest on amount retained under contract numbered twelve hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and seven dollars and five cents, five years, at three and sixty-five one-hundredths per centum per annum, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, nineteen dollars and fifty-four cents. To pay Andrew Gleeson interest on amount retained under contract numbered thirteen hundred and eighty-six, nine hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents, five years, at three and sixty-five one-hundredths per centum per annum, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty cents. Permanent system of highways: To pay wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia the accounts set forth hereunder on page eight in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents. Payment to A. S. Worthington: To pay A. S. Worthington for legal services rendered in connection with the litigation growing out of the highway extension Act, in full compensation to date, five thousand dollars, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Payment of referees: To pay J. W. Anderson for services as referee in sundry cases in Court of Claims, nine hundred and ninety dollars. Support of convicts: To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury to the Albany County Penitentiary, at Albany. New York, for support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts from the District of Columbia, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-four cents. Metropolitan police: For amount required to repair damages to station houses, caused by cyclone September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-one dollars and eighty cents. Fire department: For amount required to repair damages to engine houses, caused by cyclone of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-six cents. For fuel, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty dollars and eleven cents. For amount necessary to pay accounts set forth on page nine, House Document Numbered Two bundled and fifty of the Fifty fourth Congress, second session, on account of contingent expenses, four hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For the force necessary to operate two fire engines, one located at Anacostia, and one on Eighth street between D and E streets northwest, from January first to June thirtieth, both inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as follows: Two foremen, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum; two engineers, at the rate of one thousand dollars each per annum; two firemen, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum; two hostlers, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum; twelve privates, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; in all, eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For one engine, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four thousand two hundred dollars. For one hose carriage, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, nine hundred dollars. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and are hereby, authorized to transfer the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for “house, lot, and furniture for one engine company, to be located in the vicinity of North Capitol street and Florida avenue,” to the appropriation for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for “house, lot, and furniture for one engine company, to be located in the section bounded by Seventh and Twelfth, C and F streets northwest.” Telegraph and telephone service: To pay the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ninety-four dollars and ninety-seven cents. Public schools: For amount required to pay for care of schoolrooms at Miner School building for the current year, one hundred and forty dollars and ninety-three cents. For rent of Miner School building, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay janitor of Langdon School from March first to June thirtieth, both inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at the rate of one hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum, fifty five dollars. For amount required for completion of Wallach School building, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, two thousand dollars. For supplying the Lovejoy School building with modern heating and ventilating apparatus, and for making necessary repairs thereto, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and twenty-four cents. For amount required to repair damages to school buildings caused by cyclone of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and twenty-four cents. That the (Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to use the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for reconstructing the Stevens School building in settlement of claims filed with the auditor of the District of Columbia against the contractor for labor and material furnished to him in the work of reconstruction. For fuel, one thousand dollars. To pay Andrew Gleeson interest on amount retained under contract numbered eleven hundred and ninety-seven, seven hundred and nineteen dollars and ninety-one cents, from June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. six years, at three and sixty-five hundredths per centum per annum, one hundred and fifty seven dollars and sixty-six cents. To pay Thomas W. Smith rent of vault in building on First street between B and C streets northwest, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at six hundred dollars per annum, one thousand two hundred dollars. Health department: For amount required to pay inspectors for collection and disposal of garbage for the current year, eight hundred and forty-four dollars. For three additional sanitary and food inspectors who shall also be charged with the enforcement of the garbage regulations, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and at same rate for the remainder of the current fiscal year during which they may be employed, three thousand six hundred dollars. Physicians to the poor: For amount necessary to pay the physicians to the poor in full satisfaction for all services during said period for vaccinating eleven thousand nine hundred and eighty persons during the smallpox epidemic, from October, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to January, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive, one thousand five hundred dollars; seventy-five dollars to be paid to each physician. Emergency fund: To pay Orrin G. Staples for rent of Willard Hall, June ninth to twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety three, for the purpose of holding an inquest on the victims of Ford’s Theater disaster, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred dollars. Police court: To pay A. A. Wilson, United States marshal, fees, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred dollars. For witness fees on account of fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and fifty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one dollar and twenty-five cents. Judgments: For the payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia set forth on page ten, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-one of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, except the judgment in favor of Elizabeth L. W. Bailey, administratrix of David W. Bailey, deceased, and in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and nine, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, two thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until date of payment. Defending suits in claims: For defending suits in the United States Court of Claims, two thousand dollars. Northern Liberty Market Claims: That in all claims pending under the Act to provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia by drawback certificates, approved January twenty-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the allowance shall be limited to the actual value of the fixtures, tools, and stock in trade, so far as the same were lost or destroyed, and to the fair value of the stall privileges for the unexpired term of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and no other or further claim shall be allowed under said Act; and the Auditor of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia shall report said claims, so far as allowed by him, but without any allowance for interest, to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall, in ease they approve said claims, report the same to Congress in their annual estimates, for payment out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. And no further drawback certificates shall be issued under said Act. All parts of said Act which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, including so much of said Act as provides for the allowance of interest upon said claims; and no interest shall be allowed or paid upon any such claim. That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated, payable wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the payment of the necessary costs arid expenses of the proceedings had or to be had under said Act and this amendment thereto. Transportation of paupers and prisoners: To pay H. L. Cranford for laying stone, floor in stable, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty-four dollars and forty-two cents. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: To pay the accounts set forth on page ten of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, being for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-six dollars and sixty-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three dollars and forty-one cents. Payment for lots, Potomac River flats: That the Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, providing for the payment by the District of Columbia of one-half of the amount appropriated for “payment of the owners of the lots and parts of lots referred to in the decrees passed by the supreme court of the District of Columbia in the case of the United States versus Morris and others, and located in squares sixty-three, eighty-nine, one hundred and twenty-nine, and one hundred and forty-eight, in the city of Washington, in said District, which lots and parts of lots which have been included within the limits of the improvement of the Potomac River and its flats, in charge of the Secretary of War,” is hereby amended so as to make the same payable wholly from the revenues of the United States. Water department: To pay the Evening Star Newspaper Company, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the water department, nine, dollars and fifty cents. To refund to Mrs. Catharine Whitten the amount paid for water-main tax on sublot two hundred and thirty-five, square six hundred and seventy-four, the same having been erroneously assessed, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the water department, thirty dollars and forty-three cents. Surplus fund, District of Columbia: To pay Mrs. J. S. Clark surplus on tax sale on lot nine, square three hundred and seventy-three, August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, forty-one dollars. Expenses of the board of medical supervisors: To provide for the expenses attending the issue of licenses to practice medicine and surgery and midwifery to physicians and midwives, respectively, who were registered at the health department at the time of the passage of the law regulating the practice of those arts, June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred dollars. Militia: To pay amounts on account of the militia of the District of Columbia set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-three of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and eighty-four dollars and thirteen cents; For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six thousand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-two cents; For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, nine dollars; For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand six hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents; For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents; in all, ten thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty nine cents. For rifle practice and matches for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, five hundred dollars. That, except as otherwise herein provided, 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. State, War, and Navy building: For fuel, lights, miscellaneous items and repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars. military establishment. Pay of enlisted men: For additional length of service, two hundred thousand dollars. Pay, miscellaneous: That the following paragraph in the “Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: “Additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, in addition to pay as major, one thousand dollars,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, in addition to pay as captain of engineers, one thousand seven hundred dollars. For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, in addition to pay as captain of engineers, five hundred and twenty-eight dollars and ninety cents. Battle lines and sites for tablets at antietam: For finally completing the work of locating, preserving, and marking the positions of troops and lines of battle of the Union and Confederate armies at Antietam, and for completing the preparation and publication of maps showing the positions of troops engaged in said battle and in the Antietam campaign, and for services and materials incident to the foregoing, to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, illinois: For repair of damages caused by the recent Hoods to the roadway leading from the Mound City National Cemetery to Mound City and Mounds, Illinois, and to widen the road and elevate the grade, three thousand five hundred dollars. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: Household: For expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and for their repair if they are not repaired by the Home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas and soap makers and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the Home, four thousand dollars. For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, cabinetmakers, coopers, painters, gas fitters, plumbers, tinsmiths, wire-workers, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, quarrymen, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and material used under this head; also, for repair of roads and of other improvements of a permanent character, two thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-seven cents. Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: To pay claim of Patton and Thornburg, of Marion, Indiana, to cover error made in their proposal to repair the hospital corridor, being the difference in their bid and the next higher bid, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and four cents. That the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize condemnation of land for sites of public buildings, and for other purposes,” approved August first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall be construed to apply to the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. State or Territorial Homes for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors: For continuing aid to State and 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 from inmates shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, sixty-five thousand dollars. Pay of two and three year volunteers: 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-seven, fifty thousand dollars. Credit in the Accounts of Major T. W. Symons: That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit Major (late Captain) T. W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, in the settlement of his public accounts with the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, the said amount having been paid out in accordance with the orders of the Secretary of War and the provisions of the regulations for the government of the Army of the United States prescribed by the President. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For the payment of the account of Messrs. Bukofzer and Company, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, incurred by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission in connection with the ceremonies incident to the dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, forty-five dollars. rivers and harbors. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For continuing improvement from the mouth of the Missouri River to Saint Paul, Minnesota, two hundred thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Cumberland Sound: Fifty thousand dollars for sluicing and dredging at the entrance to said sound, in accordance with the revised project of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as recommended in a communication from the Secretary of War to the Senate, dated June twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to increase the limit of cost of such improvement beyond the amount heretofore fixed by law. Examinations and surveys at South Pass, Mississippi River: To supply a deficiency in the permanent appropriation for securing the uninterrupted examinations and surveys at the South Pass of the Mississippi River, one thousand dollars. To correct an error in enrolling the Act of June third, eighteen hundred and ninety six, making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be expended under and by direction of the Secretary of War in continuing the improvement of the harbor at Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Secretary of War is authorized to pay, out of any unexpended balance-of funds heretofore appropriated for improving Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan, the cost chargeable to the defendant under the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Gilmore G, Scranton versus Eben S. Wheeler, the said ease being a suit of ejectment brought against the said Wheeler in his official capacity as the general superintendent of the Saint Marys Falls Canal, to settle the ownership of the land on which one of the Government piers is built: Provided, That the sum hereby authorized to be paid shall not exceed four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents. To defray the expense of removing obstructions in the Kootenai River, above Jennings, Montana, on which vessels have been recently wrecked, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. fortifications. That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to immediately expend the appropriation of seventy-five thousand dollars made by the fortification appropriation Act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the construction of a riprap wall for protection of the eastern beach of United States lands at Sandy Hook, New Jersey, notwithstanding that the consent of the legislature of that State required by section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes has not been given to the purchase of the land on which the money is to be expended.

NAVY DEPARTMENT. To pay bill of Charles D. Sydnor for washing towels for Bureau of Construction and Repair, being balances due him for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, fourteen dollars, and for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, three dollars; in all, seventeen dollars. For printing, binding, and wrapping one thousand additional copies of series one, volumes one, two, three, and four, of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, for supplying officers of the Navy who have not received the work, two hundred and fifty dollars. naval establishment. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor, for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, as follows: For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and six cents; For pay of the Navy, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred and seventy-four dollars and six cents; For pay, miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fourteen thousand and twenty three dollars and seven cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, thirty-two thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and seven cents; For pay, Marine Corps, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two dollars and eighty two cents; For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand three bund red and sixty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety-five cents; For naval training station, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, sixteen dollars and sixty-nine cents; For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-one cents; For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and thirteen cents; For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred and three dollars and ninety-three cents; For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand five hundred and twenty seven dollars and eleven cents; in all, two hundred and seventy-six thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty five cents. For pay, miscellaneous, Navy, forty thousand dollars. Repairs to building, Brooklyn Navy-Yard: For repairs to building Thirteen, Navy-Yard, Brooklyn, New York, partially destroyed by fire June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twenty thousand dollars. That the paragraph in the naval appropriation Act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, providing for a training vessel for the Naval Academy, is hereby amended by striking out there from the words “steam and,” and striking out there from the words “two hundred and fifty thousand dollars” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars,” so as to read as follows: Training vessel for Naval Academy: For one composite vessel, propelled by sail, to be used for the training of cadets at the Naval Academy, including outfit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Armor plate: That the total cost of the armor according to the weights prepared for the three battle ships authorized by the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not exceed two million four hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars, exclusive of the cost of transportation, ballistic test plates, and tests; and no contract for armor plate shall be made at an average rate to exceed three hundred dollars per ton of two thousand two hundred and forty pounds: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized in his discretion to contract with either or all of the builders of the hulls and machinery of these vessels, or with any one or more bidders for the furnishing of the entire amount of said armor, at a cost not exceeding the aforesaid three hundred dollars per ton, if he shall deem it for the best interests of the Government. In case the Secretary of the Navy shall find it impossible to make contracts for said armor within the limits as to price above fixed, he shall be, and hereby is, authorized and directed to take steps to establish a Government armor factory of sufficient capacity to make such armor. In executing this authority he shall prepare a description and plans and specifications of the land, buildings, and machinery suitable for the factory; and shall advertise for proposals to furnish such land, buildings, and machinery as a whole plant, or separately, tor the land or buildings or the whole or any part of said machinery, and report to Congress at its next session. The Secretary shall also appoint an armor factory board, to consist of competent naval officers of suitable rank, to advise and assist him in executing the authority hereby conferred. marine corps. To pay accounts and reservations on file due contractors for forage, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and forty-two dollars and thirteen cents. To pay accounts on file for freight, straw, advertising, telegrams, express charges, burial of marines, and so forth, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirteen cents. That the Auditor for the Navy Department be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to credit vouchers amounting to one hundred and sixty-eight dollars, in favor of W. II. Locke, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for repair of building; said building having been repaired during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Marine Corps,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and twenty-six cents. naval academy. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay, Naval Academy,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-eight cents. bureau of navigation. To pay the bills for transportation of enlisted men, set forth on pages thirteen and fourteen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, all being for service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four thousand one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy five cents. To pay bill of Creighton Withers, architect, for commissions on modification of contract for naval hospital at Naval Training Station, Newport, Rhode Island (approved by Paymaster-General November twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six), thirty-three dollars and forty cents. bureau of ordnance. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen dollars and eighty-five cents. bureau of supplies and accounts. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, forty-nine dollars and three cents. bureau of equipment. To pay vouchers in favor of the parties named on pages fourteen and fifteen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, which were not received until after the appropriation became exhausted, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Equipment,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventy-five dollars and sixty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, Bureau of Equipment, three thousand dollars. bureau of medicine and surgery. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Medical department,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for surgeons1 necessaries for vessels in commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and Coast Survey, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, and department of instruction, museum of hygiene, and Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Medical department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-five cents. To pay Pullman’s Palace Car Company, for nine double berths for insane patients and attendants, from Vallejo, California, to Chicago, Illinois, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty-four dollars. To pay Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, for transportation of nine men, insane patients and attendants, from Chicago, Illinois, to Washington, District of Columbia, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eighty dollars and nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-four cents. bureau of steam engineering. To pay outstanding bills and obligations for purchase of supplies and materials, and to reimburse navy supply fund, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering,” fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty-one cents.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit on the accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of two thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars, being the amount disbursed by him under the authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the apportionment of forty thousand dollars for examination of public surveys in the appropriation for surveying the public lands, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in payment of per diem to three special agents of the General Land Office, the disallowance having been made by the accounting officers of the Treasury for the reason that said special agents were performing duty in the General Land Office, making examinations of field work, and could not be allowed a per diem compensation unless actually performing duty in the field. To pay amounts set forth on page seventeen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty of the Fifty fourth Congress, second session, on account of contingent expenses, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and ten dollars and eighteen cents. For contingent expenses. Department of the Interior, being the amount actually expended in replacing portions of the roofs of the Pension and Patent Office buildings, blown oil’ by the cyclone of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: To pay accounts of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for telephone service furnished, namely: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eighty-nine dollars and twelve cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand and sixty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. Pension Office: Salaries, Pension Office, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, payment to Louis Garesche for eighteen days’ services as clerk, at one thousand dollars per annum, May second to nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, inclusive, being the amount disallowed that date but subsequently allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (balance of appropriation went to surplus fund before voucher was presented for payment), forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents. General Land Office: Repayment to George W, Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, being the amount erroneously paid by him in excess of appropriation for eighteen hundred and ninety-six for traveling expenses of inspectors, General Land Office, thirty dollars and seventy cents. For rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand dollars. Capitol and Grounds: For the payment of the balance due the Washington Gaslight Company for gas service for the months of February, March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine thousand six hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-nine cents. For reconstructing or replacing the western elevator in the Senate wing of the Capitol, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, six thousand five hundred dollars. For paving with asphaltic concrete the graveled roadways in the eastern portion of the Capitol Grounds and for repairs to the surfacing of the present asphaltic roadways in the grounds, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety eight, fourteen thousand dollars. The Architect of the United States Capitol is directed to restore the crypt to its original condition by taking out the walls of the four book rooms constructed in it for the temporary accommodation of the Library of Congress. Lighting the Capitol: For lighting the Capitol, including the Capitol Grounds, the Botanic Garden, Semite and House stables. Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas titters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, three thousand one hundred and ten dollars and fifteen cents. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For repairs of damages to buildings occasioned by the hurricane of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seven hundred and sixty-five dollars. Hospital for the Insane: For repairs of damages to buildings, and so forth, Government Hospital for the Insane, occasioned by the cyclonic storm of September twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand two hundred dollars. public lands service. Geological Survey: For the payment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, two thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and sixty cents. Printing advance copies of papers on the economic resources of the United States us provided in the sundry civil Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “General expenses, Geological Survey,” fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Surveying lands in the Indian Territory: For the survey of the lands in the Indian Territory, under the supervision of the Director of the Geological Survey, eight thousand dollars. Appraisal and sale of abandoned military reservations: To pay the amounts set forth on page eighteen, of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, on account of appraisal and sale of abandoned military reservations, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and ninety-one dollars and forty-five cents. Payments to certain deputy surveyors: To pay the amounts set forth on page nineteen, of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, to certain deputy surveyors, or so much thereof as may be found due in the settlement of the account by the Auditor for the Interior Department in accordance with the rates authorized by Congress in the Act making appropriation for the survey of public lands for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty-one cents. To pay Hiram T. Brown, deputy surveyor, amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account-of the appropriation for surveying private land claims, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. 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, to examine and classify certain lands within the land-grant and indemnity 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, two thousand five hundred dollars. Forested lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of an investigation, under his direction, of a national forestry policy for the forested lands of the United States, authority is hereby granted to use during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, any unexpended balance remaining of the appropriation of twenty five thousand dollars made in the sundry civil Act approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of an investigation and report by the National Academy of Sciences on the inauguration of a national forestry policy for the forested lands of the United States. Office of surveyor-general of Montana: For contingent expenses of the office of surveyor-general of Montana, nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-three cents. For compensation of clerks, seven thousand dollars. The appropriation for surveys of private land claims for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby made available for office work on such surveys. Reimbursement to Charles F. Easley: To reimburse Charles F. Easley, United States surveyor-general for New Mexico, the amounts disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department and by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the settlement of his accounts as disbursing agent for the quarters ending June thirtieth and September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of two hundred and ninety five dollars, being the amount disbursed by him in the payment of per diem to examiners in excess of thirty days while engaged upon the examination of surveys of private land claim grants embraced in contracts two hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and ninety-three, and two hundred and ninety five, two hundred and ninety-five dollars. Payments for examinations of public-land survey’s: For payment to R. M. Hall and G. C. Stewart the sum of ninety dollars each, and to W. S. Green the sum of one hundred dollars, compensation for services rendered in January, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at five dollars per day, as special agents employed under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the examination of public-land surveys, executed by contracting surveyors, two hundred and eighty dollars. Payment to Irving W. Stanton: To pay Irving W. Stanton, of Pueblo, Colorado, compensation for his services as register of the land office at Central City. Colorado, from September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to November fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety-five cents. indian affairs. To pay the necessary expenses of securing the consent to removal by the Southern Ute Indians, and the necessary expenses of removing said Indians, in accordance with the provisions of the law recently passed for their removal, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and seventy-three cents. To reimburse certain settlers for balances due on account of damages sustained by reason of their removal from the Crow Creek and Winnebago reservations in South Dakota, six hundred and one dollars and sixty seven cents. For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, at one hundred and sixty-seven dollars per annum each, and for general repairs and improvements, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand five hundred and seventy-two dollars and eight cents. To reimburse the appropriation for support of the Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, being the sum expended in repair of buildings damaged by the cyclone of September, eighteen hundred anti ninety-six, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For collecting and transportation of 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, under arrangements in which their proper care, support, and education shall be in exchange for their labor, nine hundred and ninety dollars and sixty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the following appropriations, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and thirty-two, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, namely: Traveling expenses Indian school superintendent, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty-nine cents. Transportation of Indian supplies, seven thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and three cents. Incidentals in Idaho, two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty cents. Support of Pawnees, schools, four dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. That the title “Stenographic Clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars;” office of the Attorney-General, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, is hereby amended to read: “private secretary to the Attorney-General, two thousand four hundred dollars.” For furniture and repairs, two hundred and fifty dollars. For stationery, two hundred and fifty dollars. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars. For law books for library of the Department, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six hundred and sixty-two dollars and seventy-six cents. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For actual and necessary expenses of the judge, clerk, marshal, and attorney, when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, for the fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, six hundred and forty dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty-eight dollars and fifty cents. Rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For rent and incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska, for the fiscal years as follows: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand seven hundred and five dollars. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents. Buildings, Alaska: For repairs and preservation of buildings in the custody of the United States marshal for the District of Alaska, and for the construction of a fireproof vault in Sitka, Alaska, for the preservation of court records, to be expended by the Attorney-General, and to be available until expended, five thousand dollars. For buildings for United States courts, Alaska, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety six, two hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-five cents. Suits against Pacific railway companies: To amend that portion of the sundry civil Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page four hundred and seventeen), which reads as follows: “To enable the Attorney-General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, thirty thousand dollars,” so that it will read as follows: “To enable the Attorney-General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five and subsequent years, to be available until expended, thirty thousand dollars.” To enable the Attorney-General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, to be available until expended, fifty thousand dollars. Repairs to United States Jail for the District of Columbia: For the erection of necessary cell accommodations for female prisoners, and concreting the walls of the building, and for other needed repairs, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to be available, until expended, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, two thousand dollars. Payment to county clerk of Jefferson County, New York: For payment of the bill of the county clerk of Jefferson County, New York, for making search and furnishing abstract of title to certain lands in Jefferson County, for use by the Government as a target range, sixty-six dollars and seventy-one cents. Payment to Herbert A. Pacetti: For payment to Herbert A. Pacetti for services and expenses in August and September, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in detecting and effecting the arrest of parties charged with the larceny of United States property from Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, one hundred and eighteen dollars. Payment to C. B. McAfee: To pay C. B. McAfee for legal services performed at the request of the United States attorney for the western district of Missouri, with the approval of the court, in defending against habeas corpus proceedings in the circuit court of Green County, Missouri, one hundred dollars. Payment to Robert P. De Graffenreid and George P. M. Turner: To pay Robert P. De Graffenreid and George P. M. Turner, of Muscogee, Indian Territory, one hundred dollars each for legal services rendered to the United States, under appointment of Honorable William M. Springer, judge of the United States court, northern district of Indian Territory, in the case against D, B. Williams and James Cherry, charged with introducing liquor and disposing of intoxicating liquor in violation of section twenty-one hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred dollars. To pay Frank R. Ogg, of Olathe, Kansas, for services rendered in disbursing moneys due to members of the Black Bob Band of Shawnee Indians, and expenses in connection with the same, as allowed by the United States circuit court for the district of Kansas, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty-two cents. Payment to John W. Anderson: For payment to John W. Anderson for taking depositions on behalf of the United States in cases of Florida Improvement Company against Gotlob Bigalsky, and Fernandina Development Company against Gotlob Bigalsky, in the circuit court, Nassau County, Florida, five dollars.

JUDICIAL. United States Courts, Indian Territory: To pay the salaries and expenses of the judges, district attorneys, marshals, clerks, commissioners, and constables of the United States courts in the Indian Territory, forty-five thousand dollars. For salary of additional judge for the Indian Territory, authorized by the Indian appropriation Act approved June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, five thousand dollars. To pay three deputy clerks of the United States district courts in the Indian Territory, one at Muscogee, one at South McAlester, and one at Ardmore, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, for services performed and to be performed, from the thirty-first of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eight thousand one hundred dollars. The accounting officers are authorized to adjust the accounts of J. W. Phillips as clerk of the United States court in Indian Territory and to allow to him proper credit for expenses incurred by him for clerk hire from March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to the date of qualification of the clerks appointed under the Act approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as shown by properly receipted vouchers amounting in the aggregate to nine hundred and forty-seven dollars, which amount is hereby appropriated for that purpose. united states courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, two hundred thousand dollars, to include payments for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise: Provided, That all acts and services rendered by office deputies and field deputies employed or appointed as provided for in sections ten and eleven of the Act of May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, in pursuance of law and in good faith, after the term of office of the marshal by whom they were employed or appointed has expired, are hereby ratified and confirmed, and for all payments heretofore made on account of compensation and expenses after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety six, to said office and field deputies the disbursing officer or marshal by whom such payments are in good faith made shall receive credit therefor in his accounts, and such disbursing officer or marshal is authorized to pay for services so rendered and expenses incurred by such deputies prior to the fifteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. For fees of district attorney, United States courts, for the District of Columbia, one thousand two hundred dollars. To amend section nine hundred and seven of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, so that it will read as follows: “He shall pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding, in all, ten thousand dollars per annum, also his clerk and messenger hire, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars, office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses, not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars, out of the fees of his office: Provided, That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed.” For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, seventy-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Fees of district attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety six, sixty-five thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars and eleven cents. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, fifty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid district attorneys in special cases, twenty-five thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty nine thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, nine thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury in favor of Edward Baxter, special assistant United States attorney for the middle district of Tennessee, on account of the appropriation “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts,” for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand dollars; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand dollars; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand dollars; for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, five hundred dollars. For payment to Special Assistant Attorney John A. Marshall for services rendered under appointment, notwithstanding the fact that he failed to take an oath of office as required by law, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred dollars. For fees of clerks for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety seven, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, sixteen thousand one hundred and twenty eight dollars and fifty-seven cents. Fees of commissioners: For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, thirty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and sixty-nine cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars and fifty cents. For fees of jurors for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-two dollars. For fees of witnesses for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, fifty-five dollars and forty cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, ninety-six dollars and ten cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-two dollars. 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, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty-two thousand six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-five cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eleven thousand six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and sixty-five cents. For rent of United States court rooms, twenty 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 reasonable expenses for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; expenses of 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, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, forty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, ninety dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seventy-five dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, seventy-five dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, seventy-five dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, forty-five dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as maybe authorized by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving the records, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventy-five thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents. For protecting property in the hands of receivers of United States courts, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, five hundred and four dollars and twenty cents.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For telegraphing for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eight, hundred and five dollars and eighty-nine cents. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and eighteen dollars and eighteen cents. To pay R. E. Spangler, of Chicago, Illinois, as compensation for his services upon a commission appointed by the Postmaster-General February first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to reorganize the postal service at Chicago, Illinois, five hundred dollars. out of the postal revenue. For tree-delivery service, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Mail transportation: For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one million dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-nine, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, seventy seven thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and seventeen cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to pay amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-nine, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, two thousand six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety six cents. For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, forty thousand dollars. For transportation of foreign mails, seventy-five thousand dollars. To enable the Postmaster (General to pay to the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway Company for service performed by said company in the transportation of the mails over a part of the system between May twelve and October nineteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and between October twenty, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and also over another portion of the system between October, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and June thirty, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty three thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and seventy eight cents. Post-office cars: To pay amounts on account of post-office cars, set forth on page thirty-one, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty cents. Miscellaneous items: To pay account, miscellaneous items, set forth on page thirty-one, House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one dollar and twenty cents. Compensation of postmasters: For amounts to reimburse the postal revenues, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations, including the amounts set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and sixty-nine thousand and sixty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety five, seven hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the following appropriations, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and thirty-two, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, namely: Miscellaneous items, Second Assistant Postmaster-General, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen dollars. Inland mail transportation, railroads, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, nine hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-eight cents. Inland mail transportation, railroads, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-one cents. Compensation of postmasters, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven hundred and four dollars and sixty-one cents. Compensation of postmasters, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifteen dollars and sixteen cents. To reimburse the postal revenues the amount of postal funds deposited by L. A. Skinner, late postmaster at Tackett Mills, Virginia, and erroneously covered into the General Treasury, fourteen dollars and eighty-eight cents.

LEGISLATIVE. public printing and binding. That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay the employees and former employees and the legal representa-tives of deceased former employees of the Government Printing Office such sums as may be due said employees and former employees for accrued and unpaid leaves of absence for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven to eighteen hundred and ninety-four, both inclusive; and the sum of fifty-seven thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose. To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, twelve thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Navy Department, eight thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Interior Department, thirty thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of State, ten thousand dollars. The Public Printer is hereby authorized and directed to reprint for distribution by the Department of State five hundred copies each of the monthly Consular Reports Numbers One hundred and sixty to One hundred and seventy-three, both inclusive, Numbers One hundred and eighty-one to One hundred and eighty-four, both inclusive, and Numbers One hundred and eighty-nine to One hundred and ninety-three, both inclusive; five hundred copies of Special Consular Reports “Fruit Culture in Foreign Countries;” three thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Streets and Highways in Foreign Countries;” five thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Port Regulations in Foreign Countries;” three thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Canals and Irrigation in Foreign Countries;” five thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Gas in Foreign Countries;” two thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Fire and Building Regulations in Foreign Countries;” five thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Australasian Sheep and Wool” (omitting the word Australasian); two thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “American Flour in Foreign Countries;” two thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “American Lumber in Foreign Countries;” and ten thousand copies of Special Consular Reports “Tariffs of Foreign Countries,” together with such emendations and additions as may be directed by the Department of State; and to print for distribution by the Department of State editions not exceeding ten thousand copies each of Special Consular Reports in course of preparation to be entitled “Patent, Copyright, and Trade-Mark Law of Foreign Countries,” and “Docks and Harbor Facilities of Foreign Ports.” To pay Samuel Robinson and William Madden, messengers on night duty, from December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, for extra services, one hundred dollars each, two hundred dollars. To enable the Public. Printer to construct an engine house for the Government Printing Office, on land already owned by the United States adjacent to the boiler house recently erected for the use of said office, including the necessary foundations for the engines and all fittings necessary to connect the engines with the boilers, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, twenty-three thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the further establishment and maintenance of a library in the Government Printing Office, the uses of which shall be exclusively confined to the employees of said office and its branches, designations for the same from public documents printed and bound in said office to be made by the Public Printer, all of which shall be under regulations issued by the Public Printer, and for payment to a person or persons who shall have charge of such library, to be selected and appointed by the Public Printer, under such per diem or per annum compensation as he shall fix, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars. Library of Congress: The superintendent of the Library building and grounds is hereby authorized to use the sum of three thousand dollars in addition to the sum of six thousand dollars provided by the legislative appropriation act for eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the building for the Library of Congress, for expenses of removal of the library and copyright collections to the Library building. Botanic Garden: The superintendent of the Library building and grounds shall hereafter disburse all appropriations made for and on account of the Botanic Garden, and shall also disburse all appropriations authorized to be expended by the Joint Committee on the Library. Statement of appropriations: For preparation of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first session of the Fifty-fifth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives to do said work, for the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and said statements shall be consolidated with the statements prepared of the appropriation bills passed at the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress and included in the same volume. And said statements shall hereafter indicate the amount of contracts authorized by appropriation Acts in addition to appropriations made therein, and shall also contain specific reference to all indefinite appropriations made each session. senate. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay to Anna W, Earle, widow of the Honorable Joseph II. Earle, deceased, late a Senator from the State of South Carolina, five thousand dollars. To pay Andrew T. Wood his expenses in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the United States Senate from the State of Kentucky, under the appointment of the governor of that State, the sum of five hundred dollars; and to pay John A. Henderson his expenses in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the United States Senate from the State of Florida, under the appointment of the governor of that State, the sum of five hundred dollars. To pay Warren S. Reese, of Alabama, for expenses incurred by him in preparing for an investigation into the elections which took place in that State in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-two and eighteen hundred and ninety-four, petitions for which investigation signed by numerous citizens were presented to the Senate and referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, the sum of five thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: To make the salaries of the clerks to the Committees on Revolutionary Claims and Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, from the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, at the rate of two thousand one hundred dollars per annum each, six hundred dollars. For telephone operator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, two hundred and thirty-four dollars. For press gallery page, at six hundred dollars per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and three cents. For page in folding room, at six hundred dollars per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and three cents. For one assistant engineer, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For one fireman, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-three cents. For two laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum, from March the fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred and sixty-eight dollars; and persons employed under the foregoing appropriations for the Senate shall be paid from the date of their actual employment, without regard to the date of their respective oaths of office, and at the rates per annum as herein provided. For sixteen pages for the Senate chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each, during the session, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one thousand two hundred and forty dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to retain from the amount found to be due to the late clerk to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, the sum of sixty-eight dollars, an amount due the United States and to cover the same into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. To pay A. S. Worsley, for services rendered the Senate to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and fifty-two dollars. To pay E. J. Atherton, for services rendered the Senate to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. To pay J. L. Bowie, for services rendered the Senate to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty cents. To pay W. A. Merritt, for services rendered the Senate to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and fifty one dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay James P. Knight, for services rendered the Senate to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-six cents. For stationery and newspapers for Senators and for the President of the Senate for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, eleven thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, six thousand two hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, nine thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, four thousand dollars. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, five hundred 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, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty-four dollars and eighty cents. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from March eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. To pay M. W. Blumenberg, for services to the Committee on Naval Affairs in pursuing the inquiry as to the cost and price of armor, under Senate resolutions of December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, four hundred and twenty-five dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay H. A. Austin, for reporting testimony taken before the Committee on Indian Affairs, under resolutions of the Senate of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, authorizing certain investigations to be made in the Indian Territory, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-five cents. To pay Frank P. Holmes, for extra services as conductor of Senate elevator from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety one, to January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and eighty dollars and ninety cents. For payment of medical expenses of C. F. Lynch, an employee of the Senate, incurred by reason of injuries while in discharge of his duties, two hundred and ninety dollars and forty-five cents. To pay Robert Stein, for translating the work of Edward Suess on The Future of Silver, for the Finance Committee. United States Senate, Senate Miscellaneous Document Numbered Ninety-five, one hundred dollars. To pay Lester C. Baker the difference between the salary he has been receiving and that of a messenger of the Senate from December the ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty three cents. To pay to Daisey Johnson, widow of the late Thomas R. Johnson, deceased, a laborer and acting watchman under the Architect of the Capitol, three hundred and sixty dollars, being an amount equal to six months’ pay as such laborer and acting watchman, and including all funeral expenses. To enable the Committee on Claims of the Senate to fully examine into all the evidence in all cases of just claims that are now before them, or that have been favorably reported and not finally disposed of, with the view of reporting the same to the Senate at the beginning of the next session of Congress, one thousand dollars, to be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of said committee, and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman may be paid as additional compensation to the clerk and assistant clerk of said committee. To reimburse the clerk of the Senate Committee on Pensions for moneys actually paid out by him for extra clerical and stenographic services rendered the committee during the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, two hundred and fifty dollars. house of representatives. To pay the widow of Charles F. Crisp, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Georgia, five thousand dollars. To pay the legal heirs of William S. Holman, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Indiana, four thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and ninety-three cents. To pay to Elizabeth Milliken, the widow of S. L. Milliken, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and fourteen cents. To pay to Emma E. Davidson, the widow of J. J. Davidson, a Representative elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars. To pay to the legal heirs of R. P. Giles, a Representative elect to the Fifty-fifth Congress from the State of Missouri, who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars. To pay to Cynthia D. Cooke, the mother of Edward D. Cooke, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars. To pay Charles J. Boatner, a Representative in Congress from the State of Louisiana, the amount paid or agreed to be paid by him for clerk hire from July first to December sixth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty three cents. For allowances to the following contestants and contestees, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred by them in contested election cases, namely: To J. M. Kendall, two thousand dollars; To James C, C. Black, two thousand dollars; To Thomas E. Watson, two thousand dollars; To J. William Stokes, three hundred and forty dollars; To Taylor Beattie, two thousand dollars; To Andrew Price, two thousand dollars; To Charles J. Boatner, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars; To Alexis Benoit, two thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-five thousand dollars. To pay William Tyler Page for clerical services rendered in the Clerk’s office during the Fifty-fourth Congress, five hundred dollars. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House of Representatives and the official stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid by them from March eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron two hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. To pay Charles H. Evans, for services to the Committee on Ways and Means, five hundred and fifty dollars. To pay George W. Cochran, for rent of room for use of subcommittee of Committee on Ways and Means, one hundred and forty dollars. To reimburse the Clerk of the. House for expenses incurred and to be incurred for services of a clerk and stenographer, at the rate of one hundred dollars per mouth, from December second, eighteen hundred and ninety five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight dollars and four cents. To pay John H. Barnsley the difference between the pay of a folder and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay Charles Carter and Harry Parker for caring for subcommittee rooms of the Committees on Appropriations and Ways and Means, seventy-five dollars each, one hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Harris A. Walters the difference between the pay of a folder and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety seven, inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay Robert A. Stickney for services rendered in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives from January ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay Guy Underwood the difference between the pay of a laborer and that of a messenger in the hall library, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, five hundred and ninety-four dollars. To pay C. W. Coombs, assistant Department messenger, at the rate of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, for services rendered and to be rendered from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to December first eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and nine cents. To pay George Jenison, special messenger, at the rate of twelve hundred dollars per annum, for services rendered and to be rendered from March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven to December first eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, eight hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty-nine cents. To pay the following assistants in the document room, authorized and employed under resolutions of the House, namely: One at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, one at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and two at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each from March fourth to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, one thousand five hundred and seventy-three dollars and thirty-one cents. To pay Charles N. Thomas for extra services as clerk in the office of the disbursing clerk of the House of Representatives, three hundred dollars. To pay W. S Holman, junior, for services rendered as clerk to the late W, S. Holman from the first to the twenty-second day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, seventy-two dollars and fifty-three cents. To pay Noah L. Hawk for extra services as acting assistant deputy sergeant-at-arms, six hundred dollars.

EXECUTIVE. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, books for library, miscellaneous items, and furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriage, horses, and harness, one thousand dollars.

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 the Fifty-fifth Congress at its first session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eleven and to the Fifty-fourth Congress at its second session by the Attorney-General in House Documents Numbered Two hundred and fifty-seven and Two hundred and seventy seven, and Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and fifty-six and One hundred and sixty, and which have not been appealed, except the judgments in favor of Andrew H. Gay and the Realty Company, and including one thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty cents, in full for principal of judgment in favor of Francis Bloodgood, forty-one thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twelve 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: Provided further, That the amount of the judgment in favor of James R. Law-rence herein appropriated for shall be paid to the clerk of the circuit court for the district of South Carolina, to be distributed under the decree of that court, and that such payment shall be in full satisfaction and discharge of any and all claims, either of the said James K. Lawrence or of any person claiming through or under him, arising out of the matters involved in said action. The Auditor for the Treasury Department is hereby authorized and directed to state and settle an account in favor of the Realty Company, allowing to said company, out of the appropriation in sundry civil Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of two hundred and thirty eight thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eight cents, for bounty on sugar produced prior to August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the sum of five thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars and ninety seven cents, being the amount of their claim included in said appropriation, and for which judgment was rendered in the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Louisiana on December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States on May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, this amount having been withheld and being now an unexpended balance of said appropriation remaining on the books of the Treasury. The Auditor for the Treasury Department is also authorized and directed to state and set tie an account in favor of Andrew H. Gay, allowing to him, out of the appropriation in the sundry civil Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of five million dollars, the sum of seven thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-eight cents, being his pro rata share of said appropriation for bounty on sugar produced between August twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, judgment having been rendered in the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Louisiana on December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty-two cents, which was affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States on May twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, but judgment reduced to seven thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and thirty-eight cents: and this sum, having been withheld by the Auditor per settlement Numbered Ten thousand two hundred and eighty-four, is now an unexpended balance of said appropriation remaining on the books of the Treasury. To pay interest on the two foregoing judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the date of the passage of this Act a sufficient sum is hereby appropriated.

JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims reported to the Fifty-fourth Congress at its second session in House Document Numbered Two hundred and seventeen, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-seven, and to the Fifty-fifth Congress at its first session in Senate Documents Numbered One hundred and twenty-two and One hundred and sixty-five, one million fifty-one thousand and eleven dollars and sixteen cents: Provided, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.

JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation eases, certified to the Fifty-fourth Congress at its second session in Senate Documents Numbered Ten and One hundred and sixty-five, and in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty-five, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, and to the Fifty-fifth Congress at its first session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ten, two hundred and seventeen thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service.

Sec. 2.

That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations

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heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety four, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,

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as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and sixty, Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For examination of national banks and bank plates, three dollars and seventeen cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, eighty-four dollars and eighty cents. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, nineteen dollars and eighty cents. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, one dollar and seventy-two cents. For appraisers’ stores, Chicago, Illinois: Site and building, eight dollars and ninety-three cents. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, seven dollars and six cents. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty cents. For contingent expenses, mint at New Orleans, twenty-five dollars and eighty-four cents. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, eleven dollars. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, twelve dollars and seven cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, seventy-five dollars and ninety-five cents. For redemption of stamps, two hundred and ninety-six dollars and ten cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, seventy-four dollars and eighteen cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, three thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and six cents. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, forty dollars and fifty cents. For Life-Saving Service, four hundred dollars. For established life-saving stations, three dollars. For expenses of buoyage, ninety-eight dollars and forty-two cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, five thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and eight cents. For pay of Military Academy, eight dollars and thirty-three cents. For pay of two and three, year volunteers, one thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-six cents. For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-seven cents. For bounty under Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety cents. For subsistence of the Army, fifty-nine dollars and eighty-three cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and forty-three cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, four hundred and forty-five dollars and two cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and twenty-seven cents. For horses for cavalry and artillery, sixty dollars. For barracks and quarters, forty-tour dollars. For ordnance stores: Equipment, fifty-four dollars and sixty-nine cents. For Signal Service of the Army, twelve dollars and forty-five cents. For improving Columbia River from Rock Island Rapids to Priest Rapids, Washington, fourteen dollars and thirty-seven cents. For expenses California Debris Commission, forty dollars and forty-one cents. For improvement of Yellowstone National Park, seventy-eight cents. For monuments or tablets at Gettysburg, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars. For road to national cemetery, Presidio of San Francisco, twenty-five dollars. For support of National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty nine cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents. For horses and other property lost in the military service, three hundred and sixty dollars and seventy-five cents. For pay of volunteers, three hundred and nine dollars and eight cents. For pay of volunteers, Mexican war, one hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-four cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-four cents. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For Rogue River Indian war, three hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy fourteen thousand three hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents. For pay, miscellaneous, fifty-five dollars and forty-eight cents. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, seven thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents. For pay of Marine Corps, except claim numbered one hundred and twenty-three, two thousand four hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents. For provisions, Marine Corps, fifteen dollars and fifty cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, thirty-five dollars and seventy-three cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, forty cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, twelve dollars and forty-two cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, seventy dollars and seventy-one cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, seventy-seven cents. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, six dollars and eighty-two cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-four cents: Provided, That no part or any one of the claims to which this appropriation is applicable shall be paid therefrom which accrued more than six years prior to the filing of the petition in the Court of Claims upon which the judgment was rendered, which, being affirmed by the Supreme Court, has been adopted by the accounting officers as the basis for the allowance of said claim. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy-nine dollars and seventy-three cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, three dollars and eighty-five cents. For Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, one hundred and twenty-three dollars and nineteen cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, one thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-eight cents. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, sixty-six dollars. For indemnity for lost clothing, one hundred and eighty dollars. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, seven dollars and fifty cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For surveying the public lands, twenty-five thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-two cents. For depredations on public timber, five dollars. For pay of Indian agents, eight hundred and one dollars and forty cents. For pay of interpreters, one hundred and thirty dollars and thirty cents. For traveling expenses of Indian inspectors, one dollar and ten cents. For traveling expenses of Indian school superintendent, six dollars and twenty-six cents. For pay of matrons, thirty-seven dollars and one cent. For transportation of Indian supplies, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-seven cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, eighty-one dollars and thirty-seven cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For support of Pawnees: Schools, three hundred and sixty dollars and ninety cents. For support of Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, ten dollars. For support of Mission Indians, two dollars and sixty cents. For support of Sioux of Devils Lake, twenty-nine dollars and eighteen cents. For support of Sioux, Medawakanton Band, one dollar and thirty-three cents. For support of Yakimas and other Indians, eighteen dollars. For Indian schools: Support, fifty dollars and fifty-five cents. For Indian school transportation, one hundred and four dollars and thirty-nine cents. For Indian school, Santa Fe, New Mexico, two hundred and sixty-eight dollars. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, one hundred and sixty dollars and ninety eight cents. For incidentals in South Dakota, thirty-six dollars and forty-five cents. For incidentals in Washington, including employees and support and civilization, nine dollars. For survey of Indian reservations, two thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and fifty-two cents. For army pensions, one hundred and sixty-two dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, forty-three dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, navy pensions, two dollars. For salaries, pension agents, one hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-four cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. department of state. For salaries of ministers, fifty eight dollars and sixty one cents. For salaries, chargé d’affaires ad interim, four dollars. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, three hundred and seventy dollars and forty-nine cents. For salaries, consular service, two dollars and thirty cents. For relief and protection of American seamen, sixty-two cents. department of agriculture. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, four thousand and ten dollars and seventy-one cents. department of justice. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and eighty-nine gents. For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act August sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, seven thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents. For fees and expenses of marshals, United States courts, one hundred and five dollars. For fees of district attorneys, United States courts, four thousand one hundred and seven dollars and twenty-one cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, five hundred dollars. For fees of clerks, United States courts, two hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-five cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty cents. For rent of court rooms, United States court, two hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, eighty-four dollars.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For deficiencies in postal revenue for eighteen hundred and ninety-three and prior years, two hundred and twenty-one dollars and ninety-five cents. For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, twenty dollars. For star transportation, one thousand and fifty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents. For railroad transportation, six hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-five cents. For special-delivery fees, eight cents. For clerk hire, seventy-five dollars. For rent, light, and fuel, seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixteen cents. For compensation of postmasters, nine hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-six cents.

Sec. 3.

That for the payment of the following claims certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under

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appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and

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eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-two, of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, sixty-one dollars and forty-six cents. For assessing and collecting internal revenue, fifty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, fifteen dollars and sixty cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, six hundred and ninety-five dollars and thirty-eight cents. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, sixty dollars. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents. For reimbursement to certain States and Territories (State of Nebraska), for expenses incurred in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and fifty-nine cents. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, sixty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, two hundred and fifty dollars and forty-four cents. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, two thousand seven hundred and six dollars and thirty-two cents. For pay of Marine Corps, five thousand and fourteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. For contingent, Marine Corps, thirteen dollars and eighty-five cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, twenty dollars and eighteen cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-three cents: Provided, That no part or any one of the claims to which this appropriation is applicable shall be paid therefrom which accrued more than six years prior to the filing of the petition in the Court of Claims upon which the judgment was rendered which, being affirmed by the Supreme Court, has been adopted by the accounting officers as the basis for the allowance of said claim. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, sixty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, two hundred dollars.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For expenses of inspectors, General Land Office, twenty dollars and ninety-five cents. For surveying the public lands, three thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and forty-eight cents. For pay of judges, Indian courts, three cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, two dollars and fifty cents. For support of Pawnees: Schools, six hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-nine cents. For support of Sioux of different tribes: Subsistence and civilization, seventy-five dollars. For support of Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas, ten dollars. For Indian school transportation, one dollar and twenty-nine cents. For incidentals in Idaho, thirty-seven dollars and eighty cents. For salaries, pension agents, thirty-three dollars.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. department of justice. For expenses of Territorial courts in Utah, thirty-two dollars and seventy-five cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, one hundred and seventy dollars. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, one thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, forty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents. For free-delivery service, fifty cents. For star transportation; twenty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents. For special facilities, nine hundred and eighty-one dollars and forty-three cents; in all, for deficiency in the postal revenues, certified claims, one thousand and fifty-two dollars and sixty-nine cents.

Sec. 4.

That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under

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appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and

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eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hun-dred and twenty-one, Fifty-fifth Congress, first session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, one dollar and ninety-two cents. For files cases. Office of Sixth Auditor, one hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-four cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, twenty-three dollars. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-two dollars and sixteen cents. For heating apparatus for public buildings, seventy-three dollars and thirty-seven cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, seven dollars and eighty-nine cents. For repayment to importers excess of deposits, one thousand six hundred and forty eight dollars and ninety-eight cents. For Life Saving Service, two hundred dollars. For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, two dollars and seventy cents. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety-eight cents. For refunding taxes illegally collected, thirty-seven dollars and seventy-one cents. For refunding taxes paid on spirits destroyed by casualty, two thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety cents. For drawback on stills exported, Act March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty dollars. For general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, thirty dollars and twenty-two cents. For contingent expenses, mint at Carson, sixty-two dollars and fifty-one cents. For contingent expenses, mint at Denver, nineteen dollars and fourteen cents. For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirteen cents. For wages and contingent expenses, assay office at Boise, twenty dollars and seventy-seven cents. For salaries, governor and so forth, Territory of Alaska, forty-one dollars and twenty-one cents. For Interstate Commerce Commission, eleven dollars and sixty-nine cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For expenses of recruiting, fifty-five dollars and ten cents. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, nine hundred and sixty-eightdollars and thirty-six cents. For pay of two and three year volunteers, forty dollars and forty-nine cents. For bounty to volunteers, their widows and legal heirs, fifteen dollars. For subsistence of the Army, eighty-nine dollars and fifty-five cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, one hundred dollars. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, two hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, six hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-seven cents. For artificial limbs, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and seventy-three cents. For improving Columbia River from Rock Island Rapids to Priest Rapids, Washington, one dollar and twenty-eight cents. For survey tor canal from Lake Erie to Ohio River, one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and forty-seven cents. For expenses California Debris Commission, seventy-one dollars and twenty-nine cents. For commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, twenty-seven dollars. For traveling expenses of California and Nevada volunteers, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. For pay of volunteers, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-four cents. For bounty under Act of July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. For pay of the Navy, seven thousand three hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents. For pay, miscellaneous, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-two cents. For mileage, Navy, Graham decision, one thousand four hundred and three dollars and seventy-six cents. For pay of Marine Corps, two thousand three hundred and two dollars and eighty-two cents. For transportation, recruiting, and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, one hundred and ninety one dollars and forty four cents. For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-four dollars and eighty-six cents. For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-four cents. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen dollars and sixteen cents. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars and twenty eight cents. For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, four hundred and ninety-one dollars and two cents. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, two hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-two cents. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, eighty-six dollars and thirty cents. For enlistment bounties to seamen, four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty eight cents. For bounty for destruction of enemies’ vessels, thirty-eight dollars and six cents. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, ninety-eight dollars and fifty cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. For surveying the public lands, four thousand four hundred and eighty-two dollars and forty-one cents. For Geological Survey, forty-five cents. For pay of Indian agents, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, forty-eight dollars and four cents. For telegraphing and purchase of Indian supplies, one dollar and twenty-five cents. For Indian schools: Support, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents. For Indian school buildings, seven hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty-one cents. For incidentals in South Dakota, forty-eight dollars and thirty five cents. For incidentals in Washington, including employees and support and civilization, eight dollars and fifty cents. For surveying and allotting Indian reservations (reimbursable), five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fourteen cents. For army pensions, eighteen dollars. For fees of examining surgeons, army pensions, one hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-five cents. For fees of examining surgeons, navy pensions, six dollars.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS. department of state. For salaries and expenses, Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, five hundred and five dollars and forty cents. For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, eleven dollars. For allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and eighty-nine cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, one dollar and ten cents. department of agriculture. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, forty-seven dollars and ninety cents. department of justice. For defending suits in claims against the United States, thirty-seven cents. For salaries, retired judges, four hundred and forty dollars and twenty-two cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, six hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty-five cents. For fees for commissioners, United States courts, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty cents. For support of prisoners, United States courts, one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight dollars and forty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, nine dollars and twenty cents. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, four thousand dollars.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For star transportation, one hundred and sixteen dollars and thirty-nine cents. For steamboat transportation, three dollars and twenty cents. For railroad transportation, eighty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents. For clerk hire, four hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-eight cents. For compensation of postmasters, thirteen dollars and eighty cents.