Public Law 59–2918

That the following sums be,

Sundry civil expenses appropriations.

and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. public buildings. Albany, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Alexandria, Minnesota, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Alpena, Michigan, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Alton. Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Americus. Georgia, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Anderson, South Carolina, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Ann Arbor, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Asheville, North Carolina, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, and to provide additional accommodations for the United States courts in said building, forty-five thousand dollars. Atlanta, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts for the construction and completion of the building at a total cost not to exceed five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sums herein and heretofore appropriated, but exclusive of the cost of site. Auburn, Maine, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Austin, Minnesota, post-office: For site under present limit, one thousand dollars. Baker City, Oregon, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, post-office and court-house: For completion of addition under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Bar Harbor, Maine, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Barre, Vermont, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Bedford, Indiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Belleville, Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Belvidere, Illinois, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-eight thousand dollars. Bessemer, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Bluefield. West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Boston. Massachusetts, appraisers’ stores: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Boulder, Colorado, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Bowling Green, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Bridgeton, New Jersey, post-office and custom house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Calais, Maine, post-office and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Canandaigua, New York, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Cape Girardeau. Missouri, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Carlisle, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Carthage, Missouri, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For additional land and completion of enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars, and the provision of the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government, which provides that all expenses incident to the occupancy of the building in question shall be paid from the sum of ten thousand dollars then appropriated for rent of temporary quarters at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is hereby repealed. For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, three thousand dollars. Charleroi, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Chattanooga, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ninety five thousand dollars. Chester, South Carolina, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For completion of interior decoration of the building, forty-five thousand dollars. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Clarinda, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to expend from the appropriation heretofore made for the United States post-office building at Clarinda. Iowa, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars for the purpose of securing a suitable site for said building. Cleveland, Ohio, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, fifty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Clifton Forge, Virginia, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house: For additional land and continuation of building under present limit, seventy- five thousand dollars. Columbia, Tennessee, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Coldwater, Michigan post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Columbus, Mississippi, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-two thousand dollars. Columbus, Ohio, post-office and court-house: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials at Columbus, Ohio, and all expenses incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars. Corning, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Corsicana, Texas, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Crookston, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Dalton, Georgia, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Danville, Kentucky, past-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Decatur, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Denison, Texas, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Denver, Colorado: The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to have plans and specifications prepared for a new building for the general purposes of the United States Government, at Denver, Colorado, and to report to Congress at its next session an estimate of the cost for said building not to exceed one million eight hundred thousand dollars. He is also authorized and directed to use such part of the force of the office of the Supervising Architect as may be necessary for this purpose. Des Moines, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Detroit, Michigan, post-office and court-house: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Devils Lake, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Dixon, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Dothan, Alabama, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-three thousand dollars. Dover, New Hampshire, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Duluth. Minnesota, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For additional land, and for completion of enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Eagle Pass. Texas, post-office and custom-house: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. East Liverpool, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. East Saint Louis, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Elizabeth, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Erie, Pennsylvania, post-office: For additional land, five thousand dollars. Escanaba, Michigan, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Eugene, Oregon, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Eureka, California, post office and custom-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Fairmont, West Virginia, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fayetteville, Arkansas, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Fayetteville, North Carolina, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Fernandina, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty five thousand dollars. Flint, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Florence, Alabama, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Fort Worth, Texas, post-office and court house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Fresno, California, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Fredericksburg. Virginia, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gadsden, Alabama, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Gainesville, Florida, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Gainesville, Georgia, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Gonzales, Texas, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Grand Island, Nebraska, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Grand Rapids. Michigan, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters at Grand Rapids, Michigan, including necessary moving expenses, sixteen thousand dollars. Great Falls, Montana, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. Green Bay, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Greenville, Mississippi, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-three thousand dollars. Greenville. Ohio, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twelve thousand dollars. Greenville, South Carolina, post-office and court-house: For additional land and for completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Greenville, Texas, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Greenwood, South Carolina, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Gulfport, Mississippi, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Hagerstown, Maryland, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Hamilton, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Hazleton, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Houston, Texas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the construction and completion of the building at a total cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, in addition to the sums herein and heretofore appropriated, but exclusive of the cost of site. Hudson, New York, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Iola, Kansas, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Ithaca, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Jackson, Mississippi, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Johnson City, Tennessee, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. And the authorized limit of cost of said building is hereby increased by the sum of ten thousand dollars, on condition that a site satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury for said building shall be donated to the United States, free of all cost or incumbrance, and that responsible parties shall contract to construct, without cost to the Government, granolithic sidewalks in the streets in front and on all sides of such site, of such width and according to specifications prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and subject to his approval. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Kearney, Nebraska, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Kenosha, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Kewanee, Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Kingston, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Kinston, North Carolina, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Knoxville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For additional land and for continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Lafayette, Indiana, post-office: For additional land and for completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Lake Charles, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Lancaster. Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. The authorization of seventy-five thousand dollars made for the erection of a United States post-office building at Lancaster, Ohio, is hereby transferred from section seven to section eight of the public buildings Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. Lancaster, Pennsylvania, post-office: For additional land and for continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Laredo, Texas, court-house and custom-house: To reimburse the appropriation for construction, the amount necessarily used in reconstructing a portion of the building damaged by settlement, and for making sewer connection, six thousand dollars. Lead, South Dakota, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Lebanon, Kentucky, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Lincoln, Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Little Falls, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Little Rock, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Logan, Utah, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. London, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site and for completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Los Angeles, California, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars. Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lynchburg, Virginia: For the extension and enlargement of the United States building which contains the United States court rooms, clerk’s office, and post-office, seventy thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of eighty thousand dollars appropriated in extension of the limit of cost by Act of Congress approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes:” Provided, That so much of the Act of Congress approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act for the erection of a public building at Lynchburg. Virginia,” as requires that the building be protected by a fire limit of at least forty feet, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Macon, Georgia, court-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Macon, Georgia: Rent of buildings: For rental only of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, three thousand dollars. Manchester, Virginia, post-office and revenue office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-eight thousand dollars. . Manhattan, Kansas, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Manistee, Michigan, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Manitowoc, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Marietta, Georgia, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Marietta, Ohio, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Marinette, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Marion. Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars. Marion, Ohio, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Mason City, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Mason City, Iowa, post-office: For additional land, five hundred dollars. Mayfield, Kentucky, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Meadville, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Meriden, Connecticut, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Michigan City, Indiana, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Milford, Delaware, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Mitchell, South Dakota, post-office and land office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Moline, Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Moscow, Idaho, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Murfreesboro, Tennessee, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Muscatine, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For completion of extension under present limit, seven thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty-five cents. Nevada. Missouri, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Newark, Ohio, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. New Britain, Connecticut, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. New Orleans, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the construction and completion of the building, at a total cost not to exceed eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars, exclusive of the sums herein and heretofore appropriated, but exclusive of the cost of site. Newton, Kansas, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. New Ulm, Minnesota, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. New York. New York, assay office: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Niagara Falls, New York, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Niles, Michigan, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. North Adams, Massachusetts, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Ocala, Florida, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Ogden, Utah, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Olean, New York, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Owensboro, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. Owosso, Michigan, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Paris, Illinois, post-office: For site, and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Paris, Kentucky, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Paris, Tennessee, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For additional land, and for continuation of enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters, at Peoria, Illinois, including necessary moving expenses, ten thousand dollars. Petersburg, Virginia, post-office and custom-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pine Bluff. Arkansas, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Pittsburg, Kansas, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Platteville, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Portland, Maine, court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: and the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the post-office at Portland, Maine, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available for the court-house in said city. Portsmouth, Virginia, post-office and custom-house: For additional land for continuation of building under present limit, forty-three thousand dollars. Providence, Rhode Island, post-office, court-house, and customhouse: For completion of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Provo, Utah, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Quincy, Massachusetts, post-office and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Rawlins, Wyoming, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Red Wing, Minnesota, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Reno, Nevada, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Richmond, Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of reconstruction and enlargement of building under present limit, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for reconstructing and enlarging the building at a total cost not to exceed five hundred thousand dollars, exclusive of the sums herein and heretofore appropriated, and of the cost of site. For rent of temporary quarters at Richmond, Virginia, including necessary moving expenses, twenty thousand dollars. Roanoke, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For additional land and for continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Rochester, New York, court-house and post-office: For completion of extension of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters at Rochester. New York, including necessary moving expenses, eight thousand dollars. For special repairs to the post-office at Rochester, New York, made necessary because of and incident to the extension of said building authorized in an Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, forty thousand dollars. Rockford. Illinois, post-office: For additional land and for the completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Ruston, Louisiana, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Saint Charles, Missouri, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Saint Louis, Missouri, post-office: For additional land and for continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Saint Paul, Minnesota, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Salisbury, North Carolina, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. San Angelo, Texas, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. San Antonio, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. San Diego, California, post-office and custom-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. San Francisco, California, custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. San Francisco, California, sub-treasury: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to expend not to exceed one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars, instead of seventy-five thousand dollars authorized by Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the purchase of additional land for a site for said United States sub-treasury. San Juan, Porto Rico, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Santa Rosa, California, post-office: For site and continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Saratoga Springs, New York, post-office: For site and continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Schenectady, New York, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Selma, Alabama, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Sharon, Pennsylvania, post-office: For site and continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Sheboygan, Wisconsin, post-office and custom-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Sheridan, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For site and continuation of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Sherman, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. South Bend, Indiana, post-office: For additional land and for completion of the enlargement, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters at South Bend. Indiana, including necessary moving expenses, ten thousand dollars. Spokane, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. , Springfield, Massachusetts, post-office and custom-house: For additional land, and for continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Springfield, Ohio, post-office: For additional land and for completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Sumter, South Carolina, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom house: For completion of building under present limit, forty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred and five thousand dollars. Texarkana, Texas, court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Toledo, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, two hundred thousand dollars. Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Trinidad, Colorado, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Tuscaloosa, Alabama, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars. Tyler, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Valdosta, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars. Versailles, Kentucky, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirteen thousand dollars. Warren, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Washington, North Carolina, post-office and court-house: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Watertown, New York, post-office: For continuation of new building on site of present post-office, under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters at Watertown, New York, including necessary moving expenses, five thousand dollars. Watertown. South Dakota, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Waukegan. Illinois, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Webster City, Iowa, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Wichita, Kansas, post-office and court-house: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Willimantic. Connecticut, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Winchester, Kentucky, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Winchester, Virginia, post-office and revenue office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, thirty-three thousand dollars. Winston. North Carolina, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Woonsocket, Rhode Island, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Yazoo City, Mississippi, post-office: For site and for completion of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Yonkers, New York, post-office: For site and for continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. York. Nebraska, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Youngstown. Ohio, post-office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters at Youngstown, Ohio, including necessary moving expenses, eight thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington. District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, including personal services of skilled mechanics, eighteen thousand dollars. For repair of the east front of the Treasury building, including substitution of granite for the soft stone used in said east front of the building, the unexpended balance of one hundred and fifty-five thousand one hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-two cents of the appropriation made for “Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, ventilation,” is hereby authorized to be expended, together with the further sum of two hundred and four thousand eight hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-eight cents, which is hereby appropriated. For the construction of suitable fireproof steel files for the safekeeping of official bonds of officers of the Treasury and other Executive Departments for which the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible as custodian, three thousand five hundred dollars. Fire-alarm system. Treasury Department: For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs, and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses. and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof, and of sites acquired for public buildings, under the control of the Treasury Department, and including not exceeding fifty thousand dollars for marine hospitals, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding forty-five thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to have prepared plans, specifications, and estimate of cost for construction of a new building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, together with an estimate of the cost of a suitable site for said new building; and also plans, specifications, and estimate of cost of remodeling present buildings, and construction of additional necessary building or buildings on land adjoining the present site of said Bureau and an estimate of cost of acquiring necessary adjoining land for such additional building or buildings, five thousand dollars or so much thereof as may lie necessary. That in all cases, during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, where any building or buildings not reserved by the vender are on land heretofore acquired, or which may hereafter be acquired, for Federal building sites or for the enlargement of Federal building sites, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to rent such building or buildings until their removal becomes necessary and to make such repairs thereto as may be necessary to keep the buildings in tenantable condition, payment to be made from the proceeds derived from the rentals; the net proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and a report thereof to be submitted to Congress annually. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting work done on heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, sixty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding six thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, two thousand dollars. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installation and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, thirty-five thousand dollars. marine hospitals. Baltimore, Maryland, marine hospital: Improvements to hospital, four thousand dollars. Boston, Massachusetts, marine hospital: Improvements to hospital, six thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, marine hospital: Improvements to hospital, three thousand dollars. Key West, Florida, marine hospital: Improvements to hospital, three thousand dollars. New Orleans, Louisiana, marine hospital: Improvements to hospital, four thousand dollars. Maintenance of leprosy hospital, Hawaii: The unexpended balance of fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, for maintenance of the leprosy hospital. Hawaii, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six and reappropriated by the Act. of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same objects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. Washington, District of Columbia, hygienic laboratory, Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: Additional building and grading, seventy-five thousand dollars. quarantine stations. Portland, Maine, quarantine station: For completion of the necessary buildings, two thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars. Savannah quarantine station: Power boat, five hundred dollars. Boca Grande quarantine station: Quarters for medical officers and boathouse, five thousand dollars. San Diego quarantine station: Fence, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Delaware Breakwater quarantine station: Fence, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Honolulu quarantine station: Tanks for water supply, two thousand dollars; water pipe to the new wharf, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars. Santa Rosa quarantine station, Pensacola, Florida: To reconstruct and equip the station damaged by the tropical hurricane on September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, in accordance with estimates submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-five of this session, twenty-four thousand six hundred dollars. Gulf quarantine station, Ship Island, Mississippi: To reconstruct and equip the station damaged by the tropical hurricane on September twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, in accordance with estimates submitted in House Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-five of this session, thirty-five thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars. life-saving service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations oh the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. For salaries of two hundred and ninety keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat stations, including the old Chicago station, and at the building to be erected on the grounds of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, near the waters of Hampton Roads, in the State of Virginia, under authority of section ten of the Act of Congress approved June thirtieth. nineteen hundred and six, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary: supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same: and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million seven hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars. For establishing a telephone line from the Umpqua River life-saving station, Oregon, to a point at the mouth of the Siuslaw River, five thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief, chief engineers, assistant engineers, two constructors, cadets, cadet engineers, commissioned surgeon ; two contract surgeons, two civilian instructors, and pilots employed, and rations for pilots; for pay of warrant and petty officers, ships’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal leavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, and in the Kennebec River, and the movements and anchorage of vessels in Saint Marys River; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel Cove, Maryland; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. That nothing in the Acts approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government, shall be construed to prohibit the detailing of officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service in the District of Columbia for such periods as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, but the number of officers so detailed shall not exceed ten. For special repairs to revenue cutters, seventy-five thousand dollars. For completion of ocean-going tug for the North Pacific coast, seventy thousand dollars. For the completion of steam vessel for the removal of derelicts, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For completing the hull of and equipping revenue steamer for the coast of Maine (numbered fourteen, Revenue-Cutter Service), to be immediately available, fifty thousand and eighty-seven dollars. For installing and operating on not exceeding twelve vessels of the Revenue-Cutter Service the wireless telegraph system, thirty thousand dollars. Toward the construction of one steam revenue cutter of the first class for duty in Puget Sound and adjacent waters, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such construction, at a cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; Toward the construction of one steam revenue cutter of the first class for duty at Savannah. Georgia, and adjacent waters on the Atlantic coast, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such construction, at a cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. For the construction of an able, sea going tug for the United States Revenue-Cutter Service for duty at New Bedford, Massachusetts, and adjacent waters on the Atlantic coast, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For the construction of one boarding vessel for the United States Revenue-Cutter Service for duty at New Orleans, Louisiana, and adjacent waters, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million one hundred and eighteen thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million five hundred and seventy-five thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided. That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. And the second proviso under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby repealed. For engravers and printers’ materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the Director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, four hundred and twenty-eight thousand and fifty-three dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.

UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, thirty-two thousand dollars. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. For protection of Casa Grande Ruin, in Pinal County, near Florence, Arizona, and for excavation on the reservation, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, three thousand dollars. International catalogue of scientific literature: For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, five thousand dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand dollars. Building for National Museum: For completing the construction of the building for the National Museum, and for each and every purpose connected with the same, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That if the superintendent of buildings and grounds, Library of Congress, now in charge of the construction of the new Museum building and the disbursing of all appropriations made for the work, be at any time incapacitated to continue in such charge, the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution is hereby empowered to take charge of the construction and to disburse appropriations made for the same. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum, five hundred dollars. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and in closures: care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, ninety-five thousand dollars: one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. For reconstructing and repairing roadways and walks, fifteen thousand dollars. interstate commerce commission. For salaries of seven Commissioners, at ten thousand dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. For salary of secretary, five thousand dollars. For all other authorized expenditures, necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, six hundred and three thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars, of which sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office. The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars appropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate in regard to the use and necessity for block signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains, including experimental tests, at the discretion of the Commission, of such of said signal systems and appliances only, as may be furnished in connection with such investigation free of cost to the Government, in accordance with the provisions of the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six fifty thousand dollars. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act. one hundred thousand dollars; said inspectors shall also be required to make examination of the construction, adaptability, design, and condition of all mail cars used on any railroad in the United States and make report thereon, a copy of which report shall be transmitted to the Postmaster-General for his information and action thereon. miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Paper for internal-revenue stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, seventy-five thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment, persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act: Provided, That necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous expenses. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Transportation of minor coin: For transportation of minor coin, eighteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such sub-treasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of fractional silver coin: For transportation of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, fifty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of charge, fractional silver coin when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such sub-treasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Transportation of silver coin: For transportation of silver dollars by registered mail or otherwise, fifty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or sub-treasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such sub-treasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including expenses of transportation. salaries of register, assistant register, four counters, five watch men, one skilled laborer, and of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, three hundred and seven thousand two hundred dollars. Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and seventy dollars. Sealing and separating United States securities: For materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printers’ varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, guttapercha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, two thousand dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including transportation, mill, and other necessary expenses, fifty-seven thousand dollars. Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributors of stock, one at one thousand six hundred dollars, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services for the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, and washing towels, sprinkling streets, and removing rubbish, in connection with said buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million five hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein. General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who may be required to inspect public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and report on the efficiency of the custodians’ forces, and the use of fuel, lights, water, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary traveling expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary traveling expenses, including actual traveling expenses of assistant, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars. For assistant inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. For furnishing complete in every detail the new custom-house in New York City the appropriation of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven is hereby continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture. and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: Provided, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws including one thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars. Customs service: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, three million eight hundred thousand dollars, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. And the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are hereby further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, to two hundred thousand dollars: and from and after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven all sums received from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, connected with the customs, and from fees paid into the Treasury by customs officers, and from storage, cartage, drayage, labor, and services, shall be covered into the Treasury as are other miscellaneous receipts. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars made by the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight. That hereafter all payments made to collectors or other officers of the customs on account of fees earned and heretofore paid from the permanent indefinite appropriation provided for by section one of the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, shall be paid from the appropriation “Expense of collecting the revenue from customs.” Expenses of local appraisers’ meetings: For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand five hundred dollars. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, three hundred dollars. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: Expenses of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows: For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, three hundred thousand dollars; For pay of all other employees, three hundred and ten thousand dollars; For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; For fuel, light, and water, ninety thousand dollars; For furniture and repairs to same, nine thousand dollars; For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, thirty-five thousand dollars; For rent of building or floor space for purveying depot in Washington, District of Columbia, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, fifteen thousand dollars; For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief at other than marine hospitals, and to be used for like purposes as were the tonnage taxes prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; For books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars; In all, one million one hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration. Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Portland, Maine: Perth Amboy, New Jersey: Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station; Cape Fear; Newbern. North Carolina; Washington. North Carolina: Georgetown, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Beaufort, South Carolina; Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay: Key West: Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Pensacola, Gulf; San Diego; San Pedro and adjoining ports; Santa Barbara; San Francisco, Port Harford, California: Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Oregon; Newport, Oregon; Coos Bay, Oregon; Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.” Prevention of epidemics: The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and two hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of al I officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, the same to be immediately available.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. immigration stations. To complete the contagious-disease hospital at Ellis Island, New York, in conformity with plans and specifications prepared for that purpose, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For remodeling main building at Ellis Island, New York, and making additions and improvements to the station and appurtenances to better adapt the same to the enforcement of the immigration laws, four hundred thousand dollars; in all, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration.” light-houses, beacons. and fog signals. Nantucket Shoals light-vessel, Massachusetts: For completing the construction, and equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a steel, steam, self-propelling light-vessel, with a steam fog signal, sixty-five thousand dollars. Light-vessel, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a steel, steam, self-propelling light-vessel, with a steam fog signal, sixty-five thousand dollars. For the purchase of land as an addition to the Prudence Island light station, Rhode Island, five hundred and forty dollars. Southwest Ledge light station. Connecticut: For completing Southwest Ledge light station, Connecticut, a contract is hereby authorized to be entered into at a total cost not exceeding one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, including the sum of sixty thousand dollars heretofore authorized to be used for said light station. Tender for inspector, third light-house district: For completing the tender for the inspector of the third light-house district, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. General light-house depot, Tompkinsville, New York: For completing a lamp shop, twenty-five thousand dollars. Ambrose Channel light-vessel, New York Harbor, New York: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a steel, steam, self-propelling light-vessel, with a steam fog signal, sixty-five thousand dollars. Miah Maul Shoal light station, Delaware Bay, Delaware: For completing a light and fog-signal station at Miah Maul Shoal. Delaware Bay, Delaware, thirty-five thousand dollars. Ragged Point light and fog-signal station. Virginia: For completing a light and fog-signal station near Ragged Point, Potomac River. Virginia, fifteen thousand dollars. Tender for the inspector of the sixth light-house district: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a new steam tender for use in shoal and inland waters, seventy thousand dollars. Brunswick light-vessel, Georgia: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a steel, steam, self-propelling light-vessel, with a steam fog signal, fifty thousand dollars. Milwaukee breakwater and harbor of refuge, Wisconsin: For establishing, a light and fog signal on the Milwaukee breakwater, Lake Michigan, Wisconsin, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That this amount and that heretofore appropriated, and the authorization to contract therefor is hereby made available, applicable and of force for the establishment of said light and fog signal station on the south end of the proposed extension of the breakwater, harbor of refuge. Menominee Harbor light station, Michigan: For the purchase of a suitable site for the erection thereon of the light-keeper’s dwelling, heretofore authorized to be erected, one thousand two hundred dollars. Duluth Range light station. Michigan: For the purchase of the land adjoining the station, needed for the erection of an oil house and out-buildings, two hundred dollars. Tender for Lake Superior: For completion of the tender for Lake Superior, to be used by the inspector of the eleventh light-house district, sixty thousand dollars. Detour light station. Michigan: The appropriation of four thousand dollars, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, for the purchase of a lens which would show a fixed light varied by a flash at Detour light station, is hereby made available for the purchase of a lens which will show flashes only. Rock of Ages light station. Michigan: For completing the construction of a light and fog-signal station on Rock of Ages, Lake Superior, Michigan, fifty thousand dollars. Martins Reef light-vessel, Northwestern end of Lake Michigan, Michigan: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, of a light vessel, with a fog signal, twenty thousand dollars. Tender for the engineer of the twelfth light-house district: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting, complete for service, of a new steam tender for use of the engineer of the twelfth light-house district, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Hinchinbrook light and fog-signal station, Alaska: For continuing the construction of a light and fog-signal station at Hinchinbrook, entrance to Prince William Sound, Alaska, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may enter into contract for the construction of said station within the limit of cost heretofore fixed or, at his discretion, may otherwise construct said station within said limit of cost in such manner as he deems for the best interest of the Government. Columbia River light-vessel, off mouth of Columbia River, Oregon: For completing the construction, equipping, and outfitting complete for service, a steel, self-propelling light-vessel, with a fog signal for use off the mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, eighty thousand dollars. Point Cabrillo light and fog-signal station, California: For completing a light and fog-signal station at or near Point Cabrillo, California, twenty-five thousand dollars. Tender for the use of the inspector of the thirteenth light-house district: For the completion of a new tender for inspection service in the thirteenth district, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. For the following additional aids to navigation authorized by the act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, namely: For a light-vessel for use near the eastern end of Hedge Fence Shoal, entrance to Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For tender for use in the third light-house district, twenty-five thousand dollars. For light and fog-signal station at or near the west end of the draw near the Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge at Passaic, New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. For tender for use in Porto Rican waters, and elsewhere as may be directed, two hundred thousand dollars. For relief light-vessel for the fourth light-house district, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For beacon lights at La Trappe River, Maryland, ten thousand dollars. For wharf for buoys and other light-house material at O and Water streets in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in place of the old wharf, thirty thousand dollars. For tender for use in the seventh light-house district, two hundred thousand dollars. For tender for use in the eighth light-house district, sixty thousand dollars. For light station to take the place of the Horn Island light destroyed by storm, ten thousand dollars. For light and fog-signal station at White Shoal, north end of Lake Michigan, to take the place of the light-vessel now maintained there, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Post lights on Fox River, Lake Winnebago and connecting lakes and channels, five hundred dollars. For light and fog-signal station at or near Split Rock, near Beaver Bay, Lake Superior, seventy-five thousand dollars. For range lights at Grand Island Harbor, Munising. Lake Superior, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. For relief light-vessel for use on the Pacific coast, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For light and fog-signal station at Carquinez Strait, between San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay. California, fifty thousand dollars. For light and fog-signal station on the north shore of Molokai Island, Hawaii, sixty thousand dollars. For steam tender for the Light-House Service in Hawaiian and Pacific waters, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For light-vessel at or near Swiftsure Bank, off the entrance of Juan de Fuca Strait, Washington, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and equipment of a light-house and fog signal at Cape Arago, Oregon, twenty thousand dollars. For additional amount for light station at Battery Point, Washington, eight thousand dollars. For new tender for use in the fifteenth light-house district, sixty thousand dollars. For light-keepers dwellings, and appurtenant structures, including sites therefor, within the limit of cost fixed by said Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five thousand dollars. light-house establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses, and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of the Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, actual hire of special conveyance when necessary to inspect light stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, six hundred thousand dollars. Repairs of light-houses: For repairing, protecting, and improving light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and per head and other beacon lights, including purchase of land for same: for illuminating apparatus and machinery to replace that already in use; construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating to these various objects, including the pay of officers and crews of light house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, eight hundred thousand dollars. Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries, supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of officers and crews of light house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, seven hundred thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals, including submarine signals, and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land for sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. Lighting of rivers: For the pay of officers and crews of light-house tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey: Connecticut River, Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Bordentown, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; Monongahela River, York River. James River, Virginia; Cape Fear River, North Carolina: Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers. Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana: at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri. Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. Oregon: on Puget Sound. Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior; Lake of the Woods, including Rainy River; in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Survey of light-house sites: For preliminary examinations, surveys, and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of light-houses and structures for which estimates are to be made to Congress, one thousand dollars. . Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil houses for the storage of mineral oil, fifteen thousand dollars: Provided, That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost. Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars. Pointe au Pelee light-vessel, Lake Erie: For maintenance of a light vessel on the southeast shoal. Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. coast and geodetic survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the coasts of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navigation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current observations along the coast and throughout the Gulf Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coasts; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each: outfit, equipment, and care of vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and under the following heads: Provided, That advances of money under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties. For field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of the before-mentioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States: Provided, That this appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars. For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars. For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, including expenses of surveys in aid of the shellfish commission of the State of Maryland, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars. For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the Superintendent, to be paid as directed by the Superintendent, in accordance with the Department of Commerce and Labor regulations, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars. Provided, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. In all, for field expenses, three hundred and twenty thousand four hundred dollars. Scientific and other employees of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, while employed outside of the District of Columbia, are hereby authorized to make assignments of their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. For repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, forty thousand dollars. Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, six thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the Superintendent may direct: For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; For thirteen aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and ten aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; In all, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For clerical force, namely: For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For chart correctors, buoy colorists, stenographers, writers, typewriters, and copyists, namely: For two, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each: For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: For two, at two thousand dollars each; For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For one, at one thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars; For nine, at one thousand dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely: For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For four, at nine hundred dollars each; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument, makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For one, at two thousand dollars; For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For twelve, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely: For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; For three, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For four, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For two, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; In all, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand one hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephone, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the Held force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries. Office of Commissioner: For Commissioner, five thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars: accountant, two thousand one hundred dollars; stenographer to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; inspector of fisheries in Alaska, one thousand eight hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars: three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at six hundred dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Office; Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: in all, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station and Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and eighty dollars. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, eight thousand one hundred dollars. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars: two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, four thousand six hundred dollars. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars: two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand and twenty dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, seven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Mammoth Springs (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: in all, three thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. The Commissioner of Fisheries shall, after due inquiry, submit in the, annual estimates for nineteen hundred and nine, estimates for completion in every detail of the fish hatchery at Mammoth Springs, Arkansas. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; three laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand and twenty dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two cockswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand two, hundred dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant ear messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars: assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Biological station, Beaufort. North Carolina: Superintendent and director, one thousand five hundred dollars; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; statistical agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston. Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester. Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross; One naturalist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, four hundred and eighty dollars. Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars. Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; tireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Steamer Gannet: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, four thousand one hundred dollars. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the Commissioner. including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, furniture, purchase and care of necessary horses and vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of Commissioner, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, eight thousand dollars. Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty-five thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For expenses of the- inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food-fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior, the Atlantic. Gulf, and Pacific coasts in the interest of fish culture and the commercial fisheries, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, twenty-five thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous expenses of the work of the Bureau shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Fish hatchery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine: For the construction of buildings and wharves, and for the construction or purchase and repair of a lobster pound, fifteen thousand dollars. Fish hatchery, Spearfish, South Dakota: For the protection of station against floods, construction and repair of buildings, construction of storage reservoir for fire protection, and repair and extension of pond system, five thousand dollars. Fish hatcheries, Alaska: For the completion of fish hatcheries in Alaska, including the construction of necessary buildings and ponds, and for equipment, twenty thousand dollars. Agents at salmon fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; and one assistant agent, two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; janitor service at the Government buildings at the Pribilof Islands, not exceeding four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food, fuel, and clothing, and other necessaries of life, to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, five hundred thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, and of said sum one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid to the Commissioner-General of Immigration as additional compensation. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act approved June twenty--ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” namely: For chief of division of naturalization, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each: one messenger; one assistant messenger; and for rent, four thousand dollars; in all, thirty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. For additional assistants, clerical and otherwise, necessary to establish and maintain a division of information in the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, Department of Commerce and Labor, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration: Provided, That detailed estimates shall be submitted in the manner required by law for appropriations required to meet this object during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine and thereafter. To enable the President to ascertain when the conditions exist under which, by the last proviso of the first section of the Act “To regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, it is made his duty to refuse to permit the aliens therein described to enter the continental territory of the United States, five thousand dollars, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration. Contingent expenses shipping service: For rent (including rent of office quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at San Francisco. California, not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars), stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, nine thousand one hundred dollars. To carry out the provisions of the Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to investigate and report upon the industrial, social, moral, educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States, approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to be immediately available: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the employment of any person in making said investigation who is not now in the employ of the Government or hereafter regularly appointed after competitive examination and certification through the Civil Service Commission.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Elevator, old Post-Office Department building: For the construction of an elevator in the F street wing of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Department of the Interior, six thousand dollars. For the Capitol: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol, flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books, thirty thousand dollars. Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of necessary technical books, seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars. To complete the construction of the fireproof building for committee rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, provided for in the sundry civil appropriations Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary technical books, one million and fifty thousand dollars, to continue available until expended. For furnishing the office building, House of Representatives, including furniture for office rooms, furniture for caucus and retiring rooms, and for kitchen and restaurant equipment, three hundred thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended; said appropriation to be expended by the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, under the direction of the commission of the House of Representatives designated by law to supervise the construction of said office building. To complete the construction of a building for a heating, lighting, and power plant in connection with the Capitol building, Semite and House office buildings, and other Congressional buildings, the installation of necessary machinery, for labor and material, construction of ducts, heating mains, subways, and for all other appliances, and for each and every purpose in connection with all of the foregoing, one million two hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars, to continue available until expended. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. For fireproof metal cases for the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For installation of additional ventilating fan and motor in attic of Senate Chamber, construction of housing, labor, material, and all necessary expenses in connection therewith, three thousand dollars. Improving the Capitol grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol grounds, care of the grounds, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, and laborers; for repairs to artificial stone pavement, walks, and roadways, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds; For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation, lamplighters, gas fitters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. New Freedmen’s Hospital Building: For completion of building including everything necessary for occupation, exclusive of nurses’ home, and in addition to the two following sums, fifty-six thousand four hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For brick smokestack, heating coils and blowers, motors for blowers, steam pipe, pumps, valves, traps, pipe covering, and thermostatic regulation; in all, fourteen thousand and sixty-five dollars, to be immediately available. For furniture, including operating tables, instrument tables, shelf stands, wheel stretchers, irrigating stands, sterilizers, aseptic, cabinets, instrument cabinets, autopsy table, morgue refrigerators, stable fittings, tables, chairs, brushes, beds, couches, bureaus, stands, mattresses, bed linen, desks, rugs, shades, awnings, screens, window guards, surgical instruments, operating and ward utensils; in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars, to be immediately available. expenses of the collection of revenue from sales of public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day. of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in opening new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: Provided further, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the examination of the lands embraced in any entry upon which final proof has been made, unless the Department has information furnishing good grounds to suspect fraud or noncompliance with law as to that specific entry: Provided, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, nine thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. Examinations of desert lands: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of one thousand dollars made by the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure in such examinations that may be made during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight: Provided, That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or employees of the Department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve, purposes, two thousand dollars. Transcripts of records and plats, General Land Office: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty 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: Provided further, That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be expended in any one month of the year for which it is available. Opening Indian Reservations (Reimbursable): The appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars, Act of Congress approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, to meet the expenses of opening to entry and settlement during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven the ceded lands within Indian reservations, is hereby continued and made available to meet the expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight: Provided, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively. surveying the public lands. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, four hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township and five dollars for section lines: Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Acts approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations, except forest reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may allow for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth rates not exceeding thirteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township and seven dollars for section lines, and in cases of exceptional difficulties in the surveys, where the work can not be contracted for at these rates, compensation for surveys and resurveys may be allowed by the said Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, at rates not exceeding eighteen dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, fifteen dollars for township and twelve dollars for section lines: Provided further, That in the States of California, Colorado. Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the district of Alaska there may be allowed, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the survey and resurvey of lands heavily timbered, mountainous, or covered with dense undergrowth, rates not exceeding twenty-five dollars per linear mile for standard and meander lines, twenty-three dollars for township and twenty dollars for section lines: the provisions of section twenty-four hundred and eleven, Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended such an amount as the Commissioner of the General Land Office may deem necessary for examination of public surveys in the several surveying districts, by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, or by such competent surveyors as he may authorize the surveyor-general to select, at such compensation, not exceeding six dollars per day, except in the district of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed one such surveyor and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in Held examinations, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to be also made to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make Held examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the Held, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, and for examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal Helds, and timber districts, and for making by such competent surveyors fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States. To provide for the resurvey and marking with permanent monuments of the eastern boundary line of Wyoming from the southeast corner of said State to the intersection of said boundary with the boundary line between the States of South Dakota and Nebraska, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, six thousand dollars. Reimbursement to the State of Washington: To reimburse the State of Washington as provided in the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for moneys advanced by said State to the United States on April eighteenth, nine-teen hundred and two, to secure the survey of lands in township thirty-three north, range eight east, Willamette meridian, per certificates of deposit numbered six hundred and fifty-seven, six hundred and fifty-eight, and six hundred and fifty-nine, of the Washington National Bank of Seattle, Washington, one thousand seven hundred and five dollars. united states geological survey. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For Director, six thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; three assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars, one at seven hundred and twenty dollars, and one at four hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars: four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-five thousand three hundred and forty dollars; Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each: For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each: in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars; For general expenses of the Geological Survey: For the Geological Survey and the classification of the public lands and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, gauging streams and determining the water supply, and for surveying forest reserves, including the pay of necessary clerical and scientific force and other employees in the field and in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and all other absolutely necessary expenses, including telegrams, furniture, stationery, telephones, and all other necessary articles required in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, twenty thousand dollars; For the continuation of the investigation of structural materials belonging to and for the use of the United States, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars; For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to the United States, in order to determine their fuel value, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; Provided, That in examinations, hereby authorized, of fuel materials for the use of the Government of the United States, or for the purpose of increasing the general efficiency or available supply of the fuel resources in the United States, the Director of the Geological Survey may have the necessary materials collected from any part of the United States where they represent extensive deposits; and it shall be the duty of the Director of the Geological Survey to have examined, without charge, the fuels required for use by the Government of the United States, and to give these examinations preference over other work: Provided further, That in publishing the results of these investigations, the materials examined shall not be credited to any private party or corporation, lint shall be collected and described as representing such extensive deposits: For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, one hundred thousand dollars: For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the national domain, ten thousand dollars; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to be immediately available: For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the national domain, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Tor the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, which report shall hereafter be published in one octavo volume and as a distinct publication, the number of copies, printing of separate chapters, and mode of distribution of which shall be the same as of the annual report, seventy-five thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars; For engraving and printing the geological maps, one hundred thousand dollars; For continuation of the survey of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For rent of basement of the addition to the main building of the Survey, required for additional storage of documents, maps, and so forth, and workroom, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of additional office accommodations for the Geological Survey in the main building of the Survey in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, being the quarters now occupied by the Reclamation Service, and paid for from that fund, three thousand dollars. In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million four hundred and forty-five thousand and twenty dollars. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase of such law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications as are needed in carrying out the surveys and examinations authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act appropriating the receipts from the sale and disposal of public lands in certain States and Territories for the construction of irrigation works for the reclamation of arid lands,” and such expenditures shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior. General Land Office: For continuation to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, of the work of reproducing the official records of the offices of the surveyor-general and register and receiver at San Francisco, California, which were destroyed by earthquake and tire on the eighteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and six, twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars. For the continuation of the rent from July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, for temporary offices for the General Land Office and for the purchase of typewriters, furniture, stationery, and other drafting supplies, and for the binding of plats and field notes, constituting the reproduced records of the office of the surveyor-general of California, authorized by the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand dollars. Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of necessary feed for buffalo and salary of buffalo keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars. Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fencing, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, thirty thousand dollars. Sequoia National Park, California: For the protection and improvement of the Sequoia National Park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand dollars Crater Lake National Park, Oregon : For protection and improvement of the Crater Lake National Park and repairing and extension of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, seven thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars, to be immediately available. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement of Mount Rainier National Park, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, three thousand dollars. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For the management, improvement, and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, to be expended under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars. . Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisions of the Supreme Court for two hundred and sixty copies of volumes two hundred and seven to two hundred and eleven, inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, and for thirteen copies of volume fifty-two of the decisions of the Supreme Court, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, two thousand six hundred and sixty-five dollars. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts. Indians, and other natives of Alaska: for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for textbooks and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That any person or persons employed hereunder as special agents or inspectors, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall not receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty outside of the District of Columbia. Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, nine thousand dollars; and all reindeer owned by the United States in Alaska shall as soon as practicable be turned over to missions in or natives of Alaska, to be held and used by them under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the sale, of surplus male reindeer and make regulations for the same. The proceeds of such sale shall be turned into the Treasury of the United States. For the support, maintenance, construction, and rental of additional day schools in Alaska, for the Eskimos, Indians, and other natives, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars. That all expenditure of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Government Hospital for the Insane: For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps. Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicle for official use of the superintendent, three hundred and five thousand eight hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends: not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, thirty-five thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, ten thousand dollars. For an assembly hall, Government Hospital for the Insane: For an assembly hall, seventy-five thousand dollars. Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, five thousand dollars. Howard University: For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, forty thousand dollars; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, eight thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures, for the law and general library, one thousand five hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, including five thousand dollars for repairing and refitting old hospital building, seven thousand dollars; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars; For fuel and light, three thousand dollars; In all, fifty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars. Freedmen’s Hospital and Asylum: For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; assistant surgeon, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engineer, matron, seamstress, superintendent of nurses, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, waiters, and laborers, seventeen thousand dollars; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, ten thousand five hundred dollars; In all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. armories and arsenals. Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For conversion of one timber shed into a carpenter shop, five thousand dollars; For spur connecting the arsenal with neighboring railroad, three thousand dollars: In all, eight thousand dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For one stable, ten thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For additional power, consisting of one boiler, and one engine and generator of not less than three hundred and fifty kilowatt capacity, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For extending the curb along Tacony street, from Kennedy street to the north gate, and paving the footwalk on Tacony street, from Bridge street to the north gate, one thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars: in all twenty-nine thousand and forty-three dollars. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fences and sewers, grading grounds and roads, twenty-five thousand dollars; For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. For the Rock Island bridge, as follows: For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Sandy Hook proving ground, New Jersey: For rebuilding and repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, store-houses, and quarters, five thousand dollars; For increasing facilities for fire protection, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For the completion of one machine and smith shop, carpenter and plumber shop, power house, and. paint shop, including power plant, shop tools, fixtures, and accessories, seventy-five thousand dollars; In all, eighty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Powder depot, near Dover, New Jersey: For storehouses for reserve supply of war material, twenty-five thousand dollars: For increase of transportation facilities, five thousand dollars; For installation of electric light and power plant, four thousand dollars; For the purchase and installation of machinery and heating plant for machine shops, five thousand dollars; For two sets of officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; In all, sixty-four thousand dollars. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For general care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars; For a system of lire protection for the carpenter and stocking shops, four thousand dollars; In all, fourteen thousand dollars. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: The appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars made by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, for moving the old two-story administration building to a new site and converting it into two sets of noncommissioned officers’ quarters is hereby increased to ten thousand dollars and made available for the razing of the above-mentioned building and of four other condemned buildings, for filling in and grading the sites, and for the construction, using the old materials, of two sets of noncommissioned officers’ quarters; For replacing, as far as practicable, all woodwork in the foundry building with iron, iron and concrete, or other fireproof material, including the necessary drawings, twenty-five thousand dollars; For extension of facilities for transportation of heavy weights and for loading and unloading material, ten thousand dollars; For the purchase and installation of one railroad track scale, two thousand five hundred dollars; For roofing space between foundry and foundry shed, to be used for cleaning and chipping castings, including the purchase and installation of necessary hoists and heating apparatus, ten thousand dollars; In all, fifty-five thousand dollars. Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For the necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of United States material for constructions, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, thirty-five thousand dollars. Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: The appropriation of six hundred dollars heretofore made for one oil house is hereby repealed, for feed-water purifier, two thousand dollars; For a stock room, four thousand dollars; For a motor-driven pump, and filter, three thousand dollars; For new intake pipe from river to pumping station, five thousand dollars; For relaying and repacking steam heating pipes between boilers and buildings, five thousand dollars; For repairs to stone walls, one thousand five hundred dollars; For one oil tank, two thousand dollars; In all, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Ordnance depot, Manila, Philippine Islands: For one magazine, ten thousand dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals and powder depots, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. buildings and grounds tn and around washington. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars. For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annex (Potomac Park) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of reservation numbered seventeen, and site of old canal northwest of same, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United States. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts: repairing and extending water pipes, and apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehicles, for official use, twenty-five thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars. For resurfacing asphalt roadways in the Smithsonian grounds, five thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars. For broken-stone road covering for parks, three thousand five hundred dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, one thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park between the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park along the north and west sides of the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars. For constructing a macadam roadway along the west side of section two of Potomac Park, to extend from the inlet of the tidal reservoir to the foot of Twentysixth street northwest, and for improving the grounds on either side of same, in accordance with plans prepared in the office of public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, of which sum fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available, eighty thousand dollars. For completing improvement of that part of Potomac Park between the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Virginia channel of the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, due to changes in street ear tracks and the erection of bridge across the outlet of the tidal reservoir into the Washington channel of the Potomac River, eight thousand dollars. For changing about eight hundred linear feet of the river drive in Monument Park annex (Potomac Park) from Fourteenth street to the Fifteenth street roadway, due to proposed change of grade on Fourteenth street and the opening up of Water street at that point, five thousand dollars. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, and lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That for each five-foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided further, That four thousand two hundred dollars of the foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: And provided further, That not more than six thousand dollars of said appropriation may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph. For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which shall cover the entire cost to the United States of lighting and maintaining in good order each electric light in said grounds, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting arc electric lights in public grounds as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, and twenty-seven in Potomac Park driveway, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said arc electric lights; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at seventy dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty-five dollars per month; one assistant tireman, at fifty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Repairs of building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars. Lincoln memorial shaft or tablet: To aid in the construction of the Abraham Lincoln memorial shaft or tablet, at Hodgenville. Kentucky, to be paid to the chairman of the commission appointed by the governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky under an act of the general assembly of that State approved March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, the sum of ten thousand dollars. Birthplace of Washington, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, five hundred dollars. engineer department. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as follows: Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Portland. Maine: For completing improvement, fifty-nine thousand dollars. Improving Newtown Creek, New York: For continuing improvement, fifteen thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Pedro, California: For continuing construction of breakwater, ninety-two thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars. Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of harbor at Winyah Bay, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, as follows: Improving channel in Gowanus Bay. New York: For continuing improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Gulfport. Mississippi: For maintenance of channel from Gulfport to Ship Island Harbor, including anchorage basin, ten thousand dollars. Improving harbor at New York, New York: For continuing improvement of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar, four hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg. Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, two hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, as follows: Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by providing channels thirty-five feet deep, and of authorized widths, from the navy-yard at Charlestown and the Chelsea and Charles River bridges to President Roads, and thence by route designated as numbered three through Broad Sound to the ocean, nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel from Kill van Kull to Raritan Bay, eighty- five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement in accordance with the plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: For completing improvement between Gardiner and Augusta, twenty-six thousand dollars. Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For continuing improvement of upper portion of river, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Middle and West Neebish channels, Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, one million dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and five, as follows: Improving harbor at Burlington. Vermont: For continuing work of repairs to breakwater, thirty-five thousand dollars. Improving Black Rock Harbor and Channel, New York: For continuing improvement, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers. Alabama: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two in the Tombigbee River, and the completion of Lock and Dam Numbered One in the Tombigbee River near Demopolis, and those Numbered Two and Three in the Warrior River next above, and by the construction of dredge and lock houses as authorized, two hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. Improving Cape Fear River. North Carolina: For continuing improvement at and below Wilmington in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-one, thirty thousand dollars. Improving Calumet River, Illinois and Indiana: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, twenty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Huron, Ohio: For completing improvement, forty-seven thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Holland, Black Lake, Michigan: For continuing improvement of harbor at Holland in completion of contract authorization, forty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River at Moline, Illinois, in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River between Saint Paul and Minneapolis by the completion of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement, with a view to obtaining a channel three hundred feet wide and twenty-five feet deep from San Francisco Bay to Fallon street, twenty- three thousand dollars. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For completing improvement, including Green Jacket Shoal, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars. Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization of channel to Baltimore, including shoals in Chesapeake Bay off York Spit, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For completing improvement, sixty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Sandusky, Ohio: For continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement at the falls, in completion of contract authorization, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Trinity River, Texas: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, seventy-five thousand two hundred and eighty-seven dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals by the construction of a lateral canal, in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Wilmington, California: For completing improvement, fifty thousand dollars. Bridge across Mississippi River at Fort Snelling, Minnesota: For payment of all expenses to be borne by the United States in connection with the construction of a bridge, across the Mississippi River between the Fort Snelling Military Reservation and the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, as authorized by law, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. national cemeteries. For national cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents of national cemeteries, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. For superintendents of national cemeteries: For pay of seventy-five superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, also for continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, sixty thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: Provided, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States, twelve thousand dollars: Provided further, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village. Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public land within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars. Bringing home the remains of officers and soldiers who die abroad: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action, or who die. in the field or hospital in Alaska, and at places outside of the limits of the United States, or who die while on voyage at sea, twenty-two thousand dollars. Bringing home the remains of civil employees of the Army who die abroad and soldiers who die on transports: To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while in the employ of the War Department in Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, China, Alaska, and the Philippines, including the remains of any honorably discharged soldiers who are entitled under the terms of their discharge to return transportation on Government transport, and who die while on said transport, two thousand five hundred dollars. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plot of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia: For continuing grading, draining, making roads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Arlington. Virginia. National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. National cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi: For repairs to the Government roadway to the Vicksburg, Mississippi, National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Pensacola, Florida: For completing the construction of the Government roadway to the Barrancas, Florida, National Cemetery, near Pensacola. Florida, thirty-two thou sand dollars. Road to the national cemetery, Port Hudson, Louisiana: For repairing the bridge, culvert, and roadway from Port Hickey. Louisiana, to the Port Hudson, Louisiana, National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars. Road to national cemetery, Keokuk, Iowa: For repairs to approach roadway to the Keokuk, Iowa, National Cemetery, one thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the city of Keokuk improve and agree to maintain in proper repair the road leading south from the main driveway of the city cemetery to the point where the road herein authorized to be improved begins. Road to national cemetery, Fort Scott, Kansas: For reconstructing and repairing the Government roadway to Fort Scott. Kansas, National Cemetery, known as National avenue, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars, which shall be expended commencing at the end of the road nearest the cemetery and so as to make a thoroughly good road for such distance as can be completed for said sum. and when the amount so appropriated has been expended the title to the whole of said roadway, including the portion thus improved and that remaining unimproved, shall pass to the city of Fort Scott for street purposes: Provided, That no portion of this appropriation shall be available until the city of Fort Scott, Kansas, shall, by valid ordinance, accept the provisions hereof and agree to accept said cession and to promptly and well pave all the portions of National avenue not improved under this appropriation and bind said city to forever maintain the whole of National avenue in good repair. Repairing monument, national cemetery, San Francisco, California: For repairing monument of George H. Thomas Post, Number Two, Grand Army of the Republic, in the San Francisco, California, National Cemetery, three hundred dollars. National cemetery, Greeneville, Tennessee: For the construction of a superintendent’s lodge, roadways, walks, and so forth, within the tract of land known as “Monument Hill” near Greeneville, Tennessee, and inclosing walls and approaches thereto, thirty-two thousand dollars. For enlargement of National Cemetery and improvement of the same, at Mill Springs. Kentucky, by acquiring land adjoining thereto, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the City of Somerset deeds to the United States free of charge four acres of land for said purpose. National cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee: For laying sidewalks on Holston and Munson streets around the national cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee, one thousand five hundred dollars. miscellaneous objects, war department. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement at military posts of such buildings as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, eight hundred and forty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; but no part of the money appropriated for military posts shall be used for the purchase of any land, nor for the establishment of any military prison. For the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, and for the purchase of suitable building sites for said barracks and quarters, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the reconstruction, on land owned by the United States, of the military prison in San Francisco harbor, fifty thousand dollars, the cost of which, when complete, shall not exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the sum hereby appropriated shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. Water supply, Fort Greble, Rhode Island: For purchase of about twenty-four and one-half acres of land near Dutch Island, Rhode Island, required to provide an adequate water supply for Fort Greble, Rhode Island, thirty thousand dollars. Fort Sheridan: That the Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, be so amended as to make the funds appropriated for the enlargement of the reservation for Fort Sheridan available, with the approval of the Secretary of War, for the purchase of a tract of land containing approximately eleven and a half acres, on the northeast corner of the reservation, in addition to that for the purchase of which provision is made in said Act. Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California: For continuing the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military Reservation. San Francisco, California, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Protection of water supply, Fort Bayard, New Mexico: For the purchase of land on which the springs which supply Fort Bayard, New Mexico, are situated and the land adjacent thereto, required to protect the water supply of the post, ninety thousand dollars. Fort Monroe. Virginia: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor. fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing urinals and closets, painting, repairs, brooms, shovels, and so forth, five thousand dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadways, macadamizing, paving, drainpipe: electric lights for streets; three thousand seven hundred and fifteen dollars; four laborers cleaning roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, five thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, two thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty cents. Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, and pump and boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, rebuilding reinforced concrete roof for sewerage tank, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand three hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents. Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars which shall be used for the repair and improvement of the east and south roads in the Yellowstone Forest Reserve; also, not exceeding one thousand dollars which shall be used for the survey of a wagon road for light vehicles connecting the Mammoth Hot Springs in the Yellowstone National Park to a point on the western boundary of said park where the West Gallatin River crosses the boundary line of said park and connecting with the wagon road heretofore constructed by Gallatin County, Montana, along the West Gallatin River. The Secretary of War is directed to report from such survey to the next session of Congress estimates of what it would cost to construct such road and upon the advisability and feasibility of such construction, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War; and to be immediately available. Mount Rainier National Park: For continuing the construction of the wagon road into said park, from the west, heretofore surveyed and commenced, under the direction of the Secretary of War, to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars. Enlargement of Governors Island, New York: For continuing plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island, New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and filling, one hundred thousand dollars. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of two civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance, completing the inclosing of Point Park; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, including ten thousand dollars for improving the road owned by the Government from Stevens Gap by way of Davis’s Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs in the Park; in all, forty thousand dollars. For a steel bridge over East Chickamauga Creek on the Ringgold road, five thousand dollars. For two bridges on the Ringgold road, at Georgia Mineral Spring branch and at Robinson’s branch, eight hundred dollars. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, office building, monuments to troops of the Regular Army, and historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, forty-three thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars. Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park: for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps and surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available, seventy-five thousand dollars. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. To reimburse Providence Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for expenses incurred in the reconstruction of the Providence Hospital buildings, in square numbered seven hundred and sixty-four, in the District of Columbia, one hundred and thirty thousand six hundred and twenty-nine dollars and sixty-seven cents, one half to be paid by the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: Provided, That if the said property be sold or diverted from use expressed in the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to incorporate Providence Hospital, of the city of Washington, District of Columbia.” approved April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, all money advanced by the United States and the District of Columbia on account of the reconstruction of any of the buildings on said square shall be first paid out of the proceeds thereof into the United States Treasury to reimburse the sums heretofore appropriated and hereby appropriated. This appropriation is made upon the express understanding that it is in full of all just claims against the United States and the District of Columbia on account of the reconstruction of said hospital and that neither the United States nor the District of Columbia shall hereafter be called upon to pay any further sum on account of such reconstruction or debts incurred in connection therewith. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. For renewal of plumbing, six thousand five hundred dollars. California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars; For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch, seventy-five thousand dollars; For reconstructing hull and overhauling steam tug Nimrod, five thousand dollars; In all, ninety thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. International Waterways Commission: For continuing the work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars. Jamestown Exposition: The sum of fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government, for permanent moorings for the use of vessels participating in the international naval, marine, and military celebration, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, or so much of said sum as may be necessary, may be expended to provide, place, and maintain in Hampton Roads and adjacent waters additional and temporary beacons and buoys to mark the anchorages and channels and for other purposes connected with the use of the anchorage grounds and channels during the Jamestown Exposition. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: At the Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the Home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks and orderlies; also payments for chaplains and religious instruction, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and tire company: for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the Home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, boats, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the Home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: Provided, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, seventy-two thousand dollars; For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers. waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department ; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the Branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the Home, two hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars; For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the Branch, 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, bathhouse keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas 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, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand dollars; For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, hospital carriage drivers, hearse drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick: burial of the dead, for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration: for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other articles necessary for the wards, and for the quarters of the assistant surgeons, nurses, and other civilian employees attached to the hospital permanently employed and residing at the Branch: for hospital kitchen and dining-room furniture and appliances; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the Home, sixty-two thousand dollars; For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars. For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, fifty-nine thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building. For four new boilers and for mechanical stokers, thirty-eight thousand dollars: For dining room and kitchen Annex, four thousand eight hundred dollars; For frame annex for governor’s court, one thousand dollars; For addition to hospital, sixty-six thousand dollars; For tuberculosis ward, six thousand eight hundred dollars; For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the Home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars; In all, seven hundred and twenty-nine thousand one hundred dollars. At the Northwestern Branch, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For gates and iron fence, six thousand five hundred dollars; For quarters for civilian employees, nine thousand dollars; For officers’ quarters, five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. At the Eastern Branch, at Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-one thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; For new coal shed, with necessary appliances for loading and unloading, ten thousand dollars; For improvement of sewerage and drainage system, forty-five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. At the Southern Branch, at Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For greenhouses, eight thousand dollars; For improvement of Jones Creek, five thousand dollars; For three barracks, including mess hall and kitchen, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; For addition to hospital, sixty-seven thousand dollar; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, six hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. At the Western Branch, at Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and two thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For dormitory for civilian employees, four thousand dollars; For cement and material for curbing, five thousand dollars; For lodge house and gate, five thousand dollars; For public toilet and lavatory, one thousand five hundred dollars; For quarters for chaplain, four thousand dollars: For improvement of heating system, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars; For expenses of investigating and ascertaining the estimate of cost of installing a water-supply system and maintaining and operating the same, one thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars. At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-four thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For combination dining hall and kitchen, ten thousand dollars: For quartermaster’s storehouse, twenty-five thousand dollars; For morgue, four thousand six hundred dollars; For additional pipe line to water system, six thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and one thousand seven hundred dollars. At the Marion Branch, at Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand five hundred dollars: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement. piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, fifty-five thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For mess building for noncommissioned officers and clerks, five thousand dollars; For additional bathrooms in barracks, ten thousand dollars; For cottage for civilian employees, one thousand dollars; For officers’ quarters, four thousand five hundred dollars; For addition to hospital bathrooms, six thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, eighty thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For installation of telephone system, five thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy-one thousand five hundred dollars. At the Mountain Branch, at Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-seven thousand dollars: For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the Home, five thousand dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-one thousand dollars; For wagon and implement shed and horseshoeing shop, four thousand dollars; For bridge over Brush Creek, one thousand six hundred dollars; For greenhouse and shed, five thousand five hundred dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars; In all, three hundred and one thousand six hundred dollars. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, at Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, subsistence, household, hospital, transportation, repairs, and farm, including the same objects specified under these heads for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, material, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other Home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely: For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, two thousand dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; inspector-general and chief surgeon, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant inspectors- general, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector-general and chief surgeon, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars: messenger service for president’s office, one hundred and forty-four dollars; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars; agents, one thousand four hundred dollars, of which sum not more than two hundred dollars shall be paid to the agent at Washington, District of Columbia: for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-six thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars. In all, four million five hundred and twenty-eight thousand and forty-four dollars: And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any National Home for disabled volunteers that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one million one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home until its laws, rules, or regulations respecting the pensions of its inmates be made to conform to the provisions of section four of an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, entitled “An Act prescribing regulations for the Soldiers’ Home located at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes;” but the above proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: And provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That in all cases hereafter so certified the said accounting officers shall, in stating balances, follow the decisions of the United States Supreme Court or of the Court of Claims of the United States after the time for appeal has expired, if no appeal be taken, without regard to former settlements or adjudications by their predecessors. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Salaries and expenses, United States court for China: For a court library, to be immediately available, five thousand dollars: for court expenses, seven thousand dollars; for a court stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred dollars. American National Red Cross Society: To enable the American National Red Cross to be represented at the forthcoming Conference of Red Cross Societies at London during the week beginning Monday, June tenth, nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Convention with Mexico: Toward the construction of a dam for storing and delivering sixty thousand acre-feet of water annually, in the bed of the Rio Grande at the point where the headworks of the Acequia Madre now exists, above the City of Juarez, Mexico, as provided by a convention between the United States and Mexico, proclaimed January sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, one million dollars, to be available as needed and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in connection with the irrigation project on the Rio Grande: Provided, That the balance of the cost of said irrigation project over and above the amount herein appropriated shall be allotted by the Secretary of the Interior as may be needed and as may be available from time to time from the reclamation fund and collected from the settlers and owners of the land benefited under the provisions of the reclamation Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts supplemental thereto or amendatory thereof.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia used by the Department of Justice, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For furniture and repairs, additional, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and exchange of same, and other necessaries directly ordered by the Attorney-General, additional, three thousand dollars. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For annual repairs, five thousand dollars; installation of two elevators, twelve thousand dollars; in all, seventeen thousand dollars, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, construction: For continuing construction of the new United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, construction: For continuing the construction of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall surrounding same, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington: For completing the construction of additional suitable buildings, prison wall, and brick plant for the United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, four thousand dollars, the money to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution. Court-house and jail, Nome, Alaska: For the erection of a court-house and jail at Nome, Alaska, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, and the ten thousand dollars appropriated by the sundry civil Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the erection of a jail and repairs to the court-house at Nome, Alaska, is hereby made available for the erection of the new building herein provided for, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to turn over to the Department of Justice, as a site for the erection of this building, so much of the reservation at Nome, Alaska, under the control of the Treasury Department as may be necessary for a proper site and grounds for the new building; to be expended under the direction of the court of the second division of the district of Alaska, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General. Reform School, District of Columbia: For the completion of new buildings to replace the main building of the Reform School, District of Columbia, recently destroyed by fire, fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, in accordance with plans to be approved by him, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended. For the construction complete in accordance with plans to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and approved by the board of trustees and the Attorney-General, an additional family building for the Reform School, District of Columbia, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended, the cost of said plans not to exceed one thousand dollars and to be paid from the amount hereby appropriated. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, sixty-five thousand dollars. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the records and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time: the inspection of United States prisoners and prisons: the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, and to include salaries of all necessary agents in Washington, District of Columbia, sixty-five thousand dollars. Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand dollars. Punishing violations of the intercourse Acts and frauds: For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse Acts of Congress and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation of witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, four thousand dollars. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, eight thousand five hundred dollars. Care of buildings rented by Department of Justice: For incidental expenses and for employment of temporary assistance and workmen necessary for the care and custody of the buildings in the District of Columbia rented by the Department of Justice, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General and to be expended under his direction, ten thousand dollars. Incidental expenses, Territory of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, six thousand dollars. Traveling expenses, Territory of Alaska: For the actual and necessary expenses of the judges and clerks in the district, of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars. Defense of suits before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of Assistant Attorney-General in charge as fixed by law, and of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington. District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, to be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the. Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, ninety-two thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference. Spanish Treaty Claims Commission: For expenses of taking testimony abroad, twenty-five thousand dollars: The Spanish Treaty Claims Commission is directed to ascertain as soon as may be what has been the average cost per page of taking testimony for use in cases before said Commission by dividing the whole amount expended from appropriations under this head by the total number of pages of testimony heretofore taken. The claimant in all cases before said Commission not already finally disposed of shall hereafter be required to pay in the first instance the expense of taking his testimony including the cross-examination of his witnesses at the rate per page so found and to secure the payment thereof shall within ninety days from the passage of this Act deposit with the Clerk of said Commission the average cost of taking the claimant’s testimony in cases heretofore disposed of at the rate per page afore said, and upon failure to make such deposit within the time fixed his case shall be dismissed with prejudice. Whenever any case is disposed of by the Commission in favor of the claimant his said deposit shall be returned to him by the Clerk, but if the case is disposed of in favor of the Government so much of his deposit as is required to pay the costs of taking his testimony shall be covered into the Treasury and the balance, if any shall be returned to the claimant. Enforcement of antitrust laws: That the balance of the appropriation of five hundred thousand dollars for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and other Acts mentioned in said appropriation, made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and three, shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and an additional appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, is hereby made for the same purposes.

JUDICIAL. united states courts. Expenses of the United States courts: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court : of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska: of the courts in the Indian Territory: of the circuit courts of appeal; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely: For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, one million three hundred thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seven, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven or prior years. The time prescribed by law for the transmission of accounts of United States marshals and other disbursing officers of the Department of Justice to the Auditor for the State and other Departments is hereby extended from sixty to eighty days after the date of their receipt in the Department of Justice at Washington, District of Columbia. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the offices of the United States district attorney. All laws fixing the annual salaries of the United States attorney for the southern district of New York, and of assistants in his office, shall hereafter apply in all respects to and be construed as fixing the annual salaries of the United States attorney for the northern district of Illinois, and of assistants in his office. The necessary expenses for lodging and subsistence actually paid, not exceeding four dollars per day, and actual necessary traveling expenses of the district attorney for the southern district of New York and his assistants, while absent from their respective official residences and necessarily employed in going to, returning from, and attending before any United States court, commissioner, or other committing magistrate, and while otherwise necessarily absent from their respective official residences on official business, shall be allowed and paid in the same manner and from the same appropriation as similar expenses in other judicial districts. For fees of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and of assistants to United States district attorneys, employed by the Attorney-General to represent the United States in naturalization and other proceedings, and for other necessary expenses in connection with such proceedings and cases, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For fees of clerks, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, one million and twenty thousand dollars. Fees of witnesses. United States courts: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, eighty-five 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: Provided further, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred 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; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States: of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States eases, 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be 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 of records, five hundred and forty thousand dollars: Provided, That in so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska. For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand dollars. The balance of the appropriation of ten thousand dollars for the purchase of books for the courts in Hawaii, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available until expended. 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, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, seven hundred thousand dollars. United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty thousand dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty, for expenses incurred in identifying anti pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-five thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, anti-post-age stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; tor pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, thirty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, six hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; two captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each: guards, at seventy dollars per month each, forty-two thousand three hundred dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each: engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seventy thousand two hundred dollars; For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice, if necessary, thirty thousand dollars; For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, fifteen thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils, and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam heating plant, electric plant, water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables; policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library, books, newspapers, and periodicals; electrical supplies; for payment of water supply; for telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services: for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, twenty-five thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical instruments, and supplies, and all other articles required for the care and treatment of sick prisoners, and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, four thousand dollars: deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: telephone operator, four hundred and eighty dollars: engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars: two captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; cook, and baker, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, twenty-six thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand and twenty dollars; For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, and carpenter, when necessary, three thousand two hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Reform School, District of Columbia: For superintendent, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, five thousand seven hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; four matrons of families, at two hundred and forty dollars each; two foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, florist, engineer, baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; laundress, three hundred and sixty dollars; two dining-room attendants, and housemaid, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; nurse, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not to exceed seven in number, two thousand five hundred and twenty dollars; office clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars: parole officer, nine hundred dollars: secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand eight hundred dollars; For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas. fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding nine hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, twelve thousand dollars; For extension to laundry building and purchase of new laundry machinery, three thousand five hundred dollars, to be immediately available; For appliances necessary to the increase in industries, including making of brick and blacksmithing, eight thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For purchase of furniture required in the new family building and in the reconstructed main building, seven thousand dollars: For extraordinary repairs to buildings and to steam-heating plant, and for approaches to new buildings, four thousand dollars, to be immediately available; In all, fifty-six thousand three hundred dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. For continuation of construction of buildings for the Department of Agriculture now in process of erection, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, foot walks, and roadways, and for rebuilding plant house numbered six and propagating house, numbered seven, south side of Maryland avenue, with nine-inch brick walls covered with cast-iron sills and gutters attached, wrought-iron rafters and pure lines, gulf-cypress sash bars, and glazed with twelve-inch by sixteen-inch double thick glass, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars. Parliamentary precedents: That there be printed and bound two thousand five hundred copies of Hinds’ Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States, with reference to such cases of procedure in the United States Senate as may be useful in connection therewith, and also with reference to such laws of Congress as may relate to the House of Representatives and its membership, the said compilation to be of the typographical style, size of page, and style of indexing used in House Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-six, second session Fifty-fifth Congress, known as “Parliamentary Precedents of the House of Representatives of the United States,” and to be divided into volumes each approximately of the size of the said 1 louse Document Numbered Five hundred and seventy-six. The sets of volumes of the said work shall be distributed as follows: Three sets to each Representative, Delegate, and Senator in the Fifty-ninth Congress and three sets to each Representative, Delegate, and Senator in the Sixtieth who is not a member of the Fifty-ninth Congress; one set to each committee room of the House and Senate; ten sets to the Library of Congress; ten sets each to the House and Senate libraries; five hundred copies for distribution to the State and Territorial libraries and designated depositories as in the case of documents printed under section fifty-four of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and eight); and the residue to the folding room of the House, to be distributed subject to the direction of the Speaker of the House. The said compilation shall be made by Asher C. Hinds, who shall also prepare a complete index digest thereto, and supervise the printing thereof. The sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be available for payment to said Asher C. Hinds when the printing of the work under this supervision shall have been completed, the same to be in full payment for said work, except the cost of printing and binding the same. The plates used in printing said work shall be the property of the Government and shall be preserved for such future use as may be hereafter authorized. House of Representatives office building: For maintenance, including heating, lighting, and ventilation, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, thirty thousand dollars. And the said office building and the employment of all service, other than officers and privates of the Capitol police, that may be appropriated for by Congress, necessary for its protection, care, and occupancy, shall be under the control and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject, until said building is completed, to the approval and direction of the Commission appointed under the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, to supervise the construction of said building: and such control and supervision by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds shall he and continue after the completion of said building, and not later than July first, nineteen hundred and eight, subject to the approval and direction of a Commission consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and two Representatives in Congress, to be appointed by the Speaker. Vacan- cies occurring by resignation, termination of service as Representatives in Congress, or otherwise in the membership of said Commission shall be tilled by the Speaker, and any two members of said Commission shall constitute a quorum to do business. The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds shall submit annually to Congress estimates in detail for all services, other than officers and privates of the Capitol police, and for all other expenses in connection with said office building and necessary for its protection, care, and occupancy: and said Commissions herein referred to shall from time to time prescribe rules and regulations to govern said Superintendent in making all such employments, together with rules and regulations governing the use and occupancy of all rooms and space in said building. The assignment of rooms, in said building, to and for the official use of Representatives shall be by such method as the House of Representatives may hereafter from time to time determine.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees; for the purchase and installation of, and instruction in, cost, audit, and inventory systems; for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for bicycles, horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; for freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; for furniture, typewriters, and carpets; for traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; for advertising for sale documents which have accumulated in the office of the superintendent of documents, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars; for directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding five hundred dollars; for adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings; for other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials needed in the prosecution of the work, five million dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, and for rents, one million seven hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, forty-two thousand dollars. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office. For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That nothing in section two of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall hereafter be held to apply to so much of the printing and binding as is necessary to expedite the work of that branch of The Military Secretary’s Office that was formerly known as the Record and Pension Office of the War Department. For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, five hundred and thirty five thousand dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half turkey or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty-three thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, twenty-one thousand dollars; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, two hundred dollars; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, one hundred dollars; the National Zoological Park, two hundred dollars; and the Astrophysical Observatory (including the publishing of results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies), two thousand dollars; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, seven thousand dollars; in all, seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, forty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; and said amount shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey. For the Department of Justice, twenty-three thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the provisions of public resolution Numbered Thirteen of the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress and also including not to exceed ninety-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, four hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars for the Census Office, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the Copyright Office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, two hundred and five thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, sixty thousand dollars. For the Bureau of American Republics, twenty thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. 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, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The Public Printer is authorized and directed to procure and submit to Congress, at its next session, plans and estimates of cost for a pneumatic or other tube system of communication between the Government Printing Office and the Capitol, office buildings of the Senate and House of Representatives, the Executive Departments, and other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, said report to indicate the relative cost of such tube system whether installed and owned by the United States or otherwise. The Public Printer may expend, out of the appropriation for public printing and binding for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for constructing a series of iron bridges connecting the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors of the Government Printing Office building.

THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended under the direction of the President in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twenty--eighth, nineteen hundred and two. For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, one hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars; For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal Building in the District of Columbia, twelve thousand dollars, and text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars), sixty-nine thousand dollars; For pay of officers and employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, supervisors, clerks, accountants. stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, wagon masters, stewards, hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two million seven hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths and other artisans, and their helpers, janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursements, and labor, quarters and subsistence, seven million nine hundred and ninety thousand dollars; For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the Commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian Canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, nine million forty-six thousand dollars; To continue the equipment and construction of the Panama Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars; no part of said sum shall be expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per centum interest payable to the United States shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and by him accepted; To pay the outstanding four and one-half per centum first-mortgage bonds of the Panama Railway Company October first, nineteen hundred and seven, two million two hundred and ninety-eight thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, to be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States, as provided for appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal; For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, five hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars; For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, four hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars; For skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, fifty thousand dollars; For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses for account of the government of the Canal Zone, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars; For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus, seven hundred and sixty-six thousand dollars; For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama, four hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars; For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses of the sanitation department on the Isthmus, eight hundred thousand dollars; In all, twenty-seven million one hundred and sixty-one thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents, the same to be available until expended: Provided, That all expenditures from the appropriation herein made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the pro-ceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation.

Sec. 2.

All funds collected by the government of the Canal Zone from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the Zone postal service, and from court fees and tines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatsoever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund of ten thousand dollars, to the maintenance of the public school system in the Zone,

Statement to Congress.

and to public improvements within the Zone. A detailed and classified statement of all receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.

Sec. 3.

Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the Isthmian Canal contained in the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated to meet deficiencies heretofore incurred, and to further remain available until expended.

Sec. 4.

That one hundred thousand dollars of the said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, “For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus for the departments of construction and engineering and administration,” shall be transferred to the appropriation “For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama” of the same Act; that three hundred thousand dollars of the said appropriation “For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus for the departments of construction and engineering and administration.” shall be transferred to the appropriation “For miscellaneous expenditures” for the same departments, of the same Act: that fifty thousand dollars of the appropriation “For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, for the construction and engineering and administration departments.” shall be transferred to the appropriation “For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus,” of the same Act; and that any unexpended balance of the appropriation in the said bill “To continue the reequipment of the Panama Railroad” may be paid to the Panama Railroad Company to reimburse that company for direct expenditures for equipment and

Proviso.

Approval of expense.

construction: Provided, That all expenses so reimbursed shall first be approved by the Commission and then audited in all respects as if disbursed directly under the Commission.

Sec. 5.

All sums appropriated hereunder and under the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the use upon the Isthmus of the several departments shall be available for the payment of the direct obligations of the Canal Commission, or of the Commission’s obligations under any contract or contracts that have been or may hereafter be entered into for the construction of the Isthmian Canal.

Sec. 6.

Nothing contained in section five of the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” shall prevent the President from entering into such contract or contracts as may be deemed expedient by him for the completion of the construction of the Panama Canal.

Sec. 7.

The appropriations for the pay of officers and employees of the several departments on the Isthmus under the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall apply to the pay of such officers and employees when necessarily temporarily detailed upon duty away from the Isthmus.

Sec. 8.

All amounts due from employees, whether to the Commission,

Amounts due from employees deducted from compensation.

Panama Railroad Company, or contractor, for transportation, board, supplies, or for any other service, are hereby authorized to be deducted from the compensation otherwise payable to the said employees, and to be paid to the authorized parties, or to be credited to the appropriation out of which the transportation, board, supplies, or other service was originally paid.

Sec. 9.

No appropriation heretofore or hereafter made for the

Public buildings, D. C.

Restriction on expenses for electricity.

construction or equipment of any executive or municipal building in the District of Columbia shall be expended for the production of electricity for light or power, unless, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, such necessary electric current for light and power can not be obtained at a less cost.

Sec. 10.

All sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers

Sums for salaries to be in full.

and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.