Public Law 58–10

An Act

Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. bureau of animal industry. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.” approved June third, nineteen hundred and two, five hundred thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT. buildings and grounds in and around washington. For extra steps and mosaic work at the base of the Sherman statue pedestal, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eight thousand dollars.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. public lands service. For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That persons employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of two dollars per day while actually employed at such times and for such periods as the exigencies of the work may demand.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Postal Service. out of the postal revenues. For pay of letter carriers of rural free-delivery service, five hundred thousand dollars. For incidental expenses, including letter boxes, furniture, satchels, straps, badges, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices, fifty thousand dollars. For acting clerks in place of clerks injured while on duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as a result of such injury, forty thousand dollars. Out of the sum appropriated by the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and two, under the heading Railway Mail Service, “for rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, typewriting machines, and badges for railway postal clerks” three hundred and fifty dollars may be paid for rent of offices for division superintendent of Railway Mail Service in Washington, District of Columbia, from .July first to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding-room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved .January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), five thousand dollars.

SENATE. for miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, two thousand four hundred dollars.

Approved, December 22, 1903.