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<coverTitle style="font-size:larger;"><b>THE <br />STATUTES AT LARGE</b></coverTitle>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">OF THE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">FROM</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">DECEMBER, 1907, TO MARCH, 1909</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">AND</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;">RECENT TREATIES, CONVENTIONS, AND EXECUTIVE PROCLAMATIONS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">EDITED, PRINTED, AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>VOL. XXXV</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>IN TWO PARTS</b></p>
<p style="font-size:normal;"><inline class="smallCaps bold">Part</inline> <b>1—Public Acts and Resolutions</b></p>
<p style="font-size:normal;"><inline class="smallCaps bold">Part</inline> <b>2—Private Acts and Resolutions, Concurrent Resolutions Treaties, and Proclamations</b></p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:normal;"><b>PART 1</b></p>
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<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">WASHINGTON</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE</p>
<p class="centered" style="font-size:smaller;">1909</p>
</organizationNote>
<page />
<page>iii</page>
<coverText>
<p class="centered bold">PUBLIC LAWS</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">of the</p>
<p class="centered bold">UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p>
<p class="centered smallCaps">passed by the</p>
<p class="centered">SIXTIETH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered bold">1907–1909</p>
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<page>v</page>
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<heading class="centered">LIST<br /> <inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline><br />PUBLIC ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS</heading>
<subheading class="centered">CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.</subheading>
<subheading class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">Acts of the Sixtieth Congress of the United States.</inline></subheading>
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<label class="centered">STATUTE I—1907–1908.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Saint Francis River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county of Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 16, 1908</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize Washington and Westmoreland counties, in the State of Pennsylvania, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 20, 1908</label> <target>1</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 23, 1908</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the city of Burlington, Iowa, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 23, 1908</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Cumberland River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Nashville and Northeastern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cumberland River at or near Celina, Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 23, 1908</label> <target>2</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Salisbury, N. C.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the holding of United States district and circuit courts at Salisbury, North Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 31, 1908</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Black River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the construction of a drawbridge over the Black River in Lawrence County, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River near the village of Bemidji, in Beltrami County, Minnesota,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>3</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Grand Calumet River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the town of Gary, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>4</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Grand Calumet River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at or near the town of Gary, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>4</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Cache River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cache River, in Woodruff County, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1908</label> <target>4</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Choctawhatchee River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at or near the Jones Old Ferry, in Geneva County, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1908</label> <target>5</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, White River.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1908</label> <target>5</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Colorado River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Arizona and California Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Colorado River at Parker, Arizona Territory.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1908</label> <target>5</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration station, Philadelphia, Pa.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1908</label> <target>6</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Alachua County, Fla.</i></designator> <label>An act to transfer the county of Alachua, in the State of Florida, from the southern to the northern judicial district of that State, and to provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts for the northern district of Florida at the city of Gainesville, in said district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1908</label> <target>6<page>vi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, homesteads.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for second homestead entries.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 8, 1908</label> <target>6</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend to the port of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1908.</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs districts, Bridgeport, Conn.</i></designator> <label>An act amending sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four of Revised Statutes, so as to change the name of the Fairfield collection district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1908</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Knights Key, Fla.</i></designator> <label>An act amending an act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1908</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Pend d’ Oreille River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad to construct a bridge across the Pend d’Oreille River in the State of Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 13, 1908</label> <target>7</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Texas northern district.</i></designator> <label>An act to create a new division of the northern judicial district of Texas and to provide for terms of court at Amarillo, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 14, 1908</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, urgent deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 15, 1908</label> <target>8</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Grand Calumet River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the city of Hammond, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1908</label> <target>32</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Bartholomew.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county of Ashley, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point above Morrell, in said county and State, the dividing line between Drew and Ashley counties.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1908</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Powells River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Campbell County, Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Powells River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1908</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Saint Louis River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Interstate Transfer Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1908</label> <target>33</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Shelby County, Tex.</i></designator> <label>An act to attach Shelby County, in the State of Texas, to the Beaumont division of the eastern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Tyler division of said district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 21, 1908</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tucson, Ariz., bonds.</i></designator> <label>An act to enable the city of Tucson, Arizona, to issue bonds for the extension and repair of its water and sewer system, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 21, 1908</label> <target>34</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Norwalk, etc., Conn.</i></designator> <label>An act amending an act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1908.</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Alburg, Vt.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend immediate transportation privileges to the subport of Alburg, in the customs collection district of Vermont.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1908</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1908</label> <target>35</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kansas, lands granted.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the War Department to transfer to the State of Kansas certain land now a part of the Fort Riley Military Reservation.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1908</label> <target>36</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to legalize a bridge across the Mississippi River at Rice, Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1908</label> <target>36</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dams, Savannah River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 29, 1908</label> <target>36</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Lander, Wyo.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for a term of the United States circuit and district courts at Lander, Wyoming.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Cahaba River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Cahaba Power Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a dam across the Cahaba River, in said State, at or near Centerville, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red River.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for building a bridge across Red River at Shreveport, Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>37</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Saint Joseph River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across the Saint Joseph River at or near its mouth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States Courts, Dothan, Ala.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1908</label> <target>38</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rock River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the counties of Henry and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, to construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in said State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1908</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 7, 1908</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act to amend section four of an act entitled “An act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 9, 1908</label> <target>39</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, unlawful occupancy.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section four of an act entitled “An act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1908.</label> <target>40<page>vii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Habeas corpus appeals.</i></designator> <label>An act restricting in certain cases the right of appeal to the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1908</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Choctawhatchee River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize A. J. Smith and his associates to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1908</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Spokane River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Idaho and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Spokane River near the city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 10, 1908</label> <target>40</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oklahoma, homestead entries.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 11, 1908</label> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Alaska.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 11, 1908</label> <target>41</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>States, Spanish war expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act to fix the limitation applicable in certain cases.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 11, 1908</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Coosa River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county of Elmore, Alabama, to construct a bridge across Coosa River, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 12, 1908</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army camp grounds, Wyoming.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the exchange of lands for the enlargement of maneuvering grounds.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 13, 1908</label> <target>42</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Valentine, Nebr., water supply.</i></designator> <label>An act to grant certain land, part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebraska, to the village of Valentine for a site for a reservoir or tank to hold water to supply the public of said village.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Arizona Indian lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide additional station grounds and terminal facilities for the Arizona and California Railway Company in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>43</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New Mexico, school land grants.</i></designator> <label>An act to make the provisions of an act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-six), applicable to the Territory of New Mexico.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Reclamation, Huntley project, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the extension of time within which homestead entrymen may establish their residence upon certain lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the State of Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Sheepscot River, Me.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine, to maintain a free bridge across tide waters.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>44</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Mulberry Fork, Black Warrior River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize T. H. Friel or assigns to construct a dam across Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908.</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Tucumcari district, N. Mex.</i></designator> <label>An act to establish a United States land district in the Territory of New Mexico to be known as the Tucumcari land district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 16, 1908</label> <target>45</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hospital ships, exemptions.</i></designator> <label>An act to carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 24, 1908</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Life-Saving Service, pay, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>46</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Three Tree Point Military Reservation, Wash.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and granting the same and a right to operate and maintain a line of railroad through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation, in the State of Washington, to the Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company, its successors and assigns.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>47</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, entries in Colorado.</i></designator> <label>An act to validate certain entries of public lands in the State of Colorado.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>48</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, repayments.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public laws.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>48</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, desert-land entries.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for second desert-land entries.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>48</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mobile River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels on a line approximately east of the north boundary line of the city of Mobile, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oklahoma, townsites.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1908</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Yakima Indians, Washington, minors.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the disposal of the interests of Indian minors in real estate in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1908</label> <target>49</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Texarkana, Tex.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section thirteen of an act entitled “An act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1908</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Woodlawn Cemetery, Idaho, sale of land.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, to purchase not to exceed forty acres of land in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1908</label> <target>50</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Meridian place.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing the extension of Meridian place northwest,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 27, 1908</label> <target>51</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Menominee Indian Reservation, Wis., timber.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1908</label> <target>51<page>viii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, desert-land entries.</i></designator> <label>An act limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1908</label> <target>52</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete rifles, donation.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to denote to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, not to exceed fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1908</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Nebraska, school lands, Knox County.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to school district numbered thirty-six, in Knox County, Nebraska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 31, 1908</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New Mexico, legislative acts validated.</i></designator> <label>An act to validate certain acts of the thirty-seventh legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 1, 1908</label> <target>53</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Bartholomew.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county of Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Portland.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 1, 1908</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Bartholomew.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 1, 1908</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Bayou Bartholomew.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the county of Ashley in the State of Arkansas to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Wilmot.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 1, 1908</label> <target>54</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, donation.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four condemned brass cannon and cannon balls to the Confederate Monument Association, at Franklin, Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1908</label> <target>55</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, legal cord of wood.</i></designator> <label>An act prescribing what shall constitute a legal cord of wood in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1908</label> <target>55</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steamboat inspection, complement of crew.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1908</label> <target>55</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaii, agricultural leases.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section seventy-three of the act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 2, 1908</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a new site.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>56</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Big Stone Gap, Va.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the appointment of a deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridges, Cumberland River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>57</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tennessee River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, William S. Shacklette.</i></designator> <label>An act to place the name of William S. Shacklette on the retired list of the Navy as pharmacist.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Port Arthur, Tex.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend to Port Arthur, in the State of Texas, the privilege of immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 6, 1908</label> <target>58</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, urgent deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 7, 1908</label> <target>59</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, donation.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Winchester, Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 10, 1908</label> <target>60</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete rifles, donation.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to make certain disposition of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 11, 1908</label> <target>60</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Passes on railroads.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 13, 1908</label> <target>60</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Revenue-Cutter Service, personnel.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1908</label> <target>61</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Capitol, pediment, House wing.</i></designator> <label>An act for completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 16, 1908</label> <target>63</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions, widows’, etc., increased.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the pension of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 19, 1908</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, private hospitals.</i></designator> <label>An act to regulate the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 20, 1908</label> <target>64</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Railroad employers’ liability.</i></designator> <label>An act relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 22, 1908</label> <target>65</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Medical Department personnel.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 23, 1908</label> <target>66</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Marine parades or regattas.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas or marine parades.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 28, 1908</label> <target>69<page>ix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Islands, shipping.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeal an act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes.” and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 29, 1908</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Indian Department.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1908</label> <target>70</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hot Springs, Ark., land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act to confer title in fee and to authorize the disposition of certain lots now situate on Hot Springs Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1908</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Woodward, Okla., land granted.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the city of Woodward, in the State of Oklahoma, lot two, in block forty-eight, for park and other public purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1908</label> <target>98</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Fort Lawton, etc., Wash.</i></designator> <label>An act to grant to the city of Seattle, in the State of Washington, certain rights of way for sewer and street purposes through and along the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, and through the reservations for the Lake Washington Canal.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1908</label> <target>99</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration, San Francisco, Cal., ferryboat, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the purchase of a steel ferryboat for use between Angel Island and San Francisco, California, and a steel cutter for use of immigration officials at San Francisco, California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 2, 1908</label> <target>100</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, California, grant to Western Power Company.</i></designator> <label>An act to relinquish, release, and confirm the title of certain lands in California to the Western Power Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 5, 1908</label> <target>100</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Consular service reorganization.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>101</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska, game protection.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June seventh, nineteen hundred and two.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>102</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Army.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>106</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Commission.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the membership of the Philippine Commission by one member, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>125</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tuberculosis, District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1908</label> <target>126</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Navy.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1908</label> <target>127</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Aids to navigation, additional.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 14, 1908</label> <target>160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Tea, importing impure.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1908</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Scouts.</i></designator> <label>An act to create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1908</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, gambling prohibited, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act for the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 16, 1908</label> <target>163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>“In God we trust” restored to coins.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the restoration of the motto “In God we trust” on certain denominations of the gold and silver coins of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 18, 1908</label> <target>164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaiian postal savings bank deposits.</i></designator> <label>An act relating to unpaid Hawaiian postal savings bank deposits.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1908</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, resurvey, Nebraska.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the resurvey of certain public lands in the State of Nebraska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1908</label> <target>165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Episcopal Board of Missions, Indian lands, Idaho, to.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church for certain lands in the State of Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 19, 1908</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridges, general act.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to extend the time for the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to legalize the construction of bridges across navigable waters.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1908</label> <target>166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Minnesota, subject to State drainage laws.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the drainage of certain lands in the State of Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1908</label> <target>169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, gifts to vessels.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept and care for gifts presented to vessels of the Navy of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1908</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, diplomatic and consular.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 21, 1908</label> <target>171</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Jackson, Ky.</i></designator> <label>An act to establish a United States court at Jackson, in the eastern district of Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1908</label> <target>182</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Japanese Exposition.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for participation by the United States in an international exposition to be held at Tokyo, Japan, in nineteen hundred and twelve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1908</label> <target>183</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, legislative, executive, and judicial.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1908</label> <target>184</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs, ports of entry, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to make Monterey and Port Harford, in the State of California, subports of entry, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>245<page>x</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents, deceased or insane inventors.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section forty-eight hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>245</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Patents, issue, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section forty-eight hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Union Station tracks, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing certain extensions to be made of the lines of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and the Capital Traction Company, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>246</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chelsea, Mass., fire losses.</i></designator> <label>An act to reimburse certain Departments of the Government for expenses incurred incident to the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Agricultural Department.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908.</label> <target>251</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National Forest, Minnesota.</i></designator> <label>An act amending the act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>268</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Dam, Rainy River.</i></designator> <label>An act extending the time for the construction of a dam across Rainy River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>273</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 26, 1908</label> <target>274</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Five Civilized Tribes.</i></designator> <label>An act for the removal of restrictions from part of the lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>312</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, sundry civil expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>317</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army, Porto Rico Infantry.</i></designator> <label>An act fixing the status of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, fortifications.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>392</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, navy-yard siding.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the construction of a railroad siding to the United States navy-yard, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>397</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia.</i></designator> <label>An act to further amend the act entitled “An act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>399</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs, Board of General Appraisers.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the act entitled “An act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States,” approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>403</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, postal service.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 27, 1908</label> <target>406</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>418</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, child labor.</i></designator> <label>An act to regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>420</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.</i></designator> <label>An act granting title to a parcel of land in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, to the archbishop of Dubuque and his successors in office, and confirming and establishing title thereto accordingly.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>423</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska coal lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to encourage the development of coal deposits in the Territory of Alaska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>424</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navigation, New York Harbor, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>424</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Harbor, etc., improvements.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of War to remove certain obstructions to navigation from the main ship channel, Key West Harbor, Florida, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>429</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Military Academy.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>430</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, donations.</i></designator> <label>An act granting condemned ordnance to certain institutions.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>442</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Indian lands, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>444</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Spokane Indian Reservation,</i> Wash, <i>opening.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell and dispose of the surplus unallotted agricultural lands of the Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>458</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cheyenne River, etc., reservations, S. and N. Dak., sale of lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>460<page>xi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Washington and Western Maryland Railroad.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time within which the Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company shall be required to complete the road of said company under the provisions of an act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by an act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>464</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, miscellaneous.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing a resurvey of certain townships in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>465</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rights of way, military posts.</i></designator> <label>An act granting certain rights of way and providing for certain exchanges of the same.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>472</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Baltimore and Washington Transit Company.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>473</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Assay office, Salt Lake City, Utah.</i></designator> <label>An act to establish an assay office at Salt Lake City, State of Utah.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>474</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Brotherhood of Saint Andrew:</i></designator> <label>An act for the incorporation of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>475</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Locomotive safety ash pans.</i></designator> <label>An act to promote the safety of employees on railroads.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Congressional Club.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Congressional Club.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>476</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, general deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>478</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public buildings, omnibus act.</i></designator> <label>An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>520</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National bank circulation.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the national banking laws.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>546</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Pensions, Texas volunteers.</i></designator> <label>An act pensioning the surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers employed in the defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations from eighteen hundred and fifty-five to eighteen hundred and sixty, inclusive, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Farallone Islands, life-saving apparatus.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing certain life-saving apparatus to be placed at the Farallone Islands, off the coast of California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>553</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Masonic Mutual Life Association.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate The Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>National forests, agricultural entries.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Explosives on passenger vehicles, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to promote the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives and other dangerous articles, and to provide penalties for its violation.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>554</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Presenting false claims, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section fifty-four hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>555</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Injuries to employees on public works.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>556</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont., opening, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>558</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional employees, December salaries.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seven, on the twenty-first day of said month.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 19, 1907</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Seeds, purchase, etc.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase and distribution of valuable seeds.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 8, 1908</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Printing, etc., public documents.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution amending an act relative to the public printing and binding, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 15, 1908</label> <target>565</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Militia conforming to Army regulations.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution extending the time allowed the organized militia of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia to conform to the provisions of section three of the act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 16, 1908</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Military Academy, Hernan Ulloa.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point Mr. Hernan Ulloa, of Costa Rica.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 16, 1908</label> <target>566</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Forest Service, rent.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to amend the act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use for rent an increased proportion of the appropriation made by said act for rent for the Bureau of Forestry.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 31, 1908</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine Islands, Resident Commissioners.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution providing for salaries of the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1908.</label> <target>567<page>xii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Smithsonian, Charles F. Choate, jr., Regent.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the appointment of a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1908</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Confederate graves.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to continue in full force and effect an act entitled “An act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1908</label> <target>567</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Statue, Gen. Alexander Macomb.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish three condemned cannon to the mayor of the city of Detroit, Michigan, to be placed on the base of a statute of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 5, 1908</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>International Tuberculosis Congress.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the invitation of governments of other countries to send representatives to the International Congress on Tuberculosis.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>568</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Trinity River, Texas, improvements.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to apply the unexpended balance of the donation made by the citizens of Dallas, Texas, under the provisions of the river and harbor act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to work in construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two in section one of Trinity River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 6, 1908</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Light vessels.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution granting authority for the use of certain balances of appropriations for the Light-House Establishment to be available for certain named purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 23, 1908</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wilmington, Cal., harbor lines.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to establish harbor lines in Wilmington Harbor, California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 26, 1908</label> <target>569</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Statue, John D. Sloat.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to secure a suitable design for a statue of the late Commodore John D. Sloat at Monterey, California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 28, 1908</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy, Archibald G. Stirling.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the relief of Archibald G. Stirling, recently midshipman, United States Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 3, 1908</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Southern cyclone relief.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution providing for assistance to the people of the storm-swept States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1908</label> <target>570</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oregon forfeited land grants.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution instructing the Attorney-General to institute certain suits, and so forth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">April 30, 1908</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Army tents, Elks’ convention, Dallas, Tex.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for use at the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to be held at Dallas, Texas, in July, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 4, 1908</label> <target>571</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriation, Southern cyclone.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the relief of the sufferers from the cyclone which occurred in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Southern cyclone, relief extended.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution amending the joint resolution for the relief of storm sufferers in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 11, 1908</label> <target>572</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New Mexico, legislative act disapproved.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution disapproving certain laws enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1908</label> <target>573</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Michigan City, Ind., harbor.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the widening of the channel of Michigan City Harbor.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 13, 1908</label> <target>575</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Volunteer Soldiers’ Home, Managers.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 20, 1908</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rio Grande, correction.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to amend an act authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and so forth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1908</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Statue of Washington.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the transfer of the statue of President Washington, now located in the Capitol grounds, to the Smithsonian Institution.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 22, 1908</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Diseases of Cattle, report.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution providing for the printing of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 23, 1908</label> <target>576</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Arid lands, Idaho.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution providing for additional lands for Idaho under the provisions of the Carey Act.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1908</label> <target>577</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chinese Boxer indemnity.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 25, 1908</label> <target>577</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>House Office Building, space.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution relating to the assignment of space in the House Office Building.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 28, 1908</label> <target>578</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Statue, John Witherspoon,</i></designator> <label>joint resolution directing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a bronze statue in Washington, District of Columbia, in honor of John Witherspoon.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 29, 1908</label> <target>579</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Defense in Indian depredation claims.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the employment of clerical services in the Department of Justice.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">May 30, 1908</label> <target>579<page>xiii</page></target></referenceItem>
</groupItem>
<groupItem>
<label class="centered">STATUTE II—1908–1909.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Books to life-saving stations.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the transfer of books from the Treasury Department library to life-saving stations of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 11, 1908</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, New Hampshire avenue.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the extension of New Hampshire avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 18, 1908.</label> <target>581</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, V street.</i></designator> <label>An act to change the name of V street, from Florida avenue to Nineteenth street northwest, to California street.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 18, 1908.</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia Code, opening streets.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section four hundred and ninety-one of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 18, 1908.</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Saint Paul Bridge and Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Saint Paul, Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 18, 1908.</label> <target>582</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Shipping, steerage passengers.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section one of the passenger act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 19, 1908.</label> <target>583</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Italian earthquake.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of citizens of Italy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 5, 1909.</label> <target>584</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>William Parker Sedgwick.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of William Parker Sedgwick.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 5, 1909.</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Fort Mason, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a right of way to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company across the Fort Mason Military Reservation in California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 8, 1909.</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 9, 1909.</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska, appeals from district court.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the hearing of cases upon appeal from the district court for the district of Alaska in the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 11, 1909.</label> <target>585</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Delaware River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and the Lackawanna Railroad Company of New Jersey to construct and maintain a bridge across the Delaware River from a point near the village of Columbia, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, to the village of Slateford, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 14, 1909.</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>San Clemente Island, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to lease San Clemente Island, California, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 15, 1909.</label> <target>586</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge between Fort Snelling Reservation and Saint Paul, Minnesota,” approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 18, 1909.</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebr.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company a right to change the location of its right of way across the Niobrara Military Reservation.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 21, 1909.</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Boise, Idaho, lands.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to certain lands to Boise, Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 21, 1909.</label> <target>588</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fort Douglas, Utah, exchange of lands.</i></designator> <label>An act for the exchange of certain lands situated in the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, State of Utah, for lands adjacent thereto, between the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Government of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 23, 1909.</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Puget Sound fish hatcheries.</i></designator> <label>An act to establish two or more fish-cultural stations on Puget Sound.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 29, 1909.</label> <target>589</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Union engine house.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association use of certain property in the city of Washington, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 29, 1909.</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Taxes refunded, stamps, and anthracite coal.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for refunding stamp taxes paid under the act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries and authorizing rebate of duties on anthracite coal imported into the United States from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1909.</label> <target>590</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Tennessee districts.</i></designator> <label>An act to change and fix the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1909.</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Franking privilege, Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Harrison.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a franking privilege to Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1909.</label> <target>591</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Current River.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the construction of a bridge across Current River, in Missouri.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 1, 1909.</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Insane asylum, D. C., disbursing officer, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for a disbursing officer for the Government Hospital for the Insane.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 2, 1909.</label> <target>592</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Catania, Italy, consulate.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 3, 1909.</label> <target>593<page>xiv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, southwest railroad station.</i></designator> <label>An act to repeal section twelve of an act entitled “An act to provide for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and to provide for the location and erection of a substation on the parking at the corner formed by the intersection of the east side of Seventh street and the south side of C street southwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and to provide for the approval of the same by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 3, 1909.</label> <target>593</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaii, refund for light-houses.</i></designator> <label>An act to refund to the Territory of Hawaii the amount expended in maintaining light-house service on its coasts from the time of the organization of the Territory until said light-house service was taken over by the Federal Government.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Porto Rico, bay rum, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to impose a tax upon alcoholic compounds coming from Porto Rico, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Marshall County, Va.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces and cannon balls to the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>594</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Orange County, N. Y.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned bronze field piece and cannon balls to the county of Orange, State of New York.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Indian River North.</i></designator> <label>An act to legalize a bridge across Indian River North, in the State of Florida.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Lewis Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>595</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Willoughby Spit, Va.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the Norfolk County Water Company the right to lay and maintain a water main through the military reservation on Willoughby Spit, Norfolk County, Virginia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909.</label> <target>596</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, New York avenue.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the extension of New York avenue from its present terminus near Fourth street northeast to the Bladensburg road.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator>Nez <i>Perces Indian Reservation.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell isolated tracts of land within the Nez Perces Indian Reservation.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bellefourche land district, S. Dak.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the creation of a land district in the State of South Dakota, to be known as the Bellefourche land district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>597</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cordova Bay, Alaska, town site, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the sale of lands at the head of Cordova Bay, in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>598</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>John Crowley.</i></designator> <label>An act to place John Crowley on the retired list of the United States Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Territorial affairs.</i></designator> <label>An act relating to affairs in the Territories.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>600</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Kansas River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Edgewater Connecting Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>612</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navigation, tonnage deductions.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the deduction of hatchways and water-ballast space from the gross tonnage of vessels.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Canal, Puget Sound and Lake Washington.</i></designator> <label>An act extending the time for the construction by James A. Moore, or his assigns, of a canal along the government right of way connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Santee River.</i></designator> <label>An act to build a bridge across the Santee River, South Carolina.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909.</label> <target>613</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Opium, restrictions on importing.</i></designator> <label>An act to prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 9, 1909.</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, urgent deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 9, 1909.</label> <target>614</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, highway bridge.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section twelve of an act entitled “An act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 9, 1909.</label> <target>617</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Iowa.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish one condemned brass or bronze “Napoleon” gun, carriage, and cannon balls to the State of Iowa.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1909.</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Tennessee middle district.</i></designator> <label>An act to create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 13, 1909.</label> <target>618</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chippewa Indians, Mille Lac band.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 15, 1909.</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, retired judges.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 15, 1909.</label> <target>619</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Bladensburg road.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the widening of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 16, 1909.</label> <target>620<page>xv</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Tennessee River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee,” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, as amended by an act approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.’”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 16, 1909.</label> <target>620</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Navy deck courts, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to promote the administration of justice in the Navy.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 16, 1909.</label> <target>621</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>New York Harbor, life lines on scows.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section eight of the act approved May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 16, 1909.</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Municipal court, D. C.</i></designator> <label>An act to change the name and jurisdiction of the inferior court of justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909.</label> <target>623</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lake Erie and Ohio River ship canal.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section nineteen of the act granting the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company rights to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a canal or canals and appurtenant works between the Ohio River in the State of Pennsylvania and Lake Erie in the State of Ohio, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909.</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Henderson, Ky.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces and cannon balls to the city of Henderson, Kentucky.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909.</label> <target>625</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Secretary of State, salary.</i></designator> <label>An act in relation to the salary of the Secretary of State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909.</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Idaho University.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing sales of land within the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to the Northern Idaho Insane Asylum and to the University of Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909.</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Calaveras Bigtree National Forest.</i></designator> <label>An act to create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>626</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Trade-marks, applications.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>627</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Omaha and Winnebago Indian lands.</i></designator> <label>An act to enable the Omaha and Winnebago Indians to protect from overflow their tribal and allotted lands located within the boundaries of any drainage district in Nebraska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>628</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia National Guard.</i></designator> <label>An act for the organization of the militia in the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>629</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Oklahoma, homestead entries.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>636</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Foundation for Promotion of Industrial Peace, D. C.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>637</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Desert lands grant to New Mexico and Arizona.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the provisions of section four of an act entitled “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909.</label> <target>638</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Enlarged homesteads.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for an enlarged homestead.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 19, 1909.</label> <target>639</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, marshals, office deputies.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, of Public Statutes at Large.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 19, 1909.</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Gadsden, Ala.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Gadsden, Alabama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 19, 1909.</label> <target>640</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, San Bernardino County, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An act to withdraw from settlement and entry certain lands in the State of California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1909.</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, employment agencies.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section eight of an act entitled “An act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1909.</label> <target>641</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Trachoma among Indians.</i></designator> <label>An act for the investigation, treatment, and prevention of trachoma among the Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 20, 1909.</label> <target>642</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Currie, N. C.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of War to donate two condemned cannon to Moores Creek Battle Ground Association.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 23, 1909.</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration station, Boston, Mass.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 23, 1909.</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Blaine and Sumas, Wash.</i></designator> <label>An act extending the provisions of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, concerning transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 23, 1909.</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Duplicate checks, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to reenact and to amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 23, 1909.</label> <target>643</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Desert lands to Colorado.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the granting and patenting to the State of Colorado desert lands within the former Ute Indian Reservation in said State.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909.</label> <target>644</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Isthmian Canal employees.</i></designator> <label>An act relating to injured employees on the Isthmian Canal.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909.</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mineral surveys deposits.</i></designator> <label>An act for relief of applicants for mineral surveys.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909.</label> <target>645<page>xvi</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, errors in entries.</i></designator> <label>An act to permit change of entry in case of mistake of the description of tracts intended to be entered.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909.</label> <target>645</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Imperial Palace, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.</i></designator> <label>An act to incorporate the Imperial Palace, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>646</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rights of way, forfeiture of railroad.</i></designator> <label>An act to declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled “An act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Superior, Wis.</i></designator> <label>An act amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>647</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Common carriers, destruction of old records, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act amending an act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>648</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Twentieth street.</i></designator> <label>An act for the widening of Twentieth street northwest, District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>649</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, new highway plan, northeast.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An act for the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Wind River Reservation, mineral entries.</i></designator> <label>An act extending the time for final entry of mineral claims within the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>650</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Minnesota avenue.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the widening and extension of Minnesota avenue southeast from its present terminus near Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the Sheriff road.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Massachusetts avenue.</i></designator> <label>An act for the widening and extension of Massachusetts avenue southeast from its present terminus near Fortieth street southeast to Bowen road.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>651</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Hawaii, telephones, Oahu.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a telephone system on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, new highway plan.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways, District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Mississippi River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>652</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Rittenhouse street.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Rock River, Ill.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the construction of two bridges across Rock River, State of Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>653</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Monongahela River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Condado Bay, San Juan, P. R.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize Behn Brothers, of San Juan, Porto Rico, to construct a bridge across a portion of the Condado Bay, at the eastern extremity of San Juan Island, Porto Rico.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way. Fort McPherson, Ga.</i></designator> <label>An act granting a right of way over a strip of land along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson Military Reservation to the commissioners of Fulton County, Georgia, for road purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 25, 1909.</label> <target>654</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Court of Private Land Claims.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a court of private land claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and the acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909.</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Ninth street.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the extension of Ninth street northwest.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909.</label> <target>655</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Girard street.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the extension of Girard street northwest from its western terminus to Fifteenth street northwest.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909.</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, judge Pennsylvania western district.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for an additional judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909<i>.</i></label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Youngstown, Ohio.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Ohio at the city of Youngstown, in said district.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909.</label> <target>656</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, parole of juvenile offenders.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the parole of juvenile offenders committed to the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purpose.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909.</label> <target>657<page>xvii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, injured firemen.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>657</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Canal Zone leases.</i></designator> <label>An act relating to the use, control, and ownership of lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>658</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs, Ranier, Minn.</i></designator> <label>An act for the establishment of a subport of entry at Ranier, Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Philippine legislature, sessions.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.”</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Sabine and Neches rivers, Tex., navigation.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for improving the navigable capacity of the Sabine and Neches rivers, and the canal connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers with the mouth of Taylors Bayou.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>659</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, postal service.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1909.</label> <target>660</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, bucket shops.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “Act am to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” relative to gambling, bucket shops, and bucketing.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 1, 1909.</label> <target>670</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, diplomatic and consular.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>672</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Fort Keogh, Mont.</i></designator> <label>An act granting to the Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railway Company a right of way across the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Alaska.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>683</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Cane Island, Ark.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of certain occupants of unsurveyed public lands in Craighead County, Arkansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Alaska.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act entitled “An act to extend the time for the completion of the Valdez, Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>684</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Springfield, Mass.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for holding sessions of the United States circuit and district courts at Springfield, Massachusetts.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Ashtabula, Ohio, light station.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange property.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, judge New York southern district.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for an additional judge for the southern district of New York, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>685</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, judges Washington and Oregon.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the appointment of one additional district judge in and for the western district of Washington, and one additional district judge in and for the district of Oregon.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>686</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Steam vessels, boiler plates.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>686</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, Dawson County, Tex.</i></designator> <label>An act to attach Dawson County, in the State of Texas, to the Abilene division of the northern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Fort Worth division of said court.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909.</label> <target>687</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, District of Columbia.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to provide, for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>688</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, fortifications.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>728</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, army.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>732</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Quapaw Indian Agency, Okla., closing up.</i></designator> <label>An act for the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>751</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Red River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the city of Shreveport to construct a bridge across Red River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>752</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Navy.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>753</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kansas and Osage Indians, sale of lands.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell part or all of the surplus lands of members of the Kaw or Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>778</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend an act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>779<page>xviii</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Imperial County, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperial County, California.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>779</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, fractional subdivisions.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the sale of certain public lands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Right of way, Alaska.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for construction and beginning construction of the Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immediate transportation, Corry, Pa.</i></designator> <label>An act to make Corry, Pennsylvania, a port of delivery in the district of Erie, Pennsylvania, and extending to it the privileges of section seven of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>780</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Calumet River.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Chicago, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet River in the State of Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Indian Department.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>781</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Rivers and harbors maintenance.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the repair, maintenance, and preservation of public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>815</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Brownsville affray.</i></designator> <label>An act to correct the records and authorize the reenlistment of certain non-commissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry who were discharged without honor under Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, War Department, November ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and the restoration to them of all rights of which they have been deprived on account thereof.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>836</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alaska, special peace officers.</i></designator> <label>An act authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>837</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Foundlings Home.</i></designator> <label>An act to change the name of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Foundlings Home, reports.</i></designator> <label>An act requiring reports of the Hospital for Foundlings to be made to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>United States courts, additional judges, etc.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section eighty-six of an act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>838</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, surface rights.</i></designator> <label>An act for the protection of the surface rights of entrymen.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>844</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, resurveys.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorizing the necessary resurvey of public lands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909.</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Scranton, Pa.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the soldiers’ plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pennsylvania.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, legislative, executive, and judicial expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>845</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, deficiencies.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>907</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, sundry civil expenses.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>945</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Military Academy.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1028</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, Department of Agriculture.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1039</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Appropriations, pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1057</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, building associations.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend section six hundred and ninety-one of subchapter seven, building associations, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1058</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Bridge, Missouri River.</i></designator> <label>An act to extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1059</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Immigration, aliens returning.</i></designator> <label>An act relative to outward alien manifests on certain vessels.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1060</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Northern Liberty Market destruction.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the payment of certain claims against the District of Columbia in accordance with the act of Congress approved January twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and as amended July nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1060</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, Anacostia River road.</i></designator> <label>An act to construct a road along the south bank of the Anacostia River.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1062</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Ohio Northern University.</i></designator> <label>An act to grant two cannons to Ohio Northern University, at Ada, Ohio.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1062<page>xix</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fort Sherman Reservation, Idaho.</i></designator> <label>An act providing for the relinquishment by the United States of certain lands to the county of Kootenai, in the State of Idaho.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1063</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, recognizances, juvenile court.</i></designator> <label>An act empowering the juvenile court of the District of Columbia to issue execution on forfeited recognizances.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1063</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public lands, Kern County, Cal.</i></designator> <label>An act withdrawing from entry and sale and granting unto the city of Los Angeles, in the State of California, certain lands therein described.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1063</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Robert Morgan Gilson.</i></designator> <label>An act to restore to the active list of the United States Marine Corps the name of Robert Morgan Gilson.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1064</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>North Carolina fishery preserve.</i></designator> <label>An act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to cooperate, through the Bureau of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries, with the fish commissioner of the State of North Carolina in making surveys of the waters of North Carolina where fishing is prohibited by law.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1064</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Customs, pay of officials.</i></designator> <label>An act fixing the compensation of certain officials in the customs service, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1065</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, tugs on Potomac River.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend sections eleven and twelve of an act entitled “An act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railway Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1066</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>District of Columbia, police pensions.</i></designator> <label>An act for the relief of pensioners of the Metropolitan police fund.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1066</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional Record, etc., to Philippines.</i></designator> <label>An act to provide for the distribution of the Congressional Record and public bills, documents, and so forth, to the governor-general of the Philippine Islands at Manila, Philippine Islands.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1067</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public buildings, omnibus act.</i></designator> <label>An act to grant additional authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out certain provisions of public building acts, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1067</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, grants.</i></designator> <label>An act granting certain obsolete ordnance for ornamental purposes,</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1069</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Copyrights.</i></designator> <label>An act to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1075</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Criminal Code.</i></designator> <label>An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1088</target></referenceItem>
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<label class="centered">RESOLUTIONS.</label>
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<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional employees, December salaries.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and eight, on the nineteenth day of said month.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">December 17, 1908</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>House Office Building expenses.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution providing for expenses of the House Office Building.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 6, 1909</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lincoln postage stamp.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for a special Lincoln postage stamp.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 22, 1909.</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mississippi River, Mississippi and Louisiana.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to enable the States of Mississippi and Louisiana to agree upon a boundary line and to determine the jurisdiction of crimes committed on the Mississippi River and adjacent territory.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 26, 1909</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mississippi River, Mississippi and Arkansas.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to enable the States of Mississippi and Arkansas to agree upon a boundary line and to determine the jurisdiction of crimes committed on the Mississippi River and adjacent territory.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 26, 1909</label> <target>1160</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Inaugural ceremonies, permits, etc., D. C.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the granting of permits to the committee on inaugural ceremonies on the occasion of the inauguration of the President-elect on March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, and so forth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">January 27, 1909</label> <target>1161</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Mississippi River, Tennessee and Arkansas.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to enable the States of Tennessee and Arkansas to agree upon a boundary line and to determine the jurisdiction of crimes committed on the Mississippi River and adjacent territory.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 4, 1909</label> <target>1163</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Fifth Maryland National Guard.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution granting to the Fifth Regiment Maryland National Guard the use of the corridors of the court-house of the District of Columbia upon such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the marshal of the District.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 6, 1909</label> <target>1164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Inaugural ceremonies, Capitol expenses.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to enable the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President of the United States March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 9, 1909</label> <target>1164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lincoln centennial.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution relating to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln and making the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, a legal holiday, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 11, 1909</label> <target>1164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Kansas River, harbor lines.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to establish harbor lines in the Kansas River at Kansas City, Kansas.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 16, 1999</label> <target>1164</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>North American Gymnastic Union, tents, etc.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for use at the festival encampment of the North American Gymnastic Union, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, in June, nineteen hundred and nine.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 17, 1909</label> <target>1165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Bedford, Ind.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Bedford, Indiana.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 18, 1909</label> <target>1165<page>xx</page></target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Grand Army of the Republic.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to deliver a condemned cannon to the Grand Army of the Republic.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 23, 1909</label> <target>1165</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Constitution Island, West Point, N. Y.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to accept the gift of Constitution Island, in the Hudson River, New York.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909</label> <target>1166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Robinson, III.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish one condemned bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Robinson, Illinois.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 24, 1909</label> <target>1166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Obsolete ordnance, Cheyenne, Wyo.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of War to donate six condemned cannon to the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 26, 1909</label> <target>1166</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Chippewas of Minnesota, trust funds.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to provide for an accounting of certain funds held in trust for the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909</label> <target>1167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Osage Indians, homesteads.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution relative to homestead designations, made and to be made, of members of the Osage Tribe of Indians.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909.</label> <target>1167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Lake Champlain, tercentenary of discovery.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to authorize the Secretary of State to invite the Governments of France and Great Britain to participate in the proposed tercentenary celebration of the discovery of Lake Champlain by Samuel de Champlain.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">February 27, 1909</label> <target>1167</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Baled cotton statistics.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the Director of the Census to collect and publish additional statistics.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909</label> <target>1168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>House of Representatives, Chamber.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to rearrange and reconstruct the Hall of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909</label> <target>1168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Public documents, to Members of Sixtieth Congress.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to provide for the distribution by Members of the Sixtieth Congress of documents, reports, and other publications.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 2, 1909</label> <target>1168</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Niagara River waters.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution extending the operation of an act for the control and regulation of the waters of Niagara River, for the preservation of Niagara Falls, and for other purposes.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 3, 1909</label> <target>1169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Congressional Record, international exchange.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution for the purpose of more fully carrying into effect the convention concluded at Brussels on March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in reference to the exchange of official journals, and so forth.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Revision of the Laws, Joint Committee.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution to create a joint committee to consider the revision and codification of the laws of the United States.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1169</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Alexander Hamilton, pedestal to monument, D. C.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for the Alexander Hamilton memorial in Washington, District of Columbia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>Russia, American passports in.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution concerning and relating to the treaty between the United States and Russia.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1170</target></referenceItem>
<referenceItem><designator><i>International Congress of Applied Chemistry.</i></designator> <label>Joint resolution authorizing the President of the United States to invite the International Congress of Applied Chemistry to hold its eighth meeting in the United States of America, in the year nineteen hundred and twelve.</label> <label leaderChar="＿" leaderAlign="right">March 4, 1909</label> <target>1170</target></referenceItem>
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<preface>
<coverText>
<p class="centered">PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES</p>
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<enrolledDateline>
<i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1907, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the thirtieth day of May, 1908.</i>
<inline class="smallCaps">Theodore Roosevelt</inline>, President; <inline class="smallCaps">Charles W. Fairbanks</inline>, Vice-President; <inline class="smallCaps">William P. Frye</inline>, President of the Senate <i>pro tempore;</i> <inline class="smallCaps">Joseph G. Cannon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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<dc:title>Chap. 1: To Authorize the county of Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:date>1908-01-16</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>1.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To Authorize the county of Saint Francis, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Saint Francis River at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-16">January 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/194">H. R. 194</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/1">Public, No. 1.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the county of Saint<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Francis River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Francis County may bridge, at Madison, Ark.</p></sidenote> Francis, one of the counties of the State of Arkansas, duly created and organized under the laws of said State, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, across the Saint Francis River, at or near the town of Madison, in said county and State, in accordance with the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 2: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Washington and Westmoreland counties, in “the State of Pennsylvania, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 1</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-01-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>2.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize Washington and Westmoreland counties, in “the State of Pennsylvania, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-20">January 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9087">H. R. 9087</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/2">Public, No. 2</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and blouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section seven of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Washington and Westmoreland counties, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 851.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 604.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 17.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 876, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize Washington and Westmoreland counties, in the State of Pennsylvania, to construct and maintain a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by the Acts approved January eleventh, nineteen hundred and five, February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, and February fifth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and is hereby, further amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 3: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 2</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-01-23</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/2">2</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>3.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-23">January 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/251">H. R. 251</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/3">Public, No. 3</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Saint Louis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Saint Louis, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 883, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 585.</p></sidenote> shall have authority to construct the bridge mentioned in the Act entitled “To amend an Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved February sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, under and subject to the limitations and restrictions mentioned in the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 461.</p></sidenote> city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, if the actual<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> construction of the bridge therein authorized shall be commenced within one year from the approval of this Act and completed within three years from same date.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 4: To authorize the city of Burlington, Iowa, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>4</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 2</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-01-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>4.—</docNumber>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the city of Burlington, Iowa, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-23">January 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4891">H. R. 4891</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/4">Public, No. 4</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Burlington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Iowa, may bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 653.</p></sidenote> Iowa, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad and wagon bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at Burlington, in the State of Iowa, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location. Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 5: To authorize the Nashville and Northeastern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cumberland River at or near Celina, Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>5</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 2</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-01-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>5.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Nashville and Northeastern Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cumberland River at or near Celina, Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-23">January 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/10519">H. R. 10519</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/5">Public, No. 5</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Nashville and Northeastern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumberland River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashville and Northeastern Railroad Company may bridge at Celina, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Tennessee, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Cumberland River at or near Celina, in the State of Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 6: To provide for the holding of United States district and circuit courts at Salisbury, North Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-01-31</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/3">3</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>6.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the holding of United States district and circuit courts at Salisbury, North Carolina.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-31">January 31, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/456">S. 456</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/6">Public, No. 6</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That two terms of the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina western judicial district.</p></sidenote> and circuit courts of the United States for the western district of North Carolina shall be held in each and every year in the town of Salisbury, North Carolina, beginning, respectively, on the fourth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Salisbury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 100, 122.</p></sidenote> Monday in April and October, to continue till the business is disposed of.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the clerk of the United States district and circuit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk.</p></sidenote> courts at Statesville, North Carolina, shall be the clerk of the United States circuit and district courts at Salisbury.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 31, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 7: To authorize the construction of a drawbridge over the Black River in Lawrence County, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>7.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction of a drawbridge over the Black River in Lawrence County, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2694">S. 2694</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/7">Public, No. 7</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Maxwell Coffin and his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maxwell Coffin may bridge, at Powhatan, Ark.</p></sidenote> assigns are hereby authorized to construct a railroad and wagon drawbridge across Black River at or near the town of Powhatan, in the county of Lawrence and State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 8: To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River near the village of Bemidji, in Beltrami County, Minnesota,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>8.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River near the village of Bemidji, in Beltrami County, Minnesota,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/7606">H. R. 7606</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/8">Public, No. 8</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time limited in which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for damming, by Kirby Thomas, etc., at Bemidji, Minn.</p></sidenote> to complete the dam authorized by the Act entitled “An Act permitting the building of a dam across the Mississippi River near the village of Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, be, and the same is hereby, extended for a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1044, amended.</p></sidenote> period of one year.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 9: To authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 3</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>9.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9121">H. R. 9121</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/9">Public, No. 9</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Central Railroad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central Railroad and Bridge Company may bridge, at Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 660.</p></sidenote> and Bridge Company of Council Bluffs, Iowa, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Iowa, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railway bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, and may, in connection therewith, construct and maintain a way for wagons, carriages, vehicles, street cars, animals, and foot passengers in the State of Iowa or in Iowa and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/4">4</page> Nebraska, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendments.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 10: To authorize the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the town of Gary, Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>10</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 4</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>10.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the town of Gary, Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/11330">H. R. 11330</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/10">Public, No. 10</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Chicago, Indiana<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Calumet River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Indiana and Southern Railroad Company may bridge, at Gary, Ind.</p></sidenote> and Southern Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Indiana, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at a point in the town of Gary, Lake County, Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendments.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component>
<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 11: To authorize the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at or near the town of Gary, Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>11</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 4</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>11.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at or near the town of Gary, Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/11331">H. R. 11331</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/11">Public, No. 11</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Baltimore and Ohio<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Calumet River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company may bridge, at Gary, Ind.</p></sidenote> and Chicago Railroad Company, a consolidated corporation of the States of Ohio and Indiana, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at or near the town of Gary, Lake County, Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 12: To authorize the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cache River, in Woodruff County, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>12</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 4</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>12.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company to construct a bridge across Cache River, in Woodruff County, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-01">February 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12412">H. R. 12412</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/12">Public, No. 12</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Missouri and North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cache River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company may bridge, in Woodruff County, Ark.</p></sidenote> Arkansas Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Cache River at a point suitable to the interests of navigation, in section twenty-one, township five north, range three west, in Woodruff County, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 14: To authorize the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at or near the Jones Old Ferry, in Geneva County, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>14</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 5</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/5">5</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>14.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, to construct a bridge across the Choctawhatchee River at or near the Jones Old Ferry, in Geneva County, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-04">February 4, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9210">H. R. 9210</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/13">Public, No. 13</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the court of county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctawhatchee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geneva County may bridge, at Jones Old Ferry, Ala.</p></sidenote> commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a steel drawbridge and approaches thereto, across the Choctawhatchee River, at or near the Jones Old Ferry, about six miles above the town of Geneva, in Geneva County, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 15: Authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>15</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 5</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>15.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the construction of a bridge across White River, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-04">February 4, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12439">H. R. 12439</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/14">Public, No. 14.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Missouri and North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad Company may bridge, at Negro Hill Landing, Ark.</p></sidenote> Arkansas Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the White River at or near Negro Hill Landing, Arkansas, in township six north, range four west, at a point suitable to navigation interests, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 84.</p></sidenote> construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 16: To authorize the Arizona and California Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Colorado River at Parker, Arizona Territory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>16</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 5</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>16.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Arizona and California Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Colorado River at Parker, Arizona Territory.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-06">February 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2662">S. 2662</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/15">Public, No. 15</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Arizona and California<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona and California Railway Company may bridge, at Parker, Ariz.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p.166.</p></sidenote> Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Colorado River, at or near Parker, in the Territory of Arizona, as may be approved by the Secretary of War, for the passage of railroad trains by means of a single or double track, and also at the option of said company, its successors and assigns, to be used for the passage of wagons, vehicles, street cars, animals, and persons on foot and in vehicles, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 17: To provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>17</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 6</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/6">6</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>17.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the purchase of ground for and the erection of a public building for an immigration station, on a site to be selected for said station, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-06">February 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/7694">[H. R. 7694.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/16">[Public, No. 16.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public building at, for immigration station, authorized.</p></sidenote> Department of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase or condemnation a suitable site and cause to be erected, complete, thereon, a public building to temporarily accommodate and care for immigrants arriving at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania; the cost of said site and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> the complete erection, equipment and furnishing of said building not to exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation from immigrant fund.</p></sidenote> hereby appropriated for the purchase of ground for and the complete erection and furnishing of said building, which sum shall be paid from the immigrant fund; that the said building shall be erected in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and under the supervision of said Department.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 18: To transfer the county of Alachua, in the State of Florida, from the southern to the northern judicial district of that State, and to provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts for the northern district of Florida at the city of Gainesville, in said district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>18</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 6</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>18.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To transfer the county of Alachua, in the State of Florida, from the southern to the northern judicial district of that State, and to provide for sittings of the United States circuit and district courts for the northern district of Florida at the city of Gainesville, in said district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-06">February 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14779">[H. R. 14779.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/17">[Public, No. 17.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Alachua,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Florida northern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alachua County transferred from southern district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 117, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes, etc.</p></sidenote> in the State of Florida, which is now in the southern judicial district of said State, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to and made a part of the northern judicial district of said State.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all causes, civil and criminal, which arose in said county of Alachua, and which are now pending in the courts of said southern judicial district of Florida, shall remain and be disposed of in said courts, and all persons who have committed offenses against the United States in said county shall be prosecuted and tried as though this Act had not been passed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That there shall be held at the city of Gainesville, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Gainesville.</p></sidenote> said county of Alachua, terms of both circuit and district courts for said northern district of Florida on the first Monday in May and on the first Monday in December of each year.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That suitable rooms and accommodations shall be furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary quarters free.</p></sidenote> for holding said courts free of expense to the Government of the United States until such time as a Federal building shall be prepared for that purpose in said city of Gainesville, in the State of Florida.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 19: Providing for second homestead entries.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>19</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 6</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>19.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for second homestead entries.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-08">February 8, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/300">[H. R. 300.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/18">[Public, No. 18.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any person who, prior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second homestead entries permitted.</p></sidenote> to the passage of this Act, has made entry under the homestead laws, but from any cause has lost forfeited or abandoned the same, shall be entitled to the benefits of the homestead law as though such former entry had not been made, and any person applying for a second homestead under this Act shall furnish the description and date of his former<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> to any person whose former entry was canceled for fraud, or who relinquished the former entry for a valuable consideration.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 8, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 20: To extend to the port of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>20</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 7</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/7">7</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>20.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend to the port of Chattanooga, Tennessee, the privileges of immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-11">February 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/558">[H. R. 558.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/19">[Public, No. 19.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chattanooga, Tenn., granted immediate transportation facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 174.</p></sidenote> seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 21: Amending sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four of Revised Statutes, so as to change the name of the Fairfield collection district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>21</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 7</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>21.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending sections twenty-five hundred and thirty-three and twenty-five hundred and thirty-four of Revised Statutes, so as to change the name of the Fairfield collection district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-11">February 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9217">[H. R. 9217.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/20">[Public, No. 20.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That paragraph five of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairfield collection district, Conn., changed to Bridgeport.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2533, p. 498, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridgeport to be port of entry; Norwalk and Stamford subports; Greenwich and Stratford ports of delivery.</p></sidenote> twenty-five hundred and thirty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States of America is hereby amended so that said paragraph shall read as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fifth. The district of Bridgeport, to comprise all the waters and shores in the State of Connecticut west of the district of New Haven, in which Bridgeport shall be the port of entry, and Norwalk and Stamford subports of entry, and Greenwich and Stratford ports of delivery.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That paragraph five of section twenty-five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2534, p. 498, amended.</p></sidenote> thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States of America is hereby amended so that said paragraph shall read as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fifth. In the district of Bridgeport, a collector, who shall reside at Bridgeport.”</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 22: Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>22</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-02-11</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>22.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-11">February 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14011">[H. R. 14011.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/21">[Public, No. 21.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the privileges of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Knights Key, Fla., granted immediate transportation facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> the first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subport of Knights Key, in the customs collection district of Key West, Florida.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 23: To authorize the Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad to construct a bridge across the Pend d’Oreille River in the State of Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>23</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 7</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-13</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>23.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Idaho and Washington Northern Railroad to construct a bridge across the Pend d’Oreille River in the State of Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-13">February 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2929">[S. 2929.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/22">[Public, No. 22.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Idaho and Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pend d’Oreille River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho and Washington Northern Rail road may bridge, at Newport, Wash.</p></sidenote> Northern Railroad, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Idaho, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Pend d’Oreille River, near Newport, in Stevens County, in the State of Washington, in accordance with the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/8">8</page> provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 24: To create a new division of the northern judicial district of Texas and to provide for terms of court at Amarillo, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>24</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 8</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-14</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>24.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To create a new division of the northern judicial district of Texas and to provide for terms of court at Amarillo, Texas, and for a clerk for said court, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-14">February 14, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/485">[S. 485.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/23">[Public, No. 23.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the counties of Lipscomb,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas northern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New division established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 64.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 548, p. 92.</p></sidenote> Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth, Childress, Cottle, King, Dickens, Motley, Hall, Donley, Gray, Roberts, Ochiltree, Hansford, Hutchinson, Carson, Armstrong, Briscoe, Floyd, Crosby, Lubbock, Hale, Swisher, Randall, Potter, Moore, Sherman, Hockley, Cochran, Bailey, Parmer, Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Castro, and Lamb shall constitute a division of the northern judicial district of Texas.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the terms of the circuit and district courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Amarillo.</p></sidenote> United States for the said northern district of Texas shall be held twice each year at the city of Amarillo, in Potter County, Texas, beginning on the third Monday of April and the fourth Monday of September in each year.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all civil process issued against persons resident in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process, etc.</p></sidenote> said counties of Lipscomb, Hemphill, Wheeler, Collingsworth, Childress, Cottle, King, Dickens, Motley, Hall, Donley, Gray, Roberts, Ochiltree, Hansford, Hutchinson, Carson, Armstrong, Briscoe, Floyd, Crosby, Lubbock, Hale, Swisher, Randall, Potter, Moore, Sherman, Hockley, Cochran, Bailey, Parmer, Dallam, Hartley, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Castro, and Lamb, and cognizable before the United States courts, shall be made returnable to the courts, respectively, to be held at the city of Amarillo, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at the city of Amarillo: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no process issued, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes not affected.</p></sidenote> prosecutions commenced, or suits instituted before the passage of this Act, shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof, and that all persons who have committed offenses against the United States in any of the counties mentioned in this bill prior to the passage of this Act shall be prosecuted and tried as if this Act had not been passed.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office at Amarillo.</p></sidenote> division shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at the said city of Amarillo, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of said division.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 14, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 27: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>27</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 8</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-15</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>27.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-15">February 15, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14766">[H. R. 14766.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/24">[Public, No. 24.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Urgent deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:</chapeau>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/9">9</page>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary’s Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the following employees in the office of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of employees.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For one bookkeeper, at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bookkeeping and warrants division.</p></sidenote> rate of two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; in all, three thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-nine cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of public moneys: For two clerks of class two; in all, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public moneys division.</p></sidenote> thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Offices of disbursing clerks: For one clerk of class three, six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing office.</p></sidenote> and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of comptroller of the treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller’s office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one clerk of class three for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller of the Currency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special examinations.</p></sidenote> plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of accounts, etc.</p></sidenote> traveling expenses and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719.</p></sidenote> 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, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six thousand seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Silver Coin</inline>: For transportation of silver coin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of silver coin.</p></sidenote> including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fourteen thousand and fifty-three dollars and nineteen cents; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin when requested to do so: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an equal amount in coin or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit.</p></sidenote> currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/10">10</page><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Minor Coin</inline>: For transportation of minor coin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of minor coin.</p></sidenote> on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-two cents; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an equal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit.</p></sidenote> amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Furniture and Repairs of Furniture</inline>: For an additional amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote> required for “Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, to equip United States buildings which have not been included in any previous estimate submitted to the Congress, as follows: Fresno, California, court-house and post-office; Crawfordsville, Indiana, post-office extension; Dallas, Texas, court-house and post-office extension; Newport, Rhode Island, custom-house extension; Rockford, Illinois, post-office extension; Washingion, District of Columbia, custom-house extension; Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office extension; and to equip United States buildings which were included in the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, but not completed in time therefor, and will be turned back into the Treasury: Evanston, Wyoming, court-house and post-office; Macon, Georgia, court-house and post-office; Superior, Wisconsin, custom-house, sixty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount required for furnishing new custom-house,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Custom-House.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishings.</p></sidenote> New York, New York, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings</inline>: To supply a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> deficiency in the appropriation for fuel, lights, and water for public buildings on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and eighty-five dollars and twenty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Collecting the Revenue from Customs</inline>: To defray the expense<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting customs revenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., sec. 3687, p.724.</p></sidenote> of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, eight hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Prevention of Epidemics</inline>: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of epidemics.</p></sidenote> to enable the President of the United States in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all 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, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service</inline>: Authority is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of marine hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1316.</p></sidenote> hereby granted to use the sum of ten thousand dollars of the amount provided by the sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, for “fuel, light, and water,” for “maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby added to the appropriation for “pay of all other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of employees.</p></sidenote> employees” the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/11">11</page><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of Patrick J. Madden</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patrick J. Madden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2659.</p></sidenote> Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Patrick J. Madden,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of David McClelland</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">David McClelland.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2813.</p></sidenote> Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of David McClelland for loss sustained at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of Henry O. Bassett</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry O. Bassett.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2819.</p></sidenote> Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of Henry O. Bassett, heir of Henry Opeman Bassett, deceased,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of James W. Kenney and the Union Brewing Company</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James W. Kenney and the Union Brewing Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2824.</p></sidenote> To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of “An Act for the relief of James W. Kenney and the Union Brewing Company,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars and twelve cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Athens, Ohio, post-office building: For site and for commencement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athens, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site, etc.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>revenue-cutter service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the appropriation “Special repairs to revenue steamers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamer “Manning.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eight,” United States Revenue-Cutter Service, the amount required to make urgent and necessary repairs to the United States revenue cutter Manning, which vessel, while performing duty in Bering Sea, struck an uncharted rock off the eastern shore of Knights Island, Prince William Sound, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>life-saving service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat and light to detailed officers.</p></sidenote> from the regular annual appropriation for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for the allowance for heat and light, from March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, furnished to officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>internal revenue.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal Revenue.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, gaugers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and expenses.</p></sidenote> law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fees and expenses of gaugers and salaries and expenses of storekeepers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> and storekeeper-gaugers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the director of the mint.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director of the Mint.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations of mints, etc.</p></sidenote> of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight on bullion, etc.</p></sidenote> between mints and assay offices, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/12">12</page>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mints and assay offices.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mint at Denver, Colorado: For wages of workmen and adjusters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including melter and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> refiner’s wastage and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiner’s sweeps, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: For wages of workmen and adjusters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote> and not exceeding two thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mint at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For wages of workmen and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote> adjusters, and not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, melters’ and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mint at Carson, Nevada: To enable the assayer in charge to employ<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson, Nev.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerk.</p></sidenote> an additional clerk during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the assayer in charge to employ an additional melter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional melter.</p></sidenote> during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>government in the territories.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government in Territories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Territory of Oklahoma: For salaries of the following from July first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, namely: For governor at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; chief justice and six associate judges at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum each; and secretary at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; in all, twelve thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay accounts for legislative expenses, Territory of Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative expenses.</p></sidenote> as set forth on page sixteen of House Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-eight of the present session of Congress, five hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Executive Office</inline>: For additional amount required for Engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Commissioner’s salary.</p></sidenote> Commissioner (to make salary five thousand dollars per annum) for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-five dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses</inline>: For postage for strictly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> official mail matter, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required for the purchase of enamel metal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tags for motor vehicles.</p></sidenote> identification number tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, two hundred and fifty dollars; and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to amend the regulations controlling motor vehicles so as to provide that for such identification tag and registration thereof the owner of each motor vehicle shall pay the sum of two dollars and the secretary of the automobile board shall, after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee.</p></sidenote> the payment of said fee to the collector of taxes. District of Columbia, issue to said owner the identification number tag.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Municipal Building</inline>: For furnishing and equipping complete in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing, etc.</p></sidenote> every detail by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia the new <page identifier="/us/stat/35/13">13</page> municipal building, for repairing and renewing old furniture, and cost of removal to new building, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars, to continue available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expense of maintaining the new municipal building during the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, including personal services of such employees as may be authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person employed under this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum compensation.</p></sidenote> shall receive compensation at the rate of exceeding one hundred dollars per month.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Anacostia Bridge</inline>: For completing the grading and paving of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grading, etc., approaches.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1130.</p></sidenote> approaches to the Anacostia bridge, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the time within which this bridge shall be completed is hereby extended to January first, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sewers</inline>: Of the sums appropriated for sewers for the fiscal year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eight, not exceeding three thousand dollars may be used for procuring rights of way for sewers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required for cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bathing Beach</inline>: For additional amount required for temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bathing beach.</p></sidenote> services, maintenance, and repairs, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Public-convenience stations: For additional amount required for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public-convenience stations.</p></sidenote> maintenance of public-convenience stations, including compensation of necessary employees, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public Schools, District of Columbia</inline>: That not exceeding the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction of atypical and ungraded classes.</p></sidenote> sum of five thousand dollars of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars provided to meet the expenses due to the operation of the compulsory education law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby made available for the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction provided for atypical and ungraded classes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Municipal Almshouse</inline>: For additional amount required for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal almshouse.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> acquiring, by purchase or condemnation, additional ground, being part of lot seven in the subdivision of Bellevue or Blue Plains, containing nineteen acres, more or less, bounded on three sides by the ground purchased by the District of Columbia for a site for a municipal almshouse and burial place for the indigent dead, two thousand three hundred and twenty-four dollars and forty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reform School for Girls</inline>: To pay for plumbing in the building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School for Girls.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plumbing.</p></sidenote> for male employees in the Reform School for Girls, authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and ninety-one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Elimination of Grade Crossings</inline>: Toward carrying out the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eliminating grade crossings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 767.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 913.</p></sidenote> of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special counsel, etc.</p></sidenote> per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/14">14</page><inline class="smallCaps">Washington Asylum</inline>: That any unexpended balance in the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Asylum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of nurses.</p></sidenote> for pupil nurses at the Washington Asylum Hospital for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight is hereby made available for the payment of any nurses that in the judgment of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may be necessary in the work of the hospital.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Columbia Hospital for Women</inline>: To reimburse Columbia Hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital for Women.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> for Women and Lying-in Asylum for expenditures for indigent patients sent to said hospital by the Board of Charities in excess of the appropriations by Congress, from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, two thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One-half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the Signal Service of the Army on account of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cuban expenses.</p></sidenote> Army of Cuban Pacification during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, in the purchase of equipment, stores, and supplies, the engagement of services personal and not personal, and all other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Regular Supplies</inline>: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies.</p></sidenote> Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one million three hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand five hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental Expenses</inline>: For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks And Quarters</inline>: For barracks and quarters for troops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters for troops, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and nine thousand and thirty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of the Army and its Supplies</inline>: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of the Army and its supplies, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one million three hundred and eighteen thousand and seventy-seven dollars and eighteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation of the Army and its supplies on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy-eight thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and sixty-four <page identifier="/us/stat/35/15">15</page> cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing and Camp and Garrison Equipage</inline>: For cloth, woolens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, etc.</p></sidenote> materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, four hundred and sixteen thousand one hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, including all objects mentioned under this head in the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, war department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headstones for soldiers’ graves.</p></sidenote> sailors, and so forth, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this head in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, sixty-three dollars and sixty cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ACADEMY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one professor of military hygiene (lieutenant-colonel), in addition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of professor, etc.</p></sidenote> to pay as major, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and for ferriages, and for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg battlefield, Watervliet Arsenal, and Sandy Hook proving grounds, two hundred and forty-six dollars and eleven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one associate professor of mathematics, major, in addition to pay as captain, not mounted, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reimbursing the Corps of Cadets, United States Military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jamestown Exposition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursing Cadet Corps.</p></sidenote> Academy, an amount equal to the per diem commutation of rations at thirty cents each (provided for in the appropriations for the support of the Military Academy, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight), for the battalion of cadets while absent from the Military Academy attending the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, one thousand and seventy-two dollars and fifty cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ARMORIES AND ARSENALS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">For the Rock Island bridge, as follows: For operating and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of bridges, etc.</p></sidenote> care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct, four thousand and fifty dollars.</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Central Branch, at Dayton, Ohio: For hospital, including the same object specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danville Branch, at Danville, Illinois: For furnishing and equipping<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p></sidenote> new combination barracks, four thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>state or territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State or Territorial homes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 450.</p></sidenote> disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved <page identifier="/us/stat/35/16">16</page> August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eighteen thousand five hundred and nineteen dollars and twenty-seven cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> 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,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 564.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: <i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicating liquors.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>back pay and bounty.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Back pay and bounty.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrears of pay, etc.</p></sidenote> volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 322.</p></sidenote> 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, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to pay voucher in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. A. Copenhaver.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> favor of W. A. Copenhaver, Washington, District of Columbia, for embossing two thousand sheets of note paper and two thousand envelopes, eleven dollars and twenty-five cents, from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Navy Department, for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Transportation, Bureau<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of Navigation,” one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Outfits on first enlistment,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote> three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Heating and lighting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating and lighting.</p></sidenote> Naval Academy,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Naval training station,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval training station.</p></sidenote> California—maintenance,” ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, Naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam machinery, etc.</p></sidenote> Academy,” subhead “Gas and steam machinery,” one thousand four hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of coal, etc.</p></sidenote> equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, one million dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/17">17</page>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For naval prison fittings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H., Navy-Yard.</p></sidenote> for immediate use, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fittings and tools for pattern shop, twenty-nine thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bookkeepers, etc.</p></sidenote> and eight, namely: Two chief bookkeepers, at the rate of two thousand dollars each per annum; two clerks of class two; in all, two thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-five cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of medicine and surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for Medical Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote> including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supplement the appropriation bringing home remains of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home remains of officers and men, etc.</p></sidenote> and men, Navy and Marine Corps, who die abroad, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps: Including all objects specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> this head in naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, being additional to the amount appropriated for said fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to marine barracks and officers’ quarters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Camp Elliott, Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> Camp Elliott, Isthmian Canal Zone, Panama, ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Interior.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">To pay the United States Express Company for expressage furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Express charges.</p></sidenote> the office of the Secretary of the Interior March twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, for transportation of one trunk containing official papers, sent from the General Land Office, Washington, District of Columbia, to E. B. Linnen, special land inspector, Phoenix, Arizona, ten dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For the Capitol</inline>: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, five thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>patent office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the sum of seventeen thousand dollars, or as much thereof as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official Gazette.</p></sidenote> may be necessary, of the appropriation for printing the Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, be, and is hereby, made available for completing the work on the Official Gazette for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/18">18</page>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public land service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registers and receivers.</p></sidenote> receivers of public moneys at district land offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> land offices, seventy thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That no expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings in land entries.</p></sidenote> 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, twenty-one thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balance available.</p></sidenote> the unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of hearings in land entries, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, to the credit of the appropriation for said purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, the said amount to be made available for expenditure during the year nineteen hundred and eight, in addition to the foregoing appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National forests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>geological survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating mineral resources.</p></sidenote> Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indian affairs.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Affairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount to enable the President to cause, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in severalty.</p></sidenote> the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of land in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 388.</p></sidenote> severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said. Act and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for survey and subdivision of Indian reservations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying and allotting.</p></sidenote> and of lands to be allotted to Indians and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p></sidenote> Indians, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/19">19</page>For an additional amount to enable the Secretary of the Interior to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walker River Indians, Nev.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uintah and White River Utes, Utah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying, etc., allotted lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 260.</p></sidenote> complete the necessary surveying and otherwise carry out the purposes of so much of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two making appropriation for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes, as provides for the allotment of the Indians of the Walker River Reservation in Nevada, and the Uintah and White River<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokane Indian Reservation, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 744.</p></sidenote> Utes in Utah, and the joint resolution of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and two, providing for the allotment of the Indians of Spokane Reservation in Washington, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for support of Indian day and industrial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote> schools and for other educational purposes, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is directed to place on the books of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Brule Sioux Indians, S. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of stock, etc.</p></sidenote> the Treasury to the credit of the Lower Brule Sioux Indians in South Dakota, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, said sum to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior in the purchase of cattle, mares, and stallions, or for such other purposes as he may deem to be for the best interests of the Indians: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> That the same shall be reimbursed to the United States, from the first proceeds received from the sale of the lands described in the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 125.</p></sidenote> Statutes at Large, one hundred and twenty-five), belonging to said Lower Brule Indians.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection complete of a suitable school building to replace<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School building.</p></sidenote> the one destroyed by fire at Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pierre, S. Dak., School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1047.</p></sidenote> Statutes at Large, one thousand and forty-seven), appropriating the sum of five thousand dollars for completing the irrigation plant at the Pierre Indian School, South Dakota, is hereby so modified as to permit the expenditure of so much of said amount as may be necessary in completing the work on the artesian well appropriated for by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artesian well.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 370.</p></sidenote> Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, three hundred and seventy), at said school.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expense of surveys, allotment of lands to Indians, salaries and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Indian Reservation lands, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisement, sale of, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses of the Commission heretofore appointed for the classification of the Flathead Indian Reservation lands, and other incidental expenses in connection with the appraisement, classification, and sale of the lands embraced in the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, the same to be reimbursable from the sale of said lands.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce and Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>census office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Census Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Director of the Census is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Publishing names of heads of families in the First Census.</p></sidenote> expend so much of the appropriation for printing for the Department of Commerce and Labor allotted by law to the Census Office for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as may be necessary to continue and complete the publication of the names of the heads of families returned at the First Census of the United States, as authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of immigration and naturalization.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salaries, Division of Naturalization: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight: One clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class <page identifier="/us/stat/35/20">20</page> one; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Immigration Station, Ellis Island, New York: For addition to old<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions to hospitals.</p></sidenote> Ellis Island hospital building, complete, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional buildings in contagious-disease hospital group, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new water main between Ellis Island and Jersey City, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water main.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration.”</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>light-house establishment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-House Establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> 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, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of light-vessels: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs, salaries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, eighty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buoyage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lake Borgne Light Station, Mississippi: For rebuilding the light-house,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Borgne, Miss.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rebuilding lighthouse, etc.</p></sidenote> fog signal, and wharf, and quarters for keeper, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Marys River, Michigan: For lighting Neebish channel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Marys River, Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote> twenty-six thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the Attorney-General: For the following for the balance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney - General’s Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, namely, for one assistant engineer, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; one messenger, at the rate of eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; one laborer, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum; one fireman, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; three charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars each per annum; in all, one thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/21">21</page>For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, for the fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty-eight dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six’, eleven dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p></sidenote> 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, for the fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and ninety-four dollars and sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy dollars and sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Costs in the Supreme Court of the United States: For the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Costs.</p></sidenote> of the costs in the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Addison Johnson, agent and warden of Sing Sing prison, appellant, against Charles C. Browne, thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Costs in circuit court of appeals, third circuit: For the payment of the costs in the United States circuit court of appeals, third circuit, in the case of Nathaniel G. Macrum and others against the United States, appellee, eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDICIAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the salary of the United States district judge for the northern district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California northern district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District judge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1253.</p></sidenote> of California, appointed under the Act of March two, nineteen hundred and seven;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, six thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All expenses that may be incurred and otherwise chargeable to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of costs in the Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider case.</p></sidenote> the United States and District of Columbia in the approaching trial of the case of the United States against Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider in the District of Columbia shall be chargeable wholly to the United States and be paid from the respective appropriations made for expenses of United States Courts out of the Treasury. Whenever any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses for defense.</p></sidenote> defendant in the case herein described makes affidavit, setting forth that there are witnesses whose evidence is material to his defense; that he cannot safely go to trial without them; what he expects to prove by each of them; and that he is not possessed of sufficient means, and is actually unable to pay the fees of such witnesses, the court may in its discretion order that such witnesses be paid as herein provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All witnesses subpoenaed and appearing for the Government and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses’ fees and expenses.</p></sidenote> those appearing for the defense as above authorized, in the case mentioned in this paragraph, shall be paid out of said appropriations, the per diem fees allowed by law to witnesses in other cases together with actual, reasonable expenses of travel incurred in coming from and returning to their places of residence, which said actual expenses shall be sworn to and shall be subject to the inspection, revision and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/22">22</page> approval of the court and shall be in lieu of mileage now authorized by law to witnesses in other cases; and the tender of a sum sufficient to cover such actual expenses and the per diem fees shall be as effective for all purposes as the tender of mileage and per diem now allowed by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p></sidenote> and their deputies, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys.</p></sidenote> United States district attorneys and their regular assistants for the fiscal years, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, two hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses’ fees, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 850, p. 160.</p></sidenote> for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bailiffs, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actual attendance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 715, p. 136.</p></sidenote> in each court, except in the southern district of New York: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacation employment prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc., judges.</p></sidenote> 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 cases, and of bailiffs in attendance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors.</p></sidenote> upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury commissioners.</p></sidenote> any one term of court, five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 for the fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fifty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-three dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> expended under the direction of the Attorney-General for the fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special assistant attorneys.</p></sidenote> States district attorneys, employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, namely for the fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/23">23</page>For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eight thousand and thirty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular assistants.</p></sidenote> who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and of assistants<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization cases.</p></sidenote> 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, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, ninety-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Territory courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven; also salaries of the deputy clerks in the Indian Territory appointed under the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 695.</p></sidenote> March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and Acts amendatory thereto, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum, from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven; also salaries of four deputy clerks in the Indian Territory, authorized by the Indian appropriation Act approved June twenty-first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 342.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and six, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum, from July first to November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, forty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Reform School, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> the following for the balance of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, namely, one additional teacher at the rate of fifty-five dollars per month, one assistant teacher at the rate of forty-five dollars per month, one watchman at the rate of thirty dollars per month, and one matron of family at the rate of twenty dollars per month; in all, seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of live stock, one thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Live stock.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of furniture required in the new family building,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses</inline>: For telegraphing, fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and seven, three dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and wagons, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of roofs of Post-Office Department Building, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks at first and second class offices, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, clerks.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary clerk hire at first and second class offices, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary clerks.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to substitutes for clerks on vacation, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel at Presidential post-offices, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous and incidental expenses at first and second class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous</p></sidenote> offices, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/24">24</page>For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letter carriers.</p></sidenote> at new offices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For horse hire allowance and rent of vehicles, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare and bicycle allowance, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electric power and light, and repair of machinery in buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric power, light, etc.</p></sidenote> for the use of the Post-Office Department, including the mail-bag repair shop, lock-repair shop, and the division of supplies, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Railway mail service: For actual and necessary expenses of general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway mail service.</p></sidenote> superintendent, assistant general superintendent, chief clerk and assistant chief clerk, office of general superintendent, division of railway mail service, division superintendents, assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> and away from their several designated headquarters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of two thousand five hundred dollars is transferred from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of appropriation.</p></sidenote> the appropriation for:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and labor and material necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail locks, etc.</p></sidenote> for repairing equipment and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1211.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, to the appropriation for: “Mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and labor and material necessary for manufacturing and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> newspaper wrappers and expenses of agency, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the compensation of special counsel appointed by the Attorney-General,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special counsel, second - class mail suits.</p></sidenote> upon the request of the Postmaster-General, for the prosecution and defense on behalf of the Post-Office Department of suits affecting the second-class mailing privilege, five hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to distribute registry envelopes, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registry envelopes.</p></sidenote> thousand and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to distribute official envelopes, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official envelopes.</p></sidenote> thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for the city delivery service, including letter boxes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery, supplies.</p></sidenote> and so forth, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, and prior years, forty-three dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping twine and tying devices, one hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wrapping twine, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote> seven, five hundred and. seventy-seven thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars and ninety-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special delivery.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-two dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland mail transportation by star routes, fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star routes.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, five hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirteen cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isthmian Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries in the United States.</p></sidenote> Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/25">25</page>For pay of officers and employees on the Isthmus other than skilled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc., departments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers, etc., on Isthmus.</p></sidenote> and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrument men, 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary details.</p></sidenote> detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, auditing, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, two hundred and ten thousand and seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, five million five hundred and thirty-six thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of materials, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, six million and eighty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, accounting, disbursing, and labor, quarters and subsistence, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health and sanitation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled and unskilled labor.</p></sidenote> on the Isthmus of Panama, one hundred and sixty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appropriations made for the construction of the Isthmian Canal in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations continued available.</p></sidenote> the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1368.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, and in this Act shall continue available until expended.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to Mary E. and Cornelia I. Morgan, daughters of the Honorable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John T. Morgan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to daughters of.</p></sidenote> John T. Morgan, late a Senator from the State of Alabama, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to Lucy T. Roberts, Mary N. Lacy, Alice Pettus, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edmund W. Pettus.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to grandchildren of.</p></sidenote> Edmund W. Pettus, junior, grandchildren of the Honorable Edmund W. Pettus, late a Senator from the State of Alabama, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William B. Bankhead, Edward Douglas Johnston and Amos E. Lewis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> pay William B. Bankhead, clerk to the Honorable John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, from July first, nineteen hundred and seven, to January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight; and to Edward Douglas Johnston, clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, from August ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, to December first, nineteen hundred and seven; and to Amos E. Lewis, clerk to the Honorable William J. Bryan, of Florida, from December twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, to January eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/26">26</page>For superintendent of the document room at two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of document room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 935.</p></sidenote> dollars per annum, to be payable from the balance appropriated for said office under the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the Government, approved March third, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, for heating and electrical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> apparatus, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to Senators.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to, allowed.</p></sidenote> directed to reopen the accounts of the Secretary of the Senate of the United States for the quarter ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and allow in said settlement all the salaries paid by said Secretary to additional clerks to Senators not chairmen of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote> committees, therein disallowed.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Campbell Slemp, late a Representative in Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Campbell Slemp.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of Virginia, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of George W. Smith, late a Representative in Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George W. Smith.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of Illinois, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Robert Coates for services rendered in caring for press<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert Coates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> members’ lobby and the Speaker’s clerk’s room during the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Robert H. Key for services rendered in caring for press<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert H. Key.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> members’ lobby and the Speaker’s clerk’s room during the second session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay C. Barnwell Robinson account on file for services rendered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. Barnwell Robinson.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> as veterinary surgeon for horses belonging to the Doorkeeper’s department, fiscal years nineteen hundred and five, nineteen hundred and six, and nineteen hundred and seven, ninety-six dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Doorkeeper to have speeches folded at a rate not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding speeches.</p></sidenote> exceeding one dollar per thousand, to remain available during the Sixtieth Congress, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items, etc.</p></sidenote> exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, eighteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and oil.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>library of congress.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distribution of card indexes: To enable the Librarian of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distributing card indexes, etc.</p></sidenote> to secure the additional service necessary in connection with the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars, or so much thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote> as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>printing and binding.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding the annual report of the Commissioner of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual report of Commissioner of Education.</p></sidenote> Education for nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, United States courts.</p></sidenote> and seven, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 505.</p></sidenote> suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United <page identifier="/us/stat/35/27">27</page> States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney-General in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-five, and which have not been appealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Treasury Department, one thousand two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote> thirty-three dollars and thirty-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, four thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eleven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, eight hundred dollars; in all, six thousand four hundred and one dollars and forty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay balance due the Atlanta Machine Works, of Atlanta, Georgia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta Machine Works.</p></sidenote> four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and two cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Three hundred and forty-five, and Senate Document<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Court of Claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> Numbered One hundred and ninety-six, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under legislative—Public Printer, eight hundred and thirteen dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote> and eighty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under War Department, forty-two thousand six hundred and seven dollars and nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Navy Department, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars and seventy-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Post-Office Department, thirteen thousand and one dollars and fifty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Justice, three thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Interior, one hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents; in all, one hundred and ninety-three thousand two hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-two cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That none of the judgments herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> provided for shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.</p></sidenote> paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Awards.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81, p. 879.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and eighty-four, of the present session, fifty-two thousand two hundred and. thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num>
<chapeau class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote> due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seventy-three, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant custodians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> and janitors, thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, one thousand four hundred and nine dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/28">28</page> For suppressing the slave trade, twenty-five dollars and fifty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For post-office, court-house, and so forth, Binghamton, New York, ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and preservation of public buildings, sixty-six dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, assay office at Seattle, nineteen hundred and six, six dollars and thirty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collecting the revenue from customs, eighteen dollars and thirty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For life-saving service, forty-four dollars and forty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, four thousand one hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, one hundred and sixty-six thousand seven hundred and nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote> dollars and fifty-one cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, War Department, twenty-five dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, four thousand one hundred and fourteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, three hundred and seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Army, six hundred and twenty-four dollars and eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, twenty-four dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, ninety-four dollars and thirty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, five thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, four hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies of fortifications at Memphis, Tennessee, six dollars and seventy-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, twenty-eight dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Florida volunteers, one hundred and forty-one dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote> ninety-seven dollars and eleven cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, six thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, seven hundred and twelve dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency fund, Navy Department, thirty-one dollars and eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/29">29</page> For pay, Marine Corps, four thousand and forty-seven dollars and three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, twenty-three dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, sixty-eight dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighty-one dollars and fifteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, thirty-three dollars and ninety-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, forty-eight dollars and sixty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, one hundred and forty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and forty-three dollars and forty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, two thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, three hundred and thirty-seven dollars and six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Equipment, forty-four dollars and thirty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, two hundred and fifty-one dollars and eleven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, seventy-three dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, twenty-six dollars and forty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, forty-four dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost clothing, sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, one hundred and seventy-two dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For bounty for destruction of enemy’s vessels, one hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlistment bounties to seamen, one thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief of George T. Pettengill, lieutenant, United States Navy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2306.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 503.</p></sidenote> (Act January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and seven), two hundred and sixty-three dollars and three cents.</p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, Government Hospital for Insane, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> fifteen dollars and eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Nevada, nineteen hundred and six, nine dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of land offices, one dollar and seventy-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, forty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and ninety-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, one hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For geological maps of the United States, twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/30">30</page>For surveying forest reserves, twenty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school transportation, thirty-six dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of Indian supplies, ninety-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, sixty dollars and fifty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to Fond du Lac Chippewas for timber depredations, twelve dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and seven, twelve dollars and thirty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-three dollars and forty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Confederated bands of Utes, subsistence, two hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, twenty-six dollars and fifty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, fifteen dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Army pensions, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, seven dollars.</p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, three hundred and seventy-six dollars and forty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, seventy-eight dollars and forty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, twelve dollars and thirty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For soil investigations, two dollars and thirty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For agricultural experiment stations, twenty-five dollars and sixty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tea culture investigations, four dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, one hundred and five dollars and seventy-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of buoyage, six hundred and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, one dollar and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lobster hatchery, Maine, twenty dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal fisheries in Alaska, three hundred and sixty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, four thousand six hundred and forty-one dollars and forty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, twenty-two dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, United States courts, five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of witnesses, United States courts, seven dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of prisoners, United States courts, sixty-six dollars and forty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, one hundred and ninety-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote> States courts, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/31">31</page></p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For star transportation, fifty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rural free delivery, incidental expenses, twelve dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rewards, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, one thousand and nineteen dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For city-delivery service, incidental expenses, two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railroad transportation, freight, and cartage, sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel, four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk hire, separating, fifteen dollars and seventy-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, fifty dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special-delivery service, fees, sixteen cents.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num>
<chapeau class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional claims.</p></sidenote> due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</chapeau>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collecting the revenue from customs, one thousand three hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> eighty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, two hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, twenty thousand six hundred and ninety-two dollars and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote> twenty-three cents.</p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and forty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Army, six hundred and eighty-one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, four dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seven hundred and fifty-one dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote> and ninety-eight cents.</p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars and thirty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, forty dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, five hundred and eight dollars and twenty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/32">32</page>For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, twenty-six dollars and forty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, eighty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen dollars and ninety-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifteen dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
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<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, five dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, two hundred and two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State and other Departments.</p></sidenote> dollars and fifty-two cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For public printing and binding, forty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of interpreters to legations, three dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred and eight dollars and thirty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief and protection of American seamen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand three hundred and thirty-four dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, three dollars and sixty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For botanical investigations and experiments, six dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For forestry investigations, four dollars and twelve cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, eighty-three dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Weather Bureau, seventeen dollars and seventy-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, one hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of prisoners, United States courts, four dollars.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 15, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 28: To authorize the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the city of Hammond, Indiana.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Grand Calumet River in the city of Hammond, Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-20">February 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13430">[H. R. 13430.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/25">[Public, No. 25.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Chicago, Indianapolis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Calumet River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway Company may bridge, at Hammond, Ind.</p></sidenote> and Louisville Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Indiana, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Grand Calumet River at a point in or near the city <page identifier="/us/stat/35/33">33</page> of Hammond, Lake County, Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “ An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 29: To authorize the county of Ashley, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point above Morrell, in said county and State, the dividing line between Drew and Ashley counties.</dc:title>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the county of Ashley, State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, at a point above Morrell, in said county and State, the dividing line between Drew and Ashley counties.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-20">February 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14040">[H. R. 14040.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/1">[Public, No. 26.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<content class="inline">That the county of Ashley<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Bartholomew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashley County may bridge, near Morrell, Ark.</p></sidenote> be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a steel drawbridge and approaches thereto across Bayou Bartholomew, a navigable river, at a point above Morrell, in said county and State, the dividing line between Drew and Ashley counties, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 30: To authorize Campbell County, Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Powells River.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize Campbell County, Tennessee, to construct a bridge across Powells River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-20">February 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14781">[H. R. 14781.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/27">[Public, No. 27]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<content class="inline">That Campbell County,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powells River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Campbell County may bridge, near Agee, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Tennessee, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, across the Powells River at or near its mouth, near Agee post-office, in Campbell County, in the State of Tennessee, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 31: To authorize the Interstate Transfer Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Interstate Transfer Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Saint Louis River between the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-20">February 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16050">[H. R. 16050.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/28">[Public, No. 28.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Interstate Transfer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis River, Wis. and Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Transfer Railway Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Wisconsin, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Saint Louis River between the States of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> Wisconsin and Minnesota at the most feasible point in section twelve, in township forty-eight north, range fifteen west, in the State of Wisconsin, to a point opposite in section eleven, in township forty-eight north, range fifteen west, in the State of Minnesota, in accordance <page identifier="/us/stat/35/34">34</page> with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges across navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said bridge shall be constructed with two through decks, one of which shall provide for the passage of wagons and vehicles, for all kinds of street railway and motor cars, and road travel, and one of which shall also have two passageways, one on either side, for the exclusive use of pedestrians, each passageway to be not less than three and one-half feet in width and to be separated from the roadway or railway on said deck by suitable guard railings, and all parts of said bridge shall be forever maintained in accessible and serviceable condition, and the use thereof shall be forever free and without toll or compensation therefor to all pedestrians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Toll.</p></sidenote> and vehicles, but not free for steam or electric railroad cars and locomotives or street cars.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 33: To attach Shelby County, in the State of Texas, to the Beaumont division of the eastern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Tyler division of said district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>33</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-02-21</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>33.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To attach Shelby County, in the State of Texas, to the Beaumont division of the eastern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Tyler division of said district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-21">February 21, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6231">[H. R. 6231.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/29">[Public, No. 29.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Shelby County, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas eastern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelby County transferred to Beaumont division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 68.</p></sidenote> State of of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, attached to and made a part of the Beaumont division of the eastern judicial district of the State of Texas and detached from the Tyler division of said judicial district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all process against persons resident in said county of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process, etc.</p></sidenote> Shelby and cognizable before the court in said judicial district shall be issued out of and made returnable to said court at Beaumont, and that all prosecutions against persons for offenses committed in said county shall be tried in said court at Beaumont: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes not affected.</p></sidenote> civil or criminal cause begun and pending prior to the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by it.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 21, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 34: To enable the city of Tucson, Arizona, to issue bonds for the extension and repair of its water and sewer system, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>34</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-02-21</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>34.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To enable the city of Tucson, Arizona, to issue bonds for the extension and repair of its water and sewer system, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-21">February 21, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14638">[H. R. 14638.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/30">[Public, No. 30.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Tucson,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tucson, Ariz., may issue bonds for municipal improvements.</p></sidenote> Pima County, Arizona, pursuant to an election held for that purpose on the fourteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and seven, in said city, is hereby authorized, through its mayor and board of common councilmen to issue bonds of said city to the amount of three hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, the said bonds to be payable thirty years from the date of their issue and sale and to bear interest at the rate of not more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> than four and one-half per centum per annum, payable semiannually. Of the proceeds of the bonds so issued the sum of two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> sixty thousand dollars shall be applied to the extension and repair of the water and sewer system of said city, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the equipment and improvement of the fire department; the balance of fifteen thousand dollars shall be applied to the erection of a city hall for the use of said city. Said bonds, when issued,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds.</p></sidenote> shall bear the date of their issue and the date of maturity and the rate per centum of interest, not exceeding four and one-half per centum per annum. Each of said bonds shall have sixty semiannual interest coupons attached to and printed with the bonds, and each coupon shall <page identifier="/us/stat/35/35">35</page> bear on its face the amount of interest due for six months on the bond and each shall bear a number corresponding with the number of the bond to which it is attached. The interest on said bonds shall be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of interest.</p></sidenote> semiannually, and as the interest is paid the coupon representing the same shall be detached from the bond and, after being marked paid, shall be filed by the treasurer of said city and preserved as vouchers. Said bonds shall be issued under the seal of said city of Tucson, if it have a seal, and shall be signed by the mayor of said city and attested by the signature of the clerk of the common council.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the mayor and common council of said city, after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes.</p></sidenote> sale of said bonds, and in addition to all other city taxes, shall cause to be levied, assessed, and collected as other city taxes are levied, assessed, and collected each year a sum reasonably sufficient to meet the interest on said bonds and provide a sinking fund to meet the payment of said bonds at their maturity.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 21, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 35: Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>35</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 35</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>35.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending an Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-24">February 24, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9218">[H. R. 9218.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/31">[Public, No. 31.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norwalk, Stamford, and Greenwich, Conn., granted immediate transportation privileges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 174.</p></sidenote> seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the Statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the ports of Norwalk, Stamford, and Greenwich, in the State of Connecticut.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 36: To extend immediate transportation privileges to the subport of Alburg, in the customs collection district of Vermont.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>36</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 35</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-24</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>36.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend immediate transportation privileges to the subport of Alburg, in the customs collection district of Vermont.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-24">February 24, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12420">[H. R. 12420.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/32">[Public, No. 32.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alburg Vt., granted immediate transportation privileges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, relating to the transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subport of Alburg, in the customs collection district of Vermont.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 37: To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>37</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 35</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>37.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, South Dakota, by the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-25">February 25, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/417">[S. 417]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/33">[Public, No. 33.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section six of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, at Yankton, S. Dak., by Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, pp. 62, 621.</p></sidenote> approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and four, authorizing the Yankton, Norfolk and Southern Railway Company to construct a combined railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Missouri River at or near the city of Yankton, South Dakota, as amended by the Acts approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five; February fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and March second,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 9, 1058, amended.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seven, be, and is hereby, amended by extending the time for commencing the construction of said bridge to March ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, and by extending the time for completing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1060.</p></sidenote> said bridge to March ninth, nineteen hundred and eleven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/36">36</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 51: To authorize the War Department to transfer to the State of Kansas certain land now a part of the Fort Riley Military Reservation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>51</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 36</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>51.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the War Department to transfer to the State of Kansas certain land now a part of the Fort Riley Military Reservation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-26">February 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12398">H. R. 12398</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/34">Public, No. 34</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley Military Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain land of, granted to Kansas.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to grant to the State of Kansas the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a tract of land, not to exceed one acre of ground, whereon is located the ruins of the old station building which was the first Kansas Territorial capitol at Pawnee, now included in military reservation of Fort Kansas, for the preservation of said ruins as a historical relic,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ruins of Kansas Territorial capitol at Pawnee included.</p></sidenote> the metes and bounds of said tract to be determined by the Secretary of War.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 52: To legalize a bridge across the Mississippi River at Rice, Minnesota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>52</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 36</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-26</dc:date>
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<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>52.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To legalize a bridge across the Mississippi River at Rice, Minnesota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-26">February 26, 1908</approvedDate>..</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12401">H. R. 12401</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/35">Public, No. 35</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the bridge constructed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge across, at Rice, Minn., legalized, etc.</p></sidenote> across the Mississippi River at the village of Rice, Benton County, Minnesota, by the authorities of said village, be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to its maintenance by said authorities: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any changes in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes.</p></sidenote> said structure which the Secretary of War may at any time deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation shall be promptly made by the owners thereof at their own expense.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 55: To authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta in the State of Georgia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>55</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 36</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-02-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>55.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Twin City Power Company to build, operate, and maintain three dams across the Savannah River, above the city of Augusta in the State of Georgia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-29">February 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3726">S. 3726</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/93">Public, No 36.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Twin City Power<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twin City Power Company may dam.</p></sidenote> Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of South Carolina, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Savannah River, at or near where Dortons Creek, in the county of Edgefield,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dortons Creek, S. C.</p></sidenote> State of South Carolina, empties into the Savannah River, and also a dam across the said river at or near the southern end of Prices Island,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prices Island, S. C.</p></sidenote> in said river, and about five miles from the mouth of Dortons Creek, in the State of South Carolina, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams across<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> navigable waters, approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That one of said dams shall be completed within three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> years and the other within five years from the passage of this Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the said Twin City Power Company is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crouchs Bluff.</p></sidenote> construct, operate, and maintain a dam across the Savannah River at what is known as Crouchs Bluff, in Edgefield County, South Carolina: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said site at Crouchs Bluff can be obtained by contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p></sidenote> from the owners thereof: <i>And provided further</i>, That said dam at Crouchs Bluff shall be constructed under the provisions of the said Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> That said dam if constructed at Crouchs Bluff shall be completed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> within three years.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Twin City<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal of former act.</p></sidenote> Power Company to build two dams across the Savannah River, above <page identifier="/us/stat/35/37">37</page> the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia,” approved February<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1000.</p></sidenote> twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 56: To provide for a term of the United States circuit and district courts at Lander, Wyoming.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>56</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 37</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-06</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>56.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for a term of the United States circuit and district courts at Lander, Wyoming.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4064">S. 4064</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/93">Public, No. 37</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter, and until<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term at Lander.</p></sidenote> otherwise provided by law, there shall be held annually on the first Monday in October a term of the circuit and district courts for the district of Wyoming at the town of Lander, in said district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the marshal and clerk of said district shall each, respectively,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy marshal and clerk.</p></sidenote> appoint at least one deputy, to reside in said town of Lander, unless he himself shall reside there, and he shall also maintain an office at that place: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That until a public building is provided on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court room.</p></sidenote> the site now owned by the Government in said town of Lander a place shall be furnished for holding of said courts at an expense to the Government of the United States not to exceed three hundred dollars annually.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 57: To authorize the Cahaba Power Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a dam across the Cahaba River, in said State, at or near Centerville, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>57</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 37</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-06</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>57.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Cahaba Power Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a dam across the Cahaba River, in said State, at or near Centerville, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16051">H. R. 16051</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/38">Public, No. 38</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Cahaba Power<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cahaba River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cahaba Power Company may dam, at Centerville, Ala.</p></sidenote> Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Alabama, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Cahaba River at Centerville, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions Of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 58: To extend the time for building a bridge across Red River at Shreveport, Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>58</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 37</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-06</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>58.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for building a bridge across Red River at Shreveport, Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18689">H. R. 16955</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/93">Public, No. 39</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section five of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Shreveport, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 630, amended.</p></sidenote> of Congress approved February third, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Red River at Shreveport, Louisiana,” be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from February third, nineteen hundred and eight.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/38">38</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 59: To authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across the Saint Joseph River at or near its mouth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>59</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>59.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the city of Saint Joseph, Michigan, to construct a bridge across the Saint Joseph River at or near its mouth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17227">H. R. 17227</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/40">Public, No. 40</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Saint Joseph,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph, Mich., may bridge.</p></sidenote> Michigan, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Michigan, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Saint Joseph River, at or near its mouth, in Berrien County, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84</p></sidenote> State of Michigan, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 60: To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>60</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 38</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>60.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Dothan, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-07">March 7, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17524">H. R. 17524</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/41">Public, No. 41</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the southern division<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama middle judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern division established.</p></sidenote> of the middle judicial district of the State of Alabama is hereby established, composed of the counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston. And all other counties now in the middle judicial district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 532, p. 89.</p></sidenote> of the State of Alabama shall constitute the northern division of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern division.</p></sidenote> the middle district of Alabama, and the courts of said northern division<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term at Montgomery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 820.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern division.</p></sidenote> shall be held in Montgomery, as now provided by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That a term of the circuit and the district courts for the southern division of the middle judicial district of the State of Alabama shall be held at Dothan, in Houston County, in said State, on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term at Dothan.</p></sidenote> the first Monday in June and the first Monday in December in each year: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That suitable rooms and accommodations are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court room.</p></sidenote> furnished for the holdings of said courts free of expense to the Government until the public building provided for by Act of Congress shall be erected.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all civil process issued against persons resident in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process.</p></sidenote> counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston and cognizable before the United States court shall be made returnable to the courts of the United States respectively to be held at Dothan, as provided by this Act, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at Dothan: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no process issued or prosecutions commenced or suits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes not affected.</p></sidenote> instituted before the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof, and that all prosecutions heretofore commenced for offenses heretofore committed against the United States in any of the said counties of Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, and Houston shall be prosecuted and tried as though this Act had not been passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the clerks, marshal, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, marshal, etc.</p></sidenote> court officers of the middle judicial district to attend said terms of said court and perform the duties pertaining to their positions, and no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district; and that the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said southern division shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at Dothan,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office at Dothan.</p></sidenote> which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business, of said division.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 7, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/39">39</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 61: To authorize the counties of Henry and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, to construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in said State.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>61</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 39</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>61.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the counties of Henry and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, to construct a bridge across Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in said State.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-07">March 7, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17422">H. R. 17422</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/42">Public, No. 42</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the counties of Henry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry and Rock Island counties, Ill., may bridge, at Colona Ferry.</p></sidenote> and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Rock River at or near Colona Ferry, in the State of Illinois, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 7, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 62: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>62</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 39</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>62.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-07">March 7, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17220">H. R. 17220</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/43">Public, No. 43</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section seven of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Fayette Bridge Company.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, be, and is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 130, 1236, amended.</p></sidenote> amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void unless the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 654.</p></sidenote> of said bridge shall be commenced within one year from April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, and shall be completed by April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eleven.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the bridge to be constructed under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> said Act shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 7, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 71: To amend an Act to amend section four of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>71</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 39</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-09</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>71.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act to amend section four of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-09">March 9, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2072">S. 2872.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/44">Public, No. 44</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire department.</p></sidenote> approved March first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend section four of an Act entitled ‘An Act relating to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 822.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1003.</p></sidenote> Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,’” is hereby amended by extending its provisions in behalf of the chief engineer of the fire department, and all other officers of said department of and above the rank of captain, to any chief engineer of the fire department and all other officers of said department of and above the rank of foreman, who were retired and pensioned in pursuance of law prior to the approval of said Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when retired the present chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present chief engineer.</p></sidenote> engineer of the tire department of the District of Columbia shall receive as retired pay a sum equal to one-half of the salary allowed by law at date of retirement.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 9, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 75: To amend section four of an Act entitled “An Act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>75</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>75.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section four of an Act entitled “An Act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-10">March 10, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3941">S. 3941.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/45">Public, No. 45</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unlawful occupancy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 322, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to prevent unlawful occupancy of the public lands,” approved February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That any person violating any of the provisions hereof,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alternative penalty.</p></sidenote> whether as owner, part owner, or agent, or who shall aid, abet, counsel, advise, or assist in any violation hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, for each offense.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 10, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 76: Restricting in certain cases the right of appeal to the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>76</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>76.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Restricting in certain cases the right of appeal to the Supreme Court in habeas corpus proceedings.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-10">March 10, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4777">H. R. 4777</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/46">Public, No. 46</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from a final decision<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Habeas corpus appeals from State courts to Supreme Court restricted.</p></sidenote> by a court of the United States in a proceeding in habeas corpus where the detention complained of is by virtue of process issued out of a State court no appeal to the Supreme Court shall be allowed unless the United States court by which the final decision was rendered or a justice of the Supreme Court shall be of opinion that there exists probable cause for an appeal, in which event, on allowing the same, the said court or justice shall certify that there is probable cause for such allowance.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 10, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 77: To authorize A. J. Smith and his associates to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>77</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>77.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize A. J. Smith and his associates to erect a dam across the Choctawhatchee River in Dale County, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-10">March 10, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6195">H. R. 6195</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/47">Public, No. 47</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Andrew J. Smith and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctawhatchee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Andrew J. Smith et al. may dam.</p></sidenote> his associates, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Choctawhatchee River about one-eighth of a mile below or west of the bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> across said river on the road known as the Newton and Ozark public road, in Dale County, in the State Of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 10, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 78: To authorize the Idaho and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Spokane River near the city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>78</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 40</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-10</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>78.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Idaho and Northwestern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Spokane River near the city of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-10">March 10, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15247">H. R. 15247</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/48">Public, No. 48</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Idaho and North-western<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokane River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho and North-western Railway Company may bridge, at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.</p></sidenote> Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Idaho, is hereby authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Spokane River at a point near the city of Coeur d’Alene, Kootenai <page identifier="/us/stat/35/41">41</page> County, Idaho, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 10, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 79: To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>79</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 41</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>79.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-11">March 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3409">S. 3409.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/49">Public, No. 49</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time within which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for payments on certain homestead entries in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 213.</p></sidenote> all payments required by the Acts entitled “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 550.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 637.</p></sidenote> to open to settlement five hundred and five thousand acres of land in Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma Territory,” approved June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act entitled “An Act giving preference right to actual settlers on pasture reserve numbered three to purchase land leased to them for agricultural purposes in Comanche County, Oklahoma,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, postponed and extended for one year from the date on which such payments are now by law required to be made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That as a condition precedent to said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on deferred payments.</p></sidenote> extension in each case the settler shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust by him for the benefit of the Indian entitled thereto, four per centum on the amount of such deferred payments, where such settler had no preference right, and five per centum on the amount of the deferred payment where such settler was given a preference right: <i>And provided further</i>, That all persons, or their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of sublessees.</p></sidenote> legal assignees, whose applications to purchase any of the pasture land mentioned in the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six (and whose applications were rejected because such persons were sublessees), shall have the right to purchase under the provisions of this Act the land so originally applied for by them.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 80: For the relief of the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>80</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 41</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>80.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-11">March 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4351">S. 4351.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/50">Public, No. 50</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time of the Alaska<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for completing road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 410.</p></sidenote> Pacific Railway and Terminal Company to comply with the provisions of sections four and five of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of the laws of the United States, entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in acquiring and completing its railroad now under construction in Alaska is hereby extended, as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">First. The time to file the map and profile of definite location of its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing maps, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 410.</p></sidenote> second section of at least twenty miles with the register of the land office in the district of Alaska, as provided in said sections four and five, is hereby extended to and including the eighteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second. The time to complete the first section of at least twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completion of twenty miles of first section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended to March 18, 1909.</p></sidenote> miles of its railroad, as provided in said section five, is hereby extended to and including the eighteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and nine, and such railroad company shall be entitled to all the benefits conferred upon it by the -provisions of such Act upon its due <page identifier="/us/stat/35/42">42</page> compliance with all the provisions thereof, excepting only the provisions thereof relating to the filing of the map and profile of definite location of its second section of not less than twenty miles of its road: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing map of other sections.</p></sidenote> That it shall have, successively, one year each after said eighteenth day of March, nineteen hundred and nine, in which to file the map and profile of its definite location of the succeeding sections of not less than twenty miles each: <i>And provided further</i>, That it<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion of entire line.</p></sidenote> shall have five years in which to complete its entire line.</proviso></p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 81: To fix the limitation applicable in certain cases.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>81</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 42</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>81.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To fix the limitation applicable in certain cases.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-11">March 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/3923">H. R. 3923</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/51">Public, No. 51</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the limitation of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for expenses, equipping volunteers, etc., Spanish war.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 312.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, pp. 730, 1358.</p></sidenote> Act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to amend an Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled ‘An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to reimburse the governors of States and Territories for expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize and supply and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Spain,” approved July eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight,’ and so forth, and for other purposes,” and the limitations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for presenting claims extended.</p></sidenote> of the Acts of which it is amendatory, shall be January first, nineteen hundred and ten.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 82: To authorize the county of Elmore, Alabama, to construct a bridge across Coosa River, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>82</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 42</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-12</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>82.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the county of Elmore, Alabama, to construct a bridge across Coosa River, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-12">March 12, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13102">H. R. 13102</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/52">Public, No. 52</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Elmore,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coosa River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elmore county, Ala., may bridge, at Wetumpka.</p></sidenote> Alabama, be, and it is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Coosa River at or near Wetumpka, in the State of Alabama, in accordance with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any bridge constructed under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> this Act shall be erected at sufficient height above the water of said river at high and low water stage to permit the free and easy passage of steamboats and other water-crafts navigating and accustomed to navigate the Alabama and Coosa Rivers, or shall be constructed a drawbridge subject to such regulations for the security of navigation below the Coosa and Alabama Rivers as the Secretary of War may prescribe.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 12, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 84: Authorizing the exchange of lands for the enlargement of maneuvering grounds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>84</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 42</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-13</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>84.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the exchange of lands for the enlargement of maneuvering grounds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-13">March 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5155">S. 5155.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/53">Public, No. 53</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That whenever the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Creek National Forest, Wyo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of lands for military maneuvering grounds authorized.</p></sidenote> of War shall deem the acquisition of lands in private ownership necessary for the enlargement of the military maneuvering grounds for the United States Army and National Guard within the reservation known <page identifier="/us/stat/35/43">43</page> as the Crow Creek National Forest, he may certify to the Secretary of the Interior the description of such specific tract or tracts of land as he may deem necessary for such purpose, and the Secretary of the Interior may thereupon, with the approval of the President, exchange therefor an equal area of any of the unoccupied, nonmineral, untimbered public land subject to entry within the State of Wyoming.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 86: To grant certain land, part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebraska, to the village of Valentine for a site for a reservoir or tank to hold water to supply the public of said village.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>86</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 43</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>86.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To grant certain land, part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebraska, to the village of Valentine for a site for a reservoir or tank to hold water to supply the public of said village.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/1931">S. 1931.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/54">Public, No. 54</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there is hereby granted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valentine, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granted land for water supply purposes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> to the village of Valentine, a duly incorporated municipality under the statutes of the State of Nebraska, an easement in, on, and over the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty, township thirty-four north, range twenty-seven west, sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, the same being now a part of the Fort Niobrara Military Reservation, the property of the United States, for the purpose of supplying to said village and its inhabitants water from a stream thereon, with the privilege to erect, construct, and maintain a dam, reservoir, and other facilities proper and convenient to the enjoyment of such easement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> the said tract shall be used by said village in supplying water to said village and its inhabitants, and not for other purposes: <i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights not affected.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That this privilege shall not interfere with any existing vested right.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 87: To provide additional station grounds and terminal facilities for the Arizona and California Railway Company in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>87</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 43</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>87.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide additional station grounds and terminal facilities for the Arizona and California Railway Company in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, Arizona Territory.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2948">S. 2948.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/55">Public, No. 55</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That subject to the approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona and California Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granted additional land in Colorado River Indian Reservation, Ariz.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, additional lands not exceeding forty acres in area adjacent to its approved right of way in the Colorado River Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona, be, and the same are hereby, granted for additional station grounds and terminal facilities to the Arizona and California Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of said Territory, subject to the payment by said company of full compensation therefor in the manner provided in section three of the Act approved March second, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 991.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to provide for the acquiring of rights of way by railroad companies through Indian reservations, Indian lands, Indian allotments, and for other purposes:” <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights reserved.</p></sidenote> That such additional lands are granted subject to the right of the United States to cross the same and the works constructed thereon, with canals or water conduits of any kind or with roadways, or transmission lines for telephone, telegraph, or electric power, which may in the future be built by the United States across such lands; and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Structures at crossings.</p></sidenote> said company shall build and maintain at its own expense all structures that may be required at crossings, and in accepting this grant shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages.</p></sidenote> release the United States from all damages which may result from the construction and use of such crossings, canals, conduits, and lines.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/44">44</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 88: To make the provisions of an Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-six), applicable to the Territory of New Mexico.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>88</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 44</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>88.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To make the provisions of an Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page seven hundred and ninety-six), applicable to the Territory of New Mexico.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9205">H. R. 9205</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/56">Public, No. 56</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the provisions of an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School land grants, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 796.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 2275, 2276, p. 417.</p></sidenote> Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to amend sections twenty-two hundred and seventy-five and twenty-two hundred and seventy-six of the Revised Statutes of the United States providing for the selection of lands for educational purposes in lieu of those appropriated for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the Territory of New Mexico, and the grant of school lands to said Territory, and indemnity therefor, shall be administered and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of said Act, anything in the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 484.</p></sidenote> Congress approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, making certain grants of land to the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes, to the contrary notwithstanding.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 89: To provide for the extension of time within which homestead entrymen may establish their residence upon certain lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the State of Montana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>89</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 44</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>89.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the extension of time within which homestead entrymen may establish their residence upon certain lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the State of Montana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14043">H. R. 14043</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/57">Public, No. 57</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the homestead entrymen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead settlers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time to establish residence on the Huntley irrigation project, Mont., extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 2133.</p></sidenote> on lands within the limits of the Huntley irrigation project, in the county of Yellowstone, in the State of Montana, opened to entry July twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and they are hereby, granted an extension of time in which to establish their residence upon the lands so opened and filed upon until the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and eight: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Validity of filings, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote> Act shall in no manner affect the regularity or validity of such filings, or any of them, so made by the said entry men on the lands aforesaid; and it is only intended hereby to extend the time for the establishment of such residence as herein provided.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 90: To authorize the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine to maintain a free bridge across tide waters.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>90</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 44</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>90.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the town of Edgecomb, Lincoln County, Maine to maintain a free bridge across tide waters.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16073">H. R. 16073</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/58">Public, No. 58</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the town of Edgecomb,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sheepscot River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edgecomb, Me., may bridge cove on east side of.</p></sidenote> in the county of Lincoln and State of Maine, is hereby authorized to maintain a free bridge in the manner and according to the plans thereof which have been heretofore approved by the Secretary of War, and with all the rights to build, rebuild, and maintain the same which would have existed if the same had been regularly authorized prior to its construction, said bridge extending across a cove on the easterly side of Sheepscot River in said Edgecomb between upland belonging to John P. Chase, formerly belonging to Norris and Gay, and upland belonging to Caroline P. Trask; the same to be maintained as part of the town road laid out by the selectmen of the town of Edgecomb, May fourth, nineteen hundred and three, and accepted by said town May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and three.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to amend or repeal this Act is expressly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/45">45</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 91: To authorize T. H. Friel or assigns to construct a dam across Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>91</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 45</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>91.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize T. H. Friel or assigns to construct a dam across Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16746">H. R. 16746</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/59">Public, No. 59</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That T. H. Friel or assigns<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mulberry Fork of Black Warrior River, Ala.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T. H. Friel may dam.</p></sidenote> be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a dam across the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River, at a point within ten miles north and within two miles south of its junction with the Sipsey Fork, in Walker County, in the State of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> Alabama, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 92: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>92</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 45</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>92.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16749">H. R 16749.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/60">Public, No. 60</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section two of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging by Liberty Bridge Company, at Pittsburg, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1235, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 638.</p></sidenote> of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 93: To establish a United States land district in the Territory of New Mexico to be known as the Tucumcari land district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>93</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 45</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>93.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To establish a United States land district in the Territory of New Mexico to be known as the Tucumcari land district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-16">March 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16860">H. R. 16860</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/61">Public, No. 61</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all that portion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tucumcari land district, N. Mex., established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> Territory of New Mexico bounded and described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the fourth standard parallel north with the boundary line of the Territory of New Mexico and the State of Texas; thence west along said fourth standard parallel north to its intersection with the third guide meridian east of New Mexico; thence south along said third guide meridian east to its intersection with the first standard parallel north; thence east along said first standard parallel north to its intersection with the boundary line of the Territory of New Mexico and the State of Texas; thence north along said boundary line to the place of beginning, be, and is hereby, constituted a new and separate land district, to be called the Tucumcari land district, the land office of which shall be located in the town<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office at Tucumcari.</p></sidenote> of Tucumcari, county of Quay, in the Territory of New Mexico.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the President, by and with the advice and consent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver.</p></sidenote> the Senate, shall appoint a register and a receiver of public moneys for said district, and said officers shall reside in the place where said land office is located, and shall have the same powers and shall discharge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> similar duties and receive the same fees and emoluments as officers discharging like duties in the other land offices of the Territory of New Mexico.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/46">46</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 96: To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>96</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>96.—</docNumber>
</preface>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To carry into effect the international convention of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, relating to the exemption in time of war of hospital ships from dues and taxes on vessels.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-24">March 24, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4377">S. 4377.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/62">Public, No. 62</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">Whereas a convention providing for the exemption of hospital ships<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> in time of war from the payment of all dues and taxes imposed for the benefit of the State was signed at The Hague on December twenty-first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1854.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and four, by the plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, China, Korea, Denmark, Spain, Mexico, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Peru, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Siam, and Switzerland; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas the said convention was duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and was proclaimed by the President of the United States May twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven: Therefore</p>
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</section>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hospital ships, concerning<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital ships exempted from taxes, etc., in time of war.</p></sidenote> which the conditions set forth in articles one, two, and three of the convention concluded at The Hague on July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva convention of August twenty-second,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 940.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and sixty-four, are fulfilled, shall, in the ports of the United States and the possessions thereof, be exempted, in time of war, from all dues and taxes imposed on vessels by the laws of the United States, and from all pilotage charges.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the President of the United States shall by proclamation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">President to designate ships, etc.</p></sidenote> name the hospital ships to which this Act shall apply, and shall indicate the time when the exemptions herein provided for shall begin and end.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 24, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 99: To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>99</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 46</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>99.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Life-Saving Service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17710">H. R. 17710</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/63">Public, No. 63</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District superintendents, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation increased.</p></sidenote> passage of this Act the compensation of district superintendents in the United States Life-Saving Service shall be as follows: For the superintendents of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth districts, two thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; for the superintendents of the third and ninth districts, two thousand dollars per annum each; for the superintendent of the eighth district, one thousand nine hundred dollars per annum. That the pay of keepers of life-saving stations shall be one thousand dollars per annum each, and that the pay of the number one surfman in each of the crews of the life-saving stations shall be at the rate of seventy dollars per month.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That every keeper of a life-saving station and every surfman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations.</p></sidenote> in the Life-Saving Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That section eight of the Act of May fourth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 57.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-two, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Life-Saving Service and to encourage the saving of life from shipwreck,” is hereby amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That if any keeper or member of a crew of a life-saving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death of keeper or member of crew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two years’ pay to widow and children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dependent mother added.</p></sidenote> station shall hereafter die by reason of perilous service or any wound or injury received or disease contracted in the Life-Saving Service in <page identifier="/us/stat/35/47">47</page> the line of duty, leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 57, amended.</p></sidenote> years of age, or a dependent mother, such widow and child or children and dependent mother shall be entitled to receive, in equal portions, during a period of two years, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, the same amount, payable quarterly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly payments.</p></sidenote> as far as practicable, that the husband or father or son would be entitled to receive as pay if he were alive and continued in the Service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if the widow shall remarry at any time during the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Poviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remarriage of widow, etc.</p></sidenote> two years her portion of said amount shall cease to be paid to her from the date of her remarriage, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any; and if any child shall arrive at the age of sixteen years during the said two years, the portion of such child shall cease to be paid to such child from the date on which such age shall be attained, but shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries, if there be any.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 100: Authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and granting the same and a right to operate and maintain a line of railroad through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation, in the State of Washington, to the Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company, its successors and assigns.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>100</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 47</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>100.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing and empowering the Secretary of War to locate a right of way for and granting the same and a right to operate and maintain a line of railroad through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation, in the State of Washington, to the Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company, its successors and assigns.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/626">S. 626.</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/64">Public, No. 64</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three Tree Point Military Reservation, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grays Harbor and Columbia Railway Company granted right of way through.</p></sidenote> may authorize the Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company to build a railroad and telegraph line through the Three Tree Point Military Reservation on Columbia River, and to that end may set aside for occupancy by said Grays Harbor and Columbia River Railway Company such ground, and no more, as is actually required for the necessary track, embankments or trestles: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States property rights reserved.</p></sidenote> ground so occupied shall remain the property of the United States under such police and other military control as the military authorities may deem it necessary to exercise: <i>Provided further</i>, That the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation, and rent.</p></sidenote> railway company shall compensate the United States for all timber that may be cut and shall pay such reasonable annual rental for such right of way as may be fixed by the Secretary of War: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location, etc.</p></sidenote> That the location and grade of said railroad and other details of construction within the limits of the reservation, also all matters pertaining to the operation and maintenance of said railroad, shall be under such regulations as the Secretary of War may deem it advisable to establish in the interest of the military service and as a safeguard against fire to Government timber lands: <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing in this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> shall be construed as authorizing the use of any portion of the reservation as a borrow pit for fills and embankments, unless specially authorized so to do by the Secretary of War, and upon the payment of such compensation as may be fixed by him.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> the road be not commenced within two years from date of approval hereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/48">48</page>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 101: To validate certain entries of public lands in the State of Colorado.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>101</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 48</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>101.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To validate certain entries of public lands in the State of Colorado.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14434">H. R. 14434</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/65">Public, No. 65</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That no entries or filings for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain entries in Colorado validated.</p></sidenote> lands in township five and one-half south, of ranges forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, and forty-six west, in the State of Colorado, shall be canceled or held invalid because they were not allowed, made, or perfected in the proper land district.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 102: To provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public laws.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>102</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 48</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>102.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the repayment of certain commissions, excess payments, and purchase moneys paid under the public laws.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15660">H. R. 15660</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/66">Public, No. 66</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That where purchase moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment of purchase moneys, etc., in rejected entries, etc.</p></sidenote> and commissions paid under any public land law have been or shall hereafter be covered into the Treasury of the United States under any application to make any filing, location, selection, entry, or proof, such purchase moneys and commissions shall be repaid to the person who made such application, entry, or proof, or to his legal representatives, in all cases where such application, entry, or proof has been or shall hereafter be rejected, and neither such applicant nor his legal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> representatives shall have been guilty of any fraud or attempted fraud in connection with such application.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That in all cases where it shall appear to the satisfaction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for excessive payments.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Interior that any person has heretofore or shall hereafter make any payments to the United States under the public land laws in excess of the amount he was lawfully required to pay under such laws, such excess shall be repaid to such person or to his legal representatives.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That when the Commissioner of the General Land Office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amounts to be certified by Secretary of Interior, etc.</p></sidenote> shall ascertain the amount of any excess moneys, purchase moneys, or commissions in any case where repayment is authorized by this statute, the Secretary of the Interior shall at once certify such amounts to the Secretary of the Treasury, who is hereby authorized and directed to make repayment of all amounts so certified out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated and issue his warrant in settlement thereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 103: Providing for second desert-land entries.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>103</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 48</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>103.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for second desert-land entries.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16078">H. R. 16078</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/67">Public, No. 67</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any person who prior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeited desert-land entries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Renewals allowed.</p></sidenote> to the passage of this Act has made entry under the desert-land laws, but from any cause has lost, forfeited, or abandoned the same, shall be entitled to the benefits of the desert-land law as though such former entry had not been made, and any person applying for a second desert-land entry under this Act shall furnish the description and date of his former entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of this Act shall not apply<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> to any person whose former entry was assigned in whole or in part or canceled for fraud, or who relinquished the former entry for a valuable consideration.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/49">49</page>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 104: To authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels on a line approximately east of the north boundary line of the city of Mobile, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>104</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>104.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, to construct a bridge over and across the Mobile River and its navigable channels on a line approximately east of the north boundary line of the city of Mobile, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17311">H. R. 17311</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/68">Public, No. 68</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Pensacola, Mobile<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile River, Ala.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Mobile and New Orleans Railway Company may bridge, at Mobile.</p></sidenote> and New Orleans Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge, and its approaches thereto, across the Mobile River and its navigable channels, in the counties of Baldwin and Mobile, in the State of Alabama, at a point approximately east of the north boundary line of the city of Mobile, to be approved by the Secretary of War, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, and repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 106: Providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>106</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>106.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for town-site purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-27">March 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4922">H. R. 4922</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/69">Public, No. 69</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town site directed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 2381, p. 436.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 637.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to plat and sell in accordance with section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States the following-described tract of land, to wit: The south half of section thirty, township two north,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserved for park and schools.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall reserve from said tract of land, when surveyed, one block for public park and two blocks for public school purposes, and shall cause to be erected two suitable school buildings out of the proceeds arising from said sale, the remainder<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds.</p></sidenote> of proceeds, after deducting the expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, to be converted into and become a part of the fund belonging to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians: <i>Provided further</i>, That said sale shall be made as soon as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of sale.</p></sidenote> practicable after the approval of this Act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 107: Providing for the disposal of the interests of Indian minors in real estate in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>107</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 49</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-27</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>107.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the disposal of the interests of Indian minors in real estate in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-27">March 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6135">S. 6135.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/70">Public, No. 70</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the interests of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of interests of minors in lands.</p></sidenote> Indian minor in any lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation, State of Washington, whether by direct allotment or by inheritance, may be sold on such terms and conditions and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; but such sale shall be only on approved petition of the natural guardian of such minor, if living, or if such natural guardian be dead, on the petition of a person designated by the Secretary of the Interior. All sales hereunder shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and when so approved he shall cause patent to issue to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to purchasers.</p></sidenote> purchaser, passing unconditional fee by the United States as trustee for such minor to the interest of such minor in such lands, and such <page identifier="/us/stat/35/50">50</page> patent shall be considered, to the extent of the interest so conveyed, as a cancellation of any previous trust patent or patent containing restrictions on alienation issued to such minor or to any Indian allottee of whom such minor is an heir. Proceeds from sales hereunder shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds.</p></sidenote> be cared for under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and he may, in his discretion, cause shares of minors to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the individual credit of the said minors, to be withdrawn on the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 108: To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>108</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 50</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>108.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-27">March 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16874">H. R. 16874</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/71">Public, No. 71</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section thirteen of an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas eastern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 69, amended.</p></sidenote> Act entitled “An Act to divide the State of Texas into four judicial districts,” approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows, this amendment becoming operative on and after June first, nineteen hundred and eight:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States circuit and district courts for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 69, 927.</p></sidenote> eastern district of Texas shall be held in each year at the times and places as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“At Tyler, in the county of Smith, on the fourth Monday of January and the fourth Monday of April.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">‘“At Jefferson, in the county of Marion, on the first Monday of October and the third Monday of February.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“At Beaumont, in the county of Jefferson, on the third Monday of November and the first Monday of April.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“At Sherman, in the county of Grayson, on the first Monday of January and the third Monday of May.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“At Paris, in the county of Lamar, on the first Monday of March and the third Monday of October.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“At Texarkana, in the county of Bowie, on the third Monday of March and the first Monday of November.”</p></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 109: Authorizing the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, to purchase not to exceed forty acres of land in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>109</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 50</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>109.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, to purchase not to exceed forty acres of land in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-27">March 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17167">H.R. 17167.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/72">Public, No. 72</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woodlawn Cemetery Association, Saint Maries, Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands to.</p></sidenote> Interior is hereby authorized and directed to sell to the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, nonmineral land not to exceed in area forty acres, which may be selected by the cemetery association and subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this land shall be selected from the Coeur d’Alene Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> Reservation: <i>And provided further</i>, That the Woodlawn Cemetery Association, of Saint Maries, Idaho, shall pay to the Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds to Coeur d’Alene Indians.</p></sidenote> of the United States the appraised value of the land, the proceeds of the sale to be turned into the moneys accruing from the disposition of the unallotted Indian lands as provided in the Act authorizing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 335.</p></sidenote> opening of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 110: To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Meridian place northwest,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>110</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 51</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/51">51</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>110.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Meridian place northwest,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-27">March 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3416">S. 3416</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/73">Public, No. 73</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meridian place extension modified.</p></sidenote> Act authorizing the extension of Meridian place northwest,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding after the words “fifty feet,” at the end of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 846, amended.</p></sidenote> one thereof, the words “along such line as said Commissioners shall deem most advantageous.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 111: To authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>111</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 51</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>111.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the cutting of timber, the manufacture and sale of lumber, and the preservation of the forests on the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-28">March 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/18689">S. 4046</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/74">Public, No. 74.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menominee Indian Reservation, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cutting timber, etc., on, authorized.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe in executing the intent and purposes of this Act, to cause to be cut and manufactured into lumber the dead and down timber, and such fully matured and ripened green timber as the forestry service shall designate, upon the Menominee Indian Reservation in the State of Wisconsin: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> million feet of timber shall be cut in any one year: <i>And provided further</i>, That this limitation shall not include the dead and down timber on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> north half of township numbered twenty-nine, range numbered thirteen east; the north half of township numbered twenty-nine, range numbered fourteen east, and the south half of township numbered thirty, range numbered thirteen east, on the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior shall, as soon as practicable,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sawmills, etc., to be built.</p></sidenote> cause to be built, equipped, and operated suitable sawmills, equipment and necessary buildings for manufacturing into lumber the timber cut under the provisions of this Act, and there shall be employed such skilled foresters, superintendents, foremen, cruisers, rangers, guards, loggers, scalers, and such other labor, both in the woods and for operating sawmills, equipment and necessary buildings as may be necessary in cutting and manufacturing logs and lumber and in the protection of the forests upon said Indian reservation. The Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian labor required.</p></sidenote> of the Interior in so far as practicable shall at all times employ none but Indians upon said reservation in forest protection, logging, driving, sawing, and manufacturing into lumber for the market such timber, and no contract for logging, driving, sawing timber, or conducting any lumber operations upon said reservations shall hereafter be let, sublet, or assigned to white men, nor shall any timber upon any such reservations be disposed of except under the provisions of this Act. Whenever any Indian or Indians shall enter into any contract pursuant to this Act, and shall seek by any agency, copartnership agreement, or otherwise to share in the same with any white man, or shall employ in its execution any labor or assistance other than the labor and assistance of Indians, such act or acts shall thereupon terminate such contract, and the same shall be annulled and canceled.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the lumber, lath, shingles, poles, posts, bolts, and pulp<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of products.</p></sidenote> wood, and other marketable materials so manufactured from the timber cut upon such reservations shall be sold to the highest and best bidder for cash, after due advertisement inviting proposals and bids, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. The net proceeds of the sale of such lumber and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds to credit of Indians.</p></sidenote> material shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the tribe entitled to the same. Such proceeds shall bear<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/52">52</page> interest at the rate of four per centum per annum, and the interest shall be used for the benefit of such Indians in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses from tribal funds.</p></sidenote> pay, out of the funds of the tribe of Indians located upon said reservation, the necessary expenses of the lumber operations herein provided for, including the erection of sawmills, equipment and necessary buildings logging camps, logging equipment, the building of roads, improvement of streams, and all other necessary expenses, including those for the protection, preservation, and harvest of the forest upon such reservation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That when the dead and down timber, and such fully<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of mill, etc., on completion of work.</p></sidenote> matured and ripened green timber as the forestry service shall designate, shall have been converted into lumber, then the Secretary of the Interior is directed to make sale of such portions of the sawmill and manufacturing plant as will not, in his judgment, be needed for continuing operations on this reservation. The terms of these sales shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds.</p></sidenote> be fixed by the Secretary, and after the payment of the costs and charges of sale the net proceeds thereof shall be deposited in the same manner and for the same purposes as the net proceeds of the sale of the lumber aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 112: Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>112</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 52</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-03-28</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>112.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Limiting and restricting the right of entry and assignment under the desert-land law and authorizing an extension of time within which to make final proof.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-28">March 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16493">H. R. 16493</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/75">Public, No. 75.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands entries restricted to surveyed lands.</p></sidenote> of this Act the right to make entry of desert lands under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the sale of desert lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 377.</p></sidenote> in certain States and Territories,” as amended by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1096.</p></sidenote> repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,” shall be restricted to surveyed public lands of the character contemplated by said Acts, and no such entries of unsurveyed lands shall be allowed or made of record: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any individual qualified to make entry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference right to prior entries.</p></sidenote> of desert lands under said Acts who has, prior to survey, taken possession of a tract of unsurveyed desert land not exceeding in area three hundred and twenty acres in compact form, and has reclaimed or has in good faith commenced the work of reclaiming the same, shall have the preference right to make entry of such tract under said Acts, in conformity with the public land surveys, within ninety days after the filing of the approved plat of survey in the district land office.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That from and after the date of the passage of this Act no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments restricted.</p></sidenote> assignment of an entry made under said Acts shall be allowed or recognized, except it be to an individual who is shown to be qualified to make entry under said Acts of the land covered by the assigned entry, and such assignments may include all or part of an entry; but no assignment to or for the benefit of any corporation or association shall be authorized or recognized.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any entrymen under the above Acts who shall show<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of time to complete work.</p></sidenote> to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that he has in good faith complied with the terms, requirements, and provisions of said Acts, but that because of some unavoidable delay in the construction of the irrigating works, intended to convey water <page identifier="/us/stat/35/53">53</page> to the said lands, he is, without fault on his part, unable to make proof of the reclamation and cultivation of said land, as required by said Acts, shall, upon filing his corroborated affidavit with the land office in which said land is located, setting forth said facts, be allowed an additional period of not to exceed three years, within the discretion of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, within which to furnish proof as required by said Acts of the completion of said work.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 113: To authorize the Secretary of War to donate to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, not to exceed fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>113.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to donate to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, not to exceed fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-28">March 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19408">H. R. 19408</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/76">Public, No. 76</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete rifles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Given Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to donate to the Albert Sidney Johnston Camp, Confederate Veterans of San Antonio, Texas, an independent military organization, such number of obsolete Springfield rifles, not to exceed fifty, with bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 114: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to school district numbered thirty-six, in Knox County, Nebraska.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>114</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-03-31</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>114.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patent in fee simple for certain lands of the Santee Reservation, in Nebraska, to school district numbered thirty-six, in Knox County, Nebraska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-31">March 31, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/10671">H. R. 10671</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/77">Public, No. 77.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santee Indian Reservation, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands of, granted Knox County for school.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and hereby is, authorized to issue patent in fee simple to school district numbered thirty-six, Knox County, Nebraska, for a tract of not exceeding two and one-half acres from the lands reserved for the Santee Agency, Nebraska, described as the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirteen, township thirty-three north, range five west, of the sixth principal meridian, Nebraska, upon such terms and conditions and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; said tract to be used for school purposes under the laws of the State of Nebraska.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 31, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 117: To validate certain acts of the thirty-seventh legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>117</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 53</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-01</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>117.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To validate certain acts of the thirty-seventh legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-01">April 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17055">H. R. 17055</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/78">Public, No. 78.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the act of the thirty-seventh<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative acts providing issues of bonds validated.</p></sidenote> legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, entitled “An act creating four armory boards of control and providing for the construction of armories in the cities of Santa Fe, Roswell, Silver City, and Lascruces,” approved March twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven; and an act of the same assembly and session entitled “An act to construct an addition to the present capitol building and for the construction of an executive mansion, and to purchase certain real estate and to provide the necessary means therefor, and for other purposes,” approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/54">54</page> sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight, and thirty-nine of an act of the same assembly and session entitled “An act providing funds and making appropriations for the fifty-ninth and sixtieth fiscal years, and for other purposes,” reported by conference committee, approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same are hereby, approved, and that the bonds therein provided for, whenever issued in compliance with said acts of said legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico, shall be valid and binding upon said Territory of New Mexico, as in said acts provided, and that all necessary power and authority is hereby granted said Territory of New Mexico to issue and dispose of said bonds in accordance with the provisions of the said acts.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be in full force and effect from and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> after its passage.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 118: To authorize the county of Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Portland.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>118</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-01</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>118.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the county of Ashley, in the State of Arkansas, to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Portland.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-01">April 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17510">H. R. 17510</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/79">Public, No. 79.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Ashley,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Bartholomew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashley County, Ark., may bridge, at Portland.</p></sidenote> a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a steel drawbridge and approaches thereto, across the Bayou Bartholomew, at Portland, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 119: To authorize the construction of a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>119</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>119.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction of a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, Ashley County, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-01">April 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17511">H. R. 17511</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/80">Public, No. 80.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Ashley,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Bartholomew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashley County, Ark., may bridge, at Parkdale.</p></sidenote> a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a steel drawbridge and approaches thereto across the Bayou Bartholomew at Parkdale, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 120: To authorize the county of Ashley in the State of Arkansas to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Wilmot.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>120</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 54</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>120.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the county of Ashley in the State of Arkansas to construct a bridge across Bayou Bartholomew, Ashley County, Arkansas, at Wilmot.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-01">April 1, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17512">H. R. 17512</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/81">Public, No. 81.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county of Ashley,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou Bartholomew.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashley County, Ark., may bridge, at Wilmot.</p></sidenote> a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas, its successors and assigns, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/55">55</page> and operate a steel drawbridge and approaches thereto across the Bayou Bartholomew at Wilmot, in the State of Arkansas, in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 1, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 121: To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four condemned brass cannon and cannon balls to the Confederate Monument Association, at Franklin, Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>121</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 55</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>121.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish four condemned brass cannon and cannon balls to the Confederate Monument Association, at Franklin, Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-02">April 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13077">H. R. 13077</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/93">Public, No. 82.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon donated to Confederate Monument Association, Franklin, Tenn.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to furnish to the Confederate Monument Association, of Franklin, Williamson County, Tennessee, four brass or bronze condemned field pieces or cannon with a suitable outfit of cannon balls which may not be needed in the service, the same to be used in the park surrounding the monument on the public square of the town of Franklin, Tennessee, and to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense, etc.</p></sidenote> expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 122: Prescribing what shall constitute a legal cord of wood in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>122</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 55</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>122.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Prescribing what shall constitute a legal cord of wood in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-02">April 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14772">H. R. 14772</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/83">Public, No. 83.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter a legal cord<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal cord of wood constituted.</p></sidenote> of wood in the District of Columbia shall consist of and contain one hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with or inconsistent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> with this Act are hereby repealed in so far and only in so far as they conflict or are inconsistent herewith.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 123: To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>123</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 55</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>123.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section forty-four hundred and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes, relating to the complement of crews of vessels, and for the better protection of life.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-02">April 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/225">H. R. 225</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/84">Public, No. 84.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licensed officers and crews.</p></sidenote> and sixty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4463">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4463.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">Any vessel of the United States subject to the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors to prescribe the minimum number of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4463, p.864, amended.</p></sidenote> of this title or to the inspection laws of the United States shall not be navigated unless she shall have in her service and on board such complement of licensed officers and crew as may, in the judgment of the local inspectors who inspect the vessel, be necessary for her safe navigation. The local inspectors shall make in the certificate of inspection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes in certificates of inspection.</p></sidenote> of the vessel an entry of such complement of officers and crew, which may be changed from time to time by indorsement on such certificate by local inspectors by reason of change of conditions or employment. Such entry or indorsement shall be subject to a right of appeal,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/56">56</page> under regulations to be made by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to the supervising inspector and from him to the supervising inspector-general, who shall have the power to revise, set aside, or affirm the said determination of the local inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If any such vessel is deprived of the services of any member of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels unavoidably deprived of member of crew.</p></sidenote> the crew without the consent, fault, or collusion of the master, owner, or any person interested in the vessel, the vessel may proceed on her voyage, if in the judgment of the master she is sufficiently manned for such voyage.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If the master shall fail to explain in writing such deficiency in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to explain deficiency.</p></sidenote> crew to the local inspectors within twelve hours of the time of the arrival of the vessel at her destination, he shall be liable to a penalty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> fifty dollars. If the vessel shall have been insufficiently manned in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels insufficiently manned.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> judgment of the local inspectors, the master shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, or in case of an insufficient number of licensed officers to a penalty of five hundred dollars.”</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> and eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 124: To amend section seventy-three of the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>124</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 56</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>124.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section seventy-three of the Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-02">April 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/10540">H. R. 10540</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/85">Public, No. 85.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the portion of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of agricultural lands.</p></sidenote> seventy-three of “ An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,” approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, which reads as follows: “And no lease of agricultural land shall be granted, sold, or renewed by the government of the Territory of Hawaii for a longer period than five years until Congress shall otherwise direct,” is hereby amended to read as follows: “And no lease of agricultural land shall be granted, sold, or renewed by the government of the Territory of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of lease increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 155, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal for homestead, etc., purposes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Hawaii for a longer period than fifteen years, and in every such case the land, or any part thereof so leased, may at any time during the term of the lease be withdrawn from the operation thereof for homestead or public purposes, in which case the rent reserved shall be reduced in proportion to the value of the part so withdrawn, and every such lease shall contain a provision to that effect.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 130: To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River. at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a new site.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>130</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>130.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the counties of Allegheny and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, to change the site of the joint county bridge which now crosses the Monongahela River. at Monongahela City, Pennsylvania, and to construct a new bridge across said river in the place of said present bridge upon a new site.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13448">H. R. 13448</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/86">Public, No. 86.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the counties of Allegheny<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allegheny and Washington counties, Pa., may bridge.</p></sidenote> and Washington, in the State of Pennsylvania, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a joint county bridge and approaches thereto across the Monongahela River at Monongahela City, in the State aforesaid, upon a site located at a distance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> about one thousand feet down the stream of said river from the existing bridge across the same, which connects Monongahela City, in Washington County, with Forward Township, in Allegheny County, and is now maintained by the said two counties jointly for the uses and purposes of general public travel. The said bridge hereby authorized shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of old bridge.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third nineteen hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/57">57</page> six, and upon its construction shall take the place of and be substituted for the aforesaid existing bridge, which shall thereupon be torn down and removed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the new bridge hereby authorized shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion of new bridge and removal of old one.</p></sidenote> be completed within eighteen months from date of approval of this Act, and the existing bridge shall be completely removed within six months thereafter: <i>Provided further</i>, That this Act shall not be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> as nullifying the orders of the Secretary of War, issued under date of October tenth, nineteen hundred and six, to the commissioners of the counties of Allegheny and Washington, Pennsylvania, and the Williamsport Bridge Company, requiring the alteration of the existing bridge, but the said orders shall remain in full force and effect, and unless the new bridge is built and the present bridge is removed within the time specified in this Act, the aforesaid parties shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in section eighteen of the river and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1153.</p></sidenote> harber Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for failure to comply with the lawful orders of the Secretary of War.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 131: To authorize the appointment of a deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>131</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>131.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the appointment of a deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14282">H. R. 14282</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/87">Public, No. 87.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That chapter fourteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia western judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Stone Gap.</p></sidenote> and twenty-one, entitled “An Act to authorize holding of the regular term of the district and circuit courts of the United States for the western district of Virginia in the city of Big Stone Gap, Virginia,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That in the western district of Virginia the clerk of the circuit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of deputy clerk.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 249, amended.</p></sidenote> and district courts at Abingdon, Virginia, shall appoint a deputy clerk who shall be deputy clerk of both circuit and district courts and who shall reside and keep his office at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, for the purpose of taking charge and custody of the court records and papers, attending the sessions of said courts, issuing all proper process and discharging all the clerical duties in connection with the business of the said courts at Big Stone Gap, Virginia,11 and that portion of the said Act authorizing the appointment of the deputy clerk at Big Stone Gap, Virginia, by the clerk at Lynchburg, Virginia, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 132: To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>132</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 57</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>132.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18615">H. R. 18615</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/88">Public, No. 88.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Cairo and Norfolk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumberland River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company may construct two bridges across.</p></sidenote> Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the States of Tennessee and Kentucky, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Cumberland River between Rosita, Tennessee, and the Tennessee Rolling Works, Lyon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locations.</p></sidenote> County, Kentucky, and also to construct a bridge across said Cumberland River between Celina, in Clay County, Tennessee, and Bakertown, Cumberland County, in the State of Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> bridges over navigable waters.” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/58">58</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former act repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1254.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to authorize the Cairo and Tennessee River Railroad Company to construct bridges across the Cumberland River,” is hereby repealed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 133: To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>133</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 58</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>133.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Cairo and Norfolk Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18616">H. R. 18616</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/89">Public, No. 89.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Cairo and Norfolk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cairo and Norfolk Railway Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the States of Tennessee and Kentucky, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Tennessee River between<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> Hamlin, Calloway County, Kentucky, and Birmingham, Marshall County, in the State of Kentucky, in accordance with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former act repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1253.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to authorize the Cairo and Tennessee River Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Tennessee River,” is hereby repealed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 134: To place the name of William S. Shacklette on the retired list of the Navy as pharmacist.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>134</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 58</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-03</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>134.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To place the name of William S. Shacklette on the retired list of the Navy as pharmacist.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12476">H. R. 12476</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/90">Public, No. 90.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William S. Shacklette.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of, as hospital steward authorized.</p></sidenote> United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to nominate, and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint upon the retired list of the Navy as a hospital steward, William S. Shacklette, formerly a hospital steward on the United States Ship Bennington, to receive the rank and three-fourths the sea pay of a pharmacist in the Navy in lieu of the thirty dollars per month pension which he is now receiving for total disabilities incurred at the time of the explosion of the boilers of the United States ship Bennington in July, nineteen hundred and five.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 135: To extend to Port Arthur, in the State of Texas, the privilege of immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>135</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 58</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-06</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>135.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend to Port Arthur, in the State of Texas, the privilege of immediate transportation without appraisement of dutiable merchandise.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-06">April 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9079">H. R. 9079</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/91">Public, No. 91.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Arthur, Tex., granted immediate transportation facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 174.</p></sidenote> seventh section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Port Arthur, in the State of Texas.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 137: Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>137</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 59</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-07</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/59">59</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>137.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply certain additional urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-07">April 7, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19955">H. R. 19955</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/92">Public, No. 92.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Urgent deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>independent treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paper for checks.</p></sidenote> checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>increase of the navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the armament and armor of domestic manufacture for vessels<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armament and armor.</p></sidenote> authorized, two million dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of The Army</inline>: For mileage to officers and contract surgeons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> when authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="inline">For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Department of the Interior, eighty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Police Court</inline>: For fuel, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, and all other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Garfield Hospital</inline>: For additional amount required for isolating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garfield Hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isolating ward.</p></sidenote> ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One-half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 7, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 141: To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Winchester, Virginia.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>141</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/60">60</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>141.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to furnish two condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the city of Winchester, Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-10">April 10, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18689">H. R. 18689</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/93">Public, No. 93.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winchester, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon, etc., loaned to.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to the city of Winchester, Virginia, two brass or bronze condemned field pieces or cannon, with their carriages and with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to be used at the old headquarters of General George Washington, which are now owned by said city, and to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 10, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 142: To authorize the Secretary of War to make certain disposition of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>142</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 60</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-11</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>142.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to make certain disposition of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-11">April 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4780">H. R. 4780</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/94">Public, No. 94.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete rifles, etc., donated to The Old Guard of.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to donate to The Old Guard, an independent military organization of Columbus, Ohio, whose membership is composed entirely of Union soldiers of the war of the rebellion, such number of obsolete Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, bayonets and bayonet scabbards for same, not to exceed one hundred, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with any such donation.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 143: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>143</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 60</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-13</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>143.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-13">April 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4260">S. 4260</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/95">Public, No. 95.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That paragraph four of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 584.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 379.</p></sidenote> one of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so that said paragraph as so amended will read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“No common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passes prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 584, amended.</p></sidenote> after January first, nineteen hundred and seven, directly or indirectly, issue or give any interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to its employees and their families, its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; to ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad Young Men’s Christian Associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable and eleemosynary institutions, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable and eleemosynary work; to indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; to inmates of the National Homes or State Homes for Disabled Volunteer Sol <page identifier="/us/stat/35/61">61</page> diers, and of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge and boards of managers of such Homes; to necessary care takers of live stock, poultry, and fruit; to employees on sleeping cars, express cars, and to linemen of telegraph and telephone companies; to railway mail service employees, post-office inspectors, customs inspectors, and immigration inspectors; to newsboys on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the common carrier is interested, persons injured in wrecks and physicians and nurses attending such persons: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interchange for employees, etc.</p></sidenote> That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, etc., included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 585, amended.</p></sidenote> That the term ‘ employees’ as used in this paragraph shall include furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of any such common carrier, and the remains of a person killed in the employment of a carrier and ex-employees traveling for the purpose of entering the service of any such common carrier; and the term ‘families’ as used in this paragraph<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of term “families.”</p></sidenote> shall include the families of those persons named in this proviso, also the families of persons killed while in the service of any such common carrier. Any common carrier violating this provision shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each offense, on conviction, shall pay to the United States a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars, and any person, other than the persons excepted in this provision, who uses any such interstate free ticket, free pass, or free transportation shall be subject to a like penalty. Jurisdiction of offenses under this provision shall be the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 847.</p></sidenote> as that provided for offenses in an Act entitled ‘An Act to further regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the States,’ approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and any amendment thereof.”</proviso></p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 145: To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>145</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 61</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-16</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>145.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Revenue-Cutter Service.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-16">April 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/24">S. 24</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/96">Public, No. 96.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That on and after the passage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of officers authorized.</p></sidenote> of this Act the President be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint in the Revenue-Cutter Service, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one captain commandant for a period of four years who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Captain commandant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, pay, etc.</p></sidenote> may be reappointed for further periods of four years each, who shall act as chief of the division of Revenue-Cutter Service, with the rank of a colonel in the Army and a captain in the Navy, and who shall have the pay and allowances of a colonel in the Army; six senior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senior captains.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, pay, etc.</p></sidenote> captains, who shall perform duty in connection with the construction of vessels and the inspection of their armament and crews and such other duties as the Secretary of the Treasury or the President may prescribe, each with the rank of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army and a commander in the Navy, and who shall each have the pay and allowances of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army; one engineer in chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer in chief.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, pay, etc.</p></sidenote> for a period of four years who may be reappointed for further periods of four years each, with the rank of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army and a commander in the Navy, and who shall have the pay and allowances of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army; and six senior engineers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senior engineers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties, etc.</p></sidenote> who shall perform duty in connection with the construction and inspection of the machinery of vessels and such other duties as the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/62">62</page> Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, each with the rank of a major in the Army and a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, and who shall each have pay and allowances of a major in the Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the position vacated by an officer appointed captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies and retirements.</p></sidenote> commandant or engineer in chief shall be filled by promotion according to existing law. That any officer who shall hereafter serve as captain commandant shall, when retired, be retired with the rank of captain commandant and with the pay of a colonel in the Army on the retired list, and that an officer whose term of service as captain commandant has expired may be appointed a senior captain and shall be an additional number in that grade, but if not so appointed, he shall resume the lineal position he would have held in his previous grade, as an additional number: <i>Provided further</i>, That any officer who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement of engineers.</p></sidenote> hereafter serve as engineer in chief shall, when retired, be retired with the rank of engineer in chief and with the pay of a lieutenant-colonel in the Army on the retired list, and that an officer whose term of service as engineer in chief has expired ay be appointed a senior engineer and shall be an additional number in that grade, but if not so appointed, he shall resume the lineal position he would have held in his previous grade, as an additional number. Additional numbers in the grades of senior captain and senior engineer shall at no time exceed two in each grade on the active list.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the captain commandant shall be selected from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selections made from active list.</p></sidenote> active list of line officers not below the grade of captain; that the six senior captains shall be made by promotion from the active list of captains in the order of seniority; that the engineer in chief shall be selected from the active list of engineer officers not below the rank of first lieutenant; that the six senior engineers shall be made by promotion from the active list of engineer officers of the rank of first lieutenant in the order of seniority. When a vacancy occurs in any of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote> grades created by this Act, it shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of this section.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That when the appointments herein provided are made the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction in active list.</p></sidenote> active list of captains in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall be reduced by six and the active list of engineer officers with the rank of first lieutenant by six, and the said lists shall remain thereafter at thirty-one and twenty-eight, respectively.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the examinations and requirements for promotion provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations for promotion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 101.</p></sidenote> in section eight of the Act approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the Revenue-Cutter Service,” shall not be required for promotion to the grades created by this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That any officer of the Revenue-Cutter Service with a creditable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil war officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank and pay on retirement.</p></sidenote> record who served during the civil war in the land or naval forces of the United States shall, when retired, have the rank and receive three-fourths of the duty pay and increase of the next higher grade; and the provisions of this section shall apply to officers of the said Service now on the retired list.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the captain now on the retired list who served as chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired chief of the division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, etc.</p></sidenote> of the division of Revenue-Cutter Service for ten years and until March twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and five, shall have the rank and receive three-fourths of the duty pay and increase of the highest grade provided for in this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That a constructor or surgeon, with the rank of first lieutenant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructor or surgeon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and allowance.</p></sidenote> after fifteen years’ service in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall have the pay and allowances of a captain.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the pay of the enlisted force of the Revenue-Cutter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increased.</p></sidenote> Service shall be increased twenty per centum over the pay that they are now receiving. That all warrant and petty officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service shall receive ten per centum increase of pay for every five years of service as such warrant or petty officers, such increase not <page identifier="/us/stat/35/63">63</page> to exceed forty per centum of the pay of their grade or rating: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination.</p></sidenote> That no warrant or petty officer shall be appointed or rated as such without a suitable examination or period of probation to determine his fitness for his grade or rating. That an enlisted man or a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waiting orders.</p></sidenote> warrant or petty officer who has served thirty years in the Service shall, upon suitable application, be placed on waiting orders and receive seventy-five per centum of the pay and increase of his grade or rating: <i>Provided</i>, That such enlisted man, warrant or petty officer may be assigned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment.</p></sidenote> to such duties as he may be able to perform.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That a third lieutenant or an engineer officer with the rank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility for promotion.</p></sidenote> of third lieutenant who has served five years in his grade shall, upon passing the examinations now required by law, be eligible to promotion to the next higher grade: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be no increase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> in the total number of lieutenants nor in the total number of engineer officers below the rank of first lieutenant authorized by law: <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent promotions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions to fill vacancies.</p></sidenote> to fill vacancies as now provided by law.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That engineer officers who now have or who may hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of engineers.</p></sidenote> have the rank of captain, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, or third lieutenant in the Revenue-Cutter Service shall hereafter have the title of captain of engineers, first lieutenant of engineers, second lieutenant of engineers, and third lieutenant of engineers, respectively, and the titles of chief engineer, first assistant engineer, and second assistant engineer are hereby abolished. That precedence between line and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precedence.</p></sidenote> engineer officers of the same rank shall be determined by length of continuous service as a commissioned officer.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That an enlisted man upon first entering the Revenue-Cutter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clothing.</p></sidenote> Service shall have credited to his account the sum of forty-five dollars, and upon each subsequent enlistment the sum of twenty dollars, for uniform clothing, and such amount shall be paid to said enlisted man at the expiration of his term of enlistment if he has served a full term as prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and has received an honorable discharge.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That the presidents and recorders of Revenue-Cutter Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oaths.</p></sidenote> courts and commanding officers of vessels of the Revenue-Cutter Service be, and are hereby, authorized to administer oaths of allegiance and such other oaths as may be necessary for the proper conduct of said Service; and that commanding officers of vessels of the Revenue-Cutter Service be, and are hereby, authorized to administer oaths generally in Alaska.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the number of officers allowed in the grades of second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of officers.</p></sidenote> lieutenant and third lieutenant and second lieutenant of engineers and third lieutenant of engineers is hereby increased five in each of said grades.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. 146: For completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>146.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-16">April 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17983">H. R. 17983</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/97">Public, No. 97.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the expenditure of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completion of pediment of House wing authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 344.</p></sidenote> seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, authorized for the purpose of completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol by placing suitable statuary thereon, said expenditure to be made under the direction of the Speaker of the House, the Joint Committee on the Library, and the Superintendent of the Capitol.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 147: To increase the pension of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/64">64</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>147.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the pension of widows, minor children, and so forth, of deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war, the war with Mexico, the various Indian wars, and so forth, and to grant a pension to certain widows of the deceased soldiers and sailors of the late civil war.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-19">April 19, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15653">H. R. 15653</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/98">Public, No. 98.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of, to widows, etc.</p></sidenote> passage of this Act the rate of pension for widows, minor children under the age of sixteen years, and helpless minors as defined by existing laws, now on the roll or hereafter to be placed on the pension roll and entitled to receive a less rate than hereinafter provided, shall be twelve dollars per month; and nothing herein shall be construed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount per month.</p></sidenote> affect the existing allowance of two dollars per month for each child under the age of sixteen years and for each helpless child; and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That this Act shall not be so construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction.</p></sidenote> as to reduce any pension under any Act, public or private.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That if any officer or enlisted man who served ninety days<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widows of soldiers and sailors who served 90 days, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death incident to service not required.</p></sidenote> or more in the Army or Navy of the United States during the late civil war and who has been honorably discharged therefrom has died or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow, such widow shall, upon due proof of her husband’s death, without proving his death to be the result of his army or navy service, be placed on the pension roll from the date of the filing of her application therefor under this Act at the rate of twelve dollars per month during her widowhood, provided that said widow shall have married said soldier or sailor prior to June twenty-seventh,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marriage prior to June 27, 1890.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional cases.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety; and the benefits of this section shall include those widows whose husbands if living would have a pensionable status under the Joint Resolutions of February fifteenth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 970.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 750.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 836.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-five, July first, nineteen hundred and two, and June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That no claim agent or attorney shall be recognized in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys’, etc., fees restricted.</p></sidenote> adjudication of claims under the first section of this Act, and that no agent, attorney, or other person engaged in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting any claim under the provisions of the second section of this Act shall, directly or indirectly, contract for, demand, receive, or retain for such services in preparing, presenting, or prosecuting such claim a sum greater than ten dollars, which sum shall be payable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> only upon the order of the Commissioner of Pensions by the pension agent making payment of the pension allowed; and any person who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> shall violate any of the provisions of this section or who shall wrongfully withhold from the pensioner or claimant the whole or any part of a pension or claim allowed or due such pensioner or claimant under this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned at hard labor not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 19, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 148: To regulate the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>148</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 64</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>148.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To regulate the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-20">April 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17305">H. R. 17305</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/99">Public, No. 99.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That no person shall in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private hospitals and asylums to be licensed.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia establish or maintain any private hospital or asylum, either for the reception of human beings or of domestic animals, unless or until licensed by the Commissioners of said District.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the health officer of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health officer to enforce regulations.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, and of such agents and employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection.</p></sidenote> in the service of the health department of said District as he may designate for that pur <page identifier="/us/stat/35/65">65</page> pose, to enforce the provisions of this Act and of all regulations made by authority thereof; and said health officer and agents and employees are hereby authorized, in the performance of the duty aforesaid, to enter and inspect during all reasonable hours all private hospitals and asylums in said District. No person shall interfere with said health<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Noninterference with inspectors.</p></sidenote> officer, or with any agent or employee aforesaid, in the performance of his official duty, nor hinder, prevent, or refuse to permit any inspection authorized by this Act.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any person who, for himself or as the employee or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> agent of another person, or as a member, officer, or employee of a firm or corporation, violates any of the provisions of this Act or any regulations made hereunder by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or aids in the violation thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> they are hereby, authorized and empowered to promulgate from time to time such regulations as in their judgment public interests require to govern the establishment and maintenance of private hospitals and asylums, whether for human beings or for domestic animals, and to regulate the issue, suspension, and revocation of licenses aforesaid.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That all prosecutions under this Act shall be in the police<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions.</p></sidenote> court of the District of Columbia upon information signed by the corporation counsel of said District or by one of his assistants.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 149: Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>149</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 65</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>149.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to the liability of common carriers by railroad to their employees in certain cases.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-22">April 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20310">H. R. 20310</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/100">Public, No. 100.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That every common carrier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad common carriers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of, for injuries, etc., to employees from negligence.</p></sidenote> by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several States or Territories, or between any of the States and Territories, or between the District of Columbia and any of the States or Territories, or between the District of Columbia or any of the States or Territories and any foreign nation or nations, shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That every common carrier by railroad in the Territories,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages for injuries, etc., in Territories, etc.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, the Panama Canal Zone, or other possessions of the United States shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any of said jurisdictions, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative, for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and children of such employee; and, if none, then of such employee’s parents; and, if none, then of the next of kin dependent upon such employee, for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Negligence of officers, etc.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/66">66</page> of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That in all actions hereafter brought against any such common<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contributory negligence of employee no bar to recovery.</p></sidenote> carrier by railroad under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diminished damages.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> the amount of negligence attributable to such employee: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That in any action brought against any common carrier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment risks not assumed if law has been violated.</p></sidenote> under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attempts to evade liability by contract, etc., void.</p></sidenote> the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this Act, shall to that extent be void: <proviso>Provided, That in any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain contributions by employers to be deducted.</p></sidenote> action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity that may have been paid to the injured employee or the person entitled thereto on account of the injury or death for which said action was brought.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That no action shall be maintained under this Act unless<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit for actions.</p></sidenote> commenced within two years from the day the cause of action accrued.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the term “common carrier” as used in this Act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receivers, etc., included in term “common carriers.”</p></sidenote> include the receiver or receivers or other persons or corporations charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall be held to limit the duty or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior laws not affected.</p></sidenote> liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other Act or Acts of Congress, or to affect the prosecution of any pending proceeding or right of action under the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 232.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act relating to liability of common carriers in the District of Columbia and Territories, and to common carriers engaged in commerce between the States and between the States and foreign nations to their employees,” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. 150: To increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>150</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 66</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-23</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>150.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-23">April 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/1424">S. 1424</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/101">Public, No. 101.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Corps, etc., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 1168, p. 210.</p></sidenote> approval of this Act the Medical Department of the United States Army shall consist of a Medical Corps and a Medical Reserve Corps, as hereinafter provided; and the Hospital Corps, the nurse corps, and dental surgeons, as now authorized by law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Medical Corps shall consist of one Surgeon-General,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition of.</p></sidenote> with rank of brigadier-general, who shall be chief of the Medical <page identifier="/us/stat/35/67">67</page> Department; fourteen colonels, twenty-four lieutenant-colonels, one hundred and five majors, and three hundred captains or first lieutenants, who shall have rank, pay, and allowances of officers of corresponding grades in the cavalry arm of the service. Immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers in active service to be recommissioned, etc.</p></sidenote> following the approval of this Act all officers of the Medical Department then in active service, other than the Surgeon-General, shall be recommissioned in the corresponding grades in the Medical Corps established by this Act in the order of their seniority and without loss of relative rank in the Army, as follows: Assistant surgeons-general,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grades and rank.</p></sidenote> with the rank of colonel, as colonels; deputy surgeons-general, with rank of lieutenant-colonel, as lieutenant-colonels; surgeons, with the rank of major, as majors; assistant surgeons, who at the time of the approval of this Act shall have served three years or more, as captains; and assistant surgeons, with the rank of first lieutenant, who at the time of the approval of this Act shall have served less than three years as such, as first lieutenants; and hereafter first lieutenants shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotio</p></sidenote> promoted to the grade of captain after three years’ service in the Medical Corps.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That promotions in the Medical Corps to fill vacancies in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote> the several grades created or caused by this Act, or hereafter occurring, shall be made according to seniority, but all such promotions and all appointments to the grade of first lieutenant in said corps shall be subject to examination as hereinafter provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum yearly increase in grades.</p></sidenote> the increase in grades of colonel, lieutenant-colonel, and major provided for in this Act shall be filled by promotion each calendar year of not exceeding two lieutenant-colonels to be colonels, three majors to be lieutenant-colonels, fourteen captains to be majors, and of the increase in the grade of first lieutenant not more than twenty-five per centum of the total of such increase shall be appointed in any one calendar year: <i>Provided further</i>, That those assistant surgeons who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank of assistant surgeons, etc.</p></sidenote> at the time of the approval of this Act shall have attained their captaincy by reason of service in the volunteer forces under the provisions of the Act of February second, nineteen hundred and one, section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 752.</p></sidenote> eighteen, or who will receive their captaincy upon the approval of this Act by virtue of such service, shall take rank among the officers in or subsequently promoted to that grade, according to date of entrance into the Medical Department of the Army as commissioned officers.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That no person shall receive an appointment as first lieutenant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination for appointment as first lieutenant.</p></sidenote> in the Medical Corps unless he shall have been examined and approved by an army medical board consisting of not less than three officers of the Medical Corps designated by the Secretary of War.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That no officer of the Medical Corps below the rank of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions of officers below rank of lieutenant-colonel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations required.</p></sidenote> lieutenant-colonel shall be promoted therein until he shall have successfully passed an examination before an army medical board consisting of not less than three officers of the Medical Corps, to be designated by the Secretary of War, such examination to be prescribed by the Secretary of War and to be held at such time anterior to the accruing of the right to promotion as may be for the best interests of the service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That should any officer of the Medical Corps<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement if physically disabled.</p></sidenote> fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty, he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted; but if he should be found disqualified for promotion for any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No second examination if otherwise disqualified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of board of review.</p></sidenote> other reason, a second examination shall not be allowed, but the Secretary of War shall appoint a board of review to consist of three officers of the Medical Corps superior in rank to the officer examined, none of whom shall have served as a member of the board which examined him. If the unfavorable finding of the examining board is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action if disqualified for promotion.</p></sidenote> concurred in by the board of review, the officer reported disqualified for promotion shall, if a first lieutenant or captain, be honorably discharged <page identifier="/us/stat/35/68">68</page> from the service with one year’s pay; and, if a major, shall be debarred from promotion and the officer next in rank found qualified shall be promoted to the vacancy. If the action of the examining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion if finding be favorable.</p></sidenote> board is disapproved by the board of review, the officer shall be considered qualified and shall be promoted.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall be construed to legislate out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank and service of present officers not affected.</p></sidenote> of the service any officer now in the Medical Department of the Army, nor to affect the relative rank or promotion of any medical officer now in the service, or who may hereafter be appointed therein, as determined by the date of his appointment or commission, except as herein otherwise provided in section three.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That for the purpose of securing a reserve corps of medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Reserve Corps authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Graduates of medical schools to be commissioned as first lieutenants.</p></sidenote> officers available for military service, the President of the United States is authorized to issue commissions as first lieutenants therein to such graduates of reputable schools of medicine, citizens of the United States, as shall from time to time, upon examination to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, be found physically, mentally, and morally qualified to hold such commissions, the persons so commissioned to constitute and be known as the Medical Reserve Corps. The commissions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, etc., of, when on active duty.</p></sidenote> so given shall confer upon the holders all the authority, rights, and privileges of commissioned officers of the like grade in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, except promotions, but only when called into active duty, as hereinafter provided, and during the period of such active duty. Officers of the Medical Reserve Corps<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank.</p></sidenote> shall have rank in said corps according to date of their commissions therein, and when employed on active duty, as hereinafter provided, shall rank next below all other officers of like grade in the United States Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That contract surgeons now in the military service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract surgeons.</p></sidenote> who receive the favorable recommendation of the Surgeon-General of the Army shall be eligible for appointment in said reserve corps without further examination: <i>Provided further</i>, That any contract surgeon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligible to appointment in regular corps.</p></sidenote> not over twenty-seven years of age at date of his appointment as contract surgeon shall be eligible to appointment in the regular corps.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That in emergencies the Secretary of War may order officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency service.</p></sidenote> of the Medical Reserve Corps to active duty in the service of the United States in such numbers as the public interests may require, and may relieve them from such duty when their services are no longer necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declination of service allowed.</p></sidenote> authorizing an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps to be ordered upon active duty as herein provided who is unwilling to accept such service, nor to prohibit an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps not designated for active duty from service with the militia, or with the volunteer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May serve with militia, etc.</p></sidenote> troops of the United States, or in the service of the United States in any other capacity, but when so serving with the militia or with volunteer troops, or when employed in the service of the United States in any other capacity, an officer of the Medical Reserve Corps shall not be subject to call for duty under the terms of this section: <i>And</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honorable discharge when no longer required.</p></sidenote> <i>provided further</i>, That the President is authorized to honorably discharge from the Medical Reserve Corps any officer thereof whose services are no longer required: <i>And provided further</i>, That officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications for admission to Medical Corps.</p></sidenote> of the Medical Reserve Corps who apply for appointment in the Medical Corps of the Army may, upon the recommendation of the Surgeon-General, be placed on active duty by the Secretary of War and ordered to the Army Medical School for instruction and further examination to determine their fitness for commission in the Medical Corps: <i>And provided further</i>, That any officer of the Medical Reserve Corps<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of commission.</p></sidenote> who is subject to call and who shall be ordered upon active duty as herein provided and who shall be unwilling and refuse to accept such service shall forfeit his commission.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That officers of the Medical Reserve Corps when called upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and allowance.</p></sidenote> active duty in the service of the United States, as provided in section <page identifier="/us/stat/35/69">69</page> eight of this Act, shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and orders for the government of the Regular Army, and during the period of such service shall be entitled to the pay and allowances of first lieutenants of the Medical Corps with increase for length of service now allowed by law, said increase to be computed only for time of active duty: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no officer of the Medical Reserve Corps shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not entitled to retirement, etc.</p></sidenote> entitled to retirement or retirement pay, nor shall he be entitled to pension except for physical disability incurred in the line of duty while in active duty: <i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments in time of war.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to prevent the appointment in time of war of medical officers of volunteers in such numbers and with such rank and pay as may be provided by law.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby repealed.</content></section>
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<dc:title>Chap. 151: To provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas or marine parades.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>151.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas or marine parades.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-28">April 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/s">S. 6028</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/102">Public, No. 102.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine parades, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection to life on navigable waters during.</p></sidenote> and Labor is hereby authorized and empowered in his discretion to issue from time to time regulations, not contrary to law, to promote the safety of life on navigable waters during regattas or marine parades.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That to enforce such regulations the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement of regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Commerce and Labor may detail public vessels, etc.</p></sidenote> and Labor may detail any public vessel in the service of that Department and make use of any private vessel tendered gratuitously for the purpose, or upon the request of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor the head of any other Department may enforce the regulations issued under this Act by means of any public vessel of such Department and of any private vessel tendered gratuitously for the purpose.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the authority and power bestowed upon the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of authority allowed.</p></sidenote> of Commerce and Labor by sections one and two may be transferred for any special occasion to the head of another Department by the President whenever in his judgment such transfer is desirable.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That for any violation of regulations issued pursuant to this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties for violation.</p></sidenote> Act the following penalties shall be incurred:</content></section>
<subsection class="inline"><num value="a">(a)</num><content class="inline">A licensed officer shall be liable to suspension or revocation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By licensed officers.</p></sidenote> license in the manner now prescribed by law for incompetency or misconduct.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="b">“(b)</num><content class="inline">Any person in charge of the navigation of a vessel other than a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonlicensed persons.</p></sidenote> licensed officer shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="b">“(c)</num><content class="inline">The owner of a vessel (including any corporate officer of a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owner, if actually on board.</p></sidenote> owning the vessel) actually on board shall be liable to a penalty of five hundred dollars, unless the violation of regulations shall have occurred without his knowledge.</content></subsection>
<subsection class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="b">“(d)</num><content class="inline">Any other person shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other persons.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars.</content></subsection>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><content class="inline">The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of penalties.</p></sidenote> empowered to mitigate or remit any penalty herein provided for in the manner prescribed by law for the mitigation or remission of penalties for violation of the navigation laws.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 122.</p></sidenote> and ninety-six, entitled “An Act to provide for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers,” is hereby repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect on April tenth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> and eight.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 152: To repeal an Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes,” and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>152.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To repeal an Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to regulate shipping in trade between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago, and for other purposes,” and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-29">April 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/5262">S. 5262</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/103">Public, No. 103.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That until Congress shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interisland traffic.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to regulate, granted temporarily to Philippine government.</p></sidenote> have authorized the registry as vessels of the United States of vessels owned in the Philippine Islands, the government of the Philippine Islands is hereby authorized to adopt, from time to time, and enforce regulations governing the transportation of merchandise and passengers between ports or places in the Philippine Archipelago.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That on and after the passage of this Act the same tonnage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tonnage tax on foreign vessels to United States.</p></sidenote> taxes shall be levied, collected, and paid upon all foreign vessels coming into the United States from the Philippine Islands which are required by law to be levied, collected, and paid upon vessels coming into the United States from foreign countries.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the provisions of law restricting to vessels of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions on foreign vessels removed.</p></sidenote> United States the transportation of passengers and merchandise directly or indirectly from one port of the United States to another port of the United States shall not be applicable to foreign vessels engaging in trade between the Philippine Islands and the United States.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Philippine Commission shall be authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses to harbour vessels.</p></sidenote> empowered to issue licenses to engage in lighterage or other exclusively harbor business to vessels or other craft actually engaged in such business at the date of the passage of this Act and to vessels or other craft built in the Philippine Islands or in the United States and owned by citizens of the United States or by inhabitants of the Philippine Islands.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That such of the navigation laws of the United States as are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine government to enforce navigation laws.</p></sidenote> in force in the Philippine Islands in regard to vessels arriving in the Philippine Islands from the mainland territory and other insular possessions of the United States shall continue to be administered by the proper officials of the government of the Philippine Islands.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An Act to regulate shipping in trade<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 154.</p></sidenote> between ports of the United States and ports or places in the Philippine Islands, between ports or places in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,” approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 153: Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>153</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 70</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>153.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-30">April 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15219">H. R. 15219</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/104">Public, No. 104.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Department appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are specially provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General provisions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>president.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the President.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in severalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 388.</p></sidenote> of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An <page identifier="/us/stat/35/71">71</page> Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the Secretary.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no purchase of supplies for which appropriations are herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of supplies to be advertised.</p></sidenote> or hereinafter made for the Indian service, exceeding in the aggregate five hundred dollars in value at any one time, shall be made without first giving at least three weeks’ public notice by advertisement, except in case of exigency, when, in the discretion of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> of the Interior, who shall make official record of the facts constituting the exigency, and shall report the same to Congress at its next session, he may direct that purchases may be made in open market in amount not exceeding three thousand dollars at any one purchase: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter supplies may be purchased, contracts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> let, and labor employed for the construction of artesian wells, ditches, and other works for irrigation, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one purchase or contract, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, without advertising as hereinbefore provided: <i>Provided further</i>, That as far as practicable Indian labor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian labor, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be employed and purchase in the open market made from Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter when the Secretary of the Interior deems a new bond<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing officers’ bonds.</p></sidenote> necessary he may, in his discretion, require any disbursing officer under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to execute a new bond, with approved sureties, in such amount as he may deem necessary, and when accepted and approved by the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of new bond releases sureties on prior bond.</p></sidenote> the Interior the new bond shall be valid and the surety or sureties of the prior bond shall be released from liability for all acts or defaults of the principal which may be done or committed from and after the day on which the new bond was approved.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior shall take possession of all buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, etc., on lands of, may be sold.</p></sidenote> on lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, now or heretofore used for governmental, school, or other tribal purposes, together with the furniture therein and the land appertaining thereto, and appraise and sell the same at such time and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe and deposit the proceeds, less expenses incident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> to the appraisement and sale, in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the tribes respectively owning the said land and improvements, and immediately after any such sale patents for the realty thus<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee.</p></sidenote> sold shall be made and delivered’ in the same manner as now provided by law for other tribal property: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when practicable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference rights.</p></sidenote> preference right shall be given to the State, counties and municipalities of Oklahoma to purchase said lands and improvements at the appraised value: <i>And provided</i>, That pending such appraisement and sale the Secretary of the Interior may temporarily lease said buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary leases.</p></sidenote> and lands for the benefit of the tribes respectively to which they belong.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>commissioner.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the Commissioner.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> irrigating tools and appliances and water rights, including lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs, for Indian reservations, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/72">72</page> two hundred thousand dollars, of which twenty-five thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote> shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, may employ superintendents of irrigation, who shall be skilled irrigation engineers, not to exceed five, as in his judgment may be necessary to secure the construction of ditches and other irrigation works in a substantial and workmanlike manner.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying and allotting.</p></sidenote> be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which fifteen thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, to take action to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, forty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of schools.</p></sidenote> educational purposes not hereinafter provided for, one million four hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction, purchase, lease, and repair of school buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> and for sewerage, water supply, and lighting plants, and purchase of school sites, and improvement of buildings and grounds, four hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, two million, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting pupils.</p></sidenote> schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of them, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, seventy-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Positions for pupils.</p></sidenote> exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be used, under direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the transportation and placing of Indian pupils in positions where remunerative employment can be found for them in industrial pursuits. The provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska natives.</p></sidenote> this section shall apply to native pupils brought from Alaska.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from time to time as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special investigations.</p></sidenote> he may deem necessary, to detail clerks from his office to make special investigations in the field: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That while thus absent from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> Washington under such detail they shall receive a per diem of three dollars to cover all expenses, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fares, three thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to conduct experiments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental tests of soils, etc.</p></sidenote> on Indian school or agency farms, designed to test the possibility of soil, climate, and so forth, in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables and fruits not hitherto raised in those neighborhoods, using Indian labor in the process, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all expenditure of money herein or hereafter appropriated for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of expenditures.</p></sidenote> school purposes among the Indians, shall be at all times under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and in all respects in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to the conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may be from time to time prescribed by him, subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That, except<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of per capita expense.</p></sidenote> for pay of superintendents, not more than one hundred and sixty-seven dollars shall be expended for the annual support and education of any one pupil in any school herein specifically provided for, except when, by reason of epidemic, accident, or other sufficient cause, the attendance is so reduced or cost of maintenance so high that a larger expenditure is absolutely necessary, when the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, may allow a larger per capita expenditure: <i>Provided further</i>, That the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total for school.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/73">73</page> amount appropriated for the support of such school shall not be exceeded: <i>Provided further</i>, That the number of pupils in any school<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining per capita allowance.</p></sidenote> entitled to the per capita allowance hereby provided for shall be determined by taking the average enrollment for the entire fiscal year and not any fractional part thereof.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There shall not be paid out of any appropriation, made in this Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual compensation of superintendents restricted.</p></sidenote> any greater rate of annual compensation to any superintendent of Indian schools during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, than is authorized and paid out of appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized, under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of nonreservation schools.</p></sidenote> direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to ascertain whether and upon what terms it may be possible to dispose of any of the nonreservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation and report to Congress.</p></sidenote> Indian schools which in his judgment are no longer of value to the Indian Service, and to report the result of his investigations to the next session of the Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter any United States Indian agent, superintendent, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing agents may select banks of deposit for Indian funds.</p></sidenote> other disbursing agent of the Indian Service may deposit Indian moneys, individual or tribal, coming into his hands as custodian, in such national bank or banks as he may select: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the bank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> or banks so selected by him shall first execute to said disbursing agent a bond, with approved surety, in such an amount as will properly safeguard the funds to be deposited. Such bond shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Negotiations for commutation of perpetual annuities authorized.</p></sidenote> send a special Indian agent, or other representative of his office, to visit any Indian tribe for the purpose of negotiating and entering into a written agreement with such tribe for the commutation of the perpetual annuities due under treaty stipulations, to be subject to the approval of Congress; and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall transmit to Congress said agreements with such recommendations as he may deem proper.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Telegraphing, telephoning, and purchase of Indian supplies: To pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p></sidenote> the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; telegraphing and telephoning; and transporting Indian goods and supplies, including expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, three hundred and fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warehouses.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter warehouses for the receipt, storage,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locations.</p></sidenote> and shipment of goods for the Indian Service shall be maintained at the following places: New York, Chicago, Omaha, Saint Louis, and San Francisco: <i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter payment for transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of Indian goods, etc., payments for, to land-grant railroads restricted.</p></sidenote> of Indian goods and supplies shall include all Indian transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid to said land-grant roads: <i>Provided</i>, That such compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis for computing compensation.</p></sidenote> shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: <i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter in expending money appropriated for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote> this purpose a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public lands to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/74">74</page> also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose, restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of Indian goods and supplies over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated for such purpose only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such Indian goods and supplies as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem just and reasonable under the provisions set forth herein, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For buildings and repairs of buildings at agencies, and for rent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency buildings.</p></sidenote> buildings for agency purposes, and for water supply at agencies, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pure vaccine matter and vaccination of Indians, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaccination.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>II. GENERAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General officers and employees.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>board of indian commissioners.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizen commission.</p></sidenote> appointed by the President under the provisions of the fourth section of the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 40.</p></sidenote> four thousand dollars, of which amount not to exceed three hundred dollars may be used by the commission for office rent.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>inspectors.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of eight Indian inspectors, two of whom shall be engineers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation engineers.</p></sidenote> one to be designated as chief, competent in the location, construction, and maintenance of irrigation works, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum each, except the chief engineer, who shall receive three thousand five hundred dollars, twenty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of eight Indian inspectors, at three dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>superintendent of indian schools.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of schools.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> be shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare in lieu of all other expenses now allowed by law.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>interpreters.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the discretion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/75">75</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>police.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of officers at twenty-five dollars per month each, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote> privates at twenty dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of equipments, and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>matrons.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matrons.</p></sidenote> as matrons to teach Indian girls in housekeeping and other household duties, at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars per month, and for furnishing necessary equipments, and renting quarters where necessary, thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount paid said matrons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 90.</p></sidenote> shall not come within the limit for employees fixed by the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>farmers and stockmen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to employ practical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmers and stockmen.</p></sidenote> farmers and practical stockmen, subject only to such examination as to qualifications as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in addition to the agency farmers now employed, at wages not exceeding seventy-five dollars each per month, to superintend and direct farming and stock raising among such Indians as are making effort for self-support, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 90.</p></sidenote> That the amounts paid such farmers and stockmen shall not come within the limit for employees fixed by the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: <i>Provided further</i>, That the Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At schools.</p></sidenote> of Indian Affairs may employ additional farmers at any Indian school at not exceeding sixty dollars per month, subject only to such examination as to qualifications as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, said farmers to be in addition to the school farmers now employed.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>judges.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judges, Indian courts.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingencies.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies of the Indian Service, including traveling and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies.</p></sidenote> incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and expenses of going to and going from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for a period not to exceed twenty days; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, eighty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States to pay cost of bonds of agents, etc.</p></sidenote> hereafter the expense of procuring the official bond of any agent, superintendent, or other disbursing officer of the Indian Service shall be paid by the United States.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ARIZONA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agent at the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Carlos Agency, agent.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Apache and other Indians in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apaches, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on <page identifier="/us/stat/35/76">76</page> reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, three hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balance for the fiscal year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eight is hereby appropriated and made available for nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians of Pima Agency, Arizona,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pima Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars, to be expended for their benefit in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may deem best.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort mojave school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mojave school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent of said school, thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of water system, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of steam boiler, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>phoenix school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement of power and heating plant, to be immediately available, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>truxton canyon school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truxton Canyon school.</p></sidenote> school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CALIFORNIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the Mission Indians in California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mission Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, fifteen thousand dollars, part of which may be used for making improvements on lands in the use and occupation of Indians in southern California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the northern Indians, California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars, part of which may be used for making improvements on lands in the use and occupation of Indians in northern California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of tillable land for certain Indians.</p></sidenote> to expend not to exceed fifty thousand dollars to purchase for the use of the Indians in California now residing on reservations which do not contain land suitable for cultivation and for Indians who are not now upon reservations in said State suitable tracts or parcels of land, water, and water rights in said State of California, and have constructed the necessary ditches, flumes, and reservoirs for the purpose of irrigating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> said lands and the irrigation of any lands now occupied by Indians in said State, and to construct suitable buildings upon said lands and to fence the tracts so purchased, and to fence, survey, and mark the boundaries of such Indian reservations in the State of California as <page identifier="/us/stat/35/77">77</page> the Secretary of the Interior may deem proper. And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation shall be so expended as to make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p></sidenote> further appropriation for this purpose unnecessary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sherman institute.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Sherman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sherman Institute.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Institute, Riverside, California, and for pay of superintendent, eighty-six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional water and sewer system, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to storehouse, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, and Tule River agencies, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And pay of employees at same agencies, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That one thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of eight thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Round Valley Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of obstructions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote> dollars appropriated by the Acts of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page three hundred and thirty-three), and March first, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page one thousand and twenty-two), for the purpose of removing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 333, 1022.</p></sidenote> obstructions both within and without the reservation from the bed of the stream which flows through the Round Valley Reservation, Mendocino County, California, and drains into Eel River, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for use during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wagon road to be constructed on.</p></sidenote> necessary, be, and the same hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of a wagon road on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of California, including necessary surveys, transportation, purchase of materials and tools, and for the subsistence of Indians furnishing labor, including for age for their animals, the labor for said construction to be performed as far as practicable by the Indians for the reservation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be available until<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation and report.</p></sidenote> the proper officer of the Indian Bureau shall investigate and report that the work contemplated can be completed for the amount herein appropriated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma Reservation Indians.</p></sidenote> the Indians of the Yuma Reservation, to be expended for their benefit in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, said sum to be reimbursable out of the proceeds derived from the sale of their lands; there is also appropriated out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town sites.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma and Colorado River reservations.</p></sidenote> any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the further sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to reserve and set apart lands for town-site purposes in the Yuma Indian Reservation, California, and the Colorado River Indian Reservation in California and Arizona, and to survey, plat, and sell the tracts so set apart in such manner as he may prescribe, the net proceeds to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the reservations, respectively, to be reimbursed out of the funds arising from the sale of the lands. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/78">78</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COLORADO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>grand junction school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Junction school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Grand Junction, Colorado, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-one thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort lewis school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lewis school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Fort Lewis, Colorado, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IDAHO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For a superintendent in charge of agency and educational matters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alene Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Shoshones and Bannocks, Sheep-eaters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1024.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page one thousand and four) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands and other property necessary in constructing a reservoir for storing water for the purpose of irrigating lands on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and those ceded by the Indians of said reservation and for construction of the system determined on, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alene Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground for railroad station granted.</p></sidenote> Idaho is hereby authorized to locate, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, an additional station ground not to exceed two hundred feet in width by a length of three thousand feet, west of Plummer, upon its located line in the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, in the State of Idaho: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That full compensation therefor shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> be determined and paid under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 990.</p></sidenote> nine hundred and ninety.)</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the land in the following subdivisions now embraced in the Coeur<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land withdrawn from allotment, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> d’Alene Indian Reservation in Idaho, to wit: Sections one, two, and twelve, township forty-six north, range four west, Boise meridian; sections thirty-five and thirty-six, township forty-seven north, range four west, Boise meridian; all of those portions of sections two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, and eleven, township forty-six north, range three west, Boise meridian, lying south and west of the Saint Joe River in said township; all of those portions of sections thirty-one and thirty-two, township forty-seven north, range three west, Boise meridian, lying south and west of the Saint Joe River in said township is reserved and withdrawn from allotment and settle <page identifier="/us/stat/35/79">79</page> ment, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to convey<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance of part to Idaho for public park, authorized.</p></sidenote> any part thereof to the State of Idaho to be maintained by said State as a public park, said conveyance to be made for such consideration and upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. The proceeds of such sale shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States for the use and benefit of the Coeur d’Alene Indians in such manner as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of sale.</p></sidenote> Congress shall hereafter prescribe.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshones and bannocks. (treaty.) (for shoshones, see wyoming.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bannocks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bannocks</inline>: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote> engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coeur d’alenes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alenes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p></sidenote> medicines, as per the eleventh article of agreement, ratified by Act March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1029.</p></sidenote></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort hall indians. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Indians.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fulfilling Treaties with Fort Hall Indians, Idaho</inline>: For last<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 688.</p></sidenote> of twenty installments, as provided in agreement with said Indians, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians in such manner as the President may direct, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Missions of Protestant Episcopal Church.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee to, of certain lands.</p></sidenote> and directed to issue patent in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States for certain lands heretofore set apart and used for church purposes, and more particularly described as follows: The southeast quarter of section thirty-six, township four south of range thirty-four east of Boise meridian, county of Bingham, State of Idaho, containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, being part of the lands included within the Fort Hall Indian Reservation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said patent shall not issue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of Indians.</p></sidenote> until the Indians of said reservation shall have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Indians Formerly of Lemhi Agency, Idaho</inline>: For the second of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lemhi Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty with Indians formerly of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 688.</p></sidenote> twenty installments, as provided in agreement with the Indians of Fort Hall and Lemhi agencies, Idaho, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians removed to Fort Hall Reservation from Lemhi Agency, Idaho, in such manner as the President may direct, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the survey of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 334.</p></sidenote> Lemhi Indian Reservation, Idaho, in the Act approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IOWA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sac and fox school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sac and Fox school.</p></sidenote> school on Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/80">80</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of certain lands with trust fund authorized.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to expend out of the trust fund of thirty-eight thousand six hundred and three dollars and ninety-three cents, now on deposit in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa, a sum not exceeding twenty-four thousand dollars in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum price.</p></sidenote> the purchase of certain tracts of land adjoining or surrounded by the present reservation of said Indians in Tama County, Iowa.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aids to land improvements.</p></sidenote> to expend out of said trust fund a further sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as he may deem necessary, to assist the said Sac and Fox Indians of Iowa in clearing and reducing to cultivation the tracts now owned by them and those that may be purchased under this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rebok and Cramer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to Rebok and Cramer, a copartnership composed of Philip K. Rebok and Hiram W. Cramer, of Toledo, Iowa, the sum of seven hundred and sixteen dollars, found due them by the Secretary of the Interior under contract dated October second, nineteen hundred and five, for construction of laundry building and water system at the Sac and Fox Indian School, Iowa, out of the appropriation heretofore made for said purposes.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>KANSAS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>haskell institute.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Haskell Institute, Lawrence.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, for transportation of pupils to and from said school, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For porches and dormitories, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For heating plant, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and fifty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>kickapoo indian school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoo school.</p></sidenote> school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pottawatomies. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pottawatomies.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per fourth article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 51.</p></sidenote> August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 114.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of October<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 185.</p></sidenote> second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 317.</p></sidenote> September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article of treaty of July<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 320.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 317.</p></sidenote> twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and second article of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/81">81</page> treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for payment of money in lieu of tobacco,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 318.</p></sidenote> iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth article of treaties of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 855.</p></sidenote> June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 296.</p></sidenote> for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; second article of treaty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 318.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 321.</p></sidenote> of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 320.</p></sidenote> of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nine thousand and thirty-seven dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For building fences, cleaning up and putting in proper repair the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Old cemetery.</p></sidenote> old Pottawatomie Indian cemetery in Mission Township, Shawnee County, State of Kansas, the sum of six hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to establish public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public roads.</p></sidenote> roads not to exceed sixty feet in width on section lines on the Pottawatomie Reservation in Kansas wherever in his judgment such roads will be a benefit to the residents on such reservation.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sacs and foxes of the missouri. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 1173.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior -is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payments to.</p></sidenote> discretion, to pay per capita to the Iowa tribe of Indians in the States of Kansas and Oklahoma, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, the balance of the Iowa trust fund in the United States Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Oklahoma branch of Iowas shall receive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma branch.</p></sidenote> such an amount of this trust fund as will equalize for them the payment made to the Kansas branch under the Act approved May twenty-seventh,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 267.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and sixty-seven).</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MICHIGAN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mount pleasant school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Pleasant school.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to make a complete<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final roll.</p></sidenote> roll of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of the State of Michigan entitled to participate in the funds arising from the judgment of the Court of Claims, in case numbered twenty-seven thousand five hundred and thirty-seven, decided by the Court of Claims March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and of any other funds to their credit in the hands of the Treasurer of the United States, and said roll, when completed and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be final and conclusive: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expense thereof shall be paid out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> of the moneys found due said Indians in said cause. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/82">82</page></proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MINNESOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agent at the Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leech Lake Agency.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at White Earth Agency, Minnesota, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Earth Agency.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the drainage survey provided for under the Act of June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage survey of unsold ceded lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 352.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said amount shall be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the funds in the Treasury belonging to said Indians derived<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 642.</p></sidenote> from the sale of lands under the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D. C. Lightbourn and George D. Hamilton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to.</p></sidenote> to pay to D. C. Lightbourn, of Ada, Minnesota, the sum of one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-five cents, and to George D. Hamilton, of Detroit, Minnesota, the sum of eight hundred and thirty dollars, out of any money standing to the credit of all the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota out of the fund known as “Chippewas in Minnesota Fund,” in payment of bills incurred in advertising, and the said sums are hereby appropriated for said purpose: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall first examine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote> said accounts and approve the same.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Earth band of Chippewas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to, for annual Celebration expenses.</p></sidenote> executive committee of the White Earth band of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, out of the funds belonging to said band.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>morris school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morris school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Morris, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pipestone school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pipestone school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chippewas of the mississippi. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of the Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote> the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 720.</p></sidenote> of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chippewas of minnesota, reimbursable. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Advance interest to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, as required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance interest.</p></sidenote> by section seven of “An Act for the relief of the Chippewa Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 645.</p></sidenote> in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be expended under the direction of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/83">83</page> Secretary of the Interior, in the manner required by said Act (reimbursable), ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilization, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 642.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, to carryout an Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely, the purchase of material and employment of labor for the erection of houses for Indians; for the purchase of agricultural implements, stock and seeds, breaking and fencing land; for payment of expenses of delegations of Chippewa Indians to visit the White Earth Reservation; for the erection and maintenance of day and industrial schools; for subsistence and for pay of employees; for pay of commissioners and their expenses, and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section three of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Lake Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of annual installments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 50.</p></sidenote> hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page fifty), modifying and amending the agreement with the Indians of the Red Lake Reservation in Minnesota, is hereby so far modified as to permit the payment of the annual installments provided for in said section during the month of April each year, instead of October.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MONTANA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agents in Montana at the following-named agencies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p></sidenote> at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blackfeet Agency.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Crow Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Agency.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Montana, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Crow Indians in Montana, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flour, etc., mill at Ronan.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the rebuilding of the flour, saw, and shingle mill at the Flathead Indian Reservation subagency, Montana, at Ronan, ten thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available from any balance now in the Treasury, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of sales of surplus land after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> allotment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck Agency.Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Montana, including pay of employees, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion and extension of the Milk River Irrigation System on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of implements, etc.</p></sidenote> the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That for the purchase of machinery, tools, implements, other equipment, and animals for the Indians on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, to enable said Indians to engage in the raising of sugar beets and other crops, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said expenditures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> shall be made under such conditions as said Secretary may prescribe for the repayment by said Indians to the United States of the sum so expended.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preliminary surveys, plans, and estimates of irrigating systems<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 305.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 448.</p></sidenote> to irrigate the allotted lands of the Indians of the Flathead Reservation in Montana and the unallotted irrigable lands to be disposed of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/84">84</page> under the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” and to begin the construction of the same, fifty thousand dollars, the cost of said entire work to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of the lands within said reservation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey, allotment, etc.</p></sidenote> allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, fifteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>crows. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crows.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, as per tenth article of the treaty of May<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 652.</p></sidenote> seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>northern cheyennes and arapahoes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the Sioux<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote> Indians approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 658.</p></sidenote> farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief Rocky Boy’s band of Chippewas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land, etc., for.</p></sidenote> to expend not to exceed thirty thousand dollars for the purpose of settling Chief Rocky Boy’s band of Chippewa Indians, now residing in Montana, upon public lands, if available, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, or upon some suitable existing Indian reservation in said State, and to this end he is authorized to negotiate and conclude an agreement with any Indian tribe in said State, or, in his discretion, to purchase suitable tracts of lands, water and water rights, in said State of Montana and to construct suitable buildings upon said lands and to purchase for them such necessary live stock and implements of agriculture as he may deem proper. And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEBRASKA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nebraska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>genoa school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Genoa school.</p></sidenote> Indian School, Genoa, Nebraska, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-four thousand eight hundred dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/85">85</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>winnebagoes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winnebagoes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 545.</p></sidenote> nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilization, etc.</p></sidenote> Indians, to be expended in such manner and to whatever extent that he may judge to be necessary and expedient for their welfare and best interest;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Niobrara River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairing old bridge.</p></sidenote> and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of rewooding and repiling the present old bridge across the Niobrara River between the Santee and Ponca reservations, Nebraska, supplying the same with new ice breaks, but using the ironwork of the old combination bridge, the sum of twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the work to be done under the direction and supervision of the War Department;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty seven cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEVADA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians of the Western Shoshone<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western Shoshone Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> Agency, Nevada, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>carson school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Nevada,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake reservations, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And pay of employees, including physician at the Walker River Reservation, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in carrying out any irrigation project which may be undertaken<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote> and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), known as the reclamation Act, and which may make possible, and provide for, in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the irrigation of all or any part of the irrigable lands heretofore included in allotments made to Indians under the fourth section of the general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 389.</p></sidenote> allotment Act, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized to make such arrangement and agreement in reference thereto as said Secretary deems for the best interest of the Indians: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no lien or charge for construction, operation or maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No lien, etc., against reserved lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> shall thereby be created against any such reserved lands: <i>And provided further</i>, That to meet the necessary cost of carrying out this legislation, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend, out of the sum appropriated in this Act for irrigation, an amount not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/86">86</page></proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEW MEXICO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="centered fontsize10">(See Arizona For “Support and Civilization of The Apache , and So Forth ,” In Arizona and New Mexico.)</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>albuquerque school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albuquerque school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing water system, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-eight thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>santa fe school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Fe school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water supply, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And for necessary traveling‘and incidental expenses of said attorney, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in New Mexico,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the Zuni irrigation project in New Mexico,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Zuni irrigation project.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEW YORK.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agent at the New York Agency, New York, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, New York Agency, six hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senecas of new york. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senecas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in lieu of interest on stock, per Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 4, p. 442.</p></sidenote> February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 35.</p></sidenote> at five per centum, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars transferred from the Ontario Bank to the United States Treasury, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>six nations of new york. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six Nations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles, per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 46.</p></sidenote> sixth article of treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NORTH CAROLINA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>cherokee school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and sixty pupils at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee school.</p></sidenote> the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/87">87</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NORTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, Standing Rock Agency.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Devils Lake Sioux.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Berthold Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Turtle Mountain Band.</p></sidenote> North Dakota, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas, North Dakota, including seeds, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort totten school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>wahpeton school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wahpeton school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Wahpeton, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of live stock, seed, equipment of farm, and machinery, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of concrete walk, driveways and grading, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of a school hospital, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of laundry, workshop, and school buildings, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-six thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bismarck school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bismarck school.</p></sidenote> Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at Fort Berthold Agency, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, Fort Berthold Agency.</p></sidenote> eight hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OKLAHOMA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agents in Oklahoma at the following-named agencies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p></sidenote> at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma, one thousand eight hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowa Agency.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Osage Agency, Oklahoma, two thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apaches, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected in the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, twenty-five thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Kiowas, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> authorized to pay or cause to be paid, out of any money in the Treasury to the credit of the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Indians of Oklahoma, an amount of money, the total of which shall not exceed one hundred dollars per capita to the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache tribes <page identifier="/us/stat/35/88">88</page> of Indians in Oklahoma. This shall not apply as a limitation on any former powers vested in the Secretary with reference to the funds to the credit of said Indian tribes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Arapahoes and Cheyennes who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arapahoes and Cheyennes.</p></sidenote> have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas Indians.</p></sidenote> including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoos.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poncas.</p></sidenote> employees, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Catholic Missions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 446.</p></sidenote> to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section six, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-four east of the Indian meridian, Indian Territory, the same having been set apart to the Roman Catholic Church for church and school purposes by the Quapaw National Council, on August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and said church having maintained a church and school thereon since that date.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cheyenne Boarding School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of certain lands, etc., for the benefit of, and other schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 448.</p></sidenote> to sell and convey six hundred and forty acres of the lands, together with the buildings and other appurtenances thereunto belonging, heretofore set aside as reservations for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency and the Arapahoe Indian School in Oklahoma; and that he be further authorized to use all or any part of the proceeds of the sale thereof in the erection of new buildings, and in repairs and improvements, at the present Cheyenne Boarding School under the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, Oklahoma, and in the establishment of such day schools as may be required for the said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma; and that the balance of the said proceeds of sale, if there be any, may be utilized in the support and maintenance of the said Cheyenne Boarding School or the said day schools.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the restrictions on the alienation of any one acre of the lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Billy and Tom Jack, alienation restrictions removed.</p></sidenote> allotted to William Billy and Tom Jack, Choctaw allottees, are hereby removed.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chilocco school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chilocco school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pawnees. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawnees.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For perpetual annuity, which is to be paid in cash to them, per second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 729.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 644.</p></sidenote> article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and agreement of November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, article three, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of two manual-labor schools, per third article of same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmer, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> and apprentices, and two teachers, as per fourth article of same treaty, five thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician and purchase of medicines, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/89">89</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron, steel, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> as per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quapaws. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quapaws.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For education, per third article of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 425.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p></sidenote> shop, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of President.</p></sidenote> of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sacs and foxes of the mississippi. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 85.</p></sidenote> treaty of November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 541.</p></sidenote> per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for purchase of medicine;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment.</p></sidenote> to pay per capita to the Sac and Fox of the Mississippi tribe of Indians in the State of Oklahoma, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, out of the trust fund now to their credit in the United States Treasury, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said payment shall only be made upon application of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> a majority of the members of said tribes expressed in open council: <i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Helen Pennock.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> his discretion, to pay, upon the surrender of the note hereinafter described, out of the above sum appropriated for the Sac and Fox Indians, to Helen Pennock, the widow and surviving heir of William Pennock, the sum of six hundred dollars, in full settlement of a promissory note given by Mo-ko-ho-ko and Ke-wa-quah, chiefs of the Sac and Fox Indians, and Ketch-e-Cush, a councilman.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That there be, and hereby is, appropriated, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mexican Kickapoo Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of all claims of, against United States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 13, p. 624.</p></sidenote> Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, for the fulfillment of certain treaty obligations to the Mexican Kickapoo Indians for differences arising out of the stipulations of article four of the treaty of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and for all other differences growing out of any and all treaties and agreements heretofore made between said Indians and the United States. Said sum of two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury as authorized and directed by a majority of the members of said Mexican Kickapoo tribe in council assembled. Such council shall be composed of a majority of those surviving members of said tribe, male and female, heretofore allotted in Oklahoma. The authorization above mentioned and the proceedings of said council shall be attested by a clerk of the United States district court of the Territory of Arizona. Said sum shall be immediately available and the indorsement of the warrant issued in payment thereof shall be deemed and shall be a receipt in full for all claims of every kind whatsoever of the said Mexican <page identifier="/us/stat/35/90">90</page> Kickapoo Indians against the United States, and such authorization to the Secretary of the Treasury by said Indians as herein provided shall be considered to be and shall be an acceptance of said sum in final settlement of all claims of every kind whatsoever of the said Mexican Kickapoo Indians against the United States.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agent at the Union Agency, Oklahoma, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Agency.Agent.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special clerical force in the office of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Indian agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received in account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerical work and labor connected with the leasing of Creek and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 145.</p></sidenote> Cherokee lands, for mineral and other purposes, and the leasing of lands of full-blood Indians under the Act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and Acts amendatory thereto, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerical work and labor connected with the sale of inherited and other lands, Five Civilized Tribes, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Removal of intruders, Five Civilized Tribes: For the purpose of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of intruders, etc.</p></sidenote> removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestricted possession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of alienation restrictions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 204.</p></sidenote> of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, for the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> and for pay of employees, twenty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to investigate or cause to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales, etc., of allotted lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of.</p></sidenote> investigated any lease, power of attorney, contract, deed, or agreement to sell any allotted land which he has reason to believe has been obtained by fraud, or in violation of the terms of existing agreements with any of the Five Civilized Tribes, as provided by the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1060.</p></sidenote> March third, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orphan Indian children, contract for.</p></sidenote> to make such contract as in his judgment seems advisable for the care of orphan Indian children of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect the sum of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as is necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That contracts heretofore or hereafter made by and between persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration to final rolls.</p></sidenote> stricken by the Secretary of the Interior from the final rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, and attorneys employed by them to secure their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts with attorneys for services.</p></sidenote> restoration to said rolls, shall be valid and enforceable when approved by the Secretary of the Interior in their original or in such modified form as he may deem equitable and not otherwise; and such contracts as are approved as herein provided, when recorded in the county where such land is located shall be a lien, in the event of the restoration of such persons to the rolls against allotted lands or tribal funds of the persons so restored to or given rights upon said rolls.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized, if<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Brown.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> after investigation he believes such action be justified, to pay Samuel Brown seven thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-four cents, from any funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Creek Nation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D. H. Johnson.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> to pay out of the Chickasaw fund to D. H. Johnson, governor of the Chickasaw Nation, compensation for his services as such governor, at <page identifier="/us/stat/35/91">91</page> the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, so long as he shall legally serve as such governor.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>schools.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of the tribal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal schools.</p></sidenote> schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein, and the establishment of new schools under the control of the Department of the Interior, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, and disbursed by him under such rules and regulations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> as he may prescribe.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>for completion of work.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing work of Commission.</p></sidenote> done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and ten dollars, said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to so disburse this appropriation as to complete said work by July first, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>choctaws. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaws.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 99.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for support of light horsemen, per thirteenth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light horsemen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 213.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236.</p></sidenote> of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for education, per second and thirteenth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 235.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron and steel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 236.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>seminoles. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminoles.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 702.</p></sidenote> to be paid as annuity, per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity (they having joined their brethren West), per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 757.</p></sidenote> per annum, to be paid annually, for the support of schools, as per third article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/92">92</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on twenty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per same article, same treaty, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and support of insane Indians in Oklahoma, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane Indians.</p></sidenote> expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OREGON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and civilization of the Klamath, Modocs, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That there is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California and Oregon Land Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Klamath Agency Indians for lands conveyed to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 368</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred and eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the Indians of the Klamath agency for the lands conveyed to the California and Oregan Land Company, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, pages three hundred twenty-five and three hundred sixty-eight), said sum to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians and expended for their benefit in such manner and for such purposes as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Release from Indians.</p></sidenote> shall not be effective until said Indians, through the usual channels, shall execute a release of any claims and demands of every kind against the United States for the land involved.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warm Springs Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> under Warm Springs Agency, and for pay of employees, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walla Wallas, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, three thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salem school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salem school.</p></sidenote> school, Salem, Oregon, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and eleven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz agencies, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of employees at the same agencies, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>molels. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Molels.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of teachers and for manual-labor schools, and for all necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 981.</p></sidenote> materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PENNSYLVANIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education at Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlisle school.</p></sidenote> for transportation of pupils to and from said school, for pay of superintendent, and for general repairs and improvements, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/93">93</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SOUTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agents in South Dakota at the following-named<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents at agencies.</p></sidenote> agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Cheyenne River Agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cheyenne River.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Crow Creek Agency, one thousand six hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Creek.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Lower Brule Agency, one thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Brule.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Pine Ridge Agency, two thousand two hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pine Ridge.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Rosebud Agency, one thousand eight hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosebud.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Sisseton Agency, one thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sisseton.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Yankton Agency, one thousand six hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yankton.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chamberlain school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chamberlain school.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian school at Chamberlain, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>flandreau school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred and seventy-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flandreau school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, sixty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pierre school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pierre school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rapid city school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rapid City school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply; contracts.</p></sidenote> to invite proposals for the construction of a gravity water system for the Rapid City School to be supplied from the springs located on the school farms, said bids to cover construction of suitable reservoir and laying of a six-inch main thereon to said school buildings and grounds, and such minor and collateral piping as may seem necessary, and to report thereon to Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For domestic science building, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For sewerage system, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at seven agencies, three thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/94">94</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sioux of different tribes, including santee sioux of nebraska. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux of different tribes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 640.</p></sidenote> one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ten thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the Sioux<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote> in Nebraska and Dakota, eighty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Sioux, and for purposes of their civilization,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote> as per agreement ratified by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall include transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting supplies.</p></sidenote> of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable: <i>And provided further</i>, That the number of rations issued shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rations.</p></sidenote> not exceed the number of Indians on each reservation, and any excess in the number of rations issued shall be disallowed in the settlement of the agent’s account;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p></sidenote> erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 637.</p></sidenote> seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 894.</p></sidenote> seventeen of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, two hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seven hundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sioux, yankton tribe. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux, Yankton tribe.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For last of twenty installments (last series), to be paid to them or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 744.</p></sidenote> expended for their benefit, per fourth article of treaty of April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence and civilization of Yankton Sioux, heretofore provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 287.</p></sidenote> for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes,” and so forth, twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insane asylum.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of making the allotments to the Indians on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments, Rosebud Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1230.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 451.</p></sidenote> Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, provided by section two of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page twelve hundred and thirty), fifteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the same shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds received from the sale of the lands described in said Act.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in Sioux Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 888.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 451.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act of</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” to be allotted the lands in said separate reservations as provided in said Act, including the necessary resurveys, thirty thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/95">95</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UTAH.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Utah<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uintah and Ouray Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p></sidenote> (consolidated), one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>southern utah school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seventy-five pupils at the Panguitch<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panguitch school.</p></sidenote> Indian school in southern Utah, twelve thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing irrigation system, to irrigate the allotted lands of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation, Uintah Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 375.</p></sidenote> the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, as provided by the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>confederated bands of utes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utes, confederated bands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpenters, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 13, p. 675.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 622.</p></sidenote> blacksmiths, as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and fifteenth article of treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two teachers, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat, flour,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 622.</p></sidenote> beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Absentee Utes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment from trust funds to prevent suffering.</p></sidenote> directed to expend so much of the trust funds of the Ute Indians, not exceeding seventy-five thousand dollars, now in the United States Treasury, as in his judgment may be necessary to prevent want and suffering among the Absentee Utes, and the amount so expended for each individual Absentee shall be made a matter of record to be charged against and deducted from the share said Absentee may be entitled to receive when the trust funds of the Utes are allotted and distributed to the members of the tribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations.</p></sidenote> the Interior that the allotted lands of any Indian of the former Uintah and Uncompahgre reservations in Utah are susceptible of irrigation and that the allottee is unable to cultivate the same or any portion thereof, such lands or such portion thereof may be leased by the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases of irrigable allotted lands.</p></sidenote> of the Interior with the consent of the allottee for a period not exceeding ten years, under such rules and regulations as he may establish.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>VIRGINIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of one hundred and twenty Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the school at Hampton, Virginia, twenty thousand and forty dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/96">96</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WASHINGTON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agent at the Colville Agency, Washington, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D’Wamish, etc., Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Makahs.</p></sidenote> in Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, including pay of employees, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Yakimas, and other Indians at said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas, etc.</p></sidenote> agency, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>spokanes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokanes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of a blacksmith and carpenter to do necessary work and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 139.</p></sidenote> instruct the said Indians in those trades, one thousand dollars each, per sixth article of agreement with said Indians, dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph’s Band, Nez Perces.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 597.</p></sidenote> of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the extension of the irrigation system on lands allotted to Yakima Indians in Washington, fifteen thousand dollars, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of surplus lands, as provided by the Act of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington;” in all, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the second of five installments to the Indians residing on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second payment to Indians.</p></sidenote> Colville Reservation for the cession by said Indians to the United States of one million five hundred thousand acres of land opened to settlement by an Act of Congress “To provide for the opening of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 62.</p></sidenote> part of the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, being a part of the full sum set aside and held in the Treasury of the United States in payment for said land under the terms of the Act approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, ratifying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 377.</p></sidenote> the agreement ceding said land to the United States under date of May ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended for the benefit of said Indians in accordance with the provisions of the said Act setting aside in the Treasury the money in payment for the land ceded.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WISCONSIN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Pointe Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hayward school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of two hundred and ten pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hayward school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, thirty-six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steel tower for water tank, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/97">97</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>tomah school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tomah school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Lake Superior.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> Wisconsin, to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes; pay of employees, including pay of physician, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed for the best interests of said Indians, seven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WYOMING.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshones.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshone school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and seventy-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone Reservation school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, and pay of superintendent, thirty-one thousand and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For remodeling buildings, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-nine thousand and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Wyoming,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation system.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said sum be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the sale of lands made under the provision of the Act of March third, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1016.</p></sidenote> hundred and five. (33 Statutes at Large, page 1016.)</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all lands allotted to Indians in severalty or reserved for their use in common on the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, susceptible of irrigation, may be leased for a term not exceeding twenty years for cultivation under irrigation in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, and he is hereby authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying this provision into full force and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases of irrigable lands.</p></sidenote> effect.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Episcopal Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents for Indian school lands.</p></sidenote> patent to the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America for and covering the following-described lands, amounting to approximately one hundred and sixty acres, now and for many years reserved for and occupied by the said board of missions as an Indian school, to wit: The northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the north half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section eight, township one south, range one west of the Wind River meridian, on the Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of Indians.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the said patent shall not issue until the Indians of the said reservation have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent for Indian school lands.</p></sidenote> the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions a patent for and covering the following described lands, amounting approximately to three hundred and eleven acres, now and for many years reserved for and occupied by the said Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions as an Indian school, to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/98">98</page> wit: All of the south half of section nine lying north of the Big Popoagie River; that part of the west half of the southwest quarter of section ten west of the Big Popoagie River, and that part of section sixteen north of the Big Popoagie River; all in township one south, range four east of the Wind River meridian, on the Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said patent shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of Indians.</p></sidenote> issue until the Indians of the said reservation have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshones and bannocks. (treaty.) (for bannocks, see idaho.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshones.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Shoshones</inline>: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote> farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 154: To confer title in fee and to authorize the disposition of certain lots now situate on Hot Springs Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>154.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To confer title in fee and to authorize the disposition of certain lots now situate on Hot Springs Reservation, in the State of Arkansas, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-30">April 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15852">H. R. 15852</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/105">Public, No. 105.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the estate, right, title,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands granted in fee to school district of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> and interest, and all right of reversion of the United States in and to lot numbered two, in block numbered seventy-two; lot numbered ten, in block numbered forty-eight; lot numbered eight, in block numbered one hundred and forty-six; lot numbered eighteen, in block numbered one hundred and thirty-five; and lot numbered twenty-one, in block numbered one hundred and thirty-eight, situate on the Hot Springs Reservation, in the school district of Hot Springs, in the State of Arkansas, be, and is, granted to and vested in the said school district of Hot Springs, with full power and authority of the officers of said school district to manage, control, sell, pledge, or dispose of the same, or any part thereof, at their discretion, for the use of said school district and the public schools thereof.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, repealed.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> its passage.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 155: Granting to the city of Woodward, in the State of Oklahoma, lot two, in block forty-eight, for park and other public purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>155</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 98</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-04-30</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>155.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to the city of Woodward, in the State of Oklahoma, lot two, in block forty-eight, for park and other public purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-30">April 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12773">H. R. 12773</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/106">Public, No. 106.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That lot numbered two, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woodward, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land granted to, for park, etc., purposes.</p></sidenote> block numbered forty-eight, in the city of Woodward and State of Oklahoma, be, and the same is hereby, granted to said city of Woodward, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of said city, for park and other public purposes.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 157: To grant to the city of Seattle, in the State of Washington, certain rights of way for sewer and street purposes through and along the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, and through the reservations for the Lake Washington Canal.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>157</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 99</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-02</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/99">99</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>157.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To grant to the city of Seattle, in the State of Washington, certain rights of way for sewer and street purposes through and along the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, and through the reservations for the Lake Washington Canal.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-02">May 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5126">S. 5126</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/107">Public No. 107.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Seattle, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seattle, Wash.</p></sidenote> Granted right of way through Fort Lawton Military Reservation, for drainage purposes. municipal corporation of the State of Washington, is hereby granted the right to construct and maintain a tunnel for sewer and drainage purposes under and across the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, from a point on the east boundary of said reservation so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> selected that the central line of said tunnel shall bear north eighty-two degrees west, approximately, to the intersection of L street and Delaware avenue (formerly McGraw street) of the Seattle tide lands; thence northwesterly into Puget Sound: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all work on the reservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of War to approve work, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War and to such regulations as he may prescribe in the interest of good order and to prevent any unnecessary injury to the reservation or to public property thereon: <i>Provided further</i>, That if, at any time, the discharge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes.</p></sidenote> of said sewer shall become injurious to the sanitary conditions of Fort Lawton, the city of Seattle, upon notification by the Secretary Of War, shall take prompt measures to abate the objectionable features: <i>And provided further</i>, That if the construction of the Lake Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> Canal shall have been decided upon before the completion of said sewer, the city of Seattle, with the approval of the Secretary of War, may so modify the location of the outfall and the route across the reservation as best to meet the new conditions created by the canal.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the city of Seattle is also granted a right of way one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Washington Canal reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of way through, granted.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty feet wide, for street and tunnel purposes, across the reservations for the old and new locations of the Lake Washington Canal—the central line of said right of way bearing approximately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> north from a point on the south line of the old location reserve, situated about six hundred and thirty-nine feet westerly from the southerly monument in Twenty-fourth avenue north (formerly East street); together with the use for similar purposes of land included by the south boundary of the old location reserve, the east boundary of said right of way, a line bearing approximately north from said southerly monument, about seventy feet, to the northerly monument in Twenty-fourth street, a line bearing westerly from said northerly monument, parallel to and seventy feet distant from the southerly line of the old location reserve, about four hundred and sixty feet in length, and a line from the westerly end of the last-mentioned line, bearing north about forty-four degrees and fourteen minutes west, about one hundred and fifty feet, to the east boundary of said right of way: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes, etc.</p></sidenote> That any structures placed by said city in said right of way shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary of War and to such changes as he may from time to time prescribe in order that the use of said rights of way shall not obstruct any improvements which the United States may make on said reservations.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the city of Seattle is also granted the right to construct<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tunnel for sewer, gas, etc.</p></sidenote> and maintain a tunnel to carry water, sewer, gas, and other pipes, and electric wires, under and across the Lake Washington Canal Reservation near Third avenue, west, in the city of Seattle, subject to such conditions as to location and plans of the tunnel and to such changes in respect thereto as the Secretary of War may from time to time prescribe in order that the tunnel shall not obstruct any improvement which the United States may make on said reservation.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the city of Seattle is further granted the right to open<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lawton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street along boundaries.</p></sidenote> and perpetually maintain a public street in and along the southern, eastern, and northern boundaries of the military reservation of Fort Lawton, Washington, using for that purpose a strip of land thirty feet wide within the reservation and along said boundaries, beginning <page identifier="/us/stat/35/100">100</page> at the meander corner between sections fifteen and sixteen, township twenty-five north, range three east, Willamette meridian; thence along the reservation boundary northerly, easterly, northerly, westerly, northerly, westerly, northerly, westerly, and northerly to the meander line on the north side of section ten of said township and range: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expense, etc.</p></sidenote> That all expense of opening and maintaining said street shall be borne by said city and that the work of moving the Government fences to the location made necessary by this grant shall be done by said city without expense to the United States and to the satisfaction of the military authorities.</proviso></content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 158: Authorizing the purchase of a steel ferryboat for use between Angel Island and San Francisco, California, and a steel cutter for use of immigration officials at San Francisco, California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>158</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 100</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-02</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>158.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the purchase of a steel ferryboat for use between Angel Island and San Francisco, California, and a steel cutter for use of immigration officials at San Francisco, California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-02">May 2, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16515">H. R. 16515</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/108">Public, No. 108.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration service.Purchase of steel ferryboat, etc., for San Francisco, Cal., authorized.</p></sidenote> and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to secure by purchase or construction a steel ferryboat at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, to be used in the immigration service between Angel Island and San Francisco, California, and a steel cutter, at a cost not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, for the use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> the officials of the immigration service at San Francisco, California.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 2, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 159: To relinquish, release, and confirm the title of certain lands in California to the Western Power Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>159</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 100</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-05</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>159.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To relinquish, release, and confirm the title of certain lands in California to the Western Power Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-05">May 5, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15725">H. R. 15725</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/109">Public, No. 109.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the interest of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western Power Company, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land in Susanville land district confirmed, etc., to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> United States in and to the land in the Susanville land district, in the State of California, known and described as the north half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-two, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-seven, the west half of the northwest quarter of section thirty-four, in township twenty-seven north, range seven east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, and the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section seven, the north half of the southwest quarter of section eight, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section fifteen, the northwest quarter, the west half of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section seventeen, the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section eighteen; also a portion of section twenty-one, beginning at the east quarter corner of section twenty-one, thence south six hundred and sixty feet; thence south forty-five degrees west one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six feet, to a point six hundred and sixty feet north from the south section line of the said section; thence north one thousand nine hundred and eighty feet, to the east and west half section line of said section; thence east one thousand three hundred and twenty feet, to the point of beginning, containing forty acres; and the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-two, in township twenty-seven north, range eight east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section twenty-eight, in township twenty-eight north, range eight east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, aggregating in all eight hundred and ninety acres, is hereby relinquished, released, and confirmed to the Western Power Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of California.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 5, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 161: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>161</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 101</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-11</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/101">101</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>161.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4112">[S. 4112.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/110">Public, No. 110</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the classification of consuls-general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reorganization of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 99, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1690, p. 296 amended.</p></sidenote> and consuls in section two of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>“Consuls-General.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class one, twelve thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consuls-general.</p></sidenote> London, Paris.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class two, eight thousand dollars: Berlin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class I.</p></sidenote> Habana, Hongkong,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class II.</p></sidenote> Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, Shanghai.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class three, six thousand dollars: Calcutta, Cape Town, Constantinople,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class III.</p></sidenote> Mexico City, Montreal, Ottawa, Vienna, Yokohama.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class four, five thousand five hundred dollars: Antwerp, Barcelona,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class IV.</p></sidenote> Brussels, Canton, Frankfort, Marseilles, Moscow, Panama, Rotterdam, Seoul, Sydney (Australia), Tientsin.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class five,”, four thousand five hundred dollars: Auckland, Beirut,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class V.</p></sidenote> Boma, Buenos Ayres, Callao, Coburg, Dresden, Genoa, Guayaquil, Halifax, Hankau, Mukden, Munich, Singapore, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Zurich.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class six, three thousand five hundred dollars: Adis Ababa,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class VI.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 172.</p></sidenote> Bogota, Budapest, Guatemala, Lisbon, Monterey, San Salvador, Smyrna, Stockholm, Tangier.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class seven, three thousand dollars: Athens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class VII.</p></sidenote> Christiania, Copenhagen.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>“Consuls.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class one, eight thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consuls.</p></sidenote> dollars: Liverpool.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class two, six thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class I.</p></sidenote> Manchester.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class three, five thousand dollars: Amsterdam,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class II.</p></sidenote> Bremen, Dawson,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Belfast, Havre, Johannesburg, Kobe, Lourenco<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class III.</p></sidenote> Marquez, Lyon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class four, four thousand five hundred dollars: Amoy, Birmingham,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class IV.</p></sidenote> Chefoo, Cienfuegos, Fuchau, Glasgow, Kingston (Jamaica), Newchwang, Nottingham, Saint Gall,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Santiago, Southampton, Veracruz, Valparaiso.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class five, four thousand dollars: Bahia, Bombay, Bordeaux,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class V.</p></sidenote> Colon, Dublin, Dundee, Harbin, Leipzig, Milan, Nanking, Naples, Nuremberg, Para, Pernambuco, Plauen, Reichenberg, Santos, Stuttgart, Toronto, Tsingtau, Victoria, Warsaw.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class six, three thousand five hundred dollars: Alexandria, Apia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class VI.</p></sidenote> Barmen, Barranquilla, Basel, Berne, Bluefields, Bradford, Chemnitz, Chunking, Cologne, Dalny, Durban, Edinburgh, Fiume, Geneva, Georgetown, Guadelajara’, “Mannheim, Montevideo, Nagasaki, Odessa, Palermo, Port Elizabeth, Prague, Quebec, Rangoon, Rheims, Rimouski, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Saloniki, Sherbrooke, Vladivostok.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class seven, three thousand dollars: Aix la Chapelle, Aleppo, Barbados,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class VII.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 593.</p></sidenote> Batavia, Belgrade, Burslem, Calais, Calgary, Carlsbad, Colombo, Corinto, Dunfermline, Florence, Frontera, Ghent, Hamilton (Ontario), Hanover, Harput, Huddersfield, Iquitos, Iquique, Jerusalem, Karachi, Kehl, LaGuaira, Leghorn, Liege, Madras, Malaga, Managua, Melbourne, Nantes, Nassau, Newcastle (New South Wales), Newcastle (England), Port Antonio, Punta Arenas, Port au Prince, Riga, .Sandakan, Progreso, Seville, Saint John (New Brunswick), Saint Michaels, Saint Thomas (West Indies), San Jose, Sheffield, Swansea, Sydney (Nova Scotia), Tabriz, Tampico, Tamsui, Trieste, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/102">102</page> Trinidad.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class eight, two thousand five hundred dollars: Acapulco, Aden,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class VIII.</p></sidenote> Algiers, Antung, Batum, Belize, Bergen, Breslau, Brunswick, Cardiff, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Cognac, Cork, Curasao, Erfurt, Gibraltar, Gothenburg, Hamilton (Bermuda), Hull, Jerez de la Frontera, Kingston (Ontario), Leeds, Limoges, Madrid, Magdeburg, Malta, Maracaibo, Martinique, Matamoros, Mazatlan, Mersine, Nice, Nogales, Nuevo Leredo, Orillia, Owen Sound, Plymouth, Port Limon, Prescott, Puerto Cortez, Rosario, Roubaix, Saint Johns (Newfoundland), Saint Etienne, San Luis Potosi, Sarnia, Sault Sainte Marie, Stettin, Swatow, Tamatave, Tegucigalpa, Teneriffe, Trebizond, Tripoli, Valencia, Windsor (Ontario), Yarmouth, Zanzibar.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Class nine, two thousand dollars: Aguascalientes, Asuncion, Bagdad,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Class IX.</p></sidenote> Bristol, Campbellton, Cape Gracias, Cape Haitien, Cartagena, Ceiba, Charlottetown, Cornwall, Durango, Ensenada, Fernie, Fort Erie, Goree-Dakar, Grenobel, Guadeloupe, Hermosillo, Hobart, La<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 593.</p></sidenote> Paz, Manzanillo, Maskat, Messina, Moncton, Niagara Falls, Patras, Port Louis, Puerto Cabello, Puerto Plata, Rouen, Saigon, Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Pierre, Saint Stephen, Salina Cruz, Saltillo, Sierra Leone, Sivas, Stavanger, Suva, Tahita, Tapachula, Turin, Turks Island, Venice.”</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2</num> <content class="inline">This Act shall take effect on the first day of July, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 162: To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June seventh, nineteen hundred and two.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>162</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>162.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June seventh, nineteen hundred and two.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14789">[H. R. 14789]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/111">Public, No. 111.</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That an Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of game in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 327, amended.</p></sidenote> Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June seventh, nineteen hundred and two, be amended to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“From and after the passage of this Act the wanton destruction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wanton destruction of, prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> wild game animals or wild birds, except eagles, ravens, and cormorants, the destruction of nests and eggs of such birds, or the killing of any wild birds, other than game birds, except eagles, for the purposes of selling the same or the skins or any part thereof, except as hereinafter provided, is hereby prohibited.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Game Defined</inline>.—The term ‘game animals’ shall include deer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Game animals.”</p></sidenote> moose, caribou, mountain sheep, mountain goats, brown bear, sea lions, and walrus. The term ‘game birds’ shall include water fowl, commonly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Game birds.”</p></sidenote> known as ducks, geese, brant, and swans; shore birds, commonly known as plover, snipe, and curlew, and the several species of grouse and ptarmigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Exemptions</inline>.—Nothing in this Act shall affect any law now in force<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fur-seal laws not affected.</p></sidenote> in Alaska relating to the fur seal, sea otter, or any fur-bearing animal or prevent the killing of any game animal or bird for food or clothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Killing game for food, etc.</p></sidenote> at any time by natives, or by miners or explorers, when in need of food; but the game animals or birds so killed during close season shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> be shipped or sold.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2</num> <content class="inline">S<inline class="smallCaps">Eason</inline>.—That it shall be unlawful for any person in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open game seasons in different latitudes.</p></sidenote> Alaska to kill any wild game animals or birds, except during the season hereinafter provided: North of latitude sixty-two degrees, brown bear may be killed at any time; moose, caribou, sheep, walrus, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Animals.</p></sidenote> sea lions from August first to December tenth, both inclusive; south of latitude sixty-two degrees, moose, caribou, and mountain sheep from August twentieth to December thirty-first, both inclusive; brown bear from October first to July first, both inclusive; deer and moun-<page identifier="/us/stat/35/103">103</page>tain goats from April first to February first, both inclusive; grouse,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Birds.</p></sidenote> ptarmigan, shore birds, and waterfowl from September first to March first, both inclusive: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no caribou shall be killed on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Caribou on Kenai Peninsula.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Agriculture to prescribe rules, etc.</p></sidenote> Kenai Peninsula before August twentieth, nineteen hundred and twelve: <i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it necessary for the preservation of game animals or birds, to make and publish rides and regulations prohibiting the sale of any game in any locality modifying the close seasons hereinbefore established, providing different close seasons for different parts of Alaska, placing further restrictions and limitations on the killing of such animals or birds in any given locality, or prohibiting killing entirely for a period not exceeding two years in such locality.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Number</inline>.—That it shall be unlawful for any person to kill<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Killing limited.</p></sidenote> any female or yearling moose or for any one person to kill in any one year more than the number specified of each of the following animals: Two moose, one walrus or sea lion, three caribou, three mountain sheep, three brown bear, or to kill or have in his possession in any one day more than twenty-five grouse or ptarmigan or twenty-five shore birds or waterfowl.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Guns And Boats</inline>.—That it shall be unlawful for any person at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hunting restrictions.</p></sidenote> any time to hunt with dogs any of the game animals specified in this Act; to use a shotgun larger than number ten gauge, or any gun other than that which can be fired from the shoulder; or to use steam launches or any boats other than those propelled by oars or paddles in the pursuit of game animals or birds.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4</num> <content class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Sale</inline>.—That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of hides, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> at any time to sell or offer for sale any hides, skins, or heads of any game animals or game birds in Alaska, or to sell, offer for sale, or purchase, or offer to purchase, any game animals or game birds, or parts thereof, during the time when the killing of such animals or birds is prohibited: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it shall be lawful for dealers having<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Game legally killed.</p></sidenote> in posession game animals or game birds legally killed during the open season to dispose of the same within fifteen days after the close of said season.</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Licenses</inline>.—That it shall be unlawful for any nonresident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License for nonresidents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registered guide on Kenai Peninsula.</p></sidenote> of Alaska to hunt any of the game animals protected by this Act, except deer and goats, without first obtaining a hunting license, or to hunt on the Kenai Peninsula without a registered guide, and such license shall not be transferable and shall be valid only during the calendar year in which issued. Each applicant shall pay a fee of one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License fee.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars for such license, unless he be a citizen of the United States, in which case he shall pay a fee of fifty dollars. Each license<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipments restricted.</p></sidenote> shall be accompanied by coupons authorizing the shipment of two moose if killed north of latitude sixty-two degrees, four deer, three caribou, three mountain sheep, three goats, and three brown bear, or any part of said animals, but no more of any one kind.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“A resident of Alaska desiring to export heads or trophies of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping licenses.</p></sidenote> of the game animals mentioned in this Act shall first obtain a shipping license, for which he shall pay a fee of forty dollars, permitting the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> shipment of heads or trophies of one moose, if killed north of latitude sixty-two degrees, four deer, two caribou, two sheep, two goats, and two brown bear, but no more of any one kind; or a shipping license, for which he shall pay a fee of ten dollars, permitting the shipment of a single head or trophy of caribou or sheep; or a shipping license, for which he shall pay a fee of five dollars, permitting the shipment of a single head or trophy of any goat, deer, or brown bear. Any person wishing to ship moose killed south of latitude sixty-two degrees must first obtain a special shipping license, for which he shall pay a fee of one hundred and fifty dollars, permitting the shipment of one moose, or any part thereof. Not more than one general license and two special <page identifier="/us/stat/35/104">104</page> moose licenses shall be issued to any one person in one year : <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit.</p></sidenote> That before any trophy shall be shipped from Alaska under the provisions of this Act the person desiring to make such shipment shall first make and file with the customs office at the port where such shipment is to be made an affidavit to the effect that he has not violated any of the provisions of this Act; that the trophy which he desires to ship has not been bought or purchased and has not been sold and is not being shipped for the purpose of being sold, and that he is the owner of the trophy which he desires to ship, and if the trophy is that of moose, whether the animal from which it was taken was killed north or south of latitude sixty-two degrees : <i>Provided further</i>, That any resident of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Animals killed prior to May 11, 1908.</p></sidenote> Alaska prior to September first, nineteen hundred and eight, may without permit or license ship any head or trophy of any of the game animals herein mentioned upon filing an affidavit with the customs office at the port where such shipment is to be made that the animal from which said head or trophy was taken was killed prior to the passage of this Act. Any affidavit required by the provisions of this Act may be subscribed and sworn to before any customs officer or before any officer competent to administer an oath.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The governor of Alaska is hereby authorized to issue licenses for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License for hunting, etc., of.</p></sidenote> hunting and shipping big game. On issuing a license he shall require the applicant to state whether the heads or trophies to be obtained or shipped under said license will pass through the ports of entry at Seattle, Washington, Portland, Oregon, or San Francisco, California, and he shall forthwith notify the collector of customs at the proper port of entry as to the name of the holder of the license and the name and address of the consignee. All proceeds from licenses, except one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of license fees.</p></sidenote> dollar from each fee, which shall be retained by the clerk issuing the license to cover the cost of printing and issue, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts; the amount necessary for the enforcement of this Act shall be estimated for annually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual estimates for enforcement of law.</p></sidenote> by the Agricultural Department and appropriated for including the employment and salaries to be paid to game wardens herein authorized.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report by governor.</p></sidenote> And the governor shall annually make a detailed and itemized report to the Secretary of Agriculture, in which he shall state the number and kind of licenses issued, the money received, which report shall also include a full statement of all trophies exported and all animals and birds exported for any purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“And the governor of Alaska is further authorized to employ game<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of game wardens, etc.</p></sidenote> wardens, to make regulations for the registration and employment of guides, and fix the rates for licensing guides and rates of compensation for guiding. Every person applying for a guide license shall, at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guide licenses.</p></sidenote> time of making such application, make and file with the person issuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit of applicant.</p></sidenote> such license an affidavit to the effect that he will obey all the conditions of this Act and of the regulations thereunder, that he will not violate any of the game laws or regulations of Alaska, and that he will report all violations of such laws and regulations that come to his knowledge. Any American citizen or native of Alaska, of good character, upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons entitled to license.</p></sidenote> compliance with the requirements of this Act, shall be entitled to a guide license. Any guide who shall fail or refuse to report any violation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to report violations.</p></sidenote> of this Act, or who shall himself violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall have his license revoked, and in addition shall be liable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 105.</p></sidenote> to the penalty provided in section seven of this Act, and shall be ineligible to act as guide for a period of five years from the date of conviction.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That it shall be unlawful for any persons, firm, or corporation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipments of wild game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> or their officers or agents, to deliver to any common carrier, or for the owner, agent, or master of any vessel, or for any other person, to receive for shipment or have in possession with intent to ship out of Alaska, any wild birds, except eagles, or parts thereof, or any <page identifier="/us/stat/35/105">105</page> heads, hides, or carcasses of brown bear, caribou, deer, moose, mountainsheep, or mountain goats, or parts thereof, unless said heads,hides, or carcasses are accompanied by the required license or couponand by a copy of the affidavit required by section five of this Act:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 103.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collections for scientific purposes, etc.</p></sidenote> collection of specimens for scientific purposes, the capture or shipment of live animals and birds for exhibition or propagation, or the export from Alaska of specimens under permit from the Secretary of Agriculture, and under such restrictions and limitations as he may prescribe and publish.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“It shall be the duty of the collector of customs at Seattle, Portland,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consignments of game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of collectors of customs, etc.</p></sidenote> and San Francisco to keep strict account of all consignments of game animals received from Alaska, and no consignment of game shall be entered until due notice thereof has been received from the governor of Alaska or the Secretary of Agriculture, and found to agree with the name and address on the shipment. In case consignments arrive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detention of consignments.</p></sidenote> without licenses they shall be detained for sixty days, and if a license be not then produced said consignments shall be forfeited to the United States and shall be delivered by the collector of customs to the United States marshal of the district for such disposition as the court may direct.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Penalties</inline>.—That any person violating any of the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalties for violation.</p></sidenote> of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit to the United States all game or birds in his possession, and all guns, traps, nets, or boats used in killing or capturing- said game or birds, and shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or imprisonment not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Any person making any false or untrue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">False affidavits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> statements in any affidavit required by this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall forfeit to the United States all trophies in his possession, and shall be punished by a fine in any sum not more than two hundred dollars or imprisonment not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Enforcement</inline>.—It is hereby made the duty of all marshals and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of marshals, etc.</p></sidenote> deputy marshals, collectors or deputy collectors of customs, all officers of revenue cutters, and all game wardens to assist in the enforcement of this Act. Any marshal, deputy marshal, or warden in or out of Alaska may arrest without warrant any person found violating any of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrests, etc., without warrant.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this Act or any of the regulations herein provided, and may seize any game, birds, or hides, and any traps, nets, guns, boats, or other paraphernalia used in the capture of such game or birds and found in the possession of said person in or out of Alaska, and any collector or deputy collector of customs, or warden, or licensed guide, or any person authorized in writing by a marshal shall have the power above provided to arrest persons found violating this Act or said regulations and seize said property without warrant to keep and deliver the same to a marshal or a deputy marshal. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, upon request of the governor or Secretary of Agriculture, to aid in carrying out the provisions of this Act.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby <page identifier="/us/stat/35/106">106</page> repealed.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 163: Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>163.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17288">[H.R. 17288.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/112">[Public, No. 112]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<p class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies Of The Amy</inline>: For all contingent expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies of the Army.</p></sidenote> Army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army War College</inline>: For expenses of the Army War College, being<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, printing and binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including twenty-five dollars per month additional to regular compensation to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, fifteen thousand dollars.</p></chapeau>
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<heading>Office of The Chief of Staff.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief of Staff.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the military information division, General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad, and of the branch office of the military information division at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign periodicals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and. professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United Sates Service Schools</inline>: To provide means for the theoretical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service schools.</p></sidenote> and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Infantry and Cavalry School and the Signal School) at Fort Leavenworth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p></sidenote> Kansas, and the school of application for cavalry and field artillery at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p></sidenote> of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>The Adjutant-General’s Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant-General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Headquarters Of Military Department S</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses at headquarters.</p></sidenote> contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corps serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military division and department commanders, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under Chief of Artillery.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Under the Chief of Artillery.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia</inline>: For incidental<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Artillery school, Fort Monroe, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses</p></sidenote> expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less <page identifier="/us/stat/35/107">107</page> than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote> instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of generating, measuring and mine apparatus, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> materials for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books.</p></sidenote> of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign periodicals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.</p></sidenote> Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief Signal Officer.</p></sidenote> from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Office of the Chief Signal Officer.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Service of The Army</inline>: For expenses of the Signal Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the conveyance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance of lot in Alaska for telegraph office, etc., accepted.</p></sidenote> by Tillie McChesney to the United States of a lot in the town of Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, donated by said town as a site for a telegraph office and quarters for a detachment of the Signal Corps of the Army, which conveyance was by deed duly executed, acknowledged, and recorded in volume two of deeds, Fairbanks precinct, Alaska, is hereby accepted.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the increase of post telephone systems at interior posts, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post telephone systems.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of post telephone systems at all garrisoned coast artillery posts, except those located in districts where post telephone systems have already been installed or are in course of installation, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington-Alaska Military Cable And Telegraph System</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington-Alaska cable, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost for extension, etc., available from receipts.</p></sidenote> defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system that have been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote> and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by the Secretary of War, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse officers traveling on duty in connection with the Washington-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> Alaska military cable and telegraph system since January first, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/108">108</page> nineteen hundred and four, for money paid by them for traveling expenses in excess of the mileage allowed them by law, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Pay of Officers of the Line.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the line, five million five hundred and fifty-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line officers.</p></sidenote> thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> monthly pay, one million one hundred and forty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Pay of Enlisted Men.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, ten million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, one million two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> and six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the annual pay of officers of the Army of the several<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1261, p. 220, amended.</p></sidenote> grades herein mentioned shall be as follows: Major-general, eight thousand dollars; brigadier-general, six thousand dollars; colonel, four thousand dollars; lieutenant-colonel, three thousand five hundred dollars; major, three thousand dollars; captain, two thousand four hundred dollars; first lieutenant, two thousand dollars; second lieutenant, one thousand seven hundred dollars. And the pay of cadets at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for mounts.</p></sidenote> Military Academy shall hereafter be six hundred dollars a year. That hereafter the United States shall furnish mounts and horse equipments for all officers of the Army below the grade of major required to be mounted, but in case any officer below the grade of major required to be mounted provides himself with suitable mounts at his own expense, he shall receive an addition to his pay of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum if he provides one mount, and two hundred dollars per annum if he provides two mounts. Section twelve hundred and sixty-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum for colonels and lieutenant-colonels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1267, p. 220, amended.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby amended to read as follows: “In no case shall the pay of a colonel exceed five thousand dollars a year; the pay of a lieutenant-colonel exceed four thousand five hundred dollars a year, or the pay of a major exceed four thousand dollars a year:” <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy officers not affected.</p></sidenote> is intended to increase or change or shall be construed as increasing or changing the present pay or allowances of any officer in the United States Navy; and section thirteen of an Act entitled “An Act to reorganize<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1007.</p></sidenote> and increase the efficiency of the personnel of the Navy and Marine Corps of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall not be construed as changing the pay of any naval officer by reason of the provisions of this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter immediately upon official notification of the death<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for death in service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 735.</p></sidenote> from wounds or disease contracted in line of duty of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Army, the Paymaster-General of the Army shall cause to be paid to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or to any other person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man. From the amount thus reserved the Quartermaster’s Department shall be reimbursed for expenses of interment, and the residue,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment expenses.</p></sidenote> if any, of the amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beneficiaries to be designated.</p></sidenote> person. The Secretary of War shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom this amount shall be paid in case of his death, and said amount shall be paid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the monthly pay of enlisted men of the Army during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of enlisted men increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 1280, 1281, p. 222, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Noncommissioned officers.</p></sidenote> their first enlistment shall be as follows, namely: Master electricians, master signal electricians, seventy-five dollars; engineers, sixty-five dollars; sergeants first class Hospital Corps, fifty dollars; regimental sergeants-major, regimental quartermaster-sergeants, regimental commissary-sergeants, sergeants-major senior grade coast artillery, battalion sergeants-major of engineers, post quartermaster-ergeants, post commissary-sergeants, post ordnance-sergeants, battalion quartermaster-sergeants of engineers, electrician-sergeants first class, sergeants first class Signal Corps, and first sergeants, forty-five dollars; battalion sergeants-major of infantry and field artillery, squadron sergeants-major, sergeants-major junior grade coast artillery, battalion quartermaster-sergeants, field artillery, and master gunners, forty dollars; electrician-sergeants second class, sergeants of engineers, ordnance, and Signal Corps, quartermaster-sergeants of engineers, and color-sergeants, thirty-six dollars; sergeants and quartermaster-sergeants of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, stable-sergeants, sergeants, and acting cooks of the Hospital Corps, firemen, and cooks, thirty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That mess sergeants shall receive six dollars per month in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra to mess sergeants.</p></sidenote> addition to their pay; corporals of engineers, ordnance, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps, chief mechanics, and mechanics, coast artillery, twenty-four dollars; corporals of cavalry, artillery, and infantry, mechanics of field artillery, blacksmiths and farriers, saddlers, wagoners, and artificers, twenty-one dollars: <i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horseshoers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 735.</p></sidenote> one blacksmith and farrier in each troop of cavalry and one mechanic in each battery of field artillery shall receive nine dollars per month additional for performing the duty of horseshoer; privates first class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Privates.</p></sidenote> of engineers, ordnance, Signal Corps, and Hospital Corps, eighteen dollars; privates, Hospital Corps, sixteen dollars; trumpeters, musicians of infantry, artillery, and engineers, privates of cavalry, artillery, infantry, Signal Corps, and privates second class, engineers and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/109">109</page> ordnance, fifteen dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter any soldier honorably discharged at the termination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenlistment continuous service pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., secs. 1282, 1284, p. 222, amended.</p></sidenote> of an enlistment period who reenlists within three months thereafter shall be entitled to continuous-service pay as herein provided, which shall be in addition to the initial pay provided for in this Act and shall be as follows, namely: For those whose initial pay as provided herein is thirty-six dollars or more an increase of four dollars monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a further increase of four dollars for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment. For those whose initial pay as provided for herein is eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, or thirty dollars, an increase of three dollars monthly pay for and during the second enlistment, and a further increase of three dollars for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment. For those whose initial pay as provided for herein is fifteen and sixteen dollars, an increase of three dollars monthly pay for and during the second and third enlistments each, and a further increase of one dollar for and during each subsequent enlistment up to and including the seventh, after which the pay shall remain as in the seventh enlistment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter any soldier honorably discharged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for reenlisting in three months, etc.</p></sidenote> at the termination of his first or any succeeding enlistment period who reenlists after the expiration of three months shall be regarded as in his second enlistment; that an enlistment shall not be regarded as complete until the soldier shall have made good any time lost during an enlistment period by unauthorized absences exceeding one day, but any soldier who receives an honorable discharge for the convenience of the Government after having served more than half of his enlistment shall be considered as having served an enlistment period within <page identifier="/us/stat/35/110">110</page> the meaning of this Act; that the present enlistment period of men now in service shall be determined by the number of years continuous service they have had at the date of approval of this Act, under existing laws, counting three years to an enlistment, and the former service entitling an enlisted man to reenlisted pay under existing laws shall be counted as one enlistment period: <i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonus to privates for first reenlistment.</p></sidenote> hereafter any private soldier, musician or trumpeter honorably discharged at the termination of his first enlistment period who reenlists within three months of the date of said discharge shall, upon such reenlistment, receive an amount equal to three months’ pay at the rate he was receiving at the time of his discharge.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter enlisted men now qualified or hereafter qualifying as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marksmen, gunners, etc.</p></sidenote> marksmen shall receive two dollars per month; as sharpshooters, three dollars per month; as expert riflemen, five dollars per month; as second-class gunners, two dollars per month; as first-class gunners, three dollars per month; as gun pointers, gun commanders, observers second class, chief planters and chief loaders, seven dollars per month; as plotters, observers first class, and casemate electricians, nine dollars per month, all in addition to their pay, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, but no enlisted man shall receive at the same time additional pay for more than one of the classifications named in this section: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> to increase the total number of gun pointers, gun commanders, observers, chief planters, chief loaders, plotters, and casemate electricians now authorized by law.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That increase of pay for service beyond the limits of the States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service beyond United States.</p></sidenote> comprising the Union, and the territories of the United States contiguous thereto, shall be as now provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the monthly pay during the first enlistment of enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Musicians’ pay increased.</p></sidenote> men of bands, exclusive of the band of the United States Military Academy, shall be as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chief musicians, seventy-five dollars; principal musicians and chief trumpeters, forty dollars; sergeants and drum-majors, thirty-six dollars; corporals, thirty dollars; and privates, twenty-four dollars; and the continuous-service pay of all grades shall be as provided in this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That army bands or members thereof shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Music outside military posts.</p></sidenote> receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That sections twelve hundred and eighty, twelve hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., secs. 1280, 1281, 1284, p. 222, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ Homefund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4819, p. 935, amended.</p></sidenote> eighty-one, and twelve hundred and eighty-four of the Revised Statutes be, and are hereby, repealed, and so much of section forty-eight hundred and nineteen as pertains to the deduction of twelve and one-half cents per month from the pay of every soldier of the Regular Army for the benefit of the Soldiers’ Home be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section six of the Act entitled “An Act for the better organization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War pay repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 365, amended.</p></sidenote> of the line of the Army of the United States,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be amended so as to read as follows:</p>
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</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <chapeau class="inline"><p class="inline">That any soldier who deserts shall, besides incurring the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for desertion.</p></sidenote> penalties now attaching to the crime of desertion, forfeit all right to pension which he might otherwise have acquired.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to reduce the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present pay, etc., not reduced.</p></sidenote> pay or allowances now authorized by law for any officer or enlisted man of the Army; and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> provisions of this Act are <page identifier="/us/stat/35/111">111</page> hereby repealed.</p></chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Engineers.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two hundred and sixty-nine thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer battalion.</p></sidenote> and four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Ordnance Department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and seventy-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Corps.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, forty-six thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Quartermaster’s Department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two hundred quartermaster-sergeants, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Subsistence Department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two hundred post commissary-sergeants, eighty-one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Signal Corps.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-six master signal electricians, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and forty-four sergeants, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty-four cooks, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and fifty-six corporals, thirty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, one hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and sixty-eight privates, twenty-six thousand two hundred and eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, thirty-one thousand and eight dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Hospital Corps.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Pay to Clerks, Messengers, and Laborers at Headquarters of Divisions, and Departments and Office of the Chief of Staff.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen clerks at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen clerks at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-eight clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-three clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighty-four clerks at one thousand dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks at nine hundred dollars each <page identifier="/us/stat/35/112">112</page> per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One clerk at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One captain of the watch at nine hundred dollars per annum</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three watchmen at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One gardener at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One packer at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two messengers at eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-four messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two messengers at six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One laborer at six hundred and sixty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two laborers at six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One laborer at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five charwomen at two hundred and forty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment.</p></sidenote> assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which they are to serve: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty in War Department forbidden.</p></sidenote> headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the Chief of Staff, shall be assigned to duty with any bureau<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staff officers.</p></sidenote> in the War Department.</proviso></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>For Pay of Officers of the Staff Corps and Staff Departments.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Adjutant-General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant-General’s Department.</p></sidenote> Adjutant-General’s Department, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Inspector-General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Inspector-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector-General’s Department.</p></sidenote> General’s Department, fifty thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">The Corps of Engineers</inline>: For pay of officers in the Corps of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Corps.</p></sidenote> Engineers, three hundred and eighty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, ninety-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Ordnance Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote> one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote> Department, two hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixty-four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Subsistence Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Subsistence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence Department.</p></sidenote> Department, one hundred and thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ante, p. 66.</p></sidenote> six hundred and eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay Department.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-one thousand nine <page identifier="/us/stat/35/113">113</page> hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Judge-Advocate -General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge-Advocate-General’s Department.</p></sidenote> the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Corps</inline>: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, ninety-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Insular Affairs</inline>: For pay of officers of the Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote> Insular Affairs, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Retired Officers.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p></sidenote> placed thereon during the current year, two million five hundred and twenty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars and sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, four hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-four cents.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Retired Enlisted Men.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the enlisted men of the Army on the retired list, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p></sidenote> million one hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of seventy-five hospital matrons, nine thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital matrons.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent Nurse Corps.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred nurses (female), fifty-five thousand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses.</p></sidenote> twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veterinarians.</p></sidenote> dollars each, sixty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such veterinarians, for length of service, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of thirty-one dental surgeons, fifty-seven thousand nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dental surgeons.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of contract surgeons, three hundred and sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract surgeons.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paymasters’ clerks.</p></sidenote> five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of paymasters’ messengers, eighteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Inspector-General’s Department, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts-martial, etc.</p></sidenote> and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and grounds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officer, buildings and ground, District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred and eighteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/114">114</page> enlisted men.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing not drawn.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on deposits.</p></sidenote> so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of translator and librarian of the military information<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Translator.</p></sidenote> division, General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expert accountant.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra-duty pay, seacoast fortifications.</p></sidenote> of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers, district ordnance officers, and switchboard operators, at seacoast fortifications, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Switchboard operators at posts.</p></sidenote> operators at each interior post of the Army, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the Army and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, Alaskan cable, etc.</p></sidenote> enlisted men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of thirty-five cents per day, thirty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., Alaska.</p></sidenote> law, six hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter actual expenses only, not to exceed four dollars and fifty cents per day and cost of transportation when not furnished by the Quartermaster’s Department, shall be paid to the officers of the Army, contract surgeons, and dental surgeons, when traveling on duty without troops, under competent orders, within the geographical limits of the Territory of Alaska.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, foreign service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> service, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service on army transports.</p></sidenote> service, seven hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That officers and enlisted men who have served on army transports in the Philippine Archipelago at any time since May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, under the control and orders of the commanding general, Philippines Division, or who may hereafter so serve, shall be entitled to receive the same rate of pay as is provided by law for officers and enlisted men serving at shore stations beyond the limits of the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computer.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computer.</p></sidenote> serving in foreign countries, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance of militia at service schools.</p></sidenote> of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, composed of two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico Provisional Regiment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 392.</p></sidenote> battalions of four companies each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers of the line, fifty thousand four hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, six thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, ninety-seven thousand six hundred and forty-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That men hereafter enlisted in the Porto Rico Provisional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of enlistment etc.</p></sidenote> Regiment of Infantry shall be enlisted for a period of three years and may be reenlisted, such enlistments and reenlistments to be subject to the regulations governing the Army at large, with such modifications as to physical requirements as the President may <page identifier="/us/stat/35/115">115</page> prescribe.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Philippine Scouts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Scouts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers of the line: Fifty first lieutenants, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 163.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifty second lieutenants, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight first lieutenants (battalion adjutants), fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight second lieutenants (battalion quartermasters and commissaries), twelve thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Difference in additional pay to officers serving in higher grades under authority of law in battalion of Philippine Scouts:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight majors from captains (not mounted), five thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen captains from first lieutenants (not mounted), four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional for length of service, thirty-four thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Noncommissioned officers and privates, fifty companies, five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> and sixteen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The specific appropriations hereinbefore made for officers and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific appropriations for pay increased.</p></sidenote> enlisted men in the line of the Army and in the several staff corps and departments, enlisted men in the Hospital Corps, officers and enlisted men in the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry, and officers in the Philippine Scouts, being based upon former rates of pay, said specific appropriations are hereby increased to the amounts necessary for payment of such increase of pay at the rates established in this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of seven million dollars, or so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional appropriation.</p></sidenote> much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide for such increases in the said specific appropriations, and for the purpose of paying officers and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Hospital Corps, at the rates provided for in this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated, except the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts.</p></sidenote> for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, for pay of the Army and miscellaneous shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Encampment and Maneuvers, Organized Militia</inline>: For paying the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of encampment with Army.</p></sidenote> expenses of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 777, 779.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, one million dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Subsistence Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and military convicts at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of candles; authorized issues of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/116">116</page> toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of military convicts confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for issues of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of war may determine; matches for lighting public fires and lights at posts and stations and in the field; flour used for paste in target practice; salt and vinegar for public animals; toilet paper for use by enlisted men at posts, camps, rendezvous, and offices where water-closets are provided with sewer connections, or where the sanitary conditions require its use; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the Army; coffee roasters and cooking apparatus in the field, and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of twelve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Rifle Match.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars is authorized to be expended to defray the cost of furnishing food, and for providing extra-duty pay for cooks, assistant cooks, and waiters, and for perishable table equipment in subsisting enlisted men of the Regular Army and the organized militia who may be competitors in the National Rifle Match: <i>And provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That no competitor who is thus subsisted shall be entitled to commutation of rations, and no greater expense shall be incurred than one dollar and fifty cents per man per day for the period the contest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation</p></sidenote> is in progress. For payments: Of commutations of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling- to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment and military convicts while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra-duty pay.</p></sidenote> to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of compensation of civilians employed in the Subsistence Department, and of extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, and use of telephones; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes for bakers, etc.</p></sidenote> Department); for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> the Army; in all, seven million three hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and forty-five cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose to constitute one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/117">117</page> fund: <i>Provided further</i>, That officers of the organized militia who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds not required of militia officers.</p></sidenote> may hereafter be furnished, under proper authority, with funds for the purchase of coffee, or other components of the travel ration for the use of their respective commands, shall not be required to furnish bonds for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the same.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Quartermaster’s Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s Department, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, and offices, and for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the held, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; and nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses for officers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 687.</p></sidenote> in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the Army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department orders and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> reports, nine million three hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing, unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice machines, laundries, etc.</p></sidenote> whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, laundry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of surplus products, etc.</p></sidenote> work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms <page identifier="/us/stat/35/118">118</page> and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the funds received from such sales and in payment for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants; and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of post schools.</p></sidenote> stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental Expenses</inline>: Postage; cost of telegrams on official business<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> received and sent by officers of the Army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for noncommissioned officers of the United States military prison guard; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interments.</p></sidenote> escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; authorized office furniture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote> the following expenditures required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horeshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> assigned to any other department, two million two hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/119">119</page> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers</inline>: For the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, etc.</p></sidenote> of horses for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service school and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, five hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in the open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> be fixed by the Secretary of War: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for breeding purposes.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and Quarters</inline>: For barracks ‘and quarters for troops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> other than seacoast artillery, storehouses for the safe-keeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War, and the Aud.tor for the War Department is authorized and directed to remove any suspensions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases of furniture allowed.</p></sidenote> of accounts of quartermasters for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, for the purchase of furniture where the same has been or may be approved by the Secretary of War; for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation restriction.</p></sidenote> moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or for quarters to officers or enlisted men: <i>Provided further</i>, That the number<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War, three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars : <i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote> no part of the sum herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters at the Army War College.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Post Exchange</inline>: For continuing the construction, equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges, etc.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including heat and light for the buildings erected at private cost in the operation of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 516.</p></sidenote> approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, four hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum amount for construction.</p></sidenote> dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended in the construction of buildings at any one post or station.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of The Army And Its Supplies</inline>: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison to their homes (or elsewhere as <page identifier="/us/stat/35/120">120</page> they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster’s stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts and army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for transportation of funds of the Army; for the hire of employees;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to land-grant railroads.</p></sidenote> for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of compensation.</p></sidenote> That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: <i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to railroads not bond aided.</p></sidenote> by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals, etc.</p></sidenote> for all demands for such service; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, and drays as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; and for extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters; for the purchase and repair of ships, boats,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, etc.</p></sidenote> and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and for the purchase and repair of harbor boats, and repair of boats for the seacoast artillery service; in all, eleven million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military and post roads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote> bridges, and trails in the district of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 616.</p></sidenote> of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/121">121</page> for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available.</p></sidenote> until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage</inline>: For the construction and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair.</p></sidenote> repair by the Quartermaster’s Department of roads, walks, and wharves for payment of extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed in opening roads and in building wharves, for the pay of employees, and for the disposal of drainage, nine hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Water and Sewers at Military Posts</inline>: For procuring and introducing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military posts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water and sewers.</p></sidenote> water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; for the disposal of sewage; for repairs to water and sewer systems, and for hire of employees, two million seven hundred and eleven thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands</inline>: Continuing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the Army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, seven hundred and thirty-one thousand and twenty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, and Camp and Garrison Equipage</inline>: For cloth, woolens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote> materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the Army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the army regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, seven million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Repair of Hospitals</inline>: For construction and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p></sidenote> repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, five hundred and forty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum cost.</p></sidenote> sums may be used in the erection of modern sanitary hospitals at the posts named: Thirty-five thousand dollars at Boise Barracks, Idaho;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise Barracks, Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Sam Houston, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Slocum, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Robinson, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus Barracks, Ohio.</p></sidenote> sixty-five thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming; fifty thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; forty thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Slocum, New York; twenty-five thousand dollars to enlarge the hospital at Fort Robinson, Nebraska; twenty thousand dollars to complete the hospital at Columbus Barracks, Ohio; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jefferson Barracks, Mo.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars to complete the hospital at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quarters for Hospital Stewards</inline>: For construction of quarters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for hospital stewards.</p></sidenote> for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Shooting Galleries and Ranges</inline>: For shelter, shooting galleries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting ranges, etc.</p></sidenote> ranges for small arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident <page identifier="/us/stat/35/122">122</page> thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, one hundred and ninety-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That sixteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Snelling, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> three hundred and twenty-four dollars shall be immediately available for completing the acquisition and construction of the rifle range at Fort Snelling, Minnesota: <i>Provided further</i>, That thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Des Moines, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and fifty dollars shall be immediately available for the acquisition of not less than three hundred and fifty-eight and one-half acres of land adjacent to the rifle range at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, to be used as an extension of said range.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of water rights and necessary land therewith connected<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort William Henry Harrison, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water rights, etc.</p></sidenote> for a permanent water supply for Fort William Henry Harrison, in Montana, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of The Army War College</inline>: For supplying the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> necessary fuel for heating the Army War College building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; an assistant engineer, at nine hundred dollars; four firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator conductor, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Medical Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical and Hospital Department</inline>: For the purchase of medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treatment at private hospitals, etc.</p></sidenote> enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases, etc.</p></sidenote> diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay of male and female<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses, etc.</p></sidenote> nurses, not including the nurse corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the hospital corps; for the supply of the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, seven hundred thousand dollars: <i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Secretary of War may, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insane natives, Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote> discretion, contract for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane natives of the Philippine Islands serving in the Army of the United States at any asylum in the Philippine Islands in all cases which he is now authorized by law to cause to be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane in the District of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/123">123</page> Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of special apparatus and supplies for field medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field medical supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> equipment, in addition to those purchased out of the regular appropriation for the Medical and Hospital Department, to be immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immedately available.</p></sidenote> available and to remain available until expended, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army Medical Museum and Library</inline>: For Army Medical Museum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Museum.</p></sidenote> preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Engineer Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer Depots</inline>: For incidental expenses of the depots, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of instruments.</p></sidenote> the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer School, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: Equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Barracks, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of the Engineer School of Application at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontoniering, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects, for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of, and materials to repair, public buildings, and machinery; for unforeseen expenses, for travel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses of officers on journeys approved by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the traveling<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In lieu of mileage, etc.</p></sidenote> expenses herein provided for shall be in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses: <i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double salaries prohibited.</p></sidenote> appropriation shall be used to pay double salaries to any employee of the Engineer School, twenty-five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer Equipment Of Troops</inline>: For pontoon material, tools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontoon material, tools, etc.</p></sidenote> instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, seventy-two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyors, etc.</p></sidenote> master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, twenty-five thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/124">124</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Ordnance Department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Service</inline>: For the current expenses of the Ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, and office furniture, tools, and instruments for service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Stores—A Mmunition</inline>: Manufacture of ammunition and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for small arms, etc.</p></sidenote> materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters of the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several Branches, including National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and Soldiers’ and Sailors’ State Homes, six hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Small-Arms Target Practice</inline>: Ammunition, targets, and other accessories<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target practice.</p></sidenote> for small-arms and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition of older than current models may be issued for target practice and instruction to the educational institutions and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, one million three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Field Artillery For Organized Militia</inline>: For the purpose of procuring<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field artillery.</p></sidenote> field-artillery material for the organized militia of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, without cost to the said States, Territories, or the District of Columbia, but to remain the property of the United States and to be accounted for in the manner now prescribed by law, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, on the requisitions of the governors of the several States and Territories or the commanding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of artillery material authorized.</p></sidenote> general of the militia of the District of Columbia, to issue said artillery material to the organized militia; and the sum of five hundred and fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated and made immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> available until expended for the procurement and issue of the articles constituting the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Manufacture of Arms</inline>: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p></sidenote> and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Stores and Supplies</inline>: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc., ordnance.</p></sidenote> and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to till requisitions of troops; for infantry, cavalry,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote> and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, nine hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Trophy And Medals for Rifle Contests</inline>: That for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle contests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medals, prizes, and trophy.</p></sidenote> purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and for the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the trophy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/125">125</page> and medals herein authorized shall be contested for only by officers below the rank of major and by enlisted men of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For range finders and other instruments for fire control in field batteries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire control for field batteries.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of material, equipment, books of instruction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases for State coast artillery.</p></sidenote> range finders, and fire-control equipment for the instruction and use of State coast artillery organizations, twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in time of war, or threatened war, such equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of, in time of war.</p></sidenote> may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be withdrawn from armories or other places where it is in use by the State coast artillery organizations, and may be used in the fortifications of the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sales of articles of ordnance property are authorized to educational<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of ordnance property, etc.</p></sidenote> institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes for maintaining the ordnance and ordnance stores issued to them.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the reimbursement of the Ordnance Department of the Army<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arms to postal service.</p></sidenote> on account of the loss of arms, ammunition, and equipments issued to the Post-Office Department, two hundred and three dollars and thirty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whenever proposals are invited for the furnishing of articles of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special purchases.</p></sidenote> ordnance property, the character of which or the ingredients thereof are of such a nature that the interests of the public service would be injured by publicly divulging them, the Chief of Ordnance is authorized to purchase such articles in such manner as he may deem most economical and efficient.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a suitable fence of iron or steel about the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Hole Battlefield, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc., of monument.</p></sidenote> monument erected in eighteen hundred and eighty-three on the Big-Hole Battlefield, State of Montana, for the transportation and other necessary expenses in inclosing and restoring the monument, and for the preservation of the same, twelve hundred dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, of the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Bayard, N. Mex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for officers and nurses.</p></sidenote> quarters for officers and suitable building for quarters for Army nurses, two hundred and fourteen thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 164: To increase the membership of the Philippine Commission by one member, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>164.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the membership of the Philippine Commission by one member, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8"><ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17516.">[H.R. 17516.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/113">Public, No. 113</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the number of Commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional member of, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 691.</p></sidenote> constituting the Philippine Commission is hereby increased by one additional member, making the Commission consist of nine members. Said additional member shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive the same salary and emoluments as is now, or may hereafter, be prescribed by law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the President is hereby authorized in his discretion to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New executive department created.</p></sidenote> create by Executive order, and name, a new executive department in the Philippine government, and to embrace therein such existing bureaus as he may designate in the order; and in his appointment of any commission member he shall specify in his message to the Senate the department, if any, of which the appointee shall be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/126">126</page> the secretary.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 165: To provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>165.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuberculosis in said District.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-13">May 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8"><ref href="/us/bill/70/s/29">[S. 29.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/114">Public, No. 114</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physicians to report cases to health officer.</p></sidenote> every physician in the District of Columbia to report in writing to the health officer of said District, within one week after the disease is recognized, on forms to be provided by said health officer, the name, age, sex, color, occupation, and address of every person under his care in said District who, in his opinion, is afflicted with pulmonary or other communicable form of tuberculosis. It shall also be the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital, dispensary, etc., cases.</p></sidenote> duty of the officer having charge for the time being of each and every hospital, dispensary, asylum, or other similar public or private institution in said District to report in like manner the name, age, sex, color, occupation, and last address of every person who is in his care or who has come under his observation within one week of such time who, in his opinion, is afflicted with pulmonary or other communicable form of tuberculosis.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the health officer of said District shall promptly make,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of sputum.</p></sidenote> or cause to be made by a competent microscopist, a microscopical examination of the sputum of persons thus reported, and shall make a report thereof, free of charge, to the physician or officer upon whose application the examination was made. If the examination fails to show the existence of the disease that fact shall be recorded.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the health officer of said District shall cause all cases<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register of cases.</p></sidenote> showing the presence of tubercle bacilli to be recorded in a register of which he shall be the custodian, which register shall not be open to inspection by anyone except the health officer and the deputy health officer of said District, and neither said health officer nor said deputy health officer shall permit any such record to be divulged in such manner as to disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates except as it may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the health department, in every<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instructions topatients.</p></sidenote> case where a microscopical examination reveals the existence of tuberculosis, to supply to such person, or those in charge of such person, unless otherwise requested by the attending physician, printed instructions as to the methods to be employed to prevent the spread of the disease.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That in case of death from pulmonary or other communicable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disinfection of premises, on death, etc., of patient.</p></sidenote> form of tuberculosis, or the removal from any apartment or premises of a person or persons so afflicted, it shall be the duty of the attending physician, if he has such knowledge, or, if there be no such physician or if such physician be absent, of the occupant or other person in charge of said apartment or premises to notify the health officer, in writing, of such death or removal, within twenty-four hours thereafter, and such apartment or premises shall then be disinfected by the health department at public expense or, if the owner prefers, by the owner to the satisfaction of the health department, and shall not again be occupied until so disinfected.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of every person afflicted with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules, etc., to be observed.</p></sidenote> tuberculosis, and of every person in attendance upon anyone afflicted therewith, and of the authorities of public and private institutions or dispensaries in said District to observe and enforce all sanitary rules and regulations of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for preventing the spread of the disease.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That upon the recovery of any person who has been found<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registry of recoveries.</p></sidenote> to be suffering from tuberculosis a report to that effect to the health department, made by the attending physician, shall be recorded in the register aforesaid, and shall relieve said person from further liability to any requirements imposed <page identifier="/us/stat/35/127">127</page> by this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That any person violating any of the provisions of this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote> shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That all prosecutions under this Act shall be in the police<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions.</p></sidenote> court of said District upon information brought in the name of the District of Columbia and on its behalf.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts contrary to or inconsistent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of this Act be, and they are hereby, repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 166: Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>166</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>166.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-13">May 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20471">H. R. 20471</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/115">Public, No. 115</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval service appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Pay of The Navy.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Navy.</p></sidenote> other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to commandants of yards and stations, clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers, receiving ships, and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of pay corps; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hi re of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of enlisted men increased.</p></sidenote> pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, forty-two thousand men; three thousand of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate enlistments authorized.</p></sidenote> the additional men herein authorized may be recruited upon the passage of this Act; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant machinists.</p></sidenote> from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law, thirty million nine hundred and seventy-four thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter all commissioned officers of the active list of the Navy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers on active list.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1556, p. 265, amended.</p></sidenote> shall receive the same pay and allowances according to rank and length of service, and the annual pay of each grade shall be as follows: For Admiral, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; rear-admiral, first nine, eight thousand dollars: rear-admiral, second nine, or commodore, six thousand dollars; captain, four thousand dollars; commander, three thousand five hundred dollars; lieutenant-commander, three thousand dollars; lieutenant, two thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant, junior grade, two thousand dollars; ensign, one thousand seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/128">128</page> hundred dollars. There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> officer below the rank of rear-admiral ten per centum of his current yearly pay for each term of five years service in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. The total amount of such increase for length<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum increase.</p></sidenote> of service shall in no case exceed forty per centum on the yearly pay of the grade as provided by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the annual pay of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum annual pay for captain, etc.</p></sidenote> captain shall not exceed five thousand dollars per annum; of commander, four thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and of lieutenant-commander, four thousand dollars per annum. All officers on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for foreign service.</p></sidenote> sea duty and all officers on shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall while so serving receive ten per centum additional of their salaries and increase as above provided, and such increase shall commence from the date of reporting for duty on board ship or the date of sailing from the United States for shore duty beyond the seas or to join a ship in foreign waters. The pay of midshipmen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Midshipmen.</p></sidenote> shall hereafter be six hundred dollars per annum while at the Naval Academy, and one thousand four hundred dollars per annum after graduation from the Naval Academy. The pay of all warrant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant officers, etc.</p></sidenote> officers and mates is hereby increased twenty-five per centum, and all paymasters’ clerks shall, while on duty, receive the same pay and allowances as warrant officers of like length of service in the Navy. The pay of all active and retired enlisted men of the Navy is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> increased ten per centum: <i>Provided further</i>, That the pay and allowances of chiefs of bureaus in the Navy Department shall be the highest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chiefs of bureaus.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 1565, p. 269.</p></sidenote> pay of the grade to which they belong, and not below that of rear-admiral of the lower nine, and that the pay and allowances of chaplains<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplains.</p></sidenote> in the Navy shall in no case exceed that provided for lieutenant-commanders. Aids to rear-admirals embraced in the nine lower<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aids to rear-admirals.</p></sidenote> numbers of that grade shall each receive one hundred and fifty dollars additional per annum, and aids to all other rear-admirals, two hundred dollars additional per annum each. When an officer of the Navy has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement, etc., thirty years’ service.</p></sidenote> been thirty years in the service, he may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the President, be retired from active service and placed upon the retired list with three-fourths of the highest pay of his grade: <i>And provided further</i>, That any officer of the Navy who is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank, pay, etc., of retiring bureau chiefs.</p></sidenote> now serving or shall hereafter serve as chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, and shall subsequently be retired, shall be retired with the rank, pay and allowances authorized by law for the retirement of such bureau chief. The pay of all commissioned, warrant and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of pay of retired commissioned, etc., officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec.1569, p.269.</p></sidenote> appointed officers and enlisted men of the Navy now on the retired list shall be based on the pay, as herein provided for, of commissioned, warrant and appointed officers and enlisted men of corresponding rank and service on the active list; and all pay herein provided shall remain in force until changed by Act of Congress. Nothing herein shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No reduction of present pay.</p></sidenote> construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorized by law for any commissioned, warrant or appointed officer or any enlisted man of the active or retired lists of the Navy, and all laws inconsistent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> with this provision are hereby repealed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter immediately upon official notification of the death<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for death.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1587, p. 271.</p></sidenote> from wounds or disease contracted in, line of duty of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Navy and Marine Corps the Paymaster-General of the Navy shall cause to be paid to the widow of such officer or enlisted man, or any person previously designated by him, an amount equal to six months’ pay at the rate received by such officer or enlisted man at the date of his death, less seventy-five dollars in the case of an officer and thirty-five dollars in the case of an enlisted man, to defray expenses of interment, and the residue, if any, of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interment expenses.</p></sidenote> amount reserved shall be paid subsequently to the designated person. The Secretary of the Navy shall establish regulations requiring each officer and enlisted man to designate the proper person to whom this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beneficiaries to be designated.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/129">129</page> amount shall be paid in case of death, and said amount shall be paid to that person from funds appropriated for the pay of the Navy and Marine Corps.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Pay, Miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule of, and allowance to be sent to Congress.</p></sidenote> of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount in money of all pay under the provisions of this Act and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the Navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The estimates for the support of the Navy shall hereafter show,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates for support of Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> under the head of Pay of the Navy, the sums allowed for pay of officers belonging to the line, to the several departments of the staff, and to the retired list; the estimates to show under each head the amount allowed for pay proper, for increases due to longevity and foreign service, and for pay at sea rates to officers employed on shore; together with the total number of warrant and petty officers and seamen of the several grades and designations, including as to each class the amount allowed for pay proper and for longevity or service increases. The estimates shall include a list giving the rates of pay for all petty officers and other enlisted men of the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, and for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen; for rent and furniture of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’and witnesses’fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, including clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers and advertising; copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls, and costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress; recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports; professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches and information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Navy</inline>: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, sixty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the accounting officers of the Treasury are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “ Contingent, Navy,” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/130">130</page></p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting.</p></sidenote> rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen; actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of age.</p></sidenote> this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless a certificate of birth or written evidence, other than his own statement or statement of another based thereon, satisfactory to the recruiting officer showing the applicant to be of age required by naval regulations, shall be presented with the application for enlistment.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent: Advertising, ferriage, continuous-service certificates,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> discharges, good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gymnastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the Navy; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gunnery exercises.</p></sidenote> gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Outfits on First Enlistment</inline>: Outfits for all enlisted men, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote> apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, nine hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of Naval Auxiliaries</inline>: Pay, transportation, shipping,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of auxiliaries.</p></sidenote> and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies which can not be paid from other appropriations, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, California</inline>: Maintenance of naval training<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Training Station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yerba Buena Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material; buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of four thousand five hundred and sixty-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispensary.</p></sidenote> dollars and five cents is hereby appropriated for the equipment and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/131">131</page> smaintenance of the dispensary, said sum to be immediately available; in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> all, sixty-five thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars and five cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Rhode Island</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.</p></sidenote> training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; building and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, seventy-nine thousand five hundred and eleven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Great Lakes</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote> training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire extinguishers; heating, lighting, and furniture; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerical force in the office of commandant as follows: One clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical force.</p></sidenote> at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one subinspector, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one foreman of laborers, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at five hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, naval training station, Great Lakes, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval War College, Rhode Island</inline>: For maintenance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval War College, R. I.</p></sidenote> Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand two hundred dollars per year; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; two copyists, at nine hundred dollars each per year; purchase of books of reference, four hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars per year; in all, Naval War College, Rhode Island, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: One superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief cook, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one assistant cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two, house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, six <page identifier="/us/stat/35/132">132</page> hundred dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fourteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, eight hundred dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnances, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, one hundred dollars; support of beneficiaries, forty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; total miscellaneous, fifty-five thousand five hundred and one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Naval Home, seventy thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the performance of such additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employing beneficiaries.</p></sidenote> services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said Home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the Home.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For badges and ribbons to be distributed by the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Badges, etc.</p></sidenote> Navy to officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the use of irons, single or double, as a form of punishment in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of irons restricted.</p></sidenote> the Navy of the United States is hereby abolished, except for the purposes of safe custody or when part of the sentence imposed by a general court-martial.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance and Ordnance Stores</inline>: For procuring, producing, preserving,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote> and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for watchmen at magazines, powder factories, and powder depots; for furniture in ordnance buildings at navy-yards and stations; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory, and for target practice, four million five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of shells restricted.</p></sidenote> purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals. All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standard prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ammunition and other supplies for ships, two million seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for ships.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present supply utilized, etc.</p></sidenote> and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to utilize all ammunition and other supplies already on hand under the appropriations “Increase of the Navy; Armor and Armament,” “Reserve Ammunition,” and “Reserve Powder and Shell,” for general issue to ships in commission, as though purchased from this appropriation: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of shells restricted.</p></sidenote> except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals. All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, six hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smokeless powder.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/133">133</page> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machine tools, navy-yard, New York, and magazine, Dover, New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machine tools.</p></sidenote> Jersey, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machine tools, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One five-ton auxiliary hoist, building numbered one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auxiliary hoist.</p></sidenote> eleven, navy-yard, Mare Island, California, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: New and improved machinery for existing shops, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Gun Factory, D. C.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">New Batteries For Ships of The Navy</inline>: For completing the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New batteries.</p></sidenote> of modifying four-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights; and for modifying five-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights for same, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing three-pounder and six pounder guns, mounts, and sights on board battle ships and armored cruisers by three-inch fifty-caliber, or larger, guns, mounts, and sights, four hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing eight-inch Mark V guns (forty-caliber) with eight-inch Mark VI guns (forty-five caliber) on United States ship “Maryland” and class (twenty guns), two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reline and convert twelve-inch Mark HI guns to Mark IV guns, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing Mark IX Modern two-firing locks with Mark X firing locks on five-inch and six-inch guns, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fire-control instruments for ships, three hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control instruments.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedoes, and Converting Torpedo Boats</inline>: For converting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo boat changes.</p></sidenote> twenty torpedo boats from boats using three and fifty-five one-hundredths meter, to boats using five-meter torpedoes, and for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedoes.</p></sidenote> and manufacture of torpedoes, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedoes And Appliances</inline>: For the purchase and manufacture of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedoes and appliances.</p></sidenote> torpedoes and appliances, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island</inline>: For labor, material;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station, Newport, R.I.</p></sidenote> general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instruction, instruments, tools, furniture, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Arming and Equipping Naval Militia</inline>: For arms, accouterments,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipping.</p></sidenote> signal outfits, boats and their equipment, fuel and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For necessary repairs to ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> buildings, magazines, gun parks, boats, lighters, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For miscellaneous items,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> namely: Advertising, cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations; tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, fourteen thousand and sixty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Civil Establishment, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> New Hampshire: For one writer, at one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: For one chemist, at two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R.I.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N.Y.</p></sidenote> four <page identifier="/us/stat/35/134">134</page> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one chemist, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred dollars; two foremen of Gun Factory, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one ordnance engineer and computing draftsman, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand one hundred dollars; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one draftsman, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand and eighty-one dollars each; one assistant draftsman, at seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one telegraph operator and copyist, at one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand one hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval proving ground, Indian Head, Maryland: For one clerk, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Head, Md.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman of powder factory, two thousand dollars; one chemist for powder factory, two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant chemist for powder factory, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Ordnance, forty-seven thousand two hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Equipment of Vessels</inline>: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of vessels.</p></sidenote> for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition; canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work; water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations; supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments, and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps, and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing <page identifier="/us/stat/35/135">135</page> interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Equipment Machinery Plants</inline>: For the purchase and installation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment buildings.</p></sidenote> of the necessary machinery and tools in the following equipment buildings which have been appropriated for and are nearing completion:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Equipment building at Charleston, fifty thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston.</p></sidenote> Equipment building at New Orleans, twenty-five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans.</p></sidenote> Equipment building at Pensacola, twenty-five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola.</p></sidenote> In all, equipment machinery plants, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coal and Transportation</inline>: Purchase of coal and other fuel for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal, etc.</p></sidenote> steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, five million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Equipment</inline>: Packing boxes and materials,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> printing, advertising, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, eleven thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ocean and Lake Surveys</inline>: Hydrographic surveys, and for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocean and lake surveys.</p></sidenote> of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Depots for Coal</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depots for coal.</p></sidenote> the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish at such places as he may deem necessary, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Civil Establishment, Bureau of Equipment</inline>: Navy-yard, Portsmouth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one superintendent of ropewalk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> at two thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one civil superintendent of chain shop, two thousand dollars; one civil superintendent of anchor shop, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; two writers, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; one clerk in charge of distribution of books, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> shall also perform the clerical duties for the board of labor at said navy-yard, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For two clerks, at one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars each; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One clerk, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Royal, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/136">136</page> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One master electrician,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Equipment, thirty-eight thousand and twenty-eight dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Yards and Docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of Yards and Docks</inline>: For general maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> yardsand docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use in the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy-yards; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy-yards; awnings and packing boxes, and advertising for yards and docks and other purposes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use and accommodation of United States steamer Wolverine, and for pay of employees on leave, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau Of Yards and Docks</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks: Navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; one foreman laborer and head teamster, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one janitor, at six hundred dollars; one pilot, at three dollars per diem, including Sundays; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; one writer, nine hundred dollars; one telegraph operator and clerk, nine hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand and sixty-one dollars and seventeen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York, New York: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one time clerk, one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one yard pilot, two thousand dollars; two <page identifier="/us/stat/35/137">137</page> masters of tugs, at one thousand live hundred dollars each; two writers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem each; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one quarterman, at three dollars per diem; one superintendent of teams, or quarterman, at four dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger to commandant, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, yards and docks, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, or accountant, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one master of tugs, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Sacketts Harbor, New York: For one ship keeper in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacketts Harbor, N. Y.</p></sidenote> charge, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars per diem; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and forty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: For one clerk, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one time clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand six hundred dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For one clerk, at one thousand four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one writer, at one thousand dollars; one foreman laborer, at four dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; two messengers, at two dollars per diem each; one pilot, at nine hundred dollars; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one foreman mechanic, at four dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; one foreman of teams, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Commandant’s office: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> stenographer and typewriter, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer and telegraph operator, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty-two cents per diem, including Sundays. Civil engineer’s office: One clerk, at one thousand three hundred dollars; one stenographer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; one messenger, at one dollar and fifty-two cents per diem; in all, five thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and thirty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For one clerk, at one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, includ- <page identifier="/us/stat/35/138">138</page> ing Sundays; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one draftsman, at four dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at three dollars and fifty-two cents per diem; one stenographer, typewriter, and telegraph operator, at three dollars and four cents per diem; one writer, at two dollars and eighty cents per diem; in all, seven thousand five hundred and twenty-seven dollars and four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Port Royal, South Carolina: One messenger and janitor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Royal, 8. C.</p></sidenote> one dollar and fifty cents per diem; one telegraph operator, including Sundays, two dollars per diem; in all, one thousand two hundred and three dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Key West, Florida: For one mail messenger, at six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; in all, two thousand six hundred and forty-four dollars and sixteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; one rodman and inspector, at three dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and fifty cents per diem, including Sundays; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at nine hundred and fifty dollars; one messenger and janitor, civil engineer’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one foreman laborer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, seven thousand eight hundred and. five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For one clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents: one foreman mason, at six dollars per diem; one foreman laborer, at five dollars and fifty cents per diem; one pilot, at one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one mail messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; one messenger, at two dollars per diem; one electrician, at one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman joiner, at four dollars and fifty-six cents per diem; one telegraph operator, at three dollars and twenty-eight cents per diem; one clerk in civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand three hundred dollars and one cent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; one draftsman, at five dollars per diem; one messenger and janitor, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem, including Sundays; one master of tugs, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one copyist, at nine hundred dollars; one electrician, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer and telegraph operator, at nine hundred dollars; one stenographer and typewriter, civil engineer’s office, at one thousand dollars; one writer, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger, at one dollar and seventy-six cents per diem; one foreman carpenter, at four dollars and fifty cents per diem, one thousand four hundred and four dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, San Juan, Porto Rico: One clerk, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan, P. R.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; one writer, commandant’s office, nine hundred and sixty dollars; one mail messenger, four hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Hawaii: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote> dollars and twenty-five cents per annum; one messenger, at two dollars per diem, including Sundays; in all, one thousand seven hundred and forty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; one time clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/139">139</page> one writer, three hundred and sixty dollars; one messenger, two hundred and forty dollars; one messenger, one hundred and eighty dollars; one clerk, commandant’s office, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, commandant’s office, one hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Guam: One clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p></sidenote> one foreman machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Yards and Docks, one hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars and ninety cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works, Bureau of Yards and Docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Ports Mouth, New Hampshire</inline>: Sewer system, extension,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> six thousand five hundred dollars; to complete blasting in front of quay wall, sixty thousand dollars; storehouse for combustibles, thirty thousand one hundred dollars; railroad extension, ten thousand dollars; heating system, extension, twenty thousand dollars; electric plant, extension, twenty thousand dollars; steam main central power plant to steam engineering plant, nine thousand dollars; naval prison extension, sixty-five thousand dollars; quay walls, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and forty-five thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Boston, Massachusetts</inline>: Railroad rolling stock, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; repairs to pier numbered one, five thousand dollars; power plant, extensions, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, seven thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, thirty thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, New York, New York</inline>: Electric plant, extensions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars; underground conduits, extension, twenty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; railroad equipment, additional, five thousand dollars; sewers and drains, fifteen thousand dollars; railroad system, extensions, fifteen thousand dollars; repairs to roofs of buildings, twenty thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, twelve thousand dollars; reconstructing roof, power house numbered forty-one, thirty-three thousand dollars; extending chemical laboratory, six thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, two hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement of water front.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to expend toward the general improvement of the water front at the navy-yard, New York, New York, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 693.</p></sidenote> seventh, nineteen hundred, making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes, for the construction of a bascule bridge at said navy-yard: <i>Provided further.</i> That the limit of cost of dry dock<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dry dock number four.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost, etc.</p></sidenote> numbered four at the navy-yard. New York, New York, is hereby fixed at one million five hundred thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Navy is authorized, in his discretion, to construct said dry dock by contract or day labor, or both, as he may deem to be for the best interests of the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: Shelves and wall cases,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> and so forth, for building numbered four, Supplies and Accounts storehouse, twelve thousand dollars; extension to railroad system, ten thousand dollars; extension of electric conduit system, eight thousand dollars; central power plant, extension, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; equipment for railroad, five thousand dollars; raising and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/140">140</page> repairing mess hall at camp, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navya-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: Quay wall, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; storage bins for perishable material, six thousand dollars; machinery for power-plant extension, twelve thousand dollars; electric-light plant extension, five thousand dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navya-Yard, Norfolk, Virginia</inline>: Railroad tracks, extensions, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, seven thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, fifty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; central power plant, to complete, two hundred thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, fifty thousand dollars: railroad rolling stock, ten thousand dollars; extension of wharf at dry dock numbered three, fifty thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; compressed-air system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; dry kiln for construction and repair, seven thousand five hundred dollars; renew roof of foundry, building numbered twenty-two, steam engineering, eight thousand dollars; new roof and crane for building numbered twenty-three, steam engineering, sixty thousand dollars; elevator in buildings numbered eleven, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, and thirty-three, twenty thousand dollars; naval supply storehouse (to cost four hundred and fifty thousand dollars) fifty thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered sixteen, complete, twenty-five thousand dollars; heating building numbered thirty-seven, steam engineering, seven thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, seven hundred and five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navya-Yard, Charleston, South Carolina</inline>: Sewer system, extension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; completing power plant, seventy thousand dollars; slips for torpedo boats, fifty thousand dollars; elevator and interior fittings, building numbered seven, seventeen thousand dollars; paving and grading (to continue), ten thousand dollars; clearing yard, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navya-Yard, Pensacola, Florida</inline>: Machinery for central power<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> plant, fifteen thousand dollars; water system, ten thousand dollars; railroad track and equipment, ten thousand dollars; tools for yards and docks, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, New Orleans, Louisiana</inline>: Drainage system, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> continue, five thousand dollars; central heating plant, extension, ten thousand dollars; underground conduit system, five thousand dollars; improvements to machine shop, building numbered four, six thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, five thousand dollars; improvements to River Front, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, New Orleans, fifty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard , Mare Island , California</inline>: Railroad system, extension,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, two thousand dollars; central power plant at Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, one hundred thousand dollars; gradingand paving, extension, fifteen thousand dollars; quay wall, extension, fifty thousand dollars; new elevators in buildings numbered sixty-nine and seventy-one, four thousand dollars; dredging, ten thousand dollars; improvement of channel in Mare Island Strait, to continue, twenty thousand dollars; in all, navyyard, Mare Island, two hundred and eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard , Puget Sound, Washington</inline>: Electric-light plant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> extensions, five thousand dollars; water system, extensions, twelve thousand dollars; heating system, extensions, six thousand dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/141">141</page> stone and concrete dry dock, to continue (to cost two million dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, three thousand dollars; telephone system, extensions, three thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, ten thousand dollars; central power plant, extensions, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars; hardwood lumber shed, twenty thousand dollars; water-closet for ships in dock, twelve thousand dollars; oil house, thirty thousand dollars; dry kiln, six thousand dollars; underground conduit system, fifteen thousand dollars; electric elevator and fittings, building numbered fifty-nine, eight thousand dollars; foundry for all departments (to cost one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, five hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands</inline>: Toward the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olongapo, P. I.</p></sidenote> improvement and development of the Naval Station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, one hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to expend, without limitation as to quantities and unit prices, the various amounts appropriated by the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 336.</p></sidenote> approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes,” for the naval station, Olongapo, Philippine Islands, for the respective improvements therein named.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Island of Guam</inline>: Dredging, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p></sidenote> extension of naval-station roads, ten thousand dollars; watersupply system, ten thousand dollars; fire-protection system, seven thousand five hundred dollars; extension of telephone system, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Honolulu, Hawaii</inline>: Repairs to wharves, six thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii</inline>: The Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval station established.</p></sidenote> Navy is hereby authorized and directed to establish a naval station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the site heretofore acquired for that purpose; and to erect thereat all the necessary machine shops, storehouses, coal sheds, and other necessary buildings, and to build thereat one graving dry dock capable of receiving the largest war vessels of the Navy, at a cost not to exceed two million dollars for said dry dock. The sums hereinafter stated are hereby appropriated and made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> immediately available, to be expended at the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, to wit: Toward dredging an entrance channel of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dry dock.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machine shops, etc.</p></sidenote> depth of thirty-five feet, four hundred thousand dollars; toward construction of dry dock, three hundred thousand dollars; toward erecting machine shops (to cost three hundred thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; storehouses (to cost three hundred thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; toward yard development,one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million dollars. That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, enter into contracts for any portion of the work, including material therefor, within the respective limits of cost herein stipulated, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress, or may direct the construction of said works or any portion thereof under the supervision of a civil engineer of the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands</inline>: Extension of boatstorage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> shed, six thousand dollars; improvements to central wharf, five thousand dollars; receiving and shipping shed, five thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to buildings one, two, three, four H, six thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered twenty-nine, four thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building numbered nine, three thousand five hundred dollars; lumber shed in building numbered eighty-four, one thousand seven hundred dollars; improvements to building numbered twenty-three, six thousand five <page identifier="/us/stat/35/142">142</page> hundred dollars; improvements to number one ways, sixteen thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered eighty-three, three thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, two thousand dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Culebra</inline> , Porto Rico : Clearing and cleaning station,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Culebra, P. R.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; cold-storage plant, four thousand dollars; improvements, water system, one thousand six hundred dollars; sewer system, two thousand dollars; fire-protection system, two thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Tutuila</inline> : Dispensary and sick quarters, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tutuila.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Plans And Specifications For Public Works</inline> : Navy Department:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec.3663, p. 720:</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, and plans and specifications for public works, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs And Preservation at Navy-Yards</inline> : For repairs and preservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote> at navy-yards and stations, six hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Floating Derricks</inline> : One one-hundred ton floating derrick (to cost<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Floating derricks.</p></sidenote> two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One-hundred ton shears.</p></sidenote> the navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, to and erect at the navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the one-hundred ton shears improved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 672, 1185.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p></sidenote> and repaired under the Acts approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, and March third, nineteen hundred and three, and the unexpended balances of the appropriations made by said Acts for the improvement of said shears are hereby reappropriated, and the further sum of two thousand four hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for this purpose. Total public works, navy-yards and stations, four million six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress on cost of consolidation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 337.</p></sidenote> and fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy shall report to Congress, at the commencement of the next regular session, the amount of money expended on consolidation of power plants since the authorization for such consolidation was given, in nineteen hundred and four, such statement to be in detail for each navy-yard and to indicate amount expended for building and machinery separately; also to include a statement of the value of building and power plants at each navy-yard at the date of the above noted authorization; also the total amounts appropriated for power houses and power-plant extensions which had not been utilized on April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, the date of the authorization of the consolidations.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works Under The Secretary of The Navy.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings and Grounds</inline>, N<inline class="smallCaps">Aval</inline> A<inline class="smallCaps">Cademy</inline> : For enlarging the water<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterworks.</p></sidenote> plant of the Naval Academy, enlarging the reservoir, installing additional pumps, filters, piping, and strainers; and for all other materials and labor for this purpose, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of three fireproof buildings, to be used as magazines<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Magazines, etc.</p></sidenote> and filling house, and including necessary grading, walks, and landing stage, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings For Lepers, Island of Guam</inline> : Naval station, island of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of lepers, etc.</p></sidenote> Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars. Total public works under Secretary’s office, sixty-two thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works Under Bureau of Navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, CAlifornia, Buildings</inline> : Extension of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote> wharf to which Pensacola is moored, twelve thousand dollars; pipe line and tank for dispensary, four thousand dollars; repairs to long wharf, nine thousand dollars; increase of electric plant, two thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/143">143</page> live hundred dollars; roads, grounds, and planting of trees, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station</inline>, Rhode Island , buildings : Improving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island.</p></sidenote> and grading grounds and roads, two thousand dollars; dredging channel and basin, three thousand dollars; steam-distributing lines, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; increase of heating and lighting plant, fifteen thousand dollars; electric distributing and lighting system, to increase, eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars; receiving and disinfecting building, thirty thousand dollars; additional detention building, twenty thousand dollars; repairs to barracks “B,” nine thousand eight hundred dollars; walks at detention barracks, two thousand dollars; water-closet buildings for workmen, one thousand five hundred dollars; new wharf to Reina Mercedes, fifteen thousand dollars; for bakery, including scales, refrigerating plant, and necessary equipment to make the same suitable for use in connection with the training of bakers and cooks, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Buildings</inline> : To complete<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 34, p. 567.</p></sidenote> buildings in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete electrical mains and conduits, heating mains and concrete<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> conduits, heating station equipment, power plant equipment, water supply and sewage disposal, one hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Furniture, commandant’s quarters, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Furniture, six officers’ quarters, nine thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Architect’s fee.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For architect’s fee of three and one-half per centum of estimated cost of buildings authorized by Act of Congress, approved June twenty ninth, nineteen hundred and six, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cost of inspection of public works, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pile revetment and grading at site of sewage-disposal plant, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction of trestle to power house, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one million and ninety-five thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, one million two hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works, Bureau of Ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Maryland</inline> : Providing and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Head proving ground, Md.</p></sidenote> laying conduits for chronograph, bell, telephone and power lines, three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars; raising roof of powder factory storehouse, and so forth, three thousand four hundred and forty dollars; concrete retaining wall, two thousand five hundred dollars; extending machine shop, two thousand and eighty dollars; tide bridge for loading barges, three thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, fourteen thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Three filling houses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mifflin, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> five thousand one hundred dollars; installation of watchman’s clock system, two thousand dollars; to complete one building for marine guard, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One compressed air locomotive,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> three thousand five hundred dollars; one hoisting crane on wharf, two thousand dollars; new floors in buildings numbered A one, two, three, and four, six thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/144">144</page> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, New York Harbor; For naval magazine, New York<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iona Island, New York Harbor.</p></sidenote> Harbor (Iona Island): Marine barracks, ten thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For naval magazine, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One fuze<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine</p></sidenote> house, two thousand two hundred dollars; one observation magazine, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one magazine, seven thousand dollars; one watchman’s house, four thousand five hundred dollars; one stable, one thousand five hundred dollars; railroad system, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: Steel track, six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars; new water main across harbor, three thousand five hundred dollars; additional machinery for torpedo factory, fifty thousand dollars; in all, fifty-four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida</inline> : For navy-yard, Pensacola,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> Florida: Construction of water tank tower, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Magazine, Olongapo, Philippine Islands</inline> : For naval station,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olongapo, P. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> Olongapo, Philippine Islands: One chemical laboratory for testing smokeless powder, two thousand dollars; one set of quarters for inspector of ordnance and powder, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, one hundred and fifty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works Under Bureau of Equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Observatory</inline> : Grounds and roads: Continuing grading,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Observatory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grounds and roads.</p></sidenote> extending roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works Under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annapolis, Md.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval hospital, Annapolis, Maryland: For the erection of new wards, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval hospital, Norfolk, Virginia: For the renovation of the present<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> hospital buildings and for the erection of new wards, to cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval hospital, Great Lakes: For the erection of naval hospital buildings, to cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval hospital, Puget Sound, Washington: For the completion of naval hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote> buildings, seventy-five thousand dollars, (total cost not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash</p></sidenote> to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,) as authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p, 1191.</p></sidenote> the naval Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works under Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Public Works, Marine Corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of marine barracks, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine barracks, etc.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the storehouse, marine barracks, navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> New York, New York, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps: To complete three officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the quartermaster’s depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of ground</p></sidenote> the purchase of ground adjoining such building, and addition to depot, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of officers’ quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> Norfolk, Virginia, five thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/145">145</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Charleston, South Carolina: For the completion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> officers’ quarters, twenty-five thousand dollars; and for marine barracks, fifty thousand dollars; in all, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete officers’ quarters, marine barracks, navy-yard, Pensacola,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> Florida, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installing electric lights and heating system, marine barracks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sitka, Alaska.</p></sidenote> Sitka, Alaska, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of officers’ quarters, naval station, Olongapo,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olongapo, P. I.</p></sidenote> Philippine Islands, ten thousand dollars; and for the construction and completion of amusement room and gymnasium for enlisted men, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the necessary repairs and improvements to such buildings at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London, Conn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> the naval station, New London, Connecticut, as have been assigned to the Marine Corps by the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars, which sum shall be in addition to the twenty-five thousand dollars appropriated for this object in the naval appropriation Act, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, public works, Marine Corps, two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 569.</p></sidenote> fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeon’s necessaries, etc.</p></sidenote> commission, navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory, museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For tolls, ferriages,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> care, transportation, and burial of the dead; advertising, purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction; purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile-ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools and seeds; furniture and incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, surgeons’ offices and dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, surgeons’ quarters at naval hospitals; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships; and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction; for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Remains</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the Navy,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferring home remains of officers, etc.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of fund.</p></sidenote> sum herein appropriated shall be available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For necessary repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/146">146</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, three hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The nurse corps (female) of the United States Navy is hereby established,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurse corps, female.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization.</p></sidenote> and shall consist of one superintendent, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy, who shall be a graduate of a hospital training school having a course of instruction of not less than two years, whose term of office may be terminated at his discretion, and of as many chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses as may be needed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment, examination, etc.</p></sidenote> all nurses in the nurse corps shall be appointed or removed by the Surgeon-General, with the approval of the Secretary of the Navy, and that they shall be graduates of hospital training schools having a course of instruction not less than two years. The appointment of superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote> chief nurses, nurses, and reserve nurses shall be subject to an examination as to their professional, moral, mental, and physical fitness, and that they shall be eligible for duty at naval hospitals and on board of hospital and ambulance ships and for such special duty as may be deemed necessary by the Surgeon-General of the Navy. Reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of reserve nurses to active duty.</p></sidenote> nurses may be assigned to active duty when the necessities of the service demand, and when on such duty shall receive the pay and allowances of nurses: <i>Provided</i>, That they shall receive no compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation, etc.</p></sidenote> except when on active duty. The superintendent, chief nurses, and nurses shall respectively receive the same pay, allowances, emoluments,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 753.</p></sidenote> and privileges as are now or may hereafter be provided by or in pursuance of law for the nurse corps (female) of the Army.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The pay of enlisted men of the Hospital Corps shall be the same as that provided for the corresponding ratings of the seaman branch and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of enlisted men rated.</p></sidenote> staff corps of the Navy.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Navy</inline>: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions, etc.</p></sidenote> and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, and chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief sailmakers, chief carpenters), and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navy-yards, including naval stations maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores purchased under the naval supply fund; one chemist, at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and two chemists, at two thousand dollars each per annum, and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales to civilian employees.</p></sidenote> purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, also to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six million nine hundred and thirty-one thousand one hundred and fifty-three dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: For fuel, books<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture and interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory and machinery for same, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/147">147</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and express<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, Department and bureaus.</p></sidenote> charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, live hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Civil Establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: Navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> Portsmouth, New Hampshire: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one shipping and receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: In general storehouses: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, five thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Newport, Rhode Island: In general storehouse (training<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p></sidenote> station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars. In general storehouse (torpedo station): One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York, New York: In office of board of inspection:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> One writer, nine hundred dollars. In general storehouses: Three bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at four dollars each per diem; one assistant receiving clerk, at one thousand and ninety-nine dollars; three shipping clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two leading men, at two dollars and fifty cents each per diem; five pressmen, at two dollars and seventy-six cents each per diem; one box maker, at three dollars per diem; one engine tender, at three dollars and twenty-six cents per diem; one coffee roaster, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; one fireman, at two dollars per diem; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; one writer, one thousand dollars; one storeman, nine hundred dollars; one principal clerk, provisions and clothing section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one principal clerk, supply-fund section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one cloth inspector, at four dollars per diem, one thousand two hundred and fifty-two dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one messenger, at two dollars and twenty-five cents per diem; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and nineteen dollars and nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: In general storehouse: Two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant bookkeeper, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, seven thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: In general storehouse:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> One bookkeeper, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, six thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/148">148</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: In general storehouse: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote> bookkeeper, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; one receiving and shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: In general storehouses: Two bookkeepers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant bill clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two receiving clerks, at nine hundred and forty-two dollars each. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand and fifty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Key West, Florida: One clerk, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: In general storehouse: Two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant bookkeepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one receiving clerk, at one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one bill clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars. In yard pay office: One writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: In general storehouses: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> principal clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two bookkeepers at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; one bill clerk, one thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, one thousand dollars; one shipping clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: In general storehouses:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, at one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant bookkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; one shipping and bill clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; three storekeepers, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; one receiving clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one shipping clerk, at one thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, at one thousand dollars; two store men, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and three thousand nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Construction and Repair.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Rep Air of Vessels</inline>: For preservation and completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair of vessels.</p></sidenote> of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navy-yards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the Navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices, such as advertising, photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, and instruments for drafting room, eight million dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum shall be applied to the repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wooden ships.</p></sidenote> any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/149">149</page> a new ship of the same size and like material: <i>Provided further</i>, That no part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other ships.</p></sidenote> this sum shall be applied to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of ships in foreign waters.</p></sidenote> <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to specified vessels.</p></sidenote> to bring them home. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: The Brooklyn, four hundred and fifty-three thousand five hundred dollars; the San Francisco, six hundred thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; the Baltimore, six hundred and fifty-three thousand three hundred dollars; the Alabama, six hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Illinois, six hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Iowa, five hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Kearsarge, six hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars; the Kentucky, six hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundred dollars; the Maine, two hundred thousand dollars; the Adder, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; the Bennington, one hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; the Grampus, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Moccasin, forty-six thousand five hundred dollars; the Pike, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; the Paul Jones, seventy-seven thousand dollars; the Nicholson, fifty-five thousand dollars; the O’Brien, fifty-five thousand dollars; the Narkeeta, nineteen thousand dollars; the Holland, thirty-two thousand dollars and eighty-eight cents; in all, five million seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand three hundred dollars and eighty-eight cents, as per the report of the Secretary of the Navy, House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifty-six, Sixtieth Congress and letters of the Secretary of the Navy of April twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, concerning general repairs to the Maine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Improvement of Construction Plants</inline>: Construction plant, navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to, and improvements of, plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: Repairs to,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: Repairs to, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> to, and improvement of, plant at naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana, ten thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/150">150</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Repairs to,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> to, and improvement of, plant at navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Civil, Establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> Navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to naval constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each: in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York, New York: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> at one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> at one thousand four hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> constructor, at one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to naval constructor, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One clerk to naval constructor, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents; in all, two thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, New Orleans, Louisiana: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> at one thousand four hundred dollars; two writers, at one thousand and seventeen dollars and twenty-five cents each; in all, three thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand dollars; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: One clerk to naval constructor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Construction and Repair, forty thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Bureau of Steam Engineering.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Steam Machinery</inline>: For completion, repairing, and preservation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam machinery.</p></sidenote> machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers; distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/151">151</page> and training vessels; repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the foregoing appropriation and of the current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tugs “Patapsco” and “Patuxent.”</p></sidenote> appropriation for steam machinery, as may be necessary, may be used to complete the machinery of the seagoing tugs Patapseo and Patuxent, now building at the navy-yards at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. and Norfolk. Virginia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials.</p></sidenote> purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, such as advertising,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> photographing, books, stationery, office furnishings, and instruments, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, steam machinery, six million and six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: To outfit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery plants.</p><p>Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> new shops, authorized and completed or nearly completed, especially the new boiler and pattern-shops, with new power tools, and with the necessary fixtures and motors, and to replace obsolete and worn-out machine tools, thirty thousand dollars: in all. thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> machine tools for boiler shop extension and the coppersmith shop, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard. New York, New York: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York. N. Y.</p></sidenote> machine tools for copper, boiler, machine and pattern shops, and foundry, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania: For additional machine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> tools for machine and boiler shops, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> machine tools to equip machine and boiler shop, and for the new blacksmith and coppersmith shops, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: For purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> modern tools for use in repair of naval vessels, to replace others worn out, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, naval station. New Orleans, Louisiana: To continue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> purchase and installation of new machine tools to equip shops for repair of naval vessels, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard. Mare Island, California: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> new machine tools required in new and repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> new machine tools required in repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> additional machine tools, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, naval station. Olongapo, Philippine Islands: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olongapo, P. I.</p></sidenote> ‘machine tools required for equipment of shops for repair work, twenty-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Engineering experimental station. United States Naval Academy,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p>Engineering experimental station.</p></sidenote> Annapolis, Maryland—Salaries: One draftsman to engineering staff at the laboratory, one thousand eight, hundred dollars; one clerk to engineering staff at the laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; one skilled mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; one skilled mechanic, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one messenger, who shall also be janitor, six hundred dollars: in all, five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Experimental and research work: For original investigation and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Research work, etc.</p></sidenote> extended experimentation of naval appliances; and tor the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, twenty-five thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/152">152</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Civil Establishment. Bureau of Steam Engineering</inline>: Navy-yard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil establishment.</p><p>Portsmouth, N, H.</p></sidenote> Portsmouth, New Hampshire: One clerk to department, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: One clerk to department, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> thousand tour hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, New York. New York: One clerk to department, at one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> thousand four hundred dollars: one writer, at one thousand dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all. three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk to department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> at one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Washington, District of Columbia: One clerk to department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia: One clerk to department, at one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> thousand three hundred dollars; one messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, one thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: One clerk to department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: One writer, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: One clerk to department, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> one thousand tour hundred dollars; one writer, atone thousand dollars; One messenger, at six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy-yard, Puget. Sound, Washington: One clerk to department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; one writer, one thousand dollars; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, civil establishment, Bureau of Steam Engineering, seventeen thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Naval Academy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Professors and Others, Naval Academy</inline>: One professor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of professors, etc.</p><p>Increase.</p></sidenote> as head of the department of physics, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at three thousand dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand six hundred and forty dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five instructors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four instructors, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten instructors, at one thousand eight, hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One sword master, at one thousand live hundred dollars; one assistant. at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, atone thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at. one thousand eight hundred dollars; one cataloguer, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks to the superintendent, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk to the superintendent, at one thousand dollars; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, at one, thousand two hundred dollars; one writer to the commandant of midshipmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one clerk to the paymaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at seven hundred and fifty-one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/153">153</page> dollars and twenty cents; one cook, at three hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty cents; one messenger to the superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents each; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents each: twenty attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, chapel, armory, gymnasium, and offices, at three hundred dollars each; one bandmaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one assistant instructor in gymnastics, one thousand dollars; one clerk to the superintendent, nine hundred dollars; one assistant baker, live handled and forty dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one cook, six hundred dollars; two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk to the commandant of midshipmen, one thousand dollars; one electrical machinist in department of physics, one thousand dollars; one chief cook, one thousand two hundred dollars; two cooks, at six hundred dollars each, one thousand two hundred dollars; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant steward six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two assistant head waiters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two pantry men, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; eight assistant cooks, at three hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-five thousand nine hundred and eight dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Midshipmen’s store fund.</p><p>Account closed.</p></sidenote> close and balance as expended the sum of twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars now standing on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” which was advanced by direction of the Secretary of the Navy in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven and eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and has heretofore been used as a midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p>Returns by storekeeper.</p><p>R. S., sec. 1527 p. 251</p></sidenote> the storekeeper at the Naval Academy, authorized by section fifteen hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes, shall render quarterly returns of property to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. A full report shall be made annually of receipt! arid expenditures by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy: <i>And provided further</i>, Thai an inspection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection.</p></sidenote> of the storekeeper’s accounts shall be made quarterly by the general inspector of the Pay Corps, with such recommendation as he may deem necessary, to the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navy bands or members thereof, other than the United States Naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy bands not to compete with civilian.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy excepted.</p></sidenote> Academy band at Annapolis, Maryland, shall not receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of military posts, when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Watchmen, Mechanics, and Others, Naval Academy</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote> Captain of the watch, and weigher, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; second captain of the watch, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem; twenty-two watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; foreman of steam heating works of the academy, at five dollars per diem: labor at power house for masons, carpenters, and other mechan <page identifier="/us/stat/35/154">154</page> ics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats; in all, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Steam Employees, Naval Academy</inline>: Pay of mechanics,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, steam engineering.</p></sidenote> attendants, and others in department of steam engineering, twenty thousand three hundred and forty-three dollars and six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Special course, Naval Academy: Purchase of apparatus and materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical training, etc.</p></sidenote> for instruction of midshipmen in physical training and athletics, and for all expenses of’ lectures, including the pay of the lecturer, live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Naval Academy</inline>: Necessary repairs of public buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Heating and Lighting. Naval Academy</inline>: Fuel, oil, waste, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, etc.</p></sidenote> other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the academy and bandsmen’s quarters, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent. Naval Academy</inline>: Purchase, binding, and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> books for the library and text-books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models, and maps, two thousand five hundred dollars; expenses of the Board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p></sidenote> of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the academy, and for supplying necessary outfit for the Board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the Board, two thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and for repairs of the same, three thousand dollars; purchase of gas and steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the, use of the academy, commutation of rent for bandsmen, at eight dollars per month each, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, sixty thousand dollars; stores, stationery, periodicals, materials, apparatus, machinery, tools, and fittings; for use in the department of marine engineering and naval construction, for purposes of instruction, repairs of apparatus, tools, and machinery, care and cleaning of building and its equipment, and for all other necessary purposes, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the various academic departments, fifteen thousand dollars; for care of rifle range, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents; in all, one hundred thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars arid four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Naval Academy, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand and twenty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Marine Corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay, MArine Corps</inline>: For pay and allowances prescribed by law of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> officers on the active list, seven hundred and twenty-one thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For increased force immediately available.</p></sidenote> foregoing appropriation as is needed to pay the additional officers of the Marine Corps provided for in this Act shall be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired list.</p></sidenote> major-general, seven brigadier-generals, two colonels, eight lieutenant-colonels. five majors, seven captains, nine first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during <page identifier="/us/stat/35/155">155</page> the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pav of noncommissioned officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, cooks, messmen. signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, two million one hundred and two thousand six hundred and eight dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the foregoing appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For increased force immediately available.</p></sidenote> as is needed to pay the additional enlisted men of the Marine Corps provided for in this Act shall be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p></sidenote> retired list: For three sergeant-majors, one drum-major, seventeen gunnery-sergeants, seventeen quartermaster-sergeants, fourteen first, sergeants, forty-nine sergeants, eleven corporals, seventeen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and forty-three privates, and for those, who may be retired during the fiscal year, eighty-four thousand four hundred and sixty-nine dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That from and after the passage of this Act, and in order to further<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers and enlisted men increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1596, p. 272, amended.</p></sidenote> increase the efficiency of the United States Marine Corps, the following additional officers, noncommissioned officers, drummers, trumpeters, and privates to those now provided by law for said corps are hereby authorized and directed, namely: One major-general com<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commandant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1601, p. 278, amended.</p></sidenote> mandant, in lieu of the. present brigadier-general commandant; one colonel; one lieutenant-colonel; two majors; eighteen captains; seven first, lieutenants; fourteen second lieutenants; one assistant adjutant and inspector, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; one assistant quartermaster, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; one assistant quartermaster, with the rank of major; and three assistant quartermasters, with the rank of captain; one assistant paymaster, with the rank of major; one assistant paymaster, with the rank of captain; two sergeant-majors; fifteen quarter master-sergeants, live of whom are to serve in the pay department; twenty first sergeants; fifty sergeants; one hundred and twenty-five corporals; ten drummers; ten trumpeters: and five hundred and eighteen privates: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of enlisted men.</p></sidenote> number of enlisted men in the United States Marine Corps shall be such as the Congress may from time to time authorize.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the vacancies now existing in the line and staff departments of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling vacancies.</p></sidenote> the United States Marine Corps and those created by this Act shall be filled in the manner provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the increase in pay of the Marine Corps provided in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for increase in pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 108.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., see. 1612, p. 278.</p></sidenote> Act making appropriation for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and in section sixteen hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for officers on the active list, officers on the retired list, enlisted men on the active list, and enlisted men on the retired list, eight hundred and two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars and fifty-five cents is hereby appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for present year immediately available.</p></sidenote> foregoing appropriation as is needed to pay the increase for the remainder of the fiscal year ending dime thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be immediately available.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/156">156</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undrawn clothing.</p></sidenote> undrawn, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers.</p></sidenote> troops, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> where there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Civil Force</inline>: du the office of the Brigadier-General Commandant:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commandant’s office.</p></sidenote> One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paymaster’s office.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of each assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant and inspector’s office.</p></sidenote> thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector; One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the quartermaster; One chief clerk, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarter master’s office.</p></sidenote> six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco. California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, for duty in the Philippine Islands, one in Pay and one in Quartermaster’s Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars: one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; in the Quartermaster’s Department, for duty where their services are required, two clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for pay of civil force, thirty-four thousand live hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursement.</p></sidenote> eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifially appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, pay Marine Corps, four million forty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-nine dollars arid sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions, etc.</p></sidenote> and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted mon in the Army: <proviso><i>Provided, however.</i> That when it is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy rations or commutation.</p></sidenote> impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote> and privates authorized by law, seven hundred and twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/157">157</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Marine Corps</inline>: For heating barracks and quarters, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Stores. Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of chief armorer, at four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military stores.</p></sidenote> dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day: for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-conduct badges; and medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service: for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the establishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition, and other necessary military supplies, two hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation and Recruiting. Marine Corps</inline>; For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation and recruiting.</p></sidenote> of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, and the expense of the recruiting service, two hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Repairs of Barracks. Marine Corps</inline>: Repairs and improve-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of barracks.</p></sidenote> meats to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia: Norfolk, Virginia; Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; Sitka. Alaska, and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, ninety-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Forage, Marine Corps</inline>: For forage in kind for horses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote> Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commutation of Quarters. Marine Corps</inline>: For commutation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there, are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, sixty-eight thousand dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/158">158</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Marine Cobps</inline>: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period of not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, fin cups, pans, pots, and so forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase and repair of public wagons, motor wagons, carts, and drays, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase and repair of hose, purchase and repair of tire extinguishers, purchase of fire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds: repair of pumps and wharves: laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil. and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress coveys, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts: furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million six hundred and forty-six thousand four hundred and ninety-nine dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, six million six hundred and ninety-three thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and. sixty-three cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Inckease of the Navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of the Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establisment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two first-class battle ships.</p></sidenote> of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed, two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar in all essential characteristics to the battle ship authorized by the Act making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1203.</p></sidenote> appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. At least one of such battle ships<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One to be built at a navy-yard.</p></sidenote> shall be built and constructed under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy at one of the navy-yards; the other of said battle ships may also be constructed at one of the navy-yards in the discretion of the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other by contract.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten torpedo-boat destroyers.</p></sidenote> Navy, or by contract as hereinafter provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each, to be built by contract, not more than three by any one contractor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two fleet colliers, of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two fleet colliers.</p></sidenote> less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal. One of said colliers to be built in such Government yard on the Pacific<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One to be built in yard on Pacific coast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost.</p></sidenote> coast as the Secretary of the Navy shall direct. Cost not to exceed one million eight hundred thousand dollars each, and toward the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of both, one million five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/159">159</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three colliers of American registry.</p></sidenote> to purchase three new steam colliers of American registry, having a cargo carrying capacity of approximately seven thousand two hundred Ums dead weight each, at a cost not exceeding five hundred and twenty - live thousand dollars each; and the sum of one million five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for purchase.</p></sidenote> and seventy-live thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of the colliers above authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be awarded<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Award of contracts.</p></sidenote> by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidden having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 215.</p></sidenote> August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the. naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same; the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; and the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight submarine torpedo boats, in an amount not exceeding in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine torpedo boats.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for purchase.</p></sidenote> the aggregate three million live hundred thousand dollars, and the sum of three million dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose and for the completion of submarine boats heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction And Machinery</inline>: On account of hulls and outfits of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and machinery.</p></sidenote> vessels mid steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, nine million eight hundred and thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Armor and Armament</inline>: Toward the armor and armament of domestic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor and armament.</p></sidenote> manufacture for vessels authorized, seven million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the construction and machinery and armor and armament<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for new vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor contracts.</p></sidenote> of the vessels herein authorized, seven million dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidders, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, Equipment</inline>: Toward the completion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment.</p></sidenote> equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, four hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total increase of the Navy, thirty million three hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriations restricted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 505.</p></sidenote> any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monitors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on naming, removed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 390.</p></sidenote> naval service for the fiscal year ending. June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for other purposes,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as provides that monitors owned by the United States shall be named for the States, and shall not be named for any city, place, or person until the names of the States shall have been exhausted, is hereby repealed, and monitors now owned by the United States or hereafter built may be named as the President may direct.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/160">160</page></p>
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</appropriations>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 168: To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>168</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 160</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-14</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>168.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-14">May 14, 1908</approvedDate></p> <p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20784">H. R. 20784.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/116">Public, No. 116.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional, established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 331.</p></sidenote> and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to establish and provide the following additional aids to navigation in the Light-Mouse Establishment under the Light-House Board in the Department of Commerce and Labor, in accordance with the respectif limits of cost hereinafter respectively set forth, which shall in no case be exceeded:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>First Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A tender for use in the First light-house district and elsewhere as may he directed, at a cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Third Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and fog-signal station at or near Negro Point, on Wards Island, Hellgate, Rast River, New York, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell off Point Judith, Rhode Island, at a cost not to exceed nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell, to be placed at or near the entrance to the dredged channel at Greenville, New Jersey, in New York Bay. at a cost not to exceed nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A new spar shop, at a cost not to exceed three thousand dollars, and a wooden dump scow, at a cost not to exceed seven thousand live hundred dollars, at the general light-house depot, Tompkinsville, New York.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A storehouse and dock at San Juan, Porto Rico, ata cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Fourth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limit of cost for a light and fog-signal station on Elbow of Cross Ledge. Delaware Bay, New Jersey, authorized by an Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 467.</p></sidenote> April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby increased by the sum of twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars, so as to make the limit of cost ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars instead of seventy-five thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Schooner Ledge range lights, Delaware River, Pennsylvania, may be, moved, so as to comply with the change in position of the dredged channel of the Delaware River, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Range lights. Reedy Island. Delaware River. Delaware and New Jersey, at a cost not to exceed twenty-live thousand dollars in addition to the amounts heretofore appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A temporary light at Goose Island Flats, Delaware River, Delaware, at a cost not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the establishment of a light and fog-signal station at Goose Island Flats, Delaware River, in the Act of March third, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1171.</p></sidenote> and five, to be carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Post lights on Delaware River between Bordentown and Trenton, New Jersey, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/161">161</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Fifth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One buoy to be placed off Cape Henry; one buoy to be placed to the northward of the Middle Ground near the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, and one relief buoy, all to be light arid signal or whistling buoys, each fitted with submarine bell, at a cost for the three buoys not to exceed twenty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a post-lantern light, at or near the mouth of Lower Broad Creek, North Carolina, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limit of cost for a light and fog-signal station at Ragged Point, Potomac River, Virginia, authorized by the Act approved June twentieth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1317.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and six, is hereby increased by the sum of five thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost thirty-five thousand dollars instead of thirty thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Sixth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sixth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A tender for the use of the engineer in the Sixth Light-House District and elsewhere, as may be directed, at a cost not to exceed thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and signal or whistling buoy, to be placed off the entrance to Saint Johns River, Florida, and a relief buoy for same, at a cost not to exceed eighteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Eighth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eighth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and fog-signal station at or near the end of Sabine Pass Jetty, at a cost not to exceed forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limit of cost for light and fog-signal station at or near the outer end of one of the jetties at Galveston Harbor, as fixed by the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 417.</p></sidenote> June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, is hereby increased by the sum of ten thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost forty-five thousand dollars instead of thirty-five thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A buoy wharf and depot shed at Fort San Jacinto, Texas, Military Reservation. Galveston Harbor, at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Ninth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ninth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light vessel at Milwaukee Bay, Wisconsin, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A fog-signal station at Grand Point au Sable, Michigan, at a cost not to exceed eleven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Tenth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tenth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light station at each of the east and west breakwater pierheads, entrance to Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, at a cost, not to exceed forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Eleventh Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eleventh district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The limit of cost of the relief light vessel for the Ninth and Eleventh light-house districts, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1093.</p></sidenote> hundred and three, is hereby increased by the sum of twenty thousand dollars, so as to make the total limit of cost fifty thousand dollars instead of thirty thousand dollars, as heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Light-House Board shall make survey mid estimate the cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light and fog <page identifier="/us/stat/35/162">162</page> station on Gull Island, or the easterly end of Michigan Island, Apostle Group, and whether when said station is established the existing station on the westerly end of Michigan Island can be safely closed, such survey and report to cost, not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Twelfth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twelfth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and fog-signal station at or near Four Mile Creek, near Punta Gorda, California, at a cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A light and fog-signal station at some point on the northerly or westerly coast of Kauai Island, Hawaii, at a cost not to exceed seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>Thirteenth Light-House District.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thirteenth district.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Tight-House Board shall survey and estimate the cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light vessel or light station at or near Orford Reef, off Cape Blanco, Oregon, such survey and report to cost not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> authorized to enter into contract or contracts for any or all of the items provided for in section one of this Act within the limits of cost therein respectively provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">oil houses.</p></sidenote> authorized to establish and provide in the Light-House Establishment at such places as shall, in the opinion of the Light-House Board, be for the best interests of the Light-House Service, two oil houses, at a cost not to exceed one thousand live hundred dollars for each one.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That it is hereby made the duty of the Light-House Board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York and Philadelphia harbors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anchorage buoys.</p></sidenote> to care for and maintain the anchorage buoys in New York Harbor and Philadelphia Harbor heretofore placed there by the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That any person, firm, company, or corporation required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge lights.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Violation of regulations.</p></sidenote> by law to maintain a light or lights upon any bridge or abutments over or in any navigable waters, who shall fail or refuse to maintain such lighter lights, or to obey any of the lawful rules and regulations relating to the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> subject to a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars for each offense, and each day during which such violation shall continue shall he considered as a new offense.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful for any person to obstruct or interfere<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obstruction to navigation forbidden.</p></sidenote> with any aid to navigation established or maintained in the Light-House Establishment under the Light-House Board, or to anchor any vessel in any of the navigable waters of the United States so as to obstruct or interfere with range lights maintained therein, and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and he subject to a line not exceeding the sum of five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars for each offense and each day during which such violation shall continue shall be considered as a new offense.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall annually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on discontinuance of lights, etc.</p></sidenote> cause the Light-House Board to make a report to him for transmission to Congress of all aids to navigation in service which may be discontinued without distinct injury to the interests of navigation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the Light-House Board is authorized to employ temporarily<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tenders, etc. Draftsmen.</p></sidenote> at Washington, not exceeding three draftsmen, to be paid at current rates, to prepare plans for the tenders and light vessels authorized by this Act and to be paid from the respective appropriation therefor, such employment to terminate on or before the date when the plans for such tenders and vessels shall be finished and proposals for building them respectively are invited by advertisements.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/163">163</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That every light-house keeper and assistant light-house keeper<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ration.</p></sidenote> in the Light-House Establishment of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day or, in the discretion of the Light-House Board, commutation therefor at the rate of thirty cents per ration.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 14, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 170: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>170.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-16">May 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/514">S. 514.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/117">Public. No. 117.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stated of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one of “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tea.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importation of impure, etc., prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 604.</p></sidenote> to prevent the importation of impure and unwholesome tea,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be amended by adding at the end thereof the following words: <proviso><i>“Provided.</i> That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tea used in manufacture of caffeine, etc., not included.</p></sidenote> nothing herein shall affect or prevent the importation into the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, of any merchandise as tea which may be inferior in purity, quality, and fitness for consumption to the standards established by the Secretary of the Treasury, or of any tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings, for the sole purpose of manufacturing theine, caffeine, or other chemical products whereby the identity and character of the original material is entirely destroyed or changed: and that importers and manufacturer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> who import or bring into the United States such tea, tea waste, tea siftings, or tea sweepings shall give suitable bond, to be approved as to amount and securities by the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned that said imported material shall he only used for the purposes herein provided, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.”</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 171: To create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>171</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>171.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To create the office of captain in the Philippine Scouts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-16">May 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/652">S. 652.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/118">Public, No. 118</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the office of captain in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine scouts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of captain in, created.</p></sidenote> the Philippine Scouts is hereby created as a grade of rank in the military establishment. Such captains shall be selected from officers of the grade of first lieutenants in said scouts, and shall be given provisional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisional appointments;</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term.</p></sidenote> appointments for periods of four years each, and no such appointments shall be continued for a second or subsequent period unless the officers’ conduct shall have been satisfactory in. every respect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum number.</p></sidenote> That the number of officers provisionally appointed under the terms of this Act shall not at any time exceed the number of companies of said native troops which may be formed by the President from time to time for service in the Philippine Islands.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 172: For the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>172</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 163</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>172.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the widening of Benning road, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-16">May 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4063">H. R. 4063.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/119">Public, No. 119</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia, Benning road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning laud for widening.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the dedication to the District of Columbia of fifty per centum of the land necessary for the widening of Benning road in the District <page identifier="/us/stat/35/164">164</page> of Columbia from Fifteenth street northeast to Oklahoma avenue, exclusive of the strip of land thirty feet in width acquired by the Columbia Railway Company under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 445.</p></sidenote> thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to authorize the, extension eastwardly of the Columbia Railway, according to the street extension plans of said District, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia he, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute, in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary to complete the widening of said road to a width of one hundred and ten feet between the limits named: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the entire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages, for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> assessed by the jury as benefits: <i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder: <i>And provided farther</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of tracks.</p></sidenote> That the said Columbia Railway Company, its successors or assigns, shall remove its tracks to the center of the street when widened when required so to do by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated from the revenues of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages; to lie repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That section eight hundred and sixty-nine of an Act. of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pool selling, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1331, amended.</p></sidenote> Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law’ for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen bund ret Land one, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“It shall be unlawful for any person or association of persons to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gambling, etc., prohibited in the District.</p></sidenote> bet, gamble, or make books or pools on the result of any trotting or running race of horses, or boat race, or race of any kind, or on any election, or any contest of any kind, or game of baseball. Any person<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> or association of persons violating the provisions of this section shall be lined not exceeding five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both,”</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 173: Providing tor the restoration of the motto “In God we trust” on certain denominations of the gold and silver coins of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>173</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 164</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>173.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing tor the restoration of the motto “In God we trust” on certain denominations of the gold and silver coins of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-18">May 18, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/HR/17296">H. R. 17296.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/120">Public, No. 120.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted Senate and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the motto “In God we<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coins.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restoration of mot to “In God we trust” on.</p></sidenote> trust.” heretofore inscribed on certain denominations of the gold and silver coins of the United States of America, shall hereafter be inscribed upon all such gold and silver coins of said denominations us heretofore.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect thirty days after its approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> by the President.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 175: Relating to unpaid Hawaiian Postal Savings Bankdeposito.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>175</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/165">165</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>175.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to unpaid Hawaiian Postal Savings Bankdeposito.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-19">May 19, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/HR/11660">H. R. 11660.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/121">Public, No. 121</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and</i> /<i>louse of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That whenever, by reason<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unpaid deposits belonging to estates of intestates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certification of by Governor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 161.</p></sidenote> of the death of any person and the want of an executor or administrator, any dented for moneys deposited in the Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank can not be certified to by the governor of Hawaii as provided in section one hundred and two of “An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,” approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, the governor may, upon written application, certify to such demand as due to the persons satisfactorily proved to him to lie the persons who would be entitled to the personal estate of the decedent by the terms of the laws of Hawaii relating to the distribution of estate of intestates, and his certificate so made, when sealed, countersigned, and approved as provided in said section for other certificates shall have the same force and effect as such other certificates.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all claims to moneys deposited in the Hawaiian Postal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit for presentation of claims.</p></sidenote> Savings Bank not presented for certification as provided by law within two years after the passage of this Act shall be forever barred.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That when all claims certified as provided by law have been<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p></sidenote> paid the Secretary of the Interior shall draw his warrant for the balance, if any, of the Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank deposits then remaining unpaid upon the Treasurer of the United States payable to the treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii, who shall thereupon apply the same toward the payment of the public debt of Hawaii, in conformité with the provisions of the “Joint resolution to provide for annexing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 750.</p></sidenote> the Hawaiian Islands to the United States,’’ approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 19, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 176: Providing for the resurvey of certain public lands in the State of Nebraska.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>176</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 165</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-19</dc:date>
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<docNumber>176.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the resurvey of certain public lands in the State of Nebraska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-19">May 19, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18577">H. R. 18577.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/122">Public, No, 122.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nebraska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurvey of certain lands in.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause to be made a resurvey of the lands in township twenty-five north, range fifteen; township twenty-six north, range thirty-one: township thirty-four north, range thirty-two, and township twenty-four north, range forty-six, all west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska; and all rules and regulations of the Interior Department requiring petitions from all settlers asking for a resurvey and agreement to abide by the result of the sanie, so far as these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior claims not affected.</p></sidenote> be so construed as to impair the present bona fide claim of any actual occupant of said lands so occupied: <i>Provided further</i>, That before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inaccurate, etc., surveys to be corrected.</p></sidenote> any survey is ordered it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of the Interior that the former official survey of said lands is so inaccurate or obliterated as to make it necessary to survey the land, and only such parts of the land where the survey is so inaccurate or obliterated shall be surveyed.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 19, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 177: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church for certain lands in the State of Idaho.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>177</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-19</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/166">166</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>177.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church for certain lands in the State of Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-19">May 19, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17005">H. R. 17005.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/123">Public. No. 123.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoard of Missions of Protestant Episcopal Church in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to.</p></sidenote> Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patents in fee to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States for the following described lands: The southeast quarter of section thirty-six, township four south, range thirty-four east, of Boise meridian, containing· one hundred and sixty acres: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of Indians.</p></sidenote> That the said patent shall not issue until the Indians of the said reservation shall have given their consent to the grant through their business committee or council in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall provide.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 19, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 180: Authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to extend the time for the construction of bridgea across navigable waters, and to legalize the construction of bridges across navigable waters.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>180</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 166</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>180.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to extend the time for the construction of bridgea across navigable waters, and to legalize the construction of bridges across navigable waters.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-20">May 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4809">S. 4809.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/124">Public, No. 124</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Staten of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline"><content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the consent of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Merrimac River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vesper-Country Club may bridge, at Tyngs Island, Mass.</p></sidenote> is hereby given to the Vesper-Country Club, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Massachusetts, for the construction of a bridge across the Merrimac River at Tyngs Island, Massachusetts.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the county of Okanogan and the town of Okanogan, jointly or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Okanogan River, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County of Okanogan, etc., may bridge.</p></sidenote> severally, corporations organized under the laws of the State of Washington, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized, jointly or severally, to construct, maintain, and operate a wagon bridge and approaches thereto across the Okanogan River from some convenient and practical point on the West bunk of said river within the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> limits of said town of Okanogan to some convenient point on the east bank of said river in the south half of the Colville Indian Reservation in the State of Washington.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the court of county commissioners of Geneva County, Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctawhatchee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geneva County may bridge, near Geneva. Ala.</p></sidenote> its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Choctawhatchee River, at a point to be approved by the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of War, about six miles above the town of Geneva, Alabama.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Arizona and California Railway Company, a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona and California Railway Company may bridge, at Parker, Ariz.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 5.</p></sidenote> organized under the laws of the lerntory of Arizona, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across the. Colorado River, at or near Parker, in the Territory of Arizona, as may be approved by the Secretary of War, for the passage of railroad trains by means of a single or double track, and also at the option of said company, its successors and assigns, to be used for the passage of wagons, vehicles, street ears, animals, and persons on foot and in vehicles.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Missouri Central Railroad Company, a corporation organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri Central Railroad Company may bridge, at Glasgow, Mo.</p></sidenote> under the laws of the. State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point just south of the city of Glasgow, being about five hundred yards south of the bridge now owned by the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, to an opposite point in Saline County, in the State of Missouri.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/167">167</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Missouri Central Railroad Company, a corporation organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri Central Railroad Company may bridge, at Saini Charles, Mo.</p></sidenote> under the laws of the State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point near the city of Saint Charles, being about three and one-half miles south of west of said city of Saint Charles, to a point due south in Saint Louis County, all in the State of Missouri.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Mississippi, Hill City and Western Railway Company, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi, Hill City and Western Railway Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> corporation organized under the laws of the State or booth Dakota, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at section four, township fifty-two north,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> range twenty-three west, being in Aitkin County, in the State of Minnesota.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Iron Dyke Copper Company, a corporation organized under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Snake River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron Dyke Copper Company may bridge, at Homestead, Oreg.</p></sidenote> the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge and approaches thereto across the Snake River at a point to be selected between Homestead and Ballards Landing, on said river, between the States of Oregon and Idaho.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section seven of the act approved March twenty-sixth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by South Omaha Railroad and Bridge Company, at South Omaha, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 92.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 817, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and two. as amended by an Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, authorizing the South Omaha Railroad and Bridge Company to build a bridge and approaches thereto across Missouri River at or near the city of South Omaha, Douglas County, is hereby amended by extending the time for the construction of said bridge and approaches thereto to April fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Copper River Railway Company, a corporation organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copper River, Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copper River Railway Company may bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two bridges; locations.</p></sidenote> and existing under the laws of the Shite of Washington, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate two bridges across the Copper River, in the Territory of Alaska, below the Abercrombie Canyon, to be located as follows : The first, or lower bridge, to cross the said Copper River at a point below Childs Glacier; and the second, or upper bridge, to cross said Copper River at some point between Childs Glacier and Miles Glacier, and slightly upstream from the location that has been selected as a bridge crossing by the Alaska Pacific Railway and Terminal Company, and a sufficient distance therefrom to avoid interference with the construction or operation of the bridge across said river that may lawfully be erected by said last-named company.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company, a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bering Lake, Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> organized and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada, be, and is hereby, authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a bridge and its approaches thereto across Bering Lake, in the Territory of Alaska.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section six of an Act authorizing the Winnipeg Yankton and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Winnepeg, Yankton mid Gulf Railroad Company, at Yankton, S. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 157.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 897, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 658.</p></sidenote> Gulf Railroad Company to construct a combined railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge across the Missouri River at or near the city of Yankton, South Dakota, approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and four, as amended by the Act approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the time within which the said bridge is required to he commenced shall be within one year and the time within which it is required that the said bridge shall be completed shall be within three years from the date of the approval of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Rock River Traction Company, a corporation organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock River, III.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock River Traction Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct a bridge across Rock River at a point between the first section line south of the Colona Ferry (the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> section line between sections nine and ten, township seventeen north, iunge one east) and the first section line east of the Cleveland Ferry <page identifier="/us/stat/35/168">168</page> (the section line between sections twenty-nine and thirty, township eighteen north, range two east), said bridge to be built across Rock River between the counties of Henry and Rock Island, in the State of Illinois.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rainy River, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by International Bridge and Terminal Company.</p></sidenote> of a bridge across Rainy River, in the State of Minnesota.” approved February seventh, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby revived and reenacted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section six of the aforesaid Act is hereby amended to read as follows:</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 802, amended.</p></sidenote> actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from July first, nineteen hundred and eight; and that the construction shall not be commenced until the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction within Canadian jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> Government of the Dominion of Canada has authorized the construction and maintenance of that part of said bridge which shall occupy that portion of the river which is under the jurisdiction of said Dominion government.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the board of supervisors of the town of Highlanding, Red<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Luke River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highlanding Minn., may bridge.</p></sidenote> Lake County, Minnesota, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Red Lake River on the section line between sections twenty-nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> and thirty, township one hundred and fifty-three north, range forty west, in the State of Minnesota.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the city of Bemidji, a corporation organized under the laws of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bemidji, Minn., may bridge.</p></sidenote> the State of Minnesota, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River, at section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> sixteen, township one hundred mid forty-six, range thirty-three, in the State of Minnesota.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Ruston, Natchitoches and Northeastern Railroad Company,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bayou D’Arbonne, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ruston, Natchitoches and Northeastern Railroad Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, its successors and assigns, be and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a drawbridge and approaches thereto across Ba von D’Arbonne in the State of Louisiana at a suitable point on said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> stream on the line of its road between the cities of Farmerville, in Union Parish, and Ruston, in Lincoln Parish, in the. State of Louisiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the bridge constructed across the .Mississippi River between the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge between Clough and Furl Ripley, Minn., legalized.</p></sidenote> townships of Clough, in Morrison County, and Fort Ripley, in Crow Wing County, State of Minnesota, by the authorities of said counties of Morrison mid Crow Wing, be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to its maintenance by said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes.</p></sidenote> authorities: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any changes in the said structure which the Secretary of War may at any time deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation shall be promptly made by the owners thereof at their own expense.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the township of Manistee, in the county of Manistee, State of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manistee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manistee, Mich., may bridge.</p></sidenote> Michigan, a municipal corporation organized under the laws of the State of Michigan, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge, and approaches t hereto, across the south branch or channel of the Manistee River in said township, in the. State of Michigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway Company, a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morris and Cummings channel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aransas Harbor Terminal Company may bridge, at Aransas Pass, Tex.</p></sidenote> organized under Texas law, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Morris and Cummings channel at a point near Aransas Pass, Texas, from the mainland to Harbor Island.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Saint Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company may bridge, at Brownsville, Tex.</p></sidenote> corporation organized under the laws of the State of Texas, its successors and assigns, be. and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railway, wagon, and foot bridge and approaches <page identifier="/us/stat/35/169">169</page> thereto across the Rio Grande River, at. Brownsville, in the State of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 576.</p></sidenote> Texas, connecting the city of Brownsville, Texas, with the city of Matamoros. Mexico: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That the construction of the said bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of Mexico required.</p></sidenote> shall not be commenced until the consent of the proper authorities of the Republic of Mexico for the erection of the structure shall have been obtained.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Yellowstone Valley Steel Bridge Company, a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone Valley Steel Bridge Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> organized under the laws of the State of Montana, its successors arid assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at or within one mile west of the east boundary line of Montana, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> the State of Montana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River, Kans., and Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Kansas City Outer Belt and Electrie Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 7 55, amended.</p></sidenote> bridge across the Missouri River at a point to be selected within five miles north of the Kaw River in Wyandotte, County, State of Kansas, and Clay County, State of Missouri, and to make the same a post route,” approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, revived and declared to be in full force and effect, and that section eight of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: “That this Act shall be mill and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> one year and completed within three years from the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eight.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the county of Muskegon, in the State of Michigan, a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskegon River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskegon County Mich., may bridge.</p></sidenote> organized under the laws of the State of Michigan, its successors and assigns, be and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a highway bridge and approaches thereto across the Muskegon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> River on the line between the counties of Muskegon and Newaygo, in said State of Michigan.</p></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all of the bridges authorized to he constructed by this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">construction.</p></sidenote> Act shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, P. 84.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content></section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 181: To authorize the drainage of certain lands in the Slate of Minnesota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>181</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 169</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>181.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the drainage of certain lands in the Slate of Minnesota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-20">May 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19541">H. R. 19541.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/125">Public, No. 125</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all lauds in the State<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In Minnesota subject to State drainage laws.</p></sidenote> of Minnesota, when subject to entry, and all entered lands for which no final certificates have issued, are hereby made and declared to be subject to all of the provisions of the laws of said State relating to the drainage of swamp or overflowed lands for agricultural purposes to the same extent and in the same manner in which lands of a like character held in private ownership areor may be subject to said laws: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the United States and all persons legally holding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, etc., to be accorded.</p></sidenote> unpatented lands under entries made under the public-land laws of the United States are accorded all the rights, privileges, and benefits given by said laws to persons holding lands of a like character in private ownership.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the cost of constructing canals, ditches, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment of cost.</p></sidenote> drainage works incurred in connection with any drainage project under said laws shall be equitably apportioned among all lands held in private ownership, all lands covered by unpatented entries, and all unentered public hinds affected by such project; and officially certified lists showing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certified lista of assessed charges.</p></sidenote> the amount of the charges assessed against each smallest legal sub <page identifier="/us/stat/35/170">170</page> -division of such lauds shall he furnished to the register and receiver of the land district in which the lands affected are located as soon as said charges are assessed, but, nothing in this Act shall be construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States not liable.</p></sidenote> creating any obligation on the United States to pay any of said charges.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all charges legally assessed may be enforced against<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale for charges.</p></sidenote> any unentered lands, or against any lands covered by an unpatented entry, by the sale of such lands subject to the same manner and under the same proceedings under which such charges would be enforced against lands held in private ownership.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That when any unentered lands, or any lands covered by an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of wile to laud office.</p></sidenote> unpatented entry, have been sold in the manner mentioned in this Act, a statement of such sale showing the price at which each legal subdivision was sold shall be officially certified to the register and receiver immediately after the completion of such sale.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That at any time after any sale of unentered lands has been<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to purchaser on paying Government price.</p></sidenote> made in the manner and for the purposes mentioned in this Act patent shall issue to the purchaser thereof upon payment to the receiver of the minimum price of one dollar and twenty-live cents per acre, or such other price as may have been fixed by law for such lands, together with the usual fees and commissions charged in entry of like lands under the homestead laws. But purchasers at a sale of unentered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">limitations.</p></sidenote> lands shall have the qualification of homestead entrymen and not more than one, hundred and sixty acres of such lands shall.be sold to any one purchaser under the provisions of this Act. This limitation shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale to State excepted.</p></sidenote> apply to sales to the State but shall apply to purchases from the State of unentered lands bid in for the State. Any part of the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of excess of Charges, etc.</p></sidenote> money arising from the sale of any lands in the manner and tor the purposes provided in this Act which shall be in excess of the payments herein required and of the total drainage, charges assessed against such lands shall also be paid to the receiver before patent is issued.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That any unpatented lands sold in the manner and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">purebase of un patented entries.</p></sidenote> purposes mentioned in this Act may be patented to the purchaser thereof at any time after the expiration of the period of redemption provided for in the drainage laws under which it may be sold (there having been no redemption) upon the payment to the receiver of the fees mid commissions and the price mentioned in the preceding section, or so much thereof as has not already been paid by the entryman; and if the sum received at any such sale shall be in excess of the payments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of excess.</p></sidenote> herein required and of the drainage assessments mid cost of the sale, such excess shall be paid to the proper county officer for the benefit of and payment to the entryman. That unless the purchasers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forteitureif charges, etc., not paid in ninety days.</p></sidenote> of unentered lands shall within ninety days after the sale provided for in section three, pay to the proper receiver the fees, commissions and purchase price to which the United States may be entitled as provided in section five, and unless the purchasers of entered lands shall within ninety days after the right of redemption has expired make like payments as provided for in this section, any person baling the qualifications<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of subsequent purchaser.</p></sidenote> of a homestead entry man may pay to the proper receiver tor not more than one hundred and sixty acres of land for which such payment has not been made: First, the unpaid fees, commissions and purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of proceeds.</p></sidenote> price to which the United States may then be entitled: and, second, the sum at which the land was sold at the sale for drainage charges, and in addition thereto, if bid in by the State, interest on the amount bid by the Stale at the rate of seven per centum per annum from the date of such sale, and thereupon the person making such payment shall become subrogated to the rights of such purchaser to receive a patent for said land. When any payment is made to effect such subrogation the receiver shall transmit to the treasurer of the county where the land is situated the amount, at which the land was sold at the sale for drainage charges together with the interest paid thereon, if any, less <page identifier="/us/stat/35/171">171</page> any sum in excess of what may be due for such drainage charge, if the land when sold was unentered.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That a copy of all notices required by the drainage laws<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of appeal, etc.</p></sidenote> mentioned in this Act to be given to the owners or occupants of lands held in private ownership shall, as soon as such notices issue, be delivered to the register and receiver of the proper district land office in eases where unentered lands are affected thereby and to the entry men whose unpatented lands are included therein, and the United States and such entry men shall be given the same rights to be heard by petition, answer, remonstrance, appeal, or otherwise as are given to persons holding lands in private ownership: and all entrymen shall be given the same rights of redemption as are given to the owners of lands held in private ownership.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That hereafter homestead entries and final proofs may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewa Indian lands, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead entries, etc., may be made thereon.</p></sidenote> made upon all ceded Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota embraced in the withdrawal under the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department” (Thirty-fourth Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 352.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents, etc.</p></sidenote> at Large, page three hundred and twenty-five), and patents may issue thereon as in other homestead eases, upon the payment by the entryman of the price prescribed by law for such land and on entries on the ceded Red Lake Reservation in addition thereto the sum of three cents per acre to repay the cost, of the drainage survey thereof, which addition shall be disposed of the same as the other proceeds of said land.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 182: Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept and care for gifts presented to vessels of the Navy of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>182</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 171</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-20</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>182.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to accept and care for gifts presented to vessels of the Navy of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-20">May 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5617">S. 5617.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/126">Publie, No. 126.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of gifts presented to vessels of.</p></sidenote> Navy is hereby authorized to accept and care for such gifts in the form of silver, colors, books, or other articles of equipment or furniture as, in accordance with custom, maybe presented to vessels of the Navy by States, municipalities, or otherwise. The necessary expense<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expense.</p></sidenote> incident to the care, and preservation of gifts of this character which luwe been or may hereafter be accepted shall be defrayed from the appropriation “equipment of vessels.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 183: Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>183</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 171</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-21</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>183.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-21">May 21, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20345">H. R. 20345.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/127">Public, No. 127</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diplomatic and consular appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE A.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule A.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of ambassadors and ministers*<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambassadors,</p></sidenote> Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and seventy- live thousand dollars;<page identifier="/us/stat/35/172">172</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary</p></sidenote> Republic, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Nether lands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras. Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, ninety thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Denmark, Morocco, Norway, Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Roumania and Servia and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, Sweden, and Switzerland, at ten thousand dollars each, eighty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia. Ecuador, Haiti, Persia, and Siam, at ten thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minister resident and consul-general to the Dominican Republic, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ministers resident and consuls-general.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Agent and consul-general at Cairo, six thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, etc., Cairo.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary restriction.</p></sidenote> official receiving any other salary from the United States Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chargés d’affaires ad interim, forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chargés d’affaires.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, five hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretaries of embassies and legations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> , Brazil. Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy, Japan. Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of legations to the Argentine Republic. Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of legation to Bolivia. Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark. Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-six thou sand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Salvador and consul-general to San Salvador,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 101.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars; and the provision in the Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for a consul-general at San Salvador is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Siam and consul-general at Bangkok, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Greece and Montenegro, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Paraguay and Uruguay, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation and consul-general to Roumania and Servia, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Persia, who shall be an American student of the language of that country, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Great<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second secretaries.</p></sidenote> Britain, France, Germany. Italy. Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of embassy to Japan, two thousand dollars;<page identifier="/us/stat/35/173">173</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of legation to China, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of that court and country, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Mexico,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third secretaries.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Germany, and Russia, atone thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretary of embassy to Japan, who shall be an American student of the Japanese language, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the Turkish language, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction and transit pay.</p></sidenote> officers of the, United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as mit be necessary for the fiscal year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309.</p></sidenote> ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby appropriated.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>clerks at embassies and legations.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at embassies, etc.</p></sidenote> who, whenever hereafter appointed shall be citizens of the United States, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to embassy to Turkey, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chinese secretary, legation to China, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Japanese secretary and interpreter to embassy to Japan, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpreters in China.</p></sidenote> citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at one, thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: <i>And provided fart lier</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term el service.</p></sidenote> to the legations and consulates in China so long as his said services may be required within a period of live years;<page identifier="/us/stat/35/174">174</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> legation to China at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpretens in Japan.</p></sidenote> citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: <i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legation and consulates in Japan so long us his said services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> legation to Japan, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollarsp;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, thirty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on salaries.</p></sidenote> shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>clerks at the embassy at london.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two clerks at the embassy to Great Britain, one at the rate of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at embassy, London.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum and one at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>continssent expenses, foreign missions.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, foreign missions.</p></sidenote> stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, Sags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, compensation of harasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispatch agents.</p></sidenote> the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies mid legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies mid legations, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> officers in going to mid returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of live cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>steam launch for legation at constantinople.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hiring of steam launch for use of the embassy at Constantinople,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam launch, Turkey.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Japan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground rent.</p></sidenote> ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/175">175</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Spartel light.</p></sidenote> Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bringing home criminals.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home criminals.</p></sidenote> persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-saving testimonials.</p></sidenote> services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses under the neutrality act.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, neutrality act.</p></sidenote> neutrality Act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars or so much thereof as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., see. 291, p. 49.</p></sidenote> may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unforeseen emergencies.</p></sidenote> in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.</p></sidenote> Statutes, ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad.</p></sidenote> forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officere of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home remains of diplomatic and consular officers.</p></sidenote> and consular officers of the United States, including consular clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of weights and measures.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau of Weights and Measures.</p></sidenote> Weights and Measures for the year ending dune thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, in conformity with the terms of the convention of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 714.</p></sidenote> May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said Bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand throe hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/176">176</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Customs Tariffs Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, of sustaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1518.</p></sidenote> the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs traiffs, one thousand five hundred dollars; this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and eight, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mexican Water Boundary Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>elimination of bancos in the rio grande.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the expense of carrying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elimination, of bancos in</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1863.</p></sidenote> out the provisions of the convention of March twentieth, nineteen hundred and live, between the United States and Mexico, for the elimination of the bancos in the Rio Grande, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau for Repten sion of Slave Trade.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 917.</p></sidenote> bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African Continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international prison commission.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Prison Commission.</p></sidenote> International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote> American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>repairs to legation and consular premises.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to legations and consulates.</p></sidenote> consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, seven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>repaies to legation premises at constantinople.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the ambassador to Turkey to make, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Turkey.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., of legation.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of State, all needed repairs to and improvements in <page identifier="/us/stat/35/177">177</page> the embassy premises owned by the Government of the United States at Constantinople, Turkey, the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and nineteen cents is hereby appropriated, the same being the unexpended balance of the sum of one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of 1egation unexpended balance.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the diplomatic and consular Act approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 293.</p></sidenote> of legation premises at Constantinople: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum cost.</p></sidenote> cost shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international union of american republics.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">International Bureau of American Republics, fifty-four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of American Republics.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of receipts from other Republic, sales, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: <i>And provided further</i>, That the Public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly Bulletin.</p></sidenote> Printer be, and be is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the .Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies, for distribution by the Bureau every month during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1793.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seven of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international institute of agriculture.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the Quota of the United States for the support<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Institute of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1918.</p></sidenote> of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international railway congress.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the quota of the United States ns an adhering member of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Railway Congress.</p></sidenote> International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and nine, four hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international sanitary bureau.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Sanitary Bureau.</p></sidenote> the International Sanitary Bureau for the. year nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents,</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reports relative to the mork of the joint high commission.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint High Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation of report etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of State to utilize and carry out the work partly performed by the Joint High Commission of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight for the settlement of questions relating to Canada and for the settlement of questions relating to Newfoundland, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof us may be necessary, to become immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to protect the property and rights<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint John River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of ligation.</p></sidenote> of citizens of the United States interested in the navigation and use <page identifier="/us/stat/35/178">178</page> of the Saint John River in ease of litigation arising in the courts or tribunals of any foreign power, the Secretary of State in such case being authorized to appoint counsel in such courts or tribunals, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>boundary une, alaska and canada.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary, Alaska and Canada.</p></sidenote> the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, seventy-live thousand dollars, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international seismological association.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Seismological Association.</p></sidenote> the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, and the expenses of the United States delegate in attending the meetings of the commission, one thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarters for the student interpreters at the legation to japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Japan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, quarters tor student interpreters.</p></sidenote> embassy at Tokyo. Japan, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of necessary furniture for the quarters for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> student interpreters attached.to the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, six hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries and expenses, united states court for china.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States court for China.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> district attorney of the United States court for China, four thousand dollars; marshal of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; clerk of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; stenographer of the United States court for China, one thousand eight hundred dollars: for court expenses, seven thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> total, twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge and district attorney.</p></sidenote> sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed ten dollars per day for the judge and five dollars per day for the district attorney, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of deputy marshals at Canton and Tientsin, so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy marshals.</p></sidenote> much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of deputy clerks at Canton and Tientsin, so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy clerks.</p></sidenote> as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> China at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of necessary furniture for the premises to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> occupied by the United States court for China at Shanghai, one thousand eight hundred dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/179">179</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>boundary line, united states and canada.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the more effective demarcation and mantling of the boundary line<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary, United States and Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 2003.</p></sidenote> between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international congress on tuberculosis.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Government of the United States suitably to partiel-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Congress on tuberculosis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 568.</p></sidenote> pate in The International Congress on Tuberculosis, which will convene at Washington. September twenty-first to October twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>exchange of property at peking. china.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">China.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of property at Peking.</p></sidenote> to the Bank of Indo-China a certain lot of land situated at. Peking. China, and now belonging to the United States, said lot being designated as XYZ on the plat on tile, in the Department of State entitled “Plat showing the property situated at Peking, China, to be exchanged between the United States and the Bank of Indo-China,” and marked with file No. 3565 45-47; said lot XYZ being described by metes and bounds, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Starling from the point “o” of lot “C,” thence north eighty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> degrees fifty-eight minutes west fifty four feet to the point “p,” the place of beginning in describing lot “XYZ:” thence south four degrees thirty-six minutes west seventy-two feet to a point “r;” thence north seventy-seven degrees fifty-six minutes west sixty-seven feet to the point “a;” thence north twelve degrees four minutes east ten feet to the point “t;” thence south seventy-seven degrees fifty-six minutes east fifty feet to the point “u;” thence north twelve degrees four minutes east seven feet to the point “v;” thence south eighty-five degrees twenty-four minutes east six feet to the point “ w;” thence north four degrees thirty-six minutes east fifty-four feet to the point “y;” thence south eighty-one degrees fifty-eight minutes east ten feet to the point “p.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The said lot to be transferred to the said Bank of Indo-China in exchange for certain lots of land situated at Peking, China, and now belonging to the said bank, said lots being designated as A. B. and C on the said plat and described by metes and bounds as follows;</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>lot a.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lot A.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The starting point marked “a” on the plat is the intersection of the west side of the west wall of the house built and formerly owned by H. G. Squiers, and being situated upon the south line of Legation street. Peking, China, and the west side of the west wall being one hundred and twenty-eight feet six inches, more or loss, east of the east side of the main entrance to the compound of the Banque de 1’Indo Chine, and one hundred and ninety-one feet six inches, more or less, west of the intersection of the north line of Canadal street with the south line of Legation street, with the south face of the present wall running east and west on the south line of Legation street, said wall being the boundary wall on the north side of the property of the Banque de l’Indo Chine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beginning with the point “a,” thence south two degrees fifty-two minutes west ninety-six feet to the point “b;” thence west one degree forty-four minutes north four feet six inches to the point “c,” this <page identifier="/us/stat/35/180">180</page> being the northeast corner of the house now occupied by the comprador of the Banque de l’Indo Chine; thence north two degrees fifty-two minutes east ninety-six feet to the point “d;” thence cast to the starting point “a.”</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>lot b.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lot B.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Starting from “a,” thence south two degrees fifty-two minutes west one hundred and fourteen feet to the point “e,” which is the. place of beginning in describing lot “Β;” thence cast four degrees thirty-six minutes south twenty feet to the point “f;” thence south eleven degrees thirty minutes west thirty-six feet to the point “g:” thence west four degrees thirty-six minutes north five feet to the point “h;” thence north eleven degrees thirty minutes east two feet to the point “j;” thence west twelve degrees thirty-eight minutes north nine feet to the point “k;” thence north two degrees thirty-two minutes east thirty-two feet to the point “e.”</p>
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<heading>lot c.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lot C.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Starting from the point “ h,” thence south eight degrees two minutes west forty-four feet to the point “I,” which is the place of beginning in describing lot “C;” thence south eight degrees two minutes west sixteen feet to the point “ m;” thence west eight degrees two minutes north twenty feet to the point “n;” thence north eight degrees two minutes east sixteen feet to the point “ο;” thence east eight degrees two minutes south twenty feet to the point “I,” as described in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-one, Sixtieth Congress, first session.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE B.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule B.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries, consular service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of consuls-general and consuls, as provided in the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 101.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 99.</p></sidenote> approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “Ah Act to amend an Art entitled ‘An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States’ approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six,” as follows: Consuls-general, three hundred arid three thousand dollars; consuls, seven hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars; in all, one million and thirty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of five consular inspectors, at five thousand dollars each,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular inspectors.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of consular inspectors.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expensed.</p></sidenote> consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE C.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule C.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of consular assistants.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular assistants.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The consular clerks heretofore provided for by law shall, from and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular clerks, designation changed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., 1704, p. 304, amended.</p></sidenote> after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eight, be styled consular assistants.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For thirteen consular assistants as provided for by law, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional assistants.</p></sidenote> thousand three hundred dollars; seven additional consular assistant, subject to the same provisions of law as the above thirteen, seven thousand dollars; total, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/181">181</page></p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at consulates.</p></sidenote> direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters at consulates.</p></sidenote> Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter at Tangier, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter at Seoul, five hundred dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters guards, etc.</p></sidenote> Persia, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of marshals for consular courts.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p></sidenote> eleven thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of prisons for american convicts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular prisons.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bangkok.</p></sidenote> Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shanghai.</p></sidenote> in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paving for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keeping prisoners.</p></sidenote> Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rents, etc., Turkey.</p></sidenote> keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prison keeper, Korea.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>relief and protection of american seamen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of American seamen.</p></sidenote> shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign hospital at cape town.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign hospitals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Town.</p></sidenote> foreign hospital), at Cape Town, fifty dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/182">182</page></p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign hospitals at panama.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama.</p></sidenote> Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>seamen’s institute at kobé.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at Kobé,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Semen’s Institute, Kobé.</p></sidenote> to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses, united states consulates.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, consulates.</p></sidenote> books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty per cent of the officers’ salary), postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 21, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 184: To establish a United States court at Jackson, in the eastern district of Kentucky.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>184</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>184.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To establish a United States court at. Jackson, in the eastern district of Kentucky,</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-22">May 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/14382">H. R. 14382.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/128">Public, No. 128.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section nine of “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kentucky eastern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 783.</p></sidenote> Act to divide Kentucky into two judicial districts,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act establishing a United States court at Catlettsburg, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 58 amended.</p></sidenote> eastern district of Kentucky,” approved March tenth, nineteen Hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the regular terms of the circuit and district courts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of courts, western district.</p></sidenote> of the United States for the western district of Kentucky shall be held at the following times and places, namely: At Louisville, beginning on the second Monday in March and the second Monday in October in each year; at Owensboro, beginning on the fourth Monday in November and the first Monday in May in each year; at Paducah, beginning on the third Monday in April and the third Monday in November in each year; at Bowling Green, beginning on the third Monday in May and the second Monday in December in each year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That the regular terms of the circuit and district courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of courts, eastern district.</p></sidenote> United States for the eastern district of Kentucky shall be held at the following times and places, namely; At Jackson, beginning on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term at Jackson added.</p></sidenote> first Monday in March and the third Monday in September in each year; at Frankfort, beginning on the second Monday in March and the fourth Monday in September in each year; at Covington, beginning on the first Monday in April and the third Monday in October in each year; at Richmond, beginning on the fourth Monday in April and the second Monday in November in each year; at London, beginning on the second Monday in May and the fourth Monday in November in each year; at Catlettsburg, beginning on the fourth Monday <page identifier="/us/stat/35/183">183</page> in May and the second Monday in December in each year, and at such other times and places as may hereafter be provided by law.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That suitable rooms and accommodations are to be furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary quarters at Jackson, free.</p></sidenote> for holding the courts at Jackson, free of expense to the Government of the United States, until such time as a Federal building shall be erected there.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 185: To provide for participation by the United States in an international exposition to be held at Tokyo, Japan, in nineteen hundred and twelve.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>185</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>185.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for participation by the United States in an international exposition to be held at Tokyo, Japan, in nineteen hundred and twelve.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-22">May 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4639">S. 4639.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/129">Public, No. 129</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Japanese exposition.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to accept the invitation extended by the Imperial Japanese Government to the Government of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States to participate in.</p></sidenote> States to participate in the Great National Exposition to be held in Tokyo, Japan, from April first to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve. In accepting said invitation it is hereby declared to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection of suitable buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> be the purpose of the Government of the United States to participate in said Japanese National Exposition by erecting suitable buildings and making an appropriate exhibit of arts, industries, manufactures, and products of the soil and mines and as far as practicable of the functions of the General Government of the United States and an exhibit of such other articles as the President of the United States may direct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such participation, buildings, exhibits,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum cost.</p></sidenote> and all expenses connected therewith, including salaries, clerical, and other services and transportation of persons and exhibits shall not exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized, by and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of three commissioners, general.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers find duties.</p></sidenote> with the ml vice and consent of the Senate, to appoint three commissioners general who shall, under the direction of the Secretary of State, take such steps as are necessary to ascertain the general plan and scope of the said National Exposition, the character, size, and cost of the buildings to be erected by the United States, and the extent and character of the exhibit authorized hereunder that would best serve the interests of the United States and its citizens, and would be best adapted to illustrate the growth and development of the country and the character of our people. That thereafter, and as soon as practicable, said commissioners shall report fully to the President and to Congress the result of such investigation together with their recommendations and the estimated cost of said participation in said exposition within the foregoing authorization: and it shall also be the duty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to President and Congress.</p></sidenote> of the commissioners-general to report to the President for transmission to Congress at the beginning of each regular session a detailed statement of all expenditures incurred hereunder. That one of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> commissioners-general shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of eight thousand dollars per annum; that the other two commissioners-general shall receive as compensation for their services from and after January first, nineteen hundred and nine, two thousand dollars per annum for the first year and five thousand dollars per annum thereafter: together with the actual traveling expenses of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> of said commissioners-general, including sleeping-car service and a per diem in lieu of subsistence of five dollars when actually traveling in the discharge of their duties as said commissioners-general. That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary to commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> the President shall also appoint a secretary at a compensation of five thousand dollars per annum, together with his actual traveling expenses, including sleeping-car service and a per diem in lieu of subsistence of five dollars when actually traveling in the discharge of his <page identifier="/us/stat/35/184">184</page> duties as such secretary, who shall aetas disbursing agent and who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To act as disbursing agent.</p></sidenote> shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him from time to time by the commissioners-general, and who shall render his accounts at least quarterly to the proper accounting officers of the Treasury of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> the United States, and shall give bond in such sumas the Secretary of the Treasury may require. And the said commissioners-general,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical force, etc.</p></sidenote> subject to the approval of the Secretary of Stato, shall appoint from time to time such clerical and other assistants as may be necessary and as may hereafter be appropriated for in connection with the preparation of the plan and other necessary services as may be required in connection with the participation herein authorized.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That upon the request of the Secretary of State the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government exhibit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free transportation on transports.</p></sidenote> of War is hereby authorized to furnish free transportation on Government transports from San Francisco to Japan and return of all Government exhibits and for such officials or employees connected with the commission or in charge of any or all Government exhibits.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 908.</p></sidenote> out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the salaries and all other expenses herein authorized and incurred in ascertaining the general plan of said National Exposition and the preparation and report to Congress of the plan and extent of our proposed participation therein and the estimate of the amount necessary to meet the expense thereof during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, to be immediately available.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 186: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>186</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 184</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-22</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>186.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-22">May 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16882">H. R. 16882.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/130">Public, No. 130.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative, executive and judicial expenses appropriations.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Senators, six hundred and ninety thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Senators.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage of Senators, forty-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the service of the Senate, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Vice-President</inline>: For Secretary to the Vice-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vice-President’s office.</p></sidenote> President, four thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain</inline>: For Chaplain of the Senate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> , one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Secretary</inline>: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, seven hundred dollars; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, three thousand dollars, and one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars addi- <page identifier="/us/stat/35/185">185</page> tional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at three thousand dollars each; principal clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; executive clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; keeper of stationery, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery loom, one thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Document Room</inline>: For superintendent of the document room (George<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Document room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote> H. Boyd), three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clerks and Messengers to Committees</inline>: For clerk of printing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and messengers to committees.</p></sidenote> records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, three thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; messenger, nine hundred dollars ; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four bundled and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affaira, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; messenger, nine hundred dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the Committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories. Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/186">186</page> Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Enrolled Bills, Geological Survey, Railroads, Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Philippines, Cuban Relations, Interoceanic Canals, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Expenditures in the Department of State, Manufactures, University of the United States. Canadian Relations, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">clerks at 82,100 a year.</p></sidenote> at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage and Mines and Mining, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twenty-two clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper</inline>: For Sergeant-at-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants.</p></sidenote> Arms and Doorkeeper, five thousand dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messenger’s, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two messengers on the floor of the Senate, at two thousand dollars each: messenger to official reporters’ room, to be selected by the official reporters, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; storekeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; four carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two telephone operators, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone page, seven hundred and twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; superintendent of press gallery, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of press gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred arid forty dollars each; twenty-four laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-eight laborers, at seven hundred and twenty doliare each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster, etc.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">Post-Office</inline>: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Folding Room</inline>: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred doliare; foreman in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars: nine folders, atone thousand dollars each; fourteen folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and one page, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineer, etc.</p></sidenote> For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars <page identifier="/us/stat/35/187">187</page> each; eight conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; machinist and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; machinist and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; three firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, six hundred and sixty dollars; one attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For thirty-two annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to Senators.</p></sidenote> committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, fifty-seven thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Contingent Expenses, Namely</inline>: For stationery and newspapers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery and newspapers.</p></sidenote> for Senators and the President of the Senate, including four thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply of postage stamps for sale to Senators, fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> for carrying the mails, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for folding, two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, oil, etc.</p></sidenote> electrical apparatus, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of furniture, eight thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollar’s.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, one hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maltby Building.</p></sidenote> thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit, and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, hut not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporting debates.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, Mallby building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage warehouse.</p></sidenote> three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>capitol police.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol Police.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; three lieutenants, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars each; two special officers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and sixty-seven privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/188">188</page><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>congressional directory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Directory.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.</p></sidenote> Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, two million nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, and the salary of each of the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands shall be the same as that of the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses of Resident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> Commissioners, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the service of the House of Representatives, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Speaker</inline>: For Secretary to the Speaker, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Speaker’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars; clerk to the Speaker’s table, three thousand six hundred dollars, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain</inline>: For Chaplain of the House, one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Clerk</inline>: For Clerk of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk of House, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, four thousand dollars; journal clerk, four thousand dollars; stenographer to journal clerk, nine hundred dollars; two reading clerks, at four thousand dollars each; tally clerk, and enrolling clerk, at three thousand dollars each; file clerk, three thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, three thousand dollars; printing and bill clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant to chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; distributing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; index clerk, two thousand three hundred dollars; assistant enrolling clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; docket clerk, assistant disbursing clerk, resolution and petition clerk, printing and document clerk, assistant journal clerk, stationery clerk, and assistant stationery clerk, at two thousand dollars each; librarian, assistant enrolling clerk, and superintendent clerk’s document room, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; document and hill clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant to printing and bill clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, assistant in Clerk’s office, assistant in disbursing office, two assistant librarians, and five clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; assistant file clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant index clerk, and one special employee in clerk’s document room, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; document clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant telegraph operator, authorized and named in resolution adopted January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred dollars; three telephone operators, at nine hundred dollars each; three <page identifier="/us/stat/35/189">189</page> telephone operatore, at seventy-five dollars per month each during the session; one night telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for services of a substitute telephone operator when required, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, four hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant in document room, and one messenger in file room, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant in library, and two messengers in disbursing office, at nine hundred dollars each; one page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; attendant in charge of bathroom, one thousand dollars; three laborers in the bathroom, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three laborers, page in enrolling room, and janitor in the library, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger in chief clerk’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor in file room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineers, etc.</p></sidenote> For chief engineer, one thousand seven hundred doliare; three assistant engineers, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; six conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; five firemen, at nine hundred dollars each: laborer, one thousand dollars; three laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clerks and Janitors To Committees</inline>: For clerk to the Committee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and Janitors to committees.</p></sidenote> on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent: assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Invalid Pensions, and Post-Offices and Post-Roads, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerks to Committees on Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Census, Claims. District of Columbia, Elections Numbers One, Two, and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Immigration and Naturalization, Indian Affairs, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Insular Affaire, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs. Patents, Pensions, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, Revision of the Laws, Territories, War Claims, Enrolled Bills, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two thousand dollars each; additional clerk to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, one thousand eight hundred dollars: assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/190">190</page> For janitors for rooms of the Committees on Accounts, Agriculture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors.</p></sidenote> Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections Numbers One, Two. and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Pensions, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Territories, and War Claims, and one for Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, index clerk’s office, and guard room, twenty-eight in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; janitor to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, one thousand dollars; and said janitors shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment etc.</p></sidenote> and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an assistant, clerk to each of the Committees on Military Affairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant, clerks.</p></sidenote> and Naval Affairs, at six dollars per day each during the session, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ten clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day during the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to committees, session.</p></sidenote> session, six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant-at-Arms</inline>: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the House<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">sergeant-at-Arms, deputy, etc.</p></sidenote> of Representatives, five thousand dollars; Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; financial clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred dollars; deputy sergeant-at-arms in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; and for hire of horse and wagon for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Doorkeeper</inline>: For Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doorkeeper, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; hire of horses and wagon, feed, and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Assistant Doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; Department messenger, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one special employee, John T. Chancey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to Doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand five hundred dollars; twenty-five messengers, at one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers.</p></sidenote> thousand one hundred dollars each; messenger to the speakers table, one thousand two hundred dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers.</p></sidenote> laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers in the water-closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one laborer, six hundred dollars; ten laborers, known as cloakroom men, two at seventy dollars per month each and eight at fifty dollars per month each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of folding room, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of folding room, etc.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty <page identifier="/us/stat/35/191">191</page> dollars; thirty-one folder’s, at eight hundred dollars each; two night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two drivers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; “two chief pages, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of telephone, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; horse and buggy for Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of document loom, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of document room, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand live hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk in document room, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one janitor, eight hundred and forty dollars; for the following for service in old Library portion of the Capitol (transferred from Office of Superintendent of the Capitol) two attendants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, and one watchman, nine hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand and five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joel Grayson.</p></sidenote> nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following minority employees authorized and named in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minority employees.</p></sidenote> resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December second, nineteen hundred and seven, namely; One special employee, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two special messengers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; and one special chief page, nine hundred dollars, and seven hundred dollars additional for services as pair clerk; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the assistant Department messenger authorized and named in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special employees.</p></sidenote> the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to the conference minority of the House of Representatives, two thousand dollars; and for assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue employment and for compensation of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives February sixth, nineteen hundred, at three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, one thousand four hundred and live dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of the person named in the resolution of the House adopted June fifth, nineteen hundred, as a laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, at seventy dollars per month, eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted February seventh, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Successors to any of the employees provided for in the eight preceding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments.</p></sidenote> paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Postmaster</inline>: For Postmaster, three thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote> assistant postmaster, two thousand dollars; thirteen messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fourteen messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, from December first to March thirty-first, inclusive, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/192">192</page> four months, five thousand six hundred dollars; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Official, Reporters</inline>: For six official reporters of the proceedings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p></sidenote> and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For janitor for rooms of official reporters of debates, seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitor.</p></sidenote> and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Stenographers to Committees</inline>: For four stenographers to committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stenographers to committees.</p></sidenote> at five thousand dollars each; assistant stenographer to committees, one thousand six hundred dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“During the session” to mean 115 days.</p></sidenote> paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and fifteen days from December seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, both inclusive.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Clerk Hire. Members and Delegates</inline>: To pay each Member<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.</p></sidenote> and Delegate for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in monthly installments, five hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 31, p. 6.</p></sidenote> payment under this appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Contingent Expenses, Namely</inline>: For wrapping paper, pasteboard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding material.</p></sidenote> paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved Januar<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 624.</p></sidenote> twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, thirty-eight thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and oil.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items, etc.</p></sidenote> exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> including five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the Postmaster, two hundred and fifty dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> for the Clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; for the Sergeant-at-Arms, three hundred dollars; and for the Doorkeeper, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>library of congress.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General administration: For Librarian of Congress, six thousand dollars; chief assistant librarian, four thousand dollars; chief clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Librarian, etc.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/193">193</page> two thousand five hundred dollars; Librarian’s secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk (assistant to chief clerk), one thousand dollars; two stenographers and typewriters, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight, hundred and forty’ dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mail and delivery; For assistant in charge, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mall and delivery.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars: two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Order and accession: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Order and accession.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; assistant, five hundred and twenty dollars; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Catalogue, classification, and shelf: For chief of division, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catalogue, classification, and shell.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; chief classifier, two thousand dollars; four assistants, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven assistants, atone thousand five hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twelve assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four assistants, at eight hundred dollars each: thirteen assistante, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; ten assistante, at five hundred and forty dollars each: four assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Binding: For assistant, in charge, one thousand four hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding.</p></sidenote> assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bibliography: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bibliography.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; mid one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading rooms, etc.</p></sidenote> For superintendent of reading room, three thousand dollars; two assistante, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistants, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant (reading room for the blind), one thousand two hundred dollars; five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Senate reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, seven hundred and twenty dollars: two attendants, cloak rooms, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Toner Library, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Washingtonian Library, nine hundred dollars; four messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; evening service, five assistante, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Periodical (including evening service): For chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; chief assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; three assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty <page identifier="/us/stat/35/194">194</page> dollars each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical rending room to be open in the evenings, two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Documents: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Documents.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, three hundred anti sixty dollars; in all, six thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manuscript: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manuscripts.</p></sidenote> assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, live thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maps and charts: B or chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps and charte.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Music: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistent, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Music.</p></sidenote> thousand four hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Prints: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistant, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prints.</p></sidenote> thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Smithsonian deposit: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian deposit.</p></sidenote> assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Congressional Reference Library: For custodian, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Reference Library.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; assist· ant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, five thousand and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Law Library: For law librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law library.</p></sidenote> two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; messenger, nine hundred dollars; assistant for evening service, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Copyright Office</inline>, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copyright office.</p></sidenote> Register of copyrights, three thousand dollars; assistant register of copyrights, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and chief of bookkeeping division, two thousand dollars; chief of application division, two thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four clerks, atone thousand six hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two clerks, at six hundred dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; porter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seventy-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Distribution of Card Indexes</inline>: For service in connection with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card indexes.</p></sidenote> distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for freight charges, expressage, and traveling expenses connected with such distribution, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/195">195</page><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary Services</inline>: For special and temporary service, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary, etc., service.</p></sidenote> extra special services of regular employees, at the discretion of the Librarian, to continue available until expended, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sunday Opening</inline>: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> for reference use from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase of Library of Congress</inline>: For purchase of books for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of Library.</p></sidenote> the Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, one hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law books, etc.</p></sidenote> the direction of the Chief Justice, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p></sidenote> payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, five thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses</inline>: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Library, stationery, supplies, and all stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein, seven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Indexes, Digests, and Compilations of Law</inline>: To continue the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indexes, etc., of law.Vol. 84, p. 1399.</p></sidenote> preparation of the new index to the Statutes at Large, in accordance with the plan approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress, and to prepare such other law indexes, digests, and compilations of law as may be required, by Congress for official use, namely: For one assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, nine hundred dollars: two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five hundred dollars as additional compensation to the law librarian; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Custody, Cake, and Maintenance of Library Building and Grounds:</inline><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of buildings and grounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> For superintendent of the Library building and grounds, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant of watch, one thousand dollars; sixteen watchmen; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; painter, nine hundred dollars; foreman of laborers, nine hundred dollars; fourteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four check hoys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; mistress of charwomen, four hundred and twenty-live dollars: assistant mistress of charwomen, three hundred dollars; forty-five charwomen; chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars: one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician. one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant electrician, one thousand dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred dollars; two wiremen, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollars; three elevator conductors, at seven hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/196">196</page> twenty dollars each; nine firemen; six skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: in all, seventy-six thousand nine hundred arid five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra services of employees and additional employees under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, two thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, including partitions, screens shelving, and electrical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> work pertaining thereto, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the construction, mechanical equipment, electric lighting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelving for bound newspapers, etc.</p></sidenote> and roofing of a stack of shelving for bound newspapers and books in the southeast court of the Library building, to cost not exceeding three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Files, House of Representatives</inline>: To move the tiles of the House<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of files, House of Representatives.</p></sidenote> of Representatives from the Library of Congress to the House Office Building and construct the necessary equipment therefor, six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BOTANIC GARDEN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent, etc.</p></sidenote> For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and improvements.</p></sidenote> For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EXECUTIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of the President.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of the Vice-President.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to the following in the office of the President of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the President, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the United States: Secretary, six thousand dollars; two assistant secretaries, at three thousand dollars each; executive clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; executive clerk and disbursing officer, two thousand dollars; seven clerks, at two thousand dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class four, who shall be a telegrapher; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief doorkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five doorkeepers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three doorkeepers, at. one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; five messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; watchman, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That employees of the Executive Departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detail of employees.</p></sidenote> and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/197">197</page>For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, harness, expenses of stable, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, twenty-live thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil Service commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Commissioner, acting as president of the Commission, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners, examiners, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; two Commissioners, at four thousand dollars each; chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief examiner, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three examiners, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; twenty-four clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; twenty one clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one telephone switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; one elevator conductor, seven bundled and twenty dollars; three laborers; and three messenger hoys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Field Force</inline>: For one examiner, two thousand four hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examiners, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> two examiners, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; four examiners, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Rural Carrier Examining Board</inline>: For one chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural carrier examining board.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; three clerks, atone thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Departments forbidden.</p></sidenote> That no detail of clerks or other employees from the Executive Department or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made foror during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. The Civil Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of employees.</p></sidenote> Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> acting under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, ten thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of state.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the Secretary of State, twelve thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; two assistant solicitors of the Department of State, at three thousand dollars each; law clerk, and assistant, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at two thousand five hundred dollars and one thousand five hundred dollars, respectively; two chiefs of bureaus, at two <page identifier="/us/stat/35/198">198</page> thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; six chiefs of bureaus, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; two translators, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; additional to Chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Secretary of State, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fifteen clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of case three; twenty-three clerks of class two; thirty-six clerks of class one. two of whom shall be telegraph operators; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; five messengers; twenty-two assistant messengers; messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one telephone switch-board operator; one assistant telephone switch-board operator; carpenter, one thousand dollars; for emergency clerical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency services.</p></sidenote> services, to be expended by the Secretary of State in his discretion, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie necessary; in all, two hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of State</inline>: For stationery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> furniture, fixtures, and repairs and material for repairs, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p></sidenote> For an additional amount for the foregoing purposes, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> library, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lithographing.</p></sidenote> press, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, and subsistence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miseellaneous.</p></sidenote> of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair of wagons, carriages, and harness, rent of stable. telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and other items not included in the foregoing; in all, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of building in the District of Columbia for the use of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Department of State, three thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at five thousand dollars each; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; examiner, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four messengers; and one laborer; in all, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy doll a is.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of chief clerk and superintendent; For chief clerk, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> three hundred dollars as superintendent of Treasury building, three thousand dollars ; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and fixtures for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant inspector of electric-light plants and draftsman, one thousand eight bund red dollars; six clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, as bookkeeper, one hundred dollars; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two ; three clerks of class one (one as librarian) (decrease of one transferred to offices of disbursing clerks); one clerk, nine hundred dollars (in lieu of one clerk at same salary transferred from Office of Director of the Mint); one clerk, one thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/199">199</page> dollars ; live assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telephone operator and assistant telegraph operator, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, atone thousand dollars each; six elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen; five firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; coal passer, five hundred dollars; locksmith and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen.</p></sidenote> two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; sixty-four watchmen ; foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers.</p></sidenote> male, eight hundred and forty dollars; wireman, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, male, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-three laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; ten laborers, at five hundred dollars each; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; eighty-seven charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cabinet shop.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; ten cabinetmakers, at one thousand dollars each; cabinetmaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; carpenter’s helper, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the Winder<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winder Building.</p></sidenote> Building: Engineer, one thousand dollars; three firemen; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; and eight charwomen. For the Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cox Building.</p></sidenote> New York avenue: Three watchmen-firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer. For the following now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for repairs of the Treasury building: One plumber, one thousand one hundred dollars; one painter, one thousand one hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety-five thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bookkeeping and warrants division.</p></sidenote> thousand live hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand seven hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two principal bookkeepers, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; twelve bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, ninety thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of customs: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs division.</p></sidenote> assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and two assistant messengers; in all, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of appointments: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment division.</p></sidenote> assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; executive clerk, two thousand dollars; law and bond clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; four clerks of class three (including one transferred from division of mail and files); five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, forty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of public moneys: For chief of division, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public moneys division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/200">200</page> clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of loans and currency: For chief of division, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loans and currency division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; additional to two clerks of class four as receiving clerk of bonds, and bookkeeper, one hundred dollars each; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen expert money counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; nine laborers; superintendent of paper room, one thousand two hundred dollars; paper cutter, at three dollars per day; paper counter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; forty-three paper counters and laborers, at six hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter division.</p></sidenote> two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; law and contract clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of printing and stationery: For chief of division, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and stationery division.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; throe clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three messengers; one assistant messenger; two laborers: foreman of bindery, at six dollars per day; four binders, at four dollars per day each; and two sewers and folders, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, forty thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mails and files division.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; registered mail and bond clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class two; additional to one clerk of class two, in charge of documents, two hundred dollars; two clerks of class one; one mail messenger; one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; one laborer; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special agents.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each ; and one messenger; in all, twelve thousand five hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing clerks.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one (including one transferred from office of chief clerk); one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; one laborer; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Supervising Architect</inline>: In the construction branch<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Architect, superintendents, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, five thousand dollars: assistant to Supervising Architect, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of drafting and constructing division, three thousand dollars; superintendent of computing division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of law and records division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of accounts division, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of inspection division, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division of equipment, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/201">201</page> two thousand five hundred dollars; chief mechanical and electrical engineer, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; six clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; contract clerk, two thousand dollars; foreman duplicating gallery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four technical clerks, who shall also be skilled stenographers and typewriters, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four inspectors, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each: one inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five messengers; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, eighty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed only in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for the construction of public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations: <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>, Limit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> <i></i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Comptroller of the Treasury</inline>: For Comptroller of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Comptroller’s office.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, five thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; eight law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions, one at two thousand one hundred dollars and seven at two thousand dollars each; six expert accountants, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eight clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand four hundred dollars; one typewriter-copyist, one thousand dollars; two messengers; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all. seventy-one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Treasury Department</inline>: For Auditor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> four thousand dollars: Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; seventeen clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirty-one clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, one hundred and fifty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for War Department</inline>: For Auditor, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; twenty-four clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; fifty clerks of class three; seventy-one clerks of class two; eighty-three clerks of class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: one messenger; five assistant messengers; and twelve laborers; in all, three hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Navy Department</inline>: For Auditor, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four; nineteen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; twenty-three clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; one messenger: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/202">202</page> one assistant messenger; and three laborers; in all. one hundred and forty-six thousand three hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Interior Department</inline>: For Auditor, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class three; twenty-eight clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; four skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six laborers: and one female laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote> Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks of class four: one clerk of class four (special examiner); seventeen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one: live clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; and three laborers; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department</inline> : For Auditor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote> four thousand dollars; two Deputy Auditors, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; eight chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; forty clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; seventy-two clerks of class three; ninety-one clerks of class two; one hundred and twenty-one clerks of class one; one hundred and four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; eighty-one clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: fifteen female skilled laborers, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; sixty-nine skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fifteen female operatives, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fifty-three skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; fifteen female operatives, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight messengers; twelve assistant messengers; six watchmen; twenty-four male laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: and twenty-one charwomen; in all, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Treasurer</inline>: For Treasurer of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote> six thousand dollars; Assistant Treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, three thousand two hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each: vault clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand one hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; one vault clerk, Bond Division, two thousand dollars; clerk for the Treasurer, one thousand eight hundred dollars: twenty-four clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three; sixteen clerks of class two: coin clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; thirty-one clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty expert counters, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; sixty-five expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each: mail messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/203">203</page> seven messengers; six assistant messengers; thirty-one laborers; six messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; eleven char women; foreman pressman, one thousand live hundred dollars; thirteen pressmen, atone thousand four hundred dollars each; forty separators, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; twenty feeders, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; compositor and pressman, one thousand six hundred dollars: machinist, one thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption of national currency.</p></sidenote> reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant teller, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; twenty-five clerks of class one: fifteen expert counters, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven expert counters, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-one expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; eleven expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and three charwomen; in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to canceling, etc., machines.</p></sidenote> Treasurer of the United States, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Register of the Treasury</inline>: For Register, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register’s office.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars: Assistant Register, two thousand five hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four: six clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-one clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; twelve counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five laborers; in all, eighty-two thousand and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Comptroller of the Currency</inline>; For Comptroller<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Comptroller of the Currency.</p></sidenote> of the Currency, five thousand dollars; Deputy Comptroller, three thousand five hundred dollars; Deputy Comptroller, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; thirteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each: thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National currency expenses.</p></sidenote> national banks), namely: For superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand dollars; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one fireman; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special examinations, etc.</p></sidenote> plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/204">204</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue</inline>: For Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.</p></sidenote> of Internal Revenue, six thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, four thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chemist, two thousand live hundred dollars; one first assistant chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one second assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one third assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; one fourth assistant chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars; two heads of di visions, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; seven heads of divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-eight clerks of class four: twenty-four clerks of class three; thirty-six clerks of class two; thirty-six clerks of class one; thirty-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each: forty-four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; nineteen assistant messengers; and twenty laborers; in all, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand two hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one stamp agent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one stamp<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamp agents.</p></sidenote> agent, nine hundred dollars; and one counter, nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Life-Saving Service</inline>: For General Superintendent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p></sidenote> the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars, and live hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant general superintendent, two thousand live hundred dollars; principal clerk, two thousand dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; live clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Engraving and Printing</inline>: For Director of Bureau,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Engraving and Printing.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars; assistant director, three, thousand five hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand live hundred dollars: stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one: seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; disbursing agent, two thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper, one thousand dollars; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, two thousand dollars; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eleven clerks, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; nine attendants, at six hundred dollars each; two helpers, at nine hundred dollars each; three helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two helpers, at six hundred dollars each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars: two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; forty-six watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; nineteen day charwomen, at four hundred dollars each; fifty-two morning and evening charwomen, at three hundred dollars each; foreman of laborers, nine hundred dollars: four laborers; seventy-five laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred thousand three hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on payment for services.</p></sidenote> shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Secret Service Division</inline>: For one chief, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secret service division.</p></sidenote> assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three: two <page identifier="/us/stat/35/205">205</page> clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one attendant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Director of the Mint</inline>: For Director, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Director of the Mint.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; examiner, and computer, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assayer, two thousand two hundred dollars; adjuster of accounts, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; assistant in laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, thirty thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight.</p></sidenote> between mints and assay offices, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the Director, namely; For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including text-books on metallurgical processes, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations, etc.</p></sidenote> of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Precious metals statistics.</p></sidenote> consumption of the precious metals in the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Surgeon-General of Public Health and Marine-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health And Marine Hospital Service.</p></sidenote> Hospital Service</inline>: For Surgeon-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; private secretary to the Surgeon-General, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks of class two, one of whom shall be translator; six clerks of class one; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: one messenger; three assistant messengers; and two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department</inline>: For the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchasing material for binding important records, six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For newspapers, newspaper clippings, law books, city directories,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newspapers, etc.</p></sidenote> and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings, forty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/206">206</page> For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice.</p></sidenote> the Post-Office Department, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of file holders and tile cases, four thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Files.</p></sidenote> .</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">tor purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lights.</p></sidenote> gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye. nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposals. and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department. payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shelving and transferring records and files from and to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferring flies, etc.</p></sidenote> Treasury building and its annexes in Washington, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Numbering machines, etc.</p></sidenote> machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpets, etc.</p></sidenote> rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Office of Auditor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Auditor For Poet-Office Departmeat.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent Expenses.</p></sidenote> For the Post-Office Department, Namely</inline> : For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair and exchange of typewriting machines, of which not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five dollars may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding two hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carpets and repairs, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, and repair of adding machines, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seven thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/207">207</page></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>collecting internal revenue.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting internal revenue.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, and deputy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collectors, etc.</p></sidenote> collectors, and surveyors, and clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, two million and seventy-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use for witness fees forbidden.</p></sidenote> of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trials 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.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, gaugers, etc.</p></sidenote> law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, two million four hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 825.</p></sidenote> service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, and for the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denatured alcohol expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 217.</p></sidenote> withdrawal from bond, tax free, of domestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing materials,” as amended by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven. And for the employment of such additional force of chemists, internal-revenue agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, laborers, and other assistants as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem proper and necessary to the prompt and efficient operation and enforcement of this law, and for the purchase of locks, seals, weighing beams, gauging instruments, and for all necessary expenses incident to the proper execution of this law, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>independent treasury.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Baltimore</inline>: For assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant treasurers offices.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore.</p></sidenote> treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; bookkeeper and three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Boston</inline>: For assistant treasurer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars; chief clerk, and paying teller, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: receiving teller, two thousand dollars; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant receiving teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; second bookkeeper, one thousand four hundred dollars; specie clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant specie clerk, and money clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; redemption clerk, and one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, eight hundred dollars: messenger and chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; three watchmen and janitors, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, forty-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Chicago</inline>: For assistant treasurer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; vault <page identifier="/us/stat/35/208">208</page> clerk, two thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; silver and redemption teller, change teller, and receiving teller, at two thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant paying teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; one chief coin, coupon, and currency clerk, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three coin, coupon, and currency clerks, at one thousand live hundred dollars each; six clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one detective and hall man, one thousand one hundred dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars: janitor, six hundred dollars; and three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy-two thousand six hundred and fifty-dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Cincinnati</inline>: For assistant treasurer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cincinnati.</p></sidenote> four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars: vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk and stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars: clerk and watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; night watchman, six hundred dollars: day watchman, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At New Orleans</inline>: For assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans.</p></sidenote> treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; receiving teller, and paying teller, at two thousand dollars each; vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars: two bookkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; coin clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; porter and messenger, five hundred dollars; day watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; typewriter and stenographer, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At New York</inline>: For assistant treasurer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote> eight thousand dollars; deputy assistant treasurer and cashier, four thousand two hundred dollars; assistant cashier and chief clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier and vault clerk, three thousand two hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at three thousand one hundred dollars each; chief paying teller, three thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at three thousand dollars each; chief of division, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief of division, and chief bookkeeper, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; chief of division, and assistant chief of division, at two thousand three hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, and one bookkeeper, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, one assistant chief of division, and three bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; nine assistant tellers, and two bookkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; four assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, and two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; nine assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: one assistant teller, and two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each: eight assistant tellers, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/209">209</page> three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; five assistant tellers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred dollars each; two hall men, at one thousand dollars each: two porters, at nine hundred dollars each: superintendent of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant detective, one thousand two hundred dollars; three engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; eight watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, two hundred and six thousand five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Philadelphia</inline>: For assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia.</p></sidenote> treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand three hundred dollars; coin and paying teller, two thousand dollars; bond and authorities clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; vault clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one, thousand eight hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; redemption teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent messenger and chief watchman, one thousand one hundred dollars; six counters, at nine hundred dollars each; seven watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At Saint Louis</inline>: For assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis.</p></sidenote> treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; first teller, two thousand dollars; second teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant assorting teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant tellers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; coin teller, one thousand two hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; nine clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three day watchmen and coin counters, at nine hundred dollars each; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two janitors, at six hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Treasurer At San Francisco</inline>: For assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco.</p></sidenote> treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant cashier, two thousand four hundred dollars; first teller, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; coin teller, and one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two coin counters, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special agents, examinations.</p></sidenote> detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec.3649, p.718.</p></sidenote> and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also <page identifier="/us/stat/35/210">210</page> including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paper for checks.</p></sidenote> checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mints and assay offices.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mint At Carson, Nevada</inline>: For assayer in charge, who shall also<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson, Nev.</p></sidenote> perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; assistant assayer, and one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk. one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, and not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mint At Denver, Colorado</inline>: For superintendent, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk and cashier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; weigh clerk, and bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; abstract clerk, and warrant clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; calculating clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; and two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including melter and refiner’s wastage and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiner’s sweeps, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mint At New Orleans, Louisiana</inline>: For superintendent, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand two hundred dollars; private secretary to superintendent, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one elevator conductor, eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding twelve thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, sixty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including machinery and repairs, wastage of operative officers, and loss on sale of sweeps, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mint At Philadelphia</inline>: For superintendent, four thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; engraver, four thousand dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, and bookkeeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; abstract clerk, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, warrant clerk, and register of deposits, at one thousand seven hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/211">211</page> dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, and adjusters, and not exceeding seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, four hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, exclusive of that required for the refinery, expenses annual assay commission, melters’ and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, and not exceeding five hundred dollars in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mint At San Francisco, California</inline>: For superintendent, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk and cashier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; abstract clerk, warrant clerk, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, assistant coiner, weigh clerk, and register of deposits, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars: assayer’s computation clerk, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; and superintendent’s calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery, exclusive of that required for the refinery, melter and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and for wastage of and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Boise, Idaho</inline>: For assayer, who shall also perform<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote> the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, and not exceeding one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, eight thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Charlotte, North Carolina</inline>: For assayer and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlotte, N. C.</p></sidenote> melter, one thousand five hundred dollars: assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, one thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Deadwood, South Dakota</inline>: For assayer in charge,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deadwood, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Helena, Montana</inline>: For assayer in charge, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Helena, Mont.</p></sidenote> thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/212">212</page> For wages of workmen, and not exceeding six thousand and thirty dollars for other clerks and employees, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At New York</inline>: For superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, cashier, assistant melter and refiner, and weigh clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: warrant clerk, two thousand dollars; abstract clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, bar clerk, assayer’s computation clerk, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; register of deposits, one. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s first assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen, messengers, and not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Saint Louis, Missouri</inline>: For assayer in charge,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis, Mo.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: in all, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of workmen (including janitor), one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assay Office At Seattle, Washington</inline> : For assayer in charge, who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seattle, Wash.</p></sidenote> shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars: chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages for workmen, and not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, eight thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>government in the territories.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government in Territories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">District of Alaska</inline>: For governor, five thousand dollars; three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> judges, at five thousand dollars each; three attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; three marshals, at four thousand dollars each; three clerks, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed two thousand dollars; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; rent of office and quarters in Juneau, stationery, lights, and fuel to be expended under the direction of the governor, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc., for governor’s office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 963.</p></sidenote> the office of the governor of Alaska for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight shall be available for the purchase and repair of furniture in the governor’s office and quarters at Juneau, Alaska, and for alterations and repairs of buildings occupied as office and quarters.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Territory of Arizona</inline>: For governor, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote> chief justice, and four associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/213">213</page> For contingent expenses of the Territory, including not to exceed five hundred dollars for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, to be expended by the governor, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, postage, stationery, fuel, lights, printing, and incidental expenses for secretary’s office, for pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, binding, fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Territory of New Mexico</inline>: For governor, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote> chief justice and five associate judges, at three thousand dollars each: secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and translator in the executive office, live hundred dollars; in all. twenty-three thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of Territory, including not to exceed five hundred dollars for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, to be expended by the governor, one thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, light, fuel, telephone, ice, water, stationery, record files, record casings, printing, postage, clerks, stenographer and typewriter, messenger and porter, and incidentals in secretary’s office, for pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, binding, fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Territory of Hawaii</inline>: For governor, five thousand dollars; secretary,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars; chief justice, five thousand five hundred dollars; and two associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; in all. twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For judges of circuit courts, at three thousand dollars each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the Territory of Hawaii, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, one thousand dollars, and for private secretary to the governor, two thousand dollars; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For legislative expenses, namely: Furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and tiles, printing and binding, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant-at-arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> members of the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of two hundred dollars, or any mileage, for any extra session held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provide<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 150.</p></sidenote> a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, anno Domini nineteen hundred.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary. Assistant. assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> War, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; assistant and chief clerk, four thousand dollars; private secretary to the. Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk to the chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/214">214</page> four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, two hundred and fifty dollars; chief telegrapher, one thousand eight hundred dollars: four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; nineteen clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars: one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; six messengers; seven assistant messengers; one, telephone switchboard operator: one assistant telephone switch-board operator; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one fireman; four watchmen; five watchmen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and seventy dollars each; hostler, six hundred dollars; two hostlers, and one watchman, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; two elevator conductors, one at six hundred dollars and one at four hundred and seventy dollars; four charwomen; in all, one hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Adjutant-General’S Office</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> ; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; forty-eight clerks of class four; sixty-four clerks of class three; ninety-four clerks of class two; two hundred and thirty-two clerks of class one; eighty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; ten messengers; fifty-eight assistant messengers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; eight watchmen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and eighteen laborers; in all. seven hundred and eighty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; and all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Adjutant-General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Inspector-General</inline>: For one clerk of class four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> ; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Judge-Advocate-General</inline>: For chief clerk and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge-Advocate General’s Office.</p></sidenote> solicitor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; one copyist; two messengers; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Office</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Office.</p></sidenote> of class four; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant, messenger; and one laborer; in all. twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entire expenditures for this purpose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/215">215</page> Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Quartermaster-General</inline>: For chief clerk, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster-General Office</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four: twelve clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; sixty-one clerks of class one; forty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; advisory architect, four thousand dollars; experienced builder and mechanic, two thousand five hundred dollars; one inspector of supplies for the Army, two thousand five hundred dollars; three draftsmen. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; five draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; supervising engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; two civil engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant civil engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; electrical engineer, two thousand dollars; one marine engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; sanitary and heating engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; writer of specifications and computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; coal-testing engineer, nine hundred and sixty dollars; blueprint operator, nine hundred dollars; four messengers; eleven assistant messengers; two assistant messengers, at six hundred dollars each; female messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; seven laborers; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. two hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Commissary-General</inline>: For chief clerk, two-thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissary-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger; two assistant messengers; one laborer; in all, seventy-four thousand three hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Surgeon-General</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeon-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; thirteen clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; thirty-two clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, for night duty, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; one messenger; eleven assistant messengers; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), two hundred and fifty dollars; six laborers; chemist, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; assistant chemist, one thousand five hundred dollars; principal assistant librarian, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four charwomen; in all, one hundred and sixty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Paymaster-General</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paymaster-Generals Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; six clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger: one assistant messenger; four laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, seventy-one thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Chief of Ordnance</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; five clerks of class four; six clerks of class three: eleven clerks of class two; twenty-six clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each: four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: two messengers; one assistant messenger; one messenger, seven hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/216">216</page> eighty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one laborer; in all, eighty-three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services, not clerical,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the organized militia, to be paid from such appropriations. in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed forty-five thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Chief of Engineers</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer’s Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four: eleven clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, one hundred thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> surveys, to be paid from such appropriations: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Bureau of Insular Affairs</inline>: For law officer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote> four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; nineteen clerks of class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; five laborers; two charwomen; in all, eighty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses of the War Department</inline> : For purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by Adjutant-General’s office, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, temporary labor not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings for use of the War Department, as follows: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> medical dispensary. Surgeon-General’s office, one thousand dollars; for Ordnance and Signal offices, two thousand five hundred dollars; for depot quartermaster’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars; for War Department, seven thousand two hundred dollars; for Adjutant-General’s office, two thousand three hundred dollars; and for Bureau of Insular Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; in all. seventeen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/217">217</page> For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Public Buildings and Grounds</inline>: For one assistant engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant and chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; clerk and stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger; landscape gardener, two thousand four hundred dollars; surveyor and draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foremen, etc.</p></sidenote> public grounds, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For second sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For day watchmen as follows: One in Franklin Park; one in Lafayette<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen.</p></sidenote> Park; two in Smithsonian grounds; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations: one at Iowa Circle; one at Thomas Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one at McPherson and Farragut parks; one at Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two at Henry and Seaton parks; one at Mount Vernon Park and adjacent reservations; one for the greenhouses and nursery; two at grounds south of Executive Mansion; one at Garfield Park; one at Monument Park: and one at Monument Park Annex (Potomac Park); twenty-one in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For night watchmen as follows: Two in Smithsonian grounds; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton parks; one in grounds south of Executive Mansion: one in Monument Park; one at Monument Park Annex (Potomac Park): and two in Garfield Park; ten in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wakefield, Va.</p></sidenote> Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One day watchman and one night watchman for that part of Potomac Park between the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, two in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One night watchman in that part of Potomac Park between the Virginia channel of the Potomac River, the tidal reservoir, and the sewer canal, seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Night watchmen for Stanton and Lincoln parks and ten adjoining reservations, Lafayette. Franklin. McPherson, and Farragut parks. Washington. Dupont, Iowa, and Thomas circles, Mount Vernon Square, and reservations on Massachusetts avenue from Seventh to Seventeenth streets, four in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and scientific books and periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount from District revenues.</p></sidenote> Grounds, the sum of thirty thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/218">218</page></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>state, war, and navy department building.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, War, and Navy Department building.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of the superintendent: For one clerk of class one; stenographer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, engineers, watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote> and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; one electrical machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; forty-nine watchmen; carpenter, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; machinist, painter, and plumber, at one thousand dollars each; three dynamo tenders, at nine hundred dollars each; seven skilled laborers (mechanics), at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; foreman of laborers, eight hundred and forty dollars; ten firemen; eleven conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventeen laborers; three second class firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; four forewomen of charwomen, at three hundred dollars each; seventy-seven charwomen; one gardener, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mills Building</inline>: For the following for service in fireproof building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mills Building.</p></sidenote> authorized to be rented for use of the Navy Department, namely: One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: five watchmen; four laborers; one forewoman, three hundred dollars; nine charwomen; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">State Department Annex</inline>: For one laborer, six hundred and sixty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State Department annex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lights, etc.</p></sidenote> thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, supplies, and miscellaneous articles, Mills Building, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc., Mills Building.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The superintendent of the State, War, and Navy building shall also<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent’s duties extended.</p></sidenote> act as superintendent of the Navy Department Annex, or Mills Building, and the State Department Annex building.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the Navy, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; private secretary to Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to Assistant Secretary, two thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four clerks of class four; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; telegraph operator, one thousand one hundred dollars; two copyists; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; four messengers; five assistant messengers (including one transferred from Bureau of Navigation); one laborer; three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switch board operator; in all, seventy thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Solicitor</inline>: Solicitor, who shall perform the duties<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor’s Office.</p></sidenote> of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of that officer, four thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk of class four; clerk of class three; clerk of class two; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/219">219</page> clerk, at eight hundred and forty dollars; and messenger boy at six hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Library of the Navy Department</inline>: For one clerk of class two;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion</inline>: For chief clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Records of the Rebellion.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars; one agent, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate navy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks of class two (including one transferred from Bureau of Yards and Docks); one clerk of class three, (indexer); two clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one assistant messenger; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, one hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the publication of an edition of eleven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Continuing publication.</p></sidenote> copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 190.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purpose of making such maps and illustrations as relate to the work, twenty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy</inline>: For one clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge-Advocate-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> one thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks of class one (including one transferred from Bureau of Supplies and Accounts); three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Navigation</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote> clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copyists; nineteen copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two assistant messengers (reduction of one transferred to Secretary’s office); one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and five laborers (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); in all, seventy-five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Naval Intelligence</inline>: For one clerk of class four; one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Intelligence Office.</p></sidenote> clerk of class two; two translators, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; one assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Equipment</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote> draftsman, who shall be an expert in marine construction, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; electrical expert and draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one, thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks of class one, draftsman for work in connection with depots for coal, one thousand two hundred dollars; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one assistant messenger; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; one blueprinter, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and two laborers (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); in all, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hydrographic Office</inline>: For hydrographic engineer, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">HydrographieOffice.</p></sidenote> dollars; one assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, two thousand dollars; one nautical expert, one thousand eight hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/220">220</page> dollars; two nautical experts, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one nautical expert, at one thousand three hundred dollars; two nautical experts, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four nautical experts, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one custodian of archives, one thousand two hundred dollars; three copyists; one copyist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one compiler, one thousand four hundred dollars; editor of Notice to Mariners, one thousand six hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; live draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; three apprentice draftsmen, at seven hundred dollars each; one chief engraver, two thousand dollars; two engravers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three engravers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one engraver, one thousand four hundred dollars; six engravers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two engravers, at one thousand dollars each; one engraver, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one apprentice engraver, eight hundred dollars; one apprentice engraver, seven hundred dollars; one chief plate printer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one plate printer, one thousand two hundred dollars: one plate printer, one thousand dollars; two plate printers, at nine hundred dollars each; one plate printer, eight hundred dollars; one apprentice Elate printer, seven hundred dollars; one apprentice plate printer, six undred dollars; one chief lithographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two lithographers, at one thousand dollars each; one apprentice lithographer, seven hundred dollars; one electrotyper and chart plate maker, one thousand two hundred dollars; one, assistant messenger; four laborers; two helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: two helpers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one helper, six hundred dollars; one helper, five hundred dollars; one helper, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials.</p></sidenote> boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates: tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use: transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages: telegrams on public business; the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pilot Chart.</p></sidenote> . and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston. New York, Philadelphia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Branch offices.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses</p></sidenote> . Baltimore. Norfolk. Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Townsend, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of necessary employees at branch offices, seventeen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote> thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/221">221</page> For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly Pilot Chart.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Pacific. Ocean.</p></sidenote> graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice: the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for and printing and mailing the chart, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services restricted.</p></sidenote> or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Observatory</inline>: For pay of three assistant astronomers, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval observatory.</p></sidenote> at two thousand four hundred dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant in department of nautical instruments. one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; instrument maker, one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and nine laborers: in all. forty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous computations, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation: paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to main building, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Nautical Almanac Office</inline>: For the following assistants in preparing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nautical Almanac Office.</p></sidenote> for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely: One, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, atone thousand dollars each; one copyist and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all. fifteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computers.</p></sidenote> the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/222">222</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Steam Engineering</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote> dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each: one messenger boy. six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Construction and Repair</inline>: For chief clerk, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; two clerks of class four (including one transferred from Judge-Advocate-General’s Office); two clerks of class three (one transferred to Secretary’s office); three clerks of class two; three clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; three clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copyists; two assistant messengers (including one transferred from Bureau of Yards and Docks); one laborer; nine messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureaus of Ordnance, Equipment, Construction and Repair, and Steam Engineering to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” to be paid from such appropriations: <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> <i></i>, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine shall not exceed one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote> engineer, mechanical draftsman, and computer, three thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; two messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; two messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; and one laborer; in all, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: For civilian assistant, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars: two chief bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; twenty-four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; eight copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four assistant messengers (including one instead of one laborer transferred from Secretary’s office); three messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each: one laborer; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline> : For chief clerk, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote> dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two: one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two <page identifier="/us/stat/35/223">223</page> copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; driver for Naval Dispensary, six hundred dollars; and one laborer, for Naval Dispensary, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote> ; draftsman and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); one assistant messenger: three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; and two laborers (including one transferred from Naval Intelligence); in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical services.</p></sidenote> as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations for “public works” to be paid from such appropriations: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> year nineteen hundred and nine shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Navy Department</inline>: For professional and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> technical books and periodicals, for Department library, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the rental of Mills Building, authorized by Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-four thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of the Interior.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary. Assistants, attorneys, etc.</p></sidenote> the Interior, twelve thousand dollars; First Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand live hundred dollars; Assistant to the Secretary, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand five hundred dollars;’ four assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; additional to one member of Board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Pension Appeals.</p></sidenote> of Pension Appeals, acting as chief of the board, five hundred dollars; twelve members of a Board of Pension Appeals, at two thousand dollars each; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special inspectors.</p></sidenote> to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the Department of the Interior, at two thousand five hundred dollars each (in lieu of one special land inspector and five special<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks etc.</p></sidenote> inspectors at two thousand five hundred dollars each); chief disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of supplies, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of mails, files, and archives, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of publications, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four clerks, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirteen clerks of class four (two clerks of class four transferred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/224">224</page> to Indian Office and one transferred to General Land Office); eighteen clerks of class three; twenty-one clerks of class two (three clerks of class two transferred to Indian Office and two transferred to General Land Office); twenty-four clerks of classone(six clerks of class one transferred to Indian Office, three transferred to General Land Office, and two omitted); returns office clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each (three clerks, at one thousand dollars each, transferred to General Land Office); five copyists.(seven transferred to Indian Office); switch<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> board telephone operator; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; two skilled mechanics, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; six laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one packer, six hundred and sixty dollars; two conductors of elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four charwomen; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty watchmen; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk to sign tribal deeds.</p></sidenote> engineer, one thousand dollars; seven firemen; one clerk, to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him. his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and forty dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer from Board of Pension Appeals to classified service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 403.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, persons employed June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as additional members of the Board of Pension Appeals may be transferred and appointed to places in the classified service of the Department of the Interior without reference to the “Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For employees, for the proper protection, heating, care, and preservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, old Post-Office building.</p></sidenote> of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Department of the Interior, namely: One engineer and electrician, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty watchmen; conductor of elevator. seven hundred and twenty dollars; fourteen laborers; nine laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Assistant Attorney-General</inline>: For assistant attorney,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Attorney-General’s Office.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars: assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; ten assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class three, one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter; one clerk of class one; in all, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., inspectors.</p></sidenote> of the Interior, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day. and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended <page identifier="/us/stat/35/225">225</page> under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Land Office</inline>: For the Commissioner of the General Land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Land Office.</p></sidenote> Office, five thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be authorized to sign such letters, papers, and documents and to perform such other duties as may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall act as Commissioner in the absence of that officer or in case of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices, at two thousand dollars each ; recorder, two thousand dollars; one chief of division of surveys, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of division, two thousand four hundred dollars; nine chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two law examiners, at two thousand dollars each; ten principal examiners of land claims and contests, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners of mineral claims and contests, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight clerks of class four (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty-four clerks of class three; sixty-nine clerks of class two (including two transferred from Secretary’s office); seventy-two clerks of class one (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty clerks, at one thousand dollars each (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty copyists; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; sixteen laborers; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys, two thousand dollars; clerk and librarian, one thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and seventy-two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary Assistant Commissioner.</p></sidenote> authorized to designate an officer or employee of the General Land Office to act temporarily as Assistant Commissioner of that Office during the absence of the Assistant Commissioner, or in case of a vacancy in the office of such Assistant Commissioner, or when such Assistant Commissioner is acting as Commissioner, and all acts performed by any officer or employee while acting under such designation shall have the same force and effect as if performed by said Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary recorder.</p></sidenote> authorized to designate an officer or employee of the General Land Office to perform temporarily the duties of the Recorder of that office in the absence of that officer and in the case of a vacancy in the office of such Recorder, and the acts of any person so designated shall have all the force and effect of an act performed by the Recorder.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., investigation.</p></sidenote> detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law books.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/226">226</page> For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> in the General Land Office, twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided.</i>, That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, live hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretory of the Interior for distribution. And all maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separate State and Territorial maps, prepared in the General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State and Territorial maps.</p></sidenote> Land Office, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mine Inspectors</inline>: For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mine inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26., p. 1104.</p></sidenote> by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work authorized by the Act approved March<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection of miners’ lives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1104.</p></sidenote> third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories and in the District of Alaska, and for conducting investigations as to the causes of mine explosions with a view to increasing safety in mining, to be immediately available, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not more than fifty thousand dollars may be used for salaries.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Indian Office</inline>: For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; Assistant Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars (in lieu of chief of division, at same salary, transferred from Secretary’s office); two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; ten clerks of class four (including two transferred from Secretary’s office); nineteen clerks of class three; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; twenty-two clerks of class two (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; forty-two clerks of class one (including six transferred from Secretary’s office and three employed temporarily); twenty-three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars, one stenographer, one thousand dollars, and one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars, to superintendent of Indian schools; twenty-nine copyists (including seven transferred from Secretary’s office and one employed temporarily); one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy. three hundred and sixty dollars; and four charwomen; in all, two hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pension Office</inline>: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; First Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty <page identifier="/us/stat/35/227">227</page> dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-five medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nine chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of board of review, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty-four principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, two thousand dollars; eighteen assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; sixty-nine clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred clerks of class two; three hundred and seventy clerks of class one; one hundred and twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-nine copyists; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three firemen; twenty-seven messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; forty laborers; ten female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; in all, one million six hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No vacancy now existing in the clerical service of the Pension Office,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filling vacancies suspended.</p></sidenote> or which may occur after March first, nineteen hundred and eight, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be filled by original appointment or by transfer from any other office or bureau of the Department of the Interior. Nor shall any transfer from said Pension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers.</p></sidenote> Office existing March first, nineteen hundred and eight, be returned to said Office.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., investigations.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, and any other necessary expenses, including telegrams, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional force of one hundred special examiners for one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional special examiners.</p></sidenote> year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Patent Office</inline>: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Office.</p></sidenote> dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as a principal examiner, three thousand dollars; two law examiners, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand seven hundred dollars; examiner of trade-marks and designs, two thousand seven hundred dollars; forty-two principal examiners, at two thousand seven hundred dollars each; fifty-eight first assistant examiners, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; sixty-eight second assistant examiners, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; seventy-eight third assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand five hundred dollars each: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/228">228</page> financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nine clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; ninety clerks of class one; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen; at one thousand dollars each; eighty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; ninety copyists; eighty-five copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine classified laborers now employed in the Patent Office may be appointed copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars, but may not he further promoted unless they shall have passed the civil-service examination; three messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; fourteen laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one million one hundred and eighty-five thousand six hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of professional and scientific books and expense of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of law books, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issue of patents;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copies of drawings, etc.</p></sidenote> for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; one hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating use of inventions, etc.</p></sidenote> for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau, Berne.</p></sidenote> International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Education</inline>: For Commissioner of Education, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Education.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in charge of landgrant college statistics, one thousand eight hundred dollars; translator, one. thousand eight hundred dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; specialist in foreign educational systems, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in educational system, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special reports.</p></sidenote> four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distributing documents, etc.</p></sidenote> and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, text-books, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/229">229</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of Capitol, etc.</p></sidenote> For Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief electrical engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, one thousand dollars; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of the Interior</inline>: For the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> following sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including six thousand five hundred dollars for the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined file<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, etc.</p></sidenote> wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster-General, for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars, of which sum two hundred and fifty dollars may be used for the Civil Service Commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> For the Bureau of Education, four thousand dollars; Geological Survey, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars; additional rooms for the engraving and printing divisions of the Geological Survey, one thousand two hundred dollars; storage of documents, one thousand dollars; Civil Service Commission, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of rooms in the Union Building for Patent Office model<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Model exhibit.</p></sidenote> exhibit during so much of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine as may be necessary, and for necessary expenses of removal and storage of said exhibit, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to report, etc., on transfer of models.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 924.</p></sidenote> That a commission, which is hereby created, to consist of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, shall determine which of the models of the Patent Office may be of possible benefit to patentees or of historical value, such models thus selected to be cared for in the new National Museum building, the remainder of said models shall before January first, nineteen hundred and nine, be disposed of by sale. gift, or otherwise as the, Commissioner of Patents, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall determine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/230">230</page> For rent of basement of the addition to the main building of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey, Additional rent.</p></sidenote> Geological Survey, required for additional storage of documents, maps, and so forth, and for work room, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of additional office accommodations for the Geological Survey in the main building of the Survey, Washington, District of Columbia (formerly occupied by the Reclamation Service), three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>surveyors-general and their clerks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyors-general.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of offices for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, books of reference for office use, furniture, fuel, lights, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for the surveyor-general, stationery, binding records, drafting supplies, books of reference for office use, typewriter and repairs, repairs of furniture, freight and drayage, filing cases, drafting tables, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of California, three thousand dollars; and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote> the clerks in his office, eleven thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of messenger, stationery, binding records, repairing maps, repairs to locks, clocks, furniture, batteries, and typewriter, towels, telephone, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of the State of Colorado, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p></sidenote> and for the clerks of his office, seventeen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, twenty thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing and binding, furniture and repairs, muslin for mounting plats, drafting instruments, record books, indexing volumes of letters, ice, telephone, post-office box rent and register stamps, books of reference for office use, typewriter, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Idaho, three thousand dollars; and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote> clerks in his office, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of messenger, stationery, binding, printing, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, furniture, typewriters, ice, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisiana.</p></sidenote> dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For messenger, stationery, binding records, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Montana, three thousand dollars; and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote> the clerks in his office, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of messenger, lights, post-office box rent, ice, stationery, printing, binding, furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/231">231</page> For surveyor-general of Nevada, two thousand live hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada.</p></sidenote> and for the clerks in his office, five thousand four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for the surveyor-general, stationery, and drawing materials, post-office box rent, registering letters, telephone, ice, repair of furniture, hooks of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote> live hundred dollars; and for clerks in his office, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of messenger, stationery, printing, drafting instruments, plats, drawing paper, binding records, telephone, registration of letters, post-office box rent, drayage, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Oregon, three thousand dollars; and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote> clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, telephone, towels, binding, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use. and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of South Dakota, two thousand dollars; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote> for clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messengers, stationery supplies, drafting instruments, fuel, ice, binding records, post-office box rent, telegrams, registration of letters, towels, furniture and typewriter repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Utah, three thousand dollars; and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote> clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of janitor, stationery, plats and supplies, printing and binding, drawing tables, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, typewriters, drayage. towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Washington, three thousand dollars; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote> for the clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all. thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of janitor, furniture and repairs, stationery, binding records, books, blanks, books of reference for office use. and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveyor-general of Wyoming, three thousand dollars; and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p></sidenote> the clerks in his office, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of messenger, stationery and supplies, lights, printing, binding, books, post-office box rent, drafting instruments, mounting maps, ice, towels, furniture and repairs, books of reference for office use. and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on clerk hire. etc.</p></sidenote> for clerk hire and incidental expenses, in the offices of the surveyors-general, shall be incurred by the respective surveyors-general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Postmaster-General</inline>: For compensation of the Postmaster<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Postmaster-General. clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> General. twelve thousand dollars; chief clerk, Post-Office Department, including five hundred dollars as superintendent of Post-Office Department building, three thousand dollars; private secretary, two thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/232">232</page> five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, assistant to chief clerk, two thousand dollars; printing clerk, (now detailed from Government Printing Office), two thousand dollars; assistant printing clerk, (now detailed from Government Printing Office), one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one: five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; curator of museum, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone switch-board operator; assistant telephone switch-board operator; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; page,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, watchmen. etc.</p></sidenote> three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistant electricians, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three dynamo tenders, at nine hundred dollars each; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and one fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at nine hundred dollars each; ten elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventeen firemen; carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-one watchmen ; foreman of laborers, eight hundred dollars; thirty laborers; ten laborers and coal passers, at five hundred dollars each; plumber, and awning maker, at nine hundred dollars each; female laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; three female laborers, at five hundred dollars each; three female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and forty charwomen; in all, one hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of post-office inspectors: Chief inspector, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief post-office inspector, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; sixteen clerks of class one; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, ninety thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of the purchasing agent; For purchasing agent, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasing agent, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Department:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Attorney-General’s division.</p></sidenote> Assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; law clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; assistant messenger; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office First Assistant Postmaster-General</inline>: For First Assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Post-master-General, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries and allowances division.</p></sidenote> Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of salaries and allowances, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent division of salaries and allowances, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief, division of correspondence, two thousand dollars; nine clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three (including one transferred from office of Postmaster-General); eleven clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: ten clerks, at <page identifier="/us/stat/35/233">233</page> nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant-messengers; one laborer; two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eighty seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of postmasters’ appointments: Superintendent, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments division.</p></sidenote> dollars; two assistants, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two messengers; in all, sixty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of city delivery: Superintendent, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery division.</p></sidenote> assistant superintendent, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General</inline>: For Second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway adjustments division.</p></sidenote> Assistant Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of railway adjustments, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent division of railway adjustments and law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent, division of foreign mails, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign mails division.</p></sidenote> dollars; chief clerk, division of foreign mails, two thousand dollars; chief, division of inspection, two thousand dollars; chief, division of contracts, two thousand dollars; chief, division of equipment, two thousand dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; forty-one clerks of class three; thirty-five clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; seven assistant messengers; in all, two hundred and twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of railway mail service: General superintendent, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway mail service.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; assistant general superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, office of general superintendent, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Third Assistant Postmaster-General</inline>: For Third Assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps division</p></sidenote> Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of stamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent division of finance, who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster-General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant superintendent division of finance, two thousand dollars; superintendent, division of classification,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification division.</p></sidenote> two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; six special agents, division of classification, at two thousand dollars each; chief division of redemption, two thousand dollars; superintendent division of registered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registered mails division.</p></sidenote> mails, two thousand five hundred dollars; six assistant superintendents division of registered mails, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four; twenty-three clerks of class three; thirty-two clerks of class two; forty-five clerks of class one; thirty-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five assistant messengers; twelve laborers; one page, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two hundred and fifty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance for assistant superintendents, division of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registered mails division.</p></sidenote> registered mails, when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not exceeding four dollars, and for other actual and necessary traveling <page identifier="/us/stat/35/234">234</page> expenses arising in connection with business of the division of registered mails, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance for special agents, division of classification,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification division.</p></sidenote> when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not exceeding four dollars, and for other actual and necessary traveling expenses arising in connection with the business of the division of classification, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of money orders: Superintendent, three thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money orders division.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars: chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: three clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and four laborers; in all, seventy-three thousand three hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General</inline>: For Fourth Assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery.</p></sidenote> Postmaster General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent, division of rural free delivery, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, division of rural delivery, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two, thirty-one clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: nineteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of dead letters: Superintendent, two thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dead letters division.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four, who shall be chief clerk; two clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two: twenty-nine clerks of class one; forty-four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; fifteen laborers; six female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of supplies: Superintendent, two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; eighteen clerks of class one; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger: eleven assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; and one page, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all. ninety-two thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of topography: For topographer, two thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Topography division.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars; assistant topographer, two thousand dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four skilled draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; four skilled draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; examiner, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; map mounter, one thousand two hundred dollars; mechanic, one thousand dollars; seven copyists of maps, at one thousand dollars each; nine copyists of maps, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant map mounter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, forty-seven thousand and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department</inline>: For stationery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators. forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/235">235</page> For gas and electric lights, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telegraphing, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For painting, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For plumbing, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carpets and matting, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indexes and filing devices, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and wagons, and repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, including the exchange of typewriters and adding machines, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum not exceeding three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the. Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of a suitable building for storage of the files of the Post-Office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Department, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of stable, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official Postal Guide.</p></sidenote> not exceeding three thousand copies for the use of the Executive Departments, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses in the Division of Topography in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-route maps.</p></sidenote> preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction, thirty-one thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale.</p></sidenote> authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints. of this amount one hundred dollars may be expended in the purchase of atlases, geographical and technical works needed in the Division of Topography.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Attorney-General</inline>: For compensation of the Attorney<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of AttorneyGeneral. Solicitor-General, Assistants, etc.</p></sidenote> -General, twelve thousand dollars; Solicitor-General, seven thousand five hundred dollars; assistant to the Attorney-General, seven thousand dollars; five Assistant Attorneys-General, at five thousand dollars each; Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Office Department, five thousand dollars; solicitor of internal revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; solicitor for the Department of State, four thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant attorneys.</p></sidenote> dollars each; two assistant attorneys, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant attorney, two thousand four hundred dollars: two assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; assistant attorney, in charge of dockets, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of buildings, five hundred dollars; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney-General, three thousand dollars; clerk to the Attorney-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Solicitor-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; two law clerks, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/236">236</page> at two thousand dollars each: one law clerk of class four; one law clerk in office of the solicitor of internal revenue, two thousand dollars; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; telegraph operator and stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; three messengers; six assistant messengers; five laborers; three watchmen; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; four firemen; two conductors of the elevator, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of accounts.</p></sidenote> seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twelve charwomen. Division of accounts: Chief of division of accounts, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: one packer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following now authorized and being paid from appropriations as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for defending suits in claims against the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney, etc.</p></sidenote> United States: Two attorneys at three thousand five hundred dollars each; seven attorneys at three thousand dollars each; one law clerk of class four; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for pay of special assistant attorneys United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special assistant attorneys.</p></sidenote> States courts: One attorney at five thousand dollars; one attorney, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: two attorneys at three thousand dollars each; one attorney at two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant examiner of titles, two thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for prosecution of crimes: One superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution of crime.</p></sidenote> of prisons and prisoners, three thousand dollars; one chief examiner, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three examiners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examiners, etc.</p></sidenote> at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four examiners at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two examiners at two thousand dollars each; three examiners at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk at nine hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for enforcement of the antitrust laws: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antitrust laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys enforcing.</p></sidenote> attorney at five thousand dollars; one attorney at three thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for defense of suits before Spanish Treaty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spanish Treaty Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant attorney general.</p></sidenote> Claims Commission: One assistant attorney-general, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for punishing violations of the intercourse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian intercourse frauds.</p></sidenote> acts and frauds: One clerk of class four.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for defense in Indian depredation claims:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian depredation claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 579.</p></sidenote> One assistant attorney-general, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From the appropriation for care of rented buildings: One clerk at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of rented buildings.</p></sidenote> one thousand dollars; two messengers; four assistant messengers; one watchman; two laborers; one head charwoman at four hundred and eighty dollars; eight charwomen; in all. ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice</inline>: For furniture and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses</p></sidenote> repairs, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books for law library of the Department, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/237">237</page> For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books tor office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for Department, including office of the Solicitor of the Treasury and office of the Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, nineteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Columbia used by the Department of Justice, twenty-four thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury</inline>: For Solicitor of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor of the Treasury, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Treasury, five thousand dollars; Assistant Solicitor, three thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; two docket clerks, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Solicitor of Tile Department of Commerce and Labor</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Solicitor of Department of Commerce and Labor, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> For Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk and law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; and one messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce and Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Commerce and Labor, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; confidential clerk to the Secretary, one thousand six hundred dollars; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk and superintendent, three thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of appointment division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two .chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four (including one census clerk); ten clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two telegraph operators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers; nine assistant messengers; seven messenger boys, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> four hundred and eighty dollars each; one engineer, one thousand dollars: one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; nine laborers; one packer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one driver and foreman of stables, eight hundred and forty dollars; six hostlers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one cabinetmaker, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; six watchmen; fifteen charwomen; in all. one hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/238">238</page> For compensation at not more than ten dollars per day and actual<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special commercial agents.</p></sidenote> necessary traveling expenses of special agents to investigate trade conditions abroad, with the object of promoting the foreign commerce of the United States, forty thousand dollars: and the results of such investigations shall be reported to Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Corporations</inline>: For Commissioner of Corporations, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Corporations.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; Deputy Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven copyists; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation and per diem, to be fixed by the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special attorneys, etc.</p></sidenote> Commerce and Labor, of special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Bureau,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 827.</p></sidenote> as provided by the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor,” the per diem to be, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per day to each of said special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, and also of other officers and employees in the Bureau of Corporations while absent from their homes on duty outside of the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares; in ail, one hundred and seventy-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Manufactures</inline>: Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Manufactures.</p></sidenote> assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; stenographer to chief of Bureau, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers; in all, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Bureau of Manufactures, to collate and arrange in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tariffs of foreign countries.</p></sidenote> the Bureau of Manufactures the tariffs of foreign countries in form for distribution to be printed in the English language, utilizing as far as practicable the reports of the International Bureau for the Publication of Customs Tariffs, and accompanied by a statement showing the equivalent in currency, weights, and measures of the United States of all foreign terms of currency, weights, and measures used in such tariffs, and for the purchase of books and periodicals on foreign tariffs, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Labor</inline>: For Commissioner of Labor, live thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Labor.</p></sidenote> chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; four statistical experts, at two thousand dollars each; five clerks of class four: five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; four laborers; three charwomen: four special agents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each: eight special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special agents, etc.</p></sidenote> while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for <page identifier="/us/stat/35/239">239</page> their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, and for subvention to “ International Association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Association of Labour Legislation.</p></sidenote> for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, sixty-four thousand and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, periodicals, and newpapers for the library the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> one hundred dollars may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, and the annual subscriptions for newspapers and periodicals for the Bureau may be paid in advance, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the investigation into the industrial, social, moral,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woman and child workers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating condition of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 866.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on employees.</p></sidenote> educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States, undertaken in accordance with Act of Congress approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, 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, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Light-House Board</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-House Board.</p></sidenote> dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; accountant, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant messengers; one laborer; two messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant civil engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; draftsman, one, thousand four hundred and forty dollars: draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, forty-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">The Census Office</inline>: For Director, six thousand dollars; four chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Census Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Director, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> statisticians, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional for acting as Director of the Census in the absence of that officer and for superintending census publications; disbursing and appointment clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; geographer, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; eight expert chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; twenty-five clerks of class two; three hundred and forty clerks of class one; one hundred and forty-two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; expert map mounter, one thousand dollars; engineer, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each; four skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; ten watchmen; five messengers; two firemen; five assistant messengers; ten skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seven unskilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four messenger hoys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; twenty-four charwomen; in all, seven hundred and four thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For securing information for census reports, provided for by law,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special reports, etc.</p></sidenote> semimonthly reports of cotton production, and periodical reports of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton, per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of the same and of detailed employees, the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records, the temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia for supervising special agents, and the employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics <page identifier="/us/stat/35/240">240</page> required by law, three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, of this amount thirty thousand dollars to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rental of quarters, twenty-two thousand and eighty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, eight thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, carpets, ice. lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> telegraph and telephone service, photographic work and supplies, transportation and preparing articles for shipment, horses and maintenance thereof, wagons, diagrams, maps and blueprints, awnings, shelving, tiling apparatus, fuel, light, office fixtures, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including repairs to the Census building, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of books of reference and periodicals, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tabulating census returns, including cost of cards, rental, purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tabulating returns.</p></sidenote> and construction of necessary apparatus, and the cost of experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Statistics</inline>: For Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Statistics.</p></sidenote> chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand five hundred dollars; eight clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and one female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventy thousand one hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of the services of experts, and for other necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal and foreign commerce.</p></sidenote> expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat-Inspection Service</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboat-Inspection Service.</p></sidenote> For Supervising Inspector-General, four thousand dollars: chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector-General in the absence of that officer, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class one: one clerk (tile clerk and stenographer), one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriation for the Steamboat-Inspection Service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Navigation</inline>: For Commissioner of Navigation, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; Deputy Commissioner, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization</inline>: For Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization.</p></sidenote> -General of Immigration, four thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner-General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, three thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with authority to act as immigrant inspector, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three: five clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; in all, forty-five thousand six hundred dollars, which, together with all other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 596.</p></sidenote> approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/241">241</page> provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” namely: Chief of Division of Naturalization, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one: four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; in all, thirtyeight thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For division of information established under section forty of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 909.</p></sidenote> Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For chief of division, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; in all, nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Standards</inline>: For Director, five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Standards.</p></sidenote> physicist, four thousand dollars; chemist, four thousand dollars; associate chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; three associate physicists, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one associate physicist, two thousand two hundred dollars; two associate physicists, at two thousand dollars each; six assistant physicists, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven assistant physicists, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one assistant chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistant physicists, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; eight laboratory assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; seven laboratory assistants, at one thousand dollars each; six laboratory assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two aids, at six hundred dollars each; three laboratory apprentices, at five hundred and forty dollars each: four laboratory apprentices, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: storekeeper, one thousand dollars; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; secretary, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one. messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; three messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one elevator boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; chief mechanician, one thousand six hundred dollars; mechanician, one thousand four hundred dollars; two mechanicians, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two mechanicians, at one thousand dollars each; mechanician, nine hundred dollars; two watchmen; skilled woodworker, eight hundred and forty dollars; three skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars: two assistant messengers; engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen; electrician, nine hundred dollars; four laborers; janitor, six hundred and sixty dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars: and two female laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote> with the buildings or with the work of the Bureau, laboratory supplies, materials and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/242">242</page> machinery, or other appliances; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, one thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the construction of a fireproof laboratory to provide additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laboratory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract for new building.</p></sidenote> laboratory space, to cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> books and periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid in advance); traveling expenses; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International committees.</p></sidenote> International Committee of Weights and Measures; traveling expenses of two delegates to the International Committee on Electrical Units and Standards, one of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Bureau of Standards; and contingencies of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, etc.</p></sidenote> water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, including the Alaskan fur-seal fisheries and the Alaskan salmon fisheries services, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses arc not specifically made, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars), stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange; repairs to the building occupied by the offices of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; storage, of documents belonging to the Light-House Board, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, and for storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Labor, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of buildings, and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> for the use of the Department of Commerce and Labor, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDICIAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Supreme Court</inline>: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Justices.</p></sidenote> of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars; and for eight associate justices, at twelve thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshal.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to justices.</p></sidenote> justice of the Supreme Court, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Circuit Courts</inline>: For twenty-nine circuit judges, at seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circuit judges.</p></sidenote> dollars each, two hundred and three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at three thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, circuit courts of appeals.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars each, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/243">243</page> For messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger, eighth circuit.</p></sidenote> eighth circuit, three thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">District Courts</inline>: For salaries of the eighty-five district judges of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District judges.</p></sidenote> the United States, at six thousand dollars each, five hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">District Court, Territory of Hawaii</inline>: For the, payment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii courts.</p></sidenote> salaries of the judge, clerk, and the reporter of the United States district court for the Territory of Hawaii, at five thousand dollars, three thousand dollars, and one thousand two hundred dollars, respectively, nine thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Retired Judges</inline>: To pay the salaries of the United States judges<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired judges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.,sec. 714, p.135.</p></sidenote> retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court of Appeals, District of Columbia</inline>: For the chief justice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of appeals, District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> of court of appeals of the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and for two associate justices, at seven thousand dollars each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant or deputy clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporter, one thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports.</p></sidenote> reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than five dollars per volume;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Supreme Court, District of Columbia</inline>: For salaries of the chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme court. District of Columbia.</p></sidenote> justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and of the five associate judges, at six thousand dollars each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand four hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clerk of District Court, Northern District of Illinois</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk, Illinois northern district.</p></sidenote> salary of the clerk of the district court for the northern district of Illinois, as authorized by the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commissioner, Yellowstone Park</inline>: For salary of commissioner in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner. Yellowstone Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 184.</p></sidenote> Yellowstone National Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. And the provisions of section twenty-one of an Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and for other purposes, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Books for Libraries of Circuit Courts of Appeals</inline>: For the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law books, circuit courts of appeals.</p></sidenote> of law books and rebinding law books for the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General upon the requisition of the court (all books purchased hereunder to be plainly marked “The property of the United States”), nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court of Claims</inline>: For the chief justice of the Court of Claims, six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; four judges, at six thousand dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand five hundred dollars: assistant clerk, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/244">244</page> two thousand five hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one chief messenger, one thousand dollars; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant messengers; one laborer; and two charwomen; in all. fifty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To defray the cost of the employment of auditors and additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditors, etc.</p></sidenote> stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, and for a stenographer at one thousand six hundred dollars for the chief justice, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs deemed necessary to preserve the building occupied by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> the Court of Claims, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporting decisions.</p></sidenote> printing of the forty-third volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S. sec. 1765, p. 314.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of a custodian of the. building occupied by the Court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodian.</p></sidenote> Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, five hundred dollars; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 1765, p. 314.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 109.</p></sidenote> section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes and section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall not be applied to this provision.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant messengers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated.</p></sidenote> firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For telephone switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, assistant telephone switch-board operators at the rate of six hundred dollars each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">The appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pay to permanently incapacitated persons.</p></sidenote> persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service, and the heads of Departments shall cause this provision to be enforced.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel expenses of Department employees at Washington to be annually reported, etc.</p></sidenote> and other Government establishment at Washington to submit to Congress at the beginning of each regular session a statement showing in detail what officers or employees (other than special agents, inspectors, or employees, who in the discharge of their regular duties are required to constantly travel) of such Executive Department or other Government establishment have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the preceding fiscal year, giving in each case the full title of the official or employee, the destination or destinations of such travel, the business or work on account of which the same was made, and the total expense to the United States charged in each case.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 187: To make Monterey and Port Harford, in the State of California, subports of entry, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To make Monterey and Port Harford, in the State of California, subports of entry, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3153">S, 3153.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/131">Public, No. 131.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the un ited States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That Monterey and Port<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sail Francisco collection district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monterey and Port Harford made subports of entry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec, 2582, p. 511, fimeuded.</p></sidenote> Harford, in the State of California, are hereby made subports of entry in the district of San Francisco, and the necessary customs officers may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be stationed at each of said subports with authority to enter and clear vessels, receive duties, fees, and other moneys, and perform such other services as, in his judgment, the interest of commerce may require, and said officers shall receive such compensation as he may allow.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That in lieu of stationing deputy collectors or other customs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary detail of customs officers.</p></sidenote> officers permanently at either of said subports in said district, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, authorize the necessary officers to be detailed from time to time, from the port of entry, or from another subport within such district to enter or clear vessels, receive duties, fees, or other moneys, and perform such other services as, in his judgment, the interests of commerce may require.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petroleum vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 23 repealed.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, entitled “An Act to allow the entry and clearance of vessels at San Luis Obispo, Port Harford, and Monterey, California,” is hereby repealed.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the privileges of the first section of the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Arthur, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate transportation privileges extended to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes.” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Port Arthur, in the State of Texas.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That Petoskey, in the State of Michigan, is hereby made a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Rapids collection district, Michigan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petoskey made subport of entry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 2589, p. 513, amended.</p></sidenote> subport of entry in the district of Grand Rapids, and the necessary customs officers may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be stationed at said subport with authority to enter and clear vessels, receive merchandise shipped in bond, collect duties and make delivery of same, receive duties, fees, and other moneys, and perform such other service as, in his judgment, the interest of commerce may require, and said officers shall receive such compensation as he may allow.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the privileges of the seventh section of the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate transportation privileges extended to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 174.</p></sidenote> June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subport of Petoskey, in the State of Michigan.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the privileges of the first section of the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Vincent,Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate transportation privileges extended to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subport of Saint Vincent, in the State of Minnesota.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 188: To amend section forty-eight hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>188.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section forty-eight hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15841">H. R. 15841.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/132">Public, No. 132]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate an d House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4896, p.947, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so that the section shall read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4896">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4896.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">When any person, having made any new invention or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of executor on death of inventor.</p></sidenote> discovery for which a patent might have been granted, dies before a patent is granted the right of applying for and obtaining the patent shall devolve on his executor or administrator, in trust for the heirs <page identifier="/us/stat/35/246">246</page> at law of the deceased, in case he shall have died intestate; or if he shall have left a will disposing of the same, then in trust for his devisees in as full manner and on the same terms and conditions as the same might have been claimed or enjoyed by him in his lifetime: and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of legal representative if inventor becomes insane.</p></sidenote> when any person having made any new invention or discovery for which a patent might have been granted becomes insane before a patent is granted the right of applying for and obtaining the patent shall devolve on his legally appointed guardian, conservator, or representative in trust for his estate in as full manner and on the same, terms and conditions as the same might have been claimed or enjoyed by him while sane: and when the application is made by such legal representatives the oath or affirmation required to be made shall be so varied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p></sidenote> in form that it can be made by them. the executor or administrator<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign executors of deceased inventors not domiciled in United States.</p></sidenote> duly authorized under the law of any foreign country to administer upon the estate of the deceased inventor shall, in case the said inventor was not domiciled in the United States at the time of his death, have the right to apply for and obtain the patent. the authority of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diplomatic, etc., certificate required.</p></sidenote> foreign executor or administrator shall be proved by certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">"The foregoing section, as to insane persons, is to cover all applications<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending, etc., applications.</p></sidenote> now on tile in the Patent Office or which may be hereafter made.”</p></content>
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<docNumber>189.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section forty-eight hundred and eighty-five of the Reused Statutes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/77703">H. R. 17703.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/133">Public, No. 133.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 4885, p. 946, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes be, and the same hereby is. amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4885">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4885.</num> <content class="inline">Every patent shall issue within a period of three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Date of patent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for final fee payment extended.</p></sidenote> months from the date of the payment of the final fee, which fee shall be paid not later than six months from the time at which the application was passed and allowed and notice thereof was sent to the applicant or his agent; and if the final fee is not paid within that period the patent shall be withheld. ”</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 190: Authorizing certain extensions to be made of the lines of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and the Capital Traction Company, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>190.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing certain extensions to be made of the lines of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company, the Washington Railway and Electric Company, the City and Suburban Railway of Washington, and the Capital Traction Company, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/902">S. 902.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/134">Public, No. 134.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the. Anacostia and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of tramway tracks to Union Station, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description of double-track extension of.</p></sidenote> Potomac River Railroad Company be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to construct a double-track connection with its tracks on E street south, thence northwardiv along First street cast to East Capitol street, there to connect with the tracks of the Washington Railway and Electric Company; also a double-track extension from Delaware avenue and C street northeastwardly along Delaware avenue to the plaza in front of the Union Station, together with a double-track loop located as near as may be to the exterior circumference of said plaza and passing in front of and near to the Union Station; also a double-track connection with existing tracks on G street near New <page identifier="/us/stat/35/247">247</page> Jersey avenue northwest and thence eastwardly to and along Massachusetts avenue, with such northerly deviations as may be necessary to bring the tracks immediately in front of and adjacent to the main entrance of the Union Station, to junctions with an existing track at Third and D streets northeast and at the northwest corner of Stanton square.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the City and Suburban Railway of Washington be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City and Suburban Railway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description of route of extension.</p></sidenote> and it is hereby, authorized and directed to extend its double tracks on North Capitol street southwardly from the intersection of G street to Massachusetts avenue, there to connect with the tracks hereinbefore authorized on Massachusetts avenue.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Capital Traction Company of the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capital Traction Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description of double-track extension of.</p></sidenote> be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to construct and extend, by double tracks, the lines of its underground electric railroad from Florida avenue and Seventh street northwest southeastwardly along Florida avenue to its intersection with Eighth street east, thence southwardly along Eighth street to Pennsylvania avenue, there to connect with existing tracks of the Capital Traction Company; also a double-track extension from the tracks hereinbefore authorized on Florida avenue southeastwardly along New Jersey avenue to its intersection with Massachusetts avenue and First street west, thence along said Massachusetts avenue southeastwardly to the said plaza, and with such northerly deviations as may be necessary to bring the tracks immediately in front of and adjacent to the main entrance of the Union Station, thence by such route as may be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to the corner of Second and F streets northeast, thence east on F street north to Eighth street east to connect with the tracks of the Capital Traction Company hereinbefore authorized; also a double-track extension of its lines from Seventh and T streets northwest eastwardly along T street to Florida avenue to connect with the tracks of the Capital Traction Company hereinbefore authorized; also a double-track extension of its lines from C street and Delaware avenue northeast along Delaware avenue to the plaza in front of the Union Station, together with a doubletrack loop passing in front of the Station on said plaza; also a doubletrack connection from First and B streets southeast northwardly along First street east to B street north.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the companies hereinbefore named be, and they are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of duct lines.</p></sidenote> hereby, permitted to lay duct lines on such streets as may be necessary for the proper operation of their lines, the location of such duct lines to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the cost thereof and all the other costs and expenses of construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All costs to be paid by street railway companies.</p></sidenote> removal of tracks, repairs, and restoration in this Act mentioned shall be borne and paid solely by said street railway companies, and they shall be solely liable for all damages to persons and property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages.</p></sidenote> occasioned by any construction or work authorized by this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the said street railway companies mentioned in this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of tracks from certain streets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> Act be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, within eighteen months from the date of the passage of this Act, and it shall be the duty of each of them, to remove their respective railway tracks and appurtenances from the following streets, and at the time of their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair of streets, etc., required.</p></sidenote> removal to repair, restore, and make good in all respects the space now occupied by said railway tracks and appurtenances to the satisfaction and written approval of the Commissioners of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets affected.</p></sidenote> Columbia, namely: G street northwest, from North Capitol street to New Jersey avenue; C street north, from First street east to Fourth street east; D street north, from First street east to Massachusetts avenue; First.street west, from C street north to G street north; Sixth street west, from Louisiana avenue to B street north, and Louisiana <page identifier="/us/stat/35/248">248</page> avenue, from Fifth street west to Sixth street west; and upon neglect<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to remove, repave, etc., a misdemeanor.</p></sidenote> or refusal of said companies to remove their respective tracks and to repave, repair, restore, and make good said space to the satisfaction of the said Commissioners within the time above limited, any said street railway company so neglecting or refusing, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1302.</p></sidenote> in section seven hundred and ten of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia regarding the removal of abandoned tracks, and said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners may remove, etc.</p></sidenote> Commissioners are authorized without notice.to remove said tracks and to repave the space occupied by same and charge the cost thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 105.</p></sidenote> to such railroad company, whatever may be the manner or cost of doing said work, and to collect the cost thereof in the manner provided in section five of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved .June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventv-eight.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the construction of the underground electric street railway lines in this Act hereinbefore mentioned shall be commenced within thirty days and completed on or before May first, nineteen hundred and nine; and in default of such commencement or completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> within said time or within the extension of time by this section specified, all corporate rights, franchises, and privileges of any street railway company so in default shall immediately cease and determine:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time may be extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may, for good cause shown in writing, extend the time for completion; but the said Commissioners shall in no case grant such extension for a longer period than six months.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That where the route or routes provided for in this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint trackage.</p></sidenote> coincide with each other or with the route or routes of existing street railways or street railways hereafter authorized to be operated or constructed, one set of double tracks only shall be constructed and shall be used in common, upon terms mutually agreed upon, or. in case of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disagreements a d-justed by the supreme court of the District.</p></sidenote> disagreement, upon terms determined by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which is authorized and directed to give notice and hearings to the interested parties and to fix and finally determine the terms of the joint trackage: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall be two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trackage at Union Station.</p></sidenote> sets of double tracks immediately in front of the main entrance to the Union Station, facing Massachusetts avenue, the most northerly rail being not less than seventy feet from the axis of the south portico of said station.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That authority is hereby given the Commissioners of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation No. 77, Use of, for roadways, etc.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia to use such portions of reservation numbered seventy-seven as may in their judgment be necessary for sidewalks and roadways and for street railway use. And authority is hereby given said Commissioners to acquire by purchase or to condemn, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Square No. 626.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of, for street purposes.</p></sidenote> accordance with existing law. for street purposes, so much of square numbered six hundred and twenty-six, lying north of the north building line of square numbered five hundred and sixty-seven, extended,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost paid by Anacostin and Potomac Rivet Railroad Company.</p></sidenote> as they may deem necessary, and the cost of acquiring said property as above shall be paid by the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That where a portion of any lot is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition of lots.</p></sidenote> be acquired as above the said Commissioners may. in their discretion, acquire the entire lot; the portion thereof, when so acquired, lying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portion of. to become property of Anacostia and Potomac Railroad Company.</p></sidenote> south of the north building line of square numbered five hundred and sixty-seven, extended, to become the property of said Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company as soon as the entire cost of acquisition as above specified shall be paid by it.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever, in the construction of the new tracks herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening of streets authorized.</p></sidenote> authorized, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia deem it necessary, in order to reasonably accommodate vehicular traffic, to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/249">249</page> widen the roadway of any street or streets in which said track or tracks are to be laid, such widening shall be done by said Commissioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Costs, etc., to be paid by railroad company.</p></sidenote> the cost and expense of such widening, including the laying of new sidewalks, the adjustment of all underground construction, and of every public appurtenance, shall be borne by the railway company constructing such tracks, and the said railway company shall deposit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit.</p></sidenote> with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia in advance the estimated cost of changing or widening the said street or streets, the work to be done by said Commissioners; and whenever, at any future<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Future improvements.</p></sidenote> time, the Commissioners deem it necessary to widen the roadway of any street or streets occupied by the extensions herein authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway affected to bear half expense.</p></sidenote> said railway company shall bear one-half the cost of widening and improving such street or streets, to be collected in the same manner as the cost of laving or repairing pavement lying between the exterior rails of the tracks of said street railroad and for a distance of two feet exterior to such track or tracks is collectible, under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of cost.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 105.</p></sidenote> section five of an Act entitled “An Act to provide a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever in the construction of any of the tracks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjustment of grades.</p></sidenote> herein authorized it is necessary, in the opinion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to improve, by paving or otherwise, the roadway of any street occupied by such track or tracks, said company shall adjust the grade of its tracks to the new grade of the street or streets, the cost thereof to be borne by the said company in the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost.</p></sidenote> manner as the cost of paving bet ween the exterior of the tracks of the street railroad companies as referred to in the preceding section.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That the arrangement of all tracks herein authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Station plaza.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trackage plans, etc., on, to be approved by Commb-siouers.</p></sidenote> within the lines of the plaza in front of the Union Station shall be in accordance with the plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all work of construction and extension herein authorized shall be executed in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and under a permit or permits from said Commissioners.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That existing transfer arrangements between the Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Metropolitan Coach Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers with Washington Railway and Elec trie Company to continue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitution of motor vehicles required.</p></sidenote> Railway and Electric Company and the Metropolitan Coach Company, a corporation of the District of Columbia, shall not be terminated, except by authority of Congress; and unless said Metropolitan Coach Company shall, within one year after the passage of this Act. substitute motor vehicles to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for the herdies now used by it, its right to operate its line shall cease and determine: <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers.</p></sidenote> all transfers issued by the Metropolitan Coach Company shall be properly dated and punched as to time limit as provided by rulesand regulations to be made, altered, and amended from time to time by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and that unless said transfers are so dated and punched the Washington Railway and Electric Company shall not be required to receive them.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad Company<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary overhead trolley.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Station to Delaware avenue.</p></sidenote> and the Capital Traction Company be, and they are hereby, authorized and required, jointly, to construct, maintain, and operate, by overhead trolley, temporary railway tracks for passenger service from the Union Station to the intersection of Delaware avenue and C street north, said tracks to be constructed within sixty days from the date<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans approved by Commissioners.</p></sidenote> of the approval of this Act, in accordance with plans approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said tracks to be maintained by said companies to the satisfaction of said Commissioners, and to be removed by said companies after the construction of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of tracks.</p></sidenote> permanent street railway tracks herein provided for within thirty days <page identifier="/us/stat/35/250">250</page> after notice from said Commissioners so to do: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent, etc..underground construction may be substituted.</p></sidenote> companies herein named may, at their option, substitute permanent underground for temporary overhead construction on Delaware avenue from C street to the southern edge of the plaza, and thence by temporary underground construction to the north line of Massachusetts avenue; such temporary construction to be removed within thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of temporary construction.</p></sidenote> days from the date of operation of cars over the permanent construction provided for in section one of this Act.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the railway companies affected by this Act shall have,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights, etc., of railway companies not affected.</p></sidenote> over and respecting the routes herein piovided for, the same rights, powers, and privileges as they respectively have or hereafter may have by law over and respecting their other routes, and shall be subject in respect thereto to all the other provisions of their charters and of law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That no transfer ticket or written or printed instrument<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer tickets.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improper use of, forbidden.</p></sidenote> giving or purporting to give the right of transfer to any person or persons from a public conveyance operated upon one line or route of a street railroad, or from one car to another car upon the line of any street railroad, shall be issued, sold, or given except to a passenger lawfully entitled thereto. Any person who shall issue, sell, or give<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> away such a transfer ticket or instrument as aforesaid to a person or persons not lawfully entitled thereto, and any person or persons not lawfully entitled thereto who shall receive and use or offer for passage any such transfer ticket or instrument to another with intent to have such transfer ticket used or offered for passage shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That every street railroad company or corporation owning,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First-class car service, etc., required.</p></sidenote> controlling, leasing or operating one or more street railroads within the District of Columbia shall on each and all of its railroads supply and operate a sufficient number of cars, clean, sanitary, in good repair, with proper and safe power, equipment, appliances and service, comfortable and convenient, and so operate the same as to give expeditious<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum speed in city.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In suburbs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interst ate Commerce Commission to enforce regulations.</p></sidenote> passage, not to exceed fifteen miles per hour within the city limits or twenty miles per hour in the suburbs, to all persons desirous of the use of said cars, without crowding said ears. the Interstate Commerce Commission is hereby given power to require and compel obedience to all of the provisions of this section, and to make, alter, amend and enforce all needful rules and regulations to secure said obedience; and said Commission is given power to make all such orders and regulations necessary to the exercise of the powers herein granted to it as may be reasonable and proper; and such railroad companies or corporations, their officers and employees, are hereby required to obey all the provisions of this section, and such regulations and orders as may be made by said Commission. Any such company or corporation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> or its officers or employees, violating any provision of this section. or any of the said orders or regulations made by said Commission, or permitting such violation, shall he punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. And each day of failure or neglect on the part of such company or corporat ion, its officers or employees, to obey each and all of the provisions and requirements of this section, or the orders and regulations of the Commission made thereunder, shall be regarded as a separate offense.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That prosecutions for violations of any of the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions.</p></sidenote> of this Act shall be on information of the Interstate Commerce Commission tiled in the police court by or on behalf of the Commission.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 191: To reimburse certain Departments of the Government for expenses incurred incident to the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/251">251</page>
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<docNumber>191.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To reimburse certain Departments of the Government for expenses incurred incident to the recent fire in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21927">H. R. 21927.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/135">Public, No. 135.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the accounting officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chelsea, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursements for expenses incurred at lire in.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the pay director at the naval station at Boston, Massachusetts, all expenditures made by him on account of the recent lire at Chelsea, Massachusetts, in the aggregate sum of not exceeding six hundred dollars. And that the accounting officers of the Treasury are also authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of the MarineHospital Service located at Chelsea, Massachusetts, the sum of not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, expended in taking care of accident, emergency, and maternity cases caused by the recent fire at said Chelsea. And the said hospital authorities are hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures in future cases authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> to expend in future cases of like character, out of their appropriation, an additional sum of not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars; such authority to be in force until such patients can be cared for in local hospitals, and not for a longer period than until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 192: Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>192</docNumber>
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<docNumber>192.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19158">H. R. 19158.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/136">Public, No. 136.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural Department appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the fiscal year ending .1 une thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the purposes and objects hereinafter expressed, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.</heading>
<content class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: Secretary of Agriculture, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, live thousand dollars; one solicitor, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as custodian of buildings; private secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer and executive clerk to the Secretary of Agriculture, two thousand dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, one thousand four hundred dollars; one appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one chief of supply division, two thousand dollars; one inspector, two thousand dollars; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; one telegraph and telephone operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk class four; three clerks class three; five clerks class two; seven clerks class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: two clerks, nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; six clerks or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one chief engineer, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, etc.</p></sidenote> captain of the watch, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistant engineers at one thousand dollars each; four firemen at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four elevator conductors at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one cabinetmaker, one thousand one hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/252">252</page> dollars; one carpenter, one thousand dollars; one electrician, one thousand dollars; one painter, nine hundred dollars; one painter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one plumber, nine hundred dollars; one blacksmith, eight hundred and forty dollars; one lieutenant of the watch, one thousand dollars; fifteen watchmen, at seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> and twenty dollars each; one mechanic, one thousand one hundred dollars; seven clerks or messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistant messengers, at six hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; three skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each: one skilled laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; eleven laborers or charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one charwoman, live hundred and forty dollars; five charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; for extra laborers and emergency employments, seven thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.</content>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WEATHER BUREAU.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Weather Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Office of Chief of Weather Bureau</inline>: One Chief of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> Bureau, live thousand dollars; one assistant chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; one librarian, two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; twenty-seven clerks of class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists or typewriters, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one copyist or typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant foremen of division, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one proof reader, one thousand four hundred dollars; one chief mechanic, one thousand four hundred dollars; one lithographer, one thousand three hundred dollars; three lithographers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two pressmen, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; ten compositors, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; one skilled mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; six skilled mechanics, at one thousand dollars each; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; one electrician, one thousand dollars; six skilled artisans, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; five messengers or laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five folders and feeders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three folders and feeders, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; six messengers or laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; thirteen messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at six hundred dollars each; four messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five messengers, messenger boys, or laborers, at four hundred and fifty dollars each: one charwoman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred and two thousand five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Lights, and Repairs, Weather Bureau</inline>: Fuel, lights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lights, etc.</p></sidenote> repairs, and other expenses for the care and preservation of the public buildings and grounds of the Weather Bureau in the city of Washington, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/253">253</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Weather Bureau</inline>: Stationery and blank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> books; furniture and repairs to same; freight and express charges; subsistence, care, and purchase of horses and vehicles for official purposes only; repairs of harness; advertising, dry goods, twine, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, iee, washing towels, and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for in the city of Washington, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Station Employees, Weather Bureau</inline>: Professors of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station employees.</p></sidenote> meteorology, inspectors, district forecasters, local forecasters, section d i rectors, research observers, observers, assistant observers, operators, skilled mechanics, repairmen, station agents, messengers, messenger boys, laborers, and other necessary employees, for duty in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, in the Hawaiian Islands, and in Bermuda, tive hundred and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Expenses. Weather Bureau</inline>: Every expenditure requisite<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> for and incident to the establishment, equipment and maintenance of meteorological observation stations in the United States, in the West Indies or on adjacent coasts, and in Bermuda, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, instruments, storm-warning towers, and all other necessary supplies and materials; for repair and improvement of Weather Bureau buildings now completed and located outside of the District of Columbia, and care and preservation of grounds, including not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars for the completion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Weather. Va., observatory.</p></sidenote> the physical laboratory building and the office and cottage building at Mount Weather, Virginia; for the erection of a main observatory building at Mount Weather, Virginia, to replace the observatory building destroyed by fire October twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seven, and for the erection of a central heating and power station thereat, not to exceed sixty thousand dollars; for the acquisition of sites and the erection of buildings for the use of the Weather Bureau, and for all necessary labor, materials, and expenses, plans, and specifications to be prepared by the Secretary of Agriculture, and the work done under the supervision of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, not to exceed one hundred and five thousand dollars; for the reestablishment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pikes Peak, Colo., station.</p></sidenote> the Weather Bureau Station at Pikes Peak, Colorado, not to exceed five thousand dollars; for rents of offices; for official traveling expenses; for freight and express charges; for telegraphing, telephoning, or cabling reports and messages, rates to be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture by agreement with the companies performing the service; for maintenance and repair of Weather Bureau telegraph, telephone, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telegraph, etc., lines.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evaporation, etc</p></sidenote> cable lines; for investigations on climatology and evaporation, including the erection of temporary buildings for living quarters for observers engaged in evaporation work; for river, rain, snow, ice, crop, and aerial observationsand reports; for storm, hurricane, and other observations, warnings, and reports; including pay of special observers and display men, none of whom shall receive more than twenty-five dollars per month; and including not to exceed thirty thousand dollars for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing office.</p></sidenote> the maintenance of a printing office in the city of Washington, including the purchase of necessary supplies and materials for printing weather maps, bulletins, circulars, forms, monthly reviews, and other publications, and for pay of assistant foremen, proof readers, compositors, pressmen, lithographers, and folders and feeders, when necessary; in all, eight hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Weather Bureau, one million six hundred and sixty-two thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/254">254</page></p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Animal Industry.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Animal Industry</inline>: One Chief of Bureau,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one editor, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, át eight hundred and forty dollars each; three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one mechanic, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger and custodian, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, one thousand one hundred dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred and sixty dollars; one illustrator, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, eighty-three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry</inline>: For carrying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 31.</p></sidenote> out the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, establishing the Bureau of Animal Industry, and the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 833.</p></sidenote> and ninety-one, providing for the safe transport and humane treatment of export cattle from the United States to foreign countries, and for other purposes; and the provisions of the Act approved February<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 791.</p></sidenote> second, nineteen hundred and three, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for other purposes; and also the provisions of the Act approved March third, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1264.</p></sidenote> hundred and five, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts, to permit and regulate the movement of cattle and other live stock therefrom, and for other purposes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That live horses be entitled to the same inspection as other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of horses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 607.</p></sidenote> animals herein named; for carrying out the provisions of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to prevent cruelty to animals while in transit by railroad or other means of transportation.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to collect and disseminate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting, etc., information.</p></sidenote> information concerning live stock, dairy, and other animal products, and to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia, blackleg, tuberculosis, sheep scab, glanders or farcy, hog cholera, and other diseases of animals, and for this purpose to employ as many persons in the city of Washington or elsewhere as lie may deem necessary, and to purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of diseased animals.</p></sidenote> and destroy diseased or exposed animals or quarantine the same whenever in his judgment it is essential to prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia, tuberculosis, or other diseases of animals from one State to another; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis in dairy cattle.</p></sidenote> prevalence and extent of tuberculosis among dairy cattle in the United States; to improve and maintain the Bureau Experiment Station, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimentstation, Bethesda, Md.</p></sidenote> Bethesda, Maryland, and to construct and alter buildings thereon as may be necessary from time to time in his discretion; to establish, improve,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote> and maintain quarantine stations, to construct and alter buildings thereon as may be necessary from time to time, and to provide proper shelter and equipment for the care of neat cattle, domestic. and other animals imported, at such ports as may be deemed necessary; to prepare and publish reports relating to animal industry;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports.</p></sidenote> to rent suitable buildings in the District of Columbia, to be used for office, laboratory, and storage purposes for said Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of dairy products for export.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1090.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 732.</p></sidenote> Animal Industry for purposes other than meat inspection: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/255">255</page> inspection of live cattle and products thereof, shall be deemed to include dairy products intended for exportation to any foreign country, and the Secretary of Agriculture may apply, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, the provisions of said Act for inspection and certification appropriate for ascertaining the purity and quality of such products, and may cause the same to be so marked, stamped, or labeled as to secure their identity and make known in the markets of foreign countries to which they may be sent from the United States their purity, quality, and grade; and all the provisions of said Act relating to live cattle and products thereof for export shall apply to dairy products so inspected and certified: <i>Provided also.</i> That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Serums, etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase in the open market samples of all tuberculin serums, antitoxins, or analogous products, of foreign or domestic manufacture, which are sold in the United States for the detection, prevention, treatment, or cure of diseases of domestic animals, to test the same and to publish the results of said tests in such manner as he may deem best, nine hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For experiments in animal feeding and breeding, in cooperation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Animal feeding and breeding.</p></sidenote> with the State agricultural experiment stations, including the repairs and additions to and erection of buildings absolutely necessary to carry on the experiments, fifty thousand dollars; in all, nine hundred and ninety-seven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Animal Industry, one million eighty thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Plant Industry.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Plant Industry</inline>: One Plant Physiologist<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> and Pathologist, who shall be Chief of Bureau, five thousand dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one editor, two thousand dollars; one officer in charge of records, two thousand dollars; one superintendent of gardens and grounds, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks, class four; eight clerks, class three; thirteen clerks, class two; twenty-nine clerks, class one; one seed clerk and superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk or artist, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk or artist, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, one thousand and eighty dollars; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twelve clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; twelve clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four clerks, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; four clerks, at six hundred dollars each; one photographer or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one assistant photographer, six hundred dollars: one illustrator or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one carpenter, nine hundred dollars; one carpenter, eight hundred and forty dollars; two gardeners or assistants, at one thousand dollars each; six gardeners, at nine hundred dollars each; two gardeners, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four gardeners, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; five gardeners, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three gardeners, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one gardener, six hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; one painter, eight hundred and forty dollars; two plumbers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks or messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; nine skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; three skilled laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each: one messenger, six hundred and sixty dollars; three messengers, at six hundred dollars each; ten skilled laborers or messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two <page identifier="/us/stat/35/256">256</page> messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two mes senger boys, at three hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty-seven thousand four hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry</inline>: To investigate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, forage, drug, medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other plants and plant industries, in cooperation with other branches of the Department, the State experiment stations, and practical farmers; to continue the study and demonstration of the best methods of meeting the ravages of the cotton boll weevil; to study plant and orchard diseases and demonstrate the treatment of same; to study plant physiology in relation to crop production; to originate and improve crops by breeding and selection; to investigate and encourage the adoption of Improved Methods of Farm Management And Farm Practice; To Investigate the feeding value of farm crops and the use of fertilizers; to investigate the causesof decay in forest timber and timber used for construction purposes, and to devise means for preventing the decay of the same; to investigate the practical application in agriculture of the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by bacteria and other micro-organisms in soils and in the root tubercles of leguminous and other plants; to cultivate and distribute these nitrogen fixers; to study and find methods for preventing algal and other contaminations of farm water supplies; to carry on special investigations of the conditions of grain production, handling, grading, and transit, and of the means of improving the same; to model fruits, vegetables, and other plants, and furnish duplicate models to the experiment stations of the several States, as far as found practicable; to investigate the methods of harvesting, packing, storing, and shipping fruits and vegetables, and for experimental shipments of fruits and vegetables within the United States and to foreign countries; to cultivate and care for experimental gardens and grounds, manage and maintain conservatories, greenhouses, and plant and fruit propagating houses; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue tne necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arlington experimental farm.</p></sidenote> improvements to establish and maintain a general experimental farm and agricultural station on the Arlington estate, in the State of Virginia, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 135.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tea cultivation.</p></sidenote> approved April eighteenth, nineteen hundred; to investigate and report on the cost of growing and curing tea and the best method of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sugar production.</p></sidenote> cultivating and preparing the same for market; to investigate and develop the domestic production of sugar-beet seed and the best methods of increasing the tonnage of sugar beets; to continue inquiry and ascertain the progress made in the production of domestic sugar from beets and sorghum and other sugar-producing plants; to collect, purchase, propagate, test, and experiment with rare new seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants; for the employment of investigators,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigators, etc.</p></sidenote> local and special agents, agricultural explorers, experts, clerks, illustrators, assistants, student or scientific aids, foremen, gardeners. mechanics, and all other labor and scientific assistance required in conducting investigations and experiments in the city of Washington and elsewhere.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collating, mapping, illustrating, digesting, printing, reporting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disseminating information.</p></sidenote> publishing, and disseminating information on the results of these investigations and experiments. And the Secretary of Agriculture is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tests of grass, etc., seeds.</p></sidenote> hereby directed to obtain in the open market samples of seeds of grass, clover, or alfalfa, test the same, and if any such seeds are found to be adulterated or misbranded, or any seeds of Canada blue grass (Poa compressa) are obtained under any other name than Canada blue grass or Poa compressa, to publish the results of the tests, together with the names of the persons by whom the seeds were offered for sale.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a standard for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishing grades of cotton.</p></sidenote> the different grades of cotton, calling to his assistance for that purpose <page identifier="/us/stat/35/257">257</page> expert cotton classifiers, by fixing a standard of middling cotton and, using the same as a basis, establishing a standard of nine different grades to be designated middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling, strict low middling, low middling, strict good ordinary, and good ordinary, which shall be the official standard of cotton classifications. And the Secretary of Agriculture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing official standard.</p></sidenote> is authorized and directed to prepare in practical form the standard of said grades and furnish the same upon request to any person, the cost thereof to be paid, when delivered, by the person requesting the same, and certified under the signature of the said Secretary and the seal of his Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to establish and maintain,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishing grades of grain for export.</p></sidenote> at such points as he. may deem expedient, laboratories for the purpose of examining and reporting upon the nature,quality, and condition of any sample, parcel, or consignment of seed or grain, including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to report upon such samples, parcels, or consignments, from time to time, and the reports so made shall serve as a basis for the fixing of definite grades, and also for the issuance of certificates of inspection when requested by the consignor or consignee of any grain entering into foreign commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For official traveling expenses; for telegraph and telephone service;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> for gas and electric current; for forage, ice, postage, and washing towels; for express and freight charges; for the purchase of chemicals, materials, office, field, and laboratory supplies, fertilizers, office fixtures, fuel. apparatus, machinery, tools, and other implements, and repairs to same, horses, vehicles, horseshoeing, and harness; for rent and repairs in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for ail other necessary expenses, eight hundred and ninety-six thousand two hundred and sixty-six dollars, of which sum not to exceed ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cotton boll weevil.</p></sidenote> dollars shall be immediately available for cotton boll weevil work.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Purchase and Distribution of Valuable Seeds</inline>: For the purchase,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seeds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, distribution, etc.</p></sidenote> propagation, testing, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: all necessary office fixtures and supplies, fuel, transportation, paper, twine, gum, postal cards, gas, and electric current, official traveling expenses, and all necessary materia] and repairs for putting up and distributing the same; for rent and repairs; the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, two hundred and fifty-eight thousand dollars, of which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment.</p></sidenote> amount not less than two hundred and two thousand dollars shall be allotted for Congressional distribution. And the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seeds to be adapted to locality.</p></sidenote> Agriculture is hereby directed to expend the said sum, as nearly as practicable, in the purchase, testing, and distribution of such valuable seeds, bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, the best he can obtain at public or private sale, and such as shall be suitable for the respective, localities to which the same are to be apportioned, and in which same are to be distributed as hereinafter stated, and such seeds so purchased shall include a variety of vegetable and flower seeds suitable for planting and cultures in the various sections of the United States. An equal proportion of five-sixths of all seeds,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional distribution.</p></sidenote> bulbs, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants, shall, upon their request, after due notification by the Secretary of Agriculture that the allotment to their respective districts is ready for distribution, be supplied to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress for distribution among their constituents, or mailed by the Department upon the receipt of their addressed franks, in packages of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packages.</p></sidenote> weight as the Secretary of Agriculture and the Postmaster-General may jointly determine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all seeds, bulbs, plants, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of uncalled-for seeds, etc.</p></sidenote> cuttings herein allotted to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/258">258</page> Congress, remaining uncalled for on the first day of April shall be distributed by the Secretary of Agriculture, giving preference to those persons whose names and addresses have been furnished by Senators and Representatives in Congress and who have not before during the same season been supplied by the Department: <i>And provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of purchases.</p></sidenote> <i>also</i>, That the Secretary shall report, as provided in this Act, the place, quantity, and price of seeds purchased, and the date of purchase; but nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Secretary of Agriculture from sending seeds to those who apply for the same. And the amount herein appropriated shall not be diverted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diversion of appropriation forbidden.</p></sidenote> or used for any other purpose but for the purchase, testing, propagation, and distribution of valuable seeds, bulbs, mulberry and other rare and valuable trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indication on wrappers.</p></sidenote> <i>however</i>, That upon each envelope or wrapper containing packages of seeds the contents thereof shall be plainly indicated, and the Secretary shall not distribute to any Senator, Representative, or Delegate seeds entirely unfit for the climate and locality he represents, but shall distribute the same so that each Member may have seeds of equal value, as near as may be, and the best adapted to the locality he represents: <i>Provided also</i>, That the seeds allotted to Senators and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Early delivery to southern section.</p></sidenote> Representatives for distribution in the districts embraced within the twenty-fifth and thirty-fourth parallels of latitude shall be ready for delivery not later than the tenth day of January: <i>Provided further.</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of rare seeds, etc., for experimental tests.</p></sidenote> That fifty-six thousand dollars of which sum, or so much thereof as the Secretary of Agriculture shall direct, may be used to collect, purchase. test, propagate, and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants from foreign countries or from our possessions for experiments with reference to their introduction into and cultivation in this country; and the seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, and plants thus collected, purchased, tested, and propagated shall not be included in general distribution, but shall be used for experimental tests, to be carried on with the cooperation of the agricultural experiment stations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Plant Industry, one million three hundred and forty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOREST SERVICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Forest Service</inline>: One Forester, who shall be Chief of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> Bureau, five thousand dollars; one clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; six clerks, class four; three clerks, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one clerk, class three; two clerks, atone thousand five hundred dollars each; two clerks, class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; eight clerks, class one; seven clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twelve clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; nineteen clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; twenty-seven clerks, at seven hundred dollars each; eighteen clerks, at six hundred dollars each; one draftsman, two thousand dollars; two draftsmen. at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each: one artist, one thousand dollars; one photographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one photographer, one thousand dollars; four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messengers, at seven hundred dollars each; three messengers, at six hundred dollars each; three messengers, at four hundred dollars each; one carpenter, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred dollars each; one electrician, seven hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-four thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/259">259</page> <inline class="smallCaps">General Expenses, Forest Service</inline>: To enable the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> Agriculture to experiment and to make and continue investigations and report on forestry, National Forests, forest tires, and lumbering, but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restricted to United States.</p></sidenote> or test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to investigate and test American timber and timber trees, and their uses, and methods for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek,through investigations amt the planting of native and foreign species, suitable trees for the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: <proviso><i>Provided.</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of buildings.</p></sidenote> That the cost of any building erected shall not exceed five hundred dollars; to pay all expenses necessary to protect, administer, and improve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection, etc., of National Forests.</p></sidenote> the National Forests; and hereafter officials of the Forest Service designated by the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are practicable, aid in the enforcement of the laws of the States or Territories with regard to stock, for the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and for the protection of fish and game, and with respect to National Forests, shall aid the other Federal Bureaus and Departments on request from them, in the performance of the duties imposed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of timber.</p></sidenote> on them by law; to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the National Forests, and the Secretary of Agriculture may, in his discretion, permit timber and other forest products cut or removed from the National Forests, except the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota, to be exported from the State, Territory, or the district of Alaska in which said forests are respectively situated: <i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black Hills National Forest.</p></sidenote> That the exportation of dead and insect-infested timber only from said Black Hills National Forest shall be allowed until such time as the Forester shall certify that the ravages of the destructive insects in said forest are practically checked, but in no case after July first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">care of fish and game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents, etc.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and ten: to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the National Forests or the waters therein; to employ fiscal and other agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in practical forestry and in the administration of National Forests, in the District of Columbia or elsewhere; and hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances for emergencies.</p></sidenote> advances of money under any appropriation for the Forest Service may be made to the Forest Service and by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to chiefs of field parties for fighting forest fires in emergency cases, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, and detailed accounts arising under sucn advances shall be rendered through and by the Department of Agriculture to the Treasury Department; to collate, digest, report, illustrate, and print the results of experiments and investigations made by the Forest Service; to purchase law books to an amount not exceeding five hundred dollars, necessary supplies, apparatus, and office fixtures, and technical books and technical journals for officers of the Forest Service stationed outside of Washington; to pay freight, express, telephone, and telegraph charges; for electric light and power, fuel, gas, ice, washing towels, and official traveling and other necessary expenses; and for rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, three million one hundred and fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> the money herein appropriated shall be used to pay the transportation or traveling expenses of any forest officer or agent except he be traveling on business directly connected with the Forest Service and in furtherance of the works, aims and objects specified and authorized in and by this appropriation: <i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles for periodicals.</p></sidenote> appropriation shall be paid or used for the purpose of paying for in whole or in part the preparation or publication of any newspaper or magazine article, but this shall not prevent the giving out to all persons without discrimination, including newspaper and magazine writers and publishers, of any facts or official information of value to the public.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/260">260</page> Total for salaries and general expenses. Forest Service, three million two hundred and ninety-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent improvements.</p></sidenote> not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, to be expended as the Secretary of Agriculture may direct, for the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, bridges, tire lanes, telephone lines, cabins, fences, and other permanent improvements necessary for the proper and economical administration, protection, and development of the National Forests.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Forest Service, three million eight hundred and ninety-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter twenty-five per centum of all money received from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for schools and roads increased.</p></sidenote> each forest reserve during any fiscal year, including the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be paid at the end thereof by the Secretary of the Treasury to the State or Territory in which said reserve is situated, to be expended as the State or Territorial legislature may prescribe for the benefit of the public schools and public roads of the county or counties in which the forest reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportion between States.</p></sidenote> is situated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when any forest reserve is in more than one State or Territory or county the distributive share to each from the proceeds of said reserve shall be proportional to its area therein.</proviso></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of chemistry.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Chemistry.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Chemistry</inline>: One Chemist, who shall be Chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> of Bureau, five thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, class four; four clerks, class three; six clerks, class two; one property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; nine clerks, class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant property custodian, nine hundred dollars; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one skilled mechanic, nine hundred dollars; three skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one skilled laborer, six hundred dollars; one fireman, six hundred dollars; three messengers or laborers, at six hundred dollars each; three messengers or laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two messengers or laborers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all. sixty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Laboratory, Department of Agriculture</inline>: General expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laboratory expenses.</p></sidenote> Bureau of Chemistry: Chemical apparatus, chemicals, and supplies, repairs to engine and apparatus, gas and electric current, official traveling and other expenses, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, labor and expert work and all necessary expenses in conducting investigations in this Bureau in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and in collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations; for the rent of buildings in the city of Washington and elsewhere; to continue collaboration with other Departments of the Government desiring chemical investigations and whose heads request the Secretary of Agriculture for such assistance, and for other miscellaneous work; to demonstrate and illustrate the methods for the making of denatured alcohol on a scale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denatured alcohol.</p></sidenote> suitable for utilization by the farmer, or associations of farmers; to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the character of the chemical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating food products for export.</p></sidenote> and physical tests which are applied to American food products in foreign countries, and to inspect before shipment, when desired by the shippers or owners of these food products, American food products intended for countries where chemical and physical tests are required before said food products are allowed to be sold in the countries mentioned, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/261">261</page> and for all necessary expenses connected with such inspection and studies of methods of analysis in foreign countries; for all expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pure food inspection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 768.</p></sidenote> necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated, or misbranded, or poisonous, or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for other purposes,” including rent and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; employing such assistants, clerks, and other persons as the Secretary of Agriculture may consider necessary for the purposes named, seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter any sum used for compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of payments to State officials, etc.</p></sidenote> of or payment of expenses to any officer or other person employed by any State, county, or municipal government, shall be reported to Congress in detail, on the first Monday of December of each year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Chemistry, eight hundred and twenty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF SOILS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Soils.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Soils</inline>: One Soil Physicist, who shall be Chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> of Bureau, three thousand five hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks, class four; one clerk, class three; three clerks, class two; six clerks, class one; one draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; one draftsman, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: one carpenter, eight hundred and forty dollars; one photographer, one thousand dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one charwoman or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one messenger boy. three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Soil Investigations</inline>: General expenses, Bureau of Soils: Investigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expanses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of soils.</p></sidenote> of the relation of soils to climate and organic life: for the investigation of the texture and composition of soils in the field and laboratory: for the investigation of the cause and prevention of the rise of alkali in the soils of the irrigated districts; the investigation of the relation of soils to drainage and seepage waters: for investigations of soils and for indicating upon maps or plats, by coloring or otherwise, the results of such investigations; to map the tobacco soils of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tobacco.</p></sidenote> the United States; to investigate the soils and conditions of tobacco growth in Cuba, Sumatra, and other tobacco-competing countries; to investigate, with the view of improving, the conditions relating to the supply and sale of domestic tobacco to any foreign country or countries where the business of buyingand selling tobacco is conducted by the Government; rent, and the employment of labor in the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, labor, etc.</p></sidenote> Columbia and elsewhere; for materials, tools, instruments, apparatus, gas, and electric current, furniture, and supplies; for telegraph and telephone service, and for official traveling expenses, freight and express charges, and other necessary expenses, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Soils, two hundred and thirty-four thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Entomology.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Entomology</inline>: One Entomologist, who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> be Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; four clerks of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/262">262</page> class two; one artist, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; five clerks at one thousand dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars: one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all. twenty-six thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Entomological Investigations</inline>: General expenses, Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> Entomology: Promotion of economic entomology; investigating the history and habits of insects injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture, and arboriculture; ascertaining the best means of destroying those found to be injurious, including an investigation into the ravages of insects affecting field crops; investigations of the insects affecting small fruit, shade trees, and truck crops, forests and forest products and stored products; investigation of insects in relation to diseases of men and domestic animals, and as animal parasites; miscellaneous insect investigations, including tobacco insects; the introduction of beneficial insects, quarantine work, and the study of fungous and other diseases of insects; for the expenses of insect laboratory, collections, and experimental garden; investigations in apiculture;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p></sidenote> investigations of insecticides and insecticide machinery: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That Porto Rico is not excluded: for rent, and the employment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico.</p></sidenote> labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; freight and express charges and official traveling expenses; for office fixtures, supplies, and apparatus; telegraph and telephone service; gas and electric current, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars, of which sum ten thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Entomology, one hundred and eighty-four thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureauof Biological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Biological Survey</inline>: One Biologist, who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> be Chief of Bureau, three thousand dollars; one clerk, class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. seven thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Biological Investigations</inline>: General expenses, biological investigations:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> For biological investigations, including the geographic distribution and migrations of animals, birds, and plants, and for the promotion of economic ornithology and mammalogy; for an investigation of the food habits of North American birds and mammals in relation to agriculture, horticulture, and forestry; for the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for freight and express charges; for office fixtures and supplies, gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone service; official traveling and other expenses: and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preventing transportation of illegally killed game.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 187.</p></sidenote> effect the provisions of an Act approved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture, prohibiting the transportation by interstate commerce of game killed in violation of local laws, and for other purposes,” fifty-four thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Biological Survey, sixty-two thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DIVISION OF ACCOUNTS AND DISBURSEMENTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of Accounts and Disbursements.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Division of Accounts and Disbursements</inline>: One chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> of division and disbursing clerk, who shall be administrative officer of the fiscal affairs of the Department, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; one auditor, two thousand dollars; one cashier and chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; six clerks of class three; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/263">263</page> eight clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three clerks at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one custodian of records and files, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Division of Accounts and Disbursements, forty-six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of Publications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Division of Publications</inline>: One editor, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> chief of division, three thousand dollars: one editor, who shall be assistant chief of division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one associate editor, two thousand dollars; one assistant in charge of indexing, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four assistant editors at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two editorial clerks at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one assistant in charge of illustration, two thousand dollars; one draftsman or photographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; two draftsmen or photographers at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one draftsman or photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one chief clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks class one; seven clerks at one thousand dollars each; one assistant in charge document section, two thousand dollars; one assistant in document section, one thousand six hundred dollars; one assistant in document section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman, document section, one thousand four hundred dollars; one foreman, farmers’ bulletin distribution, one thousand two hundred dollars; two forewomen at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one chief folder, one thousand dollars; one folder, nine hundred dollars; three folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; sixteen clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-nine clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-one clerks, at six hundred dollars each; one photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant photographer, eight hundred and forty dollars; ten skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eight skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger boy. three hundred and sixty dollars; one fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Publications, Department of Agriculture</inline>: General expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparing, etc., documents.</p></sidenote> Division of Publications: For the preparation, illustration, publication, indexing, and distribution of documents, bulletins, and reports; for additional assistants, editorial, proof reading, indexing, and other necessary help in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for the. pay of artists, draftsmen, and engravers; the purchase of manuscript for publication; for tools, instruments, and artists’ materials; for drawings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruments, etc.</p></sidenote> engravings, electrotypes, photographs, paintings, lithographs, and other illustration work; for official traveling expenses; for labor and material required in the distribution of documents, including wagons, harness, and horses, and maintenance of same, and for repairs; for rent in the city of Washington; forthepay of watchmenand charwomen;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> for all necessary office fixtures and supplies; for gas and electric current, telegraph and telephone services, and for such other expenses as may be necessary, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Division of Publications, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and ten dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/264">264</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BUREAU OF STATISTICS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Statistics.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Bureau of Statistics</inline>: One Statistician, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> Chief of Bureau, three thousand live hundred dollars; one assistant statistician, who shall be assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand live hundred dollars; one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks, class four; nine clerks, class three; twelve clerks, class two; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; fourteen clerks, class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six clerks, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; in all, ninety-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Collecting Agricultural Statistics</inline>: General expenses, Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting statistics.</p></sidenote> Statistics: Collecting domestic and foreign agricultural statistics, compiling, writing, and illustrating statistical matter for monthly, annual, and special reports; special investigations and compilations; purchase of supplies; telegraph and telephone service: freight and express charges; employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly crop reports.</p></sidenote> official traveling and other expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the monthly crop reports, which shall be gathered as far as practicable from practical farmers and which shall be issued on or before the tenth of each month, shall embrace statements of the conditions of the crops by States, in the United States, with such explanations, comparisons, and information as may be useful for illustrating the above matter, and that it shall be submitted to and officially approved by the Secretary of Agriculture before being issued or published: <i>Provided further</i>, That the condition reports of the cotton crop shall be issuecd on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cotton crop condition reports.</p></sidenote> same day in October each year as the first ginners’ report of actual cotton ginned, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Bureau of Statistics, two hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LIBRARY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Library, Department of Agriculture</inline>: One Librarian,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars: one assistant librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk (who shall be a translator), one thousand two hundred dollars; two cataloguers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three cataloguers, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Library, Department of Agriculture</inline>: General expenses, library:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> Purchase of technical books of reference, technical papers, and technical periodicals necessary for the work of the Department, and for expenses incurred in completing imperfecl series, and for the employment of additional assistance in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for official traveling expenses, and for library fixtures, library cards, and other material, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subscriptions to publications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 3648, ρ.718.</p></sidenote> That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to the subscriptions for publications for the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay in advance for any publications for the use of this Department. And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may furnish<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card index.</p></sidenote> to such institutions or individuals as may carc to buy them, copies of the card index of the publications of the Department and of other <page identifier="/us/stat/35/265">265</page> agricultural literature prepared by the library, and charge for the, same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for library, Department of Agriculture, thirty-three thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of Agriculture</inline>: Purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> of stationery, blank books, twine, paper, gum, dry goods, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, paints, glass, lumber, hardware, ice, fuel, water and gas pipes, heating apparatus, furniture, carpets, matting; for lights, freight, express charges, advertising, telegraphing, washing towels, and necessary repairs and improvements to buildings and heating apparatus; for rent in the District of Columbia, not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building for stable, etc.</p></sidenote> eight thousand dollars; for the construction of a suitable building for shops, stables, and storage, including labor and other expenses, work to be done under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars; the purchase, subsistence, and care of horses, for official purposes only; the purchase and repair of harness; the purchase and repair of vehicles, for official purposes only; payment of duties on imported articles, and the Department of Agri culture’s proportionate share of the dispatch agent in New York, not to exceed four hundred dollars; official traveling expenses; and other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided for, and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Department, including not to exceed two thousand live hundred dollars for postage, eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Experiment Stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Office of Experiment Stations</inline>: One Director, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars: one chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk and proof reader, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks, class two; four clerks, class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk or messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger or caretaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger, six hundred dol lars; one messenger or laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one copyist or laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers or charwomen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Agricultural Experiment Stations</inline>: To carry into effect the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural experiment stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 440.</p></sidenote> of an Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States under the provisions of an Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12. p. 503.</p></sidenote> sixty-two, and of the Acts supplementary thereto,” and to enforce the. execution thereof, eight hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars, thirty thousand dollars of which sum shall be payable upon the order of “the Secretary of Agriculture, to enable him to carry out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bulletins.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 441.</p></sidenote> the provisions of section three of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the Secretary of Agriculture shall prescribe the form of the annual financial statement required by section three of said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightyseven; shall ascertain whether the expenditures under the appropriation hereby made are in accordance with the provisions of said Act, and shall make report thereon to Congress, and to carry out the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statements, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 63.</p></sidenote> provisions of sections two, four, and five of an Act approved March <page identifier="/us/stat/35/266">266</page> sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for an increased annual appropriaton for agricultural experiment stations and regulating the expenditure thereof,” and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to rent offices and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> employ such assistants, clerks, and other persons as he may deem necessary, in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and to incur such other expenses for office fixtures and supplies, stationery, official traveling expenses, freight and express charges, illustration of the Experiment Station Record, bulletins, and reports, as he may find essential in carrying out the objects of the above Acts; and the sums apportioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card index.</p></sidenote> to the several States shall be paid quarterly in advance. And the Secretary of Agriculture hereafter may furnish to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them copies of the card index of agricultural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, and charge for the same a price covering the additional expense involved in the preparation of these copies, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stations, in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and Guam.</p></sidenote> expend eighty-three thousand dollars of said sum to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Island of Guam, including the erection of buildings, the printing (in Hawaii and Porto Rico), illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than live thousand dollars shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> be expended at Guam, and not more than twenty-six thousand dollars shall be expended for the maintenance of stations in either Alaska, Hawaii, or Porto Rico; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell such products as are obtained on the land belonging to the agricultural experiment stations in Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, and the Island of Guam, and to apply the money received from the sale of such products to the maintenance of said stations, and this fund shall be available until used; in all, eight hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate and report<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report, etc., on farmers institutes.</p></sidenote> upon the organization and progress of farmers’ institutes and agricultural schools in the several States and Territories, and upon similar organizations in foreign countries, with special suggestions of plans and methods for making such organizations more effective for the dissemination of the results of the work of the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment stations, and of improved methods of agricultural practice, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Nutrition Investigations</inline>: For setting up and completing all apparatus<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nutrition investigations.</p></sidenote> now the property.of the Government and used in the nutrition investigations, and for preparing for publication results already obtained, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Irrigation and Drainage Investigations</inline>: To enable the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation and drainage investigations.</p></sidenote> of Agriculture to investigate and report upon the laws of the States and Territories as affecting irrigation and the rights of appropriators, and of riparian proprietors and institutions relating to irrigation, and upon the use of irrigation waters, at home and abroad, with especial suggestions of the best methods for the utilization of irrigation waters in agriculture, and upon plans tor the retnóval of seepage and surplus waters by drainage, and upon the use of different kinds of power and appliances for irrigation and drainage, and for the preparation, printing, and illustrat ion of reports and bulletins on irrigation and drainage,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports.</p></sidenote> including employment of labor in the city of Washington or elsewhere; and all necessary expenses, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Office of Experiment Stations, one million thirtv-four thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/267">267</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OFFICE OF PUBLIC ROADS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Roads Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Office of Public Roads</inline>: One Director, who shall he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> a scientist and have charge of all scientific and technical work, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of records, one thousand six hundred dollars; one editorial clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public Roads</inline>: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> inquiries in regard to systems of road management throughout the United States; to furnish expert advice on road building, maintenance, and administration; to make investigations in regard to the best methods of road making, and the best kinds of road-making materials in the several States; to investigate the chemical and physical character of road materials; for the employment of local and special agents, clerks, assistants, and other labor required in the city of Washington and elsewhere; for collating, digesting, reporting, and illustrating the results of such investigations and experiments; for preparing, publishing, and distributing bulletins and reports; for rent and repairs of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> buildings in the District of Columbia, not to exceed two thousand dollars; for necessary office fixtures and supplies, apparatus, and materials; telegraph and telephone service, official traveling and other necessary expenses, and to enable him to assist the agricultural colleges and experiment stations in disseminating information on this subject, seventy-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> appropriation shall be expended for the rent or purchase of roadmaking machinery.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total for Office of Public Roads, eighty-seven thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
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<heading>MISCELLANEOUS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Leave of Absence</inline>: the employees of the Department of Agriculture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves of absence to employees outside of Washington.</p></sidenote> outside of the city of Washington, may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may in exceptional and meritorious cases where such an employee is ill. be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Paper Tests</inline>: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to test such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paper tests.</p></sidenote> plants as may require tests to ascertain if they be suitable for making paper, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, including the employment of labor in Washington or elsewhere.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Stores Industry</inline>: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiry into turpentine, etc., production.</p></sidenote> to inquire into the destruction of forests by the production of turpentine and resin, and the sources and methods of said industry, and in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census to report upon the production of the naval stores industry, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be. necessary, including the employment of labor in Washington or elsewhere.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Bison Range</inline>: the President is hereby directed to reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Bison Range, Montana.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Set apart in Flathead Indian Reservation.</p></sidenote> and except from the unallotted lands noAv embraced within the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, not to exceed twelve thousand eight hundred acres of said lands, near the confluence of the Pend d’Oreille and Jocko rivers, for a permanent national bison range for the herd of bison to be presented by the American Bison Society. And there is hereby appropriated the sum of thirty thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Indians.</p></sidenote> or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay the confederated tribes of the Flathead, Kootenai, and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/268">268</page> Upper Pend d’Oreille, and such other Indians and persons holding tribal relations or may rightfully belong on said Flathead Indian Reservation, the appraised value of said lands as shall be fixed and determined under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved April<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 302.</p></sidenote> twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment.” And the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fencing, etc.</p></sidenote> of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to inclose said lands with a good and substantial fence and to erect thereon the necessary sheds and buildings for the proper care and maintenance of the said bison; and there is hereby appropriated therefor the sum of ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, forty thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>emergency appropriations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency appropriations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Prevention of Spread of Moths</inline>: To enable the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gypsy and brown tail moths.</p></sidenote> Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the continued spread of the gypsy and brown tail moths, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated and made immediately available. And the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to expend said appropriation by establishing a quarantine against such further spread in such manner as he shall deem best, in cooperation with the authorities of the different States concerned and with the State experiment stations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Eradicating Cattle Ticks</inline>: For Bureau of Animal Industry: To<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern cattle fever ticks.</p></sidenote> enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue work in cooperation with State authorities in eradicating the ticks transmitting southern cattle fever, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum twenty-five thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total carried by this bill for the Department of Agriculture, eleven million six hundred and seventy-two thousand one hundred and six dollars.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 193: Amending the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and Acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>193</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>193.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and Acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4186">S. 4186.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/137">Public, No. 137.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there is hereby created<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Forest established in.</p></sidenote> in the State of Minnesota a national forest consisting of lands and territory described as follows, to wit:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beginning at a point where the north line of section thirty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> in township one hundred and forty-eight north, range twenty-eight west, fifth principal meridian, intersects the low water mark of the lake formed by the waters of Third River; thence easterly along the north line of sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, and thirty-six in township one hundred and forty-eight north, ranges twenty-eight and twenty-seven west, continuing easterly along the north line of section thirty-one in township one hundred and forty-eight north, range twenty-six west, to a point where said line intersects the low water mark of Bow String Lake on the west shore: thence southerly along the west side of said lake at low water mark to a point where it crosses the section line between sections sixteen and seventeen in township one hundred and forty-seven north, range twenty-six west; thence southerly along the section line on the east side of sections seventeen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty-two in township one hundred and forty-seven north, range <page identifier="/us/stat/35/269">269</page> twenty-six west, and continuing southerly along the east side of sections five, eight, seventeen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty-two, township one hundred and forty-six north, range twenty-six west, continuing southerly along the east line of sections five, eight, seventeen, twenty, and twenty-nine, township one hundred and forty-five north, range twenty-six west to a point at the low water mark on the right bank of the Mississippi River on the section line between sections twenty-eight and twenty-nine in said township: thence southeasterly along the right bank of the Mississippi River at low water mark to its confluence with Leech Lake River in section twelve in township one hundred and forty-four north, range twenty-six west; thence southwesterly along the right bank of Leech Lake River along the low water mark to Mud Lake; thence along the line of low water mark of Mud Lake on its northern and western shores to the point where Leech Lake River empties into the same on fractional section thirty-two, township one hundred and forty-four north, range twenty-six west; thence up said river along the low water mark on the right bank thereof to a point in fractional section twenty-nine where the line intersects the low water mark of Leech Lake; thence in a northwesterly and southwesterly direction following the contours of said lake at low water mark to the point at low water mark on the shore of said lake on the northeast boundary of the ceded Leech Lake Indian Reservation on section line between sections five and eight, township one hundred and forty-three north, range twenty-nine west; thence in a southwesterly direction following the contours of said lake at low water mark to the point on said lake at the southwestern extremity of Ottertail Point: thence southwesterly in a direct line to the southern extremity of section twenty-five in township one hundred and forty-three north, range thirty-one west; thence in a westerly direction along the contour of said lake to the southwestern extremity of section twenty-six in said township; thence in a northerly and westerly direction along the contour of said lake at low water mark to a point where the center line through section two, running in a north and south direction in township one hundred and forty-three north, range thirty-one west intersects the low water mark of Leech Lake: them e northerly through the middle of said section two to the shore of a small lake at low water mark: thence along the east shore of said lake at low water line to a point where the section line between sections thirty-five and thirty six, township one hundred and forty-four north, range thirty-one west, intersects low water mark of said lake on north shore: thence northerly on section line between sections thirty-five, thirty-six. twenty-five, and twenty-six to the low watermark at the shore of a small lake; thence northerly along the east side of said lake to a point where the section line between sections twenty-five and twenty-six intersects the low water mark of said lake in said township; thence northerly along the east line of sections twenty-six, twenty-three, and fourteen to a point on the east line of section fourteen, twenty chains north of the southeast corner of section fourteen; thence west twenty chains; thence north twenty chains; thence west twenty chains; thence northerly along the east side of a small lake to a point where the center line running in a north and south direction through section fourteen intersects the north side of said lake at low water mark; thence northerly along the center line of said section through section eleven to the quarter corner between sections two and eleven of said township; thence westerly to a point twenty chains west of the northwest corner of section eleven; thence north forty chains; thence west twenty chains; thence north to a point where the center line running in a north and south direction in section three intersects the township line between townships one hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/270">270</page> forty-four and one hundred and forty-live north, range thirty-one west; thence westerly to the quarter quarter corner on the township line in the southeast quarter of section thirty-four in township one hundred and forty-five north, range thirty-one west; thence north twenty chains; thence west forty chains; thence north twenty chains; thence west twenty chains to the quarter corner between sections thirty-three and thirty-four in said township and range; thence northerly along the east line of sections thirty-three, twenty-eight, twenty-one and sixteen in said township to a point where it intersects the rightof-way of the Great Northern Railway as at present located; thence easterly along said right-of-way to a point where it intersects the shore of Cass Lake at low water mark in section fifteen, township one hundred and forty-five north, range thirty-one west; thence northerly along the west shore of Cass Lake and the south, west and north shore of Allen’s Bay and the northwest shore of Cass Lake to a point along the contour of said lake at low water mark at the head of the Mississippi River, approximately in section twenty-one, township one hundred and forty-six north, range thirty west; thence easterly along the right hank of said river to a point where the range line between ranges twenty-nine and thirty west intersects said river; thence northerly along the range line to the northwest corner of section nineteen in township one hundred and forty-seven north, range twenty-nine west; thence easterly along the north line of sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one. twenty-two. twenty-three and twenty-four in said township and along the north side of sections nineteen and twenty in township one hundred and forty-seven north, range twenty-eight west to a point where said line intersects the left bank of Third River at low water mark; thence northerly along the right bank of Third River to the contour line at low water mark of the lake formed by the waters of Third River; thence southeasterly and northerly along the contour line of said lake to the point of beginning; and it is the intent of this Act to include in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selected forestry lands of Chippewa Indians.</p></sidenote> national forest and make apart thereof all that certain territory and land which has heretofore been selected by the Forester of the Department of Agriculture as the ten sections situated in townships one hundred and forty-four, one hundred and forty-five, and one hundred and forty-six north, ranges thirty and thirty-one west of the fifth principal meridian in Minnesota and designated as being the ten sections referred to and authorized to be selected by section two of the Act approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 402.</p></sidenote> twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, being chapter eleven hundred and fifty-seven. United States Statutes at Large, volume thirty-two, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota’ ”, approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and also all the islands in Cass Lake in the State of Minnesota.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And in addition to the lands and territory above described, the lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 402.</p></sidenote> described by section two of said Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two. as follows: “One hundred and sixty acres at the extremity of Sugar Point, on Leech Lake, and the peninsula known as Pine Point, on which the new Leech Lake Agency is now located” shall be included in and are hereby made a part of said national forest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights not affected.</p></sidenote> That this Act shall not in any manner abridge the right of citizens to the use of the west and northwesterly shores of Cass Lake.</proviso></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to proceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of pine timber.</p></sidenote> with the sale of the merchantable pine timber upon the abovedescribed land outside of said ten sections and said islands and points, in conformity with the provisions of said Act above entitled, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 401.</p></sidenote> reserving ten per centum of such timber from sale, said ten per centum to be designated by the Forester of the United States Department of Agriculture; and as to the timber upon said ten sections and said islands and points, the said Forester is authorized, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe from time to time to sell and dispose <page identifier="/us/stat/35/271">271</page> of so much of the standing timber thereon as he may deem wise and advisable in the conduct of a National Forest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to appraise timber reserve.</p></sidenote> commission of three persons shall at once be appointed, consisting of one person to be designated by the President, one by the Secretary of the Interior, and one by a general council of the Indians of the Winnibigoshish, Cass Lake, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation. and Leech Lake Reservation to be held under the direction of the agent at Leech Lake Indian Agency; and said commissioners shall proceed forthwith to appraise the value of the five per centum of timber heretofore reserved from sale by the provisions of said Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 643.</p></sidenote> relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,’” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten percentuni hereafter reserved under the provisions of this Act, and the timber upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and points, and shall ascertain the acreage of actual land included under the provisions of this Act and to the estimated value of said five per centum of timber reserved under the said Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,’” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the ten per centum reserved under this Act and the estimated value of timber upon said ten sections and upon the unappropriated lands on said islands and points, to the sum of the values of the timber so estimated shall add an amount equal to one dol lar and twenty-five cents for each and every acre of land not otherwise appropriated which they find covered by the provisions of this Act, and shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior. the Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal from findings of commission.</p></sidenote> designated in this section, acting through a representative who shall serve without compensation, to be named by them at the time of their appointment of the commissioner herein, shall have sixty days in which to appeal to the President of the United States from the findings of said commissioners, as certified to the Secretary of the Interior. At the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funds deposited to credit of Chippewas.</p></sidenote> end of said sixty days, if no appeal has been taken or if an appeal has been taken, then, upon the determination thereof by the President, the Secretary of the Interior shall certify the amount found by said commissioners, or if modified by the President the amount determined by him, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon place such amount to the credit of ail the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota as a part of the permanent fund of said “All of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota” provided for in an Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 645.</p></sidenote> Congress entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indiansin the State of Minnesota,”approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts supplementary thereto, and the amounts so certified to the Secretary of the Treasury shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, pursuant to the terms of said Acts.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any Indian having an allotment within the limits of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments may be exchanged.</p></sidenote> National Forest created by this Act is hereby authorized to relinquish such allotment and permitted to take another allotment in lieu thereof outside such National Forest, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior; and the allotments of any deceased Indians located within the boundaries of said National Forest shall not hereafter be disposed of under section seven of the Act of June twenty-seventh, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 275.</p></sidenote> hundred and two (volume thirty-second Statutes at Large, page two hundred and forty-five); but the heirs of said deceased Indians shall have the right, with the consent of the Secretary of the Interior and under such rules as he may prescribe, to relinquish to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relinquish ment and selection.</p></sidenote> States the lands covered by such allotments and to select surveyed, unappropriated, unreserved land within the limits of any of the ceded Indian lands in the State of Minnesota and outside of the National <page identifier="/us/stat/35/272">272</page> Forest hereby created in lieu of the land covered by such allotments; and the lands so relinquished by the Indians or their heirs shall thereupon become part of the said national Forest. And the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of lands relinquished.</p></sidenote> the Interior is hereby authorized on request of the Forester of the Department of Agriculture to purchase such relinquishments from said Indians or their heirs and to pay for the same from any moneys received, after the appraisal of timber herein provided for, on account of the sale of timber from the National Forest hereby created, or from the sale of any other products or the use of any lands or resources thereof.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all land in any of said reservations, the Winnibigoshish<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land opened to settlement.</p></sidenote> Indian Reservation, Cass Lake Indian Reservation, Chippewas of the Mississippi Reservation, or Leech Lake Indian Reservation not included in the National Forest hereby created as above described, heretofore classified or designated as agricultural lands, is hereby declared to be open to homestead settlement; and any of said land which has been classified as timber land shall be open to homestead settlement as soon and as fast as the timber is removed therefrom, in conformity with the homestead law, except that none of said lands shall be disposed of except on payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That all moneys received from the sale of timber from any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount to be credited to Chippewas.</p></sidenote> of the lands set aside by this Act for a National Forest, prior to the appraisal herein provided for, including all moneys received for timber under sales made by the Secretary of the Interior as authorized by existing laws and section two of this Act, shall be placed to the credit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 270.</p></sidenote> of the Chippewa Indians in the Stateof Minnesota, as provided for in an Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and the Acts supplementary thereto, and shall draw interest at the rate of five per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">interest.</p></sidenote> centum per annum, pursuant to the terms of said Acts; and after said appraisal the National Forest hereby created, as above described, shall be subject to all general laws and regulations from time to time governing national forests, so far as said laws and regulations may be applicable thereto.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the commissioners provided for herein shall receive a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of commissioners.</p></sidenote> compensation of ten dollars per day each for each and every day actually spent upon the work herein provided for, which shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> appropriated, and no commissioner shall be paid for more than ten days’ service.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">None of the Indian graves now upon any of the islands or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian graves not to be disturbed, etc.</p></sidenote> points referred to in this Act shall be disturbed and the Indians shall continue to have the right to bury their dead at such places as they have heretofore used for that purpose, under the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Forest Service.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States not bound to purchase, etc.</p></sidenote> the United States to purchase any of the land in said reservations excluded from the reserve created by this Act, or to dispose of said land, except as provided by the Act of January fourteenth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25. p. 642.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” and an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 400.</p></sidenote> of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act to amend an Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” or the provisions of this Act: or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands or any portion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of the said lands and the timber thereon, and to dispose of the proceeds thereof, as provided in said Acts, only when received from the sale of the timber and the lands, as therein provided.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 194: Extending the time for the construction of a dam across Rainy River.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/273">273</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>194.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction of a dam across Rainy River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15444">H. R. 15444</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/7138">Public, No 7138</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Rainy River Improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rainy River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for damming, by Rainy River Improvement Company.</p></sidenote> Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota, as the successor to the rights and privileges heretofore granted to the Koochiching Company under the following Acts of Congress, namely: Chapter two hundred and thirty-eight of volume thirty, Statutes at Large, entitled “An Act permitting the. building of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 80, p. 398.</p></sidenote> a dam across Rainy River,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; and of chapter seven hundred and ninety-seven of volume thirty-three. Statutes at Large, entitled “An Act relating to a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 814.</p></sidenote> dam across Rainy River,” approved February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and five, and of the various Acts and provisions therein recited amending said Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, and further subject to the restrictions, conditions, and terms of all of said Acts, is hereby authorized to construct and maintain a dam across Rainy River, Minnesota, at the place designated in said Acts, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 386.</p></sidenote> the construction of dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, so far as the same shall be applicable thereto: <i>Prodded</i>, That said dam shall be completed on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> or before July, nineteen hundred and eleven.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.
<signatures>
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<name><inline class="smallCaps">J G Cannon</inline></name>
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<signature>
<role>Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role>
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<name><inline class="smallCaps">Chrls W. Fairbanks</inline></name>
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<signature>
<role>Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.</role>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In the House of Representatives</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>May 12, 1908.</i></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President of the United States having returned to the House of Representatives in which it originated the bill (H. R. 15444) “An Act extending the time for the construction of a dam across Rainy River,” with his objections thereto the House proceeded in pursuance of the Constitution to reconsider the same; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved</i>, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Attest: A <inline class="smallCaps">Mcdowell</inline> <i>Clerk.</i></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">In the Senate of the United States</inline></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>May 23, 1908.</i></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An Act extending the time for the construction of a dam across Rainy River.” returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved</i>, That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Attest:</p>
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<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">Charles G. Bennett</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role><i>Secretary</i></role>
</signature>
<signature>
<name>By <inline class="smallCaps">H. M. Rose</inline></name>
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<signature>
<role><i>Asst. Secy.</i></role>
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<dc:title>Chap. 198: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>198.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-26">May 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20063">H. R. 20063.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/139">Public,No. 139.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<chapeau class="inline">That the half of the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District <i>of</i> Columbia appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely:</chapeau>
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<heading>GENERAL EXPENSES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Executive Office</inline>: For two Commissioners, at five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of Commissioners. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants to Engineer Commissioner.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, municipal building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 108.</p></sidenote> dollars each: Engineer Commissioner, seven hundred and eighty dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assistants to the Engineer Commissioner, detailed from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved dune eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two hundred and fifty dollars each and said assistants shall also act jointly as superintendent of the municipal building; secretary, two thousand four hundred dollars: two assistant secretaries to Commissioners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars: three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Care of rented District building during July, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors, etc.</p></sidenote> eight: Janitor, one hundred dollars; steam engineer, eighty-three dollarsand fifty cents; three tiremen, at forty dollars each; two elevator operators, at thirty dollars each; three watchmen, at forty dollars each: one laborer, who shall also act as messenger and substitute elevator operator, thirty dollars and fifty cents: two laborers, at thirty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veterinary surgeon.</p></sidenote> of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Property division: Property clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property clerks.</p></sidenote> deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars. the deputy property clerks shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of deputy clerks.</p></sidenote> hereafter, during the absence of the property clerk from any cause, perform his duties without additional compensation, and shall, during the presence of the property clerk, perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the property clerk: and the property clerk may require the said deputy property clerks to give bond for the faithful<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> performance of their duties: but the property clerk shall in every respect be responsible to the United States and the District of Columbia as now provided by law: seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four clerks, at six hundred dollars each; inspector of fuel, at one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two messengers, at six hundred dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector of buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; ten assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one fire-escape <page identifier="/us/stat/35/275">275</page> inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of construction, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector of plumbing. etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one thousand two hundred dollars and four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two bundled dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and two thousand and fifty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Care of District Building</inline>: Clerk and stenographer, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of District building.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; one dynamo tender, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three coal passers, at six hundred dollars each; one electrician’s helper, eight hundred and forty dollars; eight elevator conductors, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two chief cleaners, who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at five hundred dollars each; thirty-six cleaners, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief watchman, one thousand dollars; assistant chief watchman, six hundred and sixty dollars; five watchmen, at six hundred dollars each: in all. thirty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>, Appointments.</p></sidenote> herein authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the Engineer Commissioner with the approval of the Commissioners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, twenty-four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel. etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Assessor’S Office</inline>: For assessor, three thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessor’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards: two assistant assessors, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: two clerks, at one thousand dollars each: inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars: three assistant assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars: messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars: in all, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary clerk hire for preparing numerical book, to be immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Numerical book.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation immediately available.</p></sidenote> available, provided that the regular employees of the assessor’s otlice be employed on this work after office hours, with additional compensation, to be determined by the Commissioners upon the recommendation of the assessor, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/276">276</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Excise Board</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excise board.</p></sidenote> thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Personal Tax Board</inline>: For two assistant assessors of personal taxes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal tax board.</p></sidenote> at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Collector’S Office</inline>: For collector, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector’s office.</p></sidenote> deputy collector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars: two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-sale certificates.</p></sidenote> with authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Auditor’S Office</inline>: For auditor, four thousand dollars; chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor’s office.</p></sidenote> clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars: deputy disbursing officer, one thousand five hundred dollars: one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Office of Corporation Counsel</inline>: For corporation counsel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation counsel’s office.</p></sidenote> four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Sinking-Fund Office, Under Control of the Treasurer of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sinking-Fund Office.</p></sidenote> the United States</inline>: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars: clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all. two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Coroner’S Office</inline>: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars: in all, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Market Masters</inline>; For two market masters, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Market masters.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars each; for necessary labor for cleaning Eastern, Western, and Georgetown market houses, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Wholesale Producers’ Market</inline>: One market master, nine hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Produce market.</p></sidenote> dollars; one assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer for sweeping B<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning, etc.</p></sidenote> street sidewalk used for market purposes and the Wholesale Market Square, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/277">277</page> four hundred and eighty dollars; hauling refuse (street sweepings), six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Eastern Market</inline>: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Market.</p></sidenote> used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Western Market</inline>: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western Market.</p></sidenote> used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Office of Sealer of Weights and Measures</inline>: For sealer of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sealer of weights and measures.</p></sidenote> a weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Engineer’S Office</inline> (Record division): For engineer of highways,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer’s office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record division.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand one hundred dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in RockCreek Park; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector of,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector of asphalts, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars (?ύwλ/evZ, That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from, or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to, any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of treesand parkings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; live assistant engineers, one thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one transitman. one thousand and fifty dollars; four rodmen. at nine hundred dollars each; eight rodmen. at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; twelve chainmen, at si x hundred and fifty dollars each; two draftsmen, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; one general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; one inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; one bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one thousand dollars: one inspector, nine hundred dollars; twelve foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one foreman. Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; ten foremen, at nine hundred dollars each; one bridgekeeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridgekeepers, at six hundred dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; two property yard keepers, at one thousand dollars each; one inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/278">278</page> two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, one thousand dollars; index clerk and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; seven messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, six hundred and twenty-live dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; principal steam engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; six oilers, at six hundred dollarseach; six firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of stables, one thousand five hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; two watchmen, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; two drivers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand four hundred and sixty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Special Assessment Office</inline>: For special assessment clerk, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special assessment office.</p></sidenote> seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all. twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Street-Sweeping Office</inline>: For superintendent, two thousand live<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street Sweeping office.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; ten inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; stable foreman, one thousand dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer and clerk, nine hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars: mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; hostler, five hundred and fifty dollars; two hostlers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: seven dumpmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all. forty-five thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers</inline>: For compensation for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of examiners, steam engineers.</p></sidenote> board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of Insurance</inline>: For superintendent of insurance, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance department.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars: statistician, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, six hundred dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Surveyor’S Office</inline>: For surveyor, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyor’s office.</p></sidenote> assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars: record clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars: inspector, nine himdred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/279">279</page> and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; clerk, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two rodmen, at eight hundredand twenty-five dollars each; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; charwoman, for July, nineteen hundred and eight, nine dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, and drivers when required, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary services.</p></sidenote> for an additional field party when required, including the purchase of supplies and care or hire of teams, all expenditures under this sum to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for surveyor’s office, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Free Public Library</inline>: For librarian, three thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free public library.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars: assistant librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief circulating department, one thousand two hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; librarian’s secretary, nine hundred dollars; reference librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dollars each: three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; five attendants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; five attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each: collator, three hundred and sixty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; library guard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous, Free Public Library</inline>: For purchase of books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> seven thousand five hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand five hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses; surveying instruments and implements: drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the office of the inspector of asphalt and cement ; damages; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/280">280</page> livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed five hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinking-fund office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-five thousand dollars; and the Commissioners shall so apportion this sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use of horses, etc.</p></sidenote> as to prevent a deficiency therein: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall not be used by the Commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs,</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on expenditure for horses, etc.</p></sidenote> for the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to be paid shall .specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire insurance prohibited.</p></sidenote> payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stables</p></sidenote> including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage for strictly official mail matter, seven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of district offices for July, nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of old record vault for July, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for department of insurance for July, nineteen hundred and eight, seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of property yards, fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of storeroom for property clerk for July, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting personal taxes.</p></sidenote> in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, three thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of office for corporation counsel for July, nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-three dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial expenses.</p></sidenote> printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District eases before the supreme court of said District, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s expenses.</p></sidenote> witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants. telephone service, anti other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/281">281</page> For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-arrearage sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26. p. 24.</p></sidenote> and eight, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing game and fish laws.</p></sidenote> Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of dangerous building*.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 923.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, and for other purposes,” to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Historical tablets.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 489, 1126.</p></sidenote> March second, nineteen hundred and seven, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the office of the Register of Wills: For furnishing to the office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register of wills’ office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copies of wills, etc., to assessor.</p></sidenote> of the Assessor, copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of enamel metal identification number tags for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle tags.</p></sidenote> motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing wharf on river front for storage of sand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wharf.</p></sidenote> gravel, four thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements and repairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Elimination of Grade Crossings</inline>: Toward carrying out the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eliminating grade crossings. Union Station.</p></sidenote> of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 767.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 913.</p></sidenote> and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The foregoing appropriation shall be available to develop, as a property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property yard.</p></sidenote> yard for the use of the District of Columbia, and for other municipal purposes, so much of reservation numbered seventeen lying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Part of reservation No. 17 to be used for.</p></sidenote> south of the toe of slope of standard roadbed between the portal of the Virginia avenue tunnel and the east end of the south abutment of the New Jersey Avenue Bridge, and south of the south abutment of the New Jersey Avenue Bridge and east of the toe of slope on the west side of the embankment carrying the approach to the New Jersey <page identifier="/us/stat/35/282">282</page> Avenue Bridge, when the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad shall release and convey to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia all right and title to the above-described portion of said reservation which the said company may have been granted by the diets of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 767.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 913.</p></sidenote> he construction of a union station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, or by any other Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing the construction of fountains, lamp-posts, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fountains, etc., for Plaza.</p></sidenote> structures on the plaza in front of the new union railroad station, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, said sum to be expended under the provisions of existing law regarding the elimination of grade crossings and appropriations made therefor: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> cost to the United States and the District of Columbia shall not exceed :me hundred thousand dollars: <i>And provided further</i>, That the Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Terminal Company to pay part of cost.</p></sidenote> Terminal Company, its successors or assigns, shall defray the cost of so much of these constructions as lie within the limits of its present property north of Massachusetts avenue.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assessment and Permit Work</inline>: For assessment and permit work,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment and permit work.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paving roadways.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Work on Streets and Avenues</inline>: For work on streets and avenues<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work on streets and avenues.</p></sidenote> named in Appendix Y, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and nine, eighty-eight thousand eight bundled dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the Commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Georgetown Schedule</inline>: Three thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedules.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Northwest Section Schedule</inline>: Fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Southwest Section Schedule</inline>: Eighteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Southeast Section Schedule</inline>: Including Pennsylvania avenue only from Thirteenth street to Fifteenth street, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Northeast Section Schedule</inline>: Twenty-six thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc.</p></sidenote> paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for asphalt pavements.</p></sidenote> made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty 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 same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase allowed.</p></sidenote> That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing granite block with asphalt on the following streets:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asphalt to replace granite blocks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets affected.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Jersey avenue southeast, from B street to C street, ten thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">B street southeast, from New Jersey avenue to South Capitol street, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/283">283</page> First street southeast, from B street to C street, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware avenue northeast, from B street to C street, eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">C street northeast, from Delaware avenue to First street, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">V street northwest, from Fifteenth street to New Hampshire avenue, pave thirty-two feet wide, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for paving South Carolina avenue southeast, from Thirteenth street to Fifteenth street, nine thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads</inline>: For purchase and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grading.</p></sidenote> cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys</inline>: For purchase or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation.</p></sidenote> condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction of County Roads</inline> : For construction of county roads<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County roads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> and suburban streets, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">North. North Capitol street, T to V street, pave fifty feet wide, nine thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. Mills avenue, Franklin street to Rhode Island avenue, grade, five thousand rive hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. Seventh street, Girard street to Central avenue, grade and improve, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Albemarle street east of Connecticut avenue, grade and improve, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southeast. Minnesota avenue, from Pennsylvania avenue northward as far as the land may have been dedicated therefor, widening and grading, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Massachusetts avenue, from S street to T street, for paving, seven thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southeast. Barnaby road, from Livingston road to District line, graveling and drainage culverts, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Webster street, Fourteenth to Sixteenth street, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. Monroe street, Michigan avenue to Tenth street, grade and macadamize, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Reno road, grade and improve, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Longfellow street. Fifth street to Shepherd road, grade and improve, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Sixteenth street, grade and improve, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sixteenth street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge over Piney Branch.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the bridge or concrete culvert across Piney Branch on said Sixteenth street shall be constructed the full width of the roadway and sidewalks of said street;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. Randolph place, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave thirty feet wide, one thousand three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Girard street, Eleventh to Thirteenth street, pave thirty feet wide, six thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Holmead place, Park road to Otis place, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Fifth street. U to W street, grade and improve, two thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Forty-first street and Western avenue, grade and improve, provided these roadways from Livingston street to Chevy Chase circle be first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Second street, south of Bryant street, grade and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second street NW.</p></sidenote> improve, seven thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section one of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p></sidenote> Act of Congress approved .January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/284">284</page> entitled “An Act authorizing the extension of Second street northwest,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 845, amended.</p></sidenote> from Elm street north to Bryant street, of W street from its present terminus west of Flagler place to Second street, and of W street west of Second street eastwardly to Second street,” be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out the words “ within thirty days after the passage of this Act,” where they occur in said section;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. S street, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave thirty-two feet wide, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Manor street and Luray place, Warder street to Park place, and Warder street, northwest, Manor street to Luray place, grade and improve, five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Rittenhouse street and Western avenue, Rock Creek Ford road to Chevy Chase circle, grade and improve, seven thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Streets in Anacostia, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Ingraham street. Brightwood avenue to Ninth street, grade and improve, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Ontario place, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Ingleside Terrace, grade and improve, three thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast. Kearney street. Twelfth to Thirteenth street, grade, one thousand eight hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest. Emerson street, Brightwood avenue to Fourteenth street, macadamize, provided the street shall first be graded free of cost to the District of Columbia, four thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand four hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys</inline>: For current work of repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferior material, three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the street railways when necessary: the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing a permanent form of government for the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 105.</p></sidenote> of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventyeight. and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sidewalks.</p></sidenote> reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the street in the District of Columbia now known and designated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brightwood avenue, name changed to Georgia avenue and Georgia to Potomac avenue.</p></sidenote> as Brightwood avenue shall hereafter be known and designated as Georgia avenue, and the street now known and designated as Georgia avenue shall hereafter be known and designated as Potomac avenue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs County Roads</inline>: For current work of repairs of county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County roads.</p></sidenote> roads and suburban streets, one hundred thousand dollars, and three thousand dollars of this sum shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bridges</inline>: For construction and repairs of bridges, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Highway bridge across Potomac River: For salaries of two draw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highway bridge.</p></sidenote> operators, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; one draw operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; for labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operation of the Anacostia River bridge: For salaries of employees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia River bridge.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/285">285</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SEWERS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of sewage pumping station, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pumping station.</p></sidenote> employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, forty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For main and pipe sewersand receiving basins, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Main and pipe.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For suburban sewers, eighty thousand dollars. And the Commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suburban.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to construct service sewers in Conduit road and levy assessments for the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduit road.</p></sidenote> under the conditions prescribed in the Act of April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act authorizing the laying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 241.</p></sidenote> of water mains and service sewers in the District of Columbia.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of rights of way.</p></sidenote> maintenance, and repair of public sewers, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing work on extension of east side intercepting sewer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East side intercepting.</p></sidenote> from boundary sewer to Brookland, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For trunk outlet sewer for Congress Heights, seven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress Heights.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward constructing Fourth street southeast relief sewer from Pennsylvania<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth street relief.</p></sidenote> avenue and Fourth street to Virginia avenue and Second street southeast, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STREETS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sprinkling, Sweeping, and Cleaning</inline>: For sprinkling, sweeping,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning, etc.</p></sidenote> and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including rent of storage rooms: maintenance and repairs of stable, purchase and maintenance of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work done under the immediate direction of the Commissioners without contract: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> whenever it shall appear to the Commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications: two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the Commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of snow and ice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28. p. 809.</p></sidenote> Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Disposal of City Refuse</inline>: For the collection and disposal of garbage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of city refuse.</p></sidenote> and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the District of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For the Parking Commission</inline>: For contingent expenses, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parking commission.</p></sidenote> laborers, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, whitewashing, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bathing Beach</inline>: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bathing beach.</p></sidenote> four hundred and fifty dollars; and for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, two thousand dollars; for repairs and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/286">286</page> improvement of bath houses and for improvement of wharves, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fok Public Scales</inline>: For purchase, repair, and replacement of public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scales.</p></sidenote> scales, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Playgrounds</inline>: For completing equipment of outdoor playgrounds,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Playgrounds.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For grading, planting of hedges, trees, and other improvements at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosedale site.</p></sidenote> Rosedale site, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public-Convenience Stations</inline>: For maintenance of public-convenience<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public-convenience stations.</p></sidenote> stations, including compensation of necessary employees, six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing public-convenience station to be located on public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On reservation No. 8.</p></sidenote> reservation numbered eight in the city of Washington, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the jurisdiction and control of such portion of said public reservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of jurisdiction. etc., of.</p></sidenote> numbered eight as may be required for the location and operation of said station and approaches thereto is hereby transferred from the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such transfer to take effect from the date of notice by said Commissioners to the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army of the portion of said reservation selected, and said Commissioners are further authorized to make all necessary rules and regulations for the management of said station and fix the charges to be made for the use thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings</inline>: For all expenses necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insanitary buildings.</p></sidenote> and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 157.</p></sidenote> buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including personal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, six thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrical department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars: superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one thousand six hundred dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars: electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each: expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at nine hundred dollars each: three telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each: two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector. two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars: clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-live dollars each: clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars: assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars: in all, forty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/287">287</page> For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies</p></sidenote> telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and telephone<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Placing wires underground.</p></sidenote> service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police patrol system.</p></sidenote> boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lighting</inline>: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing, repairing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote> and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unlit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred anti sixty-five thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Terminal Company.</p></sidenote> hereafter the Washington Terminal Company, its successors, or transferees shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys and grounds over and under which its right of way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys and grounds bordering on its right of way. under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said terminal company or its successors, or transferees therefor: <i>Provided</i>, That no more than eighteen dollars per annum shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum per lamp.</p></sidenote> paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of live cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A11 expenses included.</p></sidenote> and nine the price prescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of Columbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense, of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: <i>Provided</i>, That all of said lamps shall burn every night,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All-night service.</p></sidenote> on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: <i>And provided further</i>, That the Commissioners of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street designation signs.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: And <i>provided further</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduit road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of lighting system to District line.</p></sidenote> in their discretion, to extend the street-lighting system, by incandescent forty-candlepower lamps, on and along the Conduit road, from its intersection with the Canal road to the District line and to use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for maintaining the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/288">288</page> lamps. the location of the necessary posts, poles, wires, fixtures, and so forth, and the use of the road therefor shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter contracts shall not be entered into for lighting streets in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract time limit.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, by gas or electricity, for a period exceeding one year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not exceeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric are lights, etc.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty-three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Washington Terminal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Terminal Company.</p></sidenote> Company, its successors, or transferees shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys and grounds over and under which its right of way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys and grounds bordering on its right of way. under the direction and control of the Commissioners; and in case of default of payment of such bills, actions at law may be maintained by the District of Columbia against said terminal company or its successors. or transferees therefor: <i>Provided</i>, That not more than eighty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum per lamp.</p></sidenote> dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wile; and each arc light shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of twenty-five additional fire-alarm boxes, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional firealarm boxes.</p></sidenote> the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross-arms, insulators. pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and cost of replacing the present break wheels in fire-alarm<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Replacing break wheels.</p></sidenote> boxes with approved platinum point key breaks, one thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Aqueduct.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the Washington City reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the stable, thirty three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preliminary investigations and surveys for increasing the water<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys, etc., increasing water supply.</p></sidenote> supply, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any unexpended balances of the appropriations “ For removal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dalecarlia reservoir. Use of balances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1135.</p></sidenote> by dredging of about one hundred and thirty-four thousand cubic yards of sediment from Dalecarlia reservoir, sixteen thousand dollars,” and “For riprapping the sides of the Dalecarlia reservoir for a width of about twenty feet, eighteen thousand dollars.” provided in the District of Columbia appropriation Act (Washington Aqueduct) for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, shall continue and be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine for the purposes designated under said appropriation in said Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiltrution plant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eighty-two thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parking.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1185.</p></sidenote> for these purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight not exceeding six thousand dollars may be used for parking the grounds at the Washington City reservoir, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/289">289</page> For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency fund.</p></sidenote> requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this appropriation to be reported in detail to Congress, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ROCK CREEK PARK.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Creek Park.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, exclusive of building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc.</p></sidenote> for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars, of which sum two thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC SCHOOLS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Officers</inline>: For superintendent of public schools, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> dollars: two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand two hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in alì, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Attendance Officers</inline>: For two attendance officers, authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84. p. 220.</p></sidenote> the Act providing for compulsory education in the District of Columbia. approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, at six hundred dollars each: one attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Teachers</inline>: For one thousand six hundred and forty-six teachers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers.</p></sidenote> to be assigned as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all. at a minimum salary of two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each;,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art. and kindergartens, six in all. ata minimum salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For heads of departments in high and manual training schools in Group B of class six, twelve in all. at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers of the normal, high, and manual training schools promoted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Normal, high, and manual schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum salary, Group H, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligibility.</p></sidenote> for superior work, Group B of class six, seven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter no teacher shall be eligible toGroup B, class six. who has not attained the maximum of Group A; <i>And provided further.</i>, That teachers hereafter employed in normal, high, and manual training schools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> may be placed in Group A. class six, and receive their longevity increase according to their number of years of experience in teaching in accredited normal, high or manual training schools: <i>Provided further.</i> That hereafter no more than seven teachers shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions limited.</p></sidenote> promoted in any one year from Group A. class six. to Group B, class six;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in Group A of class six. one hundred and eighty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/290">290</page> For teachers in class live, one hundred and forty-three in all. at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class four, four hundred and eleven in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class three, four hundred and sixty-three in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars earn;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class two, three hundred and thirty-six in all. at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class one, fifty-eight in all. at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in the normal, high, and manual training schools not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> eligible to the salary of class six by reason of the provisions of section four of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 318.</p></sidenote> teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six. to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the said Act. as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One at a salary of nine hundred and seventy-five dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three at a salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One at a salary of nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for teachers, one million two hundred sixty-three thousand and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Librarians and Clerks</inline>: For eighteen librarians and clerks, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Librarians and clerks.</p></sidenote> assigned as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarians and clerks in class three, eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerks in class two, four in all. at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarians and clerks in class one. five in all. at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for librarian and clerks, ten thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Longevity Pay</inline>: Longevity pay for director of intermediate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity pay.</p></sidenote> instruction, supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of the normal, high, and manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art. and kindergartens, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 8145.</p></sidenote> salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Allowance to Principals</inline>: For allowance to principals of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p></sidenote> grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 320.</p></sidenote> school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia.” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-two thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No sex discrimination.</p></sidenote> shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade of school and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grade.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no teacher, or the whole number appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on employment.</p></sidenote> for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of. a clerk or librarian.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/291">291</page> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the salaries of all teachers, and clerks and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten months to constitute n school year.</p></sidenote> librarians in the high and manual training schools, duly elected, whose services commence with the opening day of school and who shall perform their duties, shall begin on the first day of September and snail be paid in ten monthly installments, the first payment to be made on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments in installments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of.</p></sidenote> the first day of October, or as near that date as practicable, and the payment for the month of June to be made upon the completion of the school term in June: <i>Provided.</i> That the salaries of other teachers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other teachers.</p></sidenote> shall begin when they enter upon their duties.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the following rules for division of time and computation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules for computation of pay.</p></sidenote> of pay for services rendered are hereby established: Compensations of all teachers and librarians and clerks in the high and manual training schools shall he divided into ten equal installments, one of which shall be paid for each school month, and in making payments for a fractional part of a month one-thirtieth of one of such installments shall be the daily rate of pay. For the purpose of computing such compensation and for computing time for services rendered during a fractional part of a month in connection with the compensation of all teachers and librarians and clerks in the high and manual training schools, each and every month shall be held to consist of thirty days, without regard to the actual number of days in any calendar month, thus excluding the thirty-first day of any calendar month from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Any person entering the service of the schools during a thirty-one day month and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to pay for that month from the date of entry to the thirtieth day of said month, both days inclusive; and any person entering said service during the month of February and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to one month’s pay. less as many thirtieths thereof as there were days elapsed prior to the date of entry: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for one day’s unauthorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unauthorized absence.</p></sidenote> absence on the thirty-first day of any calendar month one day’s pay shall be forfeited.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Night Schools</inline>: For salaries of teachers and janitors of night<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night schools.</p></sidenote> schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial, etc., instruction.</p></sidenote> including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, three thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Kindergarten Supplies</inline>: For kindergarten supplies, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kindergarten supplies.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds</inline>: For superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors, etc.</p></sidenote> of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars; of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars; of the Jefferson Building, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Western High School, one thousand four hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Franklin School, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Eastern High School and M Street High School, two in all. at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand four him dred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers.</p></sidenote> Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/292">292</page> For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Training School, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Wallach and Emery school buildings, one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott, and one sixteen-room building in the “first division,”four in all. at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Van Buren School and annex, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Birney and annex, Brookland, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet. Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex, Peabody. Seaton, Sumner, and Webster school buildings, fourteen in all. at nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Lincoln, Mott. Gage, New Langdon, and Miner buildings, five in all. at eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the twelve-room building in the “ eighth division,” nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Abbot, Barret, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook. Cranch, Randall. Syphax, and Tenley buildings, nine in all, at seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Adams, Addison. Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen. Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley. Brent. Briggs. Bruce, Buchanan. Carbery, Cardozo, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Edmunds, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Eckington, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson. Jones, Ketcham. Langston, Lenox, Logan, Lovejoy. Ludlow, Madison, Magruder. Maury, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Polk, Ross, Abby S. Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler. Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, and Wormley buildings, and one eight-room building in present eighth division, seventy-one in all, at six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the B. B. French, Garfield, Thomson, and Woodburn buildings, four in all, at four hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Benning (white), Benning (colored), Brightwood Park, Chevy Chase, Deanwood, Hamilton, High Street, Kenilworth, Langdon. McCormick, Orr, Potomac, Reno, Reservoir, Stanton, and Threlkeld buildings, sixteen in all. at three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, seven in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and five thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Medical Inspectors</inline>: For twelve medical inspectors of public schools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical inspectors.</p></sidenote> four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said inspectors shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Competitive examinations.</p></sidenote> be appointed by the Commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him. w hich shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the Commissioners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For rent of school buildings, repair shop,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> storage and stock rooms, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary rooms, etc.</p></sidenote> for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide <page identifier="/us/stat/35/293">293</page> for the. estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law and for the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> for repairing and renewing beating and ventilating apparatus, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plumbing repairs.</p></sidenote> buildings, fifty thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tools, etc.</p></sidenote> and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, gas. and electric light and power, ninety thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and window shades for new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One four-room addition to Emery school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one six-room addition to Langdon school building, one thousand three hundred and twelve dollars; one four-room addition to Petworth school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars: one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott school building, three thousand five hundred dollars: one four-room addition to Gage school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one sixteen-room building in the “first division,” three thousand five hundred dollars; one twelve room building in the “eighth division,” two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; two kindergartens, three hundred dollars; one manual training shop, two hundred dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> stationery, printing, ice. purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pianos.</p></sidenote> schools, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies for pupils.</p></sidenote> eight grades, who at the time, are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the board of education, in its discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchanges.</p></sidenote> is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not. be desirable for use.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flags.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School garden equipments.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extending the telephone system to one sixteen-room building in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephones to new schools.</p></sidenote> the “first division,” one twelve-room buildingin the “eighth division,” <page identifier="/us/stat/35/294">294</page> including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items to be expended under the electrical department, six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of apparatus for the physics department and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus for physics department, etc.</p></sidenote> installation of electrical equipment in the physical laboratory in those high schools which do not possess the same, namely, the, Central, Eastern, Western, and M street high schools, including conduits, switchboards with usual fittings, wiresand wiring, terminal boxes, motor generators or dynamotors, transformers, resistance boxes, electrical measuring instruments, and other accessories and extra labor and other necessary items, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 501, 1140.</p></sidenote> provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal years ending.June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes, to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law,” is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable schoolhouses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portable school houses.</p></sidenote> for temporary use.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings and Grounds</inline>: For complete equipment of the extension<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote> of the McKinley Manual Training-School, sixty thousand dollars to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion of McKinley Manual Training School building as originally planned, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For site for and toward the construction of one twelve-room building for the fourth division to relieve the Franklin and Thomson schools, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the total cost of the said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For excavating and walling cellar and lowering furnaces in John F. Cook School building, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward an extension of the Business High School building, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said extension under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of ground adjacent to the Johnson School, or in the immediate vicinity thereof, approximately fifty-one thousand square feet, and toward the construction thereon of an eight-room addition, or annex, to said school, fifty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said addition, or annex, including cost of additional ground, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of lot twenty-five, square five hundred and sixty three, adjoining Armstrong Manual Training School, as a site for the erection of an addition to this school, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground for and the erection of a four-room addition to the Monroe School, thirty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said addition, including cost of ground, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground for school in eighth division to replace Potomac School, approximately twenty-five thousand square feet, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground, approximately ten thousand square feet, adjacent to the Morgan School, eleven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/295">295</page> For purchase of ground adjoining the Lovejoy School to provide for an extension of the present building, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twelve-room building on the site of the Garfield School, thirteenth division, ninety-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of lots adjacent to Phillips School, twenty-one thousand square feet, sixteen thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to school<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fireproof stairs, etc.</p></sidenote> buildings and grounds” for the purpose of replacing wooden stairs in brick buildings with those of fireproof construction, removal of old and unsuitable fire escapes, and erection of improved fire escapes, and improvement of approaches thereto, improving exits, and for such miscellaneous alteration and repair work as may be necessary to secure protection against fire in existing school buildings owned by the District of Columbia, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of sites, etc.</p></sidenote> buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the plans and specifications for school buildings shall be prepared<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation and approval.</p></sidenote> under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District, and shall be constructed by the Commissioners in conformity therewith; and the plans and specifications for all other buildings provided for in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, and shall be approved by the Superintendent of the Capitol building and the Commissioners of the District; and shall be constructed in conformity therewith.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">School buildings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All outside doors to open outward, etc.</p></sidenote> constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward and. if feasible, each of said buildings shall have at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this bill shall be used for the maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day for one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Columbia Institution for Thk Deaf and Dumb</inline>: For expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaf and dumb pupils.</p></sidenote> attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4864, p. 942.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 844.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said Institution by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colored children.</p></sidenote> age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 901</p></sidenote> March third, nineteen hundred and live, and under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the instruction of indigent blind children of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indigent blind children.</p></sidenote> Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the indefinite permanent annual appropriation provided for this purpose<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3689. p.728, amended.</p></sidenote> is hereby repealed, to take effecton and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/296">296</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and tire departments, at six hundred dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand sight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, it one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; tour hundred and thirty-one privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and twenty-three privates of class two. at one thousand and eighty dollars each; one hundred and five privates of class one, at nine hundred dollars each; for amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, eight thousand three hundred and three dollars and thirty-five cents; six telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; janitor for police headquarters for July, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty dollars; fourteen janitors, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; inspector, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, ‘ sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each: sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, on bicycles. at fifty dollars each; twenty-six drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all, nine hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-five cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter, in order that the full complement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies in classes two and three.</p></sidenote> of the Metropolitan police force may at all times be maintained. as authorized by law, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized, when Vacancies occur in classes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of privates in class one.</p></sidenote> two and three of said Metropolitan police force, which can not be filled by promotion. to appoint privates in class one equal in number to the positions vacated in saki classes-two and three; and the respective salaries specifically provided for such vacant positions may be reduced to pay the salaries of the privates so appointed in class one: <i>Provided further</i>, That within thirty day? after the passage of this Act and every two years thereafter persons on the pension rolls in the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Biannual medical examination required.</p></sidenote> for disabilities incurred while in the service of the police department or fire department of the District of Columbia shall undergo a medical examination and as a result of such examinations the Commissioners shall determine whether the pension being paid in each case shall continue in whole or in part.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of substation, etc., Anacostia.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to stations, five thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous v x-penses.</p></sidenote> of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, and periodicals, telegraphing. telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bedclothing, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/297">297</page> insignia of office, purchase and care of horses, horse and vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, harness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons, saddles, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection of crime.</p></sidenote> to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; of which amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for the prevention and detection of crime under his certificates approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the War Department may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mounted equipment.</p></sidenote> furnish the District Commissioners for the use of the police, upon requisition, such unserviceable mounted equipment as may be required;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flags, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of police department headquarters and property rooms for .July, nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For house, furniture, and equipment for same, stable and improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia station.</p></sidenote> to grounds, for station house to be erected in Anacostia. twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty-five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">House of Detention</inline>: To enable the Commissioners of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of detention.</p></sidenote> of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation, etc.</p></sidenote> maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age and, in the discretion of the Commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; one hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six guards, at six hundred dollars each; and two matrons, at six hundred dollars each, twelve thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Harbor Patrol</inline>: For one engineer, one thousand dollars; one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbor patrol.</p></sidenote> fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and twenty dollars; one deck hand, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars: deputy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy tire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-four captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-five lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars: twenty engineers, at one thousand one. hundred and fifty dollars each: twenty assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each: two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each: two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollar-each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: thirty-five drivers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/298">298</page> thirty-five assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and ninety-eight privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty-five privates of class one, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; anti one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, four hundred and ninety-two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For repairs and improvements to engine houses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> and grounds, nine thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of horses, fourteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For forage, twenty-three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, for July, nineteen hundred and eight, thirty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase Fire Department</inline>: tor house, site, and furniture for an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House, etc., west of Seventeenth st. NW., etc.</p></sidenote> engine company, to be located west of Seventeenth street northwest and south of Pennsylvania avenue, including cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, thirty-nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one fourth-size steam fire engine, five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New apparatus.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one sixty-five-foot aerial hook-and-ladder truck, four thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one chemical engine for the house at Langdon, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical engine. Langdon.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Volunteer organizations.</p></sidenote> to install under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra apparatus supplied to.</p></sidenote> in any suburb of the said District, such extra apparatus and appliances belonging to the fire department of the District of Columbia as may, in their opinion, be available for the use of any volunteer tire organization which may be created in such suburb: and that such apparatus and appliances shall be maintained in proper condition for service by l he purchase of the necessary supplies out of the appropriations provided for the lire department of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-nine thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>HEALTH DEPARTM ENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For health officer, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> and deputy health officer, two thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars: four clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks,at one thousand dollars each; clerk, six hundred dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fifteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one thousand dollars; one inspector, nine hundred dollars; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon and act as inspector of live stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; five sanitary and food <page identifier="/us/stat/35/299">299</page> inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each, and five sanitary and food inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure food laws and the regulations relating thereto: sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars: driver, five hundred and forty dollars; poundmaster, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for laborers, at not exceeding forty dollars per month, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The duties and the authority now conferred by law upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitary and food inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> inspector of fish and other marine products are hereby vested in each of the sanitary and food inspectors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For rent of stable, one hundred and twenty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stable rent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of conagious diseases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 686.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox. epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 889.</p></sidenote> and seven, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts, purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stables, purchase of reference<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, wagons, etc.</p></sidenote> books, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disinfecting service.</p></sidenote> compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the Commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 126.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abatement of nuisances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 114.</p></sidenote> drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. and an Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six. five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food adulteration.</p></sidenote> of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of milk. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 709.</p></sidenote> regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 768.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the necessary traveling expenses of sanitary and food inspectors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travelling expenses.</p></sidenote> while traveling outside of the District of Columbia for the purpose of inspecting dairy farms, milk, and other dairy products, three, thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isolating wards.</p></sidenote> contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, each, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public crematory.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/300">300</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of appeals reports.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 609.</p></sidenote> and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies each of volumes thirty and thirty-one, one hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four volumes of Torbert’s Digest of the Reports of the Court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torbert’s Digest.</p></sidenote> Appeals of the District of Columbia, forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Juvenile Court</inline>: For judge, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juvenile court.</p></sidenote> clerk, two thousand dollars; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, two hundred and forty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel. ice. gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Police Court</inline>: For two judges, at three thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court.</p></sidenote> dollars each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; four bailiffs, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars: janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars: assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, three hundred and sixty dollars: two assistant janitors, at three hundred dollars each: matron. six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: For fuel, gas. laundry work,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> stationery, printing, preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, removal of ashes and other refuse, telephone service, electric current, and all other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For witness fees, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to police court furniture and replacing same, two hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of jurors, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to the police court building, three hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the heating and ventilating apparatus and for minor repairs to the police court building, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Writs Oe Lunacy</inline>: To defray the expenses attending the execution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lunacy write.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 740.</p></sidenote> of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive <page identifier="/us/stat/35/301">301</page> authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">.J<inline class="smallCaps">Ustices of the Peace</inline>: For six justices of the peace, at two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Justices of the peace.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars each, and the further sum of four hundred dollars each for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses; in all, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest and sinking fund.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EMERGENCY FUND.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency fund.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by Hood or tire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p></sidenote> all articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.</proviso></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts and prisons.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of Convicts</inline>: For support, maintenance, and transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of convicts out of District.</p></sidenote> of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court-House, District of Columbia</inline>: For the following force<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-house.</p></sidenote> necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Warden of the Jail</inline>: For warden of the jail of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warden.</p></sidenote> Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of Prisoners</inline>: For expenses for maintenance of the jail<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fees of Witnesses, Supreme Court</inline>: For fees of witnesses in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees.</p></sidenote> supreme court of t he District of Columbia, and for pay ment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 850, p. 160</p></sidenote> and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fees of Jurors, Supreme Court</inline>: For fees of jurors in the supreme<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’ fees.</p></sidenote> court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Bailiffs</inline>: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of bailiffs.</p></sidenote> court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous Expenses</inline>: For payment of such miscellaneous expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing <page identifier="/us/stat/35/302">302</page> and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court of appeals, District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charities and corrections.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Charities</inline>: For secretary, three thousand dollars; clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Charities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand dollars; six inspectors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one driver, at six hundred and sixty dollars; three drivers, at six hundred dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reformatories and correctional institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Washington Asylum</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Asylum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand five hundred dollars; fifteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars, assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two night watchmen, at five hundred and forty-eight dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for workhouse, six hundred dollars; four assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during second year of service), two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and eighty dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/303">303</page> For additional amount for the above-named purposes, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p></sidenote> live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to families.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 37.</p></sidenote> Act making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President is authorized to appoint three commissioners, one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jail, workhouse, ete.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aüpointmentoí commissioners to investigate.</p></sidenote> whom may be nominated by the Attorney-General and one by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall investigate the condition of the jail of the District of Columbia, now under the control of the Attorney-General, and of the workhouse within said District and other buildings adjacent to said jail; and in connection with the investigation the commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, may visit and inspect similar institutions in other cities within the United States; and they shall report to the President on or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, concerning said condition and the expediency of removing said jail, workhouse, and other buildings to other sites more appropriate for their needs and located so near to railroad lines as to secure suitable facilities for the delivery thereto of material suitable or necessary for industries to be therein carried on; and shall also make such other recommendations on the subject as may seem to them expedient; for the expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> Commission there is hereby appropriated the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Home for the Aged and Infirm</inline>: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and infirm.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; two female attendants, at three hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; two male attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; chief engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each; physician and pharmacist, four hundred and eighty dollars; two nurses, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred and forty dollars; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars: two farm hands, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; tailor, two hundred and forty dollars; seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, five hundred and forty dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; two servants, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and sixty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary tire protection, water mains, plugs, and the necessary piping connections, and laying and installing the same, to be immediately available, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For duplicating the water supply, including an artesian well, deep well pump, tank, piping, and the necessary steam and water connections with pump and tank, to be immediately available, six thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for Home for Aged and Infirm, forty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/304">304</page> <inline class="smallCaps">For Reform School</inline>: For care and maintenance of boys committed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School for boys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> to the Reform School by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said Reform School, twenty-two thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Past</i>, p. 380.</p></sidenote> or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reform School for Girls</inline>: Superintendent, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School for girls.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars: matron, six hundred dollars; three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred dollars each: in all, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles, clothing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewingmachines,fixtures, hooks,stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing and erecting one eight-rack and one ten-rack clothes dryer, complete with stoves, in the laundries, four hundred and sixty-two dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing and erecting two filters and tank of ten thousand gallons capacity for filtered water, two thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing and erecting one motor-driven live by eight singleacting triplex pump, ten horse-power; sixty cycle, single phase, motor and all necessary accessories, one thousand and eighty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing and erecting a hot-air furnace and necessary connections for heating the dormitory for male employees, one hundred and ninety-one dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-five thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Prisoners</inline>: For conveying prisoners to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of prisoners.</p></sidenote> workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical charities.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical charities.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmen’s Hospital.</p></sidenote> be made with the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital.</p></sidenote> be made with the Columbia Hospital for women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to Columbia Hospital, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s Hospital.</p></sidenote> be made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homeopathic Hospital.</p></sidenote> a contract to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of debt.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriation hereby made shall be paid to said National Homeopathic Hospital Association unless said association shall have collected, on or before the thirtieth day of .lune, nineteen hundred and nine, in cash, through contributions, donations, and tike sources, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and shall have furnished the Commissioners of the District of Columbia satisfactory evidence of the collection and possession of said <page identifier="/us/stat/35/305">305</page> sum: <i>Provided further.</i>, That the said sum of forty thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriation.</p></sidenote> shall be applied to the liquidation of the debt of said National Homeopathic Hospital Association.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Hospital.</p></sidenote> to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and equipment, Central Dispensary and Emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> Hospital, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Dispensary.</p></sidenote> indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Incurables.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the women’s clinic, maintenance, five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Women’s clinic.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgetown University Hospital.</p></sidenote> made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Washington University Hospital.</p></sidenote> made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tuberculosis Hospital</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis Hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; pharmacist and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of nurses, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; four graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; ten pupil nurses, at one hundred and twenty dollars each: chief cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, six hundred dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each: elevator conductor, three hundred dollars; laundryman, four hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, twelve thousand one hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas. ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for Tuberculosis Hospital, thirty-seven thousand one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>child-caking institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of children.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Children’S Guardians</inline>: For the Board of Children’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Children’s Guardians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p.268.</p></sidenote> Guardians, created under the Act approved J uly twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> thousand and eighty dollars: placing officer, nine hundred dollars; placing officer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; investigating clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, six hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand live hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of feeble-minded children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary <page identifier="/us/stat/35/306">306</page> care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five, hundred dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not. more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, forty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Board of Children’s Guardians, sixty-six thousand six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of agent.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed two hundred dollars at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Industrial Home School for Colored Children</inline>: For superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School for Colored Children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two caretakers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant caretakers, at three hundred dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; manual training teacher, four hundred and eighty dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; watchman, three hundred dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary services, not to exceed five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary services. Maintenance.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, vehicles, and harness, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary furniture and equipment, including farming implements,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture, etc.</p></sidenote> live stock, and tools, two thousand dollars, to be immediately available:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary tiling and pipes, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, fourteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from sale of products, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fok the Industrial Home School</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; two matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at one hundred and forty-four dollars each: temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand tìve hundred and eighty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> and harness, nine thousand four hundred and twelve dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/307">307</page> In all. for the Industrial Home School, nineteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for destitute colored women.</p></sidenote> made with the National Association for the Relief of Destit ute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundlings’ Hospital.</p></sidenote> made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For renewing the heating apparatus and necessary alterations and repairs at the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Ann’s Asylum.</p></sidenote> made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">German Orphan Asylum.</p></sidenote> made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed six hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary homes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary Homes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal lodging house.</p></sidenote> superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; and laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars: in all, three thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote> Army of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, three, thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war shall also be admitted to the Home.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hope and Help Mission.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital for the Insane</inline>: For support of the indigent insane of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of indigent insane.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law. two hundred and ninety-four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident insane<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deporting nonresident insane.</p></sidenote> persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “To change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to Board of Charities.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the, District of Columbia may require of said secretary, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of the Poor</inline>: For relief of the poor, including pay of physicians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of poor.</p></sidenote> to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Paupers</inline>: For transportation of paupers, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting paupers.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/308">308</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Camp, etc.</p></sidenote> to be mounted, and sucn hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, and the accounting officers are directed to settle the accounts for camps, instruction, and practice marches for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight in accordance herewith, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, forty-five thousand three, hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing, stationery, and postage, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments, and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk, office of the adjutant-general, seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of rille practice and matches, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of troops, other than Government employees, to be disbursed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> under the authority and direction of the commanding general, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Prorvisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions for loss of property.</p></sidenote> collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of Government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: <i>Provided further</i>, That all moneys collected on account of deductions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of tines, etc.</p></sidenote> made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said National Guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary cleiical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than Government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops: <i>Provided further</i>, That any of the moneys appropriated for the fiscal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriation.</p></sidenote> years nineteen hundred and eight and nineteen hundred and nine for the District of Columbia Militia may be used to supplement specific appropriations or allotments which may be found insufficient for the purposes for which made, and authority is hereby given to supplement the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence as may be deemed necessary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions to rations.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases in open market.</p></sidenote> for all blanches of the District of Columbia Militia service may be made in open market, in the manner common among business men, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed one hundred dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/309">309</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WATER DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable from water revenues.</p></sidenote> of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenueand inspection branch.</p></sidenote> also perform the duties of chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand live hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty-live dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For distribution branch; For superintendent, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution branch.</p></sidenote> draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; watchman, seven hundred dollars; watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each; two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eighty thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery, printing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operating ex penses.</p></sidenote> distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, lay ing new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, and purchase and maintenance of two motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, forty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">High-service system.</p></sidenote> system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include <page identifier="/us/stat/35/310">310</page> all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much is may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore mthorized, is hereby appropriated.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">The services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary draftsnen.</p></sidenote> transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or my general or special engineering or construction work authorized by ippropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Com-nissioners of the District; and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners if the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> inch employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum expenditure*.</p></sidenote> That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty-six thousand dollars luring the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering ır construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work is may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, wagons, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special orders from</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners for using.</p></sidenote> with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all-such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such horses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under Commissioners.</p></sidenote> wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services <page identifier="/us/stat/35/311">311</page> and their work and the sums paid to each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum expenditure.</p></sidenote> hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under Commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">laborers.</p></sidenote> to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous trust fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses paid from.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 368.</p></sidenote> to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits. District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at street-railway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers’ market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">From and after the approval of this Act all per diem<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor Day.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leave of absence to day laborers.</p></sidenote> employees and other day laborers of the District of Columbia who have been continuously employed for five working days next preceding the first Monday of September in each year (commonly called Labor Day), and whose employment continues through and beyond said day, may, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, be granted leave of absence with pay for said day.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on requisitions.</p></sidenote> make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances from the Treasury.</p></sidenote> and nine, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on advances</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 766.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83, pp. 390, 915.</p></sidenote> the support of the government thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all advances made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, July first, nineteen hundred and two, March third, nineteen hundred and three, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, March third, nineteen hundred and five, and June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. pp. 516, 1157</p></sidenote> twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, and March second, nineteen hundred and seven, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury out of the revenues of the District of Columbia from time to time, within five years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and nine, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centurm <page identifier="/us/stat/35/312">312</page> per annum on annual balances until so reimbursed: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> That the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditor of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States: <i>And provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street extensions from District revenues only.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as to require the United States to bear any part of the cost of acquisition of land for street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">All lawsand parts of laws to the extent that they are inconsistent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> with this Act are repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 199: Fer the removal of restrictions from part of the lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>199.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Fer the removal of restrictions from part of the lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15641">H. R. 15641</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/140">Public, No. 140.</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of tile United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after sixty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civiized Tribes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status of allotments.</p></sidenote> days from the date of this Act the status of the lands allotted heretofore or hereafter to allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes shall, as regards restrictions on alienation or incumbrance, be as follows: All<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation restriction removed.</p></sidenote> lands, including homesteads, of said allottees enrolled as intermarried whites, as freedmen, and as mixed-blood Indians having less than half Indian blood including minors shall be free from all restrictions. All lands, except homesteads, of said allottees enrolled as mixed-blood Indians having half or more than half and less than three-quarters Indian blood shall be free from all restrictions. All homesteads of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions continued.</p></sidenote> said allottees enrolled as mixed-blood Indians having half or more, than half Indian blood, including minors of such degrees of blood, and all allotted lands of enrolled full-bloods, and enrolled mixed-bloods of three-quarters or more Indian blood, including minors of such degrees of blood, shall not be subject to alienation, contract to sell, power of attorney, or any other incumbrance prior to April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, except that the Secretary of the Interior may remove such restrictions, wholly or in part, under such rules and regulations concerning terms of sale and disposal of the proceeds for the benefit of the respective Indians as he may prescribe. the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal by Secretary of the Interior.</p></sidenote> of the Interior shall not be prohibited by this Act from continuing to remove restrictions as heretofore, and nothing herein shall be construed to impose, restrictions removed from land by or under any law prior to the passage of this Act. No restriction of alienation shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way through Indian lands continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 47.</p></sidenote> be construed to prevent the exercise of the right of eminent domain in condemning rights of way for public purposes over allotted lands, and for such purposes sections thirteen to twenty-three inclusive, of an act entitled “An act to grant the right of way through Oklahoma Territory and the Indian Territory to the Enid and Anadarko Railway Company, and for other purposes,” approved February twentv-eighth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes’ at Large, page forty-three), are hereby continued in force in the State of Oklahoma.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all lands other than homesteads allotted to members<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases of restricted lands.</p></sidenote> of the Five Civilized Tribes from which restrictions have not been removed may be leased by the allottee if an adult, or by guardian or curator under order of the proper probate court if a minor or incompetent, for a period not to exceed five years, without the privilege of renewal: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That leases of restricted lands for oil, gas or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>, Oil, gas, or mining purposes.</p></sidenote> mining purposes, leases of restricted homesteads for more than one year, and leases of restricted lands for periods of more than live years, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/313">313</page> may be made, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations provided by the Secretary of the Interior, and not otherwise: <i>And provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands of minors, etc., under same restriction.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction of the probate courts of the State of Oklahoma over lands of minors and incompetents shall be subject to the foregoing provisions, and the term minor or minors, as used in this Act, shall include all males under the age of twenty-one years and all females under the age of eighteen years.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the rolls of citizenship and of freedmen of the Five Civilized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rolls of citizens and freedmen evidence of quantum of Indian blood.</p></sidenote> Tribes approved by the Secretary of the Interior shall be conclusive evidence as to the quantum of Indian blood of any enrolled citizen or freedman of said tribes and of no other persons to determine questions arising under this Act and the enrollment records of the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes shall hereafter be conclusive evidence as to the age of said citizen or freedman.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no oil. gas, or other mineral lease entered into by any of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statusos prior leases by allottees.</p></sidenote> allottees prior to the removal of restrictions requiring the approval of the Secretary of the Interior shall be rendered invalid by this Act, but the same shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior as if this Act had not been passed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the owner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power of owners of unrestricted lands over oil. etc., leases.</p></sidenote> or owners of any allotted land from which restrictions are removed by this Act, or have been removed by previous Acts of Congress, or by the Secretary of the Interior, or may hereafter be removed under and by authority of any Act of Congress, shall have the power to cancel and annul any oil, gas, or mineral lease on said land whenever the owner or owners of said land and the owner or owners of the lease thereon agree in writing to terminate said lease and tile with the Secretary of the Interior, or his designated agent, a true copy of the agreement in writing canceling said lease, which said agreement shall be executed and acknowledged by the parties thereto in the manner required by the laws of Oklahoma for the execution and acknowledgment of deeds, and the same shall be recorded in the county where the land is situate.</proviso></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all land from which restrictions have been or shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unrestricted lands subject to taxation.</p></sidenote> removed-shall be subject to taxation and all other civil burdens as though it were the property of other persons than allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That allotted lands shall not be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption from prior claims.</p></sidenote> subjected or held liable, to any form of personal claim, or demand, against the allottees arising or existing prior to the removal of restrictions, other than contracts heretofore expressly permitted by law.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That any attempted alienation or incumbrance by deed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation, etc., of restricted lands void.</p></sidenote> mortgage, contract to sell, power of attorney, or other instrument or method of incumbering real estate, made before or after the approval of this Act, which affects the title of the land allotted to allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes prior to removal of restrictions therefrom, and also any lease of such restricted land made in violation of law before or after the approval of this Act shall be absolutely null and void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the personsand property of minor allottees of the Five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of Oklahoma probate courts over minor allottees.</p></sidenote> Civilized Tribes shall, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, be subject to the jurisdiction of the probate courts of the State of Oklahoma. the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Local agent of Interior Department for estates of minors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> under rules and regulations to he prescribed by him, to appoint such local representatives within the State of Oklahoma who shall be citizens of that State or now domiciled therein as he may deem necessary to inquire into and investigate the conduct of guardians or curators having in charge the estates of such minors, and whenever such representative or representatives of the Secretary of the Interior shall be of opinion that the estate of any minor is not being properly cared for by the guardian or curator, or that the same is in any manner <page identifier="/us/stat/35/314">314</page> being dissipated or wasted or being permitted to deteriorate in value by reason of the negligence or carelessness or incompetency of the guardian or curator, said representative or representatives of the Secretary of the Interior shall have power and it shall be their duty to report said matter in full to the proper probate court and take the necessary steps to have such matter fully investigated, and go to the further extent of prosecuting any necessary remedy, either civil or criminal, or both, to preserve the property and protect the interests of said minor allottees; and it shall be the further duty of such representative or representatives to make full and complete reports to the Secretary of the Interior. All such reports, either to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Interior or to the proper probate court, shall become public records and subject to the inspection and examination of the public, and the necessary court fees shall be allowed against the estates of said minors. the probate courts may, in their discretion, appoint<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be appointed guardian.</p></sidenote> any such representative of the Secretary of the Interior as guardian or curator for such minors, without fee or charge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And said representatives of the Secretary of the Interior are further<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other duties as to restricted lands.</p></sidenote> authorized, and it is made their duty, to counsel and advise all allottees, adult or minor, having restricted lands of all of their legal rights with reference to their restricted lands, without charge, and to advise them in the preparation of all leases authorized by law to be made, and at the request of any allottee having rest ricted land he shall, without charge, except the necessary court and recording feesand expenses, if any, in the name of the allottee, take such steps as may be necessary, including the bringing of any suit or suits and the prosecution and appeal thereof, to cancel and annul any deed, conveyance, mortgage, lease, contract to sell, power of attorney, or any other encumbrance of any kind or character, made or attempted to be made or executed in violation of this Act or any other Act of Congress, and to take all steps necessary to assist said allottees in acquiring and retaining possession of their restricted lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplemental to the funds appropriated and available for expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> connected with the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, there is hereby appropriated, for the. salaries and expenses arising under this section, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, to be available immediately, and until July first, nineteen hundred and nine, for expenditure, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rest riction on lands of minors.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no restricted lands . of living minors shall be sold or encumbered, except by leases authorized by law, by order of the court or otherwise.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And there is hereby further appropriated, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for suits in Oklahoma.</p></sidenote> Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and available until expended as the Attorney-General may direct, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be used in the payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For western district.</p></sidenote> of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of ten thousand dollars of the above amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in the prosecution of cases in the western judicial district of Oklahoma.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any suit brought by the authority of the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits against vendees, etc., of town lots.</p></sidenote> against the vendee or mortgagee, of a town lot, against whom the Secretary of the Interior may find upon investigation no fraud has been established, may be dismissed and the title quieted upon payment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conclusion of investigation.</p></sidenote> the full balance due on the original appraisement of such lot: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such investigation must be concluded within six months after the passage of this Act.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nothing in this act shall be construed as a denial of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits as to title, etc., of restricted lands.</p></sidenote> right of the United States to take such steps as may be necessary, including the bringing of any suit and the prosecution and appeal thereof, to acquire <page identifier="/us/stat/35/315">315</page> or retain possession of restricted Indian lands, or to remove cloud therefrom, or clear title to the same, in cases where deeds, leases or contracts of any other kind or character whatsoever have been or shall be made contrary to law with respect to such lands prior to the removal therefrom of restrictions upon the alienation thereof; such suits to be brought on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, without costs or charges to the allottees, the necessary expenses incurred in so doing to be defrayed from the money appropriated by this act.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That no contest shall be instituted after sixty days from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contests of selections of allotment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limited.</p></sidenote> the date of the selection of any allotment hereafter made, nor after ninety days from the approval of this Act in case of selections made prior thereto by or for any allottee of the Five Civilized Tribes, and, as early thereafter as practicable, deed, or patent shall issue therefor.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That section twenty-three of an Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wills of full-blood</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acknowledgment before Oklahoma judge.</p></sidenote> provide for the tinal disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section, the words “or a judge of a county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 145, . amended.</p></sidenote> court of the State of Oklahoma.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the death of any allottee of the Five Civilized Tribes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allottees.</p></sidenote> shall operate to remove all restrictions upon the alienation of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions removed by death.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyances.</p></sidenote> allottee’s land: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no conveyance of any interest of any full-ldood Indian heir in such land shall be valid unless approved by the court having jurisdiction of the settlement of the estate of said deceased allottee: <i>Provided further</i>, That if any member of the Five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of estates of Indians of half-blood or more.</p></sidenote> Civilized Tribes of one-half or more Indian blood shall die leaving issue surviving, born since March fourth, nineteen hundred and six, the homestead of such deceased allottee shall remain inalienable, unless restrictions against alienation are removed therefrom by the Secretary of the Interior in the manner provided in section one hereof, for the use and support of such issue, during their life or lives, until April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one; but if no such issue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In case of no issue.</p></sidenote> survive, then such allottee, if an adult, may dispose of his homestead by will free from all restrictions; if this be not done, or in the event the issue hereinbefore provided for die before April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, the land shall then descend to the heirs, according to the laws of descent and distribution of the State of Oklahoma, free from all restrictions: <i>Provided further</i>, That the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acknowledgment of wills.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 145.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Supra.</i></p></sidenote> of section twenty-three of the act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by this act, are hereby made applicable to all wills executed under this section.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaw and Chickasaw warrants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of outstanding.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States, belonging to the Choctaw or Chickasaw nations respectively, any and all outstanding general and school warrants duly signed by the auditor of public accounts of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, and drawn on the national treasurers thereof prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seven, with six per cent interest per annum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to holders for value.</p></sidenote> from the respective dates of said warrants: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said warrants be presented to the United States Indian agent at the Union Agency, Muskogee, Oklahoma, within sixty days from the passage of this act, together with the affidavits of the respective holders of said warrants that they purchased the same in good faith for a valuable consideration, and had no reason to suspect fraud in the issuance of said warrants: <i>Provided further</i>, That such warrants remaining in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To original payees.</p></sidenote> hands of the original payee shall be paid by said Secretary when it is shown that the services for which said warrants were issued were actually performed by said payee.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That all royalties arising on and after July first, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminole lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of royalties to lessor, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, from mineral leases of allotted Seminole lands heretofore or hereafter made, which are subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, shall be paid to the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, for the benefit of the Indian lessor or his proper representative to whom such royalties shall thereafter belong; and no such lease shall be made after said date except with the allottee or owner of the land: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the interest of the Seminole<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest of Seminole Nation to cease June 30, 1908.</p></sidenote> Nation in leases or royalties arising thereunder on all allotted lands shall cease on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That all records pertaining to the allotment of lands of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of tribal allotment records.</p></sidenote> Five Civilized Tribes shall be finally deposited in the office of the United States Indian agent. Union Agency, when and as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine such action shall be taken, and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for copies to counties of Oklahoma.</p></sidenote> appropriated, to be immediately available as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to enable the Secretary of the Interior to furnish the various counties of the State of Oklahoma certified copies of such portions of said records as affect title to lands in the respective counties.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the second paragraph of section eleven of an act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 141, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An act to provide for (he final disposition of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-sixth nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That every officer, member or representative of the Five Civilized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money, records,etc., to be delivered to Secretary of the Interior.</p></sidenote> Tribes, respectively, or any other person, having in his possession, custody or control, any money or other property, including the books, documents, records or any other papers, of any of said tribes, shall make full and true account and report thereof to the Secretary of the Interior, and shall pay all money of the tribe in his possession, custody or control, and shall deliver all other tribal properties so held by him to the Secretary of the Interior, and if any person shall willfully and fraudulently fail to account for all such money and property so held by him, or to pay and deliver the same as herein provided, prior to July thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, he shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure to account, etc.</p></sidenote> of not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, according to the laws of the United States relating to such offense, and shall be liable in civil proceedings to be prosecuted in behalf of and in tíiβ name of (he tribe or tribes in interest for the amount or value of the money or property so withheld.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the provisions of section thirteen of the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town sites.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lots in established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 142.</p></sidenote> approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirtyfourth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-seven), shall not apply to town lots in town sites heretofore established, surveyed, platted, and appraised under the direction of the Secretary of’ the Interior, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the conveyance of any interest in the coal or asphalt underlying said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and asphalt retained.</p></sidenote> lots.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 200: Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/317">317</page>
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<docNumber>200.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21260">H.R. 21260</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/141">Public. No. 141</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sundry civil expenses appropriations.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington. Vermont, post-office and custom-house: For completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Vt.</p></sidenote> of building, including the construction of a balustrade on the cornice, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cedar Rapids. Iowarent.</p></sidenote> Government officials at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clarinda, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clarinda. Iowa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland. Ohio, rent.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus. Ohio, rent.</p></sidenote> officials at Columbus, Ohio, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Decatur, Illinois, post-office: For completion of building under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decatur. III.</p></sidenote> present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eau Claire, Wisconsin, court-house and post-office: For completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eau Claire, Wis.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grand Island, Nebraska, post-office and court-house: For continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Island, Nebr.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Rapids, Mich.,rent.</p></sidenote> officials at Grand Rapids, Michigan, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Green Bay, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house: For continuation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Green Bay. Wis.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Knoxville, Tennessee, post-office and court-house: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Knoxville, Tenn.</p></sidenote> land and for continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lafayette, Indiana, post-office: For necessary change in driveway,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lafayette. Ind.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred and two dollars and forty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lancaster. Pennsylvania, post-office: For additional land and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lancaster. Pa.</p></sidenote> completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Los Angeles, Cal., rent.</p></sidenote> quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Muscatine, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muscatine, Iowa.</p></sidenote> present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Orleans. Louisiana, mint: For miscellaneous repairs and improvements,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mint.</p></sidenote> including repairs to outside walls and to grounds, installation of new plumbing, gas service, and electric-wiring system, exterior and interior painting, and so forth, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New York. New York, post-office: For continuation of work, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars, which sum shall not be expended on any <page identifier="/us/stat/35/318">318</page> building the plans for which when made, and approved by the Postmaster-General, shall involve a total cost, exclusive of site, and including approaches, elevators, heating apparatus, mechanical equipment for handling mails, and the amounts herein and heretofore appropriated therefor, of a sum exceeding three million five hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New York barge oilice: Toward reconstruction of annex, and building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barge office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract.</p></sidenote> pier in connection therewith, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such reconstruction and building at a cost not to exceed live hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ocala, Florida, post-office and court-house: For site and completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocala, Fla.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For additional land, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peoria, Ill.</p></sidenote> for continuation of enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of temporary quarters, for the accommodation of Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> officials, at Peoria. Illinois, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quincy, Massachusetts, post-office and custom-house: For completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quincy, Mass.</p></sidenote> of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richmond, Virginia. rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Va.,rent.</p></sidenote> at Richmond, Virginia, including necessary moving expenses, in addition to the amount appropriated by sundry civil act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Francisco, California, mint: Authority is granted to use of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco,Cal., Mint.</p></sidenote> unexpended balance of sixty-five thousand dollars, appropriated by the deficiency act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 639.</p></sidenote> repair of the mint building at San Francisco damaged by earthquake, so much thereof as may be necessary to replace the. stone flagging in the workrooms of the melter and refiner and the coiner, and also to pay the account of four hundred and seventy-five dollars of the Waltz<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Waltz Safe and Lock Company.</p></sidenote> Safe and Lock Company, of San Francisco, California, for equipping the vault of the mint of the United States at San Francisco with single outer and folding inner doors, for security to the bullion and coin stored therein.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Francisco, California, custom-house: the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custom-house.</p></sidenote> is authorized, upon the completion of the custom-house in the city of San Francisco, California, to pay to Thomas Butler, the contractor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to Thomas Butler.</p></sidenote> for the construction of said building, in addition to the contract price therefor, such sum as may be equitable and just to reimburse said contractor for any loss actually sustained in consequence of the earthquake and great fire of April, nineteen hundred and six, not exceeding the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote> the amount allowed said Thomas Butler shall not be sufficient to enable him to make any profit out of the making and execution of said contract.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Spokane. Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokane, Wash.</p></sidenote> For continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house: For completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, N.J.</p></sidenote> of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of temporary quarters for accommodation of Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, N. Y., rent.</p></sidenote> officials at Watertown, New York, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Webster City, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Webster City, Iowa.</p></sidenote> present limit, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wichita, Kansas, post-office and court-house: For the completion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wichita, Kans.</p></sidenote> the enlargement, extension, remodeling, and improvement of the Government building at Wichita. Kansas, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/319">319</page> New Haven, Connecticut, public building, now used for a post-office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Haven. Conn.</p></sidenote> and for other purposes: To enlarge, extend or remodel said building, including all necessary changes in, additions thereto, alterations thereof, repairs to the present building, and of the heating and plumbing systems therein, and drainage and approaches thereto, which may be incident to such extension and enlargement or remodeling of said building, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington. D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury buildings, repairs.</p></sidenote> repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings and the grounds adjacent thereto, including personal services of skilled mechanics, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-alarm system.</p></sidenote> automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire by purchase or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Engraving and Printing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">hind for new building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 614.</p></sidenote> condemnation all of the land in square numbered two hundred and thirty-one not now owned by the United States, together withall of squares numbered two hundred and thirty-two and two hundred and thirty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and toward the construction, for the use of the Bureau of Engraving and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> Printing, of a fireproof building approximately three hundred by live hundred feet with interior courts, basement, four stories, and attic, in the immediate vicinity of and adjoining the present building, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts, cost.</p></sidenote> authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed two million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, including the cost of acquiring as a site therefor the land herein described : <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> to proceed at once and, pending the acquisition of said lands, to procure the necessary plans and specifications for the building herein authorized: <i>Provided further</i>, That if in the judgment of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present site as alternative.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury the land herein described can not be acquired by purchase or condemnation at a fair and reasonable price he is authorized to construct the said building for use of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing on land now owned by the United States west of the site of the present building of said Bureau, and for that purpose the sums herein appropriated and authorized shall be available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote> preservation of custom-houses, court-houses and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildingsand 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, five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, etc.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in all cases, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of buildings on acquired sites authorized.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/320">320</page> Mechanical equipment for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanical equipment.</p></sidenote> plumbing, gas piping (except for furniture lighting), ventilating, and refrigerating apparatus, vacuum cleaning systems, interior pneumatictube systems, 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, four hundred thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding thirty-eight thousand tive 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 under the terms of this appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaults, safes, and locks.</p></sidenote> 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, seventy-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding seven thousand tive hundred dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia in making repairsand inspecting work done.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, chemicals, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, and the annual subscriptions to technical periodicals and journals published abroad may be paid in advance, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrical burglar alarms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 1091.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including the post-office, court-house, and so forth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, 111.</p></sidenote> building at Chicago, Illinois, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine hospitals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine hospitals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stapleton, Staten Island. New York, marine hospital: Toward reconstruction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stapleton, N. Y.</p></sidenote> and for additional buildings, one hundred thousand dollars: and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for such reconstruction and additional buildings at a cost not to exceed two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance of leprosy hospital. Hawaii: the unexpended balance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leprosy hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1010.</p></sidenote> of fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, for maintenance of the leprosy hospital, Hawaii, is hereby reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and in addition thereto the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the maintenance of said leprosy hospital.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarantine stations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reedy Island Quarantine Station: For completion of tilling, eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reedy Inland.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Francisco Quarantine Station: For launch to take place of launch<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco.</p></sidenote> Bacillus, ten thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>life-saving service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 46.</p></sidenote> For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/321">321</page> For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts ot Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of two hundred and eighty-eight keepers of life-saving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante.</i> p. 46.</p></sidenote> and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and seventy three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crews.</p></sidenote> stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of seventy dollars per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of sixty-five dollars per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or commutation thereof for keepers and surfmen: compensation of volunteers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of volunteers.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> 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 allowance for heat and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cornmutation of quarters, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disabilities, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22. p. 57.</p></sidenote> light 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 nine hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the pay of surfmen in the Life-Saving Service shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computing pay of surfmen.</p></sidenote> computed according to the number of days in each month, respectively, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/322">322</page> and not as required by section six of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 763.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>revenue-cutter service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the Revenue-Gutter Service: For pay and allowances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>. p. 61.</p></sidenote> of captain commandant and officers of that rank, senior captains, captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief, and officers of that rank, captains of engineers, lieutenants of 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 heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for allowance for clothing for enlisted men; 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seal fisheries.</p></sidenote> the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anchorage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 151.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 131.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1081.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 54.</p></sidenote> 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, two million one hundred and ninety-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required for the foregoing purposes, to carry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for increase in pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 108.</p></sidenote> out the provisions of the army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-four dollars and seventy-four cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No pension to be allowed.</p></sidenote> That, hereafter no pension shall be allowed or paid to any commissioned officer, warrant officer,or enlisted man in the Revenue-Cutter Service either on the active or retired list.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special repairs to revenue cutters, seventy-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion of one steam revenue cutter of the first class for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam cutter.</p></sidenote> duty in Puget Sound and adjacent waters, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion of one steam revenue cutter of the first class for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah. Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam cutter.</p></sidenote> duty at Savannah Georgia, and adjacent waters on the Atlantic coast, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits for steam vessel for removal of derelicts and installation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wrecking vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote> of same, forty thousand five hundred and eighteen dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to transfer the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg” transferred from Navy.</p></sidenote> United States steamer Vicksburg, with her outfits and armament, to the Treasury Department for the use of the Revenue-Cutter Service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a launch, of such motive power as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland, Oreg.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power launch.</p></sidenote> determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of the customs service at and in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a wharf and storehouses thereon at Waaddah<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waaddah Island Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storehouses, etc.</p></sidenote> Island, Neah Bay, Washington, for the use of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service, in <page identifier="/us/stat/35/323">323</page> connection with the ocean-going tug and life-saving station authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84. p. 123.</p></sidenote> by the Act of Congress approved April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, twenty-four thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Hinting.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million two hundred and eight thousand eight hundred, and twenty-nine dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81. p. 45.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wages.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million six hundred and twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no portion of this sum shall be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Large notes.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81. p. 45.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote> distinctive paper, and tor 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, five hundred and twenty-one thousand six hundred and seventy-four dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">International Exchanges</inline>: For expenses of the system of international<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International exchanges.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">American Ethnology</inline>: For continuing ethnological researches among<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">American Ethnology.</p></sidenote> 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-two thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">International Catalogue of Scientific Literature</inline>: For the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.</p></sidenote> 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 Smithsonian Institution.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/324">324</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Astrophysical Observatory</inline>: For maintenance of Astrophysical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Astrophysica1 Observatory.</p></sidenote> 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 ana alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Museum</inline>: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Museum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cases, furniture, etc.</p></sidenote> required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heat, light, etc.</p></sidenote> and telephonic service for the National Museum, twenty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc., collections.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> the National Museum, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Zoological Park</inline>: For continuing the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Zoological Park.</p></sidenote> roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>interstate commerce commission.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of Commissioners.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of seven Commissioners, at ten thousand dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salary of secretary, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For all other authorized expenditures, necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, seven hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding three thousand dollars may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counsel.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing accounting by railroads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 593.</p></sidenote> compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engaged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arbitration of railroad differences.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 424.</p></sidenote> in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway safety appliances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27. p.531.</p></sidenote> regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees <page identifier="/us/stat/35/325">325</page> and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, including the employment of inspectors, one hundred thousand dollars. Hereafter all inspectors employed for the enforcement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports of Inspectors.</p></sidenote> of said Act 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be. and is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In vest igation of safety appliances, etc.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized, at its discretion, to investigate, test experimentally, and report on the use and need of any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation which may be furnished in completed shape to such Commission for such investigation and test entirely free of cost to the Government. For this purpose the Commission is authorized to employ persons familiar with the subject to be investigated and tested, and may also make use of its regular employees for such purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation to enable the Interstate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of block systems, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reapproprlation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. St. p. 1312.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34,p.838.</p></sidenote> joint resolution approved .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the purposes named in this and the preceding paragraph.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Paper for Internal-Revenue Stamps</inline>: For paper for internalrevenue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paper and stamps.</p></sidenote> stamps, including freight, eighty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">After June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, collectors of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal revenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">AH coll etions to be paid daily to Treasury.</p></sidenote> internal revenue shall pay daily into the Treasury of the United States, under instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, the gross amounts of all collections of whatever nature, made by authority of law, and the same shall be covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of taxes.</p></sidenote> into Treasury as internal-revenue collections which under authority of law has heretofore been refunded or returned, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, internal revenue service, additional to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for miscellaneous expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>. p. 207.</p></sidenote> the sum appropriated therefor in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Collectors of internal revenue shall render their revenue accounts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly returns to be made.</p></sidenote> quarterly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Punishment for Violations of Internal-Revenue Laws</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishing violations of internal-revenue laws.</p></sidenote> 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 and twenty-five 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 state-mentof all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Fractional Silver Coin</inline> : For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting fractional silver coin.</p></sidenote> of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, sixty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries <page identifier="/us/stat/35/326">326</page> , free of charge, fractional silver coin when requested to do so: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote> deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants: <i>Provided</i>, That not less than one-half of this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registered mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> shall be used in transporting said coin by registered mail. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation, and report at the next session of Congress the necessary facilities and the cost thereof for transporting said coin by registered mail, and by registered mail insured.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Minor Coin</inline>: For transportation of minor coin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting minor coin.</p></sidenote> by registered mail or otherwise, twenty-five thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an equal amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote> in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Independent Treasury</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, Independent. Treasury.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 3653, p. 719.</p></sidenote> 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 sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defraying the expense of transporting money stored at the San<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money from San Francisco mint.</p></sidenote> Francisco Mint and receiving and storing the same elsewhere, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Recoinage of Gold Coins</inline>: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recoining gold coins.</p></sidenote> in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3512, p.696.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States securities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive paper.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Distinctive Paper for United States Securities</inline>: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including expenses of transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, four counters, live watchmen, one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Special Witness of Destruction of United States Securities</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness of destruction.</p></sidenote> 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 sixty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sealing and Separating United States Securities</inline>: For materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sealing and separating.</p></sidenote> 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, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of National Currency</inline>: For distinctive paper, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distinctive paper for national currency.</p></sidenote> transportation, mill, and other necessary expenses, fifty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Canceling United States Securities and Cutting Distinctive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceling, Etc.</p></sidenote> Paper</inline>: 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Custody of Dies, Rolls, and Plates</inline>: For pay of custodian of dies,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.</p></sidenote> 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/327">327</page> hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars: in all, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Assistant Custodians and Janitors</inline>: For pay of assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant custodians and janitors.</p></sidenote> 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 six hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For custodian of public buildings at Saint Paul, Minnesota, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Paul. Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodian.</p></sidenote> thousand six hundred dollars, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury without reference to the laws or regulations applying to classified or civil service, and shall discharge such additional duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may from time to time require.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Inspector of Supplies for Public Buildings</inline>: For one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector of supplies.</p></sidenote> 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, whose duty it shall be 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Inspector of Furniture and Other Furnishings for Public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector of Furniture, Etc.</p></sidenote> Buildings</inline>: 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, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant inspector of furniture and other furnishings for public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant inspector.</p></sidenote> buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Furniture and Repairs of Furniture</inline>: For furniture and repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture and repairs.</p></sidenote> 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, five hundred and seventeen thousand three 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The furniture for all new public buildings shall hereafter be procured<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture for new buildings.</p></sidenote> in accordance wif h plans and specifications approved by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Lights, and Water for Public Buildings</inline>: For the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, lights, and water.</p></sidenote> 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 bedesignated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, underthe control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million four hundred thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall <page identifier="/us/stat/35/328">328</page> include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas governors.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury in writing: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-live 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Suppressing Counterfeiting and Other Crimes</inline>: For expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 965.</p></sidenote> 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 fifteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses.</p></sidenote> 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.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to persons detailed forbidden.</p></sidenote> payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department or who may at any time, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Compensation in Lieu of Moieties</inline>: For compensation in lieu of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation in Heu of moieties.</p></sidenote> moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Customs Service</inline>: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting customrevenue, additional.</p></sidenote> from customs, four million five hundred thousand dollars, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection of fraud etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20. p. 386: Vol 33. p. 396, amended.</p></sidenote> year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual alloment increased.</p></sidenote> to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine to two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automatic scales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation con tinned.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 708.</p></sidenote> 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 nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Landsand Other Property of the United States</inline>: For custody,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">lands, etc.</p></sidenote> care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/329">329</page> the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers fees, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service</inline>: Expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay. etc.</p></sidenote> Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of all other employees, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, light, and water, eighty thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture and repairs to same, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of building or floor space for purveying depot in Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hygienic Laboratory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New building.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete equipment of new Hygienic Laboratory building, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of hospitals.</p></sidenote> all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical examinations, etc.</p></sidenote> other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses at other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For journals and scientific books, for use of the Public Health and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> Marine-Hospital Bureau, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction of two new stairways in the Marine Hospital at Chicago,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago. Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> Illinois, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one million two hundred and ninety-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quarantine Service</inline>: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarantine Service.</p></sidenote> 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; Biseavne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Kassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Pensacola; Mobile; New Orleans (repairs and rehabilitation for New Orleans Quarantine Station when title perfected, to be payable from the appropriation Act of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six); 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, four hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine 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.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/330">330</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Prevention of Epidemics</inline>: the President of the United States is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of epidemics.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p></sidenote> 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 Aetapproved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1316.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 10.</p></sidenote> March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and in the urgent defi-îiency appropriation Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and five hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p></sidenote> 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 all 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Files for Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for PostOflice Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Files.</p></sidenote> For tiles for postmasters’ money-order statements and papers relating thereto, nine thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repair, and So Forth, of “The Hermitage”</inline>: For repairing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ the Hermitage.” Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> buildingsand improving the grounds of “The Hermitage,” the home of President Andrew Jackson, situated in Davidson County, Tennessee, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce and Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>immigration stations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration stations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Immigration station, Ellis Island, New York: For dredging new<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island. N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging channel.</p></sidenote> channel to afford landing facilities for arriving aliens and their baggage, sixty-five thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Immigration station, Angel Island, California: For completing buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Angel Island, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings.</p></sidenote> and appurtenances in accordance with specifications, forty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the cost of furnishings and equipments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> for the station shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steel ferry steamer, San Francisco, California: For the purchase or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ferry steamer.</p></sidenote> construction of a steel ferry steamer for service between San Francisco and Angel Island, California, immigration station, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steel boarding cutter, San Francisco, California: For the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boarding cutter.</p></sidenote> or construction of a steel boarding cutter for use of the Immigration Service at San Francisco, California, twenty-five thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the. permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Staten Island light-house depot, New York: the balance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tompkinsville, N. Y.. depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lamp shop.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 1092; Vol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">34, p. 1317.</p></sidenote> appropriation made in the Acts of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, of fifty thousand dollars, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, of twenty-five thousand dollars, for the erection of a lamp shop at the general light-house depot, Tompkinsville, New York, is hereby made available, in so far as may be necessary, for outfitting and equipping said shop with necessary tools, appliances, machinery, and equipment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/331">331</page> Anchorage buoys in the port of New York: For establishing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anchorage buoys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 151.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 162.</p></sidenote> replacing, and maintaining all anchorage buoys required in connection with the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, relating to the anchorage of vessels in the port of New York, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Joseph light-house depot, Michigan: For repairs to the dock<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph, Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> and fences, twenty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of land for light-keeper’s dwelling.</p></sidenote> directed to accept as a gift from the owner or owners, a piece of land one hundred and fifty feet long by one hundred feet wide, which shall be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor from a tract of land situated in section twenty-three, town four, south, range nineteen, west. Berrien County, Michigan, and bounded on the west by Lake Michigan, on the south by the North Pier at the entrance of Saint Joseph and Benton Harbor, on the east by lands owned by the United Statesand occupied as a light-house station and light-house supply depot, and on the north by a line drawn westerly from the northwest corner of said lands occupied as a light-house station and light-house supply depot, parallel witn said North Pier at the entrance of said harbor, to Lake Michigan; and upon the delivery of a deed with abstract showing good title to said tract of land offered as a gift, in the United States, the Light-House Board is authorized and directed to erect the new light-keeper’s dwelling heretofore authorized for said station on said tract of land so acquired.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Light-ship on the Knuckle of the Frying Pan Shoal: For a lightship<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Knuckle of the Frying Pan Shoal, N.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light vessel.</p></sidenote> on the Knuckle of the Frying Pan Shoal, off Cape Fear, North Carolina, to be located at the place where the old light-ship was located, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter no light-ship shall be removed from the place designated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of lightvessels prohibited.</p></sidenote> for its station, in the Act authorizing its construction, and be stationed elsewhere except upon express authority of Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Light and signal. Saint John’s River, Florida: For a light and signal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">St.John’s River, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buoys.</p></sidenote> or whistling buoy, to be placed off the entrance to Saint John’s River, Florida, and a relief buoy for same, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Humboldt Bay fog signal, California: the unexpended balance, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Humboldt Bay, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keeper’s dwelling.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 711.</p></sidenote> so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation of fifteen thousand dollars made in the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, for a fog signal at the entrance to the harbor at Humboldt Bay, California, is hereby made available for the construction of a fog-signal keeper’s dwelling on a detached site near said Humboldt Bay fog signal, California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following aids to navigation, as authorized by the Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional aids to navigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 160.</p></sidenote> authorize additional aids to navigation in the Light-House Establishment, and for other purposes, approved May fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">First Light-House District: Toward construction of a tender for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tender, first district.</p></sidenote> use in the First Light-House District and elsewhere as may be directed, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third Light-House District: For a light and fog-signal station at or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Negro Point, N.Y.</p></sidenote> near Negro Point, on Wards Island, Hell Gate, East River, New York, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Judith, R. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light, etc., buoy.</p></sidenote> off Point Judith, Rhode Island, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a light and signal or whistling buoy fitted with submarine bell,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville. N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light, etc., buoy.</p></sidenote> to be placed at or near the entrance to the dredged channel at Greenville, New Jersey, in New York Bay, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a new spar shop, at a cost not to exceed three thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tompkinsville, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shop. etc.</p></sidenote> and a wooden dump scow, at a cost not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars, at the general light-house depot, Tompkinsville, New York, ten thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/332">332</page> For a storehouse and dock at San Juan, Porto Rico, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan. P. R. Storehouse.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fourth Light-House District: For a light and fog-signal station on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elbow of Cross Ledge. Delaware Bay.</p></sidenote> Elbow of Cross Ledge, Delaware Bay, New Jersey, twenty-one thousand live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For moving the Schooner Ledge Range Lights, Delaware River,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schooner Ledge.</p></sidenote> Pennsylvania, so as to comply with the change in position of the dredged channel of the Delaware River, ten thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For range lights, Reedy Island, Delaware River, Delaware and New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reedy Island.</p></sidenote> Jersey, twenty-tive thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a temporary light at Goose Island Flats, Delaware<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goose Island Flats.</p></sidenote> River, Delaware, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For post lights on Delaware River between Bordentown and Trenton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post lights.</p></sidenote> New Jersey, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifth Light-House District: For one buoy to be placed off Cape<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chesapeake Bay entrance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light, etc., buoys.</p></sidenote> Henry: one buoy to be placed to the northward of the Middle Ground near the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, and one relief buoy, all to be light and signal or whistling buoys, each fitted with submarine bell, twenty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a post-lantern light, at or near the mouth of Lower Broad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Broad Creek, N. C.</p></sidenote> Creek, North Carolina, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for a light and fog-signal station at Ragged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ragged Point, Potomac River. Va.</p></sidenote> Point, Potomac River, Virginia, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixth Light-House District: For a tender for the use of the engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tender. Sixth District.</p></sidenote> in the Sixth Light-House District and elsewhere, as may be directed, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighth Light-House District: Fora light and fog-signal station at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sabine Pass Jetty.</p></sidenote> or near the end of Sabine Pass Jetty, forty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for a light and fog-signal station at or near<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston. Tex.</p></sidenote> the outer end of one of the jetties at Galveston Harbor, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a buoy wharf and depot shed at Fort San Jacinto, Texas, Military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort San Jacinto, Tex.</p></sidenote> Reservation, Galveston Harbor, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ninth Light-House District: For a light vessel at Milwaukee Bay,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwan kee Bay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wis., vessel.</p></sidenote> Wisconsin, seventy-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a fog-signal station at Grand Point au Sable, Michigan, eleven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Point au Sable.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tenth Light-House District: For a light station at each of the east<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland. Ohio, breakwater.</p></sidenote> and west breakwater pierheads, entrance to Cleveland Harbor, Ohio, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eleventh Light-House District: For additional amount for a relief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief vessel, Ninth and Eleventh dis tricts.</p></sidenote> light vessel for the Ninth and Eleventh lighthouse districts, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Light-House Board to make survey and estimate the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gull Island. Lake Superior.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on station.</p></sidenote> cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light and fog station on Gull Island, or the easterly end of Michigan Island. Apostle Group, and whether, when said station is established, the existing station on the westerly end of Michigan Island can bo safely closed, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelfth Light-House District: For a light and fog-signal station at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four Mile Creek cal.</p></sidenote> or near Four Mile Creek, near Punta Gorda. California, sixty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a light and fog-signal station at some point on the northerly or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kauai, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> westerly coast of Kauai Island. Hawaii, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirteenth Light-House District: To enable the Light-House Board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orford Reef. Oreg.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on vessel for</p></sidenote> to survey and estimate the cost and report upon the feasibility and need of establishing a light, vessel or light station at or near Orford Reef, off Cape Blanco, Oregon, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/333">333</page> To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to establish and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two oil houses.</p></sidenote> provide in the Light-House Establishment at such placesasshall, in the opinion of the Light-House Board, be for the best interests of the Light-House Service, two oil houses, at a cost not to exceed one thousand live hundred dollars each; three thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>light-house establishment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-House Establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Supplies of Light-Houses</inline>: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> 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, seven hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of Light-Houses</inline>: For repairing, protecting, and improving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> light-houses and buildings; for improvements to grounds connected therewith; for establishing and repairing day marks and pierhead 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, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries of Keepers of Light-Houses</inline>: For salaries, fuel, rations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers’ salaries.</p></sidenote> rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand six hundred and fifty lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, one million one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Light-Vessels</inline>: For seamen’s wages, rations, repairs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-vessels.</p></sidenote> 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, nine hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buoyage.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Buoyage</inline>: 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, nine hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fog signals.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Fog Signals</inline>: For establishing, replacing, duplicating, and improving fog signals, including submarine signals, and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs, the purchase of land sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of officers and crews of light-house ten ders, and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the lighthouse inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lighting of Rivers</inline>: For the pay of officers and crews of lighthouse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting of rivers.</p></sidenote> tenders and of clerks and other employees in the offices of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/334">334</page> light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintain ing 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 Eear 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; Fox River. Lake Winnebago and connecting lakes and channels; in Alaskan watersand 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Survey of Light-House Sites</inline>: For preliminary examinations, surveys.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of sites.</p></sidenote> and plans for determining the proper sites and cost of lighthouses and structures for which estimates are to be madê to Congress, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Oil Houses for Light Stations</inline>: For establishing isolated oil<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oil houses.</p></sidenote> houses for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> That no oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance of Lights on Channels of Great Lakes: To<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote> enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary tor 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pointe Au Pelee Ligíit-Vessel. Lake Erie</inline>: For maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pointe au Pelee,Lake Erie.</p></sidenote> a light-vessel on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Light-Keepers’ Dwellings</inline>: For light-keepers’ dwellings and appurtenant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keepers’ dwellings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 996.</p></sidenote> structures, including sites therefor, within the limit of cost fixed by Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five thousand dollars</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coast and geodetic survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of coasts under jurisdiction of United States.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Pilot.</p></sidenote> 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 held work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/335">335</page> Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the Light-House Board or other proper authority; for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> vessels used in the Survey, and also the repairsand 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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That advances of money under this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Field Expenses</inline>: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field expenses.</p></sidenote> Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Island limitations.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific coast, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific coasts.</p></sidenote> the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment, etc., of Filipinos.</p></sidenote> 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 sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical hydrography.</p></sidenote> 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.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast Pilot.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Magnetic observations.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Points to State surveys.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special surveys.</p></sidenote> 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, which expenses, including cost of plats and charts, shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars in any one year, to be immediately available, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For objects not hereinbefore, named that may be deemed urgent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/336">336</page> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote> delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interchangeablc ex penditures.</p></sidenote> available interchangeably for expenditure, on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for field expenses, three hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Repairs and Maintenance Or Vessels</inline>: For repairs and maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Officers and Men, Vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey</inline>: For Superintendent, six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants.</p></sidenote> Superintendent may direct:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six aids, at one thousand one hundred dollars each:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aids.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For thirteen aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and ten aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office force.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Office Force</inline>: For one disbursing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerical force, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six, at nine hundred dollars each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/337">337</page> For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one, thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two. at nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computers.</p></sidenote> namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two. at two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at one, thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For nine, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For copperplate engravers, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engravers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four, at nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrotypers, etc.</p></sidenote> instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers. namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twelve, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For seven, at seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four, at seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at six hundred and thirty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand two hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office Expenses</inline>: For the purchase of new instruments, for materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, printers 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/338">338</page> That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances.</p></sidenote> 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 field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the Superintendent), except as now provided by law.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of fisheries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Fisheries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Commissioner</inline>: For Commissioner, six thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner, etc.</p></sidenote> deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand one hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three 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, forty-one thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of architecr and engineer.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of fish culture.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central Station.</p></sidenote> 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, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Green Lake, Me.</p></sidenote> dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all. four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Craigs Brook, Me.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Johnsburv (Vermont) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Johnsbury,Vt.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in ail. four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gloucester, Mass.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woods Hole, Mass.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/339">339</page> twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Vineent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Vincent, N. Y.</p></sidenote> 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 six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bryans Point, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wytheville. Va.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Put in Bay (Ohio) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Put in Bay. Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northville, Mich.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alpena, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neosho, Mo.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leadville, Colo.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos. Tex.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baird and Battle Creek. Cal.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clackamas, Oreg.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manchester (Iowa) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, Iowa.</p></sidenote> dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bozeman, Mont.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; fish culturist. nine hundred dollars: two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/340">340</page> Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erwin, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashua, N. H.</p></sidenote> live hundred dollars; fish culturist. nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edenton. N. C.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baker Lake, Wash.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cold Springs. Ga.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spearfish, 8. Dak.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tupelo, Miss.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boothbay Harbor, Me.</p></sidenote> 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; custodian of lobster pounds, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mammoth Spring, Ark.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yes Bay, Alaska.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Afognak, Alaska.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees at large.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution employees.</p></sidenote> dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of inquiry.</p></sidenote> thousand seven hundred dollars: assistant, two thousand five hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/341">341</page> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Superintendent and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Biological station, N.C.</p></sidenote> director, one thousand five hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all. two thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of statistics.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Albatross.”</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, four hundred and eighty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Fish Hawk.”</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars; first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Grampus.”</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“ Phalarope.”</p></sidenote> engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Curlew.”</p></sidenote> one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Gannet: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Gannet.”</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steamer Osprey: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Osprey.”</p></sidenote> one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the Commissioner,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration expenses.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Propagation of food-fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Propagation expenses.</p></sidenote> of the fish-cultural stations of the Bureau, the general propagation of food-fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of ears, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/342">342</page> Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of vessels.</p></sidenote> 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, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to the steamer Albatross, including new deck, repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Albatross,” repairs.</p></sidenote> main engines, and other necessary repairs to hull, machinery, and rigging, eighteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inquiry respecting food-fishes: For expenses of the inquiry into the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiries respecting food-fishes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statistical inquiry.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interchangeable expenditures.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Agents at salmon fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salmon fisheries, agents.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; and one assistant agent, two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fish hatchery, Mammoth Spring, Arkansas: For the completion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mammoth Spring, Ark.</p></sidenote> the fish-cultural station at Mammoth Spring, Arkansas, including the construction and repair of buildings and ponds, purchase of additional land, and improvement to water supply and drainage system, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fish hatchery, Erwin, Tennessee: For general repairs to the Erwin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erwin, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Tennessee, fish-cultural station, including the construction and repair of buildingsand ponds, purchase of additional land, and improvements to water supply and drainage system, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fish hatchery, Cape Vincent, New York: For the purchase of additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Vincent, N. Y.</p></sidenote> land, construction of superintendent’s residence, and for the construction of ponds and water supply, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fish hatchery, Duluth, Minnesota: For the construction of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p></sidenote> superintendent’s residence, addition and repair to hatchery and improvements to grounds, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fish hatchery, Leadville, Colorado: For construction of boiler<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leadville. Colo.</p></sidenote> house, and cottages for employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Biological station, Mississippi River Valley: To enable the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River Valley biological station.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fresh water mussels propagation.</p></sidenote> of Commerce and Labor to establish and equip a biological station, for the propagation of fresh water mussels, in the upper Mississippi River Valley, at some suitable point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steam vessel for Alaska: For purchase or construction of a steam<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessel for salmon fisheries.</p></sidenote> vessel for use in the Alaska salmon inspection and in connection with the propagation of salmon in Alaska, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Alaskan Seal Fisheries</inline>: For salaries of agents at seal fisheries in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaskan seal fisheries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents’ salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty <page identifier="/us/stat/35/343">343</page> 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 Pribï-lof Islands, not exceeding four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, eleven thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to furnish food,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food, etc., for natives.</p></sidenote> fuel, and clothing and other necessaries of life to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand tive hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Enforcement of the Chinese-Exclusion Act</inline>: To prevent unlawful<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chinese exclusion.</p></sidenote> 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 tne frontier or seaboard for deportation, tive 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses Shipping Service</inline>: For rent (including rent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent. etc.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>general land office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General LandOffice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing field notes, Minnesota, etc.</p></sidenote> drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Florida, caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors-general in those States, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pension office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for investigation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card-index system.</p></sidenote> of pension cases, Pension Office, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, the Commissioner of Pensions is authorized, during the remainder of the present fiscal year and until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, to use not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars toward the installation of a card-index system of the records of the Pension Office.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>patent office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In lieu of the fees fixed by section forty-nine hundred and thirtyfour<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for recording.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 4934. p. 954 amended.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes for recording assignments, agreements, powers of attorney, or other papers in the Patent Office the following shall hereafter be the rates:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For recording every assignment, agreement, power of attorney, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote> other paper, of three hundred words or under, one dollar; of over three hundred and under one thousand words, two dollars: and for each additional thousand words or fraction thereof, one dollar.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of Buildings, Interior Department</inline>: For repairs of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office <page identifier="/us/stat/35/344">344</page> Department building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, twelve thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Heating Apparatus, Buildings, Department of the Interior</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating apparatus.</p></sidenote> For constructing new stack and for repairing and improving heating apparatus for the Interior Department buildings, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For the Capitol</inline>: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward procuring statuary for the pediment of the House wing of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House wing pediment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statuary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 63.</p></sidenote> the Capitol, to be expended as provided by law. including not exceeding five thousand dollars for procuring a suitable design, fifteen thou sand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the. Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bracket for bust of Chief Justice Waite.</p></sidenote> to pay for the marble bracket in the Supreme Court loom supporting the bust of Chief Justice Waite, and to have the same appropriately inscribed, one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Superintendent of the Capitol to complete the steel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate document room.</p></sidenote> filing cases in the Senate document room, to replace the wooden shelving in various parts thereof, and for steel shelving in south end of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steel shelving.</p></sidenote> same, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special repairs to the Senate document room, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For casting in bronze the doors for the west entrance, central portion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bronze doors, west entrance.</p></sidenote> of the Capitol Building, in conformity with the models already approved, ten thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the construction of the fireproof building for committee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Office Building construction.</p></sidenote> rooms and offices for the United States Senate, provided for in the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 481.</p></sidenote> four, including not exceeding fifty dollars for the purchase of necessary technical books, one million two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the Senate Office Building appropriation for extraordinary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for foundation.</p></sidenote> expenses incurred in deep foundation work incident to the construction of the railway tunnel at the east side of the Senate Office Building, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing the office building, United States Senate, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing.</p></sidenote> 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 under the direction of the Commission of the United States Senate designated by law to supervise the construction of said office building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including heating, lighting, ventilating, miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> itemsand supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the temporary operation of the building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Office Building Commission, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the appropriation for construction of the fireproof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p></sidenote> building for committee rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, the additional amount which was required to be used in order to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for construction.</p></sidenote> assure the safe and convenient use of square six hundred and ninety as a site for said building, one hundred and nine thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and sixteen cents, to be expended in the completion of said building under the direction of the Commission of the House of Representatives designated by law to supervise the construction of the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/345">345</page> For approaches, including necessary area walls for the fireproof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approaches, etc.</p></sidenote> building for committee rooms and offices for the House of Representatives, to be expended under the direction of the Commission of the House of Representatives designated by law to supervise the construction of said building, one hundred and nineteen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional elevator service in the House wing of the Capitol<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elevator, House wing.</p></sidenote> adjacent to the present east elevator, twenty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairing works of art.</p></sidenote> the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Improving the Capitol Grounds</inline>: For continuing the work of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol grounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving.</p></sidenote> improvement of the Capitol grounds, including the grounds of the House of Representatives Office Building, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lighting the Capitol and Grounds</inline>: For lighting the Capitol<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting Capitol and grounds.</p></sidenote> and grounds about the same, including the House of Representatives Office Building, 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 six 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 nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Senate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, stables, etc.</p></sidenote> and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public lands service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Salaries and Commissions of Registers and Receivers</inline>: For salaries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registers and receivers.</p></sidenote> 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 seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses of Land Offices</inline>: For clerk hire, rent, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> other incidental expenses of the district land offices, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> 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 the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on expenditures.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Depositing Public Moneys</inline>: For expenses of depositing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositing moneys.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Depredations on Public Timber, Protecting Public Lands, And<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber Depredations, Protecting, And Swamp-Hind Claims.</p></sidenote> Settlement of Claims For Swamp Land And Swamp-Land Indemnity</inline>: 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/346">346</page> entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, five, hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, of which sum two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is for the purpose of bringing up the work of the General Land Office hereunder so as to make the same, current: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That agents and others employed under this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of Hearings in Land Entries</inline>: For expenses of hearings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings in land entries.</p></sidenote> 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, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reproducing Plats of Surveys</inline>: To enable the Commissioner of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reproducing plats of surveys.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Examinations of Desert Lands</inline>: the unexpended balance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands to States.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination of selections.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81. p. 1332.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 122.</p></sidenote> 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 nine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Restoration of Lands in Forest Reserves</inline>: To enable the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest reserves.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> 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, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transcripts of Records and Plats. General Land Office</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transcripts of records.</p></sidenote> 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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That persons employed under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> this appropriation shall be selected by the Secretary of the Interior at a compensation of sixty dollars per month each and shall be entitled to the same leave of absence or leave for sickness with pay as is allowed by law to other employees of the Executive Departments: <i>Provided further</i>, That not more than one-twelfth of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> expended in any one month of the year for which it is available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Opening Indian Reservations (Reimbursable</inline>): the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opening Indian reservations to entry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 205. ‘</p></sidenote> of twenty-five t housand 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, nineteen hundred and seven, and nineteen hundred and eight, the ceded lands within Indian reservations, is hereby continued and made available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former appropriation available.</p></sidenote> 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 nine: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> pertaining to the opening of each of said reservationsand paid for out <page identifier="/us/stat/35/347">347</page> of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing forty-nine thousand nine hundred and thirty copies of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps marking routes of early explorers.</p></sidenote> a connected map of the United States, showing the routes of the principal explorersand early roads and highways, compiled in the General Land Office, two thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> said maps thirty-three thousand eight hundred and thirty copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives and sixteen thousand one hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Arid Lands in Idaho, and Wyoming</inline>: That an additional one million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arid lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional grants to Idaho and Wyoming.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28. p. 422</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 577.</p></sidenote> acres of arid lands within each of the States of Idaho, and Wyoming be made available and subject to the terms of section four of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and by amendments thereto, and that the States of Idaho, and Wyoming be allowed under the provisions of said Acts said additional area or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes and under the provisions of said Acts.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>surveying the public lands.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveysand resurveys of public lands, four hundred and twentyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rates.</p></sidenote> 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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in expending this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preferences.</p></sidenote> 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,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 676.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.</p></sidenote> 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, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations, except that the Commissioner of the General Land Office may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra rates, heavily timbered, etc., lands.</p></sidenote> 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 eases 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 townsnip and twelve dollars for section lines: <i>Provided further</i>, That in the States of California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands in California, etc.</p></sidenote> 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,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2411, p.441.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes of the United States, authorizing allowance for surveys in California and Oregon, are hereby extended to all of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/348">348</page> above-named States and Territories and district. And of the sum hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurveys, etc.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, while engaged in field 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 field examinations, in order to test the accuracy of the work in the field, 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 fields, and timber<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspecting mineral, etc., lands.</p></sidenote> 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monuments for section corners.</p></sidenote> sum of not exceeding twenty-live thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal monuments to be used for public land survey corners wherever practicable.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abandoned military reservations.</p></sidenote> military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 103.</p></sidenote> fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, four thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casa Grande.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To make a survey of the public lands in Garfield, Iron, Kane, San<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counties in Utah.</p></sidenote> Juan, and Washington counties, in the State of Utah, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to cause the public-land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Keogh Military Reservation. Mont.</p></sidenote> surveys to be extended over the area embraced within the exterior limits of the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, in the State of Montana, four thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the ascertainment, survey, marking, and permanent establishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho and Washington.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern boundary line.</p></sidenote> of that portion of the boundary line between the State of Idaho and the State of Washington from a point in the center of the Snake River opposite the mouth of the Clearwater River, thence due north to the international boundary line between the United States and the British possessions, an estimated distance of one hundred and eighty-five miles, including the expense of an examination of the survey in the field, the rate of compensation per mile to the surveyor to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the same to include the cost of the preparation of the plats and field notes of the survey in triplicate, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>united states geological survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Director of the Geological Survey</inline>: For Director,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of Director, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/349">349</page> 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-live thousand threé hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Scientific Assistants of the Geological Survey</inline>: For two geologists,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scientific assistants.</p></sidenote> at four thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one geologist, three, thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one chemist, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one geographer, two thousand live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For General Expenses of the Geological Survey</inline>: For the Geological<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled laborers.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For topographical surveys in various portions of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Topographical surveys.</p></sidenote> three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological surveys.</p></sidenote> two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paleontologic researches.</p></sidenote> States, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical and physical researches.</p></sidenote> United States, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illustrations.</p></sidenote> eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral resources.</p></sidenote> United States, which report shall hereafter be published in two octavo volumes 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply.</p></sidenote> 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books, etc.</p></sidenote> and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engraving and printing the geological maps, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the continuation of the. investigation of the structural materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Structural materials investigations.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the continuation of the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing fuels.</p></sidenote> and other mineral fuel substances belonging to the United States, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/350">350</page> in order to determine their fuel value, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That in publishing the results of these investigations, the materials examined<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Publishing results.</p></sidenote> shall not be credited to any private party or corporation, but shall be collected and described as representing such extensive deposits: <i>And provided further.</i> That all investigations hereunder commenced or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations to be completed July 1, 1909.</p></sidenote> undertaken shall be completed and fully reported on prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and nine, and all investigations and work now in progress under appropriations heretofore made for the purposes mentioned in this paragraph shall also be completed and finally reported on before the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of the, topographical surveys of the public lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest reserves surveys.</p></sidenote> that have been or may hereafter be designated as forest reserves, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. for the United States Geological Survey, one million three hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior may authorize the purchase of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of books, etc.</p></sidenote> 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.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to permit the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay assignments, Reclamation employees.</p></sidenote> employees of the Reclamation Service, while employed in the field, to make assignments of their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supreme COurt REports: To pay the publishers of the decisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court reports.</p></sidenote> of the Supreme Court for two hundred and sixty copies of volumes two hundred and twelve to two hundred and thirteen, inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, and for fifteen copies of volume fifty-three of the decisions of the Supreme Court, Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, one thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Care and Custody of the Insane of Alaska</inline>: For the care and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane.</p></sidenote> custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Education in Alaska</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education of natives.</p></sidenote> 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 not including hospital buildings; for text-books 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, two hundred thousand dollars: <i>pro</i>-<i>vided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Previus.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of pay.</p></sidenote> That any person or persons employed hereunder as special <page identifier="/us/stat/35/351">351</page> 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 from their designated and actual posts of duty: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services, Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> dollars may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all expenditure of money appropriated herein for school pur-poses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision of expenditures.</p></sidenote> in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the mmissioner 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reindeer for Alaska</inline>: For the support of reindeer stations in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reindeer.</p></sidenote> Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, fifteen 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the governor of Alaska, under the direction of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p></sidenote> of the Interior, to take action to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Yellowstone National Park</inline>: For the administration and protection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone Park.</p></sidenote> of the Yellowstone National Park, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of necessary feed for buffalo and salary of buffalo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Feed for buffalo.</p></sidenote> keeper, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing the survey of and properly marking, under direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying boundary.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, that portion of the boundary of Yellowstone National Park which remains unmonumented, an estimated distance of fifty-seven miles, at a rate per mile to be fixed by the said Secretary, including the expense of a field examination, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Yosemite National Park, California</inline>: For protection and improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yosemite Park.</p></sidenote> of the Yosemite National Park, and the construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sequoia National Park, California</inline>: For the protection and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sequoia Park.</p></sidenote> improvement of the Sequoia National Park, and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, other than toll roads, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Grant National Park, California</inline>: For protection and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General Grant Park.</p></sidenote> improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Crater Lake National Park, Oregon</inline>: For protection and improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crater Lake Park.</p></sidenote> of the Crater Lake National Park and repairing and extension of roads, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado</inline>: For protection and improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mesa Verde Park.</p></sidenote> of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, including the lands within five miles of the boundaries of said reservation, which, under the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, are to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 617.</p></sidenote> be administered by the same service established for the custodianship of the park, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mount Rainier National Park, Washington</inline>: For protection and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Rainier Park.</p></sidenote> improvement of Mount Rainier National Park, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/352">352</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota</inline>: For the management,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wind Cave Park.</p></sidenote> improvement, and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Government Hospital for the Insane</inline>: For current expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Hospital for Insane.</p></sidenote> 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 live hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote> Insane, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For roadways, grading, and walks, tive thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing assembly hall, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assembly hall.</p></sidenote> immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is hereby granted to expend such portion of the balance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance for furnishing.</p></sidenote> of the appropriation for furniture for new buildings for the hospital, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 1120.</p></sidenote> hundred and four, not exceeding seven thousand dollars, as may be necessary for necessary furnishings of the foregoing assembly hall.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb</inline>: For support of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb.</p></sidenote> the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the proper inclosure of the grounds of the institution and the Sading made necessary by the opening of West Virginia avenue on e eastern boundary of the grounds, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Howard University</inline>: For maintenance of the Howard University,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Howard University.</p></sidenote> 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 shall he paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand tive hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, forty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books, shelving, furniture,and fixtures, for the law and general library, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Medical department: To meet in part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, and apparatus, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, two hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/353">353</page> For fuel and light, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty-three thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Freedmen’S Hospital</inline>: For salaries and compensation of the surgeon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmen’s Hospital.</p></sidenote> in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars; assistant surgeon, clerk, assistant clerk, pharmacist, assistant pharmacist, steward, engi neer, fireman, seamstress, superintendent of nurses, assistant superintendent of nurses, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, waiters, and laborers, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stable and morgue, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation in the building on the grounds of the Freedmen’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating plant.</p></sidenote> Hospital of an additional plant for the heating of the Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University buildings, including the purchase of machinery, and for labor and material ana the cost of necessary alterations in the present building constructed for the heating plant for the Freedmen’s Hospital, seventeen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for furniture for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance reappropriated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1331.</p></sidenote> new Freedmen’s Hospital building made in the sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">San Juan Piute Indians</inline>: That the sum of five thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Piute Indians in Utah and Arizona.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1049.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of lands and sheep for the San Juan Piute Indians and ten thousand five hundred dollars for the support and civilization of the Kaibab Indians in Utah, and so forth, appropriated in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven and reappropriated and made available for the use of the Piute Indians in southern Utah and northern Arizona by the Indian appropriation Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the use of said Piute Indians in southern Utah and northern Arizona.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the unexpended balance of the appropriation, in pursuance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance reappropri-ated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 854.</p></sidenote> treaty stipulations, for subsistence, and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armories and arsenals.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armories and arsenals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: For one shop<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankford, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition shop.</p></sidenote> building for manufacture of artillery ammunition, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois</inline>: For repair and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, III.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water power.</p></sidenote> improvement of the water power at Rock Island Arsenal, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general care, preservation, and improvements; for painting and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc.</p></sidenote> care and preservation of permanent buildings; for building fencesand sewers, grading grounds and roads, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Rock Island bridge, as follows: For operating and care and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge.</p></sidenote> preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, seventeen thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/354">354</page> For repairs to the Moline bridge, connecting Rock Island Arsenal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moline bridge.</p></sidenote> and the city of Moline, nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sandy Hook Proving Ground. New Jersey</inline>: For rebuilding and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Hook proving ground, N. J.</p></sidenote> repairing roads and walks, and for general repairs of shops, storehouses, and quarters, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For concrete rain-water tank, including necessary pipe connections, and small feed tank with an electric supply pump, three thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a steam pipe line, three thousand eight hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing the wooden gantry crane runway with concrete, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a pipe line from central power plant to new barracks, seven hundred and fifty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of electrical machines and apparatus for instruction of student officers, one thousand three hundred and forty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two bomb proofs, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Powder Depot, Near Dover, New Jersey</inline>: For increase of transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dover, N. J., powder depot.</p></sidenote> facilities, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For coal trestle and shed, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts</inline>: For general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Maas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care. etc.</p></sidenote> care, repair of quarters, of buildings, and machinery not used for manufacturing purposes, and of grounds and roads, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts</inline>: For completing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, Mass.</p></sidenote> fence about the arsenal reservation, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the steam-heating system in machine and erecting shops, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Testing Machines, Watertown Arsenal</inline>: For the necessary professional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Testing machines.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 905.</p></sidenote> 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. And the testing machines at the Watertown Arsenal are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferred to Department of Commerce and Labor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watervliet, N. Y.</p></sidenote> hereby transferred to the Department of Commerce and Labor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York</inline>: For a headrace outlet, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to walls, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water-closets, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Depot, Manila, Philippine Islands</inline>: For converting a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manila, P. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">officers’ quarters.</p></sidenote> storehouse into a set of officers’ quarters, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of Arsenals</inline>: For repairs and improvements at arsenals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>buildings and grounds in and around washington.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement and care.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument grounds.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/355">355</page> For ordinary care of Franklin Park, one thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annex<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses for boathouses, tidal reservoir banks.</p></sidenote> (Potomac Park) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Licenses may be granted for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary structures in playgrounds.</p></sidenote> erection of boat-houses along the banks of the tidal reservoir on the Potomac River fronting Potomac Park, under regulations to be prescribed by the Chief of Engineers, and that all such licenses granted under this authority shall be revocable, without compensation, by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The officer in charge of public buildings and grounds is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Potomac Park.</p></sidenote> to giant licenses, revocable by him, without compensation, to erect temporary structures upon reservations used as children’s playgrounds, under such regulations as he may impose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement anti maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken-stone road covering for parks, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park between the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Macadam roadway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1341.</p></sidenote> causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park along the north and west sides of the tidal reservoir, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any unexpended balance of the appropriation of eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquisition of squares 63 and 89.</p></sidenote> dollars made by sundry civil act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, for constructing a macadam roadway along the west side of section two of Potomac Park and for improving the grounds on either side of same, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes and for general improvement for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of that part of Potomac Park extending along the river side between the inlet to the tidal reservoir and the foot of Twenty-sixth street west, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the improvement of Potomac Park: To continue north B street from Virginia avenue westward to the Potomac River as a park roadway along the northern boundary of Potomac Park, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/356">356</page> according to plans prepared in the office of public buildings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction over portion of B street transferred to Chief of Engineers.</p></sidenote> grounds, including the acquisition by purchase or condemnation of squares sixty-three and eighty-nine in the city of Washington, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The jurisdiction over that portion of B street west of Virginia avenue,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roadway over inlet gate.</p></sidenote> now under the control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is hereby transferred to the Chief of Engineers, United States Army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the additional expense of widening the foundations and superstructure<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> of the tidal gates over the inlet to the tidal reservoir in Potomac Park, to permit the construction of a roadway over it, to be expended under the direction of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reconstruction of the approaches and walks in Judiciary Park abutting the court-house building, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">statue of General Sheridan.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For unveiling the statue of General Philip H. Sheridan and for laying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Mansion.</p></sidenote> out and improving the grounds around the same, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of Executive Departments, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and office building of the House of Representatives as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employmentof an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Executive Mansion</inline>: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses of the President.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for the Executive Mansion greenhouses and stable, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to greenhouses. Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds.</p></sidenote> expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lighting the Executive Mansion and Public Grounds</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum per lamp.</p></sidenote> gas, pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs <page identifier="/us/stat/35/357">357</page> 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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for each five-foot burner not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan from District revenues.</p></sidenote> connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall he 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That four thousand two hundred dollars of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Higher candlepower.</p></sidenote> foregoing sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: <i>And provided further</i>, That not more than six thousand dollars of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric lights.</p></sidenote> 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.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lighting six are electric lights in Executive Mansion grounds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> within the iron fence, 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 lights, five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lighting six are 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 lights, five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 lights; in all, six thousand eight hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government telegraph.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Telegraph to Connect the Capitol With the Departments And<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Monument.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> Government Printing Office</inline>: For care and repair of existing lines, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington Monument</inline>: For the care and maintenance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 fireman, 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 t wenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, blushes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/358">358</page> electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building where Abraham Lincoln died.</p></sidenote> no advertisement of any kind shall be displayed, and no articles of any kind shall be sold, in or around the Monument.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs of Building Where Abbaham Lincoln Died</inline>: For painting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Old railroad station.</p></sidenote> and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Old Railroad Station</inline>: For a watchman for the old railroad station<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote> building at the southwest corner of Sixth and B streets northwest, seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rivers and harbors.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 202.</p></sidenote> contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kentucky River, Ky.</p></sidenote> and ninety-six, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: Forcontinuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1121.</p></sidenote> in completion of contract authorization, ninety-nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambrose Channel, New York Harbor.</p></sidenote> and ninety-nine, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pa.</p></sidenote> of Ambrose Channel (formerly known as East Channel) across Sandy Hook Bar. three hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 331.</p></sidenote> improvement in completion of contract authorization by the construction of Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland. Ohio.</p></sidenote> and two, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Pedee River, S. C.</p></sidenote> in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Great Pedee River, South Carolina: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio River below Pittsburg. Pa.</p></sidenote> of upper portion of river, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 88, p. 1117.</p></sidenote> improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the l iver and harbor Act of nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Vt.</p></sidenote> and five, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Burlington, Vermont: For continuing work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumberland River above Nashville, Tenn.</p></sidenote> of repairs to breakwater, sixteen thousand eight hundred and fifty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Marvs River, Mich.</p></sidenote> improvement by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-one. fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Hay Lake and Neebish Channels, Saint Marys River,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 1073.</p></sidenote> Michigan: For continuing improvement, three hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Algoma. Wis.</p></sidenote> and seven, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Algoma, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aransas Pass and Bay. Tex.</p></sidenote> by the construction of an outer harbor, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Sandy River, W. Va. and Ky.</p></sidenote> two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Biscayne Bay, Fla.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement by the construction of Dam Numbered One,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/359">359</page> Levisa Fol k, and Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Biscayne Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black Warrior, etc., rivers, Ala.</p></sidenote> hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brazos River, Tex.</p></sidenote> For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, five hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Brazos River, Texas: For continuing improvement from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridgeport, Conn.</p></sidenote> Old Washington to Waco by the construction of lock and dam at Hidalgo Falls, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brunswick, Ga.</p></sidenote> improvement, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Brunswick, Georgia: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calumet River. Ill. and Ind.</p></sidenote> three hundred and three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Calumet River. Illinois and Indiana: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Fear River, N. C.</p></sidenote> improvement, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Ohio.</p></sidenote> at and below Wilmington, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cold Spring Inlet, N. J.</p></sidenote> in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River, Oreg, and Wash.</p></sidenote> with a view to securing a depth of twenty-five feet, two hundred and thirty-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving mouth of Columbia River, Oregon and Washington: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia River, Three-Mile Rapids.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Columbia River at Three-Mile Rapids, Oregon and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cumberland River above Nashville, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Washington: For continuing improvement of Columbia River between the foot of the Dalles Rapids and the head of Celilo Falls, Oregon and Washington, three hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Cumberland River above Nashville, Tennessee: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River, Pa. and N. J.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Delaware River. Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit River,Mich.</p></sidenote> maintenance of improvement, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Detroit River, Michigan: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing improvement of auxiliary channel in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auxiliary channel.</p></sidenote> with plan “B,”east route, five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and said channel shall hereafter be known and designated as Livingstone channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston, Tex.</p></sidenote> by extension of the jetties and by dredging, six hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on comprehensive,etc.,improvement of entire harbor.</p></sidenote> directed to cause to be made an examination and survey of Galveston Harbor, as a whole, including Galveston Harbor, Galveston channel, Texas City channel, and Port Bolivar channel, in the State of Texas, for the purpose of establishing a broad, comprehensive, and systematic plan for the future extension, enlargement, and deepening of said harbor, so as to meet the growing needs of commerce, and to estimate the probable cost thereof; the cost of said examination and survey to be paid out of the foregoing appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Galveston ship channel and Buffalo Bayou, Texas: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Galveston ship channel and Buffalo Bayou.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement to a point at or near the head of Long Reach,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/360">360</page> in accordance with the modified project, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving inland waterway on coast of Texas: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inland waterway. Texas.</p></sidenote> improvement, two hundred and forty live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grays Harbor.Wash.</p></sidenote> of harbor and bar entrance by means of north jetty, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hilo. Hawaii,</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Honolulu, Hawaii: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Kennebec River, Maine: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kennebec River. Me.</p></sidenote> from the mouth to Gardiner, eighty-six thousand live hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kentucky River, Ky.</p></sidenote> by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Twelve and Thirteen, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ludington, Mich.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manitowoc, Wis.</p></sidenote> two hundred and seventy thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p></sidenote> and maintenance, including harbor of refuge, three hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From the Ohio to the Missouri.</p></sidenote> Minnesota: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">From the Missouri to Minneapolis, Minn.</p></sidenote> of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, Minnesota, five hundred thousand dollars, of which amount ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be necessary, may be expended to repair and strengthen the. levee heretofore constructed along the west bank of the Mississippi River between Flint Creek and the Iowa River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile. Ala.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Monongahela River, Pennsylvania: For continuing construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River. Pa.</p></sidenote> of Lock and Dam Numbered Five, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbors at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Bedford and Fairhaven. Mass.</p></sidenote> For continuing improvement, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Breakwater at New Haven, Connecticut: For continuing construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Haven, Conn.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Newport, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twelve thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving New York Harbor. New York: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambrose Channel New York Harbor.</p></sidenote> of Ambrose Channel, three hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> of harbor and approaches, from deep water in Hampton Roads to the junction of the eastern and southern branches, including removal of shoals at the mouth of the eastern branch, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Harbor at Oakland, California: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oakland, Cal.</p></sidenote> one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locks and dams No. 8.</p></sidenote> construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Eleven,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No. 11.</p></sidenote> two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/361">361</page> For continuing construction of Locks and Danis Numbered Thirteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nos. 13 and 18.</p></sidenote> and Eighteen, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No. 26.</p></sidenote> six, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Osage River, Missouri: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage River, Mo.</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ouachita and Black rivers, Ark. and La.</p></sidenote> improvement of Ouachita and Black rivers, Louisiana and Arkansas, by the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two, near Catahoula Shoals, Louisiana, and Lock and Dam Numbered Eight, near Franklin Shoals, Arkansas, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Passaic River. New Jersey: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Passaic River, N. J.</p></sidenote> of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Patapsco River, Maryland: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patapsco River, Md.</p></sidenote> of channel to Baltimore, including shoals in Chesapeake Bay off York Spit, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor of Refuge at Point Judith. Rhode Island: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Judith. R. I.</p></sidenote> improvement by construction of the easterly or shore arm of the breakwater, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Rappahannock River, Virginia: For continuing improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ra ppahannock River, Va.</p></sidenote> in accordance with the modified project, fifty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Sabine Pass, Texas: For continuing improvement, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sabine Pass. Tex.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Saint Michael Canal, Alaska: For completing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Michael Canal, Alaska.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor of Refuge at Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, Massachusetts: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Bay, Mass.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan. P. R.</p></sidenote> two hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Luis Obispo, Cal.</p></sidenote> improvement, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga.</p></sidenote> three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance of South Pass Channel, Mississippi River: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River, South Pass Channel.</p></sidenote> improvement and maintenance, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbors on the coast of Mississippi: For completing construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi coast, dredge.</p></sidenote> of dredge for use in said harbors and the channels adjacent thereto, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: For continuing improvement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River, Southwest Pass.</p></sidenote> one million one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee River below Chattanooga. Tenn.</p></sidenote> and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Colbert and Bee Tree shoals, ninety-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Trinity River, Texas: For the construction of locks and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trinity River.Tex.</p></sidenote> dams, ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving waterway from Franklin to Mermentau, Louisiana: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La.</p></sidenote> continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterway from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet, N.C.</p></sidenote> For continuing improvement, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Withlacoochee River, Florida: For improvement of channel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">With lacoochee River, Fla.</p></sidenote> following route F, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement of Mississippi<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River Commission.</p></sidenote> River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million dollars. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/362">362</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national cemeteries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National cemeteries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For National Cemeteries</inline>: For maintaining and improving national<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> cemeteries, including fuel for superindendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Superintendents of National Cemeteries</inline>: For pay of seventyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote> superintendents of national cemeteries, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Headstones for Graves of Soldiers</inline>: For continuing the work of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headstones for soldiers graves.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 17, p. 345.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20. p. 281.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 496.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 741.</p></sidenote> twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairing Roadways to National Cemeteries</inline>: For repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to roadways.</p></sidenote> roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no railroad shall be permitted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Encroachments by railroads forbidden.</p></sidenote> 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: <i>Provided further.</i> That no part of this sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> shall be used for repairing any roadway within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a protective fence along the Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mound City, 111.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fence, etc.</p></sidenote> roadway leading from Mounds, Mound City, and from the Cache River bridge to the national cemetery near Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, and for the drainage of the ponds or barrow pits caused by the construction of said roadway, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For grading, laying a sidewalk, tearing down and rebuilding the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Knoxville. Tenn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grading, etc.</p></sidenote> stonewall on Munson street; for grading and making sidewalks, removing and rebuilding the stonewall on Jacksboro street around the national cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee, eight thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Burial of Indigent Soldiers</inline>: For expenses of burying in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burial of indigent soldiers.</p></sidenote> 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 five hundred dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Antietam Battlefield</inline>: For repair and preservation of monuments,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antietam battlefield.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bringing Home the Remains of Officers and Soldiers Who Die<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing Home Remains From Abroad.</p></sidenote> Abroad</inline>: To enable the Secretary of War. in his discretion, to cause <page identifier="/us/stat/35/363">363</page> to he 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-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bringing Home the Remains of Civil Employees of the Army<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing Home Remains of Civilian Employees And Soldiers Dying on Transports.</p></sidenote> Who Die Abroad And Soldiers Who Die on Transports</inline>: 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Removal of Remains of Major L’Enfant</inline>: To enable the Commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing remains, etc.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia to remove the remains of Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant to a place accessible to the public and to erect thereon a suitable memorial, one thousand dollars; and the joint resolution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 741, repealed.</p></sidenote> approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five, to mark the grave of Major Pierre Charles L’Enfant is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago</inline>: For care,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confed erate Mound, Chicago.</p></sidenote> protection, and maintenance of the plot of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia</inline>: For continuing grading,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arlington, Va.</p></sidenote> draining, making roads, planting trees, and otherwise preparing the grounds in the addition to the Arlington, Virginia, National Cemetery, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lincoln’S Gettysburg Address</inline>: For placing iron tablets containing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tablets.</p></sidenote> the address of President Lincoln delivered at Gettysburg, in seventy-seven national cemeteries, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Memorial Tablet, Henry G. Cole, Marietta National Cemetery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry G.Cole.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tablet, Marietta, Ga., Cemetery.</p></sidenote> Georgia</inline>: For erection of a tablet in the national cemetery at Marietta, Georgia, to the memory of the late Henry G. Cole, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Cemetery, City of Mexico. Mexico</inline>: For making repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico.</p></sidenote> and improvements to the United States national cemetery located in the City of Mexico, Mexico, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, war department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Posts</inline>: For the construction and enlargement at military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military posts.</p></sidenote> posts of such buildings as, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, may be necessary, eight hundred thousand dollars; but no part of the money appropriated for military posts shall be used for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of quarters for officers.</p></sidenote> of any land nor for the establishment of any military prison: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum or of the following sums shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the Army, or for barracks and quarters for the artillery, the total cost of which including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures shall exceed in the case of quarters of a general officer, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, of a colonel or an officer above the rank of captain, twelve thousand dollars, and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, nine thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of barracks and quarters for the artillery in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters for seacoast artillery.</p></sidenote> with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, two million one hundred and thirty-nine thousand and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the reconstruction, on land owned by the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco Harbor. Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military prison.</p></sidenote> States, of the military prison in San Francisco harbor, one hundred thousand dollars. the sum hereby appropriated shall be so expended <page identifier="/us/stat/35/364">364</page> as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said institution.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the repair and reconstruction of the buildings and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Crook. Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cyclone damages.</p></sidenote> replacement of furniture and equipment destroyed in whole or in part by the cyclone on the twelfth day of May, nineteen hundred and eight, at Fort Crook military post in Nebraska, to be immediately available, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Drill Ground, Fort Des Moines, Iowa</inline>: For the purchase of two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Des Moines, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drill ground.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-nine acres of land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Des Moines, Iowa, required for use as a drill ground for the garrison, fifty thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Target Range, Sparta. Wisconsin</inline>: For the purchase of seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sparm, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target range.</p></sidenote> thousand six hundred acres of land, more or less, near Sparta, Monroe County, Wisconsin, as a site for a target range, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, appropriated by Act of June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 742.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for target range, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Enlargement of Governors Island, New York</inline>: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Governors Island, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarging.</p></sidenote> plan of improvement for the enlargement of Governors Island, New York Harbor, by wharf work, dredging, bulkhead, and tilling, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presidio, San Francisco, Cal.</p></sidenote> For continuing the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia</inline>: For the purchase of two and ninetyeight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Ogiethorpe,Ga.</p></sidenote> one-hundredths acres of land adjoining the southwestern corner of the Fort Oglethorpe Military Reservation and the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, one thousand tive hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Benjamin Harrison. Indiana</inline>: For the purchase for military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 615.</p></sidenote> purposes of land adjoining the military reservation, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Target Range. Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia</inline>: For the purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">FortOglethorpe.Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target range.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1003.</p></sidenote> nine hundred and twenty-four acres of land adjoining Catoosa tract and target range, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Sheridan, Illinois</inline>: For the enlargement of the reservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Sheridan, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarging.</p></sidenote> for Fort Sheridan, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of a triangular tract of land lying adjacent to and adjoining the military post at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, and containing eleven and one-half acres, ‘more or less, said tract of land having a frontage on the west shore of Lake Michigan, in the county of Lake, State of Illinois, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote> price to be, paid for said tract shall include a settlement in full of all claims for damage to said tract and to all of the property belonging to the same owner and adjacent thereto.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Logan, Colorado</inline>: For the purchase of lands adjacent to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Logan, Colo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drill grounds.</p></sidenote> military reservation of Fort Logan, Colorado, said lands to be used as additional drill grounds for the, garrison and for the site of an additional reservoir, and for the purchase of water rights for a permanent water supply for Fort Logan in Colorado, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas</inline>: For the reconstruction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reconstructing military prison.</p></sidenote> upon land owned by the. United States, of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the cost of which when completed shall not exceed five hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars, this amount to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of the prison, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/365">365</page> For the reconstruction at the United States military prison. Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power, etc., plant.</p></sidenote> Leavenworth, Kansas, on land owned by the United States, of a heating, ventilating, refrigerating, and power plant, the cost of which when completed shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars, this amount to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of the prison, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Monroe, Virginia</inline>: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Monroe, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wharf, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, nine hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, four thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars, wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and brick (vitrified); repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains; electric lights for streets; repairs and renewal to poles, wires, and so forth, three thousand and eighty dollars; four laborers cleaning roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, five thousand dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, and pump and boiler<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewer system.</p></sidenote> repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, one thousand and fifty dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand and fifty dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Improvement of the Yellowstone National Park</inline>: For maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yellowstone Park.</p></sidenote> and repair of improvements, sixty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War; and to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Mount Rainier National Park</inline>: For continuing the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Rainier Park.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the location of mining claims under the mineral-land laws<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining locations prohibited.</p></sidenote> of the United States is prohibited within the area of the Mount Rainier National Park, in the State of Washington: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights not affected.</p></sidenote> this provision shall not affect existing rights heretofore acquired in good faith under the mineral-land laws of the United States to any mining location or locations in said Mount Rainier National Park.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park</inline>: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military parks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chickamauga and Chattanooga.</p></sidenote> 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 twenty 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, fifty-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For nine thousand feet of fencing on the eastern and southern boundaries of the Park, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a steel bridge over Chickamauga Creek at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge. Chickaman-ga Creek.</p></sidenote> Lee and Gordon’s, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/366">366</page> For the repair and restoration of buildings and removal of fallen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairing cyclone damages.</p></sidenote> trees at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park damaged and destroyed by the cyclone storm of April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, to be immediately available, twenty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing a road about five miles or less in length from Lookout<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constructing road on Hooker’s line of march.</p></sidenote> Mountain, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, to Rossville, in Walker County, Georgia, on the line known as Hooker’s route (or line of march), beginning at a point on Lookout Mountain, to be selected by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, and continuing on such line as they may select, following as nearly as practicable the Hooker route to Rossville, so as to connect the Lookout Mountain battlefield with Missionary and Chickamauga fields and complete the connection of the National Park in its various parts in accordance with the original plan and the organic Act, approved August<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 333.</p></sidenote> nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-five thousand dollars; which sum shall not be available until the right of way is first given and deeded to the United States for the full width and length of said road and until the Commission is assured that the necessary gravel to gravel and top dress said road is given, when graded, to the United States. the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes.</p></sidenote> may, if deemed in the public interest, make any and all necessary changes in the route or course of said road, observing as nearly as possible the Hooker route from Saint Elmo, at the foot of Lookout Mountain, to Rossville, and may construct a bridge if deemed advisable over Chattanooga Creek if the same can be done within this appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Shiloh National Military Park</inline>: For continuing the work of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shiloh.</p></sidenote> 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, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Gettysburg National Park</inline>: For continuing the work of establishing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg.</p></sidenote> 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, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Vicksburg National Military Park</inline>: For continuing the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg.</p></sidenote> 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, surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of suppliesand materials; competitive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval memorial.</p></sidenote> designs, to cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars, and selection of site (including all necessary expenses connected therewith) for a Navy memorial in the Vicksburg National Military Park, to cost not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, commemorative of the services of the Union Navy in the operations of the Vicksburg campaign and siege, March twenty-ninth to July fourth, eighteen hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/367">367</page> sixty-three, and other necessary expenses, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maps, War Department</inline>: For publication of engineer maps for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps.</p></sidenote> use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Survey of Northern and Northwestern Lakes</inline>: For survey of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.</p></sidenote> 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, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Artificial Limbs</inline>: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artificial limbs, etc.</p></sidenote> commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of War, four hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Appliances for Disabled Soldiers</inline>: For furnishing surgical appliances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgical appliances.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">So much of section eleven hundred and seventy-eight of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trusses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent appropriation for, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S..SCC.1178, p.211, amended.</p></sidenote> Statutes of the United States as makes a permanent indefinite appropriation to purchase trusses for soldiers is repealed, to take effect after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and estimates of sufficient sums for the purchase of such trusses shall be submitted to Congress for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and annually thereafter, in the regular Book of Estimates.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support and Medical Treatment of Destitute Patients</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Providence Hospital.</p></sidenote> the support and medical treatment of ninety-five medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destitute patients.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Garfield Memorial Hospital</inline>: For maintenance, to enable it to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garfield Hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destitute patients.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the building of a retaining wall from Florida avenue to north<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> line of hospital grounds on east side of Eleventh street; for macadamized driveways to replace gravel ones, repairing macadamized driveways, and repaving of gutters; for new cement walks to replace wooden ones; for installing fire plugs on ground, and for services of engineer to supervise all said work, twenty-four thousand four hundred and thirty dollars, to be immediately available and to be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the board of trustees of the hospital, one half of said sum to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">California Débris Commission</inline>: For defraying the expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California Debris Commission.</p></sidenote> Commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Harbor of New York</inline>: For prevention of obstructive and injurious<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote> deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors.</p></sidenote> of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of crewsand maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crews, etc.</p></sidenote> seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eighty-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/368">368</page> <inline class="smallCaps">International Waterways Commission</inline>: For continuing the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inter national Water ways Commission.</p></sidenote> of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p.873.</p></sidenote> June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Emery Gun Carriage</inline>: To enable A. H. Emery to complete the gun<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emery gunearriagc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing.</p></sidenote> carriage he is making for the Government, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to increase the price of said contract to be paid to the said Emery for the said carriage by the sum of thirty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, twenty thousand of which is to be paid him on the approval of this Act, five thousand when he is ready to put in the foundation for this carriage, and the other five thousand when he is ready to erect the carriage for its preliminary test.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Central Branch, At Dayton, Ohio</inline>: For current expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the Home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraphand telephone operators, guards, policemen, watchmen, and fire 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; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effects of deceased members.</p></sidenote> 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-eight thousand dollars;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles pur-chased 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 diningroom 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-two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> 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 engineersand tiremen, bath-house keepers, hall cleaners, laundrymen, gas makers, and privy watchmen, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required tor household use, and for their repairs unless the repairs are made by the Home, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/369">369</page> 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, seventy thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> Home, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> carpenters, painters, gas titters, 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, sixty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> for repairs for any of the Branch Homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to central power house, including equipment, fifty-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Central powerhouse.</p></sidenote> thousand two hundred dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for new boilers and mechanical stokers in the sundry civil appropriation act for nineteen hundred and eight:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional tunnels and steam lines, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For grading and improving addition to cemetery, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> 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, and 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 live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. six hundred and eighty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Northwestern Branch, At Milwaukee, Wisconsin</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For dormitory for hospital nurses, five thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dormitory for nurses.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For iron fence, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cement curbing and gutters, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and fifty-nine thousand eight, hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Togus Me.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Eastern Branch, At Tog Us, Maine</inline>: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> head for the Central Branch, one hundred arid twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/370">370</page> For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, seventy-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, one thousand two hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shop building and dormitory for civilian employees, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dormitory.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rebuilding piazzas around central court, including repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Piazzas.</p></sidenote> roof of court, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. three hundred and seventy-seven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Southern Branch, At Hampton, Virginia</inline>: For current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses, including the same objects specified under this bead for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; .</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For power house and equipment, two hundred and five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power house.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tunnels and equipment, forty-five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commissary storehouse and ice plant, forty-five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storehouse and ice plant.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shops, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shops with sleeping rooms, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new boiler, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Western Branch, At Leavenworth, Kansas</inline>: For current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth. Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to hospital, six thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital addition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating system.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improvement of heating system, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, four hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Pacific Branch, At Santa Monica, California</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Monica, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, fifty-nine thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/371">371</page> For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For development of water supply, eight thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water supply.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital addition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension to power house, five thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to hospital, six thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Marion Branch, At Marion, Indiana</inline>: For current expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion. Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred ana three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, fortyeight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to office building, six thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Headquarters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For alterations and additions to headquarters building to adapt it to hospital uses, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, two hundred and ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois</inline>: For current<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred and forty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, forty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">At the Mountain Branch, At Johnson City, Tennessee</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, one hundred and four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For household, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Household.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surgeon’s quarters, seven thousand two hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For chaplain’s quarters, five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to dairy barn, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/372">372</page> For quarters for civilian employees, four thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair shop, live thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional arc lights, two thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For farm, including the same objects specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farm.</p></sidenote> for the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Battle Mountain Sanitarium, At Hot Springs, South Dakota</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, S. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional coal bunkers, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal bunkers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis ward.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tuberculosis ward, three thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For band stand, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing for all of the Branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing for all branches.</p></sidenote> underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc., Board of Managers.</p></sidenote> for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 inspectorgeneral, three thousand 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; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars; agents, eight 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 three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, four million tive hundred and ten thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided.</i> That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote> expended for any purpose at any Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen or other place where beer, wine or other intoxicating liquors are sold.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In addition to those classes of discharged soldiers and sailors now<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian campaigns.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admission for service in.</p></sidenote> admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, all honorably discharged soldiers who served in the regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any of the campaigns against hostile Indians who are now disabled by age, disease, or otherwise, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning a living, shall hereafter be admitted thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For judgment and costs adjudged against the National Home for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stonega Coal and Coke Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of judgment.</p></sidenote> Disabled Volunteer Soldiers on the fifth day of June, nineteen hundred and seven, in the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Tennessee, in the case of the Stonega Coal and Coke Company against the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, three thousand four hundred and ten dollars and seventy-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/373">373</page> <inline class="smallCaps">State Or Territorial Homes for Disabled Soldiers and Sailors</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State and Territorial homes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p 450.</p></sidenote> 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: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 564.</p></sidenote> 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: <i>And provided further</i>, That no part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intoxicants.</p></sidenote> this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Back Pay and Bounty</inline>: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Back pay and bounty.</p></sidenote> 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,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.14, p. 322.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of rations.</p></sidenote> 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 nine, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War with Spain.</p></sidenote> 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 nine and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter, in the settlement of the accounts of deceased officers or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy and Marine Corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of amounts due intestate, deceased officers and enlisted men.</p></sidenote> enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, where the amount due the decedent’s estate is less than five hundred dollars and no demand is presented by a duly appointed legal representative of the estate, the accounting officers may allow the amount found due to the decedent’s widow or legal heirs in the following order of precedence: First, to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> widow; second, if the decedent left no widow, or widow be dead at time of settlement, then to the children or their issue, per stirpes; third, if no widow or descendants, then to the father and mother in equal parts, provided father has not abandoned the support of his family, in which case to the mother alone: fourth, if either the father or mother be dead, then to the one surviving: fifth, if there be no widow, child, father, or mother at the date of settlement, then to the brothers and sisters and children of deceased brothers and sisters, per stirpes; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not be so construed as to prevent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Funeral expenses.</p></sidenote> payment from the amount due tin<sup>1</sup> decedent’s estate of funeral expenses, provided a claim therefor is presented by the person or persons who actually paid the same before settlement by the accounting officers.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court-House, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: For annual<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-house. D. C.</p></sidenote> repairs, five thousand dollars; new roof for the building, two thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand eight hundred dollars, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, Construction</inline>: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leavenworth,Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiary.</p></sidenote> construction of the new United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately <page identifier="/us/stat/35/374">374</page> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, Construction</inline>: For continuing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiary.</p></sidenote> the construction of the United States penitentiary at At lanta, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United States Penitentiary, Mcneils Island, Washington</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeils Island, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates for maintenance.</p></sidenote> That for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and annually thereafter, the Attorney-General shall submit estimates in detail for all expenses of maintaining said penitentiary, including salaries of all necessary officers and employees therefor.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous objects, department of justice.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Defending Suits in Claims Against the United States</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p></sidenote> defraying the necessary expenses 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, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Detection and Prosecution of Crimes</inline>: For the detection and prosecution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution of crimes.</p></sidenote> 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 AttorneyGeneral at any time; the inspection of the United States prisoners and prisons; 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 AttorneyGeneral, District of Columbia, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Defense in Indian Depredation Claims</inline>: For salaries and expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defense in Indian depredation claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 579.</p></sidenote> in defense of the Indian depredation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Traveling and Miscellaneous Expenses</inline>: For traveling and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental Expenses, District of Alaska</inline>: For furniture, fuel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshalsand attorneys, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Traveling Expenses, District of Alaska</inline>: For the actual and necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses of the judges and clerks in the district of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Defense of Suits Before Spanish Treaty Claims Commission</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defense of suits.</p></sidenote> For salaries and expenses in defense of claims before the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, including salaries of assistant attorneys and necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the AttorneyGeneral, to be expended under his direction, so much of the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, providing for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 877.</p></sidenote> the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, as are in conflict herewith notwithstanding, seventy-five thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two hundred dollars may be expended for law books and books of reference.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/375">375</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Spanish Treaty Claims Commission</inline>: For expenses of taking testimony<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taking testimony abroad.</p></sidenote> abroad, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Enforcement of Antitrust Laws</inline>: That the balance of the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antitrust laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances for enforcing, available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1359.</p></sidenote> of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, entitled “ Enforcement of antitrust laws, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and an additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional appropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1014.</p></sidenote> appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars is heréby made for the same purposes.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDICIAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>united states courts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Expenses of the United States Courts</inline>: For defraying the expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 circuit courts of appeals; 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:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals’ salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> and their deputies, one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to include payment for sendees rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances.</p></sidenote> 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 eight, 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 eight or prior years.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys’ salarie&amp;etc.</p></sidenote> United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, five hundred and twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services during vacancies.</p></sidenote> shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney and assistant. Pennsylvania eastern district.</p></sidenote> vacancy in theoflice of the United States district attorney. the annual salary of the United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania shall be, after the beginning of the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries increased.</p></sidenote> and nine, six thousand dollars: and the annual salary of his first assistantshall be, after the beginningof the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, such sum as the Attorney General shall from time to time fix and determine, not to exceed four thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The necessary expenses for lodging and subsistence actually paid,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for expenses when absent from official residence.</p></sidenote> not exceeding four dollars per day and actual and necessary traveling expenses of the United States district attorneys and their 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 following manner: That the accounts of the United States attorneys and assistant United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote> States attorneys for expenses herein provided for shall be made out monthly in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by the Attorney-General. And when said expense, accounts are made out, as hereinbefore provided, and verified on oath before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths, they shall he submitted to and examined <page identifier="/us/stat/35/376">376</page> by one of the judges of the circuit court or district court of the district for which said United States attorney or assistant United States attorney was appointed, and when approved by said judge, may be allowed and paid by the 11 nited States marshal for said district, and the amount of such payments shall be included in said marshal’s accounts with the United States, and audited and allowed as now provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, district attorney.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular assistants.</p></sidenote> twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 seventy-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants in special eases.</p></sidenote> States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, one hundred and six thousand dollars. This appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign counsel.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and of assistants<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naturalization, etc., cases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 and fifty thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, three hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’ fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in Montana.</p></sidenote> hereafter the fees and compensation of the clerk of the circuit and district court for the district of Montana shall be computed and allowed on the same basis as like fees are allowed, computed, and paid in the district of Oregon.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States commissioners, etc., fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., see. 1014, p. 189.</p></sidenote> acting under section one thousand and fourteen. Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of jurors, one million two hundred and fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’ fees.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees.</p></sidenote> for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of court room.</p></sidenote> ninety-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bailiffs, etc.</p></sidenote> crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That all persons employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actual attendance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 715, p.136.</p></sidenote> 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: <i>Provided further</i>, That no such person shall be employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc., expenses, judges.</p></sidenote> 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 cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/377">377</page> ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury commissioners.</p></sidenote> five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jurors and witnesses in the United States courts in the States of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors and witnesses in Wyoming, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance.</p></sidenote> Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Idaho, Colorado, and Utah, and in the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona shall be entitled to receive for actual attendance at any court or courts and for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the same, three dollars a day, and fifteen cents for each mile necessarily traveled over any stage line, or by private conveyance, and five cents for each mile by any railway or steamship in going to and returning from said courts: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no constructive or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Double fees prohibited</p></sidenote> double mileage fees shall be allowed by reason of any person being summoned as both a witness and juror, or as a witness in two or more cases pending in the same court and triable at the same term thereof.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, live hundred and sixty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in so far as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the district of Alaska.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of a library for the circuit court of appeals of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ninth circuit court of appeals, library.</p></sidenote> ninth judicial circuit, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of prisoners.</p></sidenote> and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, for the expense of care and medical treatment of guards employed by the United States, who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas</inline>: For the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaven worth, Kans Penitentiary.</p></sidenote> support of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, etc.</p></sidenote> 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 tide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty: for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoner, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the AttorneyGeneral,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> 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, and postage 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; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/378">378</page> 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; 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, thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> 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-nine thousand five 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, seventyseven thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and ninety-four thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United States Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia</inline>: For support<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atlanta. Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penitentiary.</p></sidenote> of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence.</p></sidenote> warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners; kitchen and diningroom furniture and utensils; farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice, if necessary, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing and transportation, including such clothing as can be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing, etc.</p></sidenote> 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the AttorneyGeneral,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/379">379</page> jurchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary suplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron junks, 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, surgical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital.</p></sidenote> 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;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> 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, thirty-one thousand dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, and carpenter, when necessary, three thousand one hundred and sixty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and thirty-four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reform School, District of Columbia</inline>: For superintendent, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, six thousand nine hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; five matrons of families, at two hundred and forty dollars each; two foremen of and skilled helpers in industries, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; two foremen of workshops, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; farmer, six hundred dollars; assistant farmer, four hundred and twenty dollars; 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 eight in number, two thousand eight hundred and eighty 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-five thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> 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, sixteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/380">380</page> For extraordinary repairs to buildings and for approaches to buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional shops and equipment, five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addition to building.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wings to administration building, thirty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eighty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">From and after the passage of this Act the Reform School of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name changed to National Training School for Boys.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia shall be known and designated as the National Training School for Boys.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Printing Ascertainment of Electors for President and Vicepresident:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing Ascertainment of Presidential Vote.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.24, P. 373.</p></sidenote> To</inline> pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirements of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pan-American Scientific Congress</inline>: To enable the Government of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pan-American Sci entitle Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expense of representation.</p></sidenote> the United States to be fittingly represented at the first Pan-American Scientific Congress to be held at Santiago, Chile, during the year nineteen hundred and eight, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Exposition At Quito, Ecuador</inline>: For the participation by the. United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exposition at Quito, Ecuador.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government exhibit. etc.</p></sidenote> States in an exposition to be held at Quito, Ecuador, during the year nineteen hundred and nine, the sending of a commissioner to the same, a Government exhibit, the necessary expenses of transportation, and the erection of a building at the exposition, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">International Investigation of Opium Evil</inline>: To enable the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International investigation of opium evil.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners, etc.</p></sidenote> to appoint not more than three commissioners to collate and complete on behalf of the United States information bearing on the opium question, and a secretary, who shall act as disbursing officer, and for traveling expenses, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses connected with the investigation and the meeting of the commissioners for the purpose of finding common ground for joint and several recommendations and reports to their respective Governments with a view to the suppression of the opium evil, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">International Conference At London</inline> : To meet the expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International prize court conference.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> the United States at the international conference which will meet at London in October, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purpose of formulating rules to be observed by the international prize court under paragraph two, article seven, of the Hague Convention providing for the establishment of such court, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fisheries Convention, United States and Canada</inline> : For the payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canadian Fisheries Convention.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners, etc., under.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 2000.</p></sidenote> of the compensation of a commissioner on the part of the United States under the convention between the United States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and of the share of the United States of the expenses that may bo incurred in putting into operation and carrying out the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Northeastern Fisheries Arbitration</inline> : To meet the expenses on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northeastern fisheries arbitration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> the part of the United States in the arbitration before the Permanent</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/381">381</page> Court of Arbitration at the Hague of the questions in controversy between the United States and Great Britain with respect to the northeastern fisheries, under a special agreement in course of negotiation between the United Statesand Great Britain, in conformity with article two of the General Arbitration Convention between the two countries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treaties, p. 826.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1960.</p></sidenote> signed at Washington on April fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, and approved by the Senate on April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNDER LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Statement of Appropriations</inline>: For preparation, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of appropriations.</p></sidenote> 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 first session of the Sixtieth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 587.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Conveying Votes of Electors for President and Vice-President</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers of electoral vote.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of mileage.</p></sidenote> For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for one distance only, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Botanic Garden</inline>: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> buildings, heating apparatus, resurfacing foot walks and roadways, repainting interior and exterior of main conservatory, new benches, and general repairs to propagating houses numbered five, six, seven, and eight, and repairs to storehouses, south side Maryland avenue, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Senate</inline>: To pay C. G. Northup for extra clerical services performed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">C. G. Northup.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> for a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate, authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and sixty-one, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, and for editing, compiling, and indexing the testimony taken before the subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and twenty, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay John J. Hannan, Frederick N. Webber, and C. A. Loeffler<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John J. Hannan, Frederick N. Webber, and C. A. Loeffler.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> for extra services under Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and sixty-one. Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, one hundred and twenty-five dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">House of Representatives Office Building</inline>: the unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, p. 1365.</p></sidenote> balance of the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars made for maintenance, including heating, lighting, and ventilation, miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
</chapeau>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Printing Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Public Printer</inline>: Public Printer, five thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public Printer, deputy, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; deputy public printer, three thousand six hundred dollars; private secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/382">382</page> stenographer, one thousand dollars; cashier and paymaster, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars: one messenger; one telephone switchboard operator; two assistant telephone switchboard operators; chief inspector and purchasing agent, three thousand six hundred dollars; and one clerk of class one; in all, twenty-four thousand four hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The office of deputy public printer shall be filled by the selection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy public printer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of office, etc.</p></sidenote> and appointment by the Public Printer of a person skilled as a practical printer and versed in the art of bookbinding, and who shall perform the duties heretofore required of the chief clerk, have supervision of the buildings occupied by the Government Printing Office, and perform such other duties as may be required of him by the Public Printer.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Superintendent of Documents</inline>: Superintendent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of documents, etc.</p></sidenote> documents, three thousand dollars; principal clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Foreman of Printing</inline>: Foreman of printing, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreman of printing.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Foreman of Presswork</inline>: Foreman of presswork, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreman of presswork.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Foreman of Binding</inline>: Foreman of binding, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreman of binding.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Superintendent of Supplies</inline>: Superintendent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of supplies.</p></sidenote> supplies, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Watch Force</inline>: Captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walch force.</p></sidenote> dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each, and sixty-four day and night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-nine thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Public Printer shall submit for the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates for all clerks, etc., to be submitted.</p></sidenote> and ten, and annually thereafter, estimates for all clerks and other employees additional to the foregoing who may be required in the executive or administrative offices of the Government Printing Office; and no funds other than those specifically appropriated under said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on services.</p></sidenote> estimates shall be used during said fiscal year for services in the Government Printing Office of the character specified in said estimates and appropriated for thereunder.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public printing and binding.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aggregate amount.</p></sidenote> 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<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office expenses.</p></sidenote> wages of all necessary clerks and employees additional to the foregoing specific sums and notwithstanding any limitation on such employments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, p. 943.</p></sidenote> contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight; 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/383">383</page> 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 three hundred thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following. respectively, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress.</p></sidenote> and debates, and for rents, one million eight hundred and twenty-four thousand nine hundred 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the State Department, forty-two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departments, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this sum shall be expended for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catalogue of copyrght entries.</p></sidenote> the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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, two hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Patent Office, as follows: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations, for printing, exclusive of illustrations, and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, five hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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-four thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the Bureau, 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; the Astrophysical Observatory, one hundred dollars; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, seven thousand dollars; in all, seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the United States Geological Survey, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/384">384</page> water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Justice, thirty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed twentyfive thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 612.</p></sidenote> Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,-and in pursuance of the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 825.</p></sidenote> of the first session Fifty-ninth Congress, and also including not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand 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 sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for the Census Office, five hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the. Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">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 two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Interstate Commerce Commission, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the International Bureau of the American Republics, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual leaves.</p></sidenote> law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Section three, of the Act providing for the public printing and binding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of documents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1014.</p></sidenote> and the distribution of public documents approved March first, nineteen hundred seven, is hereby repealed.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isthmian Canal.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the President in accordance with an Act entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 482.</p></sidenote> “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,” approved June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/385">385</page> First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian Canal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries in the United States.</p></sidenote> Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, one hundred and .forty-nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Canal building in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars, and text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts of the Isthmian Canal, one thousand dollars), twenty-seven thousand dollars, and the unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances.</p></sidenote> balances of appropriations for these, objects available .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third. For pay of members of the Commission and officers and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc., lepartments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers, etc., in the Isthmus.</p></sidenote> 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, intprnes, nurses, and attendants, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary details.</p></sidenote> duty away from the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, and expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, three million four hundred thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor.</p></sidenote> 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, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, eight million four hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of materials, etc.</p></sidenote> 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, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, and to enable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two steamships for Panama Railroad Company.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of War to purchase for the Panama Kailroad Company two steamships of American register each to be of not less than nine thousand gross registered tonnage and at a cost of not to exceed one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars, said ships to be controlled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation.</p></sidenote> and operated by said Panama Kailroad Company in like manner as other ships of said Company including the transportation of supplies, equipment and material for use in the construction of the Panama Canal and the transportation of officers and employees of the Panama Canal Commission: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when said ships are no longer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer to Navy when no longer required.</p></sidenote> required for use as aforesaid in the transportation of supplies, equipment and material for the construction of the Panama Canal the same shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Navy for use as colliers or other auxiliary vessels belonging to the Navy, twelve million eight hundred thousand dollars;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixth. To continue the equipment and construction of the Panama<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Railroad</p></sidenote> Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million one hundred thousand dollars; no part of said sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> shall be expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per centum interest <page identifier="/us/stat/35/386">386</page> payable to the United States shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and by him accepted;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventh. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> stationery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering, disbursing, examination of accounts, and labor, quarters and subsistence, four hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighth. For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government of Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers and employees.</p></sidenote> unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and the unexpended balances of appropriations for these objects available June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ninth. For skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor.</p></sidenote> of the Canal Zone, sixteen thousand dollars and the unexpended balances of appropriations for these objects June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tenth. For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote> expenses for account of the government of the Canal Zone, the unexpended balances of appropriations for these objects June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eleventh. For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sanitation department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of officers and employees.</p></sidenote> unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation department on the Isthmus, seven hundred thousand dollars and the unexpended balances of appropriations for these objects June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelfth. For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the sanitation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor.</p></sidenote> department on the Isthmus of Panama, five hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirteenth. For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote> contingent expenses of the sanitation department on the Isthmus, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the unexpended balances of appropriations for these objects June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fourteenth. For the construction of fhe new Panama Railroad to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Railroad.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of new.</p></sidenote> disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million and eighty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-nine million one hundred and seventy-seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> dollars, the same to be available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures paid from proceeds of land sales.</p></sidenote> expenditures from the appropriation herein and hereinafter made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the proceeds of the sale of the bonds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.32. p. 484.</p></sidenote> authorized in section eight of the Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Pembroke B. Banton, of Waterloo, Iowa, to compensate him<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pembroke B. Banton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for injuries.</p></sidenote> for injuries received while in the employment of the Government on the Isthmian Canal, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten per cent interchangeable.</p></sidenote> for expenditure on objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation: <proviso><i>Provided.</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of surplus for construction department.</p></sidenote> <i>however</i>, That any surplus in the appropriations for any of the above classified heads may be used for expenditure under any of the classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering.</proviso></p>
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</appropriations>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The foregoing appropriations shall be available to reimburse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for marine and fire losses.</p></sidenote> the Panama Railroad Company for marine losses, or for losses due to destruction of or damage to its plant, equipment, or commissary supplies by tire: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That upon this appropriation becoming<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance to cease.</p></sidenote> effective the Panama Railroad Company shall cease to carry insurance against loss from causes covered by this appropriation.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">All funds hereafter collected by the government of the Canal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of revenues.</p></sidenote> 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 <page identifier="/us/stat/35/387">387</page> from court fees, and collected or raised by taxation in whatever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, as follows: the revenues derived from the postal service to the main. tenance 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; to the construction and maintenance of public improvements within the Zone; to the maintenance of the administrative districts, including payment of salaries and wages incident thereto; to the maintenance of Canal Zone charity patients in the hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and to the maintenance of administrative district prisoners. A detailed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to Congress.</p></sidenote> 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 nine.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">All sums appropriated hereunder or that may hereafter be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sums available for construction contrack</p></sidenote> appropriated for the construction of the Isthmian Canal 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 may hereafter be entered into for the construction of the Isthmian Canal.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">All funds that hereafter may be derived from customs duties<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs revenue from Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriated for construction.</p></sidenote> collected upon property of the United States imported from the Canal Zone are hereby reappropriated for the construction of the Isthmian Canal and may be expended under any of the classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">All funds realized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fundsfrom services, sales, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriated for construction.</p></sidenote> and nine by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the performance of services by the Commission, or from the sale of materials and supplies upon the Isthmus under the custody and control of the Commission, are hereby reappropriated for expenditure under any of the foregoing classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering, and a full and separate report in detail of all transactions hereunder shall be made to Congress.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">The officers of the Isthmian Canal Commission are relieved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jamaica earthquake.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies furnished sufferers allowed.</p></sidenote> from liability to account for eleven thousand two hundred and five dollars and fifty-three cents, for materials and supplies furnished to the sufferers by the Jamaican earthquake of January fourteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">The National Academy of Sciences is required, at their next<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scientific surveys and laboratories.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Academy of Sciences to report plan forconsolidatìng.</p></sidenote> meeting, to take into consideration the methods and expenses of conducting all surveys of a scientific character, and all chemical, testing, and experimental laboratories and to report to Congress as soon thereafter as may be practicable a plan for consolidating such surveys, chemical, testing, and experimental laboratories so as to effectually prevent duplication of work and reduce expenditures without detriment to the public service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">It is the judgment of Congress that any person who holds employment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials who should not participate.</p></sidenote> under the United States or who is employed by and receives a regular salary from any scientific bureau or institution that is required to report to Congress should refrain from participation in the deliberations of said National Academy of Science on this subject and from voting on or joining in any recommendation hereunder.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sums for salaries to be in full.</p></sidenote> and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/388">388</page></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><heading class="centered">alaska-yukon-pacific exposition.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska -Yukon -Pacific Exposition.</p></sidenote></heading><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That all articles that shall be imported from foreign countries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Articles for expos! tion may be importer free.</p></sidenote> for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, to be held at Seattle, State of Washington, in the year-nineteen hundred and nine, upon which their shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales permitted.</p></sidenote> to sell for delivery at the close thereof any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition buildings’or oh the grounds, subject to such regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty on articles sold, etc.</p></sidenote> for consumption or use in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of withdrawal; and on articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling and necessary exposure the duty, if paid, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal for consumption or use, and the penalties prescribed by law shall be enforced against any person guilty of any illegal sale, use, or withdrawal.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That there shall be exhibited at said Exposition by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian and National Museum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exhibit by.</p></sidenote> Government of the United States from the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum such articles and material of an historical nature as will impart a knowledge of our national history especially that of Alaska, Hawaii and the Philippine Islands and that part of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. There shall be. exhibited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departmentexhibit, Character.</p></sidenote> from the Executive Departments of the United States such exhibits as will illustrate their principal administrative functions and their educational value in connection with the development of commerce in the countries bordering upon the Pacific Ocean; the preservation of forests; the reclamation and irrigation of arid and semiarid lands; the improving and enlarging of transportation facilities and the safeguards of navigation; and the economic value of the investigations and operations of the Government with reference to public health, geology, experiment stations, coast and geodetic survey, and public roads. To secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government board of managers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> such Government exhibit a United States Government board of managers is hereby authorized to be appointed to be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition and return of such articles and materials as the heads of the several Departments, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Superintendent of the National Museum respectively decide shall be embraced in the Government exhibit herein authorized. the President of the United States may also designate additional articles of peculiar interest for exhibition in connection with the said Government exhibit. Said Government board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> of managers shall be composed of three persons now in the employ of the Government and shall be appointed by the President, one of whom shall be designated by the President as chairman of the said board and one as secretary and disbursing officer, the members of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances.</p></sidenote> said Government board, with other officers and employees of the Goverment who may be detailed to assist them, including officers of the Army and Navy, shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular;salaries, but they shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be tixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, while necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon the business of the board. Offieers of the Army and Navy shall receive said allowance in lieu of the subsistence and mileage now allowed by law; and the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy <page identifier="/us/stat/35/389">389</page> may, in their discretion, detail retired Army or Navy officers for such duty. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details permitted.</p></sidenote> the employ of the United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed for duty in connection with said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Employees of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of employees.</p></sidenote> the board not otherwise employed by the Government shall be entitled to such compensation as the board may determine, and such employees may be selected and appointed by said board. the disbursing officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing officer.</p></sidenote> shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Treasure may determine for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by said Secretary.. the Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said officer from time to time, under such regulations as he may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation for the Government exhibit herein authorized, not exceeding at any one time three-fourths of the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of said exhibit as authorized by the United States Government board herein created. the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-saving exhibit.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of his Department, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for this purpose, one of the life-saving stations authorized to be constructed on the Pacific coast of the United States by existing law, and to cause the same to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furniture, and appliances now in use in life-saving stations in the United States. the Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fish aquarium.</p></sidenote> directed to place on exhibition, in connection with the exhibit of his Department, in such building or aquarium as shall he allotted for this purpose, a complete exhibit of the fish and fisheries of the United States, paying special attention to the fish and fisheries of the Pacific Ocean, with a view to demonstrating, in the fullest manner possible, the economic value, of such fish and fisheries: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the cost<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of expenses.</p></sidenote> of said exhibit herein authorized, including the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the articles and materials so exhibited, shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, which sum. or so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska and Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exhibits from.</p></sidenote> and directed to aid the people of the district of Alaska and of the Territory of Hawaii in providing and maintaining appropriate and creditable exhibits of the products and resources of Alaska and Hawaii at the said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and for that purpose he is authorized to appoint one or more persons to supervise the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safekeeping, exhibition, and return of such articles as may be exhibited from said Territories at said exposition: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of expenses.</p></sidenote> expenditure for said exhibit for said district of Alaska on the part of the Government, including such selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the articles so exhibited, shall not exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: <i>And provided further</i>, That the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total for Hawaiian exhibit.</p></sidenote> expenditure for said exhibit for the Territory of Hawaii on the part of the Government, including such selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the articles so exhibited shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid to exhibit from.</p></sidenote> to aid the people of the Philippine Islands in providing and maintaining <page identifier="/us/stat/35/390">390</page> an appropriate and creditable exhibit of the products and resources of the Philippine Islands at the said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and for that purpose he is authorized to appoint one or more persons to supervise the selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles as may be exhibited from said Philippine Islands at said exposition: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total expenditures for said exhibit on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>, Limit of expenses.</p></sidenote> part of the Government, including such selection, purchase, preparation, transportation, arrangement, installation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of the articles so exhibited, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause suitable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government exhibit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> buildings to be erected on the site of said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition for said Government exhibit, including an irrigation and biograph building; also a fisheries building complete, with mechanical apparatus; also buildings for the exhibits of the district of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands; also buildings for such other purposes in connection with the exhibits herein authorized as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury may be necessary. Said buildings shall be erected from plans prepared by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation of plans, etc.</p></sidenote> Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to contract for said buildings in the same manner and under the same regulations as for other public buildings of the United States, but the contract for said buildings, including the preparation of ground therefor and the approaches thereto, and the interior and exterior decorative wiring and lighting thereof shall not exceed the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which sum or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal at close of exposition.</p></sidenote> any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and required to dispose of said buildings, or the materials composing the same, at the close of the exposition, giving preference to the State of Washington or to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition corporation or to the city of Seattle to purchase the same at an appraised value to be ascertained in such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That the allotment of space for exhibitors in the building or buildings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of space in Alaska. Hawaii, and Philippine buildings.</p></sidenote> erected under authority of this Act for the use of the district of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands shall be done and performed without charge to exhibitors by the Government board created by this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That dies for medals bearing appropriate devices, emblems,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dies for commemorative medal to be made at mint.</p></sidenote> and inscriptions commemorative of said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and of the awards to be made to the exhibitors thereat shall be prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury at some mint of the United States for the board of trustees of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a corporation, subject to the provisions of the fifty-second section of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.. sec. 3551, p. 702.</p></sidenote> the coinage Act of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and upon the payment by said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of a sum not less than the cost thereof; said medals shall be coined by the coining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coining press at exposition.</p></sidenote> press located in and being part of the Government exhibit, and without cost to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power, etc.</p></sidenote> Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition shall furnish free of charge the electric power necessary to operate said coining press and all provisions of law against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals issued under this Act. Said Alaska-Yukon-<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials for souvenirs.</p></sidenote> Pacific Exposition shall furnish without cost to the United States all materials used by the printing and engraving presses exhibited by the Government at said exposition in the production of the usual souvenirs <page identifier="/us/stat/35/391">391</page> of appropriate design, and said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is hereby authorized, through any agent, employee, privilege holder, or concessionnaire appointed by its proper officer, to vend and sell at or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales.</p></sidenote> near the place of manufacture any medal, print, or engraving authorized under the provisions of this Act: <i>Provided</i>, That the vending and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval by Secretary of the Treasury.</p></sidenote> selling of all such medals, prints, and engravings shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States shall not be liable on account of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of United States limited to Government exhibit.</p></sidenote> said exposition for any expenses incident to or growing out of the same, except for the construction of the building or buildings hereinbefore authorized and for the purpose of paying the expense incident to the selection, preparation, purchase, installation, transportation, care, custody, and safe return of the exhibits made by the Government and for the employment of proper persons as officers and assistants by the Government board created by this Act, and for other expenses, and for the maintenance of said building or buildings and other contingent expenses to be approved by the chairman of the Government board, or, in the event of his absence or disability, by such officer as the board may designate, and the Secretary of the Treasury, upon itemized accounts and vouchers: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no liability against the Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations not available until exposition has obtained $1.000.000.</p></sidenote> shall be incurred and no expenditure of money appropriated by this Act shall be made until the president of said exposition shall have furnished to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury proof that there has been obtained for the purpose of completing and opening said exposition bona tide subscriptions to the stock of Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (a corporation), by responsible parties, contributions, donations, and appropriations, from all sources, aggregating a sum not less than one million dollars: <i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contributions excluded.</p></sidenote> appropriation made by any State or Territory, and no appropriation herein made, shall be considered as any part of said million dollars.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States shall not in any manner or under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States not liable for acts, etc., of exposition corporation.</p></sidenote> any circumstances be liable for any of the acts, doings, or representations of said Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (a corporation), its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for service, salaries, labor, or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of them, or for any subscriptions to the capital stock, or for any stock certificates, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said corporation, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses, of any kind or nature whatever, attending such exposition corporation, or accruing by reason of the same.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to create<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability in excess of appropriations disclaimed.</p></sidenote> any liability upon the part of the United States, directly or indirectly, for any debt or obligation incurred or for any claim for aid or pecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support or liquidation of any debts or obligations created by said United States Government board in excess of appropriations herein made.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States shall not in any manner or under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aid to exposition specially limited.</p></sidenote> any circumstances make any loan, directly or indirectly, to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition or for the benefit of said exposition or for any of the purposes thereof, and shall not appropriate for any purpose whatsoever in connection with said exposition any sum of money other than that provided in this act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><heading class="centered">international irrigation congress, albuquerque, new mexico.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Irrigation Congress, Albuquerque, N. Mex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contribution to expenses.</p></sidenote></heading><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">To enable the Secretary of the. Treasury to pay to the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to assist in defraying the expenses of the International Irrigation Congress, to be held in that city commencing September twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/392">392</page>Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to create any liability<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further liability disclaimed.</p></sidenote> upon the part of the United States, directly or indirectly, for any debt or obligation incurred or for any claim for aid or pecuniary assistance from Congress or the Treasury of the United States in support or liquidation of any debts or obligations that may be created on account of said International Irrigation Congress beyond the sum hereby appropriated.</p>
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<dc:title>Chap. 201: Fixing the status of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>201.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Fixing the status of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18818">[H. R. 18818.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/142">[Public. No. 142.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That on and after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name changed.</p></sidenote> thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and eight, the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry shall be designated the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry of the United States Army. It shall be composed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> of the two existing battalions of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the field officers of said regiment shall be one lieutenant-colonel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field officers.</p></sidenote> and two majors, who shall be detailed for four years by the President from officers not below the rank of captain of the Army.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the present captains and lieutenants of the Porto Rico<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Captains and lieutenants.</p></sidenote> Provisional Regiment of Infantry appointed or who were reappointed after a mental, physical, and professional examination, may be recommissioned as officers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies in grade of second lieutenant.</p></sidenote> tilled by the President in his discretion by the appointment of citizens of Porto Rico whose qualifications for commissions shall be established by examination.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That promotions to the grade of first lieutenant and captain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions.</p></sidenote> shall be according to seniority within the regiment, subject to the examination provided by law. All appointments and promotions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments confirmed by the Senate.</p></sidenote> herein provided for shall be made with the advice and consent of the Senate. Officers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry shall have the same rank, pay, rights, and allowances provided by law for officers of similar rank in the Army of the United States, except as herein provided with regard to promotion. Any of the officers provided for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired list.</p></sidenote> by section three who may have become incapacitated for active service by reason of disability incident to the service shall be placed upon the retired list with the rank to which they would otherwise be entitled.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 202: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>202.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof, for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19355">[H. R. 19355.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/148">[Public. No. 148.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the sums of money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortillcationsappro-priations.</p></sidenote> herein provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely :</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the engineer department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of gun and mortar batteries, three hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gun and mortar batteries.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/393">393</page>For modernizing Older emplacements, the Secretary of War is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modernizing older emplacements.</p></sidenote> to apply the sum of twenty-two thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighteen cents, remaining unexpended from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances.</p></sidenote> appropriation for pneumatic dynamite battery at San Francisco Harbor, California, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 704.</p></sidenote> July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the sum of one hundred and forty-two thousand four hundred and four dollars and eighteen cents remaining unexpended from the appropriation for pneumatic dynamite batteries, contained in the fortification appropriaton<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 184.</p></sidenote> Act approved May twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations, etc.</p></sidenote> purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary Iinesandmeansof electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, Coastsignal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery: for the purchase, manufacture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders, etc.</p></sidenote> and test of range finders and other instruments for tire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and seventy thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplying current for power and lighting at seacoast fortifications,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electriccurrent supply.</p></sidenote> three hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites for coast defenses, etc.</p></sidenote> thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses, one hundred and twenty-one thousand and forty-eight dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Armistead, Md.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> twenty-one thousand and forty-eight dollars of said amount shall be paid to any person for property at, near, or adjoining Fort Armistead, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: <i>And provided further</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts.</p></sidenote> part thereof shall be so paid until such person receipts in full for all claims of every kind against the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is directed, by a suitable board, to investigate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Pedro, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast fortifications.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on necessity of, etc.</p></sidenote> and report fully to Congress as to the advisability and necessity of seacoast fortifications for the protection of the harbor at San Pedro, California, and the cities in that vicinity, and if such fortifications are deemed advisable or necessary furnish an estimate of the cost of sites and fortifications separately.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of our<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> most important harbors, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the construction of about four thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Moultrie, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protecting wall.</p></sidenote> linear feet of wall necessary for the protection of Fort Moultrie, Sullivans Island, South Carolina, from the effects of storms, one hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the repair and restoration of batteries and other structures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protection to batteries. etc.</p></sidenote> appurtenant to the defenses of Pensacola and retaining walls to protect the batteries from floods, fifty-nine thousand three hundred and fifty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of machinery and for changes in buildings to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery for arsenal.</p></sidenote> receive it at the Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the repair and restoration of batteries and other structures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile, Ala.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair of defenses.</p></sidenote> appurtenant to the defenses of Mobile, Alabama, and rebuilding sea walls and groins for protection of the sites of the fortifications and of the garrison posts, five hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/394">394</page> For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea walls.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo structures.</p></sidenote> defense of the United States, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal office.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control installations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> defenses, one hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars.</p>
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<heading>armament of fortifications.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armament.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of machine and automatic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machine guns, etc.</p></sidenote> guns, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, field,and siege cannon.</p></sidenote> siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for machine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> and automatic guns, and for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote> defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balances of the one hundred and sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 307, 1025.</p></sidenote> dollars appropriated by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, and the sixty-one thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for oil-tempered and annealed steel for seacoast defense guns of eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch caliber, also the unexpended balance of the eighty thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, for finishing and assembling eight-inch, ten-inch, and twelve-inch guns at the Army Gun Factory, including new tiring attachments for guns now in service, and any new tools or machinery necessary for their manufacture, being sixty-five thousand six hundred and fifty-six dol Iars and ninety-five cents and thirty-one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars and four cents, respectively, are hereby made available for the purposes named in the foregoing paragraph.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery practice.</p></sidenote> tubes, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/395">395</page> For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering mobile artillery.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for practice.</p></sidenote> tubes, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue to institutions.</p></sidenote> the arsenals, and ammunition of older model than current may be. issued for the instruction and target practice of students at the institutions to which the issue of artillery Isauthorized, ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery, tools, etc.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch material to rapid-fire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering rapid-fire material, etc.</p></sidenote> field material, including sights, implements, equipments, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
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<heading>PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Hook proving ground.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For current expenses and maintenance of the ordnance proving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> ground, Sandy Hook. New Jersey, including expenses incident to the transportation of men and material therefor,general repairsand alterations and accessories incidental to testing and proving ordnance, including hireof assistants for the Ordnance Board, skilled mechanical labor, purchase of instruments and other supplies, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs of railroad tracks connecting the proving ground with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair of railroad tracks.</p></sidenote> the Central Railroad of New Jersey, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem e so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SUBMARINE MINES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo depot.</p></sidenote> machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten. New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement of one torpedo planter, for use on the Pacific<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pacific coast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo planter.</p></sidenote> coast, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, four hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Philippine Islands, nine hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one million three hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/396">396</page> For installation of electric plants at the defenses of the following localities<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote> ;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, twenty thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote> ;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations, etc.</p></sidenote> purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical Coniinunieations. including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture, and test of range finders and other instruments for tire control<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders, etc.</p></sidenote> at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> most important harbors, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Philippine Islands, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all. two hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines, Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote> storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for tne operation, preservation, and care of submarine minesand their accessories at the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement of one torpedo planter and two launches for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo planter, etc.</p></sidenote> the Hawaiian Islands, one hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement of one torpedo planter and six launches for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo planter,etc.</p></sidenote> Philippine Islands, one hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining thereto,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p></sidenote> needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works foi-fortifications and coast defenses in the Philippine Islands, five thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seaeoast cannon.</p></sidenote> defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, seven hundred and four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering artillery, etc.</p></sidenote> mechanical supervision of its installation, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the Hawaiian Islands, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> operate them for closing the channels leading to the principal seaports of the Philippine Islands, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Ordnance and Fortifications.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Board to make all needful and proper purchases,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/397">397</page> fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, ana to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the Board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon it by the Act approved September twenty-second,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p.489.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian member.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary.</p></sidenote> member of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification provided by the Act of February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p.769.</p></sidenote> and for the necessary traveling Cxpensesof said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, tests, etc.</p></sidenote> expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, fifty thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureausof the WarDepartment heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the Board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Thiit before any money shall be expended in the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to use invention.</p></sidenote> or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thatall material purchased under the provisions of this Act shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Material to be of American manufacture.</p></sidenote> of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad. Such material purchased in limited quantities shall be admitted free of duty, asshall other similar material furnished without charge.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 203: To authorize the construction of a railroad siding to the United States navy-yard, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction of a railroad siding to the United States navy-yard, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20120">[H. R. 20120.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/144">[Public, No. 144.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Philadelphia, Baltimore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District OfColumbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington Railroad Company may construct siding to navy-yard.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Route.</p></sidenote> and Washington Railroad Company be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to construct a single branch track or siding from its present main line, at some point, to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, between the bridge over the Anacostia River at Pennsylvania avenue southeast, and one thousand feet westerly therefrom: thence extending by curve in a Southwest-wardly direction across square south of one thousand and eighty, to Fifteenth street, east; thence Southwestwardly across square south one thousand and sixty-seven, on a line generally parallel to the center line of Water street, at such distance between the center line of Water street and the present approved north bulkhead line of the Anaeostia River as shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, crossing Fifteenth street southeast, Fourteenth street southeast, Thirteenth street southeast, Twelfth street southeast, M and N streets southeast, and Virginia avenue: thence in a south-westwardly direction by curve or otherwise, as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall approve, crossing Twelfth street southeast, and square south of one thousand and one, to the north abutment of the Anacostia River bridge at the foot of Eleventh <page identifier="/us/stat/35/398">398</page> street southeast; thence passing under the north end of the said Ana-costia River bridge, at such point as may be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; thence across Eleventh street southeast, square nine hundred and seventy-nine, Tenth street southeast, square nine hundred and fifty-five, and Ninth street southeast, in a line generally parallel to the north bulkhead line of the Anacostia River, as now approved, and between it and one hundred feet distant therefrom, as may be determined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to a connection with the track system of the United States Navy-Yard.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the location of said track and the grade thereof and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc., approved by Commissioners.</p></sidenote> the plans of construction outside of the United States Navy-Yard, shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the said Commissioners are also authorized and empowered to make, from time to time, all needful regulations for the movement of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> trains, cars, and locomotives over the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location on public grounds, etc.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia shall, as far as consistent with the public interests, cause said railroad track to be located on public grounds and streets.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paving.</p></sidenote> shall also pave such crossings or other portions of public space occupied by said track, and two feet exterior to the rails thereof, as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require, and keep the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> same in repair at all times.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Side-tracks, etc.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, upon request of the railroad company, to grant the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, permission to lay, maintain, and use side-tracks and sidings, from the branch track herein authorized, south of said branch track between Twelfth and Fifteenth streets east, and also into squares nine hundred and fifty-five, nine hundred and seventy-nine, south of one thousand and twenty-five, and east of one thousand and twenty-five, and south of one thousand and one, and south<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonobstruction of public streets.</p></sidenote> of one thousand and forty-eight: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such tracks or sidings shall be laid and maintained under the direction of the said Commissioners in such manner as to least interfere with the free and unobstructed use of the public streets.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the entire cost and expense of obtaining the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost to be paid by railroad.</p></sidenote> right of way, and the entire cost and expense of constructing the branch track, herein authorized, to a connection with the track system of the navy-yard, shall be paid and defrayed by the Philadelphia, Baltimoreand Washington Railroad Company, but the said Philadelphia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Riparian rights not acquired.</p></sidenote> Baltimoreand Washington RailroadCompanyshall not acquire any riparian rights by reason of the Iocationof said,track through public space or through any right of way, necessary to be acquired.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That where the line as approved by said Commissioners lies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Occupation of public space.</p></sidenote> within the bed of any public highway or through any public space, said company is hereby given the right to occupy such portion of said highway or public space as may be approved by said Commissioners, and where such approved line crosses private property, the said railroad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of way over private property by purchase.</p></sidenote> company is hereby authorized to acquire a sufficient right of way not exceeding sixty-six feet in width by purchase, and in the event that such right of way can not be purchased at a price satisfactory to said railroad company, authority is hereby conferred upon said railroad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By condemnation.</p></sidenote> company to condemn the land necessary for such right of way, in the manner and by the method and processes provided by sections six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., D. C., secs. 648–663, pp.78, 79.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty-eight to six hundred and sixty-three, both inclusive, of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia, which said sections, despite any repeal thereof, are hereby reenacted in full<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenactment.</p></sidenote> force and effect, for the purposes contemplated by this Act, and are <page identifier="/us/stat/35/399">399</page> especially enacted to like effectas if the same were incorporated herein at length: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in every case where an assessment for damages<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession.</p></sidenote> or an award shall have been returned by the appraisers, the company, upon paying into court the amount so assessed or awarded, may enter upon and take possession of the land covered thereby, irrespective of whether exceptions to such assessment, or award shall be filed or not, and any subsequent proceedings shall not interfere with or affect such possession, but shall only affect the amount of compensation to be paid.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the construction of the track or siding herein provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion.</p></sidenote> for shall be begun within six months from the date of the passage of this Act, and shall be completed within two years from said date, and pending such construction, the said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company is hereby authorized to maintain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present tracks, etc.</p></sidenote> its present track connection with the United States Navy-Yard by means of a single track on K street and Canal street southeast, either as at present located or as the same may hereafter be relocated, in whole or in part, with the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, but at the expiration of said two years said railroad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of present tracks.</p></sidenote> company shall at its own expense remove said present track connection and restore the surface of the streets over which the same is laid, to the approval of said Commissioners: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use by other roads.</p></sidenote> any other railroad company may desire to connect with the track herein authorized and required to be constructed it shall have the right so to do; such connecting road shall have the right to use the track herein authorized on terms and conditions satisfactory to the said Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Companv. its successors or assigns, or in case of failure to agree on terms and’ conditions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to agree on terms.</p></sidenote> of joint use then on such terms and conditions as the supreme court of the District of Columbia may determine to be equitable and just.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That all Actsor parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereof be, and the same are hereby, repealed.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 204: To further amend the Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>204</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>204.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To further amend the Act entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4316">[S, 4316.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/145">[Public, No. 145.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one of said Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia.</p></sidenote> be, and is hereby, amended and reenacted to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline>. 1.</num> <content class="inline">That the militia shall consist of every able-bodied male<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote> citizen of the respective States and Territories and the District of Columbia, and every able-bodied male of foreign birth who has declared his intention to become a citizen, who is more than eighteen and less than forty-five years of age, and shall be divided into two classes: the organized militia, to be known as the National Guard of the State, Territory, or District of Columbia, or by such other designations as may be given them by the laws of the respective States or Territories;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appliesonly to land Force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 1661, p. 290.</p></sidenote> the remainder to be known as the Reserve Militia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of this Act and of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one. Revised Statutes, as amended, shall apply only to the militia organized as a land force.”</proviso></content></section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That section three of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the regularly enlisted, organized, and uniformed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia.</p></sidenote> active militia in the several States and Territories and the District of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/400">400</page> Columbia who have heretofore participated or shall hereafter participate in the apportionment of the annual appropriation provided by section sixteen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.,sec, 1661, p. 290.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 662.</p></sidenote> United States, as amended, whether known and designated as National Guard, militia, or otherwise, shall constitute the organized militia. on and after .January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To conform to general Army Regulations after January 21, 1910.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 775, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 566.</p></sidenote> organization, armament, and discipline of the organized militia in the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia shall be the same as that which is now or may hereafter be prescribed for the Regular Army of the United States, subject in time of peace to such general exceptions as may be authorized by the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in peace and war each organized division of militia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors of smallarms practice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote> may have one inspector of small-arms practice with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; each organized brigade of militia one inspector of small-arms practice with the rank of major; each regiment of infantry or cavalry of organized militia one assistant inspector of small-arms practice with the rank of captain, and each separate or unassigned battalion of infantry or engineers or squadron of cavalry of organized militia one assistant inspector of small-arms practice with the rank of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum number of enlisted men.</p></sidenote> first lieutenant : <i>Provided also</i>, That the President of the United States in∙time of peace may, by order, fix the minimum number of enlisted men in each company, troop, battery, signal corps, engineer corps, and hospital corps: <i>And provided further</i>, That any corps of artillery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Privileges of certain existing corps.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 1, p. 271.</p></sidenote> cavalry, and infantry existing in any of the States at the passage of the Act of May eighth, seventeen hundred and ninety-two, which, by the laws, customs, or usages of the said States, have been in continuous existence since the passage of said Act, under its provisions and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., 232, 1625–1650, pp. 37, 285–290.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of section two hundred and thirty-two and sections sixteen hundred and twenty-five to sixteen hundred and sixty, both inclusive, of title sixteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the militia, shall be allowed to retain their accustomed privileges, subject, nevertheless, to all other duties required by law, in like manner as the other militia.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That section four of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever the United States is invaded or in danger<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be called for in case of invasion, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 776, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service where regular force Ls inadequate.</p></sidenote> of invasion from any foreign nation, or of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States, or the President is unable with the regular forces at his command to execute the laws of the Union, it shall be lawful for the President to call forth such number of the militia of the State or of the Statesor Territories or of the District of Columbia as he may deem necessary to repel such invasion, suppress such rebellion, or to enable him to execute such laws, and to issue his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orders through governor, etc.</p></sidenote> orders for that purpose, through the governor of the respective State or Territory, or through the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, from which State. Territory, or District such troops may be called, to such officers of the militia as he may think proper.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That section five of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever the President calls forth the organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service may be∙specified by President.</p></sidenote> militia of any State, Territory, or of the Districtof Columbia, to be employed in the service of the United States, he may specify in his call the period for which such service is required, and the militia so called shall continue to serve during the term so specified, either within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To serve until relieved, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 776, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on time of service.</p></sidenote> or without the territory of the United States, unless sooner relieved by order of the President: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no commissioned officer or enlisted man of the organized militia shall be held to service beyond the term of his existing commission or enlistment: <i>Provided further</i>, That when the military needs of the Federal Government arising from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia to be called in advance of volunteer force.</p></sidenote> the necessity to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrection, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/401">401</page> or repel invasion, can not be met by the regular forces, the organized militia shall be called into the service of the United States in advance of any volunteer force which it may be determined to raise.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That section seven of said Act as amended be. and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That every officer and enlisted man of the militia who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mustering in, without further enlistment, etc.</p></sidenote> called forth in the manner hereinbefore prescribed, shall be mustered for service without further enlistment, and without further medical examination previous to such muster, except for those States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 776, Hinended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for refusal to answer call.</p></sidenote> and Territories which have not adopted the standard of medical examination prescribed for the Regular Army: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any officer or enlisted man of the militia who shall refuse or neglect to present himself for such muster, upon being called forth as herein prescribed, shall be subject to trial by court-martial and shall be punished as such court-martial may direct.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That section eight of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the majority membership of courts-martial for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts-martial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol, 32, p. 776, amended.</p></sidenote> trial of officers or men of the militia when in the service of the United States shall be composed of militia officers.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That section eleven of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That when the militia is called into the actual service of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commencement of pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 776, amended.</p></sidenote> the United States, or any portion of the militia is called forth under the provisions of this Act, their pay shall commence from the day of their appearing at the place of company rendezvous, but this provision shall not be construed to authorize any species of expenditure<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Previous expenditures.</p></sidenote> previous to arriving at such places of rendezvous which is not provided by existing laws to be paid after their arrival at such places of rendezvous.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That section thirteen of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to procure,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of arms, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requisition of governors, etc., not required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 777, amended.</p></sidenote> by purchase or manufacture, and issue from time to time to the organized militia, under such regulations as he may prescribe, such number of the United States service arms, together with all accessories and such other accouterments, equipments, uniforms, clothing, equipage, and military stores of all kinds required for the Army of the United States, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip all of the organized militia in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, in accordance with the requirements of this Act, without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not chargeable to annual allotment.</p></sidenote> charging the cost or value thereof, or any expense connected therewith, against the allotment of said State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, out of the annual appropriation provided by section sixteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 1661, p. 290.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes as amended, or requiring payment therefor, and to exchange, without receiving any money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of ammunition.</p></sidenote> credit therefor, ammunition or parts thereof suitable to the new arms, round for round, for corresponding ammunition suitable to the old arms heretofore issued to said State, Territory, or the District of Columbia by the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said property shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of old for new arms.</p></sidenote> remain the property of the United States, except as hereinafter provided, and be annually accounted for by the governors of the States and Territories as required by law, and that each Stote, Territory, and the District of Columbia shall, on receipt of new arms or equipments, turn in to the War Department, or otherwise dispose of in accordance with the directions of the Secretary of War, without receiving any money credit therefor and without expense for transportation, all United States property so replaced or condemned. When the organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing allowance.</p></sidenote> militia is uniformed as above required, the Secretary of War is authorized to fix an annual clothing allowance to each State, Territory, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/402">402</page> and the District of Columbia for each enlisted man of the organized militia thereof, and thereafter issues of clothing to such States, Territories, and the District of Columbia shall be in accordance with such allowance, and the governors of the States and Territories and the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia shall be authorized to drop from their returns each year as expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issuing small arms, etc.</p></sidenote> clothing corresponding in value to such allowance. the Secretary of War is hereby further authorized to issue from time to time to the organized militia, under such regulations as he may prescribe, small arms and artillery ammunition upon the requisition of the governor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> in the proportion of fifty per centum of the corresponding Regular Army allowance, without charge to the State’s allotment from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290.</p></sidenote> the appropriation under section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended. To provide means to carry into effect<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for arms, etc.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this section, the necessary money to cover the cost of procuring, exchanging, or issuing of arras, accouterments, equipments, uniforms, clothing, equipage, ammunition, and military stores to be exchanged or issued hereunder is hereby appropriated out of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum expenditure.</p></sidenote> money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: <i>Provided</i>, That the sum expended in the execution of the purchases and issues provided for in this section shall Iiotexceedthe sum of two million dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> in any fiscal year: <i>Provided also</i>, That the Secretary of War shall annually submit to Congress a report of expenditures made by him in the execution of the requirements of this section.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That section fifteen of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is authorized to provide for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Participation in regular army encampments, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 778, amended.</p></sidenote> participation by any part of the organized militia of any State or Territory on the request of the governor thereof in the encampment, maneuvers, and field instruction of any part of the Regular Army at or near any military post or camp or lake or seacoast defenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote> United States. in such case the organized militia so participating shall receive the same pay, subsistence, and transportation as is provided by law for the officers and men of the Regular Array, and no part of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> sums appropriated for the support of the Regular Army shall be used to pay any part of the expenses of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or District of Columbia, while engaged in joint encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction of the Regular Army and militia, but ail payments to the militia under the provisions of this section and all allowances for mileage shall be made solely from the sums appropriated for such purposes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the command of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular army officer to retain command.</p></sidenote> such military post or camp and the officers and troops of the United States there stationed shall remain with the regular commander of the post without regard to the rank of the commanding or other officers of the miilitia temporarily so encamped within its limits or in its vicinity : <i>Provided further</i>, That except as herein specified the right to command<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rigid to command, etc.</p></sidenote> during such joint encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction shall be governed by the rules set out in articles one hundred and twenty-two and one hundred and twenty-four of the rules and articles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements.</p></sidenote> for the government of the armies of the United States. the sums appropriated for the organized militia for such joint encampment, maneuvers, and field instruction shall be disbursed as, and for that purpose, shall constitute, one fund; and the Secretary of War shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of expenses.</p></sidenote> forward to Congress, at each session next after said encampment, a detailed statement of the expenses of such encampments and maneuvers.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That section sixteen of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever any officer or enlisted man of the organized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to militia officers and enlisted men at military schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 778, amended.</p></sidenote> militia shall upon the recommendation of the governor of any State, Territory, or the commanding general of the District of Columbia militia, and when authorized by tlιe President, attend and pursue <page identifier="/us/stat/35/403">403</page> a regular course of study at any military school or college of the United States, such officer or enlisted man shall receive from the annual appropriation for the support of the Army, the same travel allowances and quarters or commutation of quarters to which an officer or enlisted man of the Regular Army would be entitled for attending such school or college under orders from proper military authority; such officer shall also receive commutation and subsistence at the rate of one dollar per day and each enlisted man such subsistence as is furnished to an enlisted man of the Regular Army while in actual attendance upon a course of instruction.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That section twenty of said Act as amended be, and the same is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That upon the application of the governor of any State<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of Army oflicers or enlisted men for duty with militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 779, amended.</p></sidenote> or Territory furnished with material of war under the provisions of this Act. or former laws of Congress, the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, detail one or more officers or enlisted men of the Army to report to the governor of such State or Territory for duty in connection with the organized militia. All such assignments may be revoked<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation.</p></sidenote> at the request of the governor of such State or Territory or at the pleasure of the Secretary of War. the Secretary of War is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of five officers created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> to appoint a board of five officers on the active list of the organized militia so selected as to secure, as far as practicable, equitable representation to all sections of the United States, and which shall, from time to time, as the Secretary of War may direct, proceed to Washington, District of Columbia, for consultation with the Secretary of W ar respecting the condition, status, and needs of the whole, body of the organized militia. Such officers shall be appointed for the term<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term.</p></sidenote> of four years unless sooner relieved by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The actual and necessary traveling expenses of the members of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> board, together with a per diem to lie established by the Secretary of War, shall be paid to the members of the board. the expenses herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charged against annual appropriation.</p></sidenote> authorized, together with the necessary clerical and office expenses of the division of militia affairs in the office of the Secretary of War, shall constitute a charge against the whole sum annually appropriated under section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 1661, p. 290.</p></sidenote> amended, and shall be paid therefrom, and not from the allotment duly apportioned to any particular State, Territory, or the District of Columbia; and a list of such expenses shall be submitted to Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">List of expenses,etc.</p></sidenote> annually by the Secretary of War in connection with his annual report.”</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 205: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States,” approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>205</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>205.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of the revenues,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States,” approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17506">[H. R. 17506.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/146">[Public, No. 146.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section fourteen of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection of customs revenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 137.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of General Appraisers.</p></sidenote> Act entitled “An Act to simplify the laws in relation to the collection of revenues,” approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenues for the Government and to encourage the industries of the United States,” approved July twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 151, amended.</p></sidenote> and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the decision of the collector as to the rate and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal from collector’s decision as to dutiable charge, etc.</p></sidenote> amount of duties chargeable upon imported merchandise, including all dutiable costsand charges,and as to all fees and exactions of whatever character (except duties on tonnage), shall be final and conclusive <page identifier="/us/stat/35/404">404</page> against all persons interested therein, unless the owner, importer,consignee, or agent of such merchandise, or the person paying such fees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 137, amended.</p></sidenote> charges, and exactions other than duties, shall, within fifteen days after but not before such ascertainment and liquidation of duties, as well in cases of merchandise entered in bond as for consumption, or within fifteen days after the payment of such fees, charges, and exactions, if dissatisfied with such decision, give notice in writing to the collector, setting forth therein distinctly and specifically, and in respect to each entry or payment, the reasons for his objections thereto, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties to be paid.</p></sidenote> if the merchandise is entered for consumption shall pay the full amount of the duties and charges ascertained to be clue thereon. Upon such notice and payment the collector shall transmit the invoice and all the papers and exhibits connected therewith to the board of three general appraisers, which shall be on duty at the port of New York, or to a board of three general appraisers who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for such duty at that port or at any other port, which board shall examine and decide the case thus<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decision of board of general appraisers.</p></sidenote> submitted, and their decision, or that of a majority of them, shall be final and conclusive upon all persons interested therein, and the record shall be transmitted to the proper collector or person acting as such, who shall liquidate the entry accordingly, except in cases where an application shall be filed in the circuit court within the time and in the manner provided for in section fifteen of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rehearing.</p></sidenote> That the board of three general appraisers, or a majority of them, who decided the case may, upon motion of either party, within thirty days next after their decision, and not afterwards, grant a rehearing of said case when, in their opinion, the ends of justice may require it.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The general board of nine general appraisers shall have power to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rules of practice.</p></sidenote> establish from time to time such reasonable rules of practice, not inconsistent with the law, as may be deemed necessary for the conduct of their proceedings and of the proceedings of the said board of three general appraisers, and to assign or reassign any ease to any of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of cases.</p></sidenote> boards of three at any time before promulgation of decision, in order to secure uniformity of decision.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That section fifteen of said Act be. and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That if the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review by circuit court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 138, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Supra.</i></p></sidenote> imported merchandise, or the collector, or the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be dissatisfied with the decision of the board of general appraisers, as provided for in section fourteen of this Act, as to the construction of the law and the facts respecting the classification of such merchandise and the rate of duty imposed thereon under such classification, they, or either of them, may, within thirty days next<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> after such decision, if a rehearing has not been previously granted, or within thirty days next after the decision of the board of general appraisers after such rehearing, and not afterwards, apply to the circuit court of the United States within the district in which the matter arises for a review of the questions of law and fact involved in such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of errors to be filed.</p></sidenote> decision. Such application shall be made by filing in the office of the clerk of said circuit court a concise Statennmt of the errors of law and fact complained of, and a copy of such statement shall be served on the collector, or on the importer, owner, consignee, or agent as the case may be. Thereupon the court shall order the board of general appraisers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record, evidence, etc., returned.</p></sidenote> to return to said circuit court the record and the evidence taken by them, together with the certified Statementof the facts involved in the case, and their decision thereon; and all competent evidence taken by and before said board of general appraisers shall be evidence before said circuit court. the parties litigant shall hereafter be required to introduce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of litigants.</p></sidenote> all of their evidence before the said board of general appraisers prior to its decision of the case. the return made by the board of general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advancement, etc.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/405">405</page> appraisers in pursuance of the order of the circuit court shall constitute the record upon which said circuit court shall give priority to and proceed to hear and determine the questions of law and fact involved in such decision respecting the classification of such merchandise and the rate of duty imposed thereon under such classification: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Tluit the said circuit court is further vested with the power<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ρrοvisο.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power to remand on appeal, etc.</p></sidenote> to remand any case pending before it on appeal from a decision of the board of general appraisers when, in its opinion, such proceeding is just and proper, but this shall not be ordered except upon motion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional evidence, etc.</p></sidenote> duly made and after notice to the opposite party. When such order is made the case shall then be remanded to the board of general appraisers whose decision has been appealed from, and the said board shall hear such further testimony as shall be introduced by either party, and shall return to the circuit court the additional evidence so taken, together with a further certified statement of facts as supplemented or modified by such additional testimony, and their decisions upon the whole case as thus supplemented or modified, which said additional return shall be added to and become part of the record upon which the case shall be heard and determined by the circuit court.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The decision of such circuit court shall be final, and the proper<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review by circuit court of appeals.</p></sidenote> collector, or person acting as such, shall liquidate the entry accordingly. unless such court shall be of the opinion that the question involved is of such importance as to require a review of such decision by the circuit court of appeals of the United States within the circuit in which the matter arises, in which case said circuit court or the judge making the decision may, within thirty days thereafter, allow an appeal to said circuit court of appeals; but an appeal shall be allowed on the part of the United States whenever the Attorney-General shall apply for it within thirty days after the rendition of such decision. on such original application and on any such appeal security for damages and Costsshall be given as in the case of Otherappeals in cases in which the United States is a party. Said circuit court of appeals shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advancement, etc.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction and power to review such decision, and shall give priority to such cases, and may affirm, modify, or reverse such decision of such circuit court and remand the case with such orders as may seem to it proper in the premises, which shall be executed accordingly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The decision of such circuit court of appeals may be reviewed by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review by Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> the Supreme Court of the. United States in any of the ways provided in cases arising under the revenue laws by the Act approved March<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p.827.</p></sidenote> third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled ‘An Act to establish circuit courts of appeals, and to detine and regulate in certain cases the jurisdiction of the courtsof the United States,and for other purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“All final judgments, when in favor of the importer, shall be satisfied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of final judgments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 140.</p></sidenote> and paid by the Secretary of the Treasury from the permanent indefinite appropriation provided for in section twenty-four of this Act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“ For the purposes of this section the circuit courts of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> States shall be deemed always open, and said circuit courts, respectively, may establish, and from time to time alter, rules and regulations not inconsistent herewith for the procedure in such cases as they shall deem proper.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“ Where cases arise at ports within any jurisdiction having no circuit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review of decisions of board at ports not in jurisdiction of circuit courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 404.</p></sidenote> court, applications for review of the decisions of the board of general appraisers provided for in section fifteen of this Act shall be filed with the clerks of the courts having cognizance of the same classes of cases as circuit courts, and such cases shall be heard and determined by such courts, with the same powers and in like manner as herein provided for the hearing and determination of such cases in circuit courts, and such decisions shall be subject to review in the manner provided by law.”<page identifier="/us/stat/35/406">406</page></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That said Act be, and the same is hereby, further amended by adding thereto, after said section thirty thereof, a new section to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="31">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 31.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all of the general appraisers of merchandise heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General appraisers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 142, amended.</p></sidenote> or hereafter appointed under the authority of said Act shall hold their office during good behavior, but may, after due hearing, be removed by the President for the following causes, and no other: Neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, or inefficiency.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That hereafter the salary of each of the general appraisers of merchandise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries increased.</p></sidenote> shall be at the rate of nine thousand dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“ That the said Iioardsof general appraisers and the members thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of, etc.</p></sidenote> shall have and possess all the powers of a circuit court of the United States in preserving order, compelling the attendance of witnesses, and the production of evidence, and in punishing for contempt.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That this Actshall take effect and be in force from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> its passage.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 206: Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-27">May 27, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18347">[H.R. 18347.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/147">[Public, No. 147.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 5, p. 80.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, as follows:</chapeau>
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<heading>office of the postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster-Gencral.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For advertising, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of suitable buildings for the use of the Post-Office Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair shops and supplies division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of building.</p></sidenote> including the mail-bag repair shop, lock repair shop, and the division of supplies, thirty-five thousand two hundred dollars. And eight hundred dollars of said sum shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electric power and light, and the repair of machinery in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power, etc.</p></sidenote> buildings, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Salaries of Post-Office Inspectors</inline>: For salaries of fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> inspectors in charge of divisions, at three thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand two Iiundredand fifty dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty inspectors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and ten inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars; and fifty inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, live hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance of inspectors in the field while actually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, three hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary allowances.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, allow inspectors per diem while temporarily located at any place on business away from their home, or their designated domicile, for a period not exceeding twenty consecutive days at any one place, and make rules and regulations governing the foregoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> provisions relating to per diem:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no <page identifier="/us/stat/35/407">407</page> per diem shall be paid to inspectors receiving animal salaries of two thousand dollars or more.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks and laborers at division headquarters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc., division headquarters.</p></sidenote> fifteen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; nine, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-seven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirteen, at one thousand dollars each; five, at nine hundred dollars each; and two, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, ninety-six thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem allowance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> inspectors in charge, and the chief post-office inspector, and expenses incurred by inspectors not covered by per diem allowance, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Iiverv hire incurred by inspectors not covered by their per diem<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livery hire.</p></sidenote> allowance, including livery hire in connection with the installation and inspection of rural routes, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rewards, etc.</p></sidenote> post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount herein appropriated not to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obtaining information.</p></sidenote> exceed five thousand dollars may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws, and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of mechanical conveyorsand equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanical mail conveyors.</p></sidenote> for the handling of mail in the Washington city post-office, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses incident to the investigation and testing of mechanical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor-Saving devices, tests.</p></sidenote> and labor-saving devices, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for use in the postal service, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> the Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the first assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, twenty-six million two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote> and fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the compensation paid to postmasters at Boston,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass., and Philadelphia, Pa., increased.</p></sidenote> Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be eight thousand dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant postmasters.</p></sidenote> post-offices, four, at not exceeding four thousand dollars each; thirty, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each; six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each; six, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each; twelve, at not exceeding one thousand nine hundred dollars each; twenty-six, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty-eight, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one hundred and five, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each: one hundred and thirty-five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one hundred and fifteen, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty-five, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; three hundred and eighty, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; three hundred and sixty, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; three hundred, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; one hundred and ten, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; one hundred, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; and sixty, at not exceeding seven hundred dollars each; in all, two million five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/408">408</page> That hereafter the compensation paid to assistant postmasters at Boston.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Moss., and Philadelphia, Pa., increased.</p></sidenote> Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, shall be four thousand dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment and assignment of assistant postmasters here-under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote> shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> post-offices:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,200.</p></sidenote> of money order, and superintendents of registry, sixteen, at not exceeding three thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Auditors, two, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,000.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,700.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery and superintendents of mails, nineteen, at not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cashiers, Superintendents of delivery, and Superintendents of mails,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,600.</p></sidenote> nineteen, at not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery, Superintendents of mails, and superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,500.</p></sidenote> of stations, six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,400.</p></sidenote> mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, thirty-four, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of mails, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,200.</p></sidenote> mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, finance clerks, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, and superintendents of stations, twenty-two. at not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chief stamp clerks, night superintendents, superintendents of carriers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,100.</p></sidenote> superintendents of delivery, superintendents of inquiry, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, twenty, at not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,000.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of∙money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, examiners of stations, finance clerks, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, Superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, Superintendents of second-class matter, superintendents of inquiry, and superintendents of stations, ninety-five, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,800.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of Carriers, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, Superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and Superintendents of stations, sixty, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,700.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, Superintendente of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and Superinteudents of stations, one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/409">409</page> hundred and eighteen, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,600.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, Superintendents of carriers, Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and five, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,500.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, Superintendentsof carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and twenty-two, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,400.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, three hundred and sixty-nine, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,300.</p></sidenote> of money order, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant Superintendentsof registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, six hundred and six, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,200.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, chief stamp clerks, clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, five thousand six hundred, at nof exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, private secretaries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,100.</p></sidenote> superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, three thousand five hundred and fortyeight, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, clerks in charge of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,000.</p></sidenote> stations, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, and superintendents of second-class matter, five thousand two hundred and twenty-seven, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, clerks in charge of stations, and private secretaries, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $900.</p></sidenote> thousand three hundred and seventy-nine, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each ;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/410">410</page> Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, five thousand and fifty-one,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $800.</p></sidenote> at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, two thousand four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $600.</p></sidenote> and eighty-five, at not exceeding six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-eight million seven hundred and twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum, and the assignment of the several grades of compensation to the various offices shall be made, so far as practicable, in proportion to the amount of business transacted through such offices and the respective divisions thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers, ten, at one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printers, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars each; four, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand dollars each; and six, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watchmen, messengers, and laborers, six hundred and sixty, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> seven hundred dollars each; three hundred and twenty-five, at six hundred dollars each; and one hundred and twenty-five, at five hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate of compensation above<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract station clerks.</p></sidenote> three hundred dollars each, and not to exceed one thousand dollars each, two hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate of compensation not to exceed three hundred dollars each, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to substitutes for clerks and employees at first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitute for clerks on leave.</p></sidenote> and second class post-offices on vacation, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at first and second class postoffices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary and auxiliary clerks.</p></sidenote> and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post-offices, two hundred find forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separating mails at third and fourth class post-offices, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separating mails.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty, thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For unusual conditions at post-offices, one hundred and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the. cost of clerical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, third -class offices.</p></sidenote> services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand dollars to one thousand five hundred dollars, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Tluit no allowance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments not exceeding $300.</p></sidenote> in excess of two hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand dollars, one thousand one hundred dollars, or one thousand two hundred dollars; nor in excess of three hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand three hundred dollars, one thousand four hundred dollars, or one thousand five hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso>For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the cost of clerical services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand six hundred dollars to one thousand nine hundred dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments not exceeding $500.</p></sidenote> six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no allowance in excess of four hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand six hundred dollars, or one thousand seven hundred dollars; nor in excess of five hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand eight hundred dollars or one thousand nine hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, light,and fuel.</p></sidenote> three million five hundred thousand dollars, of which sum twenty-nine thousand dollars shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent <page identifier="/us/stat/35/411">411</page> a sum in excess of live hundred dollars, nor more than one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten-year leases.</p></sidenote> dollars for fuel and Iightin anyone year:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Postmaster-General may, in the disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-officesof the first, second, and third classes,at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the rent, equipment, and maintenance of Station H<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Station H, New York Central Terminal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment, etc.</p></sidenote> of the New York City post-office in the terminal building of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, including expenses incident to moving the station from the present quarters, ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post-offices of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> the first and second class, two hundred and seventy-five thousand . dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceling muchines.</p></sidenote> power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to eleven assistant superintendents salary and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendents.</p></sidenote> allowance division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, and for their per diem allowance when actually traveling on business of the Post-Ofliee Department, at a rate to be fixed by the PostmasterGeneral not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, thirty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letter carriers.</p></sidenote> substitutes for carriers absent without pay, city delivery service, twenty-seven million eight hundred and tnirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes, etc.</p></sidenote> auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices already established, one million three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New offices.</p></sidenote> new offices entitled to city delivery service under existing law, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For horse-hire allowance and the rental of vehicles, eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse hire, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare and bicycle allowance, four hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare and bicycles.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For street car collection service, ten thousand nine hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street car collections.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mechanics.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, four thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit, marine service.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses of the city delivery service, including freight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> and drayage on equipment, furniture, and supplies, and erecting, painting, and repairing letter and package boxes and posts, repairing clocks and other equipment, and for maps, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees to special-delivery messengers, one million two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel.</p></sidenote> the First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the provisions of section thirty-four hundred and seventy-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of rents to agents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., 3477, p. 689.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes shall not apply to payments for rent of post-office quarters made by postmasters to duly authorized agents of the lessors.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/412">412</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the second assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by star routes, including temporary service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star routes.</p></sidenote> to newly established offices, seven million two hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discontinuance if served by rural delivery.</p></sidenote> for continuance of any star-route service the patronage of which shall be served entirely by the extension of rural delivery service, nor shall any of said sum be expended for the establishment of new star-route service for a patronage which is already entirely served by rural delivery service:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska service.</p></sidenote> is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable without advertising therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by steamboat, or other power-boat routes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboat routes.</p></sidenote> eight hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail messenger service, one million five hundred and sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger service.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic tubes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> devices, one million dollars; and the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to enter into contracts not exceeding, in the aggregate, one million three hundred and eighty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine dollars, under the provisions of the law, for a period not exceeding ten years.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on owning pneumatic tube equipment by the Government.</p></sidenote> investigate and report to Congress not later than .January first, nineteen hundred and nine, the feasibility and desirability of the Government purchasing or installing the equipment for pneumatic tube service, and thereafter operating the same in the cities where such service is now in operation, and also ascertain and report the approximate cost of purchase and likewise of installation and the cost of maintenance and operation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one million seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wagon sendee.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago service.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postniaster-General is hereby authorized to contract, for a term not exceeding four years from July first, nineteen hundred and eight, by either screen-wagon or underground electric car service in the, city of Chicago, Illinois.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail bags, cord fasteners, label cases, and labor and material<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail bags, etc.</p></sidenote> necessary for manufacture and repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, live hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That out of this appropriation the Postmaster-General is authorized to use so much of the sum not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material, and the manufacture of such small quantities of distinctive equipment as may be required by other Executive Departments and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions, and for such special equipment for testing and for other purposes in connection with the reduction in weight of mail pouches and sacks.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, fuel, electric power, transportation of machinery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments for Alaska and island service.</p></sidenote> installation of plant, and incidental expenses pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of a subworkshop for the repair of mail equipment at Chicago, Illinois, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and labor and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment shop.</p></sidenote> material necessary for manufacturing’and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by railroad routes, forty-four million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locks, keys, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad routes.</p></sidenote> newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, three hundred thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General shall require, when in freightable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight on postal cards, etc.</p></sidenote> lots and whenever practicable, the withdrawal from the mails of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/413">413</page> all postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, in the respective weighing divisions of the country, immediately preceding the weighing period in said divisions, and thereafter such postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, shall be transmitted by either freight or express.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railway post-office car service, four million eight hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawals from mails at weighing periods.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Railway Mail Service</inline>: For eleven division superintendents, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office car service.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars each; eleven assistant division superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-one chief clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two hundred and seventy-one clerks, class six, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; one thousand two hundred and seventy-four clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; five hundred and thirty clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two thousand one hundred clerks, class four, at notexceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; two thousand two hundred and twenty-five clerks, class four, at notexceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; five thousand eight hundred clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; two thousand one. hundred clerks, class two, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; eight hundred and ten clerks, class one, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; eight, hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, eighteen million five hundred and eighty-eight thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway mail service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division officers, etc.</p></sidenote> That the Postmaster-Genenil may, in his discretion, under such regulations as he may provide, allow a clerk who is sick leave of absence with pay, his duties to be performed without expense to the Government during the. period for which he is granted leave, not exceeding thirty days in any fiscal year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sick leave.</p></sidenote> create an additional division of the railway mail service with headquarters at New Orleans, Louisiana, and to assign to duty one division superintendent, in addition to those heretofore appointed, and who shall be paid a salary of three thousand dollars per annum: and one additional assistant division superintendent at two thousand dollars per annum, and to defray the expenses of said headquarters the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter railway postal clerks on entering the service shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional division at New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> receive the salary of the lowest grade, and no clerk shall be advanced more than two grades in any period of one year’s service.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entrance and advancement of clerks.</p></sidenote> so madedurιng the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary clerk hire in classes one and two for emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments limited.</p></sidenote> service, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For substitutes for clerks on vacation, fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency service.</p></sidenote> That the Postmaster-Gcneral may allow railway postal clerks whose duties require them to work six days or more, per week, fifty-two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days with pay.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the leave of absence authorized by law to postal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual vacation.</p></sidenote> employees shall he construed exclusive of Sundays and holidays.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For acting clerks, in place of clerks or substitutes injured while on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be exempt from payment of debts of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/414">414</page> deceased, to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acting clerks.</p></sidenote> substitute railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual and necessary expenses of division superintendents,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in case of’death.</p></sidenote> assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, railway mail service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway mail clerks, sixty-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents while actually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 617.</p></sidenote> traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, ata rate to be fixed by the PostmasterGeneral. not to exceed four dollars per day, thirty thousand dollars; and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding three thousand dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perdiem, etc., assistant superintendents.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, Thatthe rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing such service, except that the PostmasterGeneral, in cases where the quantity of mail is large and the number of exchange points numerous, may. in his discretion, authorize payment for closed-pouch service at a rate per mile not to exceed one-third above the rate per mile now paid for closed-pouch service; and for mail cars and apartments carrying the mails, not to exceed the rate of one cent per linear foot per car mile of travel:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the rates for electric-ear service on routes over twenty-five miles in length<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric and cable car service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That not to exceed thirty thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended, in the discretion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside of cities.</p></sidenote> of the Postmaster-General, where unusual conditions exist or where such service will be more expeditious and efficient and at no greater cost than otherwise.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of foreign mails, three million five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions, etc.</p></sidenote> eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expenses of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching Iiiailsintransit on steamships between the United states and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks on steamships.</p></sidenote> exceeding forty thousand dollars for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in New York Bayto the steamship and railway piers, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pier transfers, New York and San Francisco.</p></sidenote> sum shall be used to pay for the carrying in the mails any malt, vinous or spirituous liquors, or intoxicating liquors of any kind, or any cocaine or any derivative thereof.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant superintendent, division of foreign mails, with headquarters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying liquors, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote> in New York, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For balances due foreign countries, one hundred and seventy-nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances due foreign countries.</p></sidenote> the Second Assistant Postmaster-GeneraI, one thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the third assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote> and books of stamps, five hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/415">415</page> For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps.</p></sidenote> one million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes and wrappers.</p></sidenote> and official envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency at Dayton, Ohio, including expenses attendent on inspection of manufacture of Otlicial envelopes at Cincinnati, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and eleven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution and inspection.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute postal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal cards.</p></sidenote> cards, and expenses of agency, six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first-class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship, etc., letters.</p></sidenote> domestic registered matter, twenty-five thousand dollars. That hereafter all moneys recovered or collected on account of loss of first-class domestic registered matter which in the course of adjustment are not restored to the original owners, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity, lost registered mail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits of money recovered, etc.</p></sidenote> in the international mails, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International registered articles.</p></sidenote> the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of special counsel to be appointed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> Attorney-General, when requested by the Postmaster-Generai. and at compensation to be fixed by the Attorney-General not exceeding this temporary appropriation, to prosecute and defend, on behalf of the Post-Office Department, all suits now pending or which may hereafter arise affecting the second-class mailing privilege, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amend section thirty-eight hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any postmaster, having public money belonging to the Government,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special counsel, second-class mail privilege suits.</p></sidenote> at an office within a city or town where there is no Treasurer or Assistant Treasurer of the United States, Ordesignated depositary, may deposit the same temporarily, at his own risk and in his official capacity, in any national or State bank in the State in which Ihe said postmaster resides, or in which his office is located, or within a reasonable radius of his post-office in an adjacent State, but no authority or permission is or shall be given for the payment to or receipt by a postmaster or any other person, of interest, directly or indirectly, on any deposit made as herein described.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pastal funds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits in national or State banks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 3847, p. 752, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction modified.</p></sidenote> (as amended by Act of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six) to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Whenever any original check or warrant of the Post-Office Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 301.</p></sidenote> has been lost, stolen or destroyed, the Postmaster-General Inayauthorize the issuance of a duplicate thereof within three years from the date of such original check or warrant, upon the execution by the owner thereof of such bond of indemnity as the Postmaster<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lost, etc., postal checks or warrants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of duplicates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sees. 3646, 3647, pp. 717, 718, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 644.</p></sidenote> General may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when such original check or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small amounts to officials.</p></sidenote> warrant does not exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars, and the payee is, at the date of the application, an officer or employee in the service of the Post-Office Department, whether by contract, designation or appointment, the Postmaster-General may, in lieu of an indemnity bond, authorize the issuance of a duplicate check or warrant upon such an affidavit as he may prescribe, to be made before any postmaster by the payee of an original check or warrant.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money order statements, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destruction after three years.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.29,p.648,amended.</p></sidenote> cause to be destroyed, in such manner as they may deem best, all money-order statements rendered by postmasters and all paid money orders accompanying the same, as well as all descriptive lists of inter <page identifier="/us/stat/35/416">416</page> national money orders certified to or by the exchange offices designated for conducting money-order transactions with foreign countries, and all coupons of issued international money orders now filed in the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, or which may hereafter be filed therein, after three years shall have elapsed from the expiration of the period covered by such statements and lists: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General, upon evidence satisfactory to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of orders after three years.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, pp.32, 33.</p></sidenote> him, and under such special regulations as he shall prescribe, may cause payment to be made in the manner prescribed in sections four and eleven of the Act approved January twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, of the amount of any domestic money order remaining unpaid after the lapse of three years from the date of its issue. And it shall hereafter be the duty of the Auditor for the Post-Office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record of unpaid orders.</p></sidenote> Department to maintain a complete and permanent record of all unpaid money orders issued by postmasters in the United States, or such of its insular possessions as are amenable to the authority of the Postmaster-General for payment within its own territory, such record to serve as a basis for adjudicating claims for payment by warrant of the amounts of said orders.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-three of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matter excluded from mails.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 3893, p. 758, amended.</p></sidenote> Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“And the term ‘indecent’ within the intendment of this section shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Indecent” to Include matter Inciting murder, etc.</p></sidenote> include matter of a character tending to incite arson, murder, or assassination.”</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the fourth assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, including all money-order offices, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For official and registry envelopes, two hundred and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official and registry envelopes.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute registry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution of registry envelopes.</p></sidenote> envelopes, agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; and one laborer, at six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blanks, blank books, printed and engraved matter, binding and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money-order blanks, etc.</p></sidenote> carbon paper for the money-order service, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blanks, books, and printed matter of Urgentorspecial character,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registry blanks, etc.</p></sidenote> including the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of a Painphleteontaininggeneral postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate necessity for the registry system, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplies for the city-delivery service, including letter boxes, letterbox<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City-delivery supplies.</p></sidenote> fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steel and rubber postmarking, rating, and money-order stamps<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmarking, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote> and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For letter balances, scales, test weights, repairs to same, and for tape<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scales, etc.</p></sidenote> measures, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping paper, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wrapping paper.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twine, etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping twine and tying devices, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facing slips, etc.</p></sidenote> paper for same; and for card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous supplies.</p></sidenote> envelope-opening machines, and computing machines, and for the purchase <page identifier="/us/stat/35/417">417</page> of copying presses, numbering machines, and miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the postal service, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To defray the cost of printing a new edition of “Street Directory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street Directory of Cities.</p></sidenote> of the Principal Cities of the United States,” twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplies for the rural-delivery service, including collection boxes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural-delivery supplies.</p></sidenote> furniture, satchels, badges, straps, map supplies, repairing satchels and furniture, repairing, erecting, and painting collection boxes in the rural-delivery service, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To defray expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping supplies.</p></sidenote> hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter and three laborers for assignment in connection therewith, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To cover cost of installing shelving, files, and conveyors in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supply-division equipment.</p></sidenote> building occupied by the division of supplies in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers, substitutes for carriers on annual leave,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers, etc.</p></sidenote> clerks in charge of substations, and tolls and ferriage, rural-delivery service, thirty-five million five hundred and seventy-three thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed twelve thousand dollars of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substation clerks.</p></sidenote> amount hereby appropriated may be used for compensation of clerks in charge of substations:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That in the discretion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power boats.</p></sidenote> the Postmaster-General the pay of any carrier on a water route who furnishes his own power boat and is employed during the summer months may be fixed at an amount not exceeding nine hundred dollars in any one calendar year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the accounts of Edward Rosewater, deceased, and of N. M.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edward Rosewater and N. M. Brooks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of accounts.</p></sidenote> Brooks, late delegates to the Universal PostalCongressat Rome, Italy, be settled, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, within the amounts allotted to each by the Postmaster-General as salary and expenses out of the live thousand dollars appropriated for the salary and expenses of delegates to that congress without the further tiling of vouchers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No payment to permanently incapacitated persons.</p></sidenote> persons employed in the postal service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for performing such service. the establishment of a civil-pension roll or an honorable-service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension roll, ctc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> roll, or the exemption of any of the officers, clerks, and persons in the postal service from the existing laws respecting employment in such service is hereby prohibited.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the term and authority of the joint commission authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint comminission on business system continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1216.</p></sidenote> under the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, to investigate the business system of the Post-Office Department and the postal service, and the time for the filing of the report of said commission, are hereby extended until as soon as practicable after the beginning of the second session of the Sixtieth Congress. And said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To codify postal laws.</p></sidenote> commission is authorized to codify the postal laws of the United States and to incur any necessary expense in connection with said work.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the unexpended balance appropriated for the expenses of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> commission is hereby reappropriated, together with the further sum of ten thousand dollars, to be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman or vice-chairman of the said commission under the method authorized in said Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, said appropriation to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That enlisted men of the United States Navy may, upon selection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men to be designated as mail clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> by the Secretary of the Navy, be designated by the Post-Otfice Department as “navy mail clerks” and “assistant navy mail clerks,” who shall be authorized to receive and open all pouches and sacks of mail <page identifier="/us/stat/35/418">418</page> addressed to naval vessels, to make proper delivery of such mail, to receive matter for transmission in the mails, to receipt for registered matter (keeping an accurate record thereof), to keep and have for sale an adequate supp∣v of postage stamps, to make up and dispatch mails, and other postal duties as may be authorized by the Postmaster-General, all in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commanding officer of the vessel or of the, squadron to which the vessel is attached. Each mail clerk and assistant mail clerk shall take the oath of office prescribed for employees of the postal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath and bond.</p></sidenote> service and shall give bond to the United States in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties as such clerk, and shall be amenable in all respects to naval discipline, except that, as to their duties as such clerks, the commanding officers of the vessels upon which they are stationed shall require them to be governed by the postal lawsand regulations of the Lnited States. Whenever necessity arises therefor any assistant mail clerk may be required by the commanding officer of the vessel upon which he is stationed or of the squadron to which said vessel is attached to perform the duties of mail clerk. They shall receive as compensation for such services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> from the Navy Department, in addition to that paid them of the grade to which they are assigned, such sum in the ease of mail clerks not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, and in that of assistant mail clerks not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum, as may be determined and allowed by the Navy Department.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the Postmaster-General shall each year prepare and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement to be submitted with annual report.</p></sidenote> submit in his annual report to Congress estimates of the revenue and expenditures in the postal service for the fiscal year current, and also for the fiscal year next ensuing at the time said report is submitted, together with a statement of the receipts and expenditures for the preceding completed fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to meet deficiencies.</p></sidenote> to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of tne revenue of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post-Office Department for the year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post-Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of the appropriations herein made shall be used to pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for carrying liquors, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> for the carrying in the mails any malt, vinous, or spirituous liquors, or intoxicating liquors of any kind, or any cocaine or derivative thereof.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 27, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 208: Making appropriations fortlie payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations fortlie payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16268">H. R. 16268.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/118">Public, No. 118.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatines of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions appropriations.</p></sidenote> and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes, namely:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forarmy and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Invalid, etc., pensions.</p></sidenote> children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy pensions.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty-two million dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income ot the navy pension fund, so far as the sumo shall be sufficient for that purpose: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/419">419</page></proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the amount expended under each of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ homes, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to inmates of, direct.</p></sidenote> above items shall be accounted for separately:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That from and after the passage of this Act all pensioners who may be inmates of any soldiers’ and sailors’ home, or other institution maintained by any State for the benefit of dependent or other disabled volunteer soldiers, shall have their respective pensions paid to them directly instead of to the treasurer or other officer of the home or institution at which they may be respectively located.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examining surgeons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, five hundred thousand dollars. And hereafter each member of each examining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increse·of fee.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 4777, p. 928, amended.</p></sidenote> board shall receive the sum of three dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations.</p></sidenote> such day: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day no fewer than twenty shall, if practicable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made, and the fee shall be three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for, if made at claimant’s residence.</p></sidenote> dollars when the examination is made by one surgeon, and the fee for each examination at the claimant’s residence provided his residence is outside of the corporate limits of the place of the regular meeting of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> examining board or of the place of residence of the surgeon, making the examination shall be five dollars in addition to the payment of the actual traveling ex penses of the surgeon:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no fee shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal presence required.</p></sidenote> paid to any member of an examining board unless personally present and assisting in the examination of applicant:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ratings to be specifically stated, etc.</p></sidenote> the report of such examining surgeons shall Spcciticallystate the rating which in their judgment the applicant is entitled to, and the report of such examining surgeons shall specifically and accurately set forth the physical condition of the applicant, each and every existing disability being fully and carefully described. the reports of the special examiners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of reports, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Bureau of Pensions shall be open to inspection and copy by the applicant or his attorney, under such rules and regulations as tne Secretary of the Interiormay prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for attempting to secure special legislation.</p></sidenote> That hereafter no pension attorney, claim agent, or other person shall be entitled to receive any compensation for services rendered in securing the introduction of a bill or the passage thereof through Congress granting pension or increase of pension, and any person who. shall, directly or indirectly, contract for, demand, receive, or retain any compensation for such services shall be deemed guilty of an offense, and upon conviction thereof shall, for each and every such offense, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fiir salariesof agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents’ salaries.</p></sidenote> dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk hire and other services, in the pension agencies, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire.</p></sidenote> hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount of clerk hire, and other services, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment</p></sidenote> each agency, shall Iieapportioned as nearly as practicable in proportion to the number of pensioners paid nt each agency and the salaries paid shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, New York agency, four thousand live hundred dollars or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, New York agency.</p></sidenote> so much thereof as may ne necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For examination and inspection of pension agencies, as provided by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection of agencies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 374.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 4766, p. 927.</p></sidenote> the final provision of the Act of August eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, amending section forty-seven hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/420">420</page> For stationery and other necessary expenses, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franked envelopes for pensioners.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior shall furnish free to all pensioners franked or penalty envelopes, properly addressed, to be used by said pensioners only for the return of their pension vouchers.</proviso></p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 209: To regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>209</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 420</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-28</dc:date>
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<docNumber>209.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To regulate the employment of child labor in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4812">S, 4812.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/149">Public, No. 149.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That no child under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulating child labor in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employmentsforbidden to children under fourteen years of age.</p></sidenote> fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in the District of Columbia in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, business office, telegraph or telephone office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, club, theater, bowling alley, laundry, bootblack stand, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise, or messages. No such child shall be employed in any work performed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of work restricted.</p></sidenote> for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the District of Columbia are in session, nor before the hour of six o’clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o’clock in the evening: <proviso><i>Prorided</i>, Thatthe provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate service excepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits issued by judge of juvenile court.</p></sidenote> of this section shall not apply to children employed in the service of the Senate:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the judge of the juvenile court of said District may, upon the application of the parent, guardian, or next friend of said child, issue a permit for the employment of any child between the ages of twelve and fourteen years at any occupation or employment not in his judgment dangerous or injurious to the health or morals of such child, upon evidence satisfactory to him that the labor of such child is necessary for its support, or for the assistance of a disabled, ill, or invalid father or mother, or for the support in whole or in part of a younger brother or sister or a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limited.</p></sidenote> widowed mother. Such permits shall be issued for a delinite time, but they shall be revocable at the discretion of the judge by whom<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings.</p></sidenote> they are issued or by his successor in office. Hearings for granting and revoking permits shall be held upon such notice and under such rules and regulations as the judge of said court shall prescribe.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That no child under sixteen years of age shall be employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age and schooling certificates.</p></sidenote> or permitted to work in the District or Columbia in any of the establishments named in section one, unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file and accessible to the inspectors authorized by this Act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia an age and schooling certificate, and keeps two complete lists of all such children employed therein, one on file and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the building in which such children are employed.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That an age and schooling certificate shall be approved only<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of certificates required.</p></sidenote> by the superintendent of public schools, or by a person authorized by him in writing, who shall have, authority to administer the oath provided for therein, but no fee shall be charged therefor.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That no age and schooling certificate shall be. approved unless<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence of birth, etc.</p></sidenote> satisfactory evidence is furnished by duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or baptism of such child, .or other religious record, or the register of birth or the affidavit of the parent or guardian or custodian of a child, which affidavit shall be required, however, only in case such last-mentioned transcript of the Certiticateof birth be not procured and filed, showing the place and date of birth of such child, which affidavit must be taken before the officer issuing the employment certificate, who is hereby authorized and required to administer such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p></sidenote> oath, and who shall not demand or receive a fee therefor.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/421">421</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <chapeau class="inline">That the age and schooling certificate of a child under sixteen years of age shall be in the following form:</chapeau>
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<heading>age and schooling certificate.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">This certifies that I am the (father, mother, guardian, or custodian)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form of certificate.</p></sidenote> of (name of child), ______ _______, and that (he or she) was born at (name of town or city) _______ in the county (name of county, if known) _______ and State (or country) _______ on the (day and year of birth) _______ and is now (number of years and months) _______ old.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Signature of (father, mother, guardian, or custodian).</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">(Date.)</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There personally appeared before me the above-named (name of person signing) _______ _______ and made oath that the foregoing certificate by (him or her) signed is true to the best of (his or her) knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of child) _______ _______; complexion (fair or dark), _______; hair (color), _______ having no sufficient reason to doubt that (he or she) is of the age therein certified, I hereby certify that (he or she) can read at sight, and can write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and that (he or she) has reached the normal development of a child of (his or her) age, and is in sound health and is physically able to perform the work which (he or she) intends to do, and that (he or she) has regularly attended the public schools, or a school equivalent thereto, for not less than one Imndred and thirty days during the school year previous to applying for such school record, or during the year previous to applying for such school record, and has received during such period instruction in reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">‘This certificate belongs to (name of child in whose behalf it is drawn) _______ _______ and is to be surrendered to (him or her) whenever (he or she) leaves the service of the corporation or employer holding the same, but if not claimed by said child within thirty days from such time it shall be returned to the superintendent of schools.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">(Signature of person authorized to approve and sign, with official character of authority.)</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">(Date.)</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A duplicate of each age and schooling certificate shall be filled out<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplicates.</p></sidenote> and kept on tile by the Superintendent of public schools. Any explanatory matter may be printed with such certificate, in the discretion of said superintendent: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in exceptional cases the judge of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waiver.</p></sidenote> the juvenile court, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of public schools, or the person authorized to act for him, may, in writing, waive the necessity of the schooling certificate provided for in this Act, and in such cases the age certificate shall entitle the holder to be employed without a violation of this Act.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That whoever employs a child or permits a child to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> employed in violation of sections one, two, eight, or nine of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, for such offense, be fined not more than fifty dollars: and whoever continues to employ any child in violation of any of said sections of this Act, after being notified by an inspector authorized by this Act, or a truant officer of the District of Columbia, shall for every day thereafter that such employment continues be fined not more than twenty dollars. A failure<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to produce certificate.</p></sidenote> to produce to an inspector authorized by this Act, or a truant officer of the District of Columbia, any age or schooling certificate or list required by this Act shall be prima facie evidence of illegal employment of any person whose age and schooling certificate is not produced or whose name is not listed. Any corporation or employer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">False Statements.</p></sidenote> retaining any age and Schoolingcertificatc in violation of section five <page identifier="/us/stat/35/422">422</page> of this Act shall be fined not more than twenty dollars. Every person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section five of this Act who knowingly certifies to any materially false statement therein shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the inspectors authorized by this Act and the truant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection.</p></sidenote> officers of the Districtof Columbia shall visit the establishments named in section one and ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this Act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the superintendent of public schools and the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia. the inspectors authorized by this Act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia shall require that the age and Schoolingcertiiicatesand lists provided for in this Act of minors employed in the establishments named in section one shall be produced for their inspection.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That no minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eight-hour limit.</p></sidenote> permitted, or suffered to work in any of the establishments named in section one more than eight hours in any one day, or before, the hour of six o’clock antemeridian, or after the hour of seven o’clock postmeridian, and in no case shall the number of hours exceed forty-eight in a week.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Posting printed notices.</p></sidenote> every room where such persons are employed a printed notice, stating the number of hours required of them on each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begin and end. the printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the inspectors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form.</p></sidenote> authorized by this Act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia, and the employment of any such person for a longer time in any day than that so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of inspectors.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to appoint two inspectors to carry out the purposes of this Act, at a compensation not exceeding one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> dollars each per annum.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That no male child under ten, and no girl under sixteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Age limit for boot black trade, etc.</p></sidenote> years of age shall exercise the trade of bootblacking, or sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or goods, wares, or merchandise of any description whatsoever, upon the streets, roads, or highways, or in any public place within the District of Columbia.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That from and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits and badges required.</p></sidenote> no male child under sixteen years shall exercise the trade of bootblacking or sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals or goods, ware or merchandise of any description whatsoever upon the streets, roads, or highways, or in any public place within the District of Columbia unless a permit and badge as hereinafter provided shall Iiavebeen issued to him by the superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia, or by a person authorized by him in writing for that purpose upon the application of the parent, guardian, or other person having the custody of the child desiring such a permit and badge, or in case said child has no parent, guardian, or custodian, then on the application of his next friend, being an adult.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That such permit and badge shall be issued free of charge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits, etc., issued free.</p></sidenote> to the applicant, but shall not be issued until an age and schooling certificate shall have been issued as provided in this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">Such permit shall state the date and place of birth of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of permit.</p></sidenote> child, the name and address of its parent, guardian, custodian, or next friend, as the case may be, and describe the color of hair and eyes, the height and weight, and any distinguishing facial mark of such child, and shall further state that the age and schooling certificate has been <page identifier="/us/stat/35/423">423</page> duly examined and filed, and that the child named in such permit has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Badges.</p></sidenote> appeared before the officer issuing the permit. the badge furnished by the officer issuing the permit shall bear on its face a number corresponding to the number of the permit and the name of the child. Every such permit, and every such badge on its reverse side, shall be signed in the presence of the officer issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. the badge provided for herein shall be worn conspicuously at all times by such child while so working, and all such permits and badges shall expire annually on the first day of January. the color of the badge shall be changed each year. No child to whom<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Non transferable, etc.</p></sidenote> such permit and badge are issued shall transfer the same to any other person, nor be engaged in the District of Columbia in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in this section without having conspicuously upon his person such badge, and he shall exhibit the same upon demand to any police or truant officer or to the inspectors in this Act provided for.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That no child to whom a permit and badge are issued as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on hours of work.</p></sidenote> provided for in the preceding sections shall sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, or periodicals or goods, wares, or merchandise ot any description whatever after ten o’clock in the evening or before six o’clock in the morning.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall apply to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Theatrical exhibitions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of children.</p></sidenote> employment of any child in a theatrical exhibition, proviαed the written consent of one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is first obtained. Such consent shall specify the name of the child, its age, the names and residence of its parents or guardians, together with the place and character of the exhibition.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That the juvenile court of the District of Columbia is hereby given jurisdiction in all cases arising under this Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 210: Granting title to a parcel of land in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, to the archbishop of Dubuque and his successors in office, and Confirmingand establishing title thereto accordingly.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>210</docNumber>
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<docNumber>210.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting title to a parcel of land in the city of Dubuque, Iowa, heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, to the archbishop of Dubuque and his successors in office, and Confirmingand establishing title thereto accordingly.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6363">S, 6363.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/150">Public, No. 150.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That all that tract or parcel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dubuque, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to Saint Raphael’s Cemetery in granted to archbishop of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 469.</p></sidenote> of land in the city of Dubuque heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, and described as follows: “A tract of land three hundred and eighty-two feet in width and four hundred and five feet in length, bounded on the north by Third street, on the south by outlots six hundred and ninety-eight and six hundred and ninety-three A, on the east by outlot six hundred and ninety-three, and on the west by out-lot seven hundred and twenty-three,” the same being the identical property which was in use as a Catholic cemetery in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and having been in the open, continuous, and uninterrupted possession of the Catholic Church of Dubuque from said date until the present time, the title of the church to the same having never been contested nor questioned, and the boundaries of the property to day being identical with those described in the original plat of Dubuque, is hereby granted to the Most Reverend John J. Keane as archbishop of Dubuque, and to his successors in office, and the title thereto is confirmed and established accordingly.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 211: To encourage the development of coal deposits in the Territory of Alaska.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/424">424</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>211.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To encourage the development of coal deposits in the Territory of Alaska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6805">S. 6805.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/151">Public, No. 151.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all persons, their heirs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Development of coal deposits in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consolidation of claims, etc., permitted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of acreage.</p></sidenote> or assigns, who have in good faith personally or by an attorney in fact made locations of coal land in the Territory of Alaska in their own interest, prior to November twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, or in accordance with circular of instructions issued by the Secretary of the Interior May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, may consolidate their said claims or locations by including in a single claim, location, or purchase not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres Ofcontiguouslands, Iiotexceeding in Iengthtwice the width of the tract thus consolidated and for this purpose such persons, their heirs or assigns, may form associations or corporations who may perfect entry of and acquire title to such lands in accordance with the other provisions of law under which said locations were originally made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no corporation shall be permitted to consolidate its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> claims under this Act unless seventy-live per centum of its stock shall be held by persons qualified to enter coal lands in Alaska.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States shall, at all times, have the preference<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference right to purchase product for Army and Navy reserved.</p></sidenote> right to purchase so much of the product of any mine or mines opened upon the Iandssold under the provisions of this Actas may be necessary for the use of the Army and Navy, and at such reasonable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price fixed by the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Litigation.</p></sidenote> and remunerative price as may lie fixed by the President; but the producers of any coal so purchased who may be dissatisfied with the price thus fixed shall have the right to prosecute suits against the United States in the Courtof Claims for the recovery of any additional sum or sums they may claim as justly due upon such purchase.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">Tnat if any of the lands or deposits purchased under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unlawful trust, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote> provisions of this Act shall be owned, leased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device permanently, temporarily, directly, indirectly, tacitly, or in any manner whatsoever so that they form part of, or in any way effect any combination, or are in anywise controlled by any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of any contract or conspiracy in restraint of trade in the mining or Sellingof coal, or of any Iiolding of such lands by any individual, partnership, association, corporation, mortgage, stock ownership, or control. in excess of two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in the district of Alaska, the title thereto shall be forfeited to the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> by proceedings instituted by the Attorney-General of the United States in the courts for that purpose.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That every patent issued under this Act shall expressly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p></sidenote> recite the terms and conditions prescribed in sections two and three hereof.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 212: To amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>212</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 424</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-28</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>212.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21815">H. R. 21815.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/152">Public, No. 152.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That section twenty-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navigation laws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-two of the Revised Statutes be, and is hereby, amended by adding thereto, thirty days after the passage of this Act, the following:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any passenger vessel engaged triweekly or oftener in trade<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels making triweekly trips exempt from fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2792, p.541, amended.</p></sidenote> between ports of the United States and foreign ports shall be exempt from entrance and clearance fees and tonnage taxes while such service triweekly or oftener is maintained.”</p>
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</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/425">425</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That Section Forty-Four Hundred and Thirty-Eight of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licensed Officers.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes Is Hereby Amended To Read Ils follows sixty days after the passage of this Act:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4438">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4438</num> <content class="inline">The boards of local inspectors shall Iicenseandclassify<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses of masters, etc., modified.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4438, P.859, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 864.</p></sidenote> the masters, chief mates, and second and third mates, if in charge of a watch, engineers, and pilots of all steam vessels, and the masters of sail vessels of over seven hundred gross tons, and all other vessels of over one hundred gross tons carrying passengers for hire. It shall be unlawful to employ any person or for any person to serve as a master,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sail vessels.</p></sidenote> chief mate, engineer, or pilot of any steamer or as master of any sail vessel of over seven hundred gross tons or of any other vessel of over one hundred gross tons carrying passengers for hire who is not licensed by the inspectors; and anyone violating this section shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote> liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each offense.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That section forty-four hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4467">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4467</num> <content class="inline">The master of every passenger steamer shall keep a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Count of passengers required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4467, p. 864, amended.</p></sidenote> correct count of all the passengers received and delivered from day to day, which count shall be open to the inspection of the inspectors and officers of the customs at all times, and the aggregate number of passengers shall be furnished to inspectors as often as called for: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">List required on seagoing, etc., steamers.</p></sidenote> <i>however</i>, That a correct list of passengers received and delivered from day to day shall be kept, instead of a correct count, by the masters of seagoing passenger steamers in the coastwise trade and by the masters of passenger steamers on the Great Lakes on routes exceeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign trade not affected.</p></sidenote> three hundred miles:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That nothing herein shall affect existing laws relative to vessels running between this country and foreign ports.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That section forty-four hundred and sixty-eight of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4468">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4468</num> <content class="inline">Every master of any passenger steamer who fails,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4468, p.865, amended.</p></sidenote> through negligence or design, to keep a count or list of passengers as required by the preceding section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">Thatwhenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yachts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reciprocal exemption οι foreign, from tonnage, etc., fees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 4216, p. 812.</p></sidenote> of the President of the United States that yachts belonging to any regularly organized yacht club of the United Statesare allowed to arrive at ana depart from any foreign port and to cruise in the waters of such port without entering or clearing at the custom house thereof and without the payment of any charges for entering or clearing, dues, duty per ton. tonnage taxes or charges for cruising licenses, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may authorize and direct the customs authorities at the Viirious ports and .subports of entry of the United States to allow yachts from such foreign port belonging to any regularly organized yacht club thereof to arrive at and depart from any port or subport of the United States and to cruise in waters of the United States without the payment of any charges for entering or clearing, dues, duty per ton, or tonnage taxes, but the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses.</p></sidenote> Commerce and Labor may, in his discretion, direct that such foreign yachts shall be required to obtain licenses to cruise, in a form prescribed by him. before they shall be allowed under the provisions of this Act to cruise in waters of the United States. Such licenses shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations, etc.</p></sidenote> be issued without cost to such yachts and shall prescribe such limitations as to length of time, direction, and place of cruising and action, and such other particulars as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may deem proper: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the privileges of this section shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign yachts owned, etc., by citizens excluded.</p></sidenote> not extend to any yacht built outside of the United States and owned, chartered, or used by a citizen of the United States unless such ownership or charter was acquired prior to February fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/426">426</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That section forty-two hundred and sixteen of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4216, p. 812, repealed.</p></sidenote> Statutes is hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That thirty days after the passage of this Act if a shipowner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Private signals.</p></sidenote> desires to use for the purpose of a private code any rockets, lights, or other similar signals, he may register those signals and house flags and funnel marks with the Commissioner of Navigation, who shall give public notice from time to time of the signals, house flags, and funnel marks so registered in such manner as he, may think requisite<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registry, etc., permitted.</p></sidenote> for preventing those signals from being mistaken for signals of distress or signals for pilots. TheCommissioner of Navigation may refuse to register any signals which in his opinion can not easily be distinguished from signals of distress, signals for pilots, or signals prescribed by laws for preventing collisions.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">Thatsection three of the Actof August eighteenth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 360, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-four, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” be, and the same hereby is, amended so as to read as follows, sixty days after the passage of this Act:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3</num> <content class="inline">That section three of the Act to prevent obstructive and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p.209.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Injurious deposits forbidden.</p></sidenote> injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City, by dumping or otherwise, and to punish and prevent such offenses, approved June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall be, and hereby is, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That in all cases of receiving on board of any scows or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervisor to designate place of deposits.</p></sidenote> boats such forbidden matter or substance as lierein described, the owner or master, or person acting in such capacity on board of such scows or boats, before proceeding to take or tow the same to the place of deposit, shall apply for and obtain from the Supervisorof the harbor appointed hereunder a permit defining the precise Iimitswithin which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">DerMisits elsewhere prohibited.</p></sidenote> the discharge of such scows or boats may be made; and it shall not be lawful for the owner or master, or person acting in such capacity, of any tug or towboat, to tow or move any scow or boat so loaded with such forbidden matter until such permit shall have been obtained; and every person violating the foregoing provisions of this section shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for proceeding without license.</p></sidenote> punished by a fine of not more than one thousand nor less than five hundred dollars, and in addition thereto the masterof any tug or towboat so offending shall have his license revoked or suspended for a term to be fixed by the judge before whom tried and convicted.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">‘“And any deviation from such dumping or discharging place<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for discharging at unauthorized place.</p></sidenote> specified in such permit shall be. a misdemeanor, and the owner and master, or person acting in the capacity of master, of any scows or boats dumping or discharging such forbidden matter in any place other than that specified in such permit shall be liable to punishment therefor as provided in section one of the said Act of June twentyninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight; and the owner and master,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons liable.</p></sidenote> or person acting in the capacity of master, of any tug or towboat towing such scows or boats shall be liable to equal punishment with the owner and master, or person acting in the capacity of master, of the scows or boats; and, further, every scowman or other employee on board of both scows and towboats shall be deemed to have knowledge of the place of dumping specified in such permit, and the owners and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of owners, etc.</p></sidenote> masters, or persons acting in the capacity of masters, shall be liable to punishment, as aforesaid, for any unlawful dumping, within the meaning of this Act or of the said Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p.209.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-eight, which may be caused by the negligence or ignorance of such scowman or other employee; and, further, neither defect in machinery nor avoidable accidents to scows or towboats, nor unfavorable weather, nor improper handling or moving of scows or <page identifier="/us/stat/35/427">427</page> boats of any kind whatsoever shall operate to release the owners and master and employees of scows and towboats from the penalties hereinbefore mentioned.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Every scow or boat engaged in the transportation of dredgings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boats to have name, etc., painted.</p></sidenote> earth, sand, mud, cellar dirt, garbage, or other offensive material of any description shall have its name or number and owner’s name painted in letters and numbers at least fourteen inches long on both sides of the scow or boat; these names and numbers shall be kept distinctly legible at all times, and no scow or boat not so marked snail be used to transport or dump any such material. Each such scow or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life lines, etc., required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 623.</p></sidenote> boat shall be equipped at all times with a life line or rope extending at least the length of and three feet above the deck thereof, such rope to be attached to the coaming thereof, also with a life-preserverand a life buoy for each person on board thereof, also with anchor to weigh not less than two hundred and seventy-five pounds, and at least one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">List of employees.</p></sidenote> hundred feet of cable attached thereto; a list of the names of all men employed on any such scow or boat shall be kept by the owner or master thereof and the said list shall be open to the inspection of all parties. Failure to comply with any of the foregoing provisions shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for failure.</p></sidenote> render the owner of such scow or boat liable upon conviction thereof to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ the supervisor of the harbor of New York, designated as provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 210.</p></sidenote> in section five of the said Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is authorized and directed to appoint inspectors and deputy inspectors, and, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act and of the Act aforesaid, and of detecting and bringing to punishment offenders against the same, the said supervisor of the harbor, and the inspectors and deputy inspectors so appointed by him, shall have power and authority:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrests.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ First. To arrest and take into custody, with or without process, any person or persons who may commit any of the acts or offenses prohibited by this section and by the Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, aforesaid, or who may violate any of the provisions of the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no person shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Prorisoa.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Process.</p></sidenote> arrested without process for any offense not committed in the presence of the supervisor or his inspectors or deputy inspectors, or either of them:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That whenever any such arrest is made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody of offender.</p></sidenote> the person or persons so arrested shall be brought forthwith before a commissioner, judge, or court of the United States for examination of the offenses alleged against him; and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Second. To go on board of any scow or towboat engaged in unlawful<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seizure of boats.</p></sidenote> dumping of prohibited material, or in moving the same without a permit, as required in this section of this Act, or otherwise violating any of the provisions of this section of this Act, and to seize and hold said boats until they are discharged by action of the commissioner, judge, or court of the United States before whom the offending persons are brought.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Third. To arrest and take into custody any witness or witnesses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodyof witness.</p></sidenote> to such unlawful dumping of prohibited material, the said witnesses to be released under proper bonds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Fourth. To go on board of any towboat having in tow scows or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accompanying towboats.</p></sidenote> boats loaded with such prohibited material, and accompany the same to the place of dumping, whenever such action appears to be necessary to secure compliance with the requirements of this Act and of the Act aforesaid.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Fifth. To enter gas and oil works and all other manufacturing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspecting gas, etc., works.</p></sidenote> works for the purpose of discovering the disposition made of sludge, acid, or other injurious material, whenever there is good reason to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/428">428</page> believe that such sludge, acid, or other injurious material is allowed to run into the tidal waters of the harbor in violation of section one of the aforesaid Act of June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eightyeight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Every person who, directly or indirectly, gives any sum of money<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for bribery.</p></sidenote> or other bribe, present, or reward, or makes any offer of the same to any inspector, deputy inspector, or other employee of the office of the supervisor of the Iiarbor with intent to influence such inspector, deputy inspector, or other employee to permit or overlook any violation of the provisions of this section or of the said Actof June twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Every permit issued in accordance with the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of permits.</p></sidenote> section of this Act, which may not be taken up by an inspector or deputy inspector, shall be returned within four days after issuance to the office of the supervisor of the harbor; such permit shall bear an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indorsement.</p></sidenote> indorsement by the master of the towboat, or the person acting in such capacity, stating whether the permit has been used, and, if so, the time and place of dumping. Any person violating the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> section shall be liable to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars.’”</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">Thatsection forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors of hulls and boilers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83, p. 1026.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu and San Juan, P. R., added.</p></sidenote> Statutes of the United States be amended by inserting in the first paragraph thereof, after the words “and Burlington. Vermont,”’ and before the words “one inspector of hulls,” the words “Honolulu, Hawaii, and San Juan, Porto Rico;” and that the said section be further amended by inserting in the fifth paragraph thereof, after the words “and Norfolk, Virginia,”’and before the words “at the rate of two thousand dollars,” the words “Honolulu, Hawaii, and San Juan. Porto Rico.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That on and after January first, nineteen hundred and nine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seagoing barges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual inspection to be made.</p></sidenote> the local inspectors of steamboats shall at least once in every year inspect the hull and equipment of every seagoing Iiargeofone hundred gross tons or over, and shall satisfy themselves that such barge is of a StructuresuitabIe for the service in which she is to be employed, has suitable accommodations for the crew, and is in a condition to warrant the belief that she may be used in navigation with safety to life. ‘Γhey shall then issue a certificate of inspection in the manner and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.,sees, 4421, 4423, p. 857.</p></sidenote> the purposes prescribed in sections forty-four hundred and twenty-one and forty-four hundred and twenty-three of the Revised Statutes.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That every such barge shall be equipped with the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-saving appliances required.</p></sidenote> appliances of kinds approved by the Board of Supervising Inspectors: At least one lifeboat, at least one anchor with suitable chain or cable, and at least one life-preserver for each person on board.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That a register, enrollment, or license shall not be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements before registry, etc.</p></sidenote> or renewed by any collector or other officer of customs to any such barge unless at the time of issue or renewal such barge has in force the certificates of inspection prescribed by section ten and on board the equipment prescribed by section eleven.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">Thatifanysuch Iiargeshall be navigated without such certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote> of inspection, or without any part of the equipment prescribed by section eleven, the owner shall be liable to a penalty of live hundred dollars for each offense.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the chairman of the Light-House Board, the Supervising<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Towing vessels in inland waters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations for hawsers, etc., to be prepared.</p></sidenote> Inspector-General of the Steamboat-Inspection Service, and the Commissioner of Navigation shall convene as a board at such times.as the Secretaryof Commerce and Laborshall prescribe to prepare regulations limiting the length of hawsers between towing vessels and seagoing barges in tow and the length of such tows within any of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/429">429</page> inland waters of the United States designated and defined from time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 672.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcement.</p></sidenote> to time pursuant to section two of the Act approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and such regulations when approved by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall have the force of law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That the master of the towing vessel shall be liable to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation by master.</p></sidenote> suspension or revocation of his license for any willful violation of regulations issued pursuant to section fourteen in the manner now prescribed for incompetency, misconduct, or unskillfulness.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 213: Authorizing the Secretary of War to remove certain obstructions to navigation from the main ship channel, Key West Harbor, Florida, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to remove certain obstructions to navigation from the main ship channel, Key West Harbor, Florida, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22009">H. R. 22009.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/153">Public, No. 153.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbors, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West Harbor, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of obstructions from main ship channel.</p></sidenote> of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to remove, or cause to be removed, certain reefs from the main ship channel, Key West Harbor, Florida, mentioned in a report made by Lieutenant L. H. Beach to the Secretary of War on February first, nineteen hundred and eight, and the sum of five thousand dollars of the amount heretofore appropriated for improving the harbor at Key West and entrance thereto under the river and harbor Act approved March second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1086.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, or so much of said sum of five thousand dollars as may be necessary, is hereby made available for such purpose.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the unexpended balance of the amount heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1102.</p></sidenote> appropriated for the improvement of Chicago Harbor, or so much thereof as may be deemed advisable, be, and the same is hereby, made available, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, for expenditure on the existing project for the Chicago River.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That so much as may be necessary of the amount heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River, South Pass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging shoals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 739.</p></sidenote> appropriated, or authorized to be appropriated, for the maintenance of the South Pass of the Mississippi River, or for examinations and surveys of the South Pass of the Mississippi River, or for the improvement of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, be used in dredging shoals in the said river between CtabitsGapand the Head of the Passeswhenever it may become necessary to secure a depth of channel through said shoals of thirty-live feet, with a practical width.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, apply the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 738.</p></sidenote> whole or any part of the unexpended balance of the amount heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the Duluth-Superior Harbor, Minnesota, to dredging inside the Duluth entrance thereto, as recommended in House Document Numbered Two hundred and twenty-one, Sixtieth Congress, first session.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the provision in the river and harbor Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Lake Reservoir Dam, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1105, amended.</p></sidenote> March second, nineteen hundred and seven, relating to the construction of the Sandy Lake Reservoir Dam, Minnesota, is hereby amended by striking out. the words “without a lock for steamboats.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvement of Kinnickinnick River.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to expend and to enter into a contract or contracts for the expenditure of so much as may be necessary of the amount heretofore appropriated, or authorized to be appropriated, for the improvement of the harbor at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for the improvement of the Kinnickinnick River, or any part thereof inside the Iiarbor, as heretofore provided by law, whenever and as soon as the city of Milwaukee shall have complied with the provisions set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and twenty, Fiftyeighth Congress, second session, and authorized by the river and harbor Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and as amended by the Act entitled “An Act to amend the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, so far as said provisions apply to the improvement of said Kinnickinnick River or any part thereof.</content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/430">430</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7</num> <content class="inline">That the whole or any part of the amount heretofore authorized to be appropriated for the construction of a dredge for Mobile Harbor, Alabama, with the exception of five thousand dollars for the preparation of plans for said dredge, may be used for dredging said harbor, and the Secretary of War, in his discretion, may enter into a contract or contracts for the performance of the work.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8</num> <content class="inline">That to make effective the provision in the river and harbor Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, for a survey of the Neversink River, New York, with a view to the removal of bars and other obstructions at and near its mouth, the scope of such survey be enlarged so as to include the Delaware River at and near the mouth of the Neversink River.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 214: Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>214</docNumber>
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<docNumber>214.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the support of the Military Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21875">H. R. 21875.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/154">Public, No. 154.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of eight assistant professors (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, three thousand two hundred dollars;<page identifier="/us/stat/35/431">431</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two battalion commanders (majors), in addition to pay as captains, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one instructor of English and history, to be selected<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instructor i n English, etc.</p></sidenote> and appointed by the Secretary of War. three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of four senior assistant instructors of artillery and infantry tactics and ordnance and gunnery and practical military engineering (captains), in addition to pay as first lieutenants, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of seven instructors of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics (captains), in addition to pay as second lieutenants, four thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one adjutant, who shall not be above the rank of captain, of his grade, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one treasurer and quartermaster and commissary of cadets, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one line officer, on duty in quartermaster’s department at Academy, in addition to pay as first lieutenant, four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one associate professor of mathematics (major), in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one associate professor of modern languages (major), in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one constructing quartermaster in addition to pay as major, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay of professors and officers (and officers on increased<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> rank) for length of service, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for extra pay of officers of Army on detached service at the Military Academy, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Military Academy band, field musicians, general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> army service, cavalry and artillery detachment, and enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay for enlisted men on special duty:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of military band, one band sergeant and assistant leader,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military band.</p></sidenote> nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve enlisted musicians, at forty-five dollars per month, six thousand four hundred and eighty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve enlisted musicians, at thirty-six dollars per month, five thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixteen enlisted musicians, at thirty dollars per month, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, two thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing on discharge, one thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on deposits of enlisted men on discharge, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of field musicians: One sergeant, six hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field musicians.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One corporal, two hundred and fifty-two dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twenty-two privates, at one hundred and eighty dollars each, three thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, five hundred and sixteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing on discharge, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interest on deposits due enlisted men on discharge, forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter the monthly pay during the first enlistment of enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 110.</p></sidenote> men of the band and field musicians of the United Stated Military Academy shall be as hereinbefore stated, and the continuous service Say of all grades shall be the same as provided in the Act approved lay eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “ An Act making <page identifier="/us/stat/35/432">432</page> appropriation for the support of the Anny for the fiscal year ending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Music outside military posts.</p></sidenote> June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine:” <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the band or members thereof and the field musicians of the Military Academy shall not receive remuneration for furnishing music outside the limits of the military reservation when the furnishing of such music places them in competition with local civilian musicians.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso>For pay of general army service: One first sergeant, five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General army service.</p></sidenote> and forty dollars;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight sergeants, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two cooks, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nine corporals, two thousand two hundred and sixty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and eighty privates, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additioual pay for length of service, seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing on discharge, five thousand three hundred and ten dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interest of deposits of enlisted men, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel allowances due enlisted men on discharge, two hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Extra pay of the enlisted men of the Army service detachment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra-duty pay.</p></sidenote> Quartermaster’s Department, on extra duty at West Point, twenty-two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of cavalry detachment: One first sergeant, five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavalry detachment.</p></sidenote> and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Six sergeants, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two cooks, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eight corporals, two thousand and sixteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two trumpeters, three hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two farriers and blacksmiths, five hundred and four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One saddler, two hundred and fifty-two dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One wagoner, two hundred and fifty-two dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-seven privates (cavalry), thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, five thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing on discharge, one thousand eight hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traveling allowances to enlisted men on discharge, eight hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interest on deposits to enlisted men, one hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Artillery detachment.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of artillery detachment: One first sergeant, five hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One quartermaster-sergeant, three hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One stable sergeant, three hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief mechanic, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Six sergeants, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three cooks, one thousand and eighty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Twelve corporals, three thousand and twenty-four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four mechanics, one thousand and eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two trumpeters, three hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One hundred and two privates, eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One electrician sergeant, five hundred and forty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One master gunner, four hundred and eighty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for first and second class gunners, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional for gunners.</p></sidenote> two hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clothing on discharge, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interest on deposits due enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Travel allowances to enlisted men on discharge, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/433">433</page> For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, enlisted men.</p></sidenote> of the adjutant. United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and sixty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two enlisted men employed as clerks in the office of the commandant of cadets, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and sixty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of four enlisted men as printers, at headquarters United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred and twenty-six dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as watchman, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as trumpeter at the cadet barracks, at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department observatory as a mechanic, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the philosophical department in care of apparatus, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two enlisted men employed in the chemical department, at fifty cents per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of drawing, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the mathematical department, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as draftsman and lithographic printer, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as machinist, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one ordnance soldier as clerk, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one ordnance soldier when employed in department of ordnance and gunnery, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two enlisted men (cavalrymen) when performing special skilled mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, three hundred and thirteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man (cavalryman) employed as saddler, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man on duty in charge of engineer property and fatigue, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of four enlisted men as assistants and attendants at the library, at fifty cents each per day, six hundred and eighty-four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man as clerk in the department of practical military engineering and to the officer in charge of waterworks and works of construction at the Military Academy, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of three enlisted men as clerks in the office of the quartermaster United States Military Academy, at fifty cents each per day, five hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/434">434</page> For extra pay of three enlisted men (artillerymen) when performing extra mechanical labor, at fifty cents each per day, four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one first sergeant (artilleryman) at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two enlisted men as messengers in the office of the adjutant United States Military Academy, at thirty-five cents each per day, two hundred and nineteen dollars and ten cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man in charge of property and saddle equipment pertaining to riding and equitation other than military, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one first sergeant (cavalryman), at thirty-five cents per day, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed as clerk in charge of clothing room in quartermaster’s storehouse, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one enlisted man employed in the department of civil and military engineering, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one sergeant (cavalryman) in charge of stables and horses, at fifty cents per day, one hundred and eighty-two dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two teamsters (cavalrymen) at thirty-five cents each per day, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of nine laborers (cavalrymen) employed in keeping clean the equipments used by cadets in riding, nine hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of one sergeant of engineers, acting first sergeant, one hundred and eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay of two cooks of engineers, at twelve dollars per month each, two hundred and eighty-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for pay of Military Academy band, field musicians, general army service, cavalry detachment, artillery detachment, enlisted men on detached service, and extra pay of enlisted men on special duty at the Military Academy, one hundred and eighty-three thousand nine hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the extra pay provided by the preceding paragraphs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No duplication.</p></sidenote> shall not be paid to any enlisted man who receives extra-duty pay under’ existing laws or army regulations.</proviso></p>
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<heading>pay of civilians.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of civilians.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one teacher of music, one thousand seven hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to the disbursing officer and quartermaster, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to adjutant in charge of cadet records, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one clerk to the adjutant, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to treasurer, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For oue clerk to the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two civilian instructors of French, to be employed under rides prescribed by the Secretary of War, two thousand dollars per year each, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two civilian instructors in Spanish, at two thousand dollars per year each, to be employed under rules prescribed by the Secretary of War, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two expert civilian instructors in fencing, broadsword exercises, and other military gymnastics as may be required to perfect this part of the training of cadets, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/435">435</page> For pay of one professional civilian instructor in gymnastics, athletics, and swimming, one thousand live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk and stenographer in the office of the quartermaster and disbursing officer, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one clerk in the office of the quartermaster, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one librarian, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of librarian’s assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one superintendent of gas works, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of engineer of heating and ventilating apparatus for the academic building, the cadet barracks and office building, cadet hospital. chapel, and library, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant engineer of same, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of eleven firemen, seven thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one draftsman in department of civil and military engineering, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of mechanic and attendant skilled in the technical preparations necessary to chemical and electrical lectures and to the instruction in mineralogy and geology, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of mechanic assistant in department of natural and experimental philosophy, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of custodian of academy building, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one civilian plumber, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of assistant plumber, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one plumber’s helper, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one scavenger, at sixty dollars a month, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of chapel organist, two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of superintendent of post cemetery, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of engineer and janitor for Memorial Hall, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant printer at headquarters, United States Military Academy, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one janitress, Memorial Hall, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one master mechanic, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of attendant and skilled photographer in the department of drawing, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one typewriter, copyist, and attendant in charge of the library in the department of law and history, seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one stenographer and typewriter in the adjutant’s office, eight hundred and forty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one overseer of the waterworks, five hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one assistant engineer of steam, electric, and refrigerating apparatus for the cadets’ mess, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one copyist, typewriter, and attendant in the department of modern languages, seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one mechanic and attendant skilled in the operation necessary for the preparation of lectures and of material in the department of drawing, seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of janitor for bachelor officers’ quarters, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one chief engineer of power plant, two thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/436">436</page> For pay of three engineers for power plant, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two oilers for power plant, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, to civilians employed at Military Academy, sixty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total pay of Military Academy, six hundred and eighteen thousand six hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Military Academy shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Military Academy, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For current and ordinary expenses as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1827. p. 227.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composed of members of Committees on Military Affairs of both Houses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Board of Visitors to the Military Academy shall consist of five members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate and seven members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairmen thereof, who shall annually visit the Military Academy on such date, during the session of Congress or not more than thirty days prior thereto, as may be fixed by the chairmen of the said committees; and the Superintendent of the Academy and the members of the Board of Visitors shall be notified of such date by the chairmen of the said committees, acting jointly, at least fifteen days before the meeting. the expenses of the members of the Board shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said Board, and their actual expenses for travel by the shortest mail routes:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That so much of sections thirteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.. setts. 1327-1329. p. 227, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-seven, thirteen hundred and twenty-eight, and thirteen hundred and twenty-nine, Revised Statutes of the United States, as is inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the expenses of the members of the Board of Visitors, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingencies for Superintendent of the Academy, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements, namely: Timber, planks, boards, joists,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> wall strips, laths, shingles, slate, tin, sheet lead, zinc, nails, screws, locks, hinges, glass, paints, turpentine, oils, varnish, brushes, stone, brick, flag, lime, cement, plaster hair, sewer and drain pipe, blasting powder, fuse, iron, steel, tools, machinery, mantels, and other similar materials, renewing roofs, and for pay of architect overseer and citizen mechanics, and labor employed upon repairs and improvements that can not be done by enlisted men, forty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and apparatus, namely: Coal, wood, charcoal, stoves, grates,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> heaters, furnaces, ranges and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam heating and coal conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, and furnaces, mica, thirty thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gas pipes, gas and electric fixtures, electric lamps, telephone and lighting supplies, lamp-posts, gasometers and retorts, and annual repairs of the same, six thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel for cadets’ mess hall, shops, and laundry, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage and telegrams, three hundred and fifty dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage and telegrams.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, namely: Blank books, paper, envelopes, quills,steel pens, rubbers, erasers, pencils, mucilage, wax, wafers, folders, fasteners, rules, files, ink, inkstands, typewriters, typewriting supplies, office furniture, penholders, tape, desk knives, blotting pads, and rubber bands, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of materials, discharged cadets, and for ferriages,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> and for transportation of first class of cadets to and from Gettysburg <page identifier="/us/stat/35/437">437</page> battlefield, Watervliet Arsenal, and Sandy Hook proving grounds, and for expenses of officers detailed to accompany cadets on these trips, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Printing: For printing and binding, type, materials for office, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> repairs to motor and machinery, diplomas for graduates, annual registers, blanks, and monthly reports to parents of cadets, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of cavalry, artillery, and infantry tactics: Tan bark<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of cavalry. infantry, and artillery tactics.</p></sidenote> or other proper cover for riding hall, to be purchased in open market upon written order of the Superintendent, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For camp stools, camp and office furniture, and repairs to same: for door mats for cadet barracks, sinks, and guardhouse; for stationery, typewriting supplies and repairs, for use of instructor and assistant instructors of tactics; for books and maps, binding books, and mounting maps: for silk and worsted sashes for cadet officers and acting officers; for furniture, curtains, and rugs for cadet reception room, one thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gymnasium and athletic supplies: For repairs, new machines, athletic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gymnasium, etc., supplies.</p></sidenote> supplies and fixtures for gymnasium; for foils, masks, belts, fencing gloves, fencing jackets, gaiters, sabers, and repairs; for repairs and improvements to dressing rooms, platform, and swimming tank, two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to saddles, bridles, purchase of leather, curb chains, bits, stirrups, and so forth, and to keep the same in repair, two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two electric clocks, to be immediately available and to be expended without advertising, fifty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of civil and military engineering: For models, maps,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of civil and military engineering.</p></sidenote> purchase and repair of instruments, apparatus, drawing boards, desks, chairs, shelves and cases for books and instruments, text-books, books of reference, and stationery for the use of instructors, aud contingencies, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of natural and experimental philosophy: Additions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of natural mid experimental philosophy.</p></sidenote> to apparatus to illustrate the principles of mechanics, acoustics, optics, and astronomy; books of reference, scientific periodicals, text-books, stationery, materials, and repairs; and for repairs to the observatory buildings and repairs to clocks, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of instruction in mathematics: Text-books, books<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of mathematics.</p></sidenote> of reference, binding, and stationery; for tables of logarithms; for rules and triangles; for purchase of geometrical drawings and models; for cases for geometrical models; for office desks, chairs, bookcases, and office fittings; and for contingencies, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology: Chemicals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of chemistry, mineralogy. and geology.</p></sidenote> chemical apparatus, glass and porcelain ware, paper, wire, sheet metal, ores, photographic apparatus and materials; rough specimens, fossils, and for apparatus and materials to be used in the practical determination of mineralogical and geological specimens; pencils and paper for the practical instruction in the same branches, and for gradual increase and improvement of the cabinet; for repairs and additions to electric, magnetic, pneumatic, thermic, and optical apparatus; for purchase of laboratory and power-room machinery and apparatus and installation of same; for models, maps, and diagrams, books of reference, textbooks, and stationery for use of instructors; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of drawing: Drawing material, instruments, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of drawing.</p></sidenote> stationery for use of instructors; repairs to models and purchase of new models; desks, stretchers, drawing boards, racks, and stands; framing drawings; books and periodicals on art, architecture, topography, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/438">438</page> and technology; binding maps, books, and so forth; repairs to stereopticon and purchase of lantern slides; photographic apparatus and material; purchase of new instruments and repair of old ones, for use of cadets; and for contingent expenses, one thousand two hundred and thirty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the preparation of topographical relief models, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of modern languages: For stationery, text-books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of modern languages.</p></sidenote> and books of reference for use of instructors, for repairs of books and apparatus and for office furniture, and for printing examination papers, and other necessary papers, and for contingencies, five hundred and ninety-eight dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of law and history: For stationery, text-books, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of law and history.</p></sidenote> books of reference for the use of instructors, maps, map fixtures, furniture, and for repairs to the same, for rebinding books and periodicals, and for contingencies, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of practical military engineering: For purchase and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of practical military engineering.</p></sidenote> repair of instruments; transportation; purchase of tools, implements, and materials, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, as follows, namely: For instruments for use in instructing cadets in making reconnoissances; photographic apparatus and material for field photography; drawing instruments and material for platting reconnoissances; surveying instruments; instrumentsand material for signaling and field telegraphy, transportation of field parties; tools and material for the preservation, augmentation, and repair of wooden pontoon, and one canvas pontoon train; sapping and mining tools and material; rope; cordage; material for rafts and for spar and trestle bridges; intrenching tools; tools and material for the repair of Fort Clinton and the batteries of the academy, and for extra-duty pay of engineer soldiers, at fifty cents per day each, when performing special skilled mechanical labor in the department of practical military engineering; for models, books of reference, and stationery, and for extra pay of one engineer soldier as assistant in photographic laboratory, and in charge of photographic laboratory, photographic apparatus, materials, and supplies, at fifty cents per day, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of ordnance and gunnery: Purchase and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of ordnance and gunnery.</p></sidenote> instruments, models, and apparatus, and purchase of necessary material; for the purchase of samples of arms and accouterments other than those supplied to the military service; for books of reference, text-books, stationery, and lithographic printing materials, and for contingencies, four hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manufacture or purchase of models of breech mechanisms of cannon, rapid-fire guns, small arms, and the various machines and tools used in their manufacture, for cadet instruction, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of machines, tools, and material for practical instructions of cadets in wood and metal working, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For department of military hygiene: For stationery, text-books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of military hygiene.</p></sidenote> and books of reference for use of instructors; for the preparation of plates, purchase of paper and other expenses incidental to the printing of syllabuses of lectures on parts of the subject not covered by the regular text-books; for the purchase of charts, photographs, and pictures for use in demonstration; for the purchase of instruments and models; for shelves and cases for books, instruments, and models and records; and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a course of lectures for the more complete instruction of cadets,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lectures.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for current and ordinary expenses, one hundred and seventeen thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/439">439</page></p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous items and incidental expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous and incidental expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commercial periodicals, stationery, office furniture and supplies,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery, etc.</p></sidenote> and for binding orders, circulars, and so forth, for the office of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, two hundred and ten dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gas-coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, wicking, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting, plumbing, etc.</p></sidenote> electric lamps and supplies for lighting the Academy building, chapel, library, cadet barracks, mess hall, shops, hospital, offices, stables, and riding hall, sidewalks, camp, and wharfs, ten thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water pipe, plumbing, and repairs, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for cleaning and policing public buildings (not quarters), three thousand live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for recitation rooms not otherwise provided for and for renewing and repairing furniture in same, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Increase and expense of library, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, preservation, care, storage, binding and repair of books, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, pictures, and manuscripts; purchase of furniture, cases, stationery, and fittings; for expenses of making copies of military manuscripts in other libraries, and for contingent expenses not otherwise provided for; purchases to be made in open market on the written order of the Superintendent, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent funds, to be expended under the direction of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent, academic board.</p></sidenote> academic board: For instruments, books, repairs to apparatus, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all technical and scientific supplies for the departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical supplies.</p></sidenote> of instruction of the Military Academy shall be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may deem best.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of instruments for band and repairs to same; for purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Musical supplies.</p></sidenote> of reeds, pads, strings, and other materials necessary for brass, wood, wind, and string instruments; for purchase of music stands and other equipments; for purchase of music for military band and orchestra and for extra parts; all to be purchased in open market on order of Superintendent, two thousand three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs and improvements to the laundry machinery and apparatus<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laundry, etc.</p></sidenote> in the cadet laundry, and the. purchase of new material, tools, and so forth, to be expended without advertising, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repair of cooking utensils, chairs, tables, and other furniture in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the policing of barracks and bath houses, eight thousand four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Policing, etc.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; and for supplying light and plain furniture to cadet barracks, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining the children’s school, the Superintendent of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s school.</p></sidenote> Military Academy being authorized to employ the necessary teachers, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary alterations and additions to the Library Building as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library Building.</p></sidenote> follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For galleries in the officers’ study, map room, reading room, and periodical room, nine hundred and fifty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steel shelves in the present map and chart room, to extend over the present shelving to the ceiling, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for miscellaneous items and incidental expenses, fifty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total Military Academy, seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand nine hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/440">440</page> cents.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>buildings and grounds.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cases, materials, fittings, fixtures, and other appliances and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote> repairs for ordnance museum in academy building, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to ordnance laboratory and other buildings pertaining to the department of ordnance and gunnery, and materials for roads and walks, and for repairs to machinery and tools, one hundred and fifty dol lars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs to the cadet laundry building, and for emergency incidental expenses about building, to be expended without advertising, four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental repairs and improvements to the cadet store building, including storerooms, office, tailor shops, and shoe repairing shops, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials and labor for repairs, alterations, and additions needed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ hospital.</p></sidenote> at the soldiers’ hospital, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of suitable incandescent lights, droplights, tubing, mantels, and so forth; for paraffin and turpentine for waxing floors; for brushes, paints, glass, putty, and for general repairs; for materials for rebronzing radiators; and for purchase of flowers, fruit trees, shrubs, plants, and so forth, for hospital grounds, one hundred and sixty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For waterworks: For the maintenance and operation of the filter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterworks.</p></sidenote> beds, reservoirs, and pipe lines, including the tools, implements, and materials required therefor; and for policing the grounds and repairing the roads in the vicinity of the reservoirs, filters, and intake dam, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and necessary alterations and additions to the cadet<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet hospital.</p></sidenote> hospital, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for rebronzing radiators and piping; material for waxing and polishing floors; suitable incandescent lights, droplights, mantles, tubes, for carpets, furniture, and appliances; for repairs of damaged articles, and for miscellaneous expenses, one hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of flowers and shrubs for hospital grounds, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tiling floors and walls of north lower ward, including vestibules,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tiling.</p></sidenote> lavatory, bathrooms, and so forth, to correspond with all other wards in the hospital, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repainting all ceilings and sidewalls throughout the building, which are not faced with tiles, and for repainting all interior woodwork and which is now painted and refinishing in hard oil all interior woodwork which is now so finished, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For renewing leaders where necessary, repairing gutters and tin roof of north wing and painting all tin work, nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Repairs to cadet barracks:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cadet barracks.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairing and renewing plastering, painting, and calcimining, repairs to woodwork, reflooring, rearranging rooms, increasing sinks, baths, and other incidental repairs to the buildjng, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintaining and improving the grounds of the post cemetery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the construction of breast-high wall in dangerous places, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For broken stone and gravel for roads, and for repairing sidewalks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, etc.</p></sidenote> roads, paths, and bridges on the reservation, six thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing work in connection with the restoration of Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Putnam.</p></sidenote> Putnam, on the United States Military Academy Reservation at West Point, New York, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/441">441</page> For one garbage crematory and installation of same, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Garbage crematory.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hose connections, hose and reels for tire protection in the basement of the cadets mess, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of boilers, engines, dynamos, motors, refrigerating and other machinery in the cadet mess, and the replacement of same, to be expended without advertising, live hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a tile or terrazzo floor and tile wainscoting in the servants’<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tiling, etc.</p></sidenote> dining room, south scullery, south hallway, vestibule, southeast corner of Grant Hall; south serving room, in the cadet mess, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of one primary station, one secondary station, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> battery commander’s station, one searchlight station, two emplacement booths, and for the purchase of one searchlight and operating machinery, twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of gymnasium apparatus for the drill hall in the barracks<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gymnasium apparatus.</p></sidenote> of the artillery detachment, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of one power clipping machine for artillery detachment, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of one sewing machine, for leather, for the saddler’s shop of the artillery detachment, seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For material and labor for the work of forestry improvement on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forestry improvement.</p></sidenote> the United States Military Reservation at West Point, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For erection of brick stables with slate roof for ambulances and animals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stables, soldiers’ hospital.</p></sidenote> belonging to the soldiers’ hospital, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For iron flooring for a portion of the third floor and for removing all the present wooden flooring in library building, two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total buildings and grounds, fifty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No pay shall be withheld from Major G. S. Bingham, Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. 8. Bingham.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay not to be withheld.</p></sidenote> Department, United States Army, because of the acceptance of the quartermaster’s steamer Joseph E. Johnston.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit not exceeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four Filipinos re ceived for instruction.</p></sidenote> four Filipinos, to be designated, one for each class, by the Philippine Commission, to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy at West Point: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Filipinos undergoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc.</p></sidenote> instruction, as herein authorized, shall receive the same pay, allowances, and emoluments as are authorized by law for cadets at the Military Academy appointed from the United States, to be paid out of the same appropriations:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That said Filipinos undergoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To serve in Philippine Scouts.</p></sidenote> instruction on graduation shall be eligible only to commissions in the Philippine Scouts. And the provisions of section thirteen hundred and twenty-one, Revised Statutes, are modified in the case of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1321, p. 227.</p></sidenote> Filipinos undergoing instruction, so as to require them to engage to serve for eight years, unless sooner discharged, in the Philippine Scouts.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to permit Colon Eloy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colon Eloy Alfaro, of Ecuador.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admitted for instruction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> Alfaro, of Ecuador, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be caused to the United States thereby, and that the said Colon Eloy Alfaro shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the Academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the courses in the various departments of instruction:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That in the case of the said Colon Eloy Alfaro the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gath and service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 1320, 1321, p. 227.</p></sidenote> sections thirteen hundred and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.</proviso></p>
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<dc:title>Chap. 215: Granting condemned ordnance to certain institutions.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>215</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 442</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-28</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/442">442</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>215.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting condemned ordnance to certain institutions.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21410">H. R. 21410.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/155">Public, No. 155.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat ives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete ordnance grants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mereer County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Association, Trenton. N. J.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to the Mercer County Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument Association, of Trenton, New Jersey, eight condemned brass cannon, for the purpose of marking the corners of a soldiers’ and sailors’ monument, and the lot of ground whereon it may be erected at Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, said cannon to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Hampshire.</p></sidenote> States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the State of New Hampshire the four bronze light twelve-pounder muzzle-loading cannon of obsolete design, formerly the equipment of the First Light Battery, New Hampshire National Guard, together with the carriages, limbers, caissons, and other accessories now in the possession of the State: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of said cannon and accessories.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be. and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">American Scenic and Historic . Preservation Society.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">For Stony Point State Park. N. Y.</p></sidenote> and directed to furnish to the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, incorporated by the State of New York, ten condemned brass cannon, for the purpose of marking certain historic positions connected with the American Revolution within Stony Point State Park, on the Hudson River, Rockland County, New York; said cannon to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> That no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate Monument Association, Appomattox, Va.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to furnish to the Confederate Monument Association of Appomattox, Virginia, two condemned bronze fieldpieces or cannon, with their carriages, and with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to be used on the grounds surrounding the monument in the court-house square in the town of Appomattox, Virginia, and be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">University of South Dakota.</p></sidenote> to deliver to the board of regents of the University of South Dakota, at Vermilion, South Dakota, if the same can be done without detriment to the public service, one condemned twelve-pounder bronze field gun, of a weight not to exceed one thousand eight hundred pounds, as he may deem proper, to be placed on the campus of said university and be subject at all times to tîie order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> That the donation shall be without expense to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elgin Academy, Illinois.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to furnish to the Elgin Academy, of Elgin, Illinois, two condemned fieldpieces or cannon, with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to be used in the park surrounding the Elgin Academy in the city of Elgin, Illinois, and to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Antonio, Tex.</p></sidenote> and directed to furnish to the city of San Antonio, Texas, two condemned brass or bronze cannon or fieldpieces, with their carriages and a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, to be subject at all times to the order of the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by the United States in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> the transportation and delivery of the same.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/443">443</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete Springfield rifles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veteran Relief Guard, Newburgh, N. Y.</p></sidenote> to donate to the Veteran Relief Guard, of Newburgh, New York, an independent military organization, fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, with bayonets, bayonet scabbards, and ammunition belts for same, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A1abama Boys’ Industrial School, Birmingham, Ala.</p></sidenote> to donate to the Alabama Boys’ Industrial School, of Birmingham, Alabama, one hundred and twenty-five obsolete Springfield rifles, with bayonets, bayonet scabbards, and ammunition belts for same, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John Buford Post, G.A. R., Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote> discretion, to donate to John Buford Post, Grand Army of the Republic, Numbered Two hundred and forty-three, Department of Illinois, of Rock Island. Illinois, an independent military organization, fifty obsolete Springfield rifles, with bayonets, bayonet scabbards, and ammunition belts for the same, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to the rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henry Gowdy Relief Guard, Walden, N. Y.</p></sidenote> discretion, to donate to the Henry Gowdy Relief Guard, of Walden, New York, an independent military organization, one hundred and twenty-five obsolete Springfield rifles, with bayonets, bayonet scabbards, and ammunition belts for same, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Bartholomew’s Battalion, New York, N.Y.</p></sidenote> discretion, to donate to the Saint Bartholomew’s Battalion, of the city of New York, New York, one hundred and twenty-five obsolete Springfield rifles, with bayonets, bayonet scabbards, and ammunition belts for same, which may not be needed in the service of said Department. Such donation shall be made subject to rules and regulations covering the same in the Department, and the Government shall be at no expense in connection with this donation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the various cannon and other articles of ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting not required.</p></sidenote> property furnished under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall not be required to be accounted for to tne Chief of Ordnance.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Chief of Ordnance is hereby authorized to sell<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales to patriotic organizations allowed.</p></sidenote> without advertisement to patriotic organizations for military purposes surplus obsolete small arms and their equipments and ammunition at such prices as he may deem reasonable and just: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on donations hereafter.</p></sidenote> obsolete small arms and their equipment and ammunition shall not be disposed of to such organizations except as provided for in this Act.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/444">444</page></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 216: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>216</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 444</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-29</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>216.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue patents in fee to purchasers of Indian lands under any law now existing or hereafter enacted, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21735">H. R. 21735.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/156">Public, No. 156.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senateand House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the lands, or any part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May be sold on petition of allottee.</p></sidenote> thereof, allotted to any Indian, or any inherited interest therein, which can be sold under existing law by authority of the Secretary of the Interior, except the lands in Oklahoma, and the States of Minnesota<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excepted lands.</p></sidenote> and South Dakota may be sold on the petition of the allottee, or his heirs, on such terms and conditions and under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe; and the lands of a minor, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands of minors, etc.</p></sidenote> of a person deemed incompetent by the Secretary of the Interior to petition for himself, may be sold in the same manner, on the petition of the natural guardian in the case of infants, and in the case of Indians deemed incompetent as aforesaid, and of orphans without a natural guardian, on petition of a person designated for the purpose by the Secretary of the Interior. That when any Indian who has heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heirs to have fee simple title.</p></sidenote> received or who may hereafter receive, an allotment of land dies before the expiration of the trust period, the Secretary of the Interior shall ascertain the legal heirs of such Indian, and if satisfied of their ability to manage their own affairs shall cause to be issued in their names a patent in fee simple for said lands; but if he finds them incapable of managing their own affairs, the land may be sold as hereinbefore provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the proceeds derived from all sales hereunder<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> shall be used, during the trust period, for the benefit of the allottee, or heir, so disposing of his interest, under the supervision of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to purchaser.</p></sidenote> approval of any sale hereunder by the Secretary of the Interior he shall cause a patent in fee to issue in the name of the purchaser for the lands so sold:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in section one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">States excepted.</p></sidenote> herein contained shall apply to the States of Minnesota and South Dakota.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That jurisdiction be, and hereby is, conferred upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menominee Indians. Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjudication of certain claims against.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> Court of Claims of the United States to hear, determine, and render final judgment, notwithstanding lapse of time or statute of limitation, for any balances found due, without interest, with the right of appeal as in other cases, upon the claims of H. W. Gilkey, Herman Hank-witz, Herman Hankwitz and Company, W. P. Cook and Brother, M. Wescott, J. A. Liege, assignee of J. F. Gauthier, F. F. Green and the heirs of Mitchell Mahchikaniew, traders, against the Menominee tribe of Indians in Wisconsin and against certain members of said tribe at the Green Bay Agency, for supplies, goods, wares, merchandise, tools, and live stock furnished certain members of the said tribe after the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, for the purpose of carrying on loggingoperations upon the Menominee Indian Reservation, in Wisconsin. Said claims shall be presented to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing claims.</p></sidenote> said court by verified petitions to be filed within six months from the date of the approval of this Act. Said court shall, in rendering judgment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote> ascertain and determine the amount, if any, due upon each of said claims, and if the court find that there is a liability upon any of said claims, it shall then determine if such liability be that of the said Menominee tribe of Indians as a tribe or that of individual members of said tribe, and it shall render judgment for the amount, if any, found due from said tribe to any of said claimants, and it shall render judgment for the amounts, if any, found due from any of the individual members of said tribe to any of said claimants. Upon the rendition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> of final judgments, the court shall certify the same to the Secretary of the Interior, who shall thereupon, in case judgments be against the said Menominee tribe of Indians as a tribe, direct the payment of said judgments out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said tribe, and who, in ease judgments be against individual <page identifier="/us/stat/35/445">445</page> members of said Menominee tribe of Indians, shall, through the disbursing officers in charge of said Green Bay Agency, pay, from any annuity due or which may become due said Indian as an individual or as the head of a family from the United States or from the share of such Indian as an individual or as the head of a family in any distribution of tribal funds deposited in the Treasury of the United States, the amounts of such judgments to the claimants in whose favor such judgments have been rendered: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than fifty per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> centum of the annuity due any such Indian as an individual or as the head of a family shall be applied to the payment of such judgments:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That if more than one judgment be rendered against<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportionate payments.</p></sidenote> any such individual Indian and if fifty per centum of the annuity due such Indian as an individual or as the head of a family be not sufficient to discharge such judgments, such payment shall be made to the claimants in proportion to the amount of their respective judgments:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Future an unities used.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That in case fifty per centum of any annuity payment due any such Indian as an individual or as the head of a family be not sufficient to satisfy the judgment or judgments rendered against said Indian, then and in that case fifty per centum of subsequent annuity payments due said Indian as an individual and as the head of a family shall be applied to the payment of said judgments until the same be fully satisfied. the Menominee tribe of Indians, through its business<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys for Indians.</p></sidenote> committee, is authorized to employ an attorney or attorneys to defend the interests of said tribe and of the individual members of said tribe in any actions brought under the provisions of this Act, the compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> of such attorney or attorneys to be determined by the court, and for which attorneys’ fees judgment shall be rendered, and upon its certification to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of said judgment shall be paid to said attorney or attorneys out of any funds standing to the credit of said Menominee tribe of Indians in the Treasury of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the heirs of Cornplanter, a Seneca Indian chief, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cornplanter. alias John O’Bial.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heirs may sue for recovery of lands granted to.</p></sidenote> ascertained by the orphan’s court of Warren County, Pennsylvania, under act of the legislature of the State of Pennsylvania of May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and their descendants arc hereby authorized and empowered to bring suit for the recovery of the possession or the quieting of title of any lands granted individually to said Cornplanter, alias John O’Bial or Ábeel, in the circuit court of the United States for the district in which such lands are situated, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon said courts, both in law and in equity, to hear and determine the rights of said Cornplanter under any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Verification of petition, etc.</p></sidenote> grant made to him. Any petition filed or other court papers may be verified by the attorneys representing said heirs or their duly authorized attorneys in fact.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That a lease bearing date September nineteenth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senecas of New York.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease to Charles M. L. Ashby confirmed.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, between the Seneca Nation of Indians on the Cattaraugus and Alleghany reservations, in the State of New York, and Charles M. L. Ashby, of Erie County, New York, is hereby ratified and confirmed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samuel Garland.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjudicatingclaims of heirs of. against Choctaw Nation.</p></sidenote> to hear and adjudicate the claims against the Choctaw Nation of Samuel Garland, deceased, and to render judgment thereon in such amounts, if any, as may appear to be equitably due. Said judgment, if any, in favor of the ŉeirs of Garland shall be paid out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Choctaw Nation, said judgment to be rendered on the principle of quantum meruit for services rendered and expenses incurred. Notice of said suit shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of suit.</p></sidenote> served on the governor of the Choctaw Nation, and the AttorneyGeneral of the United States shall appear and defend in said suit on behalf of said nation.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/446">446</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p></sidenote> reading as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Catholic Indian Mustons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to.of Quapaw lands.</p></sidenote> to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section six, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-four east of the Indian meridian, Indian Territory, the same having been set apart to the Roman Catholic Church for church and school purposes by the Quapaw national council, on August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and said church having maintained a church and school thereon since that date” be amended to read as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to issue a patent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary line corrected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p.88, amended.</p></sidenote> to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions for the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section six, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-four east of the Indian meridian, Indian Territory, the same having been set apart to the Roman Catholic Church for church and school purposes by the Quapaw national council, on August twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and said church having maintained a church and school thereon since that date.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That in addition to the towns heretofore segregated, surveyed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Segregation and survey of towns, etc., in Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.</p></sidenote> and scheduled in accordance with law, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to segregate and survey within that part of the territory of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations, State of Oklahoma, heretofore segregated as coal and asphalt land, such other towns, parts of towns, or town lots, as are now in existence,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appraisal, etc.</p></sidenote> or which he may deem it desirable, to establish. He shall cause the surface of the lots in such towns or parts of towns to be appraised, scheduled, and sold at the rates, on the terms, and with the same character of estate as is provided in section twenty-nine of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 505.</p></sidenote> of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and ninety-five), under regulations to be prescribed by him. That the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and asphalt lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 142.</p></sidenote> section thirteen of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and thirty-seven), shall not apply to town lots appraised and sold its provided herein. That all expenses incurred in surveying,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> platting, and selling the lots in any town or parts of towns shall be paid from the proceeds of the sale of town lots of the nation in which such town is situate.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee Nation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to intermarried white Cherokee citizens.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to pay, out of any funds in the Treasury belonging to the Cherokee tribe of Indians, to those intermarried white citizens of the said Cherokee tribe placed on the final approved rolls of the said Cherokee tribe by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to an opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Daniel Red Bird against the United States, the share or shares to which they are entitled in the funds of the Cherokee Nation on account of payments heretofore made out of said Cherokee funds to members of the Cherokee Nation, but in which payments said intermarried white Cherokee citizens did not participate and to which they were entitled in accordance with the findings of the Supreme Court in the said case of Daniel Red Bird against the United States, said intermarried white Cherokee citizens having married into the Cherokee Nation prior to November first, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and not having since abandoned their citizenship. in case any of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to heirs, etc.</p></sidenote> intermarried Cherokee white citizens have died since final enrollment their share or shares in the money distributed shall be paid to their heirs or legal representatives: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Cherokee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of protest.</p></sidenote> Nation shall have the right to protest against the payment of any claim to any such person or persons and upon the protest being filed by or <page identifier="/us/stat/35/447">447</page> on behalf of the Cherokee Nation the claim of any such person or persons shall be referred to the Court of Claims and said court is given full jurisdiction to hear and determine the same.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to.</p></sidenote> to issue a patent to “The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People,” a charitable corporation organized under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, for and covering the following described lands, amounting to approximately two hundred and eighty acres, now and for many years occupied by the. said “The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People” as an Indian school, to wit: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> thirteen, the south half of the northeast quarter of section fourteen, and the east half of the northwest quarter and the south half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-four, all in township twenty-six north, range thirty east, Gila and Salt River meridian, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, in Arizona Territory.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands of Five Civilized Tribes for school purposes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum acreage.</p></sidenote> sell for use for school purposes to school districts of the State of Oklahoma, from the unallotted lands of the Five Civilized Tribes, tracts of land not to exceed two acres in any one district, at prices and under regulations to be prescribed by him, and proper conveyances of such lands shall be executed in accordance with existing laws regarding the conveyance of tribal property; and the Secretary of the Interior also shall have authority to remove the restrictions on the sale of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions removed from sales by allottees.</p></sidenote> such lands, not to exceed two acres in each case, as allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, including full-bloods and minors, may desire to sell for school purposes.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That the borough of Carlisle, in the State of Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlisle, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May extend sewage system through Indian school land.</p></sidenote> shall be, and is hereby, granted the right and privileges of laying through and under the land owned by the United States and now used for the purpose of. or in connection with, the United States Indian Industrial School, such pipe or pipes as may be necessary for use in connection with, or as part of, its sewage system, said pipe or pipes to be laid beneath the surface of the ground, except as to the necessary manholes, and so laid as not to interfere with the use or mar the appearance of the premises: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no pipe or pipes shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plan.</p></sidenote> be laid in pursuance of authority hereby conferred until the plan showing the location thereof shall have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connection with school.</p></sidenote> the request of the Secretary of the Interior, and his agreement to pay a fair proportion of the expense, the sewage system, disposal plant, and pipes constructed, or to be constructed, by the borough of Carlisle, shall be of sufficient size to take care of the sewage of the United States Indian Industrial School, which shall be permitted to establish a connection with the said sewage system and use the same.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land for benefit of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause that part of the Cheyenne school reserve and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency reserve lying east of a public road and separated from the school and agency reserves by such road, being a narrow strip of land more particularly described as lots eight and nine of section four, lots five and six of section nine, lots live and six of section sixteen, and lots five and six of section twenty-one, all in township thirteen north, range seven west, Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, to be appraised by legal subdivisions and sold for the benefit of the Indians of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations; and the owners of the adjoining lands are hereby given the preference<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference rights.</p></sidenote> right for ninety days from and after the passage of this act to purchase said lands at not less than the appraised value which may be placed thereon by the Secretary of the Interior, the purchase price to be paid in cash at the time of notice of acceptance by said purchasers.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/448">448</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And in case said lands, or any part thereof, remain unsold after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands remaining.</p></sidenote> expiration of said ninety days, the said Secretary shall proceed to offer said lands for sale under such regulations as he may prescribe. the funds received from said sales to be deposited in the Treasury of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of funds.</p></sidenote> the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservation, Oklahoma. That the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of agency land and buildings.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause to be appraised and sold six hundred and forty acres of land, together with the buildings and other appurtenances thereto belonging, heretofore set aside as reservation for the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency and the Arapahoe Indian school in Oklahoma, and that for sixty days from and after said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elreno given preference rights for sixty days.</p></sidenote> appraisement the city of Elreno, in Oklahoma, be given the preference right to purchase said land and improvements thereon at the appraised value thereof, to be used for school purposes, the purchase price thereof to be paid in cash at the time of the acceptance by said purchaser. And in case said land remains unsold after the expiration of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of remaining land.</p></sidenote> said sixty days, the Secretary shall proceed to offer said land for sale under such regulations as he may prescribe, and he is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> use all or any part of the proceeds of the sale thereof in the erection of new buildings and in repairs and improvements at the present Cheyenne Boarding School in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Agency, in Oklahoma, and in the establishment of such day schools as may be required for said Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians in Oklahoma, and that the balance of said proceeds, if any there be, may be used in support of said Cheyenne Boarding School or said day school.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dewey. Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land set aside for town-site purposes.</p></sidenote> set aside for town-site purposes at Dewey, Oklahoma, the south half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-eight, township twenty-seven north, range thirteen east, formerly allotted to Julia Lewis, who failed to establish her citizenship in the Cherokee Nation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is directed to subdivide these lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subdivision and sale.</p></sidenote> in accordance with the present streets and alleys laid out on such lands and to dispose of such lands and place the proceeds derived therefrom to the credit of the Cherokee Nation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the owners of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference rights.</p></sidenote> permanent and substantial improvements on such lots shall have the preference right of purchasing their lots for cash at a price not to exceed two hundred dollars per acre:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of unimproved lots.</p></sidenote> unimproved lots shall be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the expense of surveying, platting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> laying outļ and selling such lands shall be deducted from the proceeds of such sale.</proviso></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hartshorne, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappraisement of town of.</p></sidenote> make, and shall cause to be made, within sixty days from the passage of this Act, a reappraisement of the town qf Hartshorne, Oklahoma, as of the date of the original appraisement made by the town-site commission; that payment already made on lots therein shall be credited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Past payments.</p></sidenote> on the basis of the reappraisement; that there shall be reimbursed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> to lot owners from the town-site funds of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations any amounts paid by them in excess of the new appraisement, and that the first installment on the purchase price or of the balance remaining unpaid shall be due thirty days after the service of notice of reappraisement, but in all other respects the existing laws relating to the sale of town lots and issue of patents therefor in the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations shall remain in full force and effect.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">Thatsection nine, chapter fourteen hundred and ninety-five,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Indian Reservation. Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment and sale of lands in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 804, amended.</p></sidenote> Statutes of the United States of America, entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/449">449</page> disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” be, and the same is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 795.</p></sidenote> hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9</num> <content class="inline">That said lands shall be opened to settlement and entry by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands opened to settlement.</p></sidenote> proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the time when and the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands, except as prescribed in such proclamation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers and sailors’ rights not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S.,sce. 2304, 2305,p. 422.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 847.</p></sidenote> the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiersand sailors of the late civil and the Spanish wars, as defined and prescribed in section twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the price<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price.</p></sidenote> of said lands shall be the appraised value thereof, as fixed by the said Commission, but settlers under the homestead law who shall reside upon and cultivate the land entered in good faith for the period required by existing law shall pay one-third of the appraised value in cash at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> time of entry, and the remainder in five equal annual installments, to be paid one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from and after the date of entry, and shall be entitled to a patent for the lands so entered upon the payment to the local land officers of said five annual payments, and in addition thereto the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final entry as now provided by law where the price of the land is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and no other and further charge of any kind whatsoever shall be required of such settler to entitle him to a patent for the land covered by his entry:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if any entryman fails to make such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> payments, or any of them, within the time stated, all rights in and to the land covered by his or her entry shall at once cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited, and the entry shall be forfeited and canceled: <i>And provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote> prevent homestead settlers from commuting their entries under section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421.</p></sidenote> twenty-three hundred and one, Revised Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed by said Commission, receiving credit for payments previously made:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the entryman or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigable lands.</p></sidenote> owner of any land irrigable by any system hereunder constructed under the provisions of section fourteen of this Act shall in addition to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 304, amended.</p></sidenote> the payment required by section nine of said Act be required to pay for a water right the proportionate cost of the construction of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water rights.</p></sidenote> system in not more than fifteen annual installments, as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, the same to be paid at the local land office,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for.</p></sidenote> and the register and receiver shall be allowed the usual commissions on all moneys paid.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The entryman of lands to be irrigated by said system shall in addition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation of part of irrigable lands.</p></sidenote> to compliance with the homestead laws reclaim at least one,-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes, and before receiving patent for the lands covered by his entry shall pay the charges apportioned against such tract. No right to the use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> water shall be disposed of for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person, and the Secretary of the Interior may limit the areas to be entered at not less than forty nor more than one hundred and sixty acres each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“A failure to make any two payments when due shall render the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation and forfeiture.</p></sidenote> entry and water-right application subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act, as well as of any moneys paid thereon. the funds arising hereunder shall be paid into the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of proceeds.</p></sidenote> of the United States and be added to the proceeds derived from the sale of the lands. No right to the use of water for lands in private ownership shall be sold to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land or occupant thereof residing in the neighbor-hood <page identifier="/us/stat/35/450">450</page> of such land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“All applicants for water rights under the systems constructed in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of annual charges.</p></sidenote> pursuance of this Act shall be required to pay such annual charges for operation and maintenance as shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the failure to pay such charges when due shall render the water-right application.and the entry subject to cancellation, with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> the forfeiture of all rights under this Act as well as of any moneys already paid thereon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to fix the time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> for the beginning of such payments and to provide such rides and regulations in regard thereto as he may deem proper. Upon the cancellation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of canceled entries, etc.</p></sidenote> of any entry or water-right application, as herein provided, such lands or water rights may be disposed of under the terms of this Act and at such price and on such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, but not less than the cost originally fixed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The land irrigable undςr the systems herein provided, which has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water rights free to Indians.</p></sidenote> been allotted to Indians in severalty, shall be deemed to have a right to so much water as may be required to irrigate such lands without cost to the Indians for construction of such irrigation systems. the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemptions.</p></sidenote> purchaser of any Indian allotment, purchased prior to the expiration of the trust period thereon, shall be exempt from any and all charge for construction of the irrigation system incurred up to the time of such purchase. All lands allotted to Indians shall bear their prorata share<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pro rata share of cost.</p></sidenote> of the cost of the operation and maintenance of the system under which they lie.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“When the payments required by this Act have been made for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unallotted irrigable lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance by owners.</p></sidenote> major part of the unallotted lands irrigable under any system and subject to charges for construction thereof, the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense under such form of organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to perform any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this Act into full force and effect.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section fourteen of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the proceeds received from the sale of said lands in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of proceeds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. p. 305, amended.</p></sidenote> conformity with this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and after deducting the expenses of the Commission, of classification and sale of lands, and such other incidental expenses as shall have been necessarily incurred, and expenses of the survey of the land,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of expenses.</p></sidenote> shall be expended or paid, as follows: So much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem advisable in the construction of irrigation systems, foi‘ the irrigation of the irrigable lands embraced within the limits of said reservation; one half of the money remaining after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of remaining funds.</p></sidenote> the construction of said irrigation systems to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior as he may deem advisable for the benefit of said Indians in the purchase of live stock, farming implements, or the necessary articles to aid said Indians in farming and stock raising and in the education and civilization of said Indians, and the remaining half of said money to be paid to said Indians and persons holding tribal rights on said reservation, semiannually as the same shall become available, share and share alike: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of assessed charges.</p></sidenote> Interior may withhold from any Indian a sufficient amount of his pro rata share to pay any charge assessed against land held in trust for him for operation and maintenance of irrigation <page identifier="/us/stat/35/451">451</page> system.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining claims of Robert V. Belt and Joseph 1’. Mullen for services.</p></sidenote> Claims, with right of appeal to the Supreme Court, to hear and determine the claims of Robert V. Belt, of Washington, District of Columbia. and Joseph P. Mullen, formerly of Fort Smith, Arkansas, now of Ardmore, Oklahoma, for services rendered and expenses incurred by them as the attorneys for the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen, in the prosecution of their claims for allotments of land within and of the domain of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of Indians, now in the State of Oklahoma.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the suits in said eases shall be begun by tiling petitions in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure.</p></sidenote> Court of Claims within sixty days after the approval of this Act. wherein shall be set out such factsand in the manner as prescribed by the rules of that court, by the said Robert V. Belt and Joseph P. Mullen, against the Choctaw freedmen in the one case and against the Chickasaw freedmen in the other case; service of said petitions shall be had by delivery of two copies of each to the Attorney-General, who, with such attorney as said freedmen may select and employ, shall appear and defend for all of the defendants in each of said cases.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the court may receive and consider all papers, documents,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote> records, depositions, or other evidence offered by any of the parties to said suits; and for such amount, if any, as the court shall adjudge to be justly and equitably due to said attorneys, Robert V. Belt and Joseph P. Mullen, as the value of the services rendered and expenses incurred by them for and on behalf of the said Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen upon the evidence submitted it shall render judgment or decree against the individuals to whom such services were rendered, the same to be a lien against their respective allotments of land for their pro rata amounts thereof.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosebud Reservation. S. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to living children of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25. p. 888.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause allotments to be made under the provisions of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation in Dakota into separate reservations and secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” to any living children of the Sioux tribe, of Indians belonging on the Rosebud Reservation affected thereby, and who have not heretofore been allotted, so long as that tribe is in possession of any unallotted tribal or reservation lands: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no allotment shall be made to any allottee entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tripp County. S. Dak., excluded.</p></sidenote> to the same under the provisions of this Act of any lands in the county of Tripp, in the State of South Dakota.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Jondron.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of allotment. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 374.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to investigate the allotment made in the name of William Jondron, Yankton Sioux allottee numbered eleven hundred and forty-seven, and if it be shown to his satisfaction that no such person as William Jondron was in existence at the time the Yankton Indians were allotted he is hereby authorized and directed to cancel the patent issued in the. name of William Jondron and also the record of the allotment in his name, and to reallot the lands covered thereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Re-allotment of lands authorized.</p></sidenote> to a member or members of the Yankton tribe who were entitled to allotments, but failed to receive land when the Indians of the said tribe were allotted lands in severalty.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Sioux Reservations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment to living children on any of the.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25. p. 888.</p></sidenote> authorized to cause allotments to be made under the provisions of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations, and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,” to any living children of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging on any of the Great Sioux reservations affected thereby and who have not heretofore been allotted, so long as the tribe to which such Indian children belong <page identifier="/us/stat/35/452">452</page> is possessed of any unallotted tribal or reservation lands; and where,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of additional lands.</p></sidenote> for any reason, an Indian did not receive the quantity of land to which he was entitled under the provisions of the said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the Secretary of the Interior shall cause to be allotted to him sufficient additional lands on the reservation to which he belongs to make, together with the quantity of land heretofore allotted to him. the acreage to which he is entitled under said Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine; and in case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment to heirs.</p></sidenote> of the death of any such Indian, the additional lands to which he is of right entitled may be allotted to his heirs: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the tribe<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> to which he belonged is possessed of any unallotted tribal or reservation lands.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diocese of Duluth. Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to, for school. etc., lands.</p></sidenote> directed to issue patents in fee to the Diocese of Duluth, organized under an act of the State of Minnesota entitled “An act concerning religious corporations,” approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America for the lands set apart to said church on the various Indian reservations in the State of Minnesota, as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near White Earth:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On White Earth Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near White Earth.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter and lots seven and nine of section fourteen, township one hundred and forty-two north, range forty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing in all one hundred and eighteen and thirty-one one-hundredths acres.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near Beaulieu, on Wild<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near Beaulieu.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> Rice River: All of lot one of section thirty-one, township one hundred and forty-five north, range forty west of the fifth principal meridian, containing twenty-nine and seventy-seven one-hundredths acres, except the two and one-half acres, more or less, on which the Government blacksmith shop is located, which tract corresponds to the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of said section, township, and range. Also the two and one-half acres, more or less, of lot two of section thirty-one, township one hundred and forty-five north, range forty west of the fifth principal meridian, corresponding to the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of said section, township, and range, upon which the Episcopal parsonage and church building stand. Also the south half of the northwest quarter and the north half of the southwest quarter of section thirty, township one hundred and forty-five north, range forty west of the fifth principal meridian, containing one hundred and thirty-nine and twenty-eight one-hundredths acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near Pine Point: the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near Pine Point.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and lot one, all in section thirty-three, township one hundred and forty-one north, range thirtyseven west of the fifth principal meridian, containing sixty-nine and five one-hundredths acres, more or less. Also that part of section thirty-three, township one hundred and forty-one north, range thirtyseven west of the fifth principal meridian, described as follows: Beginning at a point that is twenty chains west and six chains south of the center of said section, thence south five chains, thence west two and one-half chains, thence north five chains, thence east two and one-half chains to the place of beginning, containing one and one-fourth acres, more or less. Also that part of said section described as follows: Beginning at a point five chains east of the southwest corner of said section, thence north ten chains, thence east three and seventy-five one-hundredths chains, thence south ten chains, thence west three and seventy-five one-hundredths chains, containing three and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, more or less, on which is located the missionary’s house, and to which the chapel is to be removed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/453">453</page> On the Red Lake Indian Reservation at or near Redby: Lot two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On Red Lake Indian Reservation near Redby.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section nineteen, and the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-three west of the fifth principal meridian, containing ninety-four and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Red Lake Indian Reservation at or near the subagency site<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near the subagency site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> the following-described parcel of land for cemetery purposes: Starting at the northeast corner of section twenty-nine, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west of the fifth principal meridian, thence running westward along the north line of said section two hundred and forty feet, thence southward on a line parallel to the east line of said section seventy-five feet to reach the point of beginning; thence from said point of beginning westward on a line, parallel to the north line of saiα section four hundred and twenty feet, thence southward on a line parallel to the east line of said section two hundred and ten feet, thence eastward on a line parallel to the north line of said section four hundred and twenty feet, thence northward on a line parallel to the east line of said section two hundred and ten feet to said point of beginning, containing two acres, more or less. Also the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section twenty-eight, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west of the fifth principal meridian, containing five-eighths of an acre, more or less, on which is situated the missionary’s house. Also that part of section twenty-one, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west, described as follows: Starting at the southwest corner of said section, thence running eastward along the south line of said section a thousand feet, thence northward on a line parallel to the west line of said section one hundred and sixteen feet to reach the point of beginning, thence from said point of beginning northward on a line parallel to the west line of said section sixty-six feet, thence westward on a line parallel to the south line of said section three hundred and thirty feet, thence southward on a line parallel to the west line of said section sixty-six feet, thence eastward on a line parallel to the south line of said section three hundred and thirty feet to the point of beginning, containing one-half an acre, more or less, on which the church and lace teacher’s house are located. Also the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-eight, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west of the fifth principal meridian, containing ninety acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Red Lake Indian Reservation at or near the Cross Lake<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near Cross Lake School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> School: West half of lot two, section six, township one hundred and fifty -two north, range thirty-three west of the fifth principal meridian, containing twenty-three acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Cass Lake Indian Reservation ator near the Cass Lake Government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On Cass Lake Indian Reservation near Government school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> school: All of lot three, section twenty-nine, township one hundred and forty-six north, range thirty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, and that part of lot two of said section south of a line running parallel to and forty-five rods south of the north line of said section, containing in all thirty-two acres, more or less: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roadway.</p></sidenote> a roadway twenty feet wide shall be permitted across said lands from the Government school to the place of crossing the Mississippi River.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Leech Lake Indian Reservation at or near Onigum:. the following-described tract of land in lot one, section twenty-four, and lot<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On Leech Lake Indian Reservation near Onigum.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> three, section thirteen, township one hundred and forty-two north, range thirty-one west of the fifth principal meridian: Starting at the northwest corner of section twenty-four, township one hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/454">454</page> forty-two north, range thirty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, and running eastward along the north line of said section twenty-eight and ninety one-hundredths chains to reach the point of beginning; thence from said point of beginning southwest on an angle of thirtyseven degrees and twenty-seven minutes one chain; thence southeast on an angle of sixty-six degrees and twenty-seven minutes five and fifty-eight one-hundredths chains to the lake shore; returning to the point of beginning; thence running northeast on an angle of thirtyseven degrees and twenty-seven minutes one and twenty-seven one-hundredths chains; thence southeast on an angle of sixty-four degrees and two minutes three and nine-tenths chains to the lake shore. the foregoing lines, together with the lake shore, form the boundaries of said tract, containing about one and one-sixteenth acres: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walk.</p></sidenote> That a walk six feet wide shall be permitted across this property leading from the Government school to the dock, as the same is now located.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Leech Lake Indian Reservation at or near the old agency:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near old agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> All that part of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section seventeen, township one hundred and forty-two north, range thirty west of the fifth principal meridian, described as follows: Beginning at the quarter post between sections seventeen and twenty, thence north seven and seventy-three one-hundredths chains to reach the point of beginning, thence from said point of beginning east three and seventeen one-hundredths chains, thence north three and seventeen one-hundredths chains, thence west three and seventeen one-hundredths chains, thence south three and seventeen one-hundredths chains to the point of beginning, containing one acre, more or less, on which said tract of land the church is located. Also that part of lot four of section seventeen, township one hundred and forty-two north, range thirty west of the fifth principal meridian, described as follows: Starting at the quarter post between sections seventeen and twenty and running thence north sixteen and ninety-four one-hundredths chains, thence west seven-tenths of a chain to reach a point of beginning, thence from said point of beginning north two and twenty-eight one-hundredths chains, thence west two and twenty-eight one-hundredths chains, thence south two and twenty-eight one-hundredths chains, thence east two and twenty-eight one-hundredths chains to the said point, of beginning, containing three-fourths of an acre, more or less. Also the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section seventeen, township one hundred and forty-two north, range thirty west of the fifth principal meridian, containing ten acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to, for schools, etc.</p></sidenote> to issue patents in fee to “The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions”, organized under an Act of the Assembly of Maryland entitled “An Act to incorporate the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions”, approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the lands set apart to the Catholic Church on the White Earth and Red Lake Indian Reservations in the State of Minnesota, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near White Earth:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On White Earth Indian Reservation near White Earth.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-six, township one hundred and forty-two north, range forty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing forty acres more or less; also the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter and lots two, three and four of section thirty-five, township one hundred and forty-two north, range forty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing one hundred and thirty-one and seventy-five hundredths acres, more or less: also the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-four, township one hundred and forty-two north, range forty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing forty acres more or less; also the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-seven, township one hundred and forty-two north, range <page identifier="/us/stat/35/455">455</page> forty -one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing forty acres more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near Pembina settlement:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near Pembina settlement.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the northeast quarter of the. southwest quarter of section ten township one hundred and forty-four north, range forty-two west of the fifth principal meridian, containing eighty acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the White Earth Indian Reservation at or near Rice River: Lots<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Near Rice River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> one, two and twelve of section seven, township one hundred and forty-four north, range forty west of the fifth principal meridian, containing ninety-five and ninety hundredths acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Red Lake Indian Reservation at or near Red Lake: Lots two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On Reel Lake Indian Reservation, near Red Lake.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> and three of section twenty, and the west half of the northeast quarter and the east half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-nine, township one hundred and fifty-one north, range thirty-four west of the fifth principal meridian, containing two hundred and forty-five and forty hundredths acres, more or less.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands in Carlton County conveyed to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> convey to the State of Minnesota the following-described tracts and parcels of lands, situate in the county of Carlton, State of Minnesota, and described as follows, to wit: All of section thirty-six, township forty-nine, range eighteen, except east half of northeast quarter; and all of section thirty-one, township forty-nine, range seventeen, except southwest quarter of northwest quarter and southeast quarter of southeast quarter: south half of southeast quarter, south half of southwest quarter, northeast quarter of southeast quarter, and south half of northeast quarter, all in section thirty, township forty-nine, range seventeen; northeast quarter of northwest quarter, south half of northwest quarter, all of the southwest quarter, and south half of southeast quarter and northeast quarter of southeast quarter, section twenty-nine, township forty-nine, range seventeen: north half of northwest quarter, southwest quarter of northeast quarter and southeast quarter, section thirty-two. township forty-nine, range seventeen, upon receipt by said Secretary of the Interior of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price.</p></sidenote> cents per acre to him paid by any person or persons on behalf of said State of Minnesota.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all restrictions on alienation as to any allottee or allotment embraced<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewa Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation restrictions removed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land affected.</p></sidenote> in the following-described lands, to wit: East half of northeast quarter, section thirty-six, township forty-nine, range eighteen; southwest quarter of northwest, quarter, section thirty-one, township forty-nine, range seventeen; north half of northeast quarter and southeast quarter of northeast quarter, section thirty-two, township forty-nine, range seventeen; and northwest quarter of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of southeast quarter, section twenty-nine, township forty-nine, range seventeen; north half of northeast quarter, northwest quarter of southeast quarter, north half of southwest quarter, southeast quarter of northwest quarter, section thirty, township forty-nine, range seventeen; southeast quarter of southeast quarter, section twenty-five, township forty-nine, range eighteen, are hereby removed in so far that said allottees or any of them or their heirs may convey their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance to State permitted.</p></sidenote> allotments to the State of Minnesota upon such allotment being first appraised by the Secretary of the Interior, and not less than the appraised price paid therefor by the State, and in that case the trust patent heretofore issued-for such allotment shall bo deemed and be a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments of incompetent Indians.</p></sidenote> patent in fee, and the proceeds of such allotment in case of an incompetent Indian shall be held and disposed of as provided by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven, (Thirty-fourth Statutes at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1018.</p></sidenote> Large, pages one thousand and fifteen to one thousand and eighteen), or any Indian holding an allotment upon any of the lands described in this section may file with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a relin-quishment <page identifier="/us/stat/35/456">456</page> of said allotment conveying the same to the State of Minnesota and have the right to take another allotment of any unallotted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands in lieu of allotted lands.</p></sidenote> lands subject to allotment in said State of Minnesota, provided that such relinquishment be accompanied by the sum of one dollar and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> twenty-live cents for each acre covered by such relinquishment, to be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior and disposed of as hereinafter provided.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all moneys received by the Secretary of the Interior under and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Minnesota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds credited to Indians.</p></sidenote> pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be placed to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “ For the relief and civilization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 645.</p></sidenote> of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and Acts supplementary thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all outstanding contracts for the sale of timber upon any of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber-sale contracts, etc.</p></sidenote> the foregoing described lands made by the Secretary of the Interior or the General Land Office under the direction of the Secretary shall remain in force and the proceeds applied as provided for by existing laws, except that parties holding said contracts shall not be required to burn any debris upon said lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That this grant is made upon the condition that payment therefor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments limited to two years.</p></sidenote> shall be made within two years from the date of the approval of this Act; that as to any land not paid for within that time the grant shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> be void, and that said State shall not convey or lease or agree to convey or lease any of said land or any interest therein within ten years from the date of such approval. Any such conveyance, lease or agreement shall cause the land affected thereby to vest in the United States.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Earth Band.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of litigation with Commonwealth Lumber Company credited to.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to transfer to the credit of the White Earth bands of Chippewa Indians in Minnesota the sum of nineteen thousand six hundred and ninety-four dollars and forty-eight cents, the proceeds of litigation with the Commonwealth Lumber Company, said sum having been heretofore covered into the Treasury by “miscellaneous revenue” covering warrant numbered two thousand two hundred and eighty-three of the first quarter nineteen hundred and live, and erroneously credited to the account of “depredations upon public lands.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline">That the time of complying with the terms of article six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Siletz Indian Reservation, Oreg.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land purchases by religious societies on.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for. extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 325 amended.</p></sidenote> of the agreement with the Alsea and other Indians on Siletz Indian Reservation, in Oregon, approved August fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, as follows: “ It is further stipulated and agreed that any religious society or other organization not occupying under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the Indians, any of the lands in this agreement ceded, shall have the right for two years from the date of the ratification of this agreement (same date as bill) within which to purchase the land so occupied at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, the same to be conveyed to such organization or society by patent;” be extended to one year from date of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirement.</p></sidenote> approval of this Act in favor of any such religious society or organization heretofore described as can prove that it has maintained religious or educational work among the Indians as contemplated in the original Act. the amount of land to be so conveyed shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> exceed ten acres.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24.</num> <content class="inline">That the tracts of land remaining unsold in the Kiowa,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of remaining pasture, etc., lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 213.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 677.</p></sidenote> Comanche, and Apache reservations under the Act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and also under the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred, shall be again and at once offered for sale and sold under the provisions and terms of said Act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands shall be sold under such regulations as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum price per acre.</p></sidenote> may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior and for not less <page identifier="/us/stat/35/457">457</page> than one dollar per acre:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That any purchaser<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cash payment, etc.</p></sidenote> of said land may at his option pay the entire amount that is due in cash for such land and receive his title therefor without the necessity of actually settling thereon:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That before offering<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to children before sale.</p></sidenote> said lands for sale the Secretary of the Interior shall allot one hundred and sixty acres of land to each child of Indian parentage born since June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, whose father or mother was a duly enrolled member of either the Kiowa. Comanche, or Apache tribe of Indians and entitled to allotment of land under the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 214.</p></sidenote> June fifth, nineteen hundred and six. opening said Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache reservations to settlement, said allotments to be made of lands remaining unsold known as the pasture reserves in said reservations.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior shall make all necessary rules and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> issue all necessary instructions to carry the provisions of this Act into effect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any person who has heretofore entered any of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p></sidenote> said land under said Act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, shall receive patents therefor by paying all the deferred installments of purchase money and proving compliance with the requirements of the homestead laws at any time after the expiration of ten months from the date of his entry.</proviso></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever the President is satisfied that all the Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navajo Indian Reservation, N. Mex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surplus land restored to public domain, etc.</p></sidenote> in any part of the Navajo Indian Reservation in New Mexico and Arizona created by Executive orders of November ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, and January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, have been allotted, the surplus lands in such part of the reservation shall be restored to the public domain and opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26.</num> <content class="inline">That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized to consider<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Creek Nation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim of Clarence W. Turner against, to be adjudicated.</p></sidenote> and adjudicate and render judgment as law and equity may require in the matter of the claim of Clarence W. Turner, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, against, the Creek Nation, for the destruction of personal property and the value of the loss of the pasture, of the said Turner, or his assigns, by the action of any of the responsible Creek authorities, or with their cognizance and acquiescence, either party to said cause in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> the Court of Claims to have the right of appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27.</num> <content class="inline">That the Court of Claims is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi Choctaws.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of William N. Vernon et al. against, to be adjudicated.</p></sidenote> directed to hear, consider, and adjudicate the claims against the Mississippi Choctaws of William N. Vernon, J. S. Bounds, and Chester Howe, their associates or assigns, for services rendered and expenses incurred in the matter of the claims of the Mississippi Choctaws to citizenship in the Choctaw Nation and to render judgment thereon on the principle of quantum meruit in such amount or amounts as may appear equitable and justly due therefor, which judgment, if any, shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of judgment.</p></sidenote> paid from any funds now or hereafter due such Choctaws as individuals by the United States. the said William N. Vernon, J. S.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May intervene in claims of heirs of Charles F. Winton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 140.</p></sidenote> Bounds, and Chester Howe are hereby authorized to intervene in the suit instituted in said court under the provisions of section nine of the, Act of April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, in behalf of the estate of Charles F. Winton, deceased: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the evidence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate submission of evidence.</p></sidenote> of the intervenors shall be immediately submitted:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the lands allotted to thesaid Mississippi Choctaws are hereby declared subject to a lien to the extent of the claims of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien.</p></sidenote> said Winton and of the other plaintiffs authorized by Congress to sue the said defendants, subject to the final judgment of the Court of Claims in the, said case. Notice of such suit or intervention shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of suit, etc.</p></sidenote> served on the governor of the Choctaw Nation, and the AttorneyGeneral shall appear and defend the said suit on behalf of the said Choctaws.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/458">458</page></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="28"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 28.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be. and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Herman Lehman.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee to.</p></sidenote> authorized to make an allotment to Herman Lehman (Montechema), an enrolled member of the Comanche tribe of Indians, who did not get an allotment, of one hundred and sixty acres of unappropriated and unallotted land from the lands to be disposed of under the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 213.</p></sidenote> approved June fifth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and thirteen), and patent shall issue therefor in fee simple.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="29"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 29.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all moneys forfeited under the regulations issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowa, etc., lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment of forfeited deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84. p. 213.</p></sidenote> October nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act entitled “An Act to open for settlement five hundred and five thousand acres of land in the Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation in Oklahoma Territory,” approved June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, be repaid to the persons by whom such moneys were deposited in every case where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that the bid upon which the award was made was the result of a clerical error, or was due to an honest mistake on the part of the bidder as to the numbers, the description, or the character of the land upon which his bid was made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall make all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> necessary rules and issue all necessary instructions to carry the provisions of this Act into effect, and the payment of the deposits herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of deposits.</p></sidenote> provided for shall be paid out of any moneys deposited in the Treasury of the United States as the proceeds arising from the sale of lands under said Act of June fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and an appropriation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 213.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> sufficient in amount to cover such case, is hereby made.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="30"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 30.</num> <content class="inline">That twenty per centum of the proceeds arising from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawton, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-house, etc.,in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of part proceeds of certain land sale for, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 545.</p></sidenote> sale of the south half of section thirty, townsite two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian in Oklahoma, is hereby appropriated, to be available immediately after such sale, to begin construction of a court-house and post-office building at Lawton, in said State, to cost not more than one hundred thousand dollars; and all Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. That the Secretary of the Interior is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawton, Hobart, and Anadarko.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of town lots.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended ba1ance paid to.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to turn over to the treasurers of the cities of Lawton, Hobart and Anadarko, the unexpended balance of the proceeds arising from the sale of town lots in said cities heretofore appropriated and set apart for public improvements in such cities by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, and the Acts of June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 1094.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82. p. 506.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 62.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two and March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 217: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell and dispose of the surplus unallotted agricultural lands of the Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to sell and dispose of the surplus unallotted agricultural lands of the Spokane Indian Reservation, Washington, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6163">S. 6163.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/157">Public, No. 157.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokane Indian Reservation. Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments, etc., of lands in.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause allotments to be made under the provisions of the allotment laws of the United States to all persons having tribal rights or holding tribal relations and who may rightfully belong on the Spokane Indian Reservation and who have not heretofore received allotments.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That upon the completion of said allotments to said Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification of surplus lands.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Interior shall classify the surplus lands as agricultural and timber lands, the agricultural lands to be opened to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural lands to be opened to settlement.</p></sidenote> settlement and entry under the provisions of the homestead laws by proclamation of the President, which shall prescribe the time when <page identifier="/us/stat/35/459">459</page> and the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof; and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such proclamation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the price of the lands classified as agricultural shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> five dollars per acre, and said price shall be paid in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One-fifth of the purchase price to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> paid in cash at the time of entry and the balance in five equal annual installments to be paid in one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from and after the date of entry. in case any entryman fails<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> to make, the annual payments, or any of them, promptly when due, all rights in and to the land covered by his entry shall cease and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry canceled, and the land shall be reoffered for sale and entry under the provisions of the homestead laws at the same price at which it was first entered: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2301, p. 421.</p></sidenote> from commuting their entries under section twenty-three hundred and one of the Revised Statutes of the United States by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receiving credit for payments previously made. in addition to the price to be paid for the land the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> entryman shall pay the same feesand commissions at the time of commutation or final entry as now provided by law where the price of the land is one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and when an entryman shall have complied with all the requirements and terms of the homestead laws as to settlement and residence and shall have made the required payments as aforesaid he shall be entitled to a patent for the lands entered:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That all lands classified as agricultural<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands remaining to be sold nt auction.</p></sidenote> remaining undisposed of at the expiration of four years from the opening of said lands to entry shall be appraised by the Secretary of the Interior from time to time and sold at public auction or under sealed bids to the. highest bidder for cash at not less than the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sealed bids.</p></sidenote> appraised value, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the rights of honorably discharged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers’ and sailors’ rights not affected.</p></sidenote> Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars or the Philippine insurrection as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 2304, 2305, p. 422.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 847.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School lands.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged: <i>Provided further</i>, That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the agricultural lands in each township shall not he disposed of, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools aud paid for by the United States at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the State of Washington for such purpose.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior may reserve such lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands reserved for agency, schools, etc.</p></sidenote> as he may deem necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes, to remain reserved so long as needed and so long as agency, school, or religious institutions are maintained thereon for the benefit of the Indians; and he is further authorized and directed to reserve and set<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Townsites.</p></sidenote> aside such tracts as he may deem necessary or convenient for town-site purposes, and he may cause any such reservations to be surveyed into lots and blocks of suitable size and to lie appraised and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe, and the net proceeds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds</p></sidenote> derived from the sale of such lands shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians of the Spokane Reservation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the lands so classified as timber lands shall remain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber-land restrictions.</p></sidenote> Indian lands subject to the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior until further action by Congress, and no provision authorizing the sale of timber upon Indian lands shall apply to said lauds unless they be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/460">460</page> specially designated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That until further legislation the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cutting timber allowed.</p></sidenote> Indians and the officials and employees in the Indian Service on said reservation shall, without cost to them, have the right, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to go upon said timber lands and cut and take therefrom all timber necessary for fuel, or for lumber for the erection of buildings, fences, or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pasturage.</p></sidenote> domestic purposes upon their allotments; and for said period the said Indians shall have the privilege of pasturing their cattie, horses, and sheep on said timber lands, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of timber.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell and dispose of for the benefit of the Indians such timber upon said timber lands as in his judgment has reached maturity and is deteriorating and which, in his judgment, would be for the best interests of the Indians to sell, the purpose being to as far as possible protect, conserve, and promote the growth of timber upon said timber lands. the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> Interior shall deduct from the money received from the sale of such timber the actual expense of making such sale and place the balance to the credit of said Indians, and he is authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations for the sale and removal of such timber so sold as he may deem advisable.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby vested with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to pay for lands granted to Washington.</p></sidenote> full power and authority to make all needful rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, and there, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the Indians for the lands granted to the State of Washington, as provided in section three of this Act, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further appropriation.</p></sidenote> there is hereby appropriated the further sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of carrying out the other provisions of this Act: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> other than that to pay for the lands granted to the State of Washington shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the lands described herein, or from any money in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the said Spokane Indians.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonresponsibility of United States.</p></sidenote> the United States to purchase any portion of the land herein described, except sections sixteen and thirty-six of the agricultural lands or the equivalent in each township, or to dispose of said land except as provided herein, or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands or any portion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of the said lands and to expend and pay over the proceeds received from the sale thereof only as received as herein provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treaty rights not affected.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to deprive said Indians of the Spokane Indian Reservation, in the State of Washington, of any benefits to which they are entitled under existing treaties or agreements not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 218: To authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>218</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 460</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>218.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the sale and disposition of a portion of the surplus and unallotted lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, and making appropriation and provision to carry the same into effect.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/1385">S. 1385.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/158">Public, No. 158.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands in Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservations, S. Dak. and N. Dak.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and be is hereby, authorized and directed, as hereinafter provided, to sell and dispose of all that portion of the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian reservations in the States of South Dakota <page identifier="/us/stat/35/461">461</page> and North Dakota lying and being within the following described<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> boundaries, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the one hundred and second meridian of longitude west, where the township line between townships nine and ten north intersects the same; thence east on said township line to a point where the same intersects the range line between ranges twenty-four and twenty-live east of the Black Hills meridian: thence north on said range line to a point where the same intersects the township line between townships fifteen and sixteen north; thence east along said township line to a point in the center of the main channel of the, Missouri River: thence in a northerly direction along the center of the main channel of said Missouri River to a point where the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north intersects the same, and including also entirely all islands, if any, in said river; thence west on said township line to a point where the range line between ranges twenty-two and twenty-three east intersects the same; thence north along said range line to the northwest corner of section nineteen in township twenty-one north of range twenty-three east; thence east on the section line north of sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one. twenty-two. twenty-three and twenty-four to a point where the same intersects the range line between ranges twenty-three and twenty-four east; thence north along said range line to the State line between the States of South Dakota and North Dakota; thence west on said State line to a point where the range line between ranges eighty-four and eighty-five west in North Dakota intersects the same: thence north on said range line to a point where said range line intersects the center of the main channel of the South Fork of the Cannon Ball River: thence in a westerly direction up and along the center of the main channel of the said river to a point where the same intersects the one hundred and second meridian of longitude west; thence south along said one hundred and second meridian of longitude west to the place of beginning, except such portions thereof as have been allotted to Indians: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the lands in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School lands reserved.</p></sidenote> each township therein shall not be disposed of. but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools of the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, as the same may be located in the said States, respectively: <i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands reserved for agency, etc., purposes.</p></sidenote> reserve such lands as he may deem necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes, to remain reserved as long as needed, and as long as agency, school, or religious institutions are maintained thereon for the benefit of said Indians:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to religious organizations.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent in fee simple to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority of any religious organization heretofore engaged in mission or school work on said reservations, for such lands thereon (not included in any town site herein provided for) as have been heretofore set apart to such organization for mission or school purposes.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the lands shall be disposed of by proclamation under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opened to settlement by proclamation.</p></sidenote> the general provisions of the homestead and town-site laws of the United States, and shall be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the manner in which the lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such proclamation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That prior to the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands to Indians in lieu of allotted lands.</p></sidenote> proclamation the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may permit Indians who have an allotment within the area described in section one of this Act to relinquish such allotment and to receive in lieu thereof an allotment anywhere within the respective reservations thus diminished to which reservation the said Indians may belong: <i>Provided further</i>, That prior to the said proclamation the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to be made.</p></sidenote> Interior shall cause allotments to be made to every man, woman, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/462">462</page> child belonging to or holding tribal relations in said Cheyenne River and Standing Rock reservations who have not heretofore received the allotments to which they are entitled under provisions of existing laws: <i>Provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey.</p></sidenote> is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed all the lands embraced within said reservations, and to cause an examination to be made of the lands by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal lands reserved.</p></sidenote> found any lands bearing coal, the said Secretary is hereby authorized to reserve them from allotment or disposition until further action by Congress: <i>Provided further</i>, That the rights of honorably<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of soldiers and sailors not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 2304. 2305. p. 422.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 847.</p></sidenote> discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars or Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three, hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the price of said lands entered as homesteads under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price fixed by appraisement.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this Act shall be fixed by appraisement as herein provided. the President of the United States shall appoint two commissions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two commissions created.</p></sidenote> one for each reservation, each commission to consist of three persons to inspect, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> have been allotted in severalty to said Indians, or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior or otherwise disposed of. and excepting sections sixteen and thirty-six in each of said townships, each commission to be constituted as follows: One resident citizen of the States of North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> or South Dakota, one representative of the Indian Bureau and one person holding tribal relations with one of said tribes of Indians. That within twenty days after their appointment the said commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organization.</p></sidenote> so appointed for each of the said reservations, respectively, shall meet and organize by the election of one of their number as chairman. Each commission is hereby empowered to select such clerks and assistants<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks.</p></sidenote> at such compensation as the Secretary of the Interior may approve. That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification, appraisement. etc.</p></sidenote> inspect, classify, and appraise, in one hundred and sixty acre tracts each, all of the remaining lands embraced within each reservation as described in section one of this Act. in making such classification and appraisement said lands shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land of the first class; second, agricultural land of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of lands.</p></sidenote> the second class; third, grazing land; fourth, timber land; fifth, mineral land, if any, the mineral land not to be appraised. That said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> commissioners shall be paid a salary of not to exceed ten dollars per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands and necessary expenses to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior: such inspection and classification to be completed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit for classification. etc.</p></sidenote> within six months from the date of the organization of said commissions respectively, and no compensation shall be paid to either the commissioners or employees after the said six months. That when<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval.</p></sidenote> said commissions shall have completed the classification and appraisement of all of said lands the same shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the price of said lands shall be paid in accordance with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of purchase price.</p></sidenote> the rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior upon the following terms: One fifth of the purchase price to be paid in cash at the time of entry, and the balance in five equal annual installments, to be paid in one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from and after the date of entry. in case any entryman fails<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> to make the annual payments, or any of them, when due. all rights in and to the land covered by his entry shall cease, and any payments theretofore made shall be forfeited and the entry canceled, and the lands shall be reoffered for sale and entry under the provisions of the homestead law at the appraised price thereof: <proviso><i>And provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 2301, p. 421.</p></sidenote> nothing in this Act shall prevent homestead settlers from commuting <page identifier="/us/stat/35/463">463</page> their entries under section twenty-three hundred and one. Revised Statutes, by paying for the land entered the price fixed herein, receiving credit for payments previously made. in addition to the price to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees and commissions.</p></sidenote> be paid for the land, the entryman shall pay the same fees and commissions at the time of commutation or final entry as now provided by law. where the price of land is one. dollar and twenty-five, cents per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents.</p></sidenote> acre, and when the entryman shall have complied with all the requirements and terms of the homestead laws as to settlement and residence and shall have made all the required payments aforesaid he shall be entitled to a patent for the lands entered:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i> That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappraisal of undisposed lands.</p></sidenote> all lands remaining undisposed of at the expiration of four years from the opening of said lands to entry may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be reappraised in’ the manner provided for in this Act. And it is further provided that any lands remaining unsold after said lands have been open to entry for seven years may be sold to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of remaining lands.</p></sidenote> highest bidder for cash without regard to the prescribed price thereof fixed under the provisions of this Act, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town sites reserved.</p></sidenote> from said lands such tracts for townsite purposes as in his opinion may be required for the future public interests, and he may cause the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey.</p></sidenote> to be surveyed into blocks and lots and disposed of under such regulations as he may prescribe, in accordance with section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one of the United States Revised Statutes. the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 2381, p. 436.</p></sidenote> net proceeds derived from the sale of such lands shall be credited to the Indians as hereinafter provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That from the proceeds arising from the sale and disposition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds to credit of Indians.</p></sidenote> of the lands aforesaid, exclusive of the customary fees and commissions, there, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the Indians belonging and having tribal rights on the reservations aforesaid in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota the sums to which the respective tribes may be entitled, which shall draw interest at three per centum per annum; that the moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> derived from the sale of said lands and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians respectively shall be expended for their benefit under the direction of the. Secretary of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That sections sixteen and thirty-six of the land in each township<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of school lands for South Dakota and North Dakota.</p></sidenote> within the tract described in section one of this Act shall not be subject to entry, but shall be reserved for the use of the common schools and paid for by the United States at one dollar and twenty-live<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> cents per acre, and the same are hereby granted to the States of South Dakota and North Dakota for such purpose as the same are located in the said States respectively; and in case any of said sections,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lieu lands.</p></sidenote> or parts thereof, are lost to said States by reason of allotments thereof to any Indian or Indians, or otherwise, the governors of said States, respectively, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, are hereby authorized, within the area in the respective States described in section one of this Act, to locate other lands not occupied not exceeding two sections in any one township, which shall be paid for by the United States as herein provided, in quantity equal to the loss, and such selections shall be made prior to the opening of such lands to settlement.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to pay for lands granted to South Dakota and North Dakota.</p></sidenote> Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of not more than two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for the lands granted to the States of South Dakota and North Dakota, as provided in section seven of this Act. And there is hereby appropriated the further sum of seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expense of allotment, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of making the appraisement and classification and allotments <page identifier="/us/stat/35/464">464</page> provided for herein: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the latter appropriation, or any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> further appropriation hereafter made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds received from the sale of the lands described herein or from any money in the Treasury belonging to said Indian tribes respectively.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner bind<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonresponsibility of United States.</p></sidenote> the United States to purchase any portion of the land herein described, except sections sixteen and thirty-six or the equivalent in each township, or to dispose of said land except as provided herein, or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands or any portion thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of the said lands and to expend and pay over the proceeds received from the sale thereof only as received and as herein provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treaty rights not affected.</p></sidenote> to deprive the said Indians of the Cheyenne River or Standing Rock Indian reservations, in South Dakota and North Dakota, of any benefits to which they are entitled under existing treaties or agreements not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of timber permitted.</p></sidenote> residing upon their allotments in townships sixteen north of ranges twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, and thirty-one east shall have the right to use timber in said townships, except on sections sixteen and thirty-six for domestic purposes only as long as the lands remain part of the public domain.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 219: To extend the time within which the Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company shall be required to complete the road of said company under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by an Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>219.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time within which the Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company shall be required to complete the road of said company under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by an Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2295">S. 2295.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/159">Public, No. 159.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time within which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p.876.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 536, amended.</p></sidenote> the Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company is required to complete and put in operation its railroad in the District of Columbia under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, as amended by an Act of Congress approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six. be. and the same is hereby, extended for the term of eighteen months from the twenty-eighth day of December, nineteen hundred and seven, and all of the franchises, rights, and powers conferred by said Acts, or either of them, upon said railroad company, may be enjoyed and exercised as fully and completely as if said railroad had been completed and put in operation prior to the twenty-eighth day of December, anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That within one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit.</p></sidenote> month after the approval of this Act the said Washington and Western Maryland Railroad Company shall deposit with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia the sum of two thousand dollars to guarantee the construction of said railroad within the time herein extended. If this sum is not so deposited this Act shall be void; if this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> sum is deposited and the said railroad company shall fail to construct and have in operation the said railroad, within the time herein prescribed, the said sum shall be forfeited to the District of Columbia and this Act shall be void.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/465">465</page></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 220: Authorizing a resurvey of certain townships in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>220</docNumber>
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<docNumber>220.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing a resurvey of certain townships in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6190">S. 6190.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/160">Public, No. 160.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representati/ves of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurvey of certain ownships.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be made in the manner now provided by law for the survey and resurvey of public lands, and from time to time as may be necessary, a resurvey of the following townships in the State of Wyoming: Townships forty-one to forty-four north, ranges eighty-one to ninety-two west, inclusive; townships forty-five to forty-eight north, ranges eighty-one to one hundred and four west, inclusive, except township forty-eight north, ranges eighty-eight to ninety-one west, inclusive; townships forty-nine to fifty-two north, ranges eighty-nine to ninety-two west, inclusive;townships fifty-three to fifty-six north, ranges one hundred and one to one hundred and three west, inclusive; townships twelve and thirteen north, range eighty-six west; townships twelve, thirteen, and fourteen north, range eighty-seven west; townships twelve to sixteen north, ranges eighty-eight to one hundred and four west, inclusive; townships seventeen to twenty-four north, ranges ninety-seven to one hundred west, inclusive; townships twelve north, ranges one hundred and five to one hundred and eight west, inclusive; townships twelve to twenty-three north, ranges one hundred and nine to one hundred and twelve west, inclusive; township twenty-four north, range one hundred and eleven west; township twenty-four north, range one hundred and fourteen west; townships seventeen to twenty north, ranges one hundred and seventeen to one hundred and twenty-one west, inclusive; township fifty-seven north, range sixty-eight west; townships fifty-four to fifty-six north, ranges eighty and eighty-one west, inclusive: all west of the sixth principal meridian.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing herein contained shall cause the applications<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of settlers, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote> of settlers upon other lands to be rejected, or caused to be increased the amount annually apportioned to the district of Wyoming, out of the appropriation for surveys and resurveys of public lands. And all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain regulations abrogated.</p></sidenote> rules and regulations of the Department of the Interior requiring petitions from all settlers on said lands asking for a resurvey and an agreement to abide by the result of the survey, so far as these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present rights, etc., not impaired.</p></sidenote> contained shall be so construed as to impair the present bona tide rights or claims of any actual occupant of any of said lands so occupied toThe amount of land to which, under the law. he is entitled: <i>Provided’ further</i>, That before any resurvey is ordered it shall be made to appear<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inaccurate, etc.,surveys.</p></sidenote> to the Secretary of the Interior that the former official survey of said lands is so inaccurate or obliterated as to make it necessary to resurvey the land, and only such parts of the land where the survey is so inaccurate or obliterated shall be resurveyed: <i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> where it is found that, at the time the resurvey is entered upon, more than half the lands in any township have been disposed of by entry or otherwise, the resurvey in such township shall not be made; but this proviso shall not apply to lands within railroad land grant limits.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands certified to, for benefit of State Agricultural College, etc.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to certify to the State of Kansas, for the benefit of the Kansas State Agricultural College, Seven thousand six hundred and eighty-two acres of public land in said State, the same to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p.503.</p></sidenote> in full satisfaction of the claim of said State, under an Act entitled “An Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts,” approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the tracts of land described as follows: Sections nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands granted for insane asylum.</p></sidenote> and ten. lot four, southwest quarter of northwest quarter, west half of southwest quarter, section three, east half of southeast quarter sec-tion <page identifier="/us/stat/35/466">466</page> four, township twenty-four north, range twenty-two west; east half of northeast quarter, east half of southeast quarter, section thirty-four, southwest quarter of northwest quarter, northwest quarter of southwest quarter, section thirty-live, township twenty-live north, range twenty-two west, Indian meridian, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, which lands were formerly a part of the Fort Supply Military Reservation, in the former Territory and now State of Oklahoma, the use of which for the purpose of an insane asylum was granted to the Territory of Oklahoma by the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p.822.</p></sidenote> approved February eighth, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to permit the use of the buildings on the Fort Supply Military Reservation by Oklahoma Territory for an insane asylum,” be, and the same are hereby, granted to the State of Oklahoma for the purpose of an insane asylum for said State, and for other purposes.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the State of North Dakota is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to sell part of White Stone Hills Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 312.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> empowered to sell such portion as it may deem wise of the southeast quarter of section seven and t he southwest quarter of section eight and the northeast quarter of section eighteen and the northwest quarter of section seventeen, all in township one hundred and thirty-one north, range sixty-five west, heretofore granted to said State to be used for the purpose of a memorial park and burial ground of the soldiers killed at the battle of White Stone Hills, the money derived from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> sale of said land to be used by the said State only for the purpose of erecting monuments and improving and beautifying such portions of such grounds as it may desire to use as a memorial park: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery.</p></sidenote> That not less than forty acres be reserved immediately surrounding the graves located on said land.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all qualified homesteaders who, under an order issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin Central Railroad grants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlers ejected from, given credit for residence, etc., on making new entries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 88, p. 184.</p></sidenote> by the Land Department bearing date October twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and taking effect November second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, made settlement upon and improved any portion of an odd-numbered section within the conflicting limits of the grants made in aid of the construction of the Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway and the Wisconsin Central Railroad, and were thereafter prevented from completing title to the land so settled upon and improved by reason of the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Wisconsin Central Railroad Company against Forsythe (One hundred and fifty-ninth United States, page forty-six), shall, in making final proof upon homestead entries made for other lands, be given credit for the period of their bona tide residence upon and the amount of their improvements made on the lands for which they were unable to complete title. in the event that any entryman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widow’s, etc., rights.</p></sidenote> entitled to the benefits of this Act shall have died, the right to make such second entry shall inure to his surviving widow, and if there be no widow living then to his minor child or children, if any, in the manner hereinbefore provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no such person shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> entitled to the benefits of this Act who shall fail to make entry within two years after the passage of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second entries forbidden.</p></sidenote> this Act shall not be considered as entitling any person to make another homestead entry who shall have received the benefits of the homestead law since being prevented, as aforesaid, from completing title to the lands as aforesaid settled upon and improved by him.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That section two of an Act entitled “An Act to amend the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nebraska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 548.</p></sidenote> homestead laws as to certain unappropriated and unreserved lands in Nebraska,” approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, be, and the same hereby is. amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That entrymen under the homestead laws of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional entries by present homesteaders.</p></sidenote> States within the territory above described who own and occupy the lands heretofore entered by them may, under the provisions of this Act and subject to its conditions, enter other lands contiguous to their <page identifier="/us/stat/35/467">467</page> said homestead entry, which shall not, with the land so already entered, owned, and occupied, exceed in the aggregate six hundred and forty acres; and residence continued and improvements made upon the original<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence, etc., on original homestead accepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 548, amended.</p></sidenote> homestead, subsequent to the making of the additional entry, shall be accepted as equivalent to actual residence and improvements made upon the additional land so entered, but final entry shall not be allowed of such additional land until five years after first entering the same, except in favor of entrymen entitled to credit for military service.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That such portions of the lands of the abandoned Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort McPherson Military Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parts of, exempt from appraised values.</p></sidenote> Sheridan Military Reservation, and of the abandoned Fort McPherson Military Reservation which were added to the original Fort McPherson Military Reservation by Executive order dated April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, title to which remains in the Government and have become subject to homestead entry, be, and the same are hereby, exempted from the payment of the appraised values imposed by the Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 108.</p></sidenote> and eighty-four, and this provision shall include existing unperfected entries.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That no final certificate issued upon proof offered under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead commutations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not canceled on ground of insufficient residence.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> commutation provisions of the homestead laws prior to the passage of this Act shall be canceled solely upon the ground of insufficient rest dence in any case where such proof shows that the entryman had in good faith resided upon and improved the lands covered by his entry for at least eight, months within the year immediately preceding the submission of such proof, and in all such cases where the final certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceled certificates reinstated, etc.</p></sidenote> has been canceled because of insufficient, residence such certificate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> shall, upon application made therefor by the entryman, his heirs or assigns, within one year from the passage of this Act, be reinstated and confirmed if no fraud was practiced by the entryman and no valid adverse rights have attached to the land affected thereby at the date of the filing of such application.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That no homestead entry heretofore made under the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commuted homestead entries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain, not to be canceled.</p></sidenote> of section two of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act for the relief of the Colorado Cooperative Colony, to permit homestead entries in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved June fifth, nineteen hundred, shall be canceled for the reason that the former entry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 268.</p></sidenote> made by the entryman was commuted under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the public lands of the United States,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21. p. 287.</p></sidenote> approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty (Twenty-first Statutes, page two hundred and thirty-seven). And all entries heretofore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reinstatement of canceled entries.</p></sidenote> canceled on the ground that an entryman who commuted under the provisions of said Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is not entitled to the benefits of the Actor June fifth, nineteen hundred, shall be reinstated upon a showing by the entryman or his heirs, within one year from the approval of this Act, that there were no valid grounds for the cancellation of such entries except that a former entry was perfected under the Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, in all eases where valid adverse rights have not attached to the lands covered by such second entries since the date of their cancellation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That all the provisions of the mining laws of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bitter Root Valley, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mining laws extended to all undis-posed-of lands in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 17. p. 227.</p></sidenote> States are hereby extended and made applicable to the undisposed-of lands in the Bitter Root Valley, State of Montana, above the mouth of the Lo Lo Fork of the Bitter Root River, designated in the Act of June fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining locations, etc.</p></sidenote> mining locations and entries heretofore made or attempted to he made upon said lands shall be determined by the Department of the Interior as if said lands had been subject, to mineral location and entry at the time such locations and entries were made or attempted to be made:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That this Act shall not he applicable to lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> withdrawn for administration sites for use of the Forest <page identifier="/us/stat/35/468">468</page> Service.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That all patents heretofore issued on applications made for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military land warrant, etc.. patents declared valid.</p></sidenote> title to public lands between June fifth, nineteen hundred and one, and June twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, with either military bounty land warrants, agricultural college land scrip, or surveyorgeneral’s certificates, be, and the same are hereby, declared valid; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain locations legalized, etc.</p></sidenote> that all such locations, where the applications to locate were made between June fifth, nineteen hundred and one, and June twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, with either military bounty land warrants, agricultural college land scrip, or surveyor-general’s certificates, and upon which patents have not been issued, but which may hereafter be approved for patent by the Department under the ruling in the case of Roy McDonald, December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, are hereby declared legal, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office is hereby authorized and directed to issue patents on all such locations which may be approved by him for patent as above provided: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That they are otherwise in accordance with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> rides and regulations in such cases made and provided.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That all that part of the States of North and South Dakota<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota and South Dakota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lemmon land district established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundaries.</p></sidenote> lying within the following-described boundaries, to wit: Commencing at a point on the boundary line between the States of North and South Dakota where the east boundary line of the county of Schnasse intersects said State line, thence due north to a point on the eighth standard parallel north; thence west on said eighth standard parallel north to a point where the boundary line between the States of North Dakota and Montana intersects the said eighth standard parallel north; thence south on the boundary line between the States of North Dakota and Montana and South Dakota and Montana to a point where the fourth standard parallel north intersects said State boundary line; thence east on the said fourth standard parallel north to the northeast corner of township sixteen north, of range nine east; thence south along the range line between ranges nine and ten east to a point where the same intersects the third standard parallel north; thence east on said third standard parallel north to a point where the same intersects the western boundary line of the county of Schnasse; thence north along the western boundary line of said county to a point where the same intersects the fifth standard parallel north; thence east along the said fifth standard parallel north to a point where the same intersects the range line between ranges twenty-three and twenty-four east; thence along said range line to a point where the same intersects the State line between the States of North Dakota and South Dakota; thence west along the said State line to the point of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, constituted a new land district, to be known as the Lemmon land district; and the United States land office for said district is hereby located at the town of Lemmon, in Butte County. That the President be. and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office at Lemmon.</p></sidenote> he hereby is, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver.</p></sidenote> of the Senate, a register and a receiver for said land district, and they shall be subject to the same laws and be entitled to the same compensation as is or may be hereafter provided by law in relation to the existing land offices and officers in said State.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That subdivision ten of section twenty-two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees of registers and and receivers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8.. sec. 2238, p. 393, amended.</p></sidenote> thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States be. and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Tenth. Registers and receivers are allowed jointly at the rate of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert land added.</p></sidenote> fifteen cents per hundred words for testimony reduced by them to writing for claimants in establishing preemption, desert-land, and homestead rights.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That section four hundred and sixty-one of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, General Land Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8.. sec. 461, p. 78.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 76, amended.</p></sidenote> Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act approved April second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:<page identifier="/us/stat/35/469">469</page></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="461">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 461.</num> <content class="inline">All exemplifications of patents or papers on file or of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemplifications of patents, etc.</p></sidenote> record in the General Land Office which may be required by parties interested shall be furnished by the Commissioner upon payment by such parties at the rate of fifteen cents per hundred words, and thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees for copies of records.</p></sidenote> cents each for photolithographic copies of township plats or diagrams unverified, not to exceed ten copies to any one person, and twenty-five cents each for all copies in excess of ten, with an additional sum of one dollar for the Commissioner’s certificate of verification, with the General Land Office seal; and the amount so received shall, under the direction of the Commissioner, be paid into the Treasury; but fees shall not be demanded for such authenticated copies as may he required by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unverified copies to Departments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioner may charge for cost of.</p></sidenote> officers of any branch of the Government, nor for such unverified copies as the Commissioner, in his discretion, may deem proper to furnish; but said Commissioner may. if he deem it advisable, make such charge for unverified copies as will, in his judgment, cover the cost of the preparation thereof.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That each member of the selecting commission mentioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School land grants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to selecting commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 80. p. 485.</p></sidenote> and described in section eight of the Act of Congress approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to make certain grants of land to the Territory of New Mexico, and for other purposes,” consisting of the governor of the Territory of New Mexico, the surveyor-general of said Territory, and the attorney-general thereof, may receive from said Territory such compensation for their services as members of said commission us the legislative assemblies of said Territory may from time to time provide, not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum.</p></sidenote> the sum of six hundred dollars each per annum.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land to. for State fish hatcherv, etc.</p></sidenote> sell to the State of Idaho section eighteen, the south half of section seven, township eleven north, range forty-four east, and the south half of section twelve of township eleven north, range forty-three east, Boise meridian, providing that the State of Idaho shall pay one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the land, and providing the Secretary of the Interior shall be assured by the State of Idaho that the lands so purchased shall be used fora State, fish hatchery and game reserve, and if not so used for a period of five years shall revert to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion.</p></sidenote> Government of the United States.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the south two hundred feet, lot two, Block A, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perry, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lana for public buildings conveyed to.</p></sidenote> shown by the plat of Perry town site, approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office September fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, be, and the same is hereby, conveyed to and given to the city of Perry, State of Oklahoma, for a city library and other city and public buildings.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline">That the title of block one, being ten acres reserved by law<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enid. Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certain laud granted to.</p></sidenote> for park, school, and other public purposes, of the plat of Luther M. McGuire, of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section eight, township twenty-two north of range six west of the Indian meridian, as filed with and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, with the application of the said Luther M. McGuire as homestead entryman of said lands to purchase the same for town-site purposes, be. and the same is hereby, vested in the municipality of the city of Enid, State of Oklahoma, for park, school, and other public purposes.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That all that tractor parcel of land in the city of Dubuque,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dubuque. Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Raphael’s Cemetery granted to archbishop of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> heretofore known as Saint Raphael’s Cemetery, and described as follows: “A tract of land three hundred and eighty-two feet in width and four hundred and five feet in length, bounded on the north by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 423.</p></sidenote> Third street, on the south by outlots six hundred and ninety-eight and six hundred and ninety-three A, on the east by outlot six hundred and ninety-three, and on the west by outlot seven hundred and twenty-three,” the same being the identical property which was in use as a Catholic cemetery in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and having been <page identifier="/us/stat/35/470">470</page> in the open, continuous, and uninterrupted possession of a Catholic Church of Dubuque from said date until the present time, the title of the church to the same having never been contested nor questioned, and the boundaries of the property to-day being identical with those described in the original plat of Dubuque, is hereby granted to the Most Reverend John J. Keane, as archbishop of Dubuque, and to his successors in office, and the title thereto is continued and established accordingly.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline">That the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May convey land on right of way to Thomas Cathcart.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to convey in fee simple to Thomas Cathcart, his heirs and assigns, such part as may not be needed for railway purposes of the following-described land, to wit: Lots three and four and the easterly one hundred and forty feet of the southwest quarter of section thirty-five, in township one hundred and sixty-one north, range thirty-one west, granted to it for railroad purposes by Act of Congress entitled “An Act granting the right of way to the Minnesota and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 134.</p></sidenote> Manitoba Railroad Company across the ceded portion of the Chippewa (Red Lake) Indian Reservation, Minnesota,” approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred, and the restrictions upon alienation upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation restrictions removed, etc.</p></sidenote> said grant are hereby removed, and the United States hereby relinquishes all claim or title and hereby conveys to said railroad company the fee to such part of said land as shall be conveyed to said Thomas Cathcart.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline">That the disqualification of Charles A. Going to enter lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawnee Indian Reservation, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disqualification of Charles A. Going to enter lands in. removed.</p></sidenote> under the homestead laws in force in the State of Oklahoma and applying to lands opened to settlement in the Pawnee Indian Reservation, in the said State, arising by reason of the said Charles A. Going having heretofore entered a homestead in the State of Kansas, be, and the same are hereby, removed, and that the entry of said Charles A. Going of the southeast quarter of section numbered four, in township numbered twenty-two north, of range numbered four east of the Indian meridian, in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Territory, be, and the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry restored.</p></sidenote> is, restored as fully and to all intents and purposes as if the said Charles A. Going at the time of entering said lands had been qualified under the laws of the United States to enter the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> said Going shall pay the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for said land.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline">That the homestead entry of Walter H. Quist for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crookston land district. Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entry of lands by Walter H. Quist in, allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 46.</p></sidenote> southeast quarter of section thirty-five, in township one hundred and fifty-four north, range thirty-nine west, in the Crookston land district. Minnesota, under the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale of a part of what is known as the Red Lake Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota,” upon which final proof and full payment was made, but which was held for cancellation by the Secretary of the Interior for want of qualification to make the same, be, and the same is hereby, allowed and permitted to remain of record as of the date of said entry, and that patent shall issue in the name of said Walter H. Quist for said land.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24.</num> <content class="inline">That the entry of Annie Ward, formerly Annie Brown, of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fargo land district. N. Dak.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entrv of land in. by Annie Ward, formerly Annie Brown, confirmed.</p></sidenote> the southwest quarter of section twenty, township one hundred and forty-four north, range seventy-one west, in the Fargo land district, in the State of North Dakota, held for cancellation by the Commissioner of the General Land Office and ordered canceled by the Secretary of the Interior, be, and the same is hereby, confirmed, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent.</p></sidenote> a patent to the land embraced within said entry to be issued to the said Annie Ward, formerly Annie Brown, provided there is no valid adverse claim for such laud.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/471">471</page></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25.</num> <content class="inline">That the title of Raleigh Brewer, senior, in and to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Raleigh Brewer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to hind in Noxubee County, Miss., confirmed.</p></sidenote> southeast quarter of section ten, township fifteen north, range nineteen east, Noxubee County. Mississippi, as assignee of the conveyance of Tish-o-no-wah, executed June second, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to Reuben H. Grant and Jefferson Clement, be, and the same is hereby, quieted and confirmed, and patent therefor shall be issued to Raleigh Brewer, senior.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26.</num> <content class="inline">That the following-described land, to wit, the southeast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gull Lake Reservoir, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land reserved for, restored to public domain.</p></sidenote> quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty, and the point of land in section eighteen extending from lot one in section nineteen, omitted from the original United States land survey, but which is shown upon the plat of survey made under the direction of the War Department by the United States engineer office at Saint Paul for the Gull Dake Reservoir, in Minnesota, which said hind was reserved for reservoir purposes and the reservation approved by the President January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. in township one hundred and thirty-four north, of range twenty-nine west, in the State of Minnesota, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights reserved.</p></sidenote> subject to homestead entry: and all prior rights of settlement and entry, or attempted entry, are hereby reserved to the occupant and claimant of the land, to be passed upon and determined by the Commissioner of the General Land Office: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation for dam.</p></sidenote> homestead entry of said land or final certificate or patent that may be issued therefor shall be subject to the right of the United States to construct and maintain a dam for reservoir purposes at Gull Lake and to Hood any part of said land by means of said dam.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27.</num> <content class="inline">That the Commissioner of the General Land Office he, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warner Bailey.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent to assignees of.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a patent to the assignees of Warner Bailey conveying all the right, title, and interest of the Government of the United States in and to the following-described land: West half northeast quarter and east half northwest quarter section thirty-six, township twelve north, range three west, lying and situated in Choctaw County, State of Alabama: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land warrant.</p></sidenote> said patent shall be in full satisfaction of and shall extinguish military bounty land warrant numbered seventy-five thousand seven hundred and forty-three.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resurvey of lands in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> to cause to be made a resurvey of the lands in the following townships: nine north, ranges eighty-six to eighty-nine, inclusive; eight north, ranges eighty six to eighty-nine, inclusive: seven north, ranges eighty-six to ninety-one, inclusive; six north, ranges eighty-five to ninety-one, inclusive; five north, ranges eighty-five to ninety-one, inclusive; four north, ranges eighty-five to eighty-nine, inclusive, and ninety-one; three north, ranges eighty-five and eighty-six; one south, ranges one hundred and one and one hundred and two: two south, ranges one hundred and one and one hundred and two; three, south, ranges one hundred to one hundred and three, inclusive; four south, rangesone hundred to one hundred and two. inclusive; seven south, range one hundred and two; eight south, rangesone hundred and two and one hundred and three; ten south, range ninety-seven; eleven south, ranges ninetyseven and ninety-eight; twelve, south, ranges ninety-three to ninetyeight, inclusive; thirteen south, ranges eighty-nine to ninety-six, inclusive: and ninety-eight; fourteen south, ranges eighty-nine and ninety-six; twelve north, ranges eighty-seven to ninety-one, inclusive; eleven north, ranges eighty-seven to ninety, inclusive; ten north, ranges eighty-six to eighty-nine, inclusive; four north, range ninety; three north, ranges eighty-eight to ninety-one, inclusive; fifteen south, range eighty-nine; nineteen south, range fifty-four; all west of the sixth principal meridian, also of the lands in townships thirty-three and thirty-four north, of range two west of the New Mexico principal meridian, and of the lands in Cheyenne County, all <page identifier="/us/stat/35/472">472</page> in the State of Colorado: and all rules and regulations of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations abrogated.</p></sidenote> Department requiring petitions from all settlers in said townships asking for resurvey and agreements to abide by the result of same, so far as any of these lands are concerned, are hereby abrogated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present claims not affected.</p></sidenote> That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the present bona fide claim of any actual occupant on any of said lands so occupied:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That before any survey is ordered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inaccurate surveys.</p></sidenote> under this Act it shall be made to appear to the Secretary of the Interior that the former official survey of said lands is so inaccurate or obliterated as to make it necessary to resurvey the lands, and only such parts of the lands described herein where the survey is so inaccurate or obliterated shall be resurveyed.</proviso></p></content>
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<docNumber>221.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting certain rights of way and providing for certain exchanges of the same.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6200">S. 6200.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/161">Public, No. 161.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Un ited States of Ant erica in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there is hereby granted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt Lake City, Utah, granted easement, etc., over Fort Douglas Military Reservation.</p></sidenote> to Salt Lake City, a municipal corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Utah, a perpetual easement and right of way for the operation, maintenance, repair, and renewal of the conduit and pipe line as now constructed over and upon the Fort Douglas Military Reservation in said State, the same being connected with the water supply system of the said city; and also for the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, and renewal of all valve houses which may be deemed necessary in connection with said pipe line: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> That the said conduit and pipe line must be at all times maintained entirely below the surface of the ground: that the ground must be at all times kept in such condition as will enable troops to pass over the same without hindrance; that no fences shall be constructed to prevent the passage of troops and that all work done upon the reservation in pursuance of this grant shall be to the satisfaction of the, post commander and under such regulations as he may prescribe in the interest of good order and discipline; and that in case of the removal of the conduit or pipe line or any of the valve houses the ground shall be restored by the grantee to its original condition.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plattsburg. N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware and Hudson Company granted right of way through military reservation at.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> and empowered, upon the release to the United States by the Delaware and Hudson Company, or its subsidiary companies, of all rights of way and other casements of said company and of its subsidiary companies within the limits of the military reservation of Plattsburg Barracks, at Plattsburg, in the county of Clinton and State of New York, as said reservation existed prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety, to convey to said Delaware and Hudson Company, its successors and assigns, for the operation and maintenance of its railway, a right of way one hundred feet wide through said military reservation. together with a right of way sixty-six feet wide, along the north end of the reservation, and the right to occupy and use about two acres in the northeast corner of the same, within limits described in and shown upon a blueprint attached to a memorandum of agreement made between said company and the United States represented by Major J. G. Galbraith, Inspector-General United States Army, in October, nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That except as to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> said two-acre tract in the northeast corner of the reservation, which may be used for the storage of cars, engines, and so forth, the right of way herein authorized to be granted shall be used for main and passing track purposes only, and not for the storage of cars, engines, and so forth, thereon; and that the occupation and use of any land <page identifier="/us/stat/35/473">473</page> within the reservation shall be subject to such restrictions as the Secretary of War may prescribe to protect the interests of the United States and for the maintenance of good order and discipline on said military reservation.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 222: To amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>222</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>222.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8405">S. 8405.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/162">Public. No. 162.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Baltimore and Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore and Washington Transit Company may extend line within.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29. p.264.</p></sidenote> Transit Company, of Maryland, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland, and authorized by Act of Congress to î extend its line into the District of Columbia by an Act approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be. and is hereby, authorized and required to further extend its line of street railway within the District of Columbia over, along, and upon the following-described<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Route specified.</p></sidenote> route: Beginning where Third street northwest (as said street is designated on the map of the first section of the highway extension plan of said District) intersects the present line of the railway of said transit company; thence south on said Third street to Kennedy street; thence weston said Kennedy street to Colorado avenue; thence southwesterly along said Colorado avenue to the intersection of Fourteenth street northwest: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said company shall not construct its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of way obtained by condemnation, etc., dedicated as public highway.</p></sidenote> said railway over, along, or upon any portion of the aforementioned route which is not now a public highway of the District of Columbia until it shall have obtained, by dedication or condemnation, title to a right of way not less than thirty feet in width along such portion of said route as is not now a public highway; and before it shall have authority to lay tracks in said right of way it shall dedicate the same to the District of Columbia as a public highway.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the said transit company shall be empowered to construct,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May construct street railway, etc.</p></sidenote> maintain, equip, and operate a single or double track street railway over said line, with all necessary buildings, switches, machinery, appliances, appurtenances, and other devices necessary to operate the same by electricity, compressed air, storage battery, or other motive power, to be approved by the Commissioners of said District: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if electric power propulsion is used upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions on electric system.</p></sidenote> said extension or on any other portion of the line or lines of said company no portion of the electrical circuit shall be through the earth, but a return circuit of proper capacity and located similarly to the feed-wire circuit shall be provided for the electrical current, and that wherever the trolley system is used each car shall be provided with a double trolley, and that no earth connection shall be made with any dynamo furnishing power for the road. 1 hat section four of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Baltimore and Washington Transit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29. p. 264. repealed.</p></sidenote> Company, of Maryland, to enter the District of Columbia,” approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be, and the same is hereby, repealed:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That said railway shall be constructed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc., requirements.</p></sidenote> of good material, with rails of approved pattern, and in a neat and substantial manner, subject to the supervision and approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; the standard gauge to be used and the surfaces of the tracks to conform to the grades of the streets established by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and where the tracks lie within the streets of the District of Columbia, the same to be paved between the rails and two feet outside thereof with such material and in such manner as shall be approved by the said Commissioners, and kept in repair by the said railway <page identifier="/us/stat/35/474">474</page> company.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That within sixty days from the approval of this Act the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit.</p></sidenote> company shall deposit one thousand dollars with the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia to guarantee the construction of its railway within the prescribed time. If this sum is not so deposited, this charter shall be void. If the sum is so deposited and the road is not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> in operation as herein prescribed, said one thousand dollars shall be forfeited to the District of Columbia and this charter shall be void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That failure or neglect to comply with any of the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> of this Act, except as hereinbefore provided for, shall render the said corporation liable to a tine of twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which such failure or neglect shall continue, which penalty may be recovered in the name of the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of the said District in any court of competent, jurisdiction: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That unless the line of the said railway shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of completion, etc.</p></sidenote> completed, with cars running regularly thereon for the accommodation of passengers, within two years from the date of the passage of this Act this charter shall be null and void.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the said company, in conjunction with the Capital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fare.</p></sidenote> Traction Company, may receive a rate of fare not exceeding five cents for each passenger for one continuous ride over the route aforesaid and the route of the said Capital Traction Company within the. District of Columbia, or any part thereof, and shall sell tickets at the rate of six for twenty-five cents.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all the powers, rights, duties, and limitations imposed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations, etc., of act, June 8. 1896. not affected.</p></sidenote> by the Act of Congress authorizing said Baltimore and Washington Transit Company to enter the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be applicable to the extension of the line of said company as proposed herein except as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> said Act may be amended by the provisions hereof, it being the intent that said original Act shall he applied to this extension in the same manner as if said extension had been included in the original Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the privileges herein granted are granted on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> express condition that cars shall be run under such rules as may from time to time be made by the District Commissioners, and any violation of which shall be a misdemeanor, and for any such violation said corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not to exceed two hundred dollars.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 223: To establish an assay office at Salt Lake City, State of Utah.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>223</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 474</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>223.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To establish an assay office at Salt Lake City, State of Utah.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/642">S. 642.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/163">Public, No. 163.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt LakeClty,Utah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assay office established at.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 17. p. 424.</p></sidenote> Treasury is hereby authorized and required to establish an assay office of the United States at Salt Lake City, in the State of Utah; said assay office to be .conducted under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act revising and amending the laws relating to the mints and assay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3495, p.693, amended.</p></sidenote> offices and the coinage of the United States,” approved February twelfth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; that the officers of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> assay office shall be an assayer in charge, at a salary of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, who shall also perform the duties of melter; chief clerk, at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> rent a suitable building for the use of said assay office, and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> appropriated, the sum of twenty thousand dollars for salary of assayer in charge, chief clerk, and wages of workmen, rent, and contingent expenses.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/475">475</page></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 224: For the incorporation of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>224</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 475</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>224.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the incorporation of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16757">H. R. 16757.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/164">Public, No. 164.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That James L. Houghteling,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brotherhood of Saint Andrew incorporated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporators.</p></sidenote> of Winnetka, Illinois; John E. Baird, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Edmund Billings, of Boston, Massachusetts; William C. Sturgis, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; J. C. Loomis, of Louisville, Kentucky; Samuel S. Nash, of Tarboro, North Carolina; John W. Wood, of New York, New York; H. C. Turnbull, junior, of Baltimore, Maryland; Frank J. Weber, of Detroit, Michigan; Francis H. Holmes, of West Orange, New Jersey; Robert H. Gardiner, of Gardiner, Maine; H. R. Braden, of Berkeley, California; W. A. Gallup, of North Adams, Massachusetts; H. D. W. English, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; E. C. Browne, of Omaha. Nebraska; Mahlon N. Kline, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Courtenay Barber, of Chicago, Illinois; E. C. Day, of Helena, Montana; C. C. Payson, of Brookline, Massachusetts; Frank V. Whiting, of Cleveland, Ohio; G. Ward Kemp, of Seattle, Washington; Robert S. Hart, of Baltimore, Maryland; Bert T. Amos, of Washington, District of Columbia; A. M. Hadden, of New York, New York; S. H. Riker, of Lansingburg, New York; A. A. Talmage, of Los Angeles, California; J. G. Bragaw, junior, of Washington, North Carolina; F. W. Rollins, of Concord, New Hampshire; T. K. Robinson, of Vicksburg, Mississippi; C. M. Lovsted, of Honolulu, Hawaii; A. L. Fellows, of Denver, Colorado; James H. Falconer, of New York, New York; B. F. Finney, of Savannah, Georgia; John M. Locke, of Orange, New Jersey; W. B. Dall, of Brooklyn. New York; E. H. Bonsall, of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania; William A. Cornelius, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania; George R. Robinson, of Kirkwood, Missouri; Ivanhoe S. Huber, of Shamokin, Pennsylvania; J. L. Houghteling, junior, of Winnetka, Illinois; Robert E. Anderson, of Richmond, Virginia; George T. Ballachey, of Buffalo, New York; George H. Batchelor, of Memphis, Tennessee; Edwin Belknap, of New Orleans, Louisiana; W. B. Dent, of Washington, District of Columbia; E. A. Fusch, of Nashville, Tennessee; A. A. McKechnie, of Saint Paul, Minnesota; J. H. Radtke, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and their associates, who shall be members in good standing of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew at the time when this Act takes effect, and those thereafter associated with them and their successors, be, and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate of the District of Columbia under the name of “The Brotherhood of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name.</p></sidenote> Saint Andrew.” And by that name they and their successors may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers, etc.</p></sidenote> have perpetual succession, may use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and elect officers and agents, and may do business and take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the society.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the sole object of said corporation shall be the spread<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Object.</p></sidenote> of Christ’s Kingdom among men. And, in pursuance of said object,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution, etc.</p></sidenote> it may have a constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations to carry out tlie same, and shall have power to change and amend its constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations at pleasure: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations, or amendments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That said corporation shall have the right to hold its meetings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings.</p></sidenote> and meetings of its council at any place within the United States as may be best suited or most advantageous to the carrying out of the purposes for which this corporation is formed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect and said corporation be established<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> when this Act shall have been accepted by vote of the. Brotherhood of Saint Andrew at any of its annual conventions held within three years from November thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and a copy of such vote attested by the secretary of said convention and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/476">476</page> filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Election of officers, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be sufficient evidence of such acceptance. the officers of the corporation shall be elected and its constitution and by-laws adopted at the annual convention of the Brotherhood of Saint Andrew at which this Act is accepted, acting in accordance with the constitution of said brotherhood as it then exists.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress may at any time amend, alter, or repeal this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 225: To promote the safety of employees on railroads.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>225</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 476</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>225.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To promote the safety of employees on railroads.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19795">H. R. 19795.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/165">Public, No. 165.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That on and after the first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locomotive ash pan.</p></sidenote> day of January, nineteen hundred and ten. it shall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by railroad<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engines to be equipped with safety pans.</p></sidenote> to use any locomotive in moving interstate or foreign traffic, not equipped with an ash pan, which can be dumped or emptied and cleaned without the necessity of any employee going under such locomotive.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of locomotives not equipped with, forbidden.</p></sidenote> and ten, it shall be unlawful for any common carrier by railroad in any Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to use any locomotive not equipped with an ash pan, which can be dumped or emptied and cleaned without the necessity of any employee going under such locomotive.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any such common carrier using any locomotive in violation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> of any of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of two hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suite.</p></sidenote> locality where such violation shall have been committed; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information.</p></sidenote> occurred; and it shall also be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to lodge with the proper district attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce act.</p></sidenote> to enforce the provisions of t his Act. and all powers heretofore granted to said Commission are hereby extended to it for the purpose of the enforcement of this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the term “common carrier” as used in this Act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receivers, etc., included in term “common carrier.”</p></sidenote> include the receiver or receivers or other persons or corporations charged with the duty of the management and operation of the business of a common carrier.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall apply to any locomotive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> upon which, by reason of the use of oil. electricity, or other such agency, an ash pan is not necessary.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 226: To incorporate the Congressional Club.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>226.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To incorporate the Congressional Club.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22029">H. R. 22029.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/166">Public, No. 166.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That Mrs. James Breck<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Club incorporated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporators.</p></sidenote> Perkins, of New York; Mrs. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi; Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts; Mrs. Julius Kahn, of California; Mrs. Champ Clark, of Missouri; Mrs. Joseph Dixon, of Montana; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/477">477</page> Mrs. J. Sloat Fassett, of New York; Mrs. William M. Howard, of Georgia; Miss E. P. Wood, of New Jersey; Mrs. A. A. Wiley, Mrs. Richmond P. Hobson, and Mrs. O. W. Underwood, of Alabama; Mrs. William B. Cravens, of Arkansas; Mrs. W. F. Engle bright, Mrs. Duncan E. McKinlay, Mrs. Joseph R. Knowland, Mrs. James C. Needham, and Mrs. S. C. Smith, of California; Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, Mrs. George W. Cook, and Mrs. Robert W. Bonynge, of Colorado; Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Mrs. Zalinski, Mrs. Nehemiah D. Sperry, and Mrs. Edwin W. Higgins, of Connecticut; Mrs. Harry A. Richardson, of Delaware; Mrs. Frank D. Clark and Mrs. William B. Lamar, of Florida; Mrs. Alexander S. Clay. Mrs. James M. Griggs, Mrs. Charles L. Bartlett, Mrs. Gordon Lee, and Mrs. Thomas W. Hardwick, of Georgia; Mrs. Weldon B. Heyburn and Mrs. Burton L. French, of Idaho; Mrs. Albert J. Hopkins, Mrs. James R. Mann, Mrs. William W. Wilson, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden, Mrs. Joseph V. Graff, Miss Cannon, Miss Mattis, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, Mrs. Benjamin F. Caldwell, Mrs. PleasantT. Chapman, and Mrs. Frank Vrooman, of Illinois; Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Mrs. John H. Foster, Mrs. Jesse Overstreet, and Mrs. Edgar D. Crumpacker, of Indiana; Mrs. J. P. Dolliver, Mrs. John A. T. Hull, Mrs. Walter I. Smith, Mrs. James P. Conner, Mrs. Elbert H. Hubbard, Mrs. William E. Fidler, and Mrs. Brayton, of Iowa; Mrs. C. Curtis, Mrs. Daniel R. Anthony, Mrs. Charles F. Scott, and Mrs. James M. Miller, of Kansas; Mrs. Ollie M. James and Mrs. Ben Johnson, of Kentucky; Mrs. Arsène P. Pujo, of Louisiana; Mrs. Eugene Hale, Mrs. Llewellyn Powers, and Mrs. Charles E. Littlefield, of Maine; Mrs. Isidor Rayner, of Maryland; Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mrs. Charles G. Washburn, Mrs. Charles Q. Tirrell, Mrs. Samuel W. McCall, Mrs. John W. Weeks, and Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner, of Massachusetts; Mrs. William Alden Smith, Mrs. Gilbert Wilkes, Mrs. Edward L. Hamilton, Mrs. Gerrit J. Diekema, Mrs. Samuel W. Smith, Mrs. Joseph W. Fordney, and Mrs. George A. Loud, of Michigan; Mrs. Halvor Steenerson, of Minnesota; Mrs. Thomas Spight, Mrs. Eaton J. Bowers, and Mrs. Frank A. McLain, of Mississippi; Mrs. James T. Lloyd, Mrs. Joshua W. Alexander, Mrs. Edgar C. Ellis, Mrs. David A. De Armond, Mrs. Richard Bartholdt, Mrs. Joseph J. Russell, and Mrs. Thomas Hackney, of Missouri; Mrs. Charles N. Pray, of Montana; Mrs. Norris Brown and Mrs. John F. Boyd, of Nebraska; Mrs. Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada; Mrs. Frank D. Currier, of New Hampshire; Miss Kean. Mrs. Frank 0. Briggs, Mrs. Henry C. Loudenslager, Mrs. Charles N. Fowler, Mrs. William Hughes, Mrs. Le Gage Pratt, Mrs. Eugene W. Leake, and Mrs. John J. Gardner, of New Jersey; Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, Mrs. Charles B. Law, Mrs. George E. Waldo, Mrs. William M. Calder, Mrs. W. Bourke Cockran, Mrs. Herbert Parsons, Mrs. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Mrs. Francis B. Harrison, Mrs. William S. Bennet, Mrs. D. S. Alexander, Mrs. John E. Andrus, Mrs. George W. Fairchild, Mrs. James S. Sherman, Mrs. Michael E. Driscoll, Mrs. John W. Dwight, Mrs. Sereno E. Payne, Mrs. Peter A. Porter, Mrs. Edward B. Vreeland, and Mrs. William H. Ryan, of New York; Mrs. John H. Small, Mrs. Charles R. Thomas, and Mrs. Robert N. Page, of North Carolina; Mrs. Porter J. McCumber, of North Dakota; Mrs. Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma; Mrs. Joseph B. Foraker, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. J. Eugene Harding, Mrs. Timothy T. Ansberry, Mrs. Edward L. Taylor, junior, Mrs. Matthew R. Denver, Mrs. Ralph D.Cole, Mrs. G. E. Mouser, Mrs. Albert Douglas, and Mrs. James Kennedy, of Ohio; Mrs. Willis C. Hawley and Mrs. William R. Ellis, of Oregon; Mrs. Joel Cook, Mrs. J. Hampton Moore, Mrs. William W. Foulkrod, Mrs. George W. Kipp, Mrs. Benjamin K. Focht, Mrs. Daniel F. Lafean, Mrs. George F. Huff, Mrs. J. Davis Brodhead, Mrs. Joseph G. Beale. Mrs. Nelson P. Wheeler, Mrs. William H. Graham, Mrs. John Dalzell, Mrs. James Francis Burke, and Mrs. <page identifier="/us/stat/35/478">478</page> Andrew J. Barchfekl, of Pennsylvania; Mrs. George P. Wetmore and Miss Granger, of Rhode Island; Mrs. Robert J. Gamble and Mrs. William H. Parker, of South Dakota; Mrs. Robert L. Taylor, Mrs. William C. Houston, Mrs. Thetus W. Sims, and Mrs. Finis J. Garrett, of Tennessee; Mrs. Charles A. Culberson, Mrs. Jack Beall, Mrs. Rufus Hardy, Mrs. A. W. Gregg, Mrs. John M. Moore, Mrs. Albert S. Burleson. Mrs. Robert L. Henry, Mrs. Oscar W. Gillespie. Mrs. James L. Slayden, and Mrs. John N. Garner, of Texas; Mrs. Reed Smoot and Mrs. George Sutherland, of Utah; Mrs. David J. Foster, of Vermont; Mrs. Charles C. Carlin, of Virginia; Mrs. William E. Humphrey, of Washington; Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Nathan B. Scott, Mrs. Harry C. Woodyard, and Mrs. James A. Hughes, of West Virginia; Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, Mrs. Henry A. Cooper, Mrs. James H. Davidson, Mrs. Elmer A. Morse, and Mrs. John J. Jenkins, of Wisconsin; Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, of Wyoming; Mrs. N. G. White, Mrs. Vespasian Warner, Mrs. J. B. Henderson, Mrs. Silas Hare, Mrs. Thropp, Mrs. H. S. Irwin, and Mrs. Z. L. Tanner, of the District of Columbia, and all such other persons as may from time to time be associated with them and their successors, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, by the name of “The Congressional Club.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name.</p></sidenote> And by that name they and their successors may have perpetual succession,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p></sidenote> may use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and elect officers and agents, and may take, receive, hold, and convey real and personal estate necessary for the purposes of the association.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the object of the club is to promote acquaintanceship<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Object.</p></sidenote> among its members, to facilitate their social intercourse, and to provide a place of meeting which may help to secure for them the advantages<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution, etc.</p></sidenote> of life in the national capital. And, in pursuance of said object, it may have a constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations to carry out the same, and shall have power to change and amend its constitution,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> by-laws, rules, and regulations at pleasure: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such constitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations, or amendments thereof, do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 227: Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>227.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8"><ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21946">[H.R. 21946.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/167">Public, No. 167.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to the Government of Norway the moiety of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote> of an award under the convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for the settlement of Samoan claims, which was signed at Washington on November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to the Government of Sweden the moiety of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Samoan claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1876.</p></sidenote> of an award under the convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany for the settlement of Samoan claims, which was <page identifier="/us/stat/35/479">479</page> signed at Washington on November seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the President be, and he is hereby, empowered and requested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sweden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1876.</p></sidenote> to direct the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Secretary of Agriculture to place at the disposition of the International Tuberculosis Congress, under such terms and conditions as the President may authorize or prescribe, such space, not now occupied, in the new National Museum and Agricultural buildings, respectively, as may be needed to properly provide for the meeting of such International Tuberculosis Congress, including exhibts, to be held in September and October of the present year, and the use of said buildings for such purposes is hereby authorized: and permanent occupancy of such buildings, respectively, shall be postponed in so far as may be necessary to carry out the foregoing provisions; and the sum of forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Tuberculosis Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of new National Museum and Agricultural buildings for meeting.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 568.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in accordance with the directions of the President for the payment of expenses in connection with the suitable temporary preparation of said buildings for such purposes, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to the owners of the Norwegian steamship Nicaragua in full<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> for compensation for damage to said owners by reason of the rescue of an American citizen, John McCafferty, and the consequent quarantine of said ship at Mobile. Alabama, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Nicaragua.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to owners.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Treasurer of the United States (National Currency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> to be Reimbursed by National Banks</inline>): For reimbursement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasurer’s office.</p></sidenote> of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the services of employees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counters.</p></sidenote> detailed to the office of the Treasurer of the United States to assort notes in the National Bank Redemption Agency from April sixth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department</inline>: For freight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of the third and fourth floors of the Union Building,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> located on G street, between Sixth and Seventh streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, including light, heat, janitor, and elevator service, and repairs, for offices of Auditor for the Interior Department, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For shelving and transferring records, furniture, and files from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferring records, etc.</p></sidenote> Treasury building, including the personal services of laborers and skilled mechanics in connection therewith, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, ten thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Fractional Silver Coin</inline>: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting fractional silver coin.</p></sidenote> of fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, ten thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, fractional silver coin when requested to do so: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote> deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Transportation of silver coin.” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/480">480</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses. Independent Treasury</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independent Treasury. contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, for fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Director of the Mint</inline>: For examinations of mints,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directorof theMint.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balance.</p></sidenote> expenses in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations the sum of two thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 966.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars made by the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals of the United States, is hereby authorized to be expended for the purpose of such examinations, ana so forth, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Assay Office At New York</inline>: To reimburse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York assay office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Andrew Mason.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> Andrew Mason, late superintendent of the United States assay office at New York, the amount due for supplies furnished the assay office at New York by Arthur, Mountain and Company, in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and erroneously paid by said Mason from the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, which amount was disallowed by the accounting officers and repaid into the Treasury by said Mason from his private funds, forty-one dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Payment to Kansas</inline>: the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claim for repelling invasions, etc., to be adjusted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>post</i>, p. 911.</p></sidenote> and directed to reopen, adjust, and audit the claim of the State of Kansas for interest and discount on moneys borrowed by said State for the purpose of repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostil ities, and ascertain and determine under the rules applied to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 276.</p></sidenote> claims allowed to States under the Act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the amount actually expended by said State for such interest and discount, and report the amount so ascertained to Congress for consideration.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Payment to Walter Hnnewell, Administrator of Samuel<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walter Hunnewell.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of French Spoliation Claim To.</p></sidenote> Welles</inline>: the sum of five thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty-two cents, heretofore appropriated to be paid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 232.</p></sidenote> H. Hollis Hunnewell, administrator of Samuel Welles, in the Act entitled “An Act for the allowance of certain claims for stores and supplies reported by the Court of Claims under the provisions of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and commonly known as the Bowman Act, and for other purposes,” approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two (page two hundred and thirty-two of volume thirty-two of the United States Statutes at Large), be now paid to Walter Hunnewell, as administrator<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provio.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certiflcate required.</p></sidenote> of Samuel Welles: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the same shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the administrator, Walter Hunnewell, represents the next of kin of said Samuel Welles, on whose estate he has administered, and .the court which granted the administration to the said administrator shall certify that he has given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the sum herein appropriated.</proviso><page identifier="/us/stat/35/481">481</page></p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>internal-revenue service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal-revenue.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay W. H. M. Austin, sheriff of Rockdale County, Georgia, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">W. H. M. Austin.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reward.</p></sidenote> reward offered for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who, on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, fired upon and wounded Deputy Collectors J. II. Surber and J. W. Martin after said officers had destroyed an illicit distillery near the house of Herd Kent, in Walton County, Georgia, two hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of engraving and printing.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and Printing.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tmnsferof balance.</p></sidenote> transfer from the unexpended balance now to the credit of the appropriation for plate printing, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, eighty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To the appropriation for compensation of employees, Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents; and to the appropriation for materials and miscellaneous expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials.</p></sidenote> Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars; and to use the sums so transferred as though they had been originally appropriated for the purposes of said appropriations for compensation of employees, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight, and materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the appropriation “Compensation of employees, Bureau<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counters.</p></sidenote> of Engraving and Printing,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for the services of employees detailed from said Bureau to the office of the Treasurer of the United States to the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>revenue-cutter service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to be added to appropriation expenses. RevenueCutter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, pp. 61, 108.</p></sidenote> Service, nineteen hundred and eight, to carry out the provisions of Acts of April sixteenth and May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the remainder of the current fiscal year, fifty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-saven dollars and fifty-five cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>life-saving service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For an additional amount for the Life-Saving Service for the fiscal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay.</p></sidenote> year nineteen hundred and eight, made necessary by the increase in the compensation of the district superintendents, the keepers, and num her one surfmen in the Life-Saving Service, and the allowance of rations or commutation thereof for keepersand crews, under the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the efficiency of the personnel of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 46.</p></sidenote> the Life-Saving Service of the United States,” approved March twentysixth, nineteen hundred and eight, fifty-one thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public buildings.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward amounts requisite for public buildings, authorized under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorizations in omnibus act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 520.</p></sidenote> provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes”, passed at the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/482">482</page> Under the provisions and limitations of section one of said Act, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased and construction authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 520.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rome. Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Iowa.</p></sidenote> follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rome, Georgia, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington, Iowa, post-office, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office and court-house, six thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty dollars, for the purchase of additional land.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duluth, Minnesota, post-office, and so forth, ninety-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth. Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 534.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Joseph. Missouri, post-office and court-house, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnstown, pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Murfreesboro, Tennessee, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Murfreesboro, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tyler, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tyler, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salt Lake City, Utah, post-office, and so forth, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt LakeCity, Utah.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fairmont, West Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairmont, W. Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wheeling, W. Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Platteville, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Platteville, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 524.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section two of said Act. as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Montgomery. Alabama, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montgomery, Ala.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hot Springs, Arkansas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sacramento. California, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacramento, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Jose, California, post-office, two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Jose, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New London, Connecticut, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London, Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilmington, Delaware, post-office and court-house, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, Del.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athens, Ga.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Augusta. Georgia, post-office and court-house, two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boise. Idaho, post-office and other Governmental Buildings, forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elgin, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elgin, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peoria, Illinois, post-office and court-house, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peoria, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Quincy, Illinois, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quincy, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock Island, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Davenport. Iowa, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Davenport, Iowa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fort Dodge, Iowa, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Dodge, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Emporia, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emporia, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kansas City, Kansas, post-office, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas City, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lexington, Kentucky, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frankfort, Kentucky, post-office aud court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankfort, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paducah, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paducah, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Richmond, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bath, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rath, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Belfast, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belfast, Me.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ellsworth, Maine, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellsworth, Me.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 913.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jackson, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jackson, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Meridian. Mississippi, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meridian, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beatrice, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beatrice, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fremont, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fremont. Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/483">483</page> Manchester, New Hampshire, post-office and court-house, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, N.J.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hoboken, New Jersey, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoboken, N. H.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Brunswick, N.J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Brunswick, New Jersey, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Trenton, New Jersey, post-office and court-house, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, N.J.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Goldsboro, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goldsboro. N.C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newbern, North Carolina, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newbern, N.C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Raleigh, North Carolina, post-office and court-house, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Raleigh, N.C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lima, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lima, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chester. Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chester. Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reading, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading. Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pawtucket, Rhode Island, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawtucket. R. I.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sioux Falls, South Dakota, post-office and court-house, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux Falls. S. Dak.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bristol, Tennessee, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jackson, Tennessee, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jackson, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlottesville. Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danville, Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charleston. West Virginia, post-office and court-house, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, W. Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Huntington, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntington. W. Va.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">La Crosse, Wisconsin, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Crosse, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section three of said Act, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 526.</p></sidenote> follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Demopolis, Alabama, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Demopolis, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Troy, Alabama, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Troy, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Santa Cruz, California, post-ofiice. twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Cruz, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Griffin, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Griffin, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newnan, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newnan, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Way Cross, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Way Cross, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lewiston, Idaho, post-office and laud office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewiston, Idaho.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Centralia, Illinois, post-ofiice, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Centralia, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Litchfield, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Litchfield, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbus, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus. Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Connersville, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connersville. Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greencastle, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greencastle, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jeffersonville, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jeffersonville, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kokomo, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kokomo, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peru, Indiana, post-office, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peru. Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Decorah, Iowa, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decorah, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Estherville, Iowa, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estherville, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shenandoah, Iowa, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shenandoah, Iowa</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Catlettsburg, Kentucky, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catlettsburg, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beverly, Massachusetts, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beverly. Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marlboro, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlboro, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plymouth, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plymouth, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Webster, Massachusetts, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Webster, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Woburn, Massachusetts, post office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woburn, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pontiac, Michigan, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontiac, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Austin, Minnesota, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Austin, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brainerd, Minnesota, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brainerd. Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rochester, Minnesota, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochester, Minh.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/484">484</page> Hattiesburg, Mississippi, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hattiesburg, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">West Point, Mississippi, post-office, no site.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Point, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carrollton, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrollton, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clinton, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clinton, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Independence. Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independence, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lexington, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Macon, Missouri, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Macon, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Warrensburg, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrensburg, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Missoula, Montana, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missoula, Mont.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbus, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plattsmouth, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plattsmouth, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Keene, New Hampshire, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keene, N. H.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Amsterdam, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amsterdam, N.Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Malone, New York, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Malone. N.Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Middletown, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middletown, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Concord, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concord, N.C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Henderson, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henderson, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">High Point, North Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">High Point, N.C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashtabula, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashtabula. Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Enid, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enid, Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bradford, Pennsylvania, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bradford, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carbondale, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carbondale, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chambersburg, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Easton, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Easton, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greensburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greensburg. Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sewickley, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewickley, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shamokin. Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shamokin, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">York, Pennsylvania, post-office and internal-revenue office, fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">York, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aiken, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aiken, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cleveland, Tennessee, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Palestine, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Palestine, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Marcos, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Temple, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temple, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bellingham, Washington, post-office and court-house, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellingham, Wash.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">North Yakima, Washington, post-office and court-house, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Yakima, Wash.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hinton, West Virginia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hinton, W. Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Appleton, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appleton, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beloit, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beloit, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Watertown, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown. Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lander. Wyoming, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lander, Wyo.</p></sidenote> dollar.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section four of said Act. as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of sites,etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 528.</p></sidenote> follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ensley, Alabama, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ensley, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eufaula, Alabama, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eufaula, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Talladega, Alabama, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Talladega, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Phoenix, Arizona, post-office and court-house, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix, Ariz.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hope, Arkansas, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hope, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Jonesboro, Arkansas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jonesboro, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paragould, Arkansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paragould, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alameda, California, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alameda, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Santa Barbara, California, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Barbara, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Riverside, California, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Riverside, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kort Collins, Colorado, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Collins, Colo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ansonia, Connecticut, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ansonia. Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/485">485</page> Bristol, Connecticut, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol, Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danbury, Connecticut, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danbury, Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wallingford, Connecticut, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wallingford. Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miami, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and so forth, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miami, Fla.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cordele, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cordele, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dublin, Georgia, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dublin, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lagrange, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lagrange. Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Milledgeville, Georgia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milledgeville, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chicago Heights, Illinois, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago Heights, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Granite City, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granite City, I11.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greenville, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">La Salle, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Salle, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mattoon, Illinois, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mattoon, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Murphysboro, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Murphysboro, I11.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pana, Illinois, post-office, sixteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pana, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pontiac, Illinois, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontiac, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bloomington, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bloomington, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elwood, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elwood, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brazil, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brazil, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Goshen, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goshen, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Laporte, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laportc, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Princeton, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Princeton, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wabash, Indiana, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wabash, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ames, Iowa, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ames, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clay Center, Kansas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clay Center, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Coffeyville, Kansas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coffeyville, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Great Bend, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Bend. Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Independence, Kansas, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independence, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Parsons, Kansas, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parsons, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wellington, Kansas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wellington. Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mount Sterling, Kentucky, post-office, eleven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Sterling, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Somerset, Kentucky, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Somerset, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Crowley, Louisiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crowley, La.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Franklin, Louisiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, La.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterville, Maine, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterville, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frostburg, Maryland, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frostburg, Md.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Athol, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athol, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chelsea, Massachusetts, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chelsea, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Milford, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milford, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Westfield, Massachusetts, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Westfield, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hillsdale, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hillsdale, Mieh.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ionia, Michigan, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ionia, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monroe, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monroe, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mount Clemens, Michigan, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Clemens, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Faribault, Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Faribault, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Virginia, Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilmar, Minnesota, post-office, seventeen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmar, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brookhaven, Mississippi, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookhaven, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Corinth, Mississippi, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corinth, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greenwood, Mississippi, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenwood, Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maryville, Missouri, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryville, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mexico, Missouri, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mexico, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Billings, Montana, post-office and land office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Billings, Mont.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fairbury, Nebraska, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairbury, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Holdrege, Nebraska, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holdrege, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Goldfield, Nevada, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goldfield, Nev.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">North Platte, Nebraska, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Platte. Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/486">486</page> Asbury Park, New Jersey, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asbury Park, N.J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Burlington, New Jersey, post-office, twenty-live thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, N. J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plainfield, New Jersey, post-office, and so forth, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plainfield, N. J.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Roswell, New Mexico, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roswell, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newark, New York, post-office, eighteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newark, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Penn Yan, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penn Yan, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gastonia, North Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gastonia, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lexington, North Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington. N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilson, North Carolina, post-office, and so forth, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilson, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bismarck, North Dakota, post-office and court-house, forty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bismarck, N. Dak.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minot, North Dakota, post-office and court-house, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minot, N. Dak.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alliance, Ohio, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alliance, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ironton, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ironton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mansfield, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mansfield, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Massillon, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massillon, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Muskogee, Oklahoma, post-office, and so forth, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskogee, Okla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Albany, Oregon, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albany, Oreg.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">La Grande, Oregon, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Grande, Oreg.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pendleton, Oregon, post-office, twenty-two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pendleton. Oreg.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Braddock. Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Braddock, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bristol, Pennsylvania, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol. Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Connellsville. Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-three thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connellsville, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Homestead, Pennsylvania, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steelton, Pennsylvania, post-office, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steelton, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Westerly, Rhode Island, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Westerly, R. I.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abbeville, South Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abbeville, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Darlington, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Darlington, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gaffney, South Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gaffney, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Laurens, South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laurens, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newberry, South Carolina, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newberry, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Orangeburg. South Carolina, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orangeburg. S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Union, South Carolina, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union, S. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Huron, South Dakota, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huron, S. Dak.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dyersburg. Tennessee, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dyersburg, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harriman, Tennessee, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harriman, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Union City. Tennessee, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union City, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bonham. Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonham, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cleburne. Texas, post-ofiice. twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleburne. Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Corpus Christi, Texas, post-office and custom-house, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corpus Christi, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Del Rio, Texas, post-office and court-house, seventeen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Del Rio, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hillsboro, Texas, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hillsboro, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McKinney. Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McKinney, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mineral Wells, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral Wells, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Port Arthur, Texas, post-office and custom-house, thirteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Arthur. Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sulphur Springs, Texas, post-office, thirteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sulphur Springs, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Terrell, Texas, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terrell, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Victoria. Texas, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Victoria, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waxahachie, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waxahachie, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wichita Falls, Texas, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wichita Falls, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Park City, Utah, post-office, eleven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Park City, Utah.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brattleboro, Vermont, post-office and court-house, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brattleboro, Vt.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/487">487</page> Richford, Vermont, post-office and custom-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richford, Vt.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Big Stone Gap, Virginia, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Stone Gap, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lexington, Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Suffolk, Virginia, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suffolk, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Everett, Washington, post-office, and so forth, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Everett, Wash.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Walla Walla, Washington, post-office and court-house, thirty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walla Walla, Wash.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Morgantown, West Virginia, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morgantown, W.Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Pleasant, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stevens Point, Wis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Springs, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Point Pleasant, West Virginia, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stevens Point, Wisconsin, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock Springs, Wyoming, post-office, and so forth, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">U nder the provisions and limitations of section five of said Act, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites for buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 582.</p></sidenote> follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cullman, Alabama, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cullman, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mobile, Alabama, post-office, one hundred and twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile, Ala.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Opelika. Alabama, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opelika. Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eureka Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Searcy, Arkansas, post-office, six thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searcy, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grass Valley, California, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grass Valley, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pasadena, California, post-office, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pasadena, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grand Junction, Colorado, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Junction, Colo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greeley, Colorado, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greeley, Colo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naugatuck, Connecticut, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naugatuck. Conn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington, District of Columbia, post-office, five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington. D. C., poet-office.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Live Oak, Florida, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Live Oak, Fla.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lewes, Delaware, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewes, Del.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Petersburg, Florida, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Petersburg, Fla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Augusta, Georgia, post-office and other governmental offices, thirty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bainbridge, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bainbridge, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carrolton, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrolton, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cartersville, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cartersville. Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cedartown, Georgia, post-office,seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cedartown, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elberton, Georgia-, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elberton, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savannah, Georgia. Marine Hospital, thirteen thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga., marine hospital.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tifton, Georgia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tifton, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pocatello, Idaho, post-office and court-house, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pocatello, Idaho.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chicago, Illinois, post-office, one million two hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill., postoffice.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Duquoin. Illinois, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duquoin, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harrisburg, Illinois, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harrisburg, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rochelle, Illinois, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochelle, I11.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">South Chicago, Illinois, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Chicago, I11.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sterling, Illinois, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sterling, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Frankfort, Indiana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankfort. Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Denison, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denison, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fort Madison, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Madison, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Iowa Falls, Iowa, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa Falls, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Le Mars, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Le Mars, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Red Oak, Iowa, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Oak, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Abilene, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abilene, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beloit, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beloit, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/488">488</page> Concordia. Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concordia, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ottawa, Kansas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ottawa, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashland, Kentucky, post-office, twelve thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashland, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bardstown, Kentucky, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bardstown, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cynthiana, Kentucky, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cynthiana, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hopkinsville, Kentucky, post-office, twelve thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hopkinsville, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawrenceburg, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lafayette, Louisiana, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lafayette La.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Biddeford, Maine, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Biddeford, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Camden, Maine, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Camden, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gardiner, Maine, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gardiner, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Old Town, Maine, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Old Town, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Attleboro, Massachusetts, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attleboro. Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boston, Massachusetts, custom-house, five hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass., custom-house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Bedford, Mass.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Bedford, Massachusetts, post-office, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office, nineteen thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Battle Creek, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Petoskey, Michigan, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petoskey, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Moorhead, Minnesota, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moorhead, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Laurel, Mississippi, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laurel. Miss.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Vicksburg, Mississippi, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aurora, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aurora, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Boonville, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boonville. Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brookfield, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookfield, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chillicothe, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chillicothe, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marshall, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshall, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Poplar Bluff, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poplar Bluff, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rolla, Missouri, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rolla, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Trenton, Missouri, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Livingstone, Montana, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livingstone, Mont.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McCook, Nebraska, post-office and court-house, eightthousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McCook, Nebr.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rochester, New Hampshire, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochester, N. H.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Morristown, New Jersey, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morristown, N.J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Orange, New Jersey, post-office, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orange, N.J.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Batavia, New York, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Batavia, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Borough of Bronx. New York City, New York, post-office, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bronx Borough, N. Y.City.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cortland, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cortland, N.Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fulton, New York, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulton. N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hornell, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hornell, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mount Vernon, New York, post-office, thirty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Vernon, N.Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oneonta, New York, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oneonta, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Salamanca, New York, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salamanca, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Syracuse, New York, post-office only, seventy-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Syracuse. N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waterloo, New York, post-office,-ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterloo, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greenville, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hickory, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hickory, N.C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monroe, North Carolina, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monroe, N. C.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oxford, North Carolina, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oxford, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chickasha, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chickasha, Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Guthrie, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guthrie, Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">McAlester, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McAlester, Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tulsa, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tulsa. Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/489">489</page> Bellaire, Ohio, post-office. twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellaire. Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bellefontaine, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellefontaine, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bowling Green, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bowling Green, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cambridge. Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cambridge, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Defiance, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defiance, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Middletown, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middletown, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Steubenville, Ohio, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steubenville, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tiffin, Ohio, post-office, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tiffin, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Van Wert, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Van Wert, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wooster, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wooster, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Xenia, Ohio, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Xenia, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Corry, Pennsylvania, post-office, eighteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corry, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kittanning, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kittanning, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, post-ofiice, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ridgeway. Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunbury, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Titusville, Pennsylvania, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Titusville, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rapid City, South Dakota, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rapid City, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brookings, South Dakota, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookings, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lebanon, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lebanon, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Morristown, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morristown, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pulaski, Tennessee, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pulaski, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shelbyville, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelbyville, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Springfield, Tennessee, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Austin, Texas, post-office, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Austin, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brenham, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brenham, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brownwood, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brownwood, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clarksville, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clarksville, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cuero, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cuero, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marlin. Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlin, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marshall, Texas, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshall, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Braunfels, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Braunfels.Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nacogdoches, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nacogdoches, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Navasota, Texas, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navasota, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Weatherford, Texas, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Weatherford, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bennington, Vermont, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bennington, Vt.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Covington, Virginia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Covington, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wytheville, Virginia, post-office, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wytheville, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bedford City, Virginia, post-office, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bedford City, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Olympia, Washington, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olympia, Wash.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Elkins, West Virginia, post-ofiice, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elkins, W. Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grafton, West Virginia, post-ofiice. fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grafton, W.Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Parkersburg, West Virginia, post-office and court-house, thirty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parkersburg, W. Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sistersville, West Virginia, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sistersville, W. Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Menomonie, Wisconsin, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menomonie, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Merrill, Wisconsin, post-office, seven thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Merrill, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraisers’ stores, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milwaukee, Wis., appraisers stores.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waukesha, Wis.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waukesha, Wisconsin, post-office, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Casper, Wyoming, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casper, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Douglas, Wyoming, post-office, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Douglas, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section six of said Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Expenses of Public Buildings</inline>: To enable the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administrative expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 537.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of said Act. and under the limitations and provisions thereof, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and continue <page identifier="/us/stat/35/490">490</page> available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, but this Act shall not be construed to repeal the allowances made for personal services, in the annual appropriations under the control of the Supervising Architect, carried in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Supervising Architect</inline>: the services of skilled draftsmen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Architect’s Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Skilled draftsmen, ete.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional employees.</p></sidenote> civil engineers, computers, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessaryand specially order, may be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, in addition to those now authorized, only in the Office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for the construction of public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations made in whole or in part prior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> to July first, nineteen hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the additional expenditure on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the authorization of three hundred thousand dollars for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apportionment o f expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 201.</p></sidenote> like services as above, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall be similarly charged against public building appropriations made in whole or in part prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seven.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section seven of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 538.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Danville. Illinois, post-office, court-house, and so forth, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section eight of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 538.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office, court-house, and so forth, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ottumwa, Iowa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section ten of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 539.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Peekskill, New York, post-office, and so forth, forty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peekskill, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section eighteen of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 541.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Honolulu, Hawaii, custom-house, court-house, and so forth, thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section nineteen of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 541.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oklahoma City. Oklahoma, post-office, court-house, and so forth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma City, Okla.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the. provisions and limitations of section twenty of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 541.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shreveport, Louisiana, court-house, and so forth, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shreveport, La.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-one of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Pott</i>, p. 542.</p></sidenote> Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minneapolis. Minnesota, post-office, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minneapolis, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-two of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 542.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dayton. Ohio, post-office, court-house, and so forth, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-four of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 542.</p></sidenote> Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilmington. North Carolina, custom-house, and so forth, eighty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, N.C.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/491">491</page> Under the provisions and limitations of section twenty-nine of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p.544.</p></sidenote> Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington, District of Columbia, court-house, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-house.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty of said Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 545.</p></sidenote> as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington, District of Columbia, site for buildings for Departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D.C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 545.</p></sidenote> of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor, two million five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty-one of said Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Denver, Colorado, post-office, court-house, and so forth, fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the provisions and limitations of section thirty-two of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p.545.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Pleasant, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pond and Pond.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Point Pleasant, West Virginia, monument, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Pond and Pond the balance accruing to them for services as architects for the post-office building at Kankakee, Illinois, eighty-six dollars and fifty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay. from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pittsburg, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising bills.</p></sidenote> rental collections derived from the buildings occupying the site of the proposed new Federal building at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the bills for advertising certain of said buildings for rent, amounting in ail to four dollars and twenty cents, as set forth on page five of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Towel service.</p></sidenote> the appropriation, “Post-office, court-house, and custom-house, Richmond, Virginia.” to the Sanitary Towel Supply Company. Roscoe C. Nelson, trustee, the sum of twenty-four dollars, for towel service for the lavatories in the Shafer Building, Richmond, Virginia, during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis. Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office, sprinkling streets.</p></sidenote> appropriation for “Post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri,” the sum of twenty-two dollars and eighty-one cents to the board of public improvements of the city of Saint Louis, Missouri, for services rendered in sprinkling streets adjacent to the site of the new post office building at Saint Louis, Missouri, during the calendar year nineteen hundred and five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Westchester, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning snow.</p></sidenote> appropriation for “Post-office, Westchester, Pennsylvania,” the sum of eighteen dollars and seventy-five cents, to the widow of Frank B. Wheaton, for his services in cleaning snow from the sidewalks adjacent to the site of the new post-office building at Westchester, Pennsylvania, during the winter of nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wheeling. W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising bills.</p></sidenote> cost of advertising for proposals for the purchase of the old customhouse property at Wheeling, West Virginia, authorized to be sold by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, upon the completion of the new building, as follows: Intelligencer Publishing Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, thirty-one dollars and ninety-six cents: News Publishing Company, Wheeling, West Virginia, thirty dollars and twenty-four cents: in all, sixty-two dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bay City. Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> appropriation “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and seven,” the sum of two dollars and ten cents to the Bay Citv Times Company and the sum of two dollars and forty-five cents to the Bay City Tribune for advertising for bids for purchase of old brick taken from sidewalk surrounding the Federal building at Bay City, Michigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/492">492</page> The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to refund to Allen J.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Birmingham, Ala.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund.</p></sidenote> Krebs, of Birmingham, Alabama, from the appropriation for “ Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight,” the sum of fifty dollars, erroneously paid by him as rental for a portion of the grounds belonging to the Federal building site at Birmingham, Alabama, which said amount was covered into the Treasury to the credit of the general fund, as evidenced by certificate of deposit numbered two thousand three hundred and eighty-one, issued by the First National Bank of Birmingham on December eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay Rudge and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lincoln, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> Guenzel Company, from the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight,” the sum of four dollars and seventy cents, for certain articles and supplies furnished the Federal building at Lincoln. Nebraska, during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and two, nineteen hundred and three, nineteen hundred and four, and nineteen hundred and five.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George A. Bartlett.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> accounts of the late George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of twenty-eight dollars and sixty-two cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury Department, under the appropriation “Post-office, Saint Louis, Missouri;” also the sum of seventy-five dollars standing against him under the appropriation “Court-house, Portland. Maine.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thomas J. Hobbs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, late disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of one hundred and thirty-one dollars and fifty-five cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury Department, under the appropriation, “Plans for public buildings, nineteen hundred and eight.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New York, New York, court-house and post-office: For alterations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office, alterations, etc.</p></sidenote> and repairs, including adjustment and rebuilding of screens, bridge over light court, new stamp booths, painting first and mezzanine stories and all work incident to completing this portion of the building for the needs of the Government business after the removal of the mailing division to quarters outside of the building, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Asheville, North Carolina: For rent of temporary quarters and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asheville, N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> moving expenses, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">San Jose, California, post-office: For completing repairs, and placing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Jose, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p></sidenote> lamp standards, and so forth, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the smithsonian institution.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">National Zoological Park: For defraying the expenses for witness<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Zoological Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court expenses.</p></sidenote> fees, court costs, professional services of physicians, and other necessary charges incurred in the defense of the suit by Hannah Jackson against Frank Baker, superintendent of the park, one hundred and fifteen dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington Statue: For the transfer of the marble statue of Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statue of Washington.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferring to Smithsonian, etc.</p></sidenote> by Greenough, from the plaza in front of the Capitol to the Smithsonian Institution, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 576.</p></sidenote> and Grounds, including the construction of a foundation and a marble base, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>government in the territories.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government in the Territories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Authority is hereby granted to pay out. of the treasury of the Territory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional expenses</p></sidenote> of New Mexico, a sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, for additional employees and for contingent expenses of the thirtyeighth <page identifier="/us/stat/35/493">493</page> legislative assembly of said Territory of New Mexico, to be convened during the month of January, nineteen hundred and nine; said sum to be expended notwithstanding the Act of Congress approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 198.</p></sidenote> June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and ninety-three), and the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 161.</p></sidenote> Congress approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six (Twenty-ninth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-one).</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coroner’S Office</inline>: For amount required to pay the deputy coroner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy coroner.</p></sidenote> for services during the absence of the coroner, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five hundred and fifteen dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, sixty dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingentexpenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial expenses.</p></sidenote> appropriation for judicial expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and fifty-four dollars and eighty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s office.</p></sidenote> appropriation for coroner’s office, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required for general advertising, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> and required by law, and for school and tax notices and notices of changes in regulations, at rates not exceeding the commercial rates for advertising in the District of Columbia, being on account of the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand and twenty-nine dollars and fifty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter there shall not be paid by the government of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charges restricted.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, for general advertising authorized and required by law and for tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, rates exceeding those charged to individuals or commercial interests for similar advertising in the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Georgetown Market: New roof for Georgetown market house,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgetown market.</p></sidenote> six hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assessment and Permit Work</inline>: For additional amount required for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment and permit work.</p></sidenote> assessment and permit work, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two dollars and sixty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys</inline>: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning streets, etc.</p></sidenote> amount required for purchase or condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Rent of Wharf Property</inline>: the Commissioners of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage wharf.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, for construction material.</p></sidenote> Columbia are hereby authorized to rent wharf property for storage of construction material, at a rate not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum, for a period of one year from March first, nineteen hundred and eight, saiα sum to be paid from the appropriations for improvements and repairs, District of Columbia, and sewers, District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/494">494</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Alleys</inline>: That hereafter in cases of condemnation proceedings for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alleys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of costs in disallowed cases.</p></sidenote> opening, widening, and extending alleys and minor streets in the District of Columbia, taken pursuant to law, which fail of confirmation and ratification by the court, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to pay all costs and expenses that may be incurred in connection with such proceedings from the appropriation for “Alleys, District of Columbia.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Extension of Streets and Avenues</inline>: For additional amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of streets and avenues.</p></sidenote> required to provide the necessary funds for the payment of costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to the following public acts, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Eighth street northwest, or Wrights<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eighth street NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 247.</p></sidenote> road, District of Columbia,” approved April twentv-second, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and thirty-three dollars and fifty-five cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act authorizing the joining of Kalorama avenue,” approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kalorama avenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, pp. 514, 1010.</p></sidenote> April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, ninety-three, dollars and seventy-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act to connect Euclid place with Erie street,” approved April<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Euclid place.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 516.</p></sidenote> twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-four dollars and two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Nineteenth street from Woodley road<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nineteenth street</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1007.</p></sidenote> to Baltimore street.” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, five hundred and forty-five dollars and ninety cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Euclid street in Meridian Hill. District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Euclid street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 236.</p></sidenote> of Columbia.” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, five hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act authorizing the extension of Kalorama road northwest,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kalorama road NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 616.</p></sidenote> approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, eighty-two dollars and thirty-three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the opening of Macomb street northwest, District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Macomb street NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 853.</p></sidenote> Columbia,” approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-three dollars and eighty-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northwest, from Rhode<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mills avenue NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1244.</p></sidenote> Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of M street east of Bladensburg road,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">M street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 977.</p></sidenote> and for other purposes,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, fifty-seven dollars and three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of T street, and for other purposes,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">T street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1001.</p></sidenote> approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty-nine dollars and eighteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Harvard street, Columbia Heights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harvard street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 856.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia,” approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and nineteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the opening of Fessenden street northwest, District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fessenden street NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 855.</p></sidenote> Columbia,” approved January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and seven, four dollars and fifty-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act to provide for condemning the land necessary for joining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kalorama avenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1010.</p></sidenote> Kalorama avenue and Prescott place,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, ten dollars and seventy-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Rittenhouse street, and for other purposes,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rittenhouse street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1088.</p></sidenote> approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-nine dollars and sixty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act to provide for the extension of Geneseo place and Summit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Summit place.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 816.</p></sidenote> place. District of Columbia.” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, sixty-six dollars and twenty-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/495">495</page> “An Act for the extension of Seventh street and Franklin street<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seventh and Franklin streets NE.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 844.</p></sidenote> northeast, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-seven dollars and fifty-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Twenty-third street from S street to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twenty-third street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 252.</p></sidenote> California avenue,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and thirty-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Albemarle street,” approved April<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albemarle street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 534.</p></sidenote> twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and thirteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act authorizing the extension of Rhode Island avenue northeast.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island avenue NE.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 15.</p></sidenote> approved February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and fifty-one dollars and seventy cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act for the extension of Albemarle street northwest, District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albemarle street NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1225.</p></sidenote> of Columbia,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and seventy-one dollars and eighty-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An Act authorizing the extension of Monroe street northeast.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monroe street NE.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1222.</p></sidenote> approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, three hundred and ninety-two dollars and twelve cents; in all, two thousand nine hundred and three dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Widening V Street Northwest</inline>: For additional amount required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening V street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 520.</p></sidenote> to provide the necessary funds for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to public Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the widening of V street northwest,” to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, thirty-two dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Extension of Fourteenth Street Northwest</inline>: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extending Fourteenth street NW.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 38, p. 371.</p></sidenote> amount required to provide the necessary funds for the cost and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to law. twelve dollars and thirty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Connecting Sixteenth Street With Rock Creek Park</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Creek Park.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parkway from Sixteenth street.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1000.</p></sidenote> additional amount required for the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to the public Act approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of a connecting parkway along Piney Branch, between Sixteenth street and Rock (’reek Park, District of Columbia,” one hundred and twelve dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Disposal of City Refuse</inline>: For additional amount required to meet<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of city refuse.</p></sidenote> the objects set forth in the appropriation for disposal of city refuse, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, eight thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bathing Beach</inline>: For additional amount required for maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bathing beach.</p></sidenote> of bathing beach, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five to nineteen hundred and six. forty dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sewers</inline>: Condemnation of rights of way: For additional amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way.</p></sidenote> required for purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three hundred and seventeen dollars and fifty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, seventy-five dollars and seventy-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, seventy-six dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public Schools</inline>: Kindergarten supplies: For additional amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kindergarten sup. plies.</p></sidenote> required for kindergarten supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. two dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> directed to pay to George W. Thecker the sum of thirty-three dollars for wood furnished the public schools of the District or Columbia, on property clerk’s order numbered seventy-six hundred and thirty, without the usual certificate of inspection required by law, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/496">496</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Fire Department</inline>: Forage: For additional amount required for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote> forage, one thousand four hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, eight hundred and forty dollars and nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Juvenile Court</inline>: For additional amount required for fuel, ice. gas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juvenile court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for. for the fiscal year nineteen him-dred and seven, fifty-seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Police Court</inline>: For additional amount required for compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors.</p></sidenote> of jurors, for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, five hundred and ninety-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Police Court Building</inline>: For additional amount required to pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground for building.</p></sidenote> costs incident to condemnation of additional ground in square numbered four hundred and eighty-nine in the city of Washington, for site for new police court building, twenty-four dollars and forty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Writs of Lunacy</inline>: For additional amounts required to meet the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lunacy writs.</p></sidenote> objects set forth in the appropriations for writs of lunacy for the fiscal years that follow:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fiscal year nineteen hundred, ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington Asylum</inline>: For additional amount required for provisions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Asylum.</p></sidenote> fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs, and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Eastern Dispensary</inline>: For additional amount required for emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Dispensary.</p></sidenote> care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent Eatients, under a contract or agreement with the Eastern Dispensary y the Board of Charities, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reforji School</inline>: For additional amount required for care and maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School.</p></sidenote> of boys committed to the reform school by courts of the District of Columbia under contract with the Board of Charities by the authorities of said reform school, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Children’S Guardians</inline>: the sum of one thousand one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Childrens’ Guardians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of balances.</p></sidenote> hundred and four dollars and fifty cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for board and care of children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District and for temporary care of children pending investigation, or while being transferred from place to place, for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available for payment to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, in addition to the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars authorized and paid from said appropriation to said institutions during the fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Home for the Aged and Infirm</inline>: For additional amount required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and Infirm.</p></sidenote> for additional steam boiler, including foundations, piping, and necessary expenses of installation, fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Municipal Almshouse</inline>: For additional amount required for acquiring,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal almshouse.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> by purchase or condemnation, additional ground, being part of lot seven in the subdivision of Bellevue or Blue Plains, containing nineteen acres, more or less, bounded on three sides by the ground <page identifier="/us/stat/35/497">497</page> purchased by the District of Columbia for site for a municipal almshouse and burial place for indigent dead, six dollars and sixty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Health Department</inline>: the unexpended balance of the appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance reappropriated.</p></sidenote> of twenty-live thousand dollars for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven provided for the enforcement of various laws to prevent the spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, is hereby reappropriated and continued available until .1 une thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, to meet the objects set forth in the law granting said appropriation, including expenditures for objects of like character necessary for the enforcement of an Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis cases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 126.</p></sidenote> Congress approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, to provide for the registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Judgments</inline>: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty, of this session, twenty thousand eight hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety cents and for additional judgments amounting to ninety-six dollars and ninety-five cents, in all, twenty thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars and eighty-five cents, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, atnot exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of Convicts</inline>: To pay amounts found due by the accounting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of convicts.</p></sidenote> officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Support of convicts, District of Columbia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital for the Insane</inline>: For additional amount required for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital for Insane.</p></sidenote> support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, sixteen thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reimbursement of Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia. Baltimore And Washington Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Careof Long Bridge.</p></sidenote> Railroad Company</inline>: For reimbursement of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company for the cost of maintenance of the Long Bridge from February Twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, to December eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six, six thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars and sixteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reservations for United States Government</inline>: For amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation of triangles.</p></sidenote> required to meet the costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings taken pursuant to section twenty-two of the Act of June thirtieth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 787.</p></sidenote> 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,” four hundred and thirty-three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wholly from United States revenues.</p></sidenote> dollars, payable wholly from the revenues of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Amendment of Section Two, District Appropriation Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary Employees on Streets, Etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, P. 1155.</p></sidenote> Fiscal Year Nineteen Hundred And Eight</inline>: That Section two of the District of Columbia appropriation Act, approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, placing a limitation on expenditures for purposes specified therein of sixty thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby amended by increasing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit increased.</p></sidenote> said limitation to sixty-six thousand dollars during said fiscal year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/498">498</page></p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anny.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, the unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances reappropriated.</p></sidenote> balances of the appropriations for pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars, are hereby reappropriated and made available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For increased pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 108.</p></sidenote> the provisions of the army appropriation Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of Military Academy: Professor of ordnance and science of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Professor of ordnance and gunnery.</p></sidenote> gunnery: One. lieutenant-colonel in addition to pay as captain, mounted, one hundred and eleven dollars and twelve cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers and enlisted men at the Military Academy, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 109.</p></sidenote> the provisions of the army appropriat ion Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cost of survey of a portion of the Fort Caswell Military Reservation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Caswell. N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of reservation.</p></sidenote> near Wilmington, North Carolina, including services of engineer and assistants in making said survey under order of the court, in the case of Thompson versus Harmon, now pending in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of North Carolina, seven hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be assigned by the court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ira L. Fredendall.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowauce in accounts.</p></sidenote> to allow the sum of one hundred and sixty-four dollars in the settlement of the accounts of Captain Ira L. Fredendall, quartermaster, United States Army, being the cost of transportation of the remains of Sergeant Louis Lemay, Company F, Fifteenth Infantry, from Monterey, California, to his home in Marlboro, Massachusetts, af the request of the family of the deceased, one hundred and sixty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edward N. Johnston.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> accounts of First Lieutenant Edward N. Johnston, Corps of Engineers, the sum of one thousand three hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to credit in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mark Brooke.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> accounts of Lieutenant Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineers, the sum of eighty-five dollars now standing against him on the books of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby directed to credit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oran Perry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> in the accounts of Brigadier-General Oran Perry, adjutant-general and disbursing officer, Organized Militia, State of Indiana, the sum of five hundred and fifty-three dollars and sixty cents now standing against him on the books of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The. accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they arc hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. S. Bingham.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in accounts.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to allow the sum of three hundred and twenty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents in the accounts of Major G. S. Bingham, Quartermaster’s Department, on account of charges paid for the storage of baggage of officers on duty with the forces in military occupation of the island of Cuba during the interval between their return to New York on May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, and their subsequent assignment to stations in the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The proper accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts for furnishing officers quarters.</p></sidenote> directed to credit the following-named officers with the sums set oppo-site <page identifier="/us/stat/35/499">499</page> their respective names in the settlement of their accounts for furniture purchased by them by authority of the Secretary of War for public buildings at posts, including expenditures for the equipment of messes for bachelor officers:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Captain Charles C. Ballou. Twelfth Infantry, assistant quartermaster,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles C. Ballou.</p></sidenote> Presidio of Monterey, California, ninety-eight dollars and sixty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Captain Leon S. Roudiez, assistant quartermaster, Fort Riley, Kansas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leon S. Roudiez.</p></sidenote> seven hundred and eighty-four dollars and eighty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Captain George C. Barnhardt, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George C. Barnhardt.</p></sidenote> thousand six hundred and thirty-five dollars and sixty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lieutenant William J. Davis, Eighth Infantry, assistant quartermaster,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William J. Davis.</p></sidenote> Fort Slocum, New York, one thousand live hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lieutenant Willis C. Metcalf, Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willis C. Metcalf.</p></sidenote> Maryland, two hundred and six dollars and seventy-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Captain Courtland Nixon, quartermaster’s department. Fort Oglethorpe,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courtland Nixon.</p></sidenote> Georgia, one thousand three hundred and eighty-two dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse First Lieutenant Charles E. Morton, Sixteenth United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles E. Morton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1324.</p></sidenote> States Infantry, the amount refunded by him to the United States Government to cover loss of public funds for which he was accountable, and which were stolen at Echague, province of Isabela, Luzon. Philippine Islands, without fault or neglect on his part, one hundred and eighty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of sixty thousand dollars appropriated.for the erection and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan. P. R.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1172.</p></sidenote> completion of a military hospital at San Juan, Porto Rico, under Construction and Repair of Hospitals, in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-Fourth Statutes, page eleven hundred and seventy-two), is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the erection and completion of said hospital.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to the post exchange, Fort Moultrie, South Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Moultrie, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchange.</p></sidenote> of an amount pertaining thereto, which was erroneously deposited in the Treasury to the credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the payment by the Secretary of War of the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jennie Carroll and Mabel H. Lazear.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1325.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month to Jennie Carroll, widow of James Carroll, major and surgeon, United States Army, and the like sum per month to Mabel H. Lazear. widow of Doctor Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant contract surgeon, United States Army, as provided by law, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of certain claims approved by the Auditor of the War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forts Heath and Banks. Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages for artillery firing.</p></sidenote> Department for damages done to private property by the firing of heavy guns at Forts Heath and Banks. Winthrop, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of twenty-four approved claims, exclusive of claim<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims for damages.</p></sidenote> numbered two hundred thirty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, provided for in the preceding paragraph, for damages to and loss of private property belonging to citizens of the United States and the Philippine Islands, estimated for on page four hundred and six, House Document numbered twelve, Sixtieth Congress, first session, four thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars and thirty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Claims for Property Taken From Confederate Officers And<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property of Confederate Soldiers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time Extended For Presenting Claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, P. 43.</p></sidenote> Soldiers After Surrender</inline>: the time for filing claims under the provisions of the Act of February twenty-seventh, nine hundred and two, and amendments thereto, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, and for the payment thereof is extended for twelve months from the passage of this Act; and all claims not presented within this time shall be forever barred.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/500">500</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Payment to the State of Texas</inline>: To reimburse the State of Texas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement for defense of frontier.</p></sidenote> in full settlement of all claims of any nature whatever on account of moneys actually expended by that State after June twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty, from appropriations made by the legislature of the State of Texas before that date in payment of State volunteers or rangers called into service by authority of the governor of Texas in defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations, for which reimbursement has not been made out of the Treasury of the United States, as ascertained under the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1224.</p></sidenote> Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and certified in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-nine, first session Fifty-ninth Congress, twenty-one thousand three hundred and ninety-five dollars and ninety-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">General Depot for United States Army Supplies At Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mason, Cal., Depot.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction Authorized To Proceed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, P. 257,</p></sidenote> Mason, California</inline>: the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to proceed with the construction of the General Depot for the Supply Departments of the United States Army at Fort Mason. California, authorized by the Army Appropriation Act approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, without waiting for the completion of the condemnation proceedings which have been instituted with a view to the acquisition of certain submerged lands which are necessary for the construction of the wharves and buildings constituting said depot; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securing title waived.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 355, p. 60.</p></sidenote> the requirements of section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States are hereby suspended in their application to this case.</p>
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</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Secretary.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay from the appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ballantyne and Sons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> for library, Navy Department, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, voucher in favor of Ballantyne and Sons, Washington. District of Columbia, for city directories, amounting to twenty-nine dollars, purchased for the library of the Navy Department, the Comptroller of the Treasury having decided, after the obligation was incurred, that the appropriation for library, Navy Department, being for “professional and technical books and periodicals,” was not available for said payment.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Charles W. Stewart, for services in compiling the volume<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles W. Stewart.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> commemorative of John I’aul Jones, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hydrographic office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay an account of Fred. A. Schmidt for three yards of mounted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fred. A. Schmidt.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> drawing paper, the bill for which was not received until after the balance of the appropriation had been carried to the surplus fund, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, six dollars and ten cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval observatory.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Observatory.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and stationery; freight (including the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizer, and all contingent expenses, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams: material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation: paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, four hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/501">501</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NAVAL ESTABLASHMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval establishment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of the navy.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Pay of the Navy,” for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1176.</p></sidenote> the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, volume thirty-four, page eleven hundred and seventy-six, section one), four hundred and fifty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In computing the pay of retired officers of the Navy, the ten per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea duty, etc., not to be computed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of commodore.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 128.</p></sidenote> cent additional pay allowed for sea duty or for shore duty beyond the continental limits of the United States shall not be included, and the pay of commodore shall be the same in all respects as that of rearadmiral, second nine.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>general account of advances.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General account of advances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 167.</p></sidenote> June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes, one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, there is appropriated as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> forty-seven dollars and forty-four cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and twenty-six cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and two, forty-eight dollars and sixty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and one, sixteen cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred, fourteen cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay. miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> forty dollars and five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay. miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand four hundred and forty-nine, dollars and eighty-live cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and seven dollars and eighty-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Navy, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote> and fourteen dollars and forty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, two dollars and thirty-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, fourteen dollars and twenty-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-four dollars and seventy-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, six hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, fifteen dollars and seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, thirty-one dollars and fourteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, eighty-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, ten dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/502">502</page> For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five, twenty dollars and thirty-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, ten cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and live, sixty-two dollars and fifty-nine cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and four, fortyeight dollars and twenty-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and three, fifty-two dollars and seventy-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and two, sixty-two dollars and thirty-three cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote> five, fifty-two dollars and eleven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, thirty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For recruiting. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, three hundred find sixty-two dollars and ten cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, forty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, twenty-seven dollars and eighty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and three, thirteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation, recruiting, and contingent. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two. one hundred and eighty-nine dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and eleven dollars and thirty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and five, sixty-five dollars and six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment. Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-six dollars and fifty-six cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and two. forty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote> hundred and five, seventy-six dollars and seventy-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and live, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirty-four cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote> and five, fourteen dollars and sixty-two cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, fifty-six dollars and sixteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels. Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and two. fifty-seven dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For coal and transportation, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, four dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, nineteen hundred and four, eight hundred and seventy dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote> and five, fifty-one dollars and seventy-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance. Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and four, fifteen dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surger.v.</p></sidenote> hundred and four, one hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, fifty-one dollars and forty-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/503">503</page> For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-live cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and four dollars and thirty-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nineteen hundred and three, seventeen dollars and forty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote> and five, three hundred and ninety-nine dollarsand eighty-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, eight thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and twelve cents:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and five, eight hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and twenty-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and tweņty-six dollars and fifty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and fiftv-two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote> and five, fifteen dollars and eighty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and fifty-one cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and two, three dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief of George T. Pettengill (Act January twenty-fifth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George T. Pettengill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 2306.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 29.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven), four hundred and eighty-four dollars and ninety-seven cents: in all. forty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “ Pay of the Navy,” two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Outfits on first enlistment,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The members of the class of midshipmen graduated from the Naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissions to cetain midshipmen.</p></sidenote> Academy on September twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, and February eleventh, nineteen hundred and seven, shall, subject to the usual examinations, be commissioned as ensigns after two years’ sea service from the dates, respectively, of such graduation, and as in the case of other graduates from the Naval Academy.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, namely, freight to foreign stations, advertising,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> cartage and express charges, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations, tolls, ferriage, foreign postage, and telegrams to and from the Bureau, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and ninety-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new powder magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mifflin, Pa., magazine.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New building, etc.</p></sidenote> lightning protection, track connections, and so forth, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine hundred and eighty-four dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/504">504</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of coal and other fuel for steamer’s and ship’s use, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal and transportation.</p></sidenote> other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of medicine and surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supplement the appropriation bringing home remains of officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home remains.</p></sidenote> and men, Navy and Marine Corps, who die abroad, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, three thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expressage, fuel, books and blanks, stationery, advertising, furniture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> and interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee mills and repairs thereto; expenses ot naval clothing factory and machinery for same, postage, telegrams, telephones, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s stores, safes, newspapers, ice, and other incidental expenses, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The auditor for the Navy Department is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Herbert E. Stevens.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> directed to credit, in the settlement of the accounts of Paymaster Herbert E. Stevens, United States Navy, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-eight cents, being the value of clothing and small stores stolen from him by Chief Yeoman Oscar S. Kelley, United States Navy, and which has been charged against his accounts on the books of the Treasury Department.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of steam engineering.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount reported by accounting officers of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam machinery.</p></sidenote> Treasury, April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, as found in the adjustment of appropriations to be due the appropriation “General account of advances.” being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. five thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine gorps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount of deficiencv in appropriation for pay of the Marine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> Corps, reported by the Auditor for the Navy Department, under date of January twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eight, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and thirty-three thousand four hundred and thirteen dollars and eighty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Credit in Accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel George Richards,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Richards.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in Accounts.</p></sidenote> Assistant Paymaster, United States Marine Corps</inline>: the Auditor for the Navy Department is authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of Lieutenant-Colonel George Richards, assistant paymaster, United States Marine Corps, for the second quarter, nineteen hundred and five, under the appropriation “Pay Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and five,” the amount disallowed pursuant to decision by the Comptroller of the Treasury, August seventh, nineteen hundred and five, as excess travel allowance on discharge of certain enlisted men, aggregating fifty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Provisions, Marine Corps</inline>: Including items specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> this head in naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, Marine Corps, including items specified under this head<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> in naval appropriation Act, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/505">505</page> For hire of quarters, Marine Corps, including items specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hire of quarters.</p></sidenote> this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For military stores, Marine Corps, including items specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military stores.</p></sidenote> this head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand three hundred and sixty-three dollars and fifty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and ten dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, including items specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, seven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, three hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifteen dollars and forty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, including items specified<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of barracks.</p></sidenote> under this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and fifty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, Marine Corps, including items specified under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-nine dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, including items<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation and recruiting.</p></sidenote> specified under this head in naval appropriation Acts, for fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and forty-one dollars and thirty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ninety-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hire of quarters. Marine Corps, including items specified under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hire of quarters.</p></sidenote> this head in naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ninety-four dollars and fifty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, Marine Corps, including items specified under this head in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> naval appropriation Act, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand one hundred and thirty-three dollars and twenty-six cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ and pay, during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of classified employees from lump appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 159.</p></sidenote> the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, out of the lump appropriations of the several bureaus of the Navy Department, such classified civil-service employees as may be necessary to properly perform the clerical, drafting, inspection, messenger, and other classified work at the several navy-yards and stations: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detailed estimates required.</p></sidenote> Navy shall submit to Congress detailed estimates for all such classified civil-service employees that may be required to be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. and annually thereafter, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment forbidden hereafter unless specially provided for.</p></sidenote> no such classified civil-service employees shall be employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, or in any subsequent fiscal year, and paid from such lump appropriations except under specific authorization granted by law from year to year based upon estimates as herein required.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/506">506</page></proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>INTERIOR DEPARTAIENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>capitol building and repairs.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Capitol,</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balances of the appropriations of the fiscal years<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stupended items allowed.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and seven, and nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, for payment of the items disallowed and suspended by the Auditor for the Interior Department against the appropriation Capitol Building and repairs, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, amounting to two thousand and five dollars and ninety-one cents, and for work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the eenter 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.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse George S, Cunningham and H. M. Sullivan for loss<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George S. Cunningham and H. M. Sullivan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> of time and doctors’ fees on account of injuries received while employed in the construction of the office building for the House of Representatives, two hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay M. H. Mosman for material and labor for repairing damage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">M. H. Mosman.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> due to accident in erection of bronze doors, House wing of Capitol, one thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for lighting the Capitol<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fixtures for House Office Building.</p></sidenote> buildinganil grounds, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine for the purchase of lighting fixtures for the House Office Building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the Potomac Electric and Power Company for furnishing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric current.</p></sidenote> electric current for House Office Building for the, months of January, February, March. April, and for estimated sum required for electric current for the months of May and June, nineteen hundred and eight, fifteen thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate kitehen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance for general repairs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 653.</p></sidenote> improvements in the Senate kitehen. and so forth, provided for in the deficiency Act approved June, thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby reappropriated and made available for work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public land service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to Truman G. Daniells, register, and Sargent S. Morton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truman G. Daniells and Sargent S. Morton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> late receiver, of the United States land office at Oakland, formerly San Francisco. California, the difference between the amount of compensation received by them for services rendered in the conduct of said office from June second, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and the maximum compensation of three thousand dollars per annum each allowed by law, but which they were deprived of earning owing to the destruction of the office at San Francisco by earthquake and fire on April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and six. four thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy surveyors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> and resurveys of public lands executed by them and necessary to complete the surveys under their contracts, being the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, as fully set forth on page twenty-five of House</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/507">507</page> Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Howard B. Carpenter the balance due him for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Howard B. Carpenter.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying Idaho and Montana boundary.</p></sidenote> survey of boundary line between the States of Idaho and Montana, under contract dated February tenth, nineteen hundred and four, two thousand four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indian office.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one clerk of class three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk.</p></sidenote> and nine, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reclamation service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse certain disbursing agents of the United States Reclamation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursing disbursing agents.</p></sidenote> Service for losses sustained by them on service payments made during July and August, nineteen hundred and six, in accordance with prior regulations, the. notice of change in methods of payments for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 763.</p></sidenote> services under the provisions of section six of the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, not having been brought to their attention until after such payments had been made, and which were subsequently disallowed in their accounts and the amounts repaid by them to the United States from their personal funds, as fully set forth on page twenty-six of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty of the present session, one hundred and four dollars and sixty-one cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>INDIAN AFFAIRS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasing, etc., supplies.</p></sidenote> Service, advertising, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing and telephoning, and for transportation of Indian goods and supplies for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand dollars. ’</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Black feet Indian Reservation, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying, allotting, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1035.</p></sidenote> allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight,” three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands and town sites of said reservation, three thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PENSIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army and Navy.</p></sidenote> children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy from naval fund.</p></sidenote> the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: <i>And provided furthe</i>r, That the amount expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separate accounts.</p></sidenote> under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately, ten million dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/508">508</page></proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Commerce and Labor.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of the Secretary.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William L.Soleau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of William L. Soleau, disbursing clerk, Department of Commerce and Labor, the sum of four dollars and seventy-two cents, disallowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments, from his accounts for the quarter ended September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of immigration and naturalization.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immigration.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of mechanical equipments and incidental construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellis Island, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious disease hospital buildings.</p></sidenote> work in the buildings of the contagious disease hospital group at Ellis Island, New York; and for leveling, tilling and grading approaches to these buildings, and constructing sidewalks, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for “Expenses of regulating immigration,” one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refund to the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique of an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compagnie Generale Transatlantique.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund.</p></sidenote> amount erroneously collected from said company for hospital treatment of the aliens Öfeana and Sarqαis Persigian, from January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, inclusive, to be paid from the appropriation “ Expenses of regulating immigration,” two hundred and seventy-three dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing the restoration of the Point Arena light-station,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Arena, Cal., light-station.</p></sidenote> California, five thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of fisheries.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fisheries Bureau.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction and repair of buildings at Baird, California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baird, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fish hatchery.</p></sidenote> and auxiliary stations, and the improvement of water supply, eight hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> 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, one thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and installation of a heating plant at the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McNeil Island, Wash., penitentiary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating plant.</p></sidenote> States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Attorney-General to employ, at his discretion, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opinions of Attorney-General, Volume 26.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation.</p></sidenote> irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, such competent person or persons, as will, in his judgment, best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume twenty-six of the Opinions of the Attorney-General, five hund red dollars; the printing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 383, p. 63.</p></sidenote> of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending suits in claims.</p></sidenote> 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, for the fiscal year nineteen bundled and seven, six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment to Guard P. S. Petersen, at Fairbanks. Alaska,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">P. S. Petersen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and thirty-three dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/509">509</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of district attorneys and marshals for Oklahoma, from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys and marshals.</p></sidenote> November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum each, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks for the fiscal years as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks’ fees.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, ten thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars and nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four hundred and forty-seven dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Attorney-General to pay, on the certificate of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land fraud cases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to witnesses.</p></sidenote> clerk of the court, each of the witnesses in the trial of the case of the United States against Hyde, Dimond, Benson, and Schneider in the District of Columbia, who attend said trial from outside of the District of Columbia, in addition to the amounts that may be paid them under authority of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, a sum equal to three dollars per day for each day actually occupied in attendance on said trial, including the days necessarily occupied in traveling from and returning to their homes, the number of days consumed or to be consumed in such travel to be evidenced by affidavits filed with the clerk of the court, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> 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, for the fiscal years, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and fifty dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, sixty dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty-six dollars and seventy-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of court rooms.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplies for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for pay of bailiffs and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bailiffs, etc.</p></sidenote> criers of United States courts, including all objects of expenditure under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of United States prisoners, including all objects of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supportof prisoners.</p></sidenote> expenditure under this title of appropriation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of inmates, including storeroom supplies and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School, D. C.</p></sidenote> necessary articles and supplies, for the Reform School, Washington, District of Columbia, two thousand seven hundred dollars.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/510">510</page></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COURT OF CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Court of Claims, fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. A. Birney.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, to pay the account of A. A. Birney, administrator, of the estate of Allen C. McLean, for repairs made to furniture, thirteen dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, Court of Claims, fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pope Manufacturing Company.</p></sidenote> hundred and six, to pay the account of the Pope Manufacturing Company for one bicycle tire furnished for use on the bicycle used by the court messenger, three dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to Lucien B. Howry for services rendered the Court<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lucien B. Howry.</p></sidenote> of Claims during the month of May, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and eight dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<content class="inline">For indexes and filing devices, one thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing devices, etc.</p></sidenote></content>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse certain postmasters for amounts paid on account of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire.</p></sidenote> clerk hire during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, six hundred and fifty-six dollars and thirteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail-messenger service, forty-seven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mai1-messenger service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wagon service.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, forty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary official expenses of assistant superintendents, railway<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendents, railwaymail service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity, registered mail.</p></sidenote> mail service, not covered by per diem allowance, four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first-class registered matter on account of fiscal years as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay amounts found due by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department and certified in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty, of the present session, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">City delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery.</p></sidenote> five and prior years, three thousand and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous, first and second class offices.</p></sidenote> and five and prior years, one thousand three hundred and forty dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rural delivery service, rural agents, salary and per diem, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery.</p></sidenote> hundred and five and prior years, fifty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rural delivery service, incidental expenses, nineteen hundred and five and prior years, nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and twenty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote> seven, two thousand eight hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Special-delivery service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special delivery.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, forty dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star routes.</p></sidenote> seven, seven thousand and forty-seven dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, forty dollars and seventeen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To close the account of the Doremus Machine Company for canceling<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doremus Machine Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>,</p></sidenote> machines furnished during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/511">511</page> That said sum shall be accepted by said company in full of all claim<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance in full.</p></sidenote> and demand against the United States arising under their contract with the United States, dated May sixth, nineteen hundred and two.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra month’s pay to employees.</p></sidenote> Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and eight, including the Capitol police, the official reporters of the Senate and House, and W. A. Smith, Congressional Record Clerk, for extra services during the first session of the Sixtieth Congress, a sum equal to one month’s pay at the compensation then paid them by law. the same to be immediately available.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Sara Alice Latimer, widow of Honorable Asbury C. Latimer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asbury C. Latimer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> late a Senator from the State of South Carolina, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Emily J. Proctor, widow of Honorable Redfield Proctor, late<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redfield Proctor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> a Senator from the State of Vermont, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Janet G. A. Bryan, widow of Honorable William James<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William James Bryan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> Bryan, late a Senator from the State of Florida, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to Joseph Whyte and Clymer Whyte, sons, and to William<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Pinkney Whyte.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to children and grandchildren.</p></sidenote> Pinkney Whyte, Charles G. Whyte, Mary T. Wallbrecht, and William Hollingsworth Whyte, grandchildren, of Honorable William Pinkney Whyte, late a Senator from the State of Maryland, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay to Ida Mallory, Stephen R. Mallory, Kathleen Mallory. Ruby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stephen R. Mallory.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to nephews and nieces.</p></sidenote> Mallory Fisher, Cora Mallory, Nellie Mallory Pasco, and Stephen R. Mallory Kennedy, nephews and nieces of Honorable Stephen R. Mallory, late a Senator from the State of Florida, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and mileage of Senators, eight thousand four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senators.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and mileage.</p></sidenote> and forty dollars and sixty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra expenses.</p></sidenote> the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay William M. Malloy for reporting hearings before the Committee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William M. Malloy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> on Foreign Relations on Wireless Telegraph Treaty and consular bill, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Robert W. Farrar, for indexing and for extra services as clerk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Robert W. Farrar.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Dennis M. Kerr, for services as assistant clerk by detail to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dennis M. Kerr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> the Committee on Pensions, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay for extra services rendered to the Committee on Military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee on Military Affairs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra services to.</p></sidenote> Affairs during the investigation of the Brownsville affray, from January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seven, during the recess of the Senate, and until March eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, as authorized by Senate Resolution Numbered Two hundred and eight, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session, as follows: To L. M. Wells, two thousand dollars; to J. A. Brcekons. one thousand two hundred dollars; to C. E. Lane, six hundred dollars; to Ray Colwell, one hundred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/512">512</page> dollars; to Joseph Carter, one hundred dollars; to E. L. Cornelius, six hundred dollars; to Peter Roily, one hundred dollars; to John R. Williams, one hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay J. H. Jones for extra services in the care of the Senate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. H. Jones.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> chronometer and for the work in connection therewith, one hundred dollars for the first session of the Sixtieth Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay N. M. Wakefield for service rendered in preparing a tracer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">N. M. Wakefield.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> of legislation, and notifying the members of the Senate of the movements of the Senate bills, one thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation, Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.</p></sidenote> from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, thirteen thousand two hundred and forty-three dollars and fourteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of Adolph Meyer, late a Representative in Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adolph Meyer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of Louisiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the widow of A. L. Brick, late a Representative in Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A. L. Brick.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to widow.</p></sidenote> from the State of Indiana, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contested election expenses.</p></sidenote> incurred in contested election cases as audited and recommended by the committees on elections:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stanley II. Kunz, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stanley H. Kunz.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charles McGavin, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles McGavin.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Adolph J. Sabath, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adolph J.Sabath.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Anthony Michalek, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anthony Miehalek</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aaron P. Prioleau, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aaron P. Prioleau.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">George S. Legare, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George S. Legare.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">J. O. Patterson, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. O. Patterson.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A. F. Lever, two thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">A.F. Lever.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">William B. Cravens, five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William B. Cravens.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneousitems, etc.</p></sidenote> committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> including stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For telephone service for House Office Building for last half of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephone service.</p></sidenote> fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Eire of horses, feed, repair of wagons and harness for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doorkeeper.</p></sidenote> Doorkeeper’s office, three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and nine, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay J. E. Rose balance due on account for delivery of coal to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. E. Rose.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> House Office Building instead of to House wing of Capitol building, five hundred and thirty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse the official reporters of debates and the official<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters and stenographer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra expenses.</p></sidenote> stenographers to committees for moneys actually paid out by them for clerical hire and extra clerical services from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and to John J. Cameron, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay L. W. Busbey for services as clerk of the Committee on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">L. W. Busbey.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> Rules, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/513">513</page> To pay James Dent and J. F. Kelly one hundred dollars each for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James Dent and J. F. Kelly.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">J. C. Stewart.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> caring for rooms of Committee on Appropriations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay J. C. Stewart for caring for and regulating the House chronometer one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Foster Scoll for services as additional clerk to the Committee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foster Scoll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> on Enrolled Bills one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Alexander McDowell, Clerk of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alexander McDowell.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compiling, etc., contested election cases.</p></sidenote> the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading of proof, indexing of testimony, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections to the Sixtieth Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled, “An Act relating to contested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p.445.</p></sidenote> elections, approved March second, eighteen hundred and eightyseven,” the sum of one thousand dollars, and an additional sum of live hundred dollars to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said Alexander McDowell, and in such proportion as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For janitor to the Committee on Arts and Expositions during the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee on Arts and Expositions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitor.</p></sidenote> fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>library of congress.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The accounting officers of the Treasury Department arc authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bernard R. Green.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit in accounts.</p></sidenote> and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Bernard R. Green, superintendent Library building and grounds, such sums as he expended during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, not exceeding the sum of three hundred and ten dollars, in compensation of certain employees of the Library for additional employment as guides for the building. Library of Congress, sections seventeen hundred and sixty-four and seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, notwithstanding, the same not to involve the further payment of money from the Treasury.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public printing and binding.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> 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 Dist rict of Columbia, t he 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 rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for bicycles, horses, wagons, and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence or 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 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, on account of the fiscal years, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, including a sufficient<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aeting Public Printer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary, etc.</p></sidenote> sum to pay the Acting Public Printer the difference between his salary and the salary of the Public Printer from the date of suspension of the Public Printer to the date of the qualification of his successor, and to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/514">514</page> reimburse him the amount he paid for his bond as Acting Public Printer, live hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixtyeight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Navy Department, for the use of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hydrographic Office.</p></sidenote> the Hydrographic Office, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing, binding, and easing the Navy Code, to continue available<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy Code.</p></sidenote> during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil Service Commission.</p></sidenote> thousand seven hundred and three dollars and forty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Executive Office, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Office.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, night duty.</p></sidenote> as messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress, for extra services, five hundred dollars each: in all, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay William S. Rossiter for services in conducting, by direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William S. Rossiter.</p></sidenote> of the President, an investigation of the affairs and operations of the Government Printing Office, and reporting thereon, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Services.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Court of Claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the paymentof the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-eight and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-eight, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under legislative—Miscellaneous, one thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under War Department, seventy-seven thousand three hundred and eighty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Navy Department, twenty-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-four dollars and fourteen cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Post-Office Department, seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight dollars and twenty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Justice, two thousand two hundred and fiftyeight dollars and seventy-five cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Commerce and Labor, three thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Agriculture, ten thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-eight cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under Department of Interior, seven hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred sixty-six dollars and eighty-seven cents; in all, nine hundred and eighteen thousand three hundred and fifty-eight dollars and eight cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That none of the judgments herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> provided for shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> depredation cases, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and seventy-eight and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred, one hundred and forty-four thousand <page identifier="/us/stat/35/515">515</page> and ninety-four dollars; said judgments to be paid after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions.</p></sidenote> deductions required to be made under the provisions ot section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 853.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and paymentof claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to he for the interests of the Indian Service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney-General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.</proviso></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judgments, United States courts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pavment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 505.</p></sidenote> March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-four and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-nine, and which have not been appealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the War Department, two hundred and twenty-two dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote> and fifty-four cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under the Navy Department, one thousand and forty-five dollars; in all, one thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-four cents, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That none of the judgments herein provided for shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of interest at the rate of four per centum per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 507.</p></sidenote> annum, in accordance with section ten of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, upon the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, certified to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-five, the principal of which was provided for in the deficiency Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 26.</p></sidenote> February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, so much money therefor as may be necessary.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>AWARDS SPANISH TREATY CLAIMS COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the awards made by the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Awards.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 879.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and one, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-nine, of the present session, two hundred and forty-four thousand and eighty-five dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2</num> <chapeau class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims certified by accounting officers.</p></sidenote> due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section <page identifier="/us/stat/35/516">516</page> two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23, p. 254.</p></sidenote> as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Eight hundred and eighty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collecting the revenue from customs, three hundred and thirty-nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> dollars and thirty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For redemption of stamps, fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding taxes illegally collected, six hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, four hundred and sixty-two dollars and eighty-six cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, two thousand five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote> eight dollars and seventy-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, four hundred and five dollars and seventy-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, eight dollars and sixteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For barracks and quarters, one thousand and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For military post exchanges, ninety-seven dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, five thousand nine hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For medical and hospital department, seven dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies of fortifications, including fieldworks, forty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For headstones for graves of soldiers, one dollar and thirty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For burial of indigent soldiers, thirty six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to State of Delaware, account of war of eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware.</p></sidenote> and twelve to eighteen hundred and fifteen, eighty-three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For refunding to States expenses incurred in raising volunteers, ninety-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, thirty-nine dollars and one cent.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, three thousand and eighteen dollars and fifty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote> cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, six dollars and fifty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, one thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, five thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, two dollars and twelve cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, seventeen dollars and five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/517">517</page> For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen thousand seven hundred and five dollars and eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent. Bureau of Ordnance, fifty-four dollars and fourteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, nine hundred and sixty-three dollars and seventy-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, twenty-four dollars and eighty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, twenty-one dollars and fifteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair, three thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steam machinery. Bureau of Steam Engineering, one thousand and thirty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and preservation at navy-yards, nine hundred and five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, naval service. Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, sixty dollars and forty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlistment bounties to seamen, seven hundred and thirty-two dollars and one cent.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, fifty-eight thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> and twenty dollars and thirty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Geological Survey, thirty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school buildings, four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of Indian supplies, eighty dollars and thirtyeight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado, twenty dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For town-site commissioners, Indian Territory, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidentals in North Dakota, nineteen hundred and seven, twentyeight dollars and four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, six dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying Pine Ridge and Standing Rock reservations, four thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars and ninety-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For irrigation. Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), six dollars and forty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pensions, widows and others, one hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-eight cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE. AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries and expenses. United States court for China, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, one hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventyeight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, consular service, ten dollars and eighty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, twenty-five dollars and sixty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and seven, three thousand eight hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/518">518</page> For soil investigations, live dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses, Weather Bureau, thirty-one dollars and thirteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, eight dollars and six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of light vessels, five dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of buoyage, eighty-two dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general expenses. Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals. United States courts, four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of clerks, United States courts, two hundred and forty-five dollars and seventy cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees of commissioners, United States courts, seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of prisoners, United States courts, seven dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, one dollar.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Post-Office Department.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For city-delivery service, incidental expenses, two dollars and fifty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk hire, separating, fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland mail transportation, star, one thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For limited indemnity for lost registered mail, three hundred and twenty-three dollars and thirteen cents.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <chapeau class="inline">That for the payment of the following claims, certified to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional claims.</p></sidenote> be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 110.</p></sidenote> Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p.254.</p></sidenote> as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and ninety-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content class="inline">For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.</p></sidenote> thousand six hundred and ten dollars and forty-nine cents.</content>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, and so forth, of the Army, six hundred and ninety-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.</p></sidenote> dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For encampment and maneuvers, organized militia, two hundred and fifty-three dollars and thirty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Army, seventy-seven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of the Army and its supplies, three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/519">519</page> For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, eighty-six dollars and sixty-nine cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.</heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Navy, four thousand seven hundred and five dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.</p></sidenote> and fourteen cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, miscellaneous, three dollars and fifty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Navy, seventy-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay, Marine Corps, three hundred and eighty-one dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent, Marine Corps, seven hundred and forty-two dollars and ninety-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, six thousand two hundred and thirty-four dollars and sixty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, two thousand nine hundred and fifty-three dollars and fifty-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five hundred and three dollars and twenty-nine cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, six dollars and ninety-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For enlistment bounties to seamen, three hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four cents.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For surveying the public lands, fourteen thousand five hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.</p></sidenote> seventy-one dollars and eighty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidentals in New Mexico, nineteen hundred and seven, twenty-one dollars and one cent.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to estate of Wyatt Gilchrist, deceased, for stock stolen from him by Comanche Indians in eighteen hundred and sixty-six, three hundred dollars.</p>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Treasury Department</inline>: To pay the State of Oklahoma the amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on school fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 272.</p></sidenote> found due by the accounting officers as interest at three per centum per annum on the sum of five million dollars appropriated by section seven of the Act approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-seven), from June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seven, in accordance with the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury dated May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, two hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and nine dollars and eighty-four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of Agriculture</inline>: For protection of forest reserves, sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of Commerce and Labor</inline>: For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, forty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of Justice</inline>: For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and sixty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/520">520</page>For fees of commissioners, United States courts, thirty-one dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For prosecution of Indians in Arizona, Act of March fourth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1376.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven (Apache County), three thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars and six cents.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 228: To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>228</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1908-05-30</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>228.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of certain public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21897">H. R. 21897</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/168">Public, No. 168</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That to enable the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public buildings, omnibus act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 481.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1067.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury of the United States to give effect to and execute the provisions of existing legislation authorizing the acquisition of land for sites or the enlargement thereof, and the erection, enlargement, extension, remodeling, or repair of public buildings in the several cities hereinafter enumerated, the limit of cost heretofore fixed by Congress therefor be, and the same is hereby, increased, respectively, as follows, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the completion of each of said buildings within its respective limit of cost, including site:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Dothan, Alabama, sixty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dothan, Ala.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Gadsden, Alabama, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gadsden, Ala.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fayetteville, Arkansas, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fayetteville, Ark.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Eureka, California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eureka, Cal.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Santa Rosa, California, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Rosa, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Boulder, Colorado, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boulder, Colo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Colorado Springs, Colorado,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado Springs, Colo.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars, said increase to be employed in substituting granite for sandstone.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Trinidad, Colorado, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trinidad, Colo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Willimantic, Connecticut, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willimantic, Conn.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Milford, Delaware, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milford, Del.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Gainesville, Florida,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gainesville, Fla.</p></sidenote> ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Ocala, Florida, twentyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocala, Fla.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Americus, Georgia, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Americus, Ga.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Gainesville, Georgia, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gainesville, Ga.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marietta, Georgia, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marietta, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Rome, Georgia, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rome, Ga.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Alton, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alton, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Belleville, Illinois, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belleville, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Belvidere, Illinois, eight thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belvidere, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Dixon, Illinois, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dixon, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at East Saint Louis, Illinois,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East Saint Louis, Ill.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/521">521</page> United States post-office at Kewanee, Illinois, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kewanee, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lincoln, Illinois, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lincoln, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Moline, Illinois, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moline, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Paris, Illinois, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paris, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Waukegan, Illinois, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waukegan, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bedford, Indiana, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bedford, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Burlington, Iowa, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cedar Rapids, Iowa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Council Bluffs, Iowa,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> seventy-one thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars maybe available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mason City, Iowa, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mason City, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Manhattan, Kansas, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manhattan, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Bowling Green, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bowling Green, Ky.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Danville, Kentucky, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lebanon, Kentucky, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lebanon, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at London, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">London, Ky.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mayfield, Kentucky, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mayfield, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Paris, Kentucky, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paris, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Versailles, Kentucky, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Versailles, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Winchester, Kentucky, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winchester, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ruston, Louisiana, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ruston, La.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bar Harbor, Maine, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bar Harbor, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Calais, Maine, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calais, Me.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Portland, Maine, ninety thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland, Me.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1067.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed twenty thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baltimore, Md.</p></sidenote> thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Springfield, Massachusetts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Mass.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Alpena, Michigan, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alpena, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Coldwater, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coldwater, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Escanaba, Michigan, fourteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Escanaba, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Manistee, Michigan, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manistee, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Niles, Michigan, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Niles, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Owosso, Michigan, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owosso, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Alexandria, Minnesota, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alexandria, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Crookston, Minnesota, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crookston, Minn.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/522">522</page> United States post-office at New Ulm, Minnesota, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Ulm, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Columbus, Mississippi, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greenville, Mississippi, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house, Gulfport, Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gulfport, Miss.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Jackson, Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jackson, Miss.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Yazoo City, Mississippi, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yazoo City, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Cape Girardeau, Missouri,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Girardeau, Mo.</p></sidenote> thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Carthage, Missouri, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carthage, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Nevada, Missouri, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Saint Joseph, Missouri,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Joseph, Mo.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post office at Saint Louis, Missouri, two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Louis, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office.</p></sidenote> seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Kearney, Nebraska, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kearney, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Bridgeton, New Jersey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridgeton, N.J.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Albuquerque, New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albuquerque, N. Mex.</p></sidenote> Mexico, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Olean, New York, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olean, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Schenectady, New York, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schenectady, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Watertown, New York, twenty-three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, N. Yr.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Yonkers, New York, forty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yonkers, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fayetteville, North Carolina, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fayetteville, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Kinston, North Carolina, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kinston, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Salisbury, North Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salisbury, N. C.</p></sidenote> sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Washington, North Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, N. C.</p></sidenote> thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Cleveland, Ohio, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Ohio.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Columbus, Ohio, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Ohio.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Toledo, Ohio, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Toledo, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marion, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marion, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Springfield, Ohio, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Eugene, Oregon, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eugene, Oreg.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlisle, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Charleroi, Pennsylvania, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleroi, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnstown, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Meadville, Pennsylvania, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meadville, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/523">523</page> United States post-office at Woonsocket, Rhode Island, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woonsocket, R.I.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Anderson, South Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anderson, S. C.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sumter, South Carolina, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sumter, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Johnson City, Tennessee, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Murfreesboro, Tenn.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Corsicana, Texas, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corsicana, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at San Angelo, Texas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Angelo, Tex.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States court-house at Texarkana, Texas, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texarkana, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Tyler, Texas, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tyler, Tex.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Logan, Utah, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Logan, Utah.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Salt Lake City, Utah,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salt Lake City, Utah.</p></sidenote> one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground,</p></sidenote> exceed forty thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Barre, Vermont, thirteen thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barre, Vt.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Clifton Forge, Virginia, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clifton Forge, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fredericksburg, Virginia, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fredericksburg Va</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Manchester, Virginia, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Petersburg, Virginia, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petersburg, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Roanoke, Virginia, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roanoke, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Winchester, Virginia, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winchester, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Bluefield, West Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bluefield, W. Va.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fairmont, West Virginia, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairmont, W. Va.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount heretofore authorized so much as may be necessary shall be available for the acquisition of a suitable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p></sidenote> site.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Wheeling, West Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wheeling, W. Va.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of old buildings.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to sell the old post-office, court-house, and custom-house building, and the site thereof, situate at the corner of Market and Sixteenth streets, in the city of Wheeling and State of West Virginia, at public or private sale, after proper advertisement, at such time and on such terms as he may deem to be to the best interests of the United States, and to execute a quitclaim deed to the purchaser thereof, and to deposit the proceeds of said sale in the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said building and site shall not be sold<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p></sidenote> for any sum less than one hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewa Falls,Wis.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Green Bay, Wisconsin, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Green Bay, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars, to be used in erecting a stone facing for the east wall of the Government building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/524">524</page> United State post-office at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manitowoc, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Platteville, Wisconsin, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Platteville, Wis.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement, etc., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 482.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to enter into contracts for the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the following-named buildings, within the respective limits of cost hereby fixed:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Montgomery, Alabama,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montgomery, Ala.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hot Springs, Arkansas, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Sacramento, California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacramento, Cal.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at San Jose, California, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Jose, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at New London, Connecticut,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New London, Conn.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Wilmington, Delaware,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, Del.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Athens, Georgia, fortythree<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athens, Ga.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Augusta, Georgia, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and other governmental buildings at Boise,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p></sidenote> Idaho, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Elgin, Illinois, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elgin, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Peoria, Illinois, twentyseven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peoria, Ill.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Quincy, Illinois, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quincy, Ill.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rock Island, Illinois, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Island, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Davenport, Iowa, seventy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Davenport, Iowa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fort Dodge, Iowa, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Dodge, Iowa.</p></sidenote> thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Emporia, Kansas, thirty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emporia, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Kansas City, Kansas, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas City, Kans.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lexington, Kentucky, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Frankfort, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankfort, Ky.</p></sidenote> sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Paducah, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paducah, Ky.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Richmond, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richmond, Ky.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars, for the installation of an elevator.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Bath, Maine, thirtyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bath, Me.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post office and custom-house at Belfast,Maine, thirtyseven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Belfast, Me.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Ellsworth, Maine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ellsworth, Me.</p></sidenote> forty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Jackson, Michigan, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jackson, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Meridian, Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meridian, Miss.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Beatrice, Nebraska, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beatrice, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/525">525</page> United States post-office at Fremont, Nebraska, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fremont, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Manchester, New Hampshire,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manchester, N. H.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hoboken, New Jersey, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hoboken, N. J.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed twenty thousand dollars may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at New Brunswick, New Jersey, forty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Brunswick, N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, N. J.</p></sidenote> his discretion, reduce the open space for fire protection to twentyfive feet.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Trenton, New Jersey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goldsboro, N. C.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Goldsboro, North Carolina, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newbern, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Newbern, North Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Raleigh, N. C.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Raleigh, North Carolina,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lima, Ohio.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars, for the installation of elevator.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lima, Ohio, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chester, Pa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chester, Pennsylvania, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Reading, Pennsylvania, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawtucket, R. I.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux Falls, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> reduce the open space for fire protection to fifteen feet.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Sioux Falls, South<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol, Tenn.</p></sidenote> Dakota, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Bristol, Tennessee, forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jackson, Tenn.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Jackson, Tennessee, fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Antonio, Tex.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at San Antonio, Texas, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charlottesville, Va.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Charlottesville, Virginia, thirty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars, to be used for supplying and placing in position, complete, the marble entablature and columns for said building as contemplated by the original plans and specifications.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Danville, Virginia, sixty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, W. Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Charleston, West Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huntington, W. Va.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Huntington, West Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Crosse, Wis.</p></sidenote> five thousand five hundred dollars, for the installation of elevator.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at La Crosse, Wisconsin,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific authority required.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the present site in each of the cities heretofore mentioned shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost to include changes, repairs, etc., due to enlarging.</p></sidenote> not be enlarged by the acquisition of ground under the provisions of this Act, unless the Secretary of the Treasury is given specific authority herein to enlarge said sites, and where such authority is given the Secretary is authorized to secure, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such additional ground as he may deem necessary, respectively: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the limits of cost hereinbefore respectively fixed shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General repairs from regular appropriations.</p></sidenote> include all necessary changes in, alterations and repairs of, the abovenamed buildings, and of the heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems and elevators therein, which may become necessary by reason of, or incident to, the extension or enlargement of said building, or which it may be found expedient or advisable to make to such heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems and elevators because of the enlargement, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/526">526</page> extension, remodeling, or improving of said buildings, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of new buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 483.</p></sidenote> annual appropriations for the general maintenance of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department shall be construed to be available for all other repairs to and equipment of said buildings, grounds, and approaches, and the heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus thereof.</proviso></p>
</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Demopolis, Ala.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to contract for the erection and completion of a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices upon ground now owned by the United States or authorized to be acquired in each of the following cities, respectively, within its respective limit of cost hereby fixed:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Demopolis, Alabama, forty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Troy, Ala.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Troy, Alabama, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Cruz, Cal.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Santa Cruz, California, ninety thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Griffin, Ga.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Griffin, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newnan, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Newnan, Georgia, forty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Way Cross, Ga.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Way Cross, Georgia, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewiston, Idaho.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed six thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and land office at Lewiston, Idaho, eightyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Centralia, Ill.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Centralia, Illinois, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Litchfield, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Litchfield, Illinois, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Columbus, Indiana, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connersville, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Connersville, Indiana, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greencastle, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greencastle, Indiana, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jeffersonville, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Jeffersonville, Indiana, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kokomo, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Kokomo, Indiana, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peru, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Peru, Indiana, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decorah, Iowa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Decorah, Iowa, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estherville, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Estherville, Iowa, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shenandoah, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Shenandoah, Iowa, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catlettsburg, Ky.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Catlettsburg, Kentucky,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beverly, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Beverly, Massachusetts, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlboro, Mass.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed five thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marlboro, Massachusetts, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plymouth, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Plymouth, Massachusetts, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Webster, Mass.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed ten thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of a site in addition to twelve thousand dollars heretofore authorized.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Webster, Massachusetts, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Woburn, Mass.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Woburn, Massachusetts, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontiac, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pontiac, Michigan, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Austin, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/527">527</page> United States post-office at Austin, Minnesota, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brainerd, Minn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brainerd, Minnesota, forty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochester, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rochester, Minnesota, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hattiesburg, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hattiesburg, Mississippi, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Point, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at West Point, Mississippi, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrollton, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Carrollton, Missouri, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clinton, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Clinton, Missouri, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independence, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Independence, Missouri, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to exceed five thousand dollars shall be available for additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lexington, Missouri, forty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Macon, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Macon, Missouri, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrensburg, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Warrensburg, Missouri, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missoula, Mont.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Missoula, Montana, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbus, Nebr.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Columbus, Nebraska, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plattsmouth, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keene, N. H.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Keene, New Hampshire, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amsterdam, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Amsterdam, New York, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Malone, N. Y.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Malone, New York, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middletown, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Middletown, New York, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concord, N. C.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Concord, North Carolina, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henderson, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Henderson, North Carolina, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">High Point, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at High Point, North Carolina, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashtabula, Ohio.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ashtabula, Ohio, eighty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Delaware, Ohio, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enid, Okla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Enid, Oklahoma, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bradford, Pa.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bradford, Pennsylvania, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carbondale, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Carbondale, Pennsylvania, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chambersburg, Pa,</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Easton, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Easton, Pennsylvania, one hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greensburg, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewickley, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sewickley, Pennsylvania, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shamokin, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Shamokin, Pennsylvania, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">York, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/528">528</page> United States post-office and internal-revenue office at York, Pennsylvania,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> three hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aiken, S. C.</p></sidenote> exceed thirty-live thousand dollars shall be available for the acquisition of additional ground.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Aiken, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleveland, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cleveland, Tennessee, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Palestine, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Palestine, Texas, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Marcos, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at San Marcos, Texas, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temple, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Temple, Texas, seventy thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellingham, Wash.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Bellingham, Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Yakima, Wash.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at North Yakima, Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hinton, W. Va.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hinton, West Virginia, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appleton, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Appleton, Wisconsin, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beloit, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Beloit, Wisconsin, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watertown, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Watertown, Wisconsin, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lander, Wyo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Lander, Wyoming, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring sites and erecting buildings authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 484.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ensley, Ala.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and to contract for the erection and completion thereon of a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices in each of the cities enumerated in this section, within its respective limit of cost, including site, hereby fixed:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ensley, Alabama, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eufaula, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Eufaula, Alabama, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Talladega, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Talladega, Alabama, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix, Ariz.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Phoenix, Arizona, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hope. Ark.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hope, Arkansas, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jonesboro, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Jonesboro, Arkansas, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paragould, Ark.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Paragould, Arkansas, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alameda, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Alameda, California, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Barbara, Cal.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Santa Barbara, California, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Riverside, Cal.</p></sidenote> and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Riverside, California, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Collins, Colo.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Port Collins, Colorado, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ansonia, Conn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ansonia, Connecticut, ninety thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol, Conn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bristol, Connecticut, ninety thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> dollars, of which amount not to exceed thirty thousand dollars may be available for the acquisition of a suitable site: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danbury, Conn.</p></sidenote> requirement herein contained that all sites selected under the provisions of this Act shall be bounded on at least two sides by streets shall not be applicable to the acquisition of a site at Bristol.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/529">529</page> United States post-office at Danbury, Connecticut, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wallingford, Conn.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wallingford, Connecticut, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miami, Fla.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Miami,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cordele, Ga.</p></sidenote> Florida, one hundred and seventy-live thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cordele, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dublin, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Dublin, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lagrange, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lagrange, Georgia, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milledgeville, Ga.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Milledgeville, Georgia, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago Heights,Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chicago Heights, Illinois, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granite City, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Granite City, Illinois, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greenville, Illinois, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Salle, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at La Salle, Illinois, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mattoon, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mattoon, Illinois, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Murphysboro, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Murphysboro, Illinois, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, reduce the open space for fire protection to fifteen feet.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pana, Illinois, seventy thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pana, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pontiac, Illinois, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontiac, Ill.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bloomington, Indiana, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bloomington, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars, in addition to six thousand dollars heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brazil, Indiana, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brazil, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Elwood, Indiana, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elwood, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Goshen, Indiana, seventy thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goshen, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Laporte, Indiana, Seventy thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laporte, Ind.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Princeton, Indiana, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Princeton, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wabash, Indiana, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wabash, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ames, Iowa, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ames, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Clay Center, Kansas, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clay Center, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Coffeyville, Kansas, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coffeyville, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Great Bend, Kansas, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Bend, Kans.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Independence, Kansas, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Independence, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Parsons, Kansas, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parsons, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wellington, Kansas, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wellington, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Sterling, Ky.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Somerset, Kentucky, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Somerset, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Crowley, Louisiana, fifty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crowley, La.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Franklin, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franklin, La.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/530">530</page> United States post-office at Waterville, Maine, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterville, Me.</p></sidenote> twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Frostburg, Maryland, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frostburg, Md.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Athol, Massachusetts, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Athol, Mass.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chelsea, Massachusetts, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chelsea, Mass.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Milford, Massachusetts, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Milford, Mass.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Westfield, Massachusetts, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Westfield, Mass.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hillsdale, Michigan, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hillsdale, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ionia, Michigan, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ionia, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Monroe, Michigan, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monroe, Mich.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mount Clemens, Michigan, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Clemens, Mich.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Faribault, Minnesota, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Faribault, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Virginia, Minnesota, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wilmar, Minnesota, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmar, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brookhaven, Mississippi, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookhaven, Miss.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Corinth, Mississippi, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corinth, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greenwood, Mississippi, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenwood, Miss.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Maryville, Missouri, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryville, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mexico, Missouri, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mexico, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and land-office at Billings, Montana, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Billings, Mont.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fairbury, Nebraska, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairbury, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Holdrege, Nebraska, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Holdrege, Nebr.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Goldfield, Nevada, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goldfield, Nev.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at North Platte, Nebraska,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Platte, Nebr</p></sidenote> one hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Asbury Park, New Jersey, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asbury Park, N.J.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Burlington, New Jersey, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Burlington, N.J.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Plainfield, New Jersey, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plainfield, N. J.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Roswell, New Mexico,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roswell, N.Mex.</p></sidenote> one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Newark, New York, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newark, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Penn Yan, New York, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penn Yan, N.Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Gastonia, North Carolina, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gastonia, N. C.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/531">531</page> United States post-office at Lexington, North Carolina, sixty-live<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, N. C.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wilson, North Carolina, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilson, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Bismarck, North Dakota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bismarck, N. Dak.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Minot, North Dakota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minot, N. Dak.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Alliance, Ohio, ninety thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alliance, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ironton, Ohio, ninety thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ironton, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mansfield, Ohio, one hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mansfield, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Massillon, Ohio, ninety thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massillon, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Albany, Oregon, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albany, Oreg.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at La Grande, Oregon, sixty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Grande, Oreg.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pendleton, Oregon, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pendleton, Oreg.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Braddock, Pennsylvania, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Braddock, Pa.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bristol, Pennsylvania, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bristol, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, seventy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connellsville, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, in addition to twenty thousand dollars heretofore authorized for site only.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Homestead, Pennsylvania, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Steelton, Pennsylvania, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steelton, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Westerly, Rhode Island, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Westerly, R. I.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Abbeville, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abbeville, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Darlington, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Darlington, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Gaffney, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gaffney, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Laurens, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laurens, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Newberry, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newberry, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Orangeburg, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orangeburg, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Union, South Carolina, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union, S. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Huron, South Dakota, eighty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Huron, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Dyersburg, Tennessee, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dyersburg, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Harriman, Tennessee, fifty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harriman, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Union City, Tennessee, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union City, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bonham, Texas, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonham, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cleburne, Texas, seventy thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleburne, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Corpus Christi, Texas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corpus Christi, Tex.</p></sidenote> seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/532">532</page> United States post-office and court-house at Del Rio, Texas, ninety<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Del Rio, Tex.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hillsboro, Texas, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hillsboro, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at McKinney, Texas, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McKinney, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mineral Wells, Texas, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral Wells, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Port Arthur, Texas, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Port Arthur, Tex.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sulphur Springs, Texas, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sulphur Springs, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Terrell, Texas, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terrell, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Victoria, Texas, ninetyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Victoria, Tex.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Waxahachie, Texas, sixty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waxahachie, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wichita Falls, Texas, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wichita Falls, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Park City, Utah, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Park City, Utah.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Brattleboro, Vermont,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brattleboro, Vt.</p></sidenote> ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Richford, Vermont,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Richford, Vt.</p></sidenote> sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Big Stone Gap, Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Stone Gap, Va.</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lexington, Virginia, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lexington, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Suffolk, Virginia, sixty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suffolk, Va.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and custom-house at Everett, Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Everett, Wash.</p></sidenote> one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Walla Walla, Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walla Walla, Wash.</p></sidenote> one hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Morgantown, West Virginia, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morgantown, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Site.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this amount so much as may be necessary shall be available for the acquisition of a suitable site.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, seventyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Pleasant, W. Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Stevens Point, Wisconsin, sixty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stevens Point, Wis.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rock Springs, Wyoming, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Springs, Wyo.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
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</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring site, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 487.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a suitable site for the United States post-office and other governmental offices in each of the cities enumerated in this section within its respective limit of cost hereby fixed:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Culman, Alabama, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Culman, Ala.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mobile, Alabama, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mobile, Ala.</p></sidenote> twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Opelika, Alabama, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opelika, Ala.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Eureka Springs, Arkansas, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eureka Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Searcy, Arkansas, six thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searcy, Ark.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Grass Valley, California, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grass Valley, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pasadena, California, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pasadena, Cal.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Grand Junction, Colorado, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Junction, Colo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/533">533</page> United States post-office at Greeley, Colorado, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greeley, Colo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Naugatuck, Connecticut, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naugatuck, Conn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Washington, District of Columbia, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C., post-office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1069.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Live Oak, Fla.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Live Oak, Florida, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewes, Del.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lewes, Delaware, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Petersburg,</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Saint Petersburg, Florida, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fla.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Augusta, Georgia, thirtyfive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Augusta, Ga.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bainbridge, Georgia, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bainbridge, Ga.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Carrollton, Georgia, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrollton, Ga.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cartersville, Georgia, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cartersville, Ga.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cedartown, Georgia, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cedartown, Ga.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Elberton, Georgia, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elberton, Ga.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States marine hospital at Savannah, Georgia, thirteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Savannah, Ga., marine hospital.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars, for additional land.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Tifton, Georgia, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tifton, Ga.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Pocatello, Idaho, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pocatello, Idaho.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chicago, Illinois, one million two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago, Ill., postoffice,</p></sidenote> and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Duquoin, Illinois, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duquoin, Ill.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Harrisburg, Illinois, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harrisburg, Ill,</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rochelle, Illinois, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochelle, Ill.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at South Chicago, Illinois, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Chicago, Ill.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, in addition to twenty-five thousand dollars heretofore authorized: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Treasury may,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, reduce the open space for fire protection to fifteen feet.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sterling, Illinois, five thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sterling, Ill.</p></sidenote> for additional ground.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Frankfort, Indiana, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frankfort, Ind.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Denison, Iowa, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denison, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fort Madison, Iowa, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Madison, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Iowa Falls, Iowa, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa Falls, Iowa.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Le Mars, Iowa, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Le Mars, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Red Oak, Iowa, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Oak, Iowa.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Abilene, Kansas, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abilene, Kans.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Beloit, Kansas, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Beloit, Kans.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Concordia, Kansas, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concordia, Kans.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ottawa, Kansas, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ottawa, Kans.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ashland, Kentucky, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashland, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/534">534</page> United States post-office at Bardstown, Kentucky, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bardstown, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cynthiana, Kentucky, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cynthiana, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hopkinsville, Ky.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawrenceburg, Ky.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lafayette, Louisiana, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lafayette, La.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Biddeford, Maine, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Biddeford. Me.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Camden, Maine, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Camden, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Gardiner, Maine, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gardiner, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Old Town, Maine, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Old Town, Me.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Attleboro, Massachusetts, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attleboro, Mass.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States custom-house at Boston, Massachusetts, five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass., custom-house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1068.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Bedford, Mass.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at New Bedford, Massachusetts, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Battle Creek, Michigan, nineteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Battle Creek, Mich.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars, for additional ground.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Petoskey, Michigan, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Petoskey, Mich.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Duluth, Minnesota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duluth, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 482.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land to city.</p></sidenote> ninety-five thousand dollars for additional ground: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if at any time, should any portion of the ground now owned, or hereafter to be acquired by the government, be used for street, park or other purposes by the City of Duluth, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell to said city any part of such ground, on such terms as he may deem to be for the best interests of the United States, and to deposit the proceeds of said sale in the Treasury of the United States, as a miscellaneous receipt:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price.</p></sidenote> <i>Provided further</i>, That in no case shall any portion of the ground now owned, or hereafter to be acquired by the Government, be sold for less than its fair market value.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Moorhead, Minnesota, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moorhead, Minn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Laurel, Mississippi, twelve thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laurel, Miss.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Vicksburg, Mississippi,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vicksburg, Miss.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars, for additional ground.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Aurora, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aurora, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brookfield, Missouri, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookfield, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Boonville, Missouri, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boonville, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Chillicothe, Missouri, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chillicothe, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marshall, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshall, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Poplar Bluff, Missouri, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poplar Bluff, Mo.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rolla, Missouri, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rolla, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Tr.enton, Missouri, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trenton, Mo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Livingston, Montana, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livingston, Mont.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at McCook, Nebraska,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McCook, Nebr.</p></sidenote> eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rochester, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rochester, N. H.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/535">535</page> United States post-office at Morristown, New Jersey, thirty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morristown, N. J.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Orange, New Jersey, thirty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orange, N.J.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Batavia, New York, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Batavia, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office, Borough of Bronx, New York City, New :<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bronx Borough, ST. Y. City.</p></sidenote> York, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cortland, New York, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cortland, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Fulton, New York, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulton, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hornell, New York, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hornell, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Mount Vernon, New York, thirty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Vernon, N.Y.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United ‘States post-office at Oneonta, New York, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oneonta, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Salamanca, New York, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salamanca, N. Y.</p></sidenote> dollars; the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to accept title<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of title.</p></sidenote> under Act of Congress of February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 330.</p></sidenote> seventy-five, chapter ninety, United States Statutes at Large, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 558.</p></sidenote> amended by Act approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter eleven hundred and thirty-two, United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office only at Syracuse, New York, seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Syracuse, N. Y.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, in addition to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars heretofore authorized for the acquisition of a site for post-office and court-house.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Waterloo, New York, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterloo, N. Y.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Greenville, North Carolina, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greenville, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Hickory, North Carolina, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hickory, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Monroe, North Carolina, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monroe, N. C.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Oxford, North Carolina, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oxford, N.C.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Chickasha, Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chickasha, Okla.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at, Guthrie, Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guthrie, Okla.</p></sidenote> thirty-five thousand dollars, for additional ground.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at McAlester, Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McAlester, Okla.</p></sidenote> fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Tulsa, Oklahoma, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tulsa, Okla.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bellaire, Ohio, twenty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellaire, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bellefontaine, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellefontaine, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bowling Green, Ohio, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bowling Green, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cambridge, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cambridge, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Defiance, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defiance, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Middletown, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middletown, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Steubenville, Ohio, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steubenville, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Tiffin, Ohio, twelve thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tiffin, Ohio.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Van Wert, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Van Wert, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wooster, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wooster, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Xenia, Ohio, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Xenia, Ohio.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Corry, Pennsylvania, eighteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corry, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/536">536</page> United States post-office at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gettysburg, Pa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Kittanning, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kittanning, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Ridgeway, Pennsylvania, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ridgeway, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sunbury, Pennsylvania, twenty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunbury, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Titusville, Pennsylvania, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Titusville, Pa.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brookings, South Dakota, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brookings, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Rapid City, South Dakota, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rapid City, S. Dak.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Lebanon, Tennessee, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lebanon, Tenn.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Morristown, Tennessee, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morristown, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Pulaski, Tennessee, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pulaski, Tenn.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Shelbyville, Tennessee, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelbyville, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Springfield, Tennessee, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Springfield, Tenn.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Austin, Texas, forty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Austin, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brenham, Texas, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brenham, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Brownwood, Texas, seven thousand tive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brownwood, Tex.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Clarksville, Texas, Five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clarksville, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Cuero, Texas, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cuero, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marlin, Texas, seven thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marlin, Tex.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Marshall, Texas, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshall, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at New Braunfels, Texas, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Braunfels, Tex</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Nacogdoches, Texas, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nacogdoches, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Navasota, Texas, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navasota, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Weatherford, Texas, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Weatherford, Tex.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bennington, Vermont, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bennington, Vt.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Covington, Virginia, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Covington, Va.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Wytheville, Virginia, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wytheville, Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Bedford City, Virginia, seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bedford City, Va.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Olympia, Washington, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Olympia, Wash.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Elkins, West Virginia, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elkins, W. Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Grafton, West Virginia, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grafton, W. Va.</p></sidenote> dollars, in addition to ten thousand dollars heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office and court-house at Parkersburg, West Virginia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parkersburg, W. Va</p></sidenote> thirty-five thousand dollars, for additional ground.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Sistersville, West Virginia, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sistersville, W. Va.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Menomonie, Wisconsin, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menomonie, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/537">537</page> United States post-office at Merrill, Wisconsin, seven thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Merrill, Wis.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States appraisers’ stores at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mil waukee, Wis., appraisers’ stores.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Waukesha, Wisconsin, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waukesha, Wis.</p></sidenote> dollars in addition to ten thousand dollars heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Casper, Wyoming, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Casper, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">United States post-office at Douglas, Wyoming, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Douglas, Wyo.</p></sidenote></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the appropriations made to carry into effect the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Specific authority required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 489.</p></sidenote> of legislation authorizing the acquisition of land for sites for public buildings or the enlargement thereof, or for the construction, enlargement, extension, remodeling, or special repairs of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, shall be deemed to be available only for the purposes specifically enumerated in said legislation, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates for administrative work.</p></sidenote> and directed to submit to Congress annually detailed estimates of appropriations necessary for defraying all expenses, both in the Office of the Supervising Architect and in the field, of every kind and character incident to, or requisite for, the administrative work of carrying into effect the provisions of this or subsequent public-building Acts, so far as the same relate to public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, such estimates to be in addition to and separate and apart from the estimates of appropriations providing specifically for the salaries of certain officers and employees in the Office of the Supervising Architect; that the appropriations for said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations for personal services, etc., immediately available.</p></sidenote> administrative work, when made, shall be immediately available for such personal services and all other expenses and supplies, both for office and field work, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve to carry into effect the provisions of this and subsequent Acts relating to the acquisition of land for sites or the enlargement thereof, or for the construction, enlargement, extension, remodeling, or special repairs of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the annual appropriations under the control of the Supervising Architect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such persons as may be regularly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc.</p></sidenote> appointed and paid from such appropriations shall be subject, in all respects, to the laws, rules, and regulations respecting entrance into or separation from the classified civil service of the United States, and shall be employed only in the Office of the Supervising Architect or in fieldwork of construction and repair under his supervision and control, and the Secretary of the Treasury shall annually submit to Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of names, salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> in the Book of Estimates a statement, showing the names of all persons whose salaries or compensation are paid from said appropriations, their duties, and the rate of compensation and the amount paid to each of them, respectively:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Architect’s Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal services under existing laws continued.</p></sidenote> shall not be construed as rendering unavailable for the employment of personal services in the Office of the Supervising Architect, or for any other purpose now authorized by law, any of the appropriations or balances of. appropriations made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seven, for the acquisition of land for sites, or the enlargement thereof, or for the erection, enlargement, extension, remodeling, or special repairs of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, or any of the annual appropriations under the control of the Supervising Architect. And all appropriations made in full or in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations after July 1, 1907, subject to this law.</p></sidenote> part subsequent to July first, nineteen hundred and seven, for extension of the limits of cost of public buildings or sites, or for the acquisition of land for sites, or the enlargement thereof, or for the erection, enlargement, extension, remodeling, or special repairs of public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, or for any annual appropriation under the control of the Supervising Architect, shall be subject to the provisions hereof.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Danville, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of present building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New building authorized on site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to dispose of the Federal building at Danville, Illinois, at such time and in such manner and upon such terms as he may deem for the best interests of the United States; and to cause to be erected upon the site thereof a suitable and commodious building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators, and approaches, complete, for, the use of the post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices in said city, at a limit of cost for said building not to exceed the sum of two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. That the new building hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> shall be protected from danger from fire in adjacent structures by an open space of not less than twenty-five feet on all sides, including streets and alleys, and the open space of forty feet required by existing law to be preserved for that purpose in connection with the present building is hereby reduced accordingly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring new site by exchange.</p></sidenote> and empowered, in his discretion, in lieu of the foregoing, to acquire by exchange for the present post-office building and the site thereof a rectangular site at the northeast corner of Harrison and Vermillion streets in said city, having a frontage on Vermillion street of not less than one hundred and forty feet, with a depth on Harrison street of at least one hundred and forty-eight feet and six inches, and to execute on behalf of the United States the necessary conveyances to effect such exchange; and also to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise so much of the remaining frontage on Vermillion street, between Harrison and Madison streets, and having a like depth of not less than one hundred and forty-eight feet and six inches, as he may deem necessary, to provide a suitable site for the building hereinafter authorized to be erected.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That upon said new site, when acquired as aforesaid, the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection of building on new site.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be constructed a suitable and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, elevators and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices in said city, at a total limit of cost of not to exceed two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, including such land, if any, as may be acquired in addition to that secured by exchange for the present site.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ottumwa, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of old, and erection of new building on same site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to cause the United States post-office building at Ottumwa, Iowa, to be taken down and a new building to be erected on the site thereof for the accommodation of the United States postoffice, courts, and other governmental offices, at a total cost to the Government, including the removal of the present building and the construction of a new building with fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars; including thirty-five thousand dollars authorized by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 774.</p></sidenote> shall be available for this purpose.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Florence, Ala.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of strip of land to lodge of Elks.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed, in his discretion, to sell at private sale to the Florence Lodge, Numbered Eight hundred and twenty, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, at Florence, Alabama, the followingdescribed strip or parcel of land, situate and being in the city of Florence, county of Lauderdale, State of Alabama: Beginning on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> southerly line to Tombigbee street, in Florence, Alabama, at the northeasterly corner of the tract of land purchased by the United States Government from Dwight Devine and others on the seventeenth day of December, nineteen hundred and three, the deed to which is on record in the office of the probate judge of Lauderdale County. Alabama, book numbered sixty-seven, pages two hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/539">539</page> ninety-five, two hundred and ninety-six, and two hundred and ninetyseven; thence at right angles to said Tombigbee street, southwardly, one hundred feet; thence, at right angles, westwardly, ten feet; thence, northwardly, at right angles, one hundred feet to Tombigbee street; thence at right angles eastwardly along the said street ten feet to the point of beginning, which embraces a strip of land ten feet in width and one hundred feet in length off the east side of the Federal building site in Florence, Alabama, for such an amount as the Secretary of the Treasury, in his judgment, shall deem to be a fair and just compensation for said property. The Secretary of the Treasury, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deed.</p></sidenote> the event of such sale, is authorized and directed to execute a quitclaim deed to Florence Lodge, Numbered Eight hundred and twenty, Benevolent and Protective Orddr of Elks, at Florence, Alabama, conveying all the rights, title, claim, and interest of the United States in or to said above-described strip of land.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Peekskill, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of building authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>A nte</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a site and building for the U nited States post-office and other governmental offices at Peekskill, New York, at a cost for said site and building of not to exceed forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That upon the title to said property being vested in the U nited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alterations, etc.</p></sidenote> States, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby further authorized and directed to cause the building so acquired to be altered, remodeled, extended, or repaired for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices in said city, including necessary changes in alterations, or remodeling of, or repair to, the heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems in said building at a cost not to exceed five thousand dollars.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That the provision contained in the Act approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little Rock, Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement, etc., of present building authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 776.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the erection and completion of a suitable building, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and court-house at Little Rock, Arkansas, upon ground now owned by the United States, at a limit of cost of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury, within said limit of cost, to enter into contracts for the enlargement, extension, remodeling, and improvement of the present post-office and court-house building at Little Rock, Arkansas.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That the provision contained in the Act approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Francisco, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of new, or addition to present site, of subtreasury, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 775.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1068.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Treasury to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, such additional land as he may deem necessary for the enlargement of the present site, and to enter into contracts for the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the United States subtreasury building at San Francisco, California, at a limit of cost of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, a suitable new site for, or to enlarge the present site of, the United States subtreasury at San Francisco, California, at a cost not to exceed the said sum of three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That of the amount authorized in the Act approved June<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Diego, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase and transfer of lands to War Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 778.</p></sidenote> thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for the acquisition of a site and the erection thereon of a suitable building for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices at San Diego, California, at a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as <page identifier="/us/stat/35/540">540</page> may be necessary, may be used for the purchase of lands in said city to be assigned to the use of the War Department and for removing to such, newly acquired land and placing in position the buildings and structures now on block thirty-nine, the making of water and sewer connections therewith, the inclosing of said newly acquired land, and other incidental expenses of like character : <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the acquisition of such land, block thirty-nine, in said city of San Diego,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection of building on site received in exchange.</p></sidenote> California, now owned by the United States and assigned to the uses and purposes of the War Department, shall be assigned to the Treasury Department as the site for the United States post-office and customhouse building authorized by said Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newark, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space reduced.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 780, 789.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed, in his discretion, to reduce the open space for fire protection at Newark, Ohio, to twenty feet, to insure the acquisition of a suitable site and the erection thereon of an adequate building for the accommodation of the United States post-office and other governmental offices within the present limit of cost as fixed by the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That section sixteen of an Act entitled “An Act to increase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buffalo, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 324.</p></sidenote> 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,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: “Sec. 16. That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to sell the old customhouse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of present building authorized.</p></sidenote> and post-office building and the site thereof, at the corner of Seneca and Washington streets, in the city of Buffalo and State of New York, at public or private sale, after proper advertisement, at such time and on such terms as he may deem to be for the best interests of the United States, and to deposit the proceeds of said sale in the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said building and site shall not be sold for a sum less than one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That a commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arlington Cemetery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission on memorial amphitheatre designated.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury, the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, one member of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be designated by the commander in chief of that organization, and a member of the United Spanish War Veterans, to be designated by the commander in chief of that organization, be, and is hereby, created, which shall cause plans and estimates to be prepared for a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> memorial amphitheater at Arlington, Virginia, and report the estimated cost thereof to the Congress: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such plans and estimates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> be prepared under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And for the expense of said commission a sum not to exceed five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended on vouchers approved by the chairman of said commission.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That a commission consisting of the Assistant Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission on armory for National Guard designated.</p></sidenote> War, the general commanding the militia of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, and the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, be, and is hereby, created, which shall cause plans and estimates to be prepared for a suitable armory for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, and report the estimated cost thereof to the Congress: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such plansand estimates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> be prepared under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And for the expense of said commission a sum not to exceed two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended on vouchers approved by the chairman of said commission.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honolulu, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> suitable and commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, United States custom-house, United States courts, and other governmental offices at Honolulu, Hawaii, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this authorization shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> not be construed as fixing the limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including firepoof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding eight hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in flscal year.</p></sidenote> the amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma City, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> suitable and commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this authorization shall not be construed as fixing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and Ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> fixed at the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a suitable and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Muskogee, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1067.</p></sidenote> commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices at Muskogee, Oklahoma, fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> authorization shall not be construed as fixing the limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shreveport. La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of present, and erection of new, building on site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to cause the United” States post-office and court-house building at Shreveport, Louisiana, to be taken down and a new building erected on the site thereof for the accommodation of the United States post-office, courts, and other governmental offices, at a total cost to the Government, including the removal of the present building and the construction of a new building with fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, complete, not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars. And the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space.</p></sidenote> the Treasury may, in his discretion, reduce the open space for fire <page identifier="/us/stat/35/542">542</page> protection to twenty feet: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of this amount not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minneapolis, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> suitable and commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office at Minneapolis, Minnesota, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this authorization shall not be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> as fixing the limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dayton, Ohio,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addition to present building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> suitable and adequate fireproof addition to the present Federal building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices at Dayton, Ohio, sixty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this authorization shall not be construed as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> fixing the limit of cost for said addition at the sum hereby named, but the addition hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable addition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed sixty thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jersey City, N. J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> suitable and commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office at Jersey City, New Jersey, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this authorization shall not be construed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> as fixing the limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> and directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of suitable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wilmington, N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construct ion of buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 490.</p></sidenote> and commodious fireproof buildings, and the acquisition of additional ground, for the accommodation of the United States custom-house and other governmental offices, excepting United States courts and post-office, and for a Government warehouse or appraisers’ store building, at Wilmington, North Carolina, eighty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> That this authorization shall not be construed as fixing the limit of cost of said buildings and additional ground at the sum hereby named, but <page identifier="/us/stat/35/543">543</page> the buildings hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, approaches, and additional land, not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> and directed to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, said additional ground and to enter into contracts for the construction of suitable buildings for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure in fiscal year.</p></sidenote> That of the amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed eighty thousand dollars maybe expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present site, with additions, authorized.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, further authorized and directed to use for said new buildings the present site of the United States customhouse and warehouse, and to erect thereon suitable buildings for the purposes aforesaid, purchasing ground adjacent thereto for the enlargement of said site; and he is hereby authorized to provide for the use, in the construction of said new buildings, of such of the material composing the present structures as he may deem suitable for the purpose, or, in his discretion, to dispose of the same and to use the proceeds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of new site, etc., permitted.</p></sidenote> toward the cost of constructing the new buildings; and in case of such sale of the old material the limit of cost hereinbefore fixed for said new buildings and additional ground is hereby increased by a sum equal to the net proceeds derived from said sale.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lynchburg, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of present building site for new site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 775, 1300.</p></sidenote> authorized and empowered in lieu of making additions to the present Federal building at Lynchburg, Virginia, authorization for which has heretofore been made, to acquire a new Federal building site in the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, by the exchange of the present postofiice and court-house building and the site thereof in said city for a portion of the land and improvements thereon belonging to the city of Lynchburg, commonly known as the warehouse property, having a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> frontage of one hundred and sixty-five feet on Church street and one hundred and thirty-two feet on Tenth street, and to execute the necessary conveyances therefor to said city upon the payment to the United States by said city of a sum not less than seventy thousand dollars, and the furnishing, free of cost to the United States, of such abstracts, official certifications, evidences of title, and deeds of conveyance as, in the opinion of the Attorney-General, may be necessary to vest in the United States a good and valid title to said property. That upon said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of new building.</p></sidenote> new site, if acquired as aforesaid, the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected a suitable and commodious building, with fireproof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches complete, for the use and accommodation of the United States post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices in said city, at a total limit of cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances and proceeds.</p></sidenote> not to exceed two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and the unexpended balances of any authorization heretofore made for the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improving of the present post-office and court-house building in the city of Lynchburg, together with such sum as may be received from said city, as hereinbefore provided, be, and the same are hereby, authorized to be applied and made available to carry into effect the provisions of this section, and no further authorization therefor is made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlargement of present building permitted.</p></sidenote> Treasury may, in his discretion, proceed, if he deems best, with the improvement and enlargement of the present Federal building within the limit of cost heretofore fixed.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26.</num> <content class="inline">That a commission be, and the same is hereby, created, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission designated to investigate United States title to lands, etc.</p></sidenote> consist of five members, namely, the Secretary of War, the Attorney-General, the president of the Board of Commissioners of the District <page identifier="/us/stat/35/544">544</page> of Columbia, the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 927.</p></sidenote> Grounds of the United States Senate, and the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds of the United States House of Representatives, for the purpose of investigating the title of the United States in and to all lands in the District of Columbia, with a view to protecting such title, filing a map of said lands, and ascertaining whether or not any individual or corporation is, without proper authority, occupying, in whole or in part, any such lands. Said commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfers withheld until report made.</p></sidenote> shall also investigate and report on any and all transfers of title to such lands by the United States, either by authority of Congress or otherwise, and shall make recommendations as to the future policy of the Government with respect to the sale or retention of any and all such lands, title to which may have been or is now vested in the United States, and pending the report of said commission, unless otherwise directed by Congress, all authorizations heretofore made for the sale of Government land in the District of Columbia, in which conveyances have not been made or contracts entered into, shall be held in abeyance. The commission hereby created shall have authority<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority.</p></sidenote> to send for persons, papers, documents, public and private records,administer oaths, and to conduct such investigation in such manner as said commission may deem best, and shall report the results of such investigation to the Sixtieth Congress, together with its recommendations. And for the expense of said commission a sum not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended on vouchers approved by the chairman of said commission.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan, P. R.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands deeded to city for streets, etc.</p></sidenote> authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to convey, by quitclaim deed, to the city of San Juan, Porto Rico, for street and other purposes, such portions of the site in said city reserved for Federal building purposes by Executive order dated June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, as in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury may not be required for the present or probable future needs of the United States for sites for Federal buildings.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="28"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 28.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War or other officer having charge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filtration plant, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional land to be acquired.</p></sidenote> of the filtration plant and the Government reservation on which it is situated in the District of Columbia be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to purchase or cause to be taken for public use, by condemnation or otherwise, as an addition to said reservation for the purpose of extending its boundaries any land embraced in square three thousand one hundred and twenty-six, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, not now owned by the United States or the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase from appropriation for plant.</p></sidenote> Act the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to expend the sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of the amounts heretofore appropriated by Congress for a slow sand filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connecte’dtherewith.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="29"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 29.</num> <content class="inline">For the erection of a fireproof addition to the court-house of the District of Columbia, for the use of the court of appeals of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C., court-house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addition for court of appeals authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 491.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 928.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> District, including such fireproof vaults as may be necessary to protect from destruction the papers and records of said court, and proper heating and ventilating apparatus, to be constructed under the supervision of and on plans to be furnished by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and approved by the Attorney-General, two hundred thousand dollars is authorized.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/545">545</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="30"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 30.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor Departments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acquiring site for buildings authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 491.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, for the use and accommodation of the United States Departments of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor, the whole of squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-seven, two hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and twenty-nine, and two hundred and thirty, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for the land so acquired is hereby authorized. That part of C street, Ohio avenue, D street, and E street<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets to be closed.</p></sidenote> lying between the squares named herein is hereby made a part of the site authorized by this Act. That should the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceedings.</p></sidenote> decide to institute condemnation proceedings in order to secure any or all of the land herein authorized to be acquired, such proceedings shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office (United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 412.</p></sidenote> States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, chapter eight hundred and thirty-seven.)</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="31"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 31.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for the purpose of beginning the construction of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denver, Colo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 491.</p></sidenote> suitable and commodious fireproof building for the accommodation of the United States post-office, United States courts, and other governmental offices at Denver, Colorado, fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> That this authorization shall not be construed as fixing the limit of cost of said building at the sum hereby named, but the building hereby provided for shall be constructed or planned so as to cost, complete, including firepoof vaults, heating and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, but exclusive of site, not exceeding one million six hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> and directed to enter into contracts for the construction of a suitable building for said purposes, to be designated by said Department, within the ultimate limit of cost above mentioned: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditure for fiscal year.</p></sidenote> the amount fixed as the ultimate limit of cost not to exceed fifty thousand dollars may be expended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</proviso></p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="32"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 32.</num> <content class="inline">That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Point Pleasant, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Memorial to commemorate battle of Revolution.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 491.</p></sidenote> hereby, authorized, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, to aid in the erection and completion of a memorial structure at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to commemorate the battle of the Revolution fought at that point between the colonial troops and Indians October tenth, seventeen hundred and seventy-four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> That no part of said appropriation shall be expended until the site and plans for said monument or memorial shall be approved by the Secretary of War and the grounds on which said monument or memorial is to be located shall be dedicated to the use of the public and provision is made for opening and maintaining an open highway thereto.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="33"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 33.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lawton, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale public building site.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 458.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed, in his discretion, to dispose of the site for a public building at Lawton, Oklahoma, at such time and in such manner and upon such terms as he may deem for the best interests of the United States, and the proceeds of such sale shall be held to be applied for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds for new site.</p></sidenote> the purchase of a new site as may hereafter be directed by law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="34"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 34.</num> <content class="inline">That hereafter in all cases where appropriations are made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts to limit of cost authorized.</p></sidenote> in part only for carrying into effect the provisions of legislation authorizing the acquisition of land for sites or for the enlargement of sites for public buildings, or for the erection or remodeling, extension, alteration, and repairs of public buildings, the Secretary of the Treasury, unless otherwise specifically directed, be, and he is hereby, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/546">546</page> authorized and empowered to’ enter into contracts within the full limit of cost fixed by Congress therefor.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="35"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 35.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury shall require all owners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offers for sites to be submitted in writing.</p></sidenote> or agents of sites in each city mentioned in this Act, where sites or addition to sites are to be purchased, to submit offers of sale in writing. And in case a site or addition to a site acquired under the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of. buildings until Removed.</p></sidenote> of this Act contains a building or buildings, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to rent until their removal becomes necessary such of said buildings as may be purchased by the Government, or the land on which the same may be located, where the buildings are reserved by the vendors, at a fair rental value, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds.</p></sidenote> net proceeds thereof to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and a report of the proceedings to be submitted to Congress annually: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That each site selected under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exposure to streets.</p></sidenote> this Act shall be bounded upon at least two sides by streets, unless otherwise specifically provided.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="36"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 36.</num> <content class="inline">That proposals for the sale of land suitable for all sites, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising for proposals for sites.</p></sidenote> additions to sites, provided for in this Act, respectively, shall be invited by public advertisement in one of the newspapers of said cities, respectively, of largest circulation for at least twenty days prior to the date specified in said advertisement for the opening of said proposals. Proposals made in response to said advertisement shall be mailed and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination-of proposals, etc.</p></sidenote> addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall then cause the said proposed sites, and such others as he may think proper to designate, to be examined in person by an agent of the Treasury Department, who shall make written report to said Secretary of the results of said examination and of his recommendation thereon and the reasons therefor, which shall be accompanied by the original proposals and all maps, plats, and statements which shall have come into his possession relating to the said proposed sites.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="37"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 37.</num> <content class="inline">That all buildings authorized to be constructed, enlarged,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Open space for fire protection.</p></sidenote> or extended under the provisions of this Act shall, unless otherwise provided herein, be unexposed to danger from fire by an open space of at least forty feet on each side, including streets and alleys: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptional cases.</p></sidenote> That in exceptional cases and for good cause shown the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, reduce the open space to less than forty feet and to any dimensions which he shall deem sufficient to afford fire protection.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="38"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 38.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="39"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 39.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal of conflicting acts.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 229: To amend the national banking laws.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>229.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the national banking laws.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21871">H. R. 21871</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/169">Public, No. 169</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That national banking associations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National bank circulation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National currency associations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Formation by national banks.</p></sidenote> each having an unimpaired capital and a surplus of not less than twenty per centum, not less than ten in number, having an aggregate capital and surplus of at least five millions of dollars, may form voluntary associations to be designated as national currency associations. The banks uniting to form such association shall, by their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications.</p></sidenote> presidents or vice-presidents, acting under authority from the board of directors, make and file with the Secretary of the Treasury a certificate setting forth the names of the banks composing the association, the principal place of business of the association, and the name of the association, which name shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Upon the filing of such certificate the associated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporate powers.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/547">547</page> banks therein named shall become a body corporate, and by the name so designated and approved may sue and be sued and exercise the powers of a body corporate for the purposes hereinafter mentioned:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Members to be of contiguous territory.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than one such national currency association shall be formed in any city: <i>Provided further</i>, That the several members of such national currency association shall be taken, as nearly as conveniently may be, from a territory composed of a State or part of a State, or contiguous parts of one or more States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That any national bank in such city or territory, having the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsequent admissions.</p></sidenote> qualifications herein prescribed for membership in such national currency association, shall, upon its application to and upon the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, be admitted to membership in a national currency association for that city or territory, and upon such admission shall be deemed and held a part of the body corporate, and as such entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the liabilities of an original member:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Banks restricted to one association.</p></sidenote> national currency association shall be composed exclusively of banks not members of any other national currency association.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The dissolution, voluntary or otherwise, of any bank in such association shall not affect the corporate existence of the association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Existence not affected by dissolution of a member.</p></sidenote> unless there shall then remain less than the minimum number of ten banks: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the reduction of the number of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction below minimum.</p></sidenote> banks below the minimum of ten shall not affect the existence of the corporation with respect to the assertion of all rights in favor of or against such association. The affairs of the association shall be managed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Management.</p></sidenote> by a board consisting of one representative from each bank. By-laws for the government of the association shall be made by the board, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. A<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, and an executive committee of not less than five members, shall be elected by the board. The powers of such board, except in the election of officers and making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive committee.</p></sidenote> of by-laws, may be exercised through its executive committee.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The national currency association herein provided for shall have and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p></sidenote> exercise any and all powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, namely, to render available, under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Treasury, as a basis for additional circulation any securities, including commercial paper, held by a national banking association. For the purpose of obtaining such additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional bank circulation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Securities for, to be deposited with association.</p></sidenote> circulation, any bank belonging to any national currency association, having circulating notes outstanding secured by the deposit of bonds of the United States to an amount not less than forty per centum of its capital stock, and which has its capital unimpaired and a surplus of not less than twenty per centum, may deposit with and transfer to the association, in trust for the United States, for the purpose hereinafter provided, such of the securities above mentioned as may be satisfactory to the board of the association. The officers of the association may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to Comptroller of the Currency.</p></sidenote> thereupon, in behalf of such bank, make application to the Comptroller of the Currency for an issue of additional circulating notes to an amount not exceeding seventy-five per centum of the cash value of the securities or commercial paper so deposited. The Comptroller of the Currency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Treasury may direct issue.</p></sidenote> shall immediately transmit such application to the Secretary of the Treasury with such recommendation as he thinks proper, and if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury, business conditions in the locality demand additional circulation, and if he be satisfied with the character and value of the securities proposed and that a lien in favor of the United States on the securities so deposited and on the assets of the banks composing the association will be amply sufficient for the protection of the United States, he may direct an issue of additional circulating notes to the association, on behalf of such bank, to an amount in his discretion, not, however, exceeding seventy-five per centum of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/548">548</page> the cash value of the securities so deposited: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount on State, etc., bonds.</p></sidenote> deposit of any of the State, city. town, county, or other municipal bonds, of a character described in section three of this Act, circulating notes may be issued to the extent of not exceeding ninety per centum of the market value of such bonds so deposited: <i>And provided further.</i> That no national banking association shall be authorized in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit as to commercial paper.</p></sidenote> any event to issue circulating notes based on commercial paper in excess of thirty per centum of its unimpaired capital and surplus. The term “commercial paper” shall be held to include only notes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Commercial paper” designated.</p></sidenote> representing actual commercial transactions, which when accepted by the association shall bear the names of at least two responsible parties and have not exceeding four months to run.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The banks and the assets of all banks belonging to the association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability of association for redemption.</p></sidenote> shall be jointly and severally liable to the United States for the redemption of such additional circulation; and to secure such liability<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lien created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 5230,p.1011.</p></sidenote> the lien created by section fifty-two hundred and thirty of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability between members.</p></sidenote> Statutes shall extend to and cover the assets of all banks belonging to the association, and to the securities deposited by the banks with the association pursuant to the provisions of this Act; but as between the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional, or exchange of securities.</p></sidenote> several banks composing such association each bank shall be liable only in the proportion that its capital and surplus bears to the aggregate capital and surplus of all such banks. The association may, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of securities held, on failure.</p></sidenote> any time, require of any of its constituent banks a deposit of additional securities or commercial paper, or an exchange of the securities already on deposit, to secure such additional circulation; and in case<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p></sidenote> of the failure of such bank to make such deposit or exchange the association may, after ten days’ notice to the bank, sell the securities and paper already in its hands at public sale, and deposit the proceeds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suit if sum insufficient to redeem notes.</p></sidenote> with the Treasurer of the United States as a fund for the redemption of such additional circulation. If such fund be insufficient for that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal and substitution permitted.</p></sidenote> purpose the association may recover from the bank the amount of the deficiency by suit in the circuit court of the United States, and shall have the benefit of the lien hereinbefore provided for in favor of the United States upon the assets of such bank. The association or the Secretary of the Treasury may permit or require the withdrawal of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action if members fail to maintain redemption fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 123.</p></sidenote> any such securities or commercial paper and the substitution of other securities or commercial paper of equal value therefor.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever any bank belonging to a national currency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of fund of other members.</p></sidenote> association shall fail to preserve or make good its redemption fund in the Treasury of the United States, required by section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and forty-three, and the provisions of this Act, the Treasurer of the United States shall notify such national currency association to make good such redemption fund, and upon the failure of such national currency association to make good such fund, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Association to sell securities of defaulting bank.</p></sidenote> Treasurer of the United States may, in his discretion, apply so much of the redemption fund belonging to the other banks composing such national currency association as may be necessary for that purpose; and such national currency association may, after five days’ notice to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits of proceeds for redemption of notes.</p></sidenote> such bank, proceed to sell at public sale the securities deposited by such bank with the association pursuant to the provisions of section one of this Act, and deposit the proceeds with the Treasurer of the United States as a fund for the redemption of the additional circulation taken out by such bank under this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That any national banking association which has circulating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional circulation by banks, on other than United States bonds.</p></sidenote> notes outstanding, secured by the deposit of United States bonds to an amount of not less than forty per centum of its capital stock, and which has a surplus of not less than twenty per centum, may make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to Comptroller.</p></sidenote> application to the Comptroller of the Currency for authority to issue additional circulating notes to be secured by the deposit of bonds <page identifier="/us/stat/35/549">549</page> other than bonds of the United States. The Comptroller of the Currency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval by Secre-retary of the Treasury.</p></sidenote> shall transmit immediately the application, with his recommendation, to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, if in his judgment business conditions in the locality demand additional circulation, approve the same, and shall determine the. time of issue and fix the amount, within the limitations herein imposed, of the additional circulating notes to be issued. Whenever after receiving notice of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue on deposit of bonds with Treasurer.</p></sidenote> such approval any such association shall deposit with the Treasurer or any assistant treasurer of the United States such of the bonds described in this section as shall be approved in character and amount by the Treasurer of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury, it shall be entitled to receive, upon the order of the Comptroller of the Currency, circulating notes in blank, registered and countersigned as provided by law, not exceeding in amount ninety per centum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to exceed 90 percent of market value.</p></sidenote> of the market value, but not in excess of the par value of any bonds so deposited, such market value to be ascertained and determined under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Treasurer of the United States, with the approval of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds of States, cities, etc., acceptable.</p></sidenote> of the Treasury, shall accept as security for the additional circulating notes provided for in this section, bonds or other interest-bearing obligations of any State of the United States, or any legally authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions as to city, etc., bonds.</p></sidenote> bonds issued by any city, town, county, or other legally constituted municipality or district in the United States which has been in existence for a period of ten years, and which for a period of ten years previous to such deposit has not defaulted in the payment of any part of either principal or interest of any funded debt authorized to be contracted by it, and whose net funded indebtedness does not exceed ten per centum of the valuation of its taxable property, to be ascertained by the last preceding valuation of property for the assessment of taxes. The Treasurer of the United States, with the approval of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discretion of Treasurer.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Treasury, shall accept, for the purposes of this section, securities herein enumerated in such proportions as he may from time to time determine, and he may with such approval at any time require the deposit of additional securities, or require any association to change the character of the securities already on deposit.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the legal title of all bonds, whether coupon or registered,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of title in trust.</p></sidenote> deposited to secure circulating notes issued in accordance with the terms of section three of this Act shall be transferred to the Treasurer of the United States in trust for the association depositing them, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. A receipt shall be given to the association by the Treasurer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from Treasurer.</p></sidenote> or any assistant treasurer of the United States, stating that such bond is held in trust for the association on whose behalf the transfer is made, and as security for the redemption and payment of any circulating notes that have been or may be delivered to such association. No assignment or transfer of any such bond by the Treasurer shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custody, etc., of bonds.</p></sidenote> deemed valid unless countersigned by the Comptroller of the Currency. The provisions of sections fifty-one hundred and sixty-three, fifty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 5163-5167, 5224-5234, pp. 998, 1010-1012.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty-four, fifty-one hundred and sixty-five, fifty-one hundred and sixty-six, and fifty-one hundred and sixty-seven and sections fifty-two hundred and twenty-four to fifty-two hundred and thirty-four, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes respecting United States bonds deposited to secure circulating notes shall, except as herein modified, be applicable to all bonds deposited under the terms of section three of this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the additional circulating notes issued under this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Status of additional circulating notes.</p></sidenote> shall be used, held, and treated in the same way as circulating notes of national banking associations heretofore issued and secured by a deposit of United States bonds, and shall be subject to all the provisions of law affecting such notes except as herein expressly modified: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/550">550</page> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total amount of circulating notes outstanding of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of issue of notes by bank.</p></sidenote> any national banking association, including notes secured by United States bonds as now provided by law, and notes secured otherwise than by deposit of such bonds, shall not at any time exceed the amount of its unimpaired capital and surplus:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum of additional notes.</p></sidenote> there shall not be outstanding at any time circulating notes issued under the provisions of this Act to an amount of more than five hundred millions of dollars.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever and so long as any national banking association<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special requirement for additional circulation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 128.</p></sidenote> has outstanding any of the additional circulating notes authorized to be issued by the provisions of this Act it shall keep on deposit in the Treasury of the United States, in addition to the redemption fund required by section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, an additional sum equal to five per centum of such additional circulation at any time outstanding, such additional five per centum to be treated, held, and used in all respects in the same manner as the original redemption fund provided for by said section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">In order that the distribution of notes to be issued under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportional assignment of additional circulation to States.</p></sidenote> the provisions of this Act shall be made as equitable as practicable between the various sections of the country, the. Secretary of the Treasury shall not approve applications from associations in any State in excess of the amount to which such State would be entitled of the additional notes herein authorized on the basis of the proportion which the unimpaired capital and surplus of the national banking associations in such State bears to the total amount of unimpaired capital and surplus of the national banking associations of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency assignments.</p></sidenote> That in case the applications from associations in any State shall not be equal to the amount which the associations of such State would be entitled to under this method of distribution, the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, to meet an emergency, assign the amount not thus applied for to any applying association or associations in States in the same section of the country.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information, etc., as to acceptable securities.</p></sidenote> to obtain information with reference to the value and character of the securities authorized to be accepted under the provisions of this Act. and he shall from time to time furnish information to national banking associations as to such securities as would be acceptable under the provisions of this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That section fifty-two hundred and fourteen of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on circulation R. S., sec. 5214, p 1008.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secured by two pei cent bonds.</p></sidenote> Statutes, as amended, be further amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5214">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sce</inline>. 5214.</num> <content class="inline">National banking associations having on deposit bonds of the United States, bearing interest at the rate of two per centum per annum, including the bonds issued for the construction of the Panama Canal, under the provisions of section eight of ‘An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 484.</p></sidenote> 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, to secure its circulating notes, shall pay to the Treasurer of the United States, in the months of January and July, a tax of one-fourth of one per centum each half year upon the average amount of such of its notes in circulation as are. based upon the deposit of such bonds; and such associations having on deposit bonds of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By bonds of higher interest.</p></sidenote> United States bearing interest at a rate higher than two per centum per annum shall pay a tax of one-half of one per centum each half year upon the average amount of such of its notes in circulation as are based upon the deposit of such bonds. National banking associations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">By other securities.</p></sidenote> having circulating notes secured otherwise than by bonds of the United States shall pay for the first month a tax at the rate of five per centum per annum upon the average amount of such of their notes in circulation as are based upon the deposit of such securities, and afterwards <page identifier="/us/stat/35/551">551</page> an additional tax of one per centum per annum for each month until a tax of ten per centum per annum is reached, and thereafter such tax of ten per centum per annum, upon the average amount of such notes. Every national banking association having outstanding circulating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly returns of circulation on other than United States bonds.</p></sidenote> notes secured by a deposit of other securities than United Stales bonds shall make monthly returns, under oath of its president or cashier, to the Treasurer of the United States, in such form as the Treasurer may prescribe, of the average monthly amount of its notes so secured in circulation; and it shall he the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency to cause such reports of notes in circulation to be verified by examination of the banks’ records. The taxes received on circulating notes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of taxes on notes secured by other than United States bonds.</p></sidenote> secured otherwise than by bonds of the United States shall be paid into the Division of Redemption of the Treasury and credited and added to the reserve fund held for the redemption of United States and other notes.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That section nine of the Act approved July twelfth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retiring circulation. Vol. 34, p. 1290, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-two, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, be further amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sce</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That any national banking association desiring to withdraw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal of notes secured by United States bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18. p. 124.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits of lawful money.</p></sidenote> its circulating notes, secured by deposit of United States bonds in the manner provided in section four of the Act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, is hereby authorized for that purpose to deposit lawful money with the Treasurer of the United States and, with the consent of the Comptroller of the Currency and the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, to withdraw a proportionate amount of bonds held as security for its circulating notes in the order of such deposits: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly limit.</p></sidenote> nine millions of dollars of lawful money shall be so deposited during any calendar month for this purpose.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Any national banking association desiring to withdraw any of its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notes secured by other securities.</p></sidenote> circulating notes, secured by the deposit of securities other than bonds of the United States, may make such withdrawal at any time in like manner and effect by the deposit of lawful money or national bank<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposits.</p></sidenote> notes with the Treasurer of the United States, and upon such deposit a proportionate share of the securities so deposited maybe withdrawn: <i>Provided</i>, That the deposits under this section to retire notes secured<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retention of deposits to redeem notes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26. p. 289.</p></sidenote> by the deposit of securities other than bonds of the United States shall not be covered into the Treasury, as required by section six of an Act entitled ‘An Act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes,’approved July fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, but shall be retained in the Treasury for the purpose of redeeming the notes of the bank making such deposit.”</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That section fifty-one hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of notes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., sec. 5172, p. 1000, amended.</p></sidenote></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5172"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5172.</num> <content class="inline">In order to furnish suitable notes for circulation, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engraving and printing.</p></sidenote> Comptroller of the Currency shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, cause plates and dies to be engraved, in the best manner to guard against counterfeiting and fraudulent alterations, and shall have printed therefrom, and numbered, such quantity of circulating notes, in blank, of the denominations of five dollars, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denomination.</p></sidenote> dollars, twenty dollars, fifty dollars, one hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, and ten thousand dollars, as may be required to supply the associations entitled to receive the same. Such notes shall state upon their face that they are secured by United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Character of security.</p></sidenote> States bonds or other securities, certified by the written or engraved signatures of the Treasurer and Register and by the imprint of the seal of the Treasury. They shall also express upon their face the promise of the association receiving the same to pay on demand, attested by the signature of the president or vice-president and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/552">552</page> cashier. The Comptroller of the Currency, acting under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional notes to be prepared.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall as soon as practicable cause to be prepared circulating notes in blank, registered and countersigned, as provided by law, to an amount equal to fifty per centum of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit for delivery subject to order.</p></sidenote> capital stock of each national banking association; such notes to be deposited in the Treasury or in the subtreasury of the United States nearest the place of business of each association, and to be held for such association, subject to the order of the Comptroller of the Currency, for their delivery as provided by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of present form.</p></sidenote> Comptroller of the Currency may issue national bank notes of the present form until plates can be prepared and circulating notes issued as above provided: <i>Provided, however</i>, That in no event shall bank notes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present form not for additional circulation.</p></sidenote> of the present form be issued to any bank as additional circulation provided for by this Act.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That circulating notes of national banking associations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redemption in lawful money.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 123.</p></sidenote> when presented to the Treasury for redemption, as provided in section three of the Act approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall be redeemed in lawful money of the United States.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That all acts and orders of the Comptroller of the Currency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of Secretary of the Treasury.</p></sidenote> and the Treasurer of the United States authorized by this Act shall have the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury who shall have power, also, to make any such rules and regulations and exercise such control over the organization and management of national currency associations as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the provisions of section fifty-one hundred and ninety- one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designated depositaries reserve not to include public deposits.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 5191. p. 1004.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes, with reference to the reserves of national banking associations, shall not apply to deposits of public moneys by the United States in designated depositaries.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That all national banking associations designated as regular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest payable on special deposits of public moneys.</p></sidenote> depositaries of public money shall pay upon all special and additional deposits made by the Secretary of the Treasury in such depositaries, and all such associations designated as temporary depositaries of public money shall pay upon all sums of public money deposited in such associations interest at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, not less, however, than one per centum per annum upon the average monthly amount of such deposits: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Safe - keeping not modified.</p></sidenote> nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to change or modify the obligation of any association or any of its officers for the safe-keeping of public money: <i>Provided further</i>, That the rate of interest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniform interest.</p></sidenote> charged upon such deposits shall be equal and uniform throughout the United States.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of the preceding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> sections of this Act is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That a Commission is hereby created, to be called the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Monetary Commission created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 931.</p></sidenote> “National Monetary Commission,” to be composed of nine members of the Senate, to be appointed by the Presiding Officer thereof, and nine members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker thereof; and any vacancy on the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of this Commission to inquire into<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inquiry as to changes in monetary system, etc.</p></sidenote> and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable, what changes are necessary or desirable in the monetary system of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority.</p></sidenote> or in the laws relating to banking and currency, and for this purpose they are authorized to sit during the sessions or recess of Congress, at such times and places as they may deem desirable, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, to summons and compel the attendance of witnesses, and to employ a disbursing officer and such secretaries, experts, stenographers, messengers, and other assistants as shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officials.</p></sidenote> be necessary to carry out the purposes for which said Commission was <page identifier="/us/stat/35/553">553</page> created. The Commission shall have the power, through subcommittee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p></sidenote> or otherwise, to examine witnesses and to make such investigations and examinations, in this or other countries, of the subjects committed to their charge as they shall deem necessary.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline">That a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of sections<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> seventeen and eighteen of this Act. and to pay the necessary expenses of the Commission and its members, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote> shall be immediately available and shall be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman or acting chairman of said Commission, which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon all Departments as to the correctness of the accounts of such Commission.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall expire by limitation on the thirtieth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of act.</p></sidenote> day of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 230: Pensioning the surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers emploved in the defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations from eighteen hundred and fifty-five to eighteen hundred and sixty, inclusive, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>230.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Pensioning the surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers emploved in the defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations from eighteen hundred and fifty-five to eighteen hundred and sixty, inclusive, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5531">S. 5531</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/170">Public, No. 170</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions, limitations, and benefits of an Act entitled “An Act granting pensions to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian wars.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensions for service in, extended to Texas volunteers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 281.</p></sidenote> survivors of the Indian wars of eighteen hundred and thirty-two to eighteen hundred and forty-two, inclusive, known as the Black Hawk war, Creek war, Cherokee disturbances, and the Seminole war,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, be, and the same are hereby, extended from the date of the passage of this Act to the surviving officers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers who served in the defense of the frontier of that State against Mexican marauders and Indian depredations from the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five to the year eighteen hundred and sixty, inclusive; and also to include the surviving widows of such of said officers and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surviving widows included.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> enlisted men: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such widows have not remarried: <i>Provided further</i>, That where there is no record of enlistment or muster into the service of the United States in the service mentioned in this Act the fact of reimbursement to Texas by the United States, as evidenced by the muster rolls and vouchers on file in the War Department, shall be accepted as full and satisfactory proof of such enlistment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proofs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts with attorneys, etc., void.</p></sidenote> and service: <i>And provided further.</i> That all contracts heretofore made between the beneficiaries under this Act and pension attorneys and claim agents are hereby declared null and void.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 231: Authorizing certain life-saving apparatus to be placed at the Farallone Islands, off the coast of California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>231</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>231.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing certain life-saving apparatus to be placed at the Farallone Islands, off the coast of California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5983">S. 5983</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/171">Public, No. 171</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-Saving Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lyle gun. etc., to be placed at Farallone Islands, Cal.</p></sidenote> Treasury is hereby authorized to cause a Lyle gun and the necessary beach apparatus used in connection with it to be placed at the Faral- lone Islands, off the coast of California, at such point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend, and to furnish ammunition for said gun and make repairs to the apparatus from time to time as necessary.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/554">554</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detail of surfman to instruct inhabitants.</p></sidenote> detail an experienced surfman from one of the life-saving stations on the coast of California for duty at the Farallone Islands for a sufficient time to instruct and drill the inhabitants of the islands as to the proper use and care of the life-saving apparatus.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 232: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>232</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-30</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>232.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to incorporate The Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6388">S. 6388</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/172">Public, No. 172</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Masonic Mutual Relief Association.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name changed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 334.</p></sidenote> Act to incorporate The Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be amended by striking out the word “Relief” and substituting therefor the word “Life” in the name of the association, so that as amended it shall read: “The Masonic Mutual Life Association of the District of Columbia.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 233: To amend an Act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>233</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-30</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>233.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/11778">H. R. 11778</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/173">Public, No. 173</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest reserves.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural land within, to be open to settlement.</p></sidenote> Act to provide for the entry of agricultural lands within forest reserves,” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six, be amended by striking out of section one the following words: “except the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions in California repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 233, amended.</p></sidenote> counties in the State of California: Inyo, Tulare, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 234: To promote the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives and other dangerous articles, and to provide penalties for its violation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>234</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 554</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-05-30</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>234.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To promote the safe transportation in interstate commerce of explosives and other dangerous articles, and to provide penalties for its violation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17228">H. R. 17228</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/174">Public. No. 174</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Explosives.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrying dynamite, etc., on passenger vessels and vehicles prohibited.</p></sidenote> transport, carry, or convey any dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive between a place in any foreign country and a place within the United States, or a place in any State, Territory, or District of the United States, and a place in any other State, Territory, or District thereof, on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicle is carrying passengers for hire: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it shall be lawful to transport on any such vessel, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provide.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions, samples, etc.</p></sidenote> vehicle, small arms ammunition in any quantity, and such fusees, torpedoes, rockets, or other signal devices as may be essential to promote safety in operation, and properly packed and marked samples of explosives for laboratory examination, not exceeding a net weight of one- half pound each, and not exceeding twenty samples at one time in a single vessel or vehicle; but such samples shall not be carried in that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> part of a vessel or vehicle which is intended for the transportation of passengers for hire:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in this section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of military and naval munitions of war. etc., allowed.</p></sidenote> shall be construed to prevent the transportation of military or naval forces with their accompanying munitions of war on passenger equipment vessels or vehicles.</proviso></content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/555">555</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That within ninety days from the passage of this Act the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate Commerce Commission to promulgate.</p></sidenote> Interstate Commerce Commission shall formulate regulations for the safe transportation of explosives, and said regulations shall be binding upon all common carriers engaged in interstate commerce which transport explosives by land, and violations of them shall be subject to the penalties hereinafter provided. The Interstate Commerce Commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Changes.</p></sidenote> on its own motion or upon application made by any interested party, may make changes or modifications of the regulations for the safe transportation of explosives, made desirable by new information or altered conditions, and such changed regulations shall have all the force of the original regulations. The regulations for the safe transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing, marking, etc.</p></sidenote> of explosives referred to in this section shall be in accord with the best known practicable means for securing safety in transit, covering the packing, marking, loading, handling while in transit, and the precautions necessary to determine whether the material when ottered is in proper condition to transport. The regulations for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> safe transportation of explosives shall take effect three months after their formulation and publication by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and shall be in effect until reversed, set aside, or modified.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful to transport, carry, or convey<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nitroglycerine, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate, etc., transportation of. prohibited.</p></sidenote> liquid nitroglycerine, fulminate in bulk in dry condition, or other like explosive between a place in a foreign country and a place within the United States, or a place in one State, Territory, or District of the United States and a place in any other State, Territory, or District thereof, on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier in the transportation of passengers or articles of commerce by land or water.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">Every package containing explosives or other dangerous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marking packages of explosives.</p></sidenote> articles when presented to a common carrier for shipment shall have plainly marked on the outside thereof the contents thereof, and it shall be unlawful for any person to deliver, for interstate or foreign transportation, to any common carrier engaged in interstate or foreign commerce by land or water, or to cause to be delivered, or to carry, any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deceptive marking.</p></sidenote> explosive, or other dangerous article, under any false or deceptive marking, description, invoice, shipping order, or other declaration, or without informing the agent of such carrier of the true character thereof, at or before the time such delivery or carriage is made.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That every person who knowingly violates, or causes to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 5253. p. 1039, amended.</p></sidenote> violated, any of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect immediately, and all Acts or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4422, p. 857.</p></sidenote> parts of Acts in conflict therewith are hereby repealed, except section forty-four hundred and twenty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, which shall remain in full force and effect.</content>
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<docNumber>235.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section fifty-four hundred and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19482">H. R. 19482</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/175">Public, No. 175</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section fifty-four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">False claims against the Government.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 5438. p.1054.</p></sidenote> and thirty-eight of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5438">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5438</num> <content class="inline">Every person who makes or causes to be made, or presents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Presenting false claims</p></sidenote> or causes to be presented, for payment or approval, to or by any person or officer in the civil, military, or naval service of the United <page identifier="/us/stat/35/556">556</page> States, any claim upon or against the Government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof, knowing such claim to be false, fictitious, or fraudulent, or who, for the purpose of obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or approval of such claim, makes, uses, or causes to be made or used, any false bill, receipt, voucher, roll, account, claim, certificate, affidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to contain any fraudulent or fictitious statement or entry, or who enters into any agreement, combination, or conspiracy to defraud the Government of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military and naval property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Custodians, etc., who deliver, etc., with fraudulent intent.</p></sidenote> the United States, or any department or officer thereof, by obtaining or aiding to obtain the payment or allowance of any false or fraudulent claim, or who, having charge, possession, custody, or control of any money or other public property used or to be used in the military or naval service, who with intent to defraud the United States or willfully to conceal such money or other property, delivers or causes to be delivered, to any person having authority to receive the same, any amount of such money or other property less than that for which he received a certificate or took a receipt, and every person authorized to make or deliver any certificate, voucher, receipt, or other paper certifying the receipt of arms, ammunition, provisions, clothing, or other property so used or to be used, who makes or delivers the same to any other person without a full knowledge of the truth of the, facts stated therein, and with intent to defraud the United States, shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than five years, or fined not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> more than five thousand dollars; and every person who knowingly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons who purchase, etc., public property with fraudulent intent.</p></sidenote> purchases or receives in pledge for any obligation or indebtedness from any soldier, officer, sailor, or other person called into or employed in the military or naval service any arms, equipments, ammunition, clothes, military stores, or other public property, whether furnished to the soldier under a clothing allowance or otherwise, such soldier, sailor, officer, or other person not having the lawful right to pledge or sell the same, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> two years and by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.”</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 236: Grant ing to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>236.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Grant ing to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/2144">H. R. 2144</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/176">Public No. 176</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<content class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>, That when, on or after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to certain, for injuries sustained during employment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Character of work specified.</p></sidenote> August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy-yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission, is injured in the course of such employment, such employee shall be entitled to receive for one year thereafter,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> unless such employee, in the opinion of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, be sooner able to resume work, the same pay as if he continued to be employed, such payment to be made under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> That no compensation shall be paid under this Act where the injury is due to the negligence or misconduct of the employee injured, nor unless said injury shall continue for more than fifteen days. All questions of negligence or misconduct shall be determined by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That if any artisan or laborer so employed shall die during the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to widow, etc.</p></sidenote> said year by reason of such injury received in the course of such employ-ment <page identifier="/us/stat/35/557">557</page> , leaving a widow, or a child or children under sixteen years of age, or a dependent parent, such widow and child or children and dependent parent shall be entitled to receive, in such portions and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> same amount, for the remainder of the said year, that said artisan or laborer would be entitled to receive as pay if such employee were alive and continued to be employed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if the widow shall die<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remaining beneficiaries to receive deceased widow’s portion.</p></sidenote> at any time during the said year her portion of said amount shall be added to the amount to be paid to the remaining beneficiaries under the provisions of this section, if there be any.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever an accident occurs to any employee embraced<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports of injuries.</p></sidenote> within the terms of the first section of this Act, and which results in death or a probable incapacity for work, it shall be the duty of the official superior of such employee to at once report such accident and the injury resulting therefrom to the head of his Bureau or independent office, and his report shall be immediately communicated through regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Character of reports.</p></sidenote> Such report shall state, first, the time, cause, and nature of the accident and injury and the probableduration of the injury resulting therefrom; second, whether the accident arose out of or in the course of the injured person’s employment; third, whether the accident was due to negligence or misconduct on the part of the employee injured; fourth, any other matters required by such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe. The head of each Department or independent office shall have power, however, to charge a special official with the duty of making such reports.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That in the case of any accident which shall result in death,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit filed in case of death.</p></sidenote> the persons entitled to compensation under this Act or their legal representatives shall, within ninety days after such death, file with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> Secretary of Commerce and Labor an affidavit setting forth their relationship to the deceased and the ground of their claim for compensation under the provisions of this Act. This shall be accompanied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician’s certificate.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Affidavit in ease of injury.</p></sidenote> by the certificate of the attending physician setting forth the fact and cause of death, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. In the case of incapacity for work lasting more than fifteen days, the injured party desiring to take the benefit of this Act shall, within a reasonable period after the expiration of such time, file with his official superior, to be forwarded through regular official channels to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of affidavit. etc.</p></sidenote> an affidavit setting forth the grounds of his claim for compensation, to be accompanied by a certificate of the attending physician as to the cause and nature of the injury and probable duration of the incapacity, or the nonproduction of the certificate shall be satisfactorily accounted for. If the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall find<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining compensation.</p></sidenote> from the report and affidavit or other evidence produced by the claimant or his or her legal representatives, or from such additional investigation as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, that a claim for compensation is established under this Act, the compensation to be paid shall be determined as provided under this Act and approved for payment by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the employee shall, whenever and as often as required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical examination.</p></sidenote> by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, at least once in six months, submit to medical examination, to be provided and paid for under the direction of the Secretary, and if such employee refuses to submit to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refusal to be examined.</p></sidenote> or obstructs such examination his or her right to compensation shall be lost for the period covered by the continuance of such refusal or obstruction.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That payments under this Act are only to be made to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to beneficiaries, etc.</p></sidenote> beneficiaries or their legal representatives other than assignees, and shall not be subject to the claims of creditors.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/558">558</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the United States shall not exempt itself from liability<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts exempting from liability void.</p></sidenote> under this Act by any contract, agreement, rule, or regulation, and any such contract, agreement, rule, or regulation shall be pro tanto void.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith or providing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> a different scale of compensation or otherwise regulating its payment are hereby repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 237: For the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment.</dc:title>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/208">S. 208</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/177">Public, No. 177</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of all lands in.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be surveyed all the lands embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and to cause an examination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination by experts for irrigable and coal lands.</p></sidenote> of the lands within such reservation to be made by the Reclamation Service and by experts of the Geological Survey, and if there be found any lands which it may be deemed practicable to bring under an irrigation project, or any lands bearing lignite coal, the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservation.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct such irrigation projects and reserve such lands as may be irrigable therefrom, or necessary for irrigation works, and also coal lands as may be necessary to the construction and maintenance of any such projects.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That as soon as all the lands embraced within the said Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to Indians.</p></sidenote> Peck Indian Reservation shall have been surveyed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shall cause allotments of the same to be made under the provisions of the allotment laws of the United States to all Indians belonging and having tribal rights on said reservation; and there shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Area of allotments.</p></sidenote> be allotted to each such Indian three hundred and twenty acres of grazing land, and there shall also be made an additional allotment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments of timber lands.</p></sidenote> not less than two and one-half acres nor more than twenty acres of timber land to heads of families and single adult members of the. tribe over eighteen years of age: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That should it be determined<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigable lands to be allotted.</p></sidenote> as feasible, after examination, to irrigate any of said lands, the irrigable land shall be allotted in equal proportions to such only of the members of said tribe as shall be living at the day of the beginning of the work of allotment on said reservation by the special allotting agent, and such allotment of irrigable land shall be in addition to the allotments of grazing and timber lands aforesaid, but no member shall receive more than forty acres of such irrigable land; and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> pay the costs of examination provided for herein and for the construction of irrigation systems to irrigate lands which may be found susceptible of irrigation, there is hereby appropriated two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to pay cost.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, to be immediately available, the said sum and any and all additional sums hereafter appropriated to pay the cost of such examination and irrigation systems to be reimbursed from proceeds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for water right.</p></sidenote> of sales of lands within the said reservation: <i>Provided, however.</i> That any land irrigable by any system constructed under the provisions of this Act may be disposed of subject to the following conditions: The entryman or owner shall, in addition to the payments required by section eight of this Act, be required to pay for a water right the proportionate cost of the construction of said system in not more than fifteen annual installments, as fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, with a view to the return of all moneys expended thereon, the same to be paid at the local land oilice, and the register and receiver shall be allowed the usual commissions on all moneys paid.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/559">559</page> The entryman of lands to be irrigated by said system shall, in addition<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes, and before receiving patent for the lands covered by his entry shall pay the charges apportioned againt such tract, nor shall any such lands be subject to mineral entry or location. No right to the use of water shall be disposed of for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one person, and the Secretary of the Interior may limit the areas to be entered at not less than forty nor more than one hundred and sixty acres each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">A failure to make any two payments when due shall render the entry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> and water-right application subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act, as well as of any moneys paid thereon. The funds arising hereunder shall be paid into the Treasury of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of funds.</p></sidenote> United States and be added to the proceeds derived from the sale of the lands. No right to the use of water for lands in private ownership<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of water right restricted.</p></sidenote> shall be sold to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of such land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All applicants for water rights under the systems constructed in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of annual charges.</p></sidenote> pursuance of this Act shall be required to pay such annual charges for operation and maintenance as shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and the failure to pay such charges when due shall render the water-right application and the entry subject to cancellation, with the forfeiture of all rights under this Act as well as of any moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> already paid thereon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to fix the time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> for the beginning of such payments and to provide such rules and regulations in regard thereto as he may deem proper. Upon the cancellation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of canceled entries, etc.</p></sidenote> of any entry or water-right application, as herein provided, such lands or water rights may be disposed of under the terms of this Act and at such price and on such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, but not less nor more than the cost as originally fixed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In every case in which a forfeiture is enforced and the land and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of surplus proceeds.</p></sidenote> rights of an entryman are made the subject of resale then, after the payment of the balance due from the entryman and the cost and charges, if any attendant on the forfeiture and resale, any surplus remaining out of the proceeds of such sale shall be refunded to said entryman or his heirs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The land irrigable under the systems herein provided, which has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water rights free to Indians.</p></sidenote> been allotted to Indians in severalty, shall be deemed to have a right to so much water as may be required to irrigate such land without cost to the Indians for the construction of such irrigation systems. The purchaser of any Indian allotment purchased prior to the expiration<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exemption.</p></sidenote> of the trust period thereon shall be exempt from any and all charge for construction of the irrigation system incurred up to the time of such purchase. All lands allotted to Indians shall bear their<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of cost of operation, etc.</p></sidenote> pro rata share of the cost of operation and maintenance of the irrigation system under which they lie: and the Secretary of the Interior may withhold from any Indian a sufficient amount of his pro rata share of any moneys subject to distribution to pay any charge assessed against land held in trust for him for operation and maintenace of the irrigation system.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">When the payments required by this Act have been made for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Owners to pay expense of maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> major part of the unallotted lands irrigable under any system, and subject to charges for construction thereof, the management and operation of such irrigation works shall pass to the owners of the lands irrigated thereby, to be maintained at their expense, under such form of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/560">560</page> organization and under such rules and regulations as may be acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All appropriations of the waters of the reservation shall be made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations of waters, etc.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the laws of the State of Montana.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior may reserve such lands as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land reserved for agency, etc., purposes.</p></sidenote> he may deem necessary for agency, school, and religious purposes, to remain reserved as long as needed, and as long as agency, school, or religious institutions are maintained thereon for the benefit of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to religious organizations.</p></sidenote> Indians: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue a patent in fee simple to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority of any religious organization heretofore engaged in mission or school work on said reservation, for such lands thereon (not included in any town site herein provided for) as have been heretofore set apart to such organization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poplar. Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land reserved for school purposes, etc.</p></sidenote> for mission or school purposes:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to reserve two and seven hundredths acres of land in the town of Poplar, on said reservation, now occupied for public school purposes, and issue patent in fee for the same to the school trustees of the school district in which said land is situated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Northern Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands patented to, for reservoir, etc., purposes.</p></sidenote> when the said lands are surveyed, to issue to the Great Northern Bailway Company a patent or patents conveying for railroad purposes such lands at such point or points as in the judgment of the said Secretary are necessary for the use of said railway company in the construction and maintenance of water reservoirs, dam sites, and for right of way for water pipe lines for use by said railway company in operating its line of railroad over and across said reservation; the said lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum acreage, etc.</p></sidenote> so to be conveyed not to exceed forty acres at any one point and not to exceed one tract for each ten miles of the main line of said railway as now constructed within said reservation, and said lands shall be selected in such manner as not to unnecessarily injure or interfere with the selection and location of town sites hereinafter provided for; the said patent or patents to be delivered to said company upon payment by said company, within thirty days after notification of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> issuance of patent, of the reasonable value of said lands, not less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre, and also upon payment by said company to said Secretary of any and all damages sustained by individual members of said tribe by reason of the appropriation of said lands for the purposes aforesaid; all moneys so paid for the value of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit to credit of Indians.</p></sidenote> said lands to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, and the moneys received by said Secretary as damages sustained by individual members of said tribe shall be by him<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages.</p></sidenote> paid to the individuals sustaining said damages.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That upon the completion of said allotments the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to appraise, etc., allotted lands.</p></sidenote> of the United States shall appoint a commission consisting of three persons to inspect, classify, appraise, and value all of said lands that shall not have been allotted in severalty to said Indians or reserved by the Secretary of the Interior, said commission to be constituted as follows: One of said commissioners shall be a person holding tribal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> relations with said Indians, one a representative of the Indian Bureau, and one a resident citizen of the State of Montana.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That within thirty days after their appointment said commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meeting.</p></sidenote> shall meet at some point within the Fort Peck Reservation and organize by election of one of their number as chairman. Said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> commission is hereby empowered to select, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, such clerks and assistants as may be necessary in the performance of their duties herein specified, the compensation of each such clerk and assistant to be fixed by said Secretary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> In no case shall any such clerk or assistant receive a salary exceeding <page identifier="/us/stat/35/561">561</page> six dollars per day. In addition to the compensation of said clerks and assistants and in addition to the salaries hereinafter provided for the said commissioners, they shall each receive their actual necessary expenses incurred during such time only as they shall be engaged in the performance of their respective duties on said reservation.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That said commissioners shall then proceed to personally<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection, etc., of remaining lands.</p></sidenote> inspect and classify and appraise by the smallest legal subdivisions of forty acres each all of the remaining lands embraced within said reservation. In making such classification and appraisement said lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification.</p></sidenote> shall be divided into the following classes: First, agricultural land; second, grazing land; third, arid land; fourth, mineral land, the mineral land not to be appraised; that said commissioners shall be paid a salary of not to exceed ten dollars per day each while actually employed in the inspection and classification of said lands, such inspection and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> classification to be completed within nine months from the date of the organization of said commission.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That when said commission shall have completed the classification<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands.</p></sidenote> and appraisement of said lands and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior the lands shall be disposed of under the general provisions of the homestead, desert-land, mineral, and town-site laws of the United States, except sections sixteen and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School lands excepted.</p></sidenote> thirty-six of each township, or any part thereof, for which the State of Montana has not heretofore received indemnity lands under existing laws, which sections, or parts thereof, are hereby granted to the State of Montana for school purposes. And in case either of said sections,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lieu lauds.</p></sidenote> or parts thereof, is lost to the State by reason of allotment thereof to any Indian or Indians, or by reservation or withdrawal under the provisions of this Act or otherwise, the governor of said State, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby authorized to select other unoccupied, unreserved, nonmineral lands within said reservation, not exceeding two sections in any one township, which selections must be made within the sixty days immediately prior to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> date fixed by the President’s proclamation opening the surplus lands to settlement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the United States shall pay to the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> Indians for the lands in said sections sixteen and thirty-six, so granted, or the lands within said reservation selected in lieu thereof, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the lands so classified and appraised as provided shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opened to settlement.</p></sidenote> be opened to settlement and entry by proclamation of the President, which proclamation shall prescribe the time when and the manner in which these lands may be settled upon, occupied, and entered by persons entitled to make entry thereof, and no person shall be permitted to settle upon, occupy, or enter any of said lands except as prescribed in such proclamation, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time when the same are opened to settlement and entry: <proviso><i>Provided.</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Soldiers and sailors’ rights not affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2801, 2305, p. 422.</p></sidenote> That the rights of honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil and Spanish wars and the Philippine insurrection, as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, as amended by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 847.</p></sidenote> the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and one, shall not be abridged, but no entry shall be allowed under section twenty-three hundred and six of the Revised Statutes:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the price of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agricultural, etc., lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price per acre.</p></sidenote> lands shall be the appraised value thereof, as fixed by said commission, which in no case shall be less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for agricultural, grazing, and arid land, and shall be paid as follows: Upon all lands entered or tiled upon under the provisions of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> homestead law, there shall be paid one-fifth of the appraised value of the land when entry or tiling is made, and the remainder shall be paid in five equal annual installments in one, two, three, four, and five years, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/562">562</page> respectively, from and after date of entry or filing, and when an entryman shall have complied with all the requirements of the homestead law and shall have submitted final proof within seven years from date<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee.</p></sidenote> of entry and shall have made all required payments aforesaid, he shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aliens, may enter lands, etc.</p></sidenote> be entitled to a patent for the lands entered:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That aliens who have declared their intentions to become citizens of the United States may become such entrymen, but no patent shall be issued to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> any person who is not a citizen of the United States at the time of making final proof:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the fees and commissions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> at the time of commutation or final entry shall be the same as are now provided by law where the price of land is one dollar and twenty- five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote> cents per acre: <i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall prevent a citizen of the United States from commuting his homestead entry under the provisions of section two thousand three hundred and one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., see. 2301, p. 421.</p></sidenote> of the Revised Statutes by paying for the land entered the price fixed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments by entrymen.</p></sidenote> by said commission, receiving credits for payments previously made.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That entrymen under the desert-land law shall be required to pay one-fifth of the appraised value of the land in cash at the time of entry, and the remainder in five equal annual installments, as provided in homestead entries: but any such entryman shall be required to pay the full appraised value of the land on or before submission of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perjury.</p></sidenote> final proof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if any person taking any oath required by the homestead or desert-land laws or the regulations thereunder, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> swear falsely in the premises, he shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury and shall forfeit the money which he may have paid for said land and all right and title to the same, and if any person making homestead or desert-land entry shall fail to comply with the law and the regulations under which his entry is made, or shall fail to make final proof within the time prescribed by law, or shall fail to make all payments or any of them required herein, he shall forfeit all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> money which he may have paid on the land and all right and title to the same, and the entry shall be canceled.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That if, after the approval of the classification and appraisement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigable lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal and sale of.</p></sidenote> as provided herein, there shall be found lands within the limits of the reservation deemed practicable for irrigation projects deemed practicable under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote> June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the reclamation Act, said lands shall be subject to withdrawal and be disposed of under the provisions of said Act, and settlers shall pay, in addition to the cost of construction and maintenance provided therein, the appraised value as provided in this Act, to the proper officers, to be covered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds to credit of Indians.</p></sidenote> into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Indians.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That all lands hereby opened to settlement remaining undisposed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of remaining lands.</p></sidenote> of at the end of five years from the date of President’s procla mation to entry shall be sold to the highest bidder for cash at not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior; and any lands remaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p></sidenote> unsold ten years after said lands shall have been opened to entry shall be sold to the highest bidder for cash, without regard to the minimum limit above stated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That not more than six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum acreage.</p></sidenote> and forty acres shall be sold to any one person or company.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That the lands within said reservation however classified,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exploration,etc., for coal.</p></sidenote> shall, on and after sixty days from the date fixed by the President’s proclamation opening said lands, be subject to exploration, location, and purchase under the general provisions of the United States mineral and coal land laws at not less than the price therein fixed and not less than the appraised value of the land, except that no mineral or coal exploration, location, or purchase shall be permitted upon any lands allotted to Indians or withdrawn under the provisions of this Act.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/563">563</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonresponsibility of the United States.</p></sidenote> bind the United States to purchase any part of the land herein described, except sections sixteen and thirty-six, or the equivalent in each township, that may be granted to the State of Montana, the reserved tracts hereinbefore mentioned for agency and school purposes, or to dispose of lands except as provided herein, or to guarantee to find purchasers for said lands, or any part thereof, it being the intention of this Act that the United States shall act as trustee for said Indians to dispose of said lands and to expend and pay over the proceeds received from the sale thereof only as received.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Townsites.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reservations for, at Poplar, etc.</p></sidenote> directed to reserve and set aside for town-site purposes, and to survey, lay out, and plat into town lots, streets, alleys, and parks, not less than forty acres of said land at the present settlement of Poplar, and at such other places as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary or convenient for town sites, in such manner as will best subserve the present needs and the reasonable prospective growth of said settlement. That such town sites shall be surveyed, appraised, and disposed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey, etc.</p></sidenote> of as provided in section twenty-three hundred and eighty-one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2381. p. 436.</p></sidenote> of the United States Revised Statutes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any person<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of actual residents.</p></sidenote> who, at the date when the appraisers commence their work upon the land, shall be an actual resident upon any one such lot and the owner of substantial and permanent improvements thereon, and who shall maintain his or her residence and improvements on such lot to the date of his or her application to enter, shall be entitled to enter, at any time prior to the day fixed for the public sale and at the appraised value thereof, such lot and any four additional lots of which he or she may also be in possession and upon which he or she may have substantial and permanent improvements: <i>Provided further</i>, That before making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of residence, etc.</p></sidenote> entry of any such lot or lots the applicant shall make proof, to the satisfaction of the register and receiver of the land district in which the land lies, of such residence, possession, and ownership of improvements, under such regulations as to time, notice, manner, and character of proofs as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior: <i>Provided further</i>, That in making their appraisal of the lots so surveyed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of appraisers.</p></sidenote> it shall be the duty of the appraisers to ascertain the names of the residents upon and occupants ot any such lots, the character and extent of the improvements thereon, and the name of the reputed owner thereof, and to report their findings in connection with their report of appraisal, which report of (indings shall be taken as prima<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lots.</p></sidenote> facie evidence of the facts therein set out. All such lots not so entered prior to the day fixed for the public sale shall be offered at public outcry, in their regular order, with the other unimproved and unoccupied lots. That no lot shall be sold for less than ten dollars: <i>And provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That said lots, when surveyed, shall approximate fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Size of lots.</p></sidenote> by one hundred and fifty feet in size.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That after deducting the expenses of the commission of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balance of proceeds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposited to credit of Indians.</p></sidenote> classification, appraisement, and sale of the lands, and such other incidental expenses as may necessarily be incurred, including the cost of survey of said lands, the balance realized from the proceeds of the sale of the lands in conformity with the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States and placed to the credit of said Indian tribe, to draw four per centum per annum, the principal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> and interest to be expended from time to time by the Secretary of the Interior as he may deem advisable for the benefit of said Indians in their education and civilization, the construction and maintenance of irrigation ditches, should such be determined as feasible and beneficial to said allottees, and suitable per capita cash payments. The remainder<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment of funds.</p></sidenote> of all funds deposited in the Treasury, realized from such sale of lands <page identifier="/us/stat/35/564">564</page> herein authorized, together with the remainder of all other funds now placed to the credit of or that shall hereafter become due to said tribe of Indians, shall, within three years after the completion of the irrigation systems to be constructed under the provisions of section two hereof, be allotted in severalty to the members of the tribe, the persons entitled to share as members in such distribution to be determined by the Secretory of the Interior.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to pay for lands granted to Montana, etc.</p></sidenote> the Treasury not otherwise appropriated in addition to the amount appropriated in section two, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for the lands granted to the State of Montana, and for lands reserved for agency and school purposes, at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation to, pay for classification, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post.</i> p. 796.</p></sidenote> also the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to survey, allot, classify, and appraise the lands in said reservation as provided herein; and also to defray the expense of the appraisement and survey of town sites, the latter sums to be reimbursable out of the funds arising from the sale of said lands.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<p class="centered">RESOLUTIONS</p>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/565" renderingPosition="bottom">565</page>
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<dc:title>No. 1: To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seven, on the twenty-first day of said month.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>1</docNumber>
<dc:date>December 19, 1907</dc:date>
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<main>
<officialTitle>To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seven, on the twenty-first day of said month.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1907-12-19">December 19, 1907</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/58">H. J. R. 58</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/1">Pub. Res., No. 1</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, etc., of Congress to be paid December salaries December 21, 1907.</p></sidenote> Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol Police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and seven, on the twenty-first day of said month.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 19, 1907.</actionDescription>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 2: Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase and distribution of valuable seeds.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
<dc:date>January 8, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase and distribution of valuable seeds.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-08">January 8, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/66">H.J. R. 66.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/2">Pub. Res., No. 2.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That to supply a deficiency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deficiency appropriation for seed.</p></sidenote> occasioned by the destruction of the seed warehouse used by the Department of Agriculture in the City of Washington, November sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, in the appropriation “ Purchase and distribution of valuable seeds,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of two hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars, except the provision for the purchase of foreign seed, under this title in the “Act making appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1267.</p></sidenote> for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 8, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>No. 3: Amending an Act relative to the public printing and binding, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<dc:date>January 15, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Amending an Act relative to the public printing and binding, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-15">January 15, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/1">S.J. R. 1.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/3">Pub. Res., No. 3.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That publications ordered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public printing and binding.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classification of.</p></sidenote> printed by Congress, or either House thereof, shall be in four series, namely: One series of reports made by the committees of the Senate, to be known as Senate reports; one series of reports made by the committees of the House of Representatives, to be known as House reports; one series of documents other than reports of committees, the orders for printing which originate in the Senate, to be known as Senate documents, and one series of documents other than committee reports, the orders for printing which originate in the House of Representatives, to be known as House documents. The publications in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Publications to be numbered consecutively.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1014, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> each series shall be consecutively numbered, the numbers in each series continuing in unbroken sequence throughout the entire term of a Congress, but the foregoing provisions shall not apply to the documents <page identifier="/us/stat/35/566">566</page> printed for the use of the Senate in executive session: <i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of Department, etc., publications.</p></sidenote> of the “usual number,” the copies which are intended for distribution to State and Territorial libraries and other designated depositories of all annual or serial publications originating in or prepared by an Executive Department, bureau, office, commission, or board shall not be numbered in the document or report series of either House of Congress, but shall be designated by title and bound as hereinafter provided, and the departmental edition, if any, shall be printed concurrently with the “usual number:” <i>And provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee hearings.</p></sidenote> hearings of committees may be printed as Congressional documents only when specifically ordered by Congress or either House thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That in the binding of Congressional documentsand reports<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding reports, etc., for State and Territorial libraries.</p></sidenote> for distribution by the superintendent of documents to State and Territorial libraries and other designated depositories, every publication of sufficient size on any one subject shall hereafter be bound separately and receive the title suggested by the subject of the volume, and the others shall be distributed in unbound form as soon as printed. The<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bound copies for permanent files.</p></sidenote> Public Printer shall supply the superintendent of documents sufficient copies of those publications distributed in unbound form, to be bound and distributed to the State and Territorial libraries and other designated depositories for their permanent files. The library edition, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library edition,etc.</p></sidenote> well as all other bound sets of Congressional numbered documentsand reports, shall be arranged in volumes and bound in the manner directed by the Joint Committee on Printing.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That section two of an Act to amend an Act providing for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1014.</p></sidenote> the public printing and binding, and so forth, approved March first, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 15, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
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</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 4: Extending the time allowed the organized militia of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia to conform to the provisions of section three of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>4</docNumber>
<dc:date>January 16, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Extending the time allowed the organized militia of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia to conform to the provisions of section three of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-16">January 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/14">S. J. R. 14.]</ref></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/">Pub. Res., No. 4.]</ref></p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time allowed the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended to, in which to conform to general army regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante.</i> p. 400.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote> organized militia of the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia in which to conform their organization, armament, and discipline to that which is now or may hereafter be prescribed for the regular and volunteer armies of the United States by section three of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, be, and is hereby, extended to January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 5: Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Hernan Ulloa, of Costa Rica.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>5</docNumber>
<dc:date>January 16, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the Military Academy at West Point, Mr. Hernan Ulloa, of Costa Rica.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-16">January 16, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/80">H. J. R. 80</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/pubres">Pub. Res., No. 5</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hernan Ulloa, of Costa Rica.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Admitted to West Point.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he hereby is, authorized to permit Mr. Hernan Ulloa, of Costa Rica, to receive instruction at the Military Academy at West Point: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be caused to the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> thereby, and that the said Hernan Ulloa shall agree to comply with all regulations for the police and discipline of the Academy, to be studious, and to give his utmost efforts to accomplish the courses in the various departments of instruction:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath and service.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/567">567</page> case of the said Hernan Ulloa the provisions of sections thirteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., sees. 1320, 1321.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">P. 2W.</p></sidenote> and twenty and thirteen hundred and twenty-one of the Revised Statutes shall be suspended.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 16, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 6: To amend the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use for rent an increased proportion of the appropriation made by said Act for rent for the Bureau of Forestry.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<dc:date>January 31, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>To amend the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, so as to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use for rent an increased proportion of the appropriation made by said Act for rent for the Bureau of Forestry.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-01-31">January 31, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/88">H. J. R. 88</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/6">Pub. Res., No. 6</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forest Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent allowance increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1270, amended.</p></sidenote> making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.” be, and the same is hereby, amended to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to use for rent not to exceed sixty thousand dollars of the moneys appropriated by said Act for general expenses of the Forest Service, instead of “not to exceed forty thousand dollars” for such purpose, as provided in said Act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 31, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 7: Providing for salaries of the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
<dc:date>February 24, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Providing for salaries of the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-24">February 24, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/130">H.J.R. 130</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/7">Pub. Res., No. 7</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Sergeant-at-Arms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resident Commissioners’ salaries, and allowance in lieu of mileage.</p></sidenote> of the House of Representatives is authorized to pay to each of the two Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, out of the appropriation made for the current fiscal year for compensation of the Members of the House of Representatives, the same rate of compensation as is authorized and being paid to the Resident Commissioner<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 86.</p></sidenote> from Porto Rico, together with two thousand dollars each, as authorized by law, in lieu of mileage.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 8: For the appointment of a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
<dc:date>February 24, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>For the appointment of a member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-24">February 24, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/139">H. J. R. 139</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/8">Pub. Res., No. 8</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in. Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian Institution.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charles F. Choate, Jr., appointed regent.</p></sidenote> vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class “other than Members of Congress” shall be tilled by the appointment of Charles F. Choate, junior, a citizen of Massachusetts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 9: To continue in full force and effect an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>9</docNumber>
<dc:date>February 26, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>To continue in full force and effect an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in northern prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-02-26">February 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/138">H.J. R. 138</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/9">Pub. Res., No. 9</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederate soldiers and sailors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of graves of, who died in northern prisons, etc.</p></sidenote> Act to provide for the appropriate marking of the graves of the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate army and navy who died in north-ern <page identifier="/us/stat/35/568">568</page> prisons and were buried near the prisons where they died, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 56.</p></sidenote> other purposes,” approved March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, continued in full force and effect for two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time for completing work extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> years from this date: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the provisions of said Act shall not be construed to apply to the Confederate Mound in Oakwood Cemetery at Chicago:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of commissioner.</p></sidenote> of the commissioner shall be fixed by the Secretary of War.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 10: Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish three condemned cannon to the mayor of the city of Detroit, Michigan, to be placed on the base of a statue of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>10</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 5, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish three condemned cannon to the mayor of the city of Detroit, Michigan, to be placed on the base of a statue of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-05">March 5, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/102">H.J.R. 102</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/10">Pub. Res., No. 10</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit, Mich.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon granted to. for the Macomb statute.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to deliver to the mayor of the city of Detroit. Michigan, if the same can be done without detriment to the public service, one condemned nine-pounder French bronze gun. located at the United States arsenal at Watervliet. New York, and two condemned twelve-pounder bronze field guns, date of eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, located at the United States arsenal at Watertown, Massachusetts, to be, placed upon the gun pedestals of a monument erected to the memory of the late Major-General Alexander Macomb, United States Army: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the donation shall be without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> expense to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 5, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 11: Authorizing the invitation of governments of other countries to send representatives to the International Congress on tuberculosis.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>11</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 6, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the invitation of governments of other countries to send representatives to the International Congress on tuberculosis.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/63">S. J. R. 63</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/pubres/11">Pub. Res., No. 11</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> 
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">Whereas au International Congress on Tuberculosis will meet in Washington in September, nineteen hundred and eight, the same being the Sixth International Congress on Tuberculosis, and the first to be held in America; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas seven of the nine Departments of the Federal Government have petitioned Congress for the authority and means to participate in this Congress; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas the governors of twenty-eight States of the United States have authorized the participation of their several States in this Congress; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis has provided the necessary means and created a special committee to secure the participation of voluntary and private interests in the coming International Congress on Tuberculosis; and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas preceding International Congresses occurring in other countries in the past fifteen years have been held under governmental auspices, and delegates from the United States have participated therein as guests of foreign governments: Therefore be it</p>
</content></section>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Department of State<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Congress on Tuberculosis.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign governments invited to send representatives to.</p></sidenote> be, and is hereby, authorized to invite the governments of other countries, through their ministers, to send representatives to the International Congress on Tuberculosis, to be held in Washington, September<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Place and date of meeting.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 479.</p></sidenote> twenty-first to October twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/569">569</page>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 12: Authorizing the Secretary of War to apply the unexpended balance of the donation made by the citizens of Dallas, Texas, under the provisions of the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to work in construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two in section one of Trinity River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>12</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 6, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to apply the unexpended balance of the donation made by the citizens of Dallas, Texas, under the provisions of the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to work in construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two in section one of Trinity River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-06">March 6, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/120">H.J.R. 120</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/12">Pub. Res., No. 12</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the unexpended balance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trinity River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lock and dam Numbered Two.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">use of unexptended donation authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p.1131.</p></sidenote> of the sum of sixty-six thousand dollars, donated to the United States by citizens of Dallas, Texas, in pursuance of a provision in the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to aid in the improvement of section one, Trinity River, is hereby made available for the construction of locks and dams, and the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, apply the said balance to work in connection with the construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Two in said section one.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 6, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 13: Granting authority for the use of certain balances of appropriations for the Light-House Establishment to be available for certain named purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>13</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 23, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Granting authority for the use of certain balances of appropriations for the Light-House Establishment to be available for certain named purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-23">March 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/69">S. J. R. 69</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/13">Pub. Res., No. 13</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the balances of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light-House Establishment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of balances to transfer vessels to stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83, pp. 468, 1171.</p></sidenote> appropriations for the construction of vessels for the Light-House Establishment appropriated for in the Acts of Congress approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-thirα Statutes, page four hundred and sixty-eight); March third, nineteen hundred and tive (Thirty-third Statutes, page eleven hundred and seventy- one);<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 659, 660, 710, 711, 1317-1319.</p></sidenote> June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, pages six hundred and fifty-nine, six hundred and sixty, seven hundred and ten, and seven hundred and eleven), and March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, pages thirteen hundred and seventeen, thirteen hundred and eighteen, and thirteen hundred and nineteen), are hereby made available for the pay of officers and crews, the payment of consular fees, port dues, and exchange, the purchase of provisions, rations, fuel, engineer stores and supplies, pilotage, water, laundry, and all other necessary incidental expenses in the transfer of the following-named vessels of the Light-House Establishment from Tompkinsville, New York, where they are to be delivered when completed, to their respective stations: Tenders for the Twelfth light-house district, for the Thirteenth light-house district, for the Pacific Ocean, for Lake Superior; relief light-vessel for the Pacific coast; Columbia River light-vessel, Oregon; Swiftsure Bank light-vessel, Washington.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 14: Authorizing the Secretary of War to establish harbor lines in Wilmington Harbor, California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>14</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 26, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to establish harbor lines in Wilmington Harbor, California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-26">March 26, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/58">S. J. R. 58</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/14">Pub. Res., No. 14</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Pedro, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Establishing harbor lines, Wilmington harbor, authorized.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to fix and establish pierhead and bulkhead lines, either or both, in the inner harbor of San Pedro, otherwise known as Wilmington Harbor, California, beyond which no piers, wharves, bulkheads, or other works shall be extended or deposits made except under such regulations as shall be prescribed from time to time by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> Secretary of War.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/570">570</page></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 26, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 15: Authorizing the Secretary of War to secure a suitable design for a statue of the late Commodore John D). Sloat at Monterey, California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>15</docNumber>
<dc:date>March 28, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to secure a suitable design for a statue of the late Commodore John D). Sloat at Monterey, California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-03-28">March 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/101">H. J. R. 101</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/15">Pub. Res., No. 15</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John D. Sloat.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Design for statue to, at Monterey, Cal., authorized.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to use, for the purpose of securing a suitable design for a statue of the late Commodore John D. Sloat, so much as may be necessary of the amount appropriated by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1408.</p></sidenote> “An Act to aid in the completion of a monument at Monterey, California, to commemorate the taking possession of the Pacific coast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provsio</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum cost.</p></sidenote> by. Commodore John D. Sloat, United States Navy”: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total amount used for securing said design shall not exceed one thousand dollars.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 16: For the relief of Archibald G. Stirling, recently midshipman, United States Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>16</docNumber>
<dc:date>April 3, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>For the relief of Archibald G. Stirling, recently midshipman, United States Navy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-03">April 3, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/134">H.J.R. 134</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/16">Pub. Res., No. 16</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Archibald G. Stirling.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment as ensign in the Navy authorized.</p></sidenote> he is hereby, authorized to appoint former Midshipman Archibald G. Stirling to be an ensign in the United States Navy to take the position he is entitled to, by his order of merit, as shown by his examination for final graduation.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 3, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 17: Providing for assistance to the people of the storm- swept States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>17</docNumber>
<dc:date>April 30, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Providing for assistance to the people of the storm- swept States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-30">April 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/171">H. J. R. 171</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us//pubres/70/17">Pub. Res., No. 17</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">Whereas, on the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> eight, there, occurred in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana a disastrous cyclone or tornado, causing the loss of hundreds of lives and the destruction of much property and rendering many persons homeless and temporarily without means of support: Therefore, be it</content></section>
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">The Southern cyclone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief granted to suffcrers in the States affected.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 572.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized to use such means as he has at hand, or that may be furnished to him, in the way of tents, provisions, and supplies, to relieve the distress occasioned by such storm or cyclone, and that he take such steps as he may deeni proper for the relief of such distress and need among the people who have suffered from the results of said storm or cyclone.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved</i>, That the Congress has heard with much regret and profound<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expression of regret and sympathy by the Congress.</p></sidenote> sorrow of the terrible loss of life and destruction of property attendant upon the disastrous storm or cyclone which visited the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana on the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and eight, and hereby extends its sympathy to the sufferers.</p><page identifier="/us/stat/35/571">571</page></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 18: Instructing the Attorney-General to institute certain suits, and so forth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>18</docNumber>
<dc:date>April 30, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Instructing the Attorney-General to institute certain suits, and so forth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-04-30">April 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/48">S. J. R. 48</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/18">Pub. Res., No. 18</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits to be brought for forfeiture of certain railroad and wagon-road grants in.</p></sidenote> of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to institute and prosecute any and all suits in equity, actions at law, and other proceedings which he may deem adequate and appropriate to enforce any and all rights and remedies of the United States of America in any manner arising or growing out of or pertaining to either or any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 239.</p></sidenote> of the following-described Acts of Congress, to wit: “An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Central Pacific Railroad in California to Portland, in Oregon,” approved July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, as amended by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 80.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 47.</p></sidenote> Acts approved June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; also “An Act granting lands to the State of Oregon to aid in the construction of a military wagon road from the navigable waters of Coos Bay to Roseburg, in said State,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; also<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 340.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 94.</p></sidenote> “An Act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from Portland to Astoria and McMinnville, in the State of Oregon,” approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, including all rights and remedies in any manner relating to the lands, or any part thereof, granted by either or any of said Acts; and in and by any and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of United States to be asserted.</p></sidenote> all such suits, actions, or proceedings the Attorney-General shall, in such manner as he shall deem appropriate, assert all rights and remedies existing in favor of the United States relating to the subject of such suits, actions, and proceedings, including the claim on behalf of the United States that the lands granted by each of said Acts respectively, or any part thereof, have been and are forfeited to the United States by reason of any breaches or violations of any of the terms or conditions of either or any of said Acts which may be alleged and established in any such suits, actions, or proceedings: it not being intended hereby to determine the right of the United States to any such forfeiture or forfeitures, but it being intended to fully authorize the Attorney-General in and by such suits, actions, or proceedings to assert on behalf of the United States and the court or courts before which such suits, actions, or proceedings may be instituted or pending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims to be adjudicated and enforced.</p></sidenote> to entertain, consider, and adjudicate the claim and right of the United States to such forfeiture or forfeitures, and if found to enforce the same: <i>Resolved farther</i>, That the authority and direction hereinbefore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All suits instituted, etc., included.</p></sidenote> given shall extend to any and all suits, actions, or proceedings which may be instituted or pending under the authority of the AttorneyGeneral at. the time of the adoption and approval hereof.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, April 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 19: Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for use at the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to be held at Dallas, Texas, in July, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>19</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 4, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to loan certain tents for use at the national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to be held at Dallas, Texas, in July, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-04">May 4, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/155">H. J. R. 155</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/19">Pub. Res., No. 19</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Dallas, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loan of tents to.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized to loan, at his discretion, to the executive committee of the lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Dallas, Texas, having in charge the arrangements for the national convention of Elks to be held in Dallas, Texas, in July, nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand five hundred tents, with poles, ridges, and pins for each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be caused<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense, etc.</p></sidenote> the United States Government by the delivery and return of such <page identifier="/us/stat/35/572">572</page> property, the same to be delivered to said committee designated at such time prior to the date of said convention as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of War and William H. Atwell, chairman of said executive committee:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Secretary of War shall, before delivering such property, take from said William H. Atwell a good and sufficient bond for the safe return of said property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> in good order and condition, and the whole without expense to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 4, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>No. 20: For the relief of the sufferers from the cyclone which occurred in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>20</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 11, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>For the relief of the sufferers from the cyclone which occurred in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/173">H.J. R. 173</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/20">Pub. Res., No. 20</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern cyclone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief for sufferers in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to procure, in open market or otherwise, subsistence and quartermaster supplies, medicines, and medical aid, in addition to such supplies belonging to the military establishment and available, and issue same to such destitute persons as have been rendered homeless or are in needy circumstances as the result of the cyclone which occurred April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, in the States of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and in executing this joint resolution is directed to cooperate with the authorities of the said States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That to enable the Secretary of War to execute the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of this joint resolution and of the joint resolution on the same subject adopted April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p.570.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Infra.</i></p></sidenote> there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of War.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 21: Amending the Joint Resolution for the relief of storm sufferers in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>21</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 11, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Amending the Joint Resolution for the relief of storm sufferers in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-11">May 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/179">H. J., R. 179</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/21">Pub. Res., No. 21</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provisions and benefits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern cyclone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief extended to sufferers in Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee.</p></sidenote> of Public Resolution Numbered seventeen, for the relief of storm sufferers in Alabama. Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, be extended to the sufferers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 570.</p></sidenote> from the same storm or cyclone in Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee, and that the Secretary of War be and he is hereby authorized and directed to grant the same relief to persons in Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee, whose property was injured or destroyed, as provided in the original resolution for citizens of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louisiana.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/573">573</page>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 22: Disapproving certain laws enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>22</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 13, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Disapproving certain laws enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-13">May 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/37">S.J. R. 37</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/22">Pub. Res., No. 22</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Whereas on the eleventh day of March, nineteen hundred and three, the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passed an act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preamble.</p></sidenote> known as chapter thirty-three of the acts of the thirty-fifth legislative assembly of New Mexico entitled “An act establishing the law and procedure in certain cases,” as follows:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>“LAWS OF NEW MEXICO. THIRTY-FIFTH LEGISLATIVE<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative act on civil procedure.</p></sidenote> ASSEMBLY, 1903.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>“chapter 33.</heading>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>“an act establishing the law and procedure in certain cases.</heading>
<content>
<p class="centered">“H. B. No. 155. Passed over veto March 11, 1903.</p>
<p class="centered"><b>“CONTENTS.</b></p>
</content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="1">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1.</num> <content class="inline">Civil procedure in personal injury cases. Person injured to file affidavit when. Case to be dismissed when. Proviso.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">On petition district court may issue summons for person injured to appear in court and file complaint. Procedure when person summoned fails to answer.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">Unlawful to begin action in any other State or Territory. Procedure in case such action has been begun.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">When action begun in any other State or Territory district court may issue injunction.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">Provisions of this chapter not to apply in case process can not be served in this Territory.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">Claim for damages may be compromised.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Whereas it has become customary for persons claiming damages for personal injuries received in this Territory to institute and maintain suits for the recovery thereof in other States and Territories, to the increased cost and annoyance and manifest injury and oppression of the business interests of this Territory and the derogation of the dignity of the courts thereof; therefore</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>“Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico:</i></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="1">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 1.</num> <content class="inline">Hereafter there shall be no civil liability under either<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of New Mexico annulled.</p></sidenote> the common law or any statute of this Territory on the part of any person or corporation for any personal injuries inflicted or death caused by such person or corporation in this Territory, unless the person claiming damages therefor shall within ninety days after such injuries shall have been inflicted make and serve upon the person or corporation against whom the same is claimed, and at least thirty days before commencing suit to recover judgment therefor, an affidavit which shall be made before some officer within this Territory who is authorized to administer oaths, in which the affiant shall state his name and address, the name of the person receiving such injuries, if such person be other than the affiant, the character and extent of such injuries in so far as the same may be known to affiant, the way or manner in which such injuries were caused in so far as the affiant has any knowledge thereof, and the names and addresses of all witnesses to the happening of the facts or any part thereof causing such injuries as may at such time be known to affiant, and unless the person so claiming such damages shall also commence an action to recover the same within one year after such injuries occur, in the district court of this Territory in and for the county in which such injuries occur, or in and for the county of this Territory where the claimant or person against whom such claim is asserted resides, or in event such claim is asserted against a corporation, in the county in this Territory where such corporation has its <page identifier="/us/stat/35/574">574</page> principal place of business; and said suit after having been commenced<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of New Mexico annulled—Continued.</p></sidenote> shall not be dismissed by plaintiff unless by written consent of the defendant filed in the case, or for good cause shown to the court; it being hereby expressly provided and understood that such right of action is given only on the understanding that the foregoing conditions precedent are made a part of the law under which right to recover can exist for such injuries, except as herein otherwise provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">Whenever any person or corporation shall file a petition in the district court of this Territory for the county in which said petitioner lives, or, if a corporation, in the district court for the county in which such corporation has its principal place of business, stating in effect that such petitioner is informed and believes that some party named in said petition claims that he is entitled to damages from said petitioner for personal injuries inflicted in this Territory upon the party named in said petition, or for personal injuries inflicted upon or death caused to some other person for which such party claims to have a cause of action against said petitioner, and stating as near as may be the general character of such injuries, and the manner and the date said party claims they were inflicted, and the place where he claims they were inflicted, as near as petitioner knows or is informed as to such facts, and praying that the said party may be required to appear in said court and file therein a statement of his cause of action in the form of a complaint against said petitioner, summons shall issue out of said court and be served and returnable as other process, commanding and requiring the said party named in said petition to appear in said court and file such statement in the form of a complaint against said petitioner, if he has to make, and upon such complaint being filed by such party as required, the defendant named therein may demur to or answer the same and such further pleading had as the parties may he entitled to, or as may be meet and proper as in other cases of a similar character, and from thence forward such further proceedings shall be had in such cause as in other cases, and the same shall be determined upon its merits and final judgment, subject, however, to appeal or writ of error, shall be rendered therein either for the petitioner named in said complaint or for the adverse party, and it the court finds the petitioner guilty of any of the wrongs, injuries, or trespasses complained of against him in said statement such damages shall be assessed against the said petitioner as the law and the facts may require, in the same manner as though said cause had been instituted by the filing of said statement as a complaint.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“In event said party complained of in said petition, after being duly served with such summons, shall fail or refuse to appear or file his said statement as required herein, judgment shall be rendered by default against him and in favor of the petitioner as in other cases, and thereupon the court shall try and determine the issues raised by such petition. including thequestion as to whether or not the petitioner is liable to said party on account of any of the matters or things stated in said petition in any sum of money whatsoever, and, if so, in what amount, and final judgment shall be rendered in accordance with the facts and the law, and such judgment as the court may render shall be final and conclusive upon the question of the liability or nonliability of said petitioner to said party, and of the amount of the liability.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 3.</num> <content class="inline">It shall be unlawful for any person to institute, carry on, or maintain any suit for the recovery of any such damages in any other State or Territory, and upon it being made to appear to the court in which any proceeding has been instituted in this Territory, as herein provided, that any such suit has also been commenced, or is being maintained in any other State or Territory contrary to the intent of this act, it shall be the duty of the court to set down for hearing and try and determine the proceeding so pending in this Territory as <page identifier="/us/stat/35/575">575</page> expeditiously as possible upon such short notice to the other party<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Act of New Mexico annulled—Continued.</p></sidenote> thereto or his attorneys as the court may direct; and for the purpose of trying the same said court shall have the power to compel the parties thereto to plead or answer on such short day as it may determine; and in event the same is triable by jury it shall be the duty of the court, upon motion, to change the venue thereof to such county in said district as in the opinion of the court will afford an opportunity for the most speedy hearing; but in event such action is not triable by jury, then the court shall immediately proceed to try and determine the same, giving such reasonable notice as it may determine, to the parties or their attorneys, at any place in the Territory which the court may designate, and witnesses may be compelled by subpoena to attend such place personally, from any part of the Territory, and testify, as at present, at such time and place. The institution of any such suit in any other State or Territory shall be construed by the court as a waiver upon the part of the party so instituting the same of the right of trial by jury in the case pending in the courts of this Territory.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 4.</num> <content class="inline">Whenever it shall be made to appear to the district court of this Territory for the county in which petitioner or plaintiff lives, by any petition filed under section three hereof, or by a supplemental petition, or by an original complaint filed for that purpose, that petitioner or plaintiff fears or has good reason to fear that any other person is threatening or contemplating instituting suit in some other State or Territory to recover damages against petitioner or plaintiff for personal injuries inflicted or death caused in this Territory, or that he has already instituted and is then maintaining such a suit, it shall be the duty of the court upon such bond as the court may require being given, to issue its injunction pendente lite restraining such party from instituting or maintaining such suit in any court sitting in any other State or Territory, and, at the final hearing, if such facts are found by the court to be true, the court shall make such injunction perpetual; and at the final hearing in all cases instituted under the provisions of section three, hereof, the party complained of in the petition shall be perpetually enjoined from further instituting or maintaining any suit or action to recover damages by reason of any of the matters or things set up in said petition.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 5.</num> <content class="inline">This act shall not apply to cases in which the person or corporation against whom damages for personal injuries are claimed can not be duly served with process in this Territory.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 6.</num> <content class="inline">Nothing herein contained shall be construed as in any way preventing anyone in this Territory claiming to have a right of action for any such damages, from compromising such claim.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline> 7.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">All acts and parts of acts and laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in effect from and after its passage.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Therefore be it</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>, That said law of the Territory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disapproval of Con- gress.</p></sidenote> of New Mexico, as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby, disapproved and declared null and of no effect.</p></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 23: Authorizing the widening of the channel of Michigan City Harbor.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>23</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 13, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the widening of the channel of Michigan City Harbor.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-13">May 13, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/79">S. J. R. 79</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/23">Pub. Res., No. 23</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Sta tes of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan City Harbor. Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening channel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">use of unexpended balances authorized.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to use any unexpended balance of money heretofore appropriated or that may be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/576">576</page> hereafter appropriated for the improvement or maintenance of the harbor at Michigan City, Indiana, for the rebuilding of the western revetment of said harbor upon a new alignment, with the view of widening the channel of said harbor.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 13, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 24: For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>24</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 20, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>For appointment of members of Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-20">May 20, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/178">H. J. R. 178</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/24">Pub. Res., No. 24</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Thomas J. Henderson,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appuin tmienl of members of Board of Managers.</p></sidenote> of Illinois; Walter P. Brownlow, of Tennessee; Edwin P. Hammond, of Indiana, and Joseph S. Smith, of Maine, be, and the same are hereby, appointed as members of the Board of Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers of the United States—General Thomas J. Henderson to succeed himself, his term of service having expired April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight; Colonel Walter P. Brownlow to succeed himself, his term of service having expired April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight; Colonel Edwin P. Hammond to succeed himself, his term of service having expired April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, and General Joseph S. Smith to succeed General J. Marshall Brown, whose term of service would have expired on April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, but who died on July twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 20, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 25: To amend an Act authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and so forth.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>25</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 22, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and so forth.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-22">May 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/90">S.J. R. 90</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/25">Pub. Res., No. 25</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the bill (S. 4809) entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">St. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name changed to Brownsville and Gulf Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 168, amended.</p></sidenote> “An Act authorizing the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to extend the time for the construction of bridges across navigable waters, and to legalize the construction of bridges across navigable waters,” be, and the, same is hereby, corrected so that the name Saint Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railway Company, as used therein, be changed to the Brownsville and Gulf Railway Company.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 26: Authorizing the transfer of the statue of President Washington, now located in the Capitol grounds, to the Smithsonian Institution.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>26</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 22, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the transfer of the statue of President Washington, now located in the Capitol grounds, to the Smithsonian Institution.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-22">May 22, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/124">H. J. R. 124</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/26">Pub. Res., No. 26</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the statue of President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statue of Washington.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer from Capitol grounds to Smithsonian Institution.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 492.</p></sidenote> Washington, now located in the Capitol grounds east of the Capitol, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the custody of the Smithsonian Institution.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 22, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 27: Providing for the printing of the Special Report on the Diseases or Cattle.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>27</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 23, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Providing for the printing of the Special Report on the Diseases or Cattle.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-23">May 23, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/176">H. J. R. 176</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/27">Pub. Res., No. 27</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be printed and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diseases of Cattle.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing of Special Report on, ordered.</p></sidenote> bound one hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases <page identifier="/us/stat/35/577">577</page> of Cattle, the same to be first revised and brought to date under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture; thirty thousand copies<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> for the use of the Senate, sixty thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and ten thousand copies for distribution by the Department of Agriculture.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 23, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 28: Providing for additional lands for Idaho under the provisions of the Carey Act.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>28</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 25, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Providing for additional lands for Idaho under the provisions of the Carey Act.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-25">May 25, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/51">S. J. R. 51</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/28">Pub. Res., No. 28</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That an additional one million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional arid lands granted to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 347.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 422.</p></sidenote> acres of arid lands within the State of Idaho be made available and subject to the terms of section four of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and by amendments thereto, and that the State of Idaho be allowed, under the provisions of said Acts, said additional area, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purposes and under the provisions of said Acts.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 25, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 29: To provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>29</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 25, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>To provide for the remission of a portion of the Chinese indemnity.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-25">May 25, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/23">S. J. R. 23</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/29">Pub. Res., No. 29</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chinese indemnity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modiflcation of bond for Boxer damages.</p></sidenote> authorized to consent to a modification of the bond for twenty-four million four hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and seventyeight dollars and eighty-one cents, dated December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six. received from China pursuant to the protocol of September seventh, nineteen hundred and one, for indemnity against losses and expenses incurred by reason of the so-called Boxer disturbances in China during the year nineteen hundred, so that the total<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Remission of portion.</p></sidenote> payment to be made by China under the said bond shall be limited to the sum of thirteen million six hundred and fifty-five thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars and sixty-nine centsand interest at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> stipulated rate of four per centum per annum, and that the remainder of the indemnity to which the United States is entitled under the said protocol and bond may be remitted as an act of friendship, such payments and remission to be at such times and in such manner as the President shall deem just: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That within one year from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims to a d j udicate disallowed, etc., claims.</p></sidenote> the passage of this resolution any person whose claim upon the Chinese indemnity, nineteen hundred, was presented to the United States commissioners or to the Department of State and disallowed in whole or in part may present the same by petition to the Court of Claims, which court is hereby invested with jurisdiction to hear and adjudicate such claim, without appeal, and to render such judgments de novo, or in addition to any allowance or allowances heretofore made, as, in each case shall be fully and substantially compensatory for actual losses and expenses of the claimant caused by the antiforeign disturbances in China during the year nineteen hundred, excluding merely speculative claims or elements of damage:</proviso> <proviso><i>provided also.</i> That the sum of two million dollars be reserved from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount reserved to pay judgments.</p></sidenote> Chinese indemnity, nineteen hundred, for the payment of such judg-merits, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/578">578</page> the same to be paid by the Treasurer of the United States as and when they shall be certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the said court, and any balance remaining after all such claims have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of balance.</p></sidenote> been adjudicated and paid shall be returned to the Chinese Government in such manner as the Secretary of State shall decide, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to so return the same:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That all evidence furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence to be submitted.</p></sidenote> by the claimants, and statements made by them to the said commissioners or to the Department of State, shall be transmitted by the said Department to the said Court of Claims and considered together with such other additional testimony as may be presented by either side, and the Government of the United States shall defend the said claims<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defending claims.</p></sidenote> in the said court by such attorney or attorneys as may be designated for such service by the Attorney-General of the United States: <i>Provided further</i>, That in no case shall the Court of Claims award a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Awards restricted.</p></sidenote> principal sum to any claimant which, together with the principal sums said claimant may have already received by decision of the United States commissioners and the Department of State, shall exceed the amount originally claimed by said claimant.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 25, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 30: Relating to the assignment of space in the Howse Office Building.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>30</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 28, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Relating to the assignment of space in the Howse Office Building.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-28">May 28, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/186">H. J. R. 186</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/30">Pub. Res., No. 30</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stakes of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the assignment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of rooms.</p></sidenote> rooms in the office building of the House of Representatives, which shall hereafter be designated as the House Office Building, heretofore made by resolution or order of the House of Representatives, shall continue in force until modified or changed in accordance with the provisions of this resolution, and the room so assigned to any Representative. shall continue to be held by such Representative as his individual office room so long as he shall remain a member or memberelect of the House of Representatives, or until he shall relinquish the same, subject, however, to the provisions of this resolution, and no Representative shall allow his office room to be used for any other purpose.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any member or member-elect of the House of Representatives may<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filing written requests for vacant rooms.</p></sidenote> tile with the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds a request in writing that any individual office room be assigned to him whenever it shall become vacant. If only one such request has been made for any room which shall at any time have become vacant, the room shall be assigned as requested. If two or more requests are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference rights.</p></sidenote> made for the same vacant room, preference shall be given to the Representative making the request who has been longest in continuous service as a member and member-elect of the House of Representatives. If two or more Representatives with equal length of continuous service,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First request to be granted.</p></sidenote> or two or more Representatives-elect make request for the same room, preference shall be given to the one first preferring his request. A Representative or Representative-elect making request for the assignment of a vacant room may withdraw the same at any time and no one shall have pending at the same time more than one such request. The assignment of a new room to a Representative, upon his request,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of new room, etc.</p></sidenote> or the appointment of any Representative having an individual office room as chairman of a committee having a committee room, shall act as a relinquishment by him of the room previously assigned to him.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Representatives having rooms assigned to them in the foregoing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of rooms.</p></sidenote> manner may exchange rooms one with another, but such exchange shall be valid only so long as both members making the exchange shall <page identifier="/us/stat/35/579">579</page> remain continuously members or members-elect of the House of Representatives.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds shall keep<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record of assignments and changes.</p></sidenote> a record of the assignment of looms heretofore or hereafter made, exchanges which may be made, requests for vacant rooms which may be filed, and the assignment thereof, which record shall be open for the inspection of Kepresentatives or Representatives-elect of the House.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the matter of the assignment of rooms under this resolution,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delegates and Resident Commissioners.</p></sidenote> Delegates in Congress and the Commissioners from Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands shall be treated the same as Representatives.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The assignment and reassignment of the rooms and other space in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments, etc., subject to control o f House.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of Capitol, etc., control, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote> the House Office Building shall be subject to the control of the House of Representatives by rule, resolution, order, or otherwise. Nothing in this resolution shall be construed to affect or repeal the provisions of law heretofore enacted placing said House Office Building under the control of the Superintendent of the Capitol Buildingand Grounds, subject to the approval and direction of the Commissions provided for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 1114.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1365.</p></sidenote> respectively in the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, and the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Unoccupied space in said building shall be assigned by the Superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unoccupied space.</p></sidenote> of the Capitol Buildingand Grounds under the direction of the Commission and subject to the control of the House of Representatives.</p></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 28, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 31: Directing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a bronze statue in Washington, District of Columbia, in honor of John Witherspoon.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>31</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 29, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Directing the selection of a site and the erection of a pedestal for a bronze statue in Washington, District of Columbia, in honor of John Witherspoon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-29">May 29, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/sjr/6">S. J. R. 6</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/31">Pub. Res., no. 31</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the chairman of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument to John Witherspoon in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to select site, etc.</p></sidenote> Committee on the Library of the Senate, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of War, and the chairman of the Witherspoon Memorial Association are hereby created a commission to select and prepare a site on property belonging to the United States in the city of Washington, other than the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress, and erect thereon a suitable pedestal for a statue in bronze of John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, to be provided by the Witherspoon Memorial Association.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That for the preparation of the site so selected and the erection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> of the pedestal the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the design<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Design.</p></sidenote> for said statue shall be approveα by the commission herein created.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, May 29, 1908.</actionDescription>
</action>
</main>
</resolution></component>
<component><resolution>
<meta>
<dc:title>No. 32: Authorizing the employment of clerical services in the Department of Justice.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Public Resolution</dc:type>
<docNumber>32</docNumber>
<dc:date>May 30, 1908</dc:date>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate></meta>
<main>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the employment of clerical services in the Department of Justice.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-05-30">May 30, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hjr/197">H. J. R. 197</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pubres/70/82">Pub. Res., No. 32</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
<resolvingClause class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</resolvingClause>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Justice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks on Indian depredation claims.</p></sidenote> is authorized to continue the employment of clerical services during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, under the appropriation for “Defense in Indian Depredation Claims” and to pay therefor out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 236.</p></sidenote> said appropriation, not to exceed the sum of six thousand dollars.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, May 30, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<page />
<p class="centered"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/581">581</page>PUBLIC ACTS OF THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS</p>
<p class="centered"><inline class="smallCaps">of the</inline></p>
<p class="centered">UNITED STATES</p>
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<enrolledDateline><i>Passed at the first session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the second day of December, 1907, and was adjourned without day on Saturday, the thirtieth day of May, 1908.</i>
<inline class="smallCaps">Theodore Roosevelt, President; Charles W. Fairbanks, Vice-President; William P. Frye, President of the Senate <i>Pro Tempore;</i> Joseph G. Cannon</inline>, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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<dc:title>Chap. 1: To authorize the transfer of books from the Treasury Department library to life-saving stations of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>1</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 581</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>1.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the transfer of books from the Treasury Department library to life-saving stations of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-11">December 11, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3495">S. 3495</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/178">Public, No. 178</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-savinK stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books from Treasury Department library to be transferred to.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to transfer, from time to time, from the Treasury Department library to the life-saving stations of the United States, such books as in his judgment may be no longer needed for use in said library.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 11, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 2: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the extension of New Hampshire avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>2</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>2.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the extension of New Hampshire avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-18">December 18, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2999">S. 2999</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/179">Public, No. 179</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Hampshire avenue.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning lands for extension of.</p></sidenote> Act to provide for the extension of New Hampshire avenue, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out section three thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">֧“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated out of the revenues of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1004, amended.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to the District of Columbia from assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Change of extension plans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1001, amended.</p></sidenote> hereby directed to change the plans for a permanent system of highways outside the city of Washington so as to abandon the extension of New Hampshire avenue from Buchanan street northward to the District line, as at present laid down on said <page identifier="/us/stat/35/582">582</page> plans.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 18, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 3: To change the name of V street, from Florida avenue to Nineteenth street northwest, to California street.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>3</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 582</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>3.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To change the name of V street, from Florida avenue to Nineteenth street northwest, to California street.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-18">December 18, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4308">S. 4308</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/180">Public. No. 180</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the name of the street<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of (Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">V street NW., part of, changed to California street.</p></sidenote> lying in the county of Washington, District of Columbia, in the tract of land known as the Commissioners’ subdivision of Washington Heights, running from Florida avenue west to Nineteenth street extended, and now called V street, be, and the same shall henceforth be, known as California street. And the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby directed to cause the name of California street, from Florida avenue to Nineteenth street northwest, to be placed upon the plats and maps of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 18, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 4: To amend section four hundred and ninety-one n of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>4</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 582</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>4.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section four hundred and ninety-one n of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-18">December 18, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4814">S. 4814</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/181">Public. No. 181</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Code amendment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,’ regulating proceedings for condemnation of lands for streets,” approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so that section four hundred and ninety-one n thereof will read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="491">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 491.</num> <content class="inline">n. In case any of the owners of land heretofore or hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of certain awards.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 154, amended.</p></sidenote> condemned for public use, whether under the provisions of said Code or by virtue of any special or general Act of Congress, are under disability or can not be found, or neglect or refuse to receive the money awarded to them; or in case the record is imperfect or the title to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Im perfect records, etc.</p></sidenote> property is in dispute or uncertain, the money due the owners of the property for damages for land taken may be deposited in the registry of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, for the use of the rightful owners without cost or expense to said District; and thereupon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to vest in District.</p></sidenote> the title to the land condemned shall become vested in the District of Columbia.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 18, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 5: To authorize the Saint Paul Bridge and Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Saint Paul, Minnesota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>5</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 582</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-12-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>5.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Saint Paul Bridge and Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Saint Paul, Minnesota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-18">December 18, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22274">H. R. 22274</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/182">Public, No. 182</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Saint Paul Bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Paul Bridge and Terminal Railway Company may bridge, at Saint Paul, Minn.</p></sidenote> and Terminal Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Minnesota, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Mississippi River at or near the southerly limits of the city of Saint Paul, from a point on the east side of said river in the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section nine, township twenty-eight north, range twenty-two, in Ramsey County, to a point in lot five, section sixteen, township twentyeight, range twenty-two, in Dakota County, all in the State of Minnesota, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly <page identifier="/us/stat/35/583">583</page> reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 18, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 6: To amend section one of the passenger Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>6</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 583</citableAs>
<dc:date>1908-12-19</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>6.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section one of the passenger Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1908-12-19">December 19, 1908</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5083">S. 5083</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/183">Public, No. 183</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one of the passenger<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steerage passengers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accommodations for.</p></sidenote> Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two be, and is hereby, amended so as to read:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“It shall not be lawful for the master of any vessel whereon steerage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for compartments, etc., on all vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 186, amended.</p></sidenote> passengers have been taken at any port or place in a foreign country or dominion (ports and places in foreign territory contiguous to the United States excepted) to bring such vessel and passengers to or take from any port or place in the United States unless the compartments, spaces, and accommodations hereinafter mentioned have been provided, allotted, maintained, and used for and by such passengers during the entire voyage, unobstructed by cargo, stores, or goods. The master<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote> of a vessel coming to a port or place in the United States in violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and if the number of steerage passengers carried or brought in the vessel, or in any compartment, space, poop, or deck house thereof, is greater than the number allowed to be carried or brought therein, respectively, as hereinafter prescribed, the said master shall be fined fifty dollars for each and every sucn passenger in excess of the proper number, and may also be imprisoned not exceeding six months.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“In computing the number of passengers carried or brought in any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computing number of passengers.</p></sidenote> vessel, children under one year of age shall not be included, and two children between one and eight years of age shall be counted as one passenger; and any person brought in such vessel who shall have been,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> during the voyage, taken from any other vessel wrecked or in distress on the high seas, or have been picked up at sea from any boat, raft, or otherwise, shall not be included in such computation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Second. The expression ‘steerage passenger’ means all passengers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of “steerage passengers.”</p></sidenote> except cabin passengers, and persons shall not be deemed cabin passengers unless the space allotted to their exclusive use is in the proportion of at least thirty-six clear superficial feet to each passenger.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Third. The expression ‘lowest passenger deck’ means the deck<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defining certain decks.</p></sidenote> next below the water line; and the expression ‘passenger deck’ includes every deck or portion of a deck which is above the lowest passenger deck, and is appropriated for passengers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fourth. A vessel shall not carry passengers, whether cabin or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decks below water line.</p></sidenote> steerage passengers, on more than one deck below the water line.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fifth. The height between that part of any deck on which steerage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Height between decks.</p></sidenote> passengers are carried and the deck immediately above it shall not be less than six feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Sixth. No steerage passengers shall be carried on the lowest passenger<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Side scuttles, etc., for lowest passenger decks.</p></sidenote> deck unless it is efficiently lighted by side scuttles and otherwise to the satisfaction of the inspector.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Seventh. No greater number of steerage passengers shall be carried<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proportion of passengers allowed.</p></sidenote> on the lowest passenger deck than in the proportion of one steerage passenger to every twenty-one clear superficial feet allotted to their use. If, however, the height between the lowest passenger deck and the deck immediately above it is less than seven feet, and the apertures,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light and ventilation.</p></sidenote> exclusive of side scuttles, through which light and air are admitted are less in size than in the proportion of three square feet to every one hundred superficial feet or that deck, no greater number of steerage passengers shall be carried on that deck than in the proportion of one steerage passenger to every thirty clear superficial feet thereof, subject to the allowance for measurement of public rooms, lavatories, and bath rooms, if any, provided for by paragraph ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Eighth. No greater number of steerage passengers may be carried<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deck space restrictions.</p></sidenote> on a passenger deck than in the proportion of one steerage passenger <page identifier="/us/stat/35/584">584</page> to every eighteen clear superficial feet of deck allotted to their use, subject to the allowance for measurement of public rooms, lavatories, and bath rooms, if any, provided for by paragraph ten. If, however, the height between any passenger deck and the deck immediately above it be less than seven feet, no greater number of steerage passengers may be carried on that deck than in the proportion of one steerage passenger to every twenty-one clear superficial feet thereof, subject to the allowance for measurement of public rooms, lavatories, and bath rooms, if any, provided for by paragraph ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Ninth. A vessel, whatever be the superficial space of the passenger<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One passenger for every five superficia feet of air space.</p></sidenote> decks and of the lowest passenger deck, shall not carry a greater number of steerage passengers on the whole than in the proportion of one steerage passenger to every five superficial feet of air or promenade space provided on a deck so open as not to be included in the tonnage and approved by the inspector, and this space shall not be counted or included in the area available for any other passengers, or in other areas for steerage passengers prescribed by this section.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Tenth. In the measurement of the passenger decks and of the lowest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Baggage space, etc.</p></sidenote> passenger deck, the space occupied by that part of the personal baggage of the steerage passengers which the inspector permits to be carried there shall be included, and also, on whatever deck located, commodious and suitable dining rooms, lounging rooms, smoking looms, lavatories, toilet rooms, and bath rooms: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That—<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sleeping space, etc.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“(a) The space in any place appropriated to the use of steerage passengers in which they sleep shall not be less than eighteen superficial feet in the case of the lowest passenger deck and fifteen superficial feet in the case of a passenger deck.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“(b) Each space so included in the measurement must be clearly marked to the satisfaction of the inspector as being exclusively appropriated for the use of the steerage passengers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Eleventh. Each separate compartment in which steerage passengers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marking berth compartments.</p></sidenote> are berthed shall be conspicuously marked, showing the total area of such compartments.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That section forty-two and so much of sections forty-three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, pp. 910, 911.</p></sidenote> and forty-four of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” as provides for the repeal of section one of the passenger Act of eighteen hundred and eighty-two are hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect on January first, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> hundred and nine.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, December 19, 1908.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 7: For the relief of citizens of Italy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>7</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 584</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-05</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>7.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of citizens of Italy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-05">January 5, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24832">H. R. 24832</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/181">Public, No. 181</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That to enable the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Italian earthquake.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for relief of sufferers.</p></sidenote> of the United States to procure and distribute among the suffering and destitute people of Italy such provisions, clothing, medicines and other necessary articles and to take such other steps as he shall deem advisable for the purpose of rescuing and succoring the people who are in peril and threatened with starvation the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the execution of this Act the President is requested to ask and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of Italian Government, etc.</p></sidenote> obtain the approval of the Italian Government and he is hereby authorized to employ any vessels of the United States Navy and to charter and employ any other suitable steamship or vessels.</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 5, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 8: For the relief of William Parker Sedgwick.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>8</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 585</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-05</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/585">585</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>8.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of William Parker Sedgwick.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-05">January 5, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6263">S. 6263</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/185">Public, No. 185</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representat ives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President be, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">William Parker Sedgwick may be appointed ensign in and retired.</p></sidenote> be is hereby, authorized to nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint William Parker Sedgwick, late midshipman, an ensign in the United States Navy, and to place him upon the retired list as such, with three-fourths the pay of his grade.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 5, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 13: Granting a right of way to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company across the Fort Mason Military Reservation in California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>13</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 585</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-08</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>13.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting a right of way to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company across the Fort Mason Military Reservation in California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-08">January 8, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6189">S. 6189</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/186">Public, No. 186</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the consent of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mason Military Reservation. Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern Pacific Railroad granted right of way across.</p></sidenote> United States is hereby given to the Southern Pacific Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of the State of Kentucky, to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a railroad and tunnel upon and across the property belonging to the United States at Fort Mason, in the State of California, upon such location and under such regulations as shall be approved by the Secretary of War.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 8, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 14: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>14</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 585</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-09</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>14.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-09">January 9, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22879">H. R. 22879</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/187">Public, No. 187].</ref></p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Saint Louis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Saint Louis. Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 2.</p></sidenote> shall have authority to construct the bridge mentioned in the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act to authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, under and subject to the limitations and restrictions mentioned in the Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 461.</p></sidenote> authorize the city of Saint Louis, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, if the actual construction of the bridge therein authorized shall be commenced within one year from the approval of this Act and completed within three years from same date.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 9, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 15: Providing for the hearing of eases upon appeal from the district court for the district of Alaska in the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>15</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 585</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-11</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>15.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the hearing of eases upon appeal from the district court for the district of Alaska in the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-11">January 11, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13649">H. R 13649</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/188">Public, No. 188</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter all appeals,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals, etc., from district court of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hearings at San Francisco. Cal., Portland, Oreg., Seattle, Wash.</p></sidenote> writs of error, and other cases coming from the district court for the district of Alaska to the circuit court of appeals for the ninth circuit shall be entered upon the docket and heard at San Francisco, in the State of California, or at Portland, in the State of Oregon, or at Seattle, in the State of Washington, as the trial court before whom <page identifier="/us/stat/35/586">586</page> the case was tried below shall fix and determine: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys to designate place of hearing.</p></sidenote> That at any time before the hearing of any appeal, writ of error, or other case, the parties thereto, through tneir respective attorneys, may stipulate at which of the above-named places the same shall be heard, in which case the case shall be remitted to and entered upon the docket at the place so stipulated and shall be heard there.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 11, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 21: To authorize the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and the Lackawanna Railroad Company of New Jersey to construct and maintain a bridge across the Delaware River from a point near the village of Columbia, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, to the village of Slateford, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>21</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 586</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-14</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>21.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company and the Lackawanna Railroad Company of New Jersey to construct and maintain a bridge across the Delaware River from a point near the village of Columbia, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, to the village of Slateford, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-14">January 14, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22306">H. R. 22306</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/189">Public, No. 189</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Delaware, Lackawanna<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company may bridge, at Columbia, N.J.</p></sidenote> and Western Railroad Company, a corporation of the State of Pennsylvania, and the Lackawanna Railroad Company of New Jersey, a corporation of the State of New Jersey, be, and they hereby are, authorized jointly to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge across the Delaware River between a point northwest of the village of Columbia, in the township of Knowlton, county of Warren, and State of New Jersey, and a point southeasterly from the village of Slateford, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 14, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 22: Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to lease San Clemente Island, California, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>22</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 586</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-15</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>22.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to lease San Clemente Island, California, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-15">January 15, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4856">S. 4856</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/190">Public, No. 190</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Clemente Island, Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of, to the San Clemente Wool Company.</p></sidenote> and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized, directed, and empowered to lease and demise to the San Clemente Wool Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of California, its successors and assigns, for the purpose, however, of farming, the unused light-house reservation in California, known as San Clemente Island, for and during the full period of twenty- five years, for its and their sole and exclusive use, except as hereinafter specified, at an annual rental, payable in advance, of one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual rent and sum for improvements.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars, and an expenditure by said company, or its successors or assigns, of twenty-five thousand dollars (not less than approximately one thousand dollars in any one year of said term) in improving the said island and protecting it from devastation by accretions of sand: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in said lease it shall be stipulated that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights reserved.</p></sidenote> the Government of the United States may at any time during the term thereof go upon said island and construct thereon at any point light-house buildings, stone quarries, piers, landings, or other governmental structures, and may set aside certain tracts of land on the shore for fishing and camping places, and take possession of such portion or portions of said island as may be required for such purposes, and may <page identifier="/us/stat/35/587">587</page> at any time introduce game animals on said island. It shall be further<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nature of improvements.</p></sidenote> stipulated in said lease that the said expenditure of twenty-five thousand dollars in improving said island shall be expended in developing water, constructing dams and reservoirs for the storage of water, erecting windmills, water tanks, building fences, houses, buildings, and wagon roads, reseeding the island to trees and grasses, and planting spineless cactus for the purpose of stopping the drifting of the sands and of creating additional pasturage, and such other general improvements as may be necessary for the conduct of the business of sheep and general farming, and that all ranches and buildings shall be kept in good sanitary condition. Said lease shall confer upon the said company the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of reservoirs, etc.</p></sidenote> authority to construct on said island such reservoirs, dams, windmills, water tanks, fences, houses, barns, buildings, ditches, flumes, canals, roads, telegraph and telephone lines, trails, wharves, piers, and landings as may be necessary or proper for the uses and purposes herein set forth.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing herein contained shall grant or convey or be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of timber, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> held to grant or convey to said company, its successors or assigns, during such time as it or they may hold said lands under the lease hereby authorized, any right, license, or privilege to take or remove from said island, or any part thereof, any growing timber, stone, clay, ore, metals, or minerals of any kind or nature whatsoever, save and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> except such timber and stone as may be necessary for the immediate use of said company, its successors and assigns, in the building, erection, or maintenance of such reservoirs, dams, windmills, water tanks, fences, houses, barns, buildings, ditches, flumes, canals, roads, telegraph and telephone lines, trails, wharves, piers, and landings.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may at any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> time during the said period of twenty-five years, at his discretion, terminate and cancel said lease, in case said company shall fail to pay the said rental of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum in advance or shall fail and neglect to expend the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in the improvement of said island, as herein specified, and well and truly perform any of the stipulations herein imposed upon it; and, in order that the Secretary may be advised regarding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Statement of expenditures.</p></sidenote> the expenditures made by said company, it shall be further stipulated in said lease that said company shall annually, on the first day of January, file with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor a statement, under oath of its president, showing in detail the expenditures made by said company during the previous year and the character and extent of the improvements made on said island by said company, which statement shall be accompanied by good and sufficient vouchers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vouchers.</p></sidenote> It shall be further stipulated in said lease that Government officials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspection.</p></sidenote> shall have the right to go upon said island at any time, and shall have the right to inspect the improvements made by said company under the terms of said lease. It shall also be stipulated in said lease that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion of improvements, etc., to Government.</p></sidenote> all improvements made upon said island by said company, and all buildings and other structures erected thereon by said company under the terms of said lease shall upon the termination of said lease, in natural term or by cancellation of the same, be and become the property of the Government of the United States. It shall also be stipulated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subleasing prohibited</p></sidenote> that no part of the said island of San Clemente shall be sublet to other parties.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the money so received as rental by the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rents covered into Treasury.</p></sidenote> Commerce and Labor from said company shall be covered into the Treasury.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/588">588</page>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 15, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 23: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the confitruction of a bridge between Fort Snelling Reservation and Saint Paul, Minnesota,” approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>23</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-18</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>23.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the confitruction of a bridge between Fort Snelling Reservation and Saint Paul, Minnesota,” approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-18">January 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23866">H. R. 23866</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/191">Public, No. 191</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section nine of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, between Fort Snelling Reservation and Saint Paul, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 68, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge between Fort Snelling Reservation and Saint Paul, Minnesota,” approved March seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of the bridge herein authorized shall not be commenced within one year and completed within four years from the date hereof.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, January 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 27: Granting to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company a right to change the location of its right of way across the Niobrara Military Reservation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>27</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-21</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
</meta>
<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>27.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company a right to change the location of its right of way across the Niobrara Military Reservation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-21">January 21, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8143">S. 8143</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/192">Public No. 192</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Chicago and Northwestern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Niobrara Military Reservation, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago and Northwestern RailwayCom- fiany may change lcation of right of way across.</p></sidenote> Railway Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the States of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which has become the owner of and is engaged in the operation of the railroad constructed by the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company across and through the Niobrara Military Reservation, located in the State of Nebraska, under and pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act granting right of way to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22. p. 431, amended.</p></sidenote> Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company across the Niobrara Military Reservation in the State of Nebraska,” which was Eassed and approved on the twenty-eighth day of February, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is hereby granted the right to change the location of its right of way and of its railroad where they now cross the south half of section eight, township thirty- three north, range twenty-seven west of the sixth principal meridian, and is hereby granted in place of said right of way granted to the said Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad Company by the said act of February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty- three, a new right of way not exceeding four hundred feet in width,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New right of way.</p></sidenote> to be so selected as not to interfere with any buildings or improvements on said reservation, and the location thereof to be subject to the approval of the Secretary of War, across and through that portion of said military reservation embraced within said south half of section eight, township thirty-three north, range twenty-seven west of the sixth principal meridian.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 21, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 28: Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to certain lands to Boise, Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>28</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 588</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-21</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>28.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to grant a revocable license to certain lands to Boise, Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-21">January 21, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6136">S. 6136</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/193">Public, No. 193</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boise, Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">May use part of military reservation for park purposes.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized to make a license, revocable at his discretion, for the use for park purposes by Boise City, a municipal corporation, to that tract of land lying within the boundaries of the United States military reservation at Boise City, Ada County, Idaho, and bounded and described as follows:<page identifier="/us/stat/35/589">589</page>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beginning at a stone marking the southwest boundary of the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> States military reservation, them e north twenty-two degrees twelve minutes west two thousand seven hundred and nineteen and eighty-six one-hundredths feet; thence north twenty degrees west three hundred and fifty-one and eighty-four hundredths feet; thence north seventy degrees cast fifteen, and five-tenths feet to a line twenty-two feet from the center of the Capital Water Company’s ditch; thence in an easterly direction following a line twenty-two feet from the center line of said ditch and parallel to the same to the intersection with said line of the southeasterly boundary of the reservation; thence south seventy degrees west to the point of beginning, subject to any rights of the Capital Water Company for the use of said grounds as a right of way or an easement to convey water.</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 21, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 37: For the exchange of certain lands situated in the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, State of Utah, for lands adjacent thereto, between the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Government of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>37</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 589</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-23</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>37.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the exchange of certain lands situated in the Fort Douglas Military Reservation, State of Utah, for lands adjacent thereto, between the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Government of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-23">January 23, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23863">H. R. 23863</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/191">Public, No. 191</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of A merica in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Douglas Military Reservation. Utah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of lands in. with the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association. authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> for and on behalf of the United States, is hereby authorized and directed to grant and convey by deed to the Mount Olivet Cemetery Association, of Salt Lake City, Utah, the following-described tract of land: Commencing at the southwest corner of the Fort Douglas Military Reservation and running thence east along and upon the south line of said Fort Douglas Military Reservation eighty rods; thence north parallel with the west boundary line of the said military reservation to the southeast corner of the Mount Olivet Cemetery grant; thence west along the south boundary line of the said Mount Olivet Cemetery grant eighty rods to the intersection of said line with the west line of said military reservation; thence south along and upon said west line of said military reservation to the place of beginning, containing an area of fifty acres, more or less. Said land to be by the said Mount Olivet Cemetery Association permanently used as a cemetery for the burial of the dead: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when it shall cease to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion.</p></sidenote> be used for such purpose it shall revert to the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the αeed provided for in the foregoing section of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land to be conveyed to Government.</p></sidenote> Act shall not be delivered to the said Mount Olivet Cemetery Association until said association shall have conveyed, or caused to be conveyed, to the United States in fee simple, free and clear of all incumbrances, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States, the following-described land, to wit: The fractional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> southwest quarter of section two, township one south, range one east, Salt Lake meridian, containing one hundred and fifty and ninety-two one-hundredths acres, situate in Salt Lake County, State of Utah.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 23, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 51: To establish two or more fish-cultural stations on Puget Sound.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>51</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 589</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-29</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>51.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To establish two or more fish-cultural stations on Puget Sound.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-29">January 29, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15452">H. R. 15452</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/195">Public, No. 195</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fish-culture stat ions to be established on.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>post</i>, p. 981.</p></sidenote> and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to establish two or more fish-cultural stations on Puget Sound, or its tributaries in the State of Washington, for the propagation of salmon and other food fishes, and to make the necessary surveys, and purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of sites, etc.</p></sidenote> sites, construct ponds and buildings, construct, purchase, and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/590">590</page> hire boats and equipments, and employ such assistance as may be required for the construction and operation of such fish-cultural stations at suitable points to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and the number of such stations to be determined by him.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation.</p></sidenote> and for said purpose the sum of fifty thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be appropriated.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 29, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 52: To amend an Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association use of certain property in the city of Washington, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>52</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 590</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-01-29</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>52.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association use of certain property in the city of Washington, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-01-29">January 29, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/2024">S. 2024</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/196">Public, No. 196</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association. D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of old engine house, corner of H and Nineteenth streets NW., by.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 821, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia included.</p></sidenote> Act authorizing the Commissioners to grant to the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association use of certain property in the city of Washington,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, be amended so as to include both the Veteran Volunteer Firemen’s Association and the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia in the use of all that part of lot eleven, in square numbered one hundred and forty-one, in the city of Washington, and building thereon, occupied by a house used formerly as an engine house, and described as follows: Beginning at the nort heast corner of said lot and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> running east thirty feet on II street, thence fifty feet south on a line parallel to Nineteenth street, thence west thirty feet to Nineteenth street, and thence north fifty feet to the beginning; the same to be used by said associations as a place of meeting and for the storage of their property and belongings, consisting of fire apparatus, books, maps, pictures, files, souvenirs, mementos, and papers of historic interest, the same to continue during the pleasure of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, January 29, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 53: To provide for refunding stamp taxes paid under the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries and authorizing rebate of duties on anthracite coal imported into the United States from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>53</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 590</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>53.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for refunding stamp taxes paid under the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, upon foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries and authorizing rebate of duties on anthracite coal imported into the United States from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-01">February 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21129">H. R. 21129</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/197">Public, No. 197</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Documentary stamps, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of, on foreign biilsof exchange, etc.</p></sidenote> Treasury be. and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the persons or corporations who have, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four, duly presented their respective claims therefor, the sums paid for documentary stamps used on foreign bills of exchange drawn between July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, against the value of products or merchandise actually exported to foreign countries, such stamps representing taxes which were illegally assessed and collected, said refund to be made whether said stamp taxes were paid under protest or duress or not.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anthracite coal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rebate of duties on, etc.</p></sidenote> and directed to make full rebate of all duties imposed by law on <page identifier="/us/stat/35/591">591</page> anthracite coal imported into any port of the United States from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 911.</p></sidenote> foreign countries from October sixth, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, and to repay all money paid as duties upon anthracite coal at any port of the United States to the person, persons, or corporations who paid the same upon anthracite coal imported from the sixth day of October, nineteen hundred and two, to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof.</p></sidenote> That the person or persons so to be paid shall produce satisfactory proof to the Secretary of the Treasury that they were not reimbursed for said tariffs in the sales to the consumer.</proviso></p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 54: To change and fix the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>54</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>54.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To change and fix the time for holding the circuit and district courts of the United States for the eastern and middle districts of Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-01">February 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25405">H. R. 25405</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/198">Public, No. 198</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the terms of the circuit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee eastern and middle judicial districts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 101, 122.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Greeneville.</p></sidenote> and district courts of the United States for the northeastern division of the eastern district of Tennessee, held at Greeneville, shall commence on the last Mondays in March and September of each year instead of the first Mondays in June and November, as now provided by law, that the terms of said courts for the middle district of Tennessee, held at Nashville, shall commence on the second Mondays in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nashville.</p></sidenote> April and October of each year instead of the first Mondays in April and October, as now provided by law; that the terms of said courts for the southern division of the eastern district of Tennessee, held at Chattanooga, shall commence on the fourth Mondays in May and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chattanooga.</p></sidenote> November of each year instead of the first Mondays in Mar and December, as now provided by law; and that the terms of said courts for the. northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee, held at Knoxville, shall commence on the first Mondays in July and January<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Knoxville.</p></sidenote> of each year instead of the first Monday in March and second Monday in September, as now provided by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That no action, suit, proceeding, information, indictment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending proceedings, etc., not affected.</p></sidenote> recognizance, bail bond, or other process in any of said courts shall abate or be rendered invalid by reason of the change of time in the holding of the terms of said courts, but the same shall be deemed to be returnable to, pending, and triable at the terms herein provided for.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> and are hereby, repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect from and after February first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and nine, the public welfare requiring it.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 55: Granting a franking privilege to Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>55</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 591</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-01</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>55.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting a franking privilege to Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-01">February 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25019">H. R. 25019</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/199">Public, No. 199</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Franking privilege.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Frances F. Cleveland and Mary Lord Harrison granted.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all mail matter sent by the post by Frances F. Cleveland, widow of the late Grover Cleveland, under her written autograph signature, and by Mary Lord Harrison, widow of the late Benjamin Harrison, under her written autograph signature, be conveyed free of postage during the natural life of each, respectively.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 56: Authorizing the construction of a bridge across Current River, in Missouri.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>56</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 592</citableAs>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/592">592</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>56.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the construction of a bridge across Current River, in Missouri.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-01">February 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23713">H. R. 23713</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/200">Public, No. 200</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Beit enacted</i> Ay <i>the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the county court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current River, Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carter County may bridge, near Van Buren Ferry.</p></sidenote> Carter County, Missouri, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge, and approaches thereto, across Current River, at a point to be approved by the Chief of Engineers and Secretary of War, near Van Buren Ferry, in Carter County, Missouri.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the bridge authorized to be constructed by this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 84.</p></sidenote> shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 1, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 58: To provide for a disbursing officer for the Government Hospital for the Insane.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>58</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 592</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-02</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>58.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for a disbursing officer for the Government Hospital for the Insane.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-02">February 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12899">H. R. 12899</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/201">Public, No. 201</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty-eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government Hospital for the Insane.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4839, p. 928, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary increased.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-nine of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4839">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4839.</num> <content class="inline">The chief executive officer of the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be a superintendent, who shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be entitled to a salary of four thousand dollars a year, and shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties in such sum and with such securities as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior. The superintendent shall be a well-educated physician, possessing competent experience in the care and treatment of the insane; he shall reside on the premises and devote his whole time to the welfare of the institution; he shall, subject to the approval of the board of visitors,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of disbursing agent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> appoint a responsible disbursing agent for the institution, who shall give a bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, and the said superintendent shall engage and discharge all needful and useful employees in the care of the insane and all laborers on the farm and determine their wages and duties; he shall also be an ex officio secretary of the board of visitors. The said disbursing agent, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have the custody of and pay out all moneys appropriated by Congress for the Government Hospital for the Insane, or otherwise received for the purposes of the hospital, and all moneys received by the superintendent in behalf of the hospital or its patients, and keep an accurate account or accounts thereof. The said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of funds.</p></sidenote> disbursing agent shall deposit in the Treasury of the United States, under the direction of the superintendent, all funds now in the hands of the superintendent or which may hereafter be intrusted to him by or for the use of patients, which shall be kept in a separate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separate account.</p></sidenote> account: and the said disbursing agent is authorized to draw therefrom, under the direction of the said superintendent, from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, for the use of such patients, but not to exceed for any one patient the amount intrusted to the superintendent on account of such patient. During the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursement of pension money of inmates.</p></sidenote> time that any pensioner shall be an inmate of the Government Hospital for the Insane, all money due or becoming due upon his or her pension shall be paid by the pension agent to the superintendent or disbursing agent of the hospital, upon a certificate by such superintendent that the pensioner is an inmate of the hospital and is living, and such pen-<page identifier="/us/stat/35/593">593</page>sion money shall be by said superintendent or disbursing agent disbursed and used, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for the benefit of the pensioner, and, in case of a male pensioner, his wife, minor children, and dependent parents, or, if a female pensioner, her minor children, if any, in the order named, and to pay his or her board and maintenance in the hospital, the remainder of such pension money, if any, to be placed to the credit of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of remainder of pension, etc.</p></sidenote> the pensioner and to be paid to the pensioner or the guardian of the pensioner in the event of his or her discharge from the hospital: or, in the event of the death of said pensioner while an inmate of said hospital, shall, if a female pensioner, be paid to her minor children, and. in the case of a male pensioner, be paid to his wife, if living; if no wife survives him. then to his minor children; and in case there is no wife nor minor children, then the said unexpended balance to his or her credit shall be applied to the general uses of said hospital: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the case of any pensioner transferred to the hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of balances, etc., from Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote> from the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers any pension money to his credit at said Home at the time of his said transfer shall be transferred with him to said hospital and placed to his credit therein, to be expended as hereinbefore provided, and in case of his return from said hospital to the Home any balance to his credit at said hospital shall in like manner be transferred to said Home, to be expended in accordance with the rules established in regard thereto, and this provision shall also be applicable to all unexpended pension money heretofore paid to the officers of said hospital on account of pensioners who were but are not now inmates thereof.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all provisions of law inconsistent with this Act are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 60: To amend an Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>60</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-03</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>60.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-03">February 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26709">H. R. 26709</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/202">Public. No. 202</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catania. Italy. made a consulate.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 101, amended.</p></sidenote> Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States,” approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six, as heretofore amended, is further amended as follows: By striking out, in class nine, consuls, the word “Messina,” and by inserting after the word “Carlsbad,” in class seven, consuls, the word “Catania.”</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 61: To repeal section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the Districtof Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and to provide for the location and erection of a substation on the parking at the corner formed by the intersection of the east side of Seventh street and the south side of C street southwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and to provide for the approval of the same by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>61</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 593</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-03</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>61.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To repeal section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for a union railroad station in the Districtof Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, and to provide for the location and erection of a substation on the parking at the corner formed by the intersection of the east side of Seventh street and the south side of C street southwest, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, by the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company, and to provide for the approval of the same by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-03">February 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26920">H.R. 26920</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/203">Public, No. 203</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Philadelphia, Baltimore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union station, substation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location in South Washington.</p></sidenote> and Washington Railroad Company shall, within thirty days from the enactment hereof, begin and within four months complete the construction of a substation, with suitable accommodation for passenger travel, on the parking at the corner formed by the intersection of the east side of Seventh street and the south side of C street southwest, and south of the south building line of C street, in the city of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/594">594</page> Washington, District of Columbia, and to occupy as licensees, for the purpose of the construction, maintenance, and operation of said substation. the parking appurtenant to the square known as square south of square four hundred and sixty-three on the map of the city of Washington.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the plans for said substation shall be subject to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p></sidenote> approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the same erected under their supervision.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That there shall always be maintained at said substation a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ticket office.</p></sidenote> ticket office and agent for the sale of tickets, and accommodation for baggage.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3b"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3b.</num> <content class="inline">That section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Long Bridge station abolished.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 918, amended.</p></sidenote> for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby repealed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> this Act.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 64: To refund to the Territory of Hawaii the amount expended in maintaining light-house service on its coasts from the time of the organization of the Territory until said light-house service was taken over by the Federal Government.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>64</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>64.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To refund to the Territory of Hawaii the amount expended in maintaining light-house service on its coasts from the time of the organization of the Territory until said light-house service was taken over by the Federal Government.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6145">H.R. 6145</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/201">Public, No.201</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for reimbursement for light-house service expenses.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the sum of twenty- three thousand three hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty-nine cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropπateα, to be paid to the Territory of Hawaii to reimburse said Territory for money paid, laid out, and expended by said Territory in maintaining light-houses, bell buoys, and light-house service on its coasts from the time said Territory became territory of the United States until said light-houses, bell buoys, and light-house service were transferred to and taken under the management and control of the Light-House Board.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 65: To impose a tax upon alcoholic compounds coming from Porto Rico, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>65</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>65.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To impose a tax upon alcoholic compounds coming from Porto Rico, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22884">H.R. 22884</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/206">Public, No. 206</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That upon bay rum, or any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internal-revenue tax on. alcoholic compounds from.</p></sidenote> article containing alcohol, hereafter brought from Porto Rico into the United States for consumption or sale there shall be paid a tax on the spirits contained therein of one dollar and ten cents per proof gallon, to be collected at the port of entry by the collector of internal revenue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> of the district in which the port is located. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry this Act into effect.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 66: To authorize t he Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces and cannon balls to the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>66</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 594</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>66.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize t he Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces and cannon balls to the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24151">H. R. 24151</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/206">Public, No. 206</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and Houseof Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshall County, W. Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon, etc., donated to.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the county court of Marshall County, West Virginia, two condemned brass or <page identifier="/us/stat/35/595">595</page> bronze cannon or field pieces, with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to be placed about a monument in honor of the soldiers from that county who served in the civil war, erected on the court-house grounds of said county, and for which the said county court are trustees: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> shall be incurred by the United States in connection with the donation of the above-mentioned articles of ordnance property.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 67: To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned bronze field piece and cannon balls to the county of Orange, State of New York.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>67</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 595</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>67.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned bronze field piece and cannon balls to the county of Orange, State of New York.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24492">H.R. 24492</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/207">Public No. 207</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stabs of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Orange County,N.Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon, etc., donated.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the county of Orange, State of New York, one condemned bronze field piece, with carriage, with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to be placed by the Major Murray Camp, Sons of Veterans, on the memorial plot at Goshen, the seat of said county, in honor of the soldiers and sailors from that county who served in all wars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the articles of ordnance property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense, etc.</p></sidenote> furnished under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall not be required to be accounted for to the Chief of Ordnance and no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 68: To legalize a bridge across Indian River North, in the State of Florida.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>68</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 595</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>68.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To legalize a bridge across Indian River North, in the State of Florida.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26073">H. R. 26073</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/208">Public. No. 208</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the bridge constructed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian River North, Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge by New Smyrna Bridge and Investment Company across, legalized, etc.</p></sidenote> across Indian River North at the town of New Smyrna, Florida, by the New Smyrna Bridge and Investment Company be, and the same is hereby, legalized, and the consent of Congress is hereby given to its maintenance by the said corporation, its successors or assigns:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to exempt this bridge from the operation of the existing laws enacted by Congress for the protection of navigable waters, and any changes in the said structure which the Secretary of War may deem necessary and order in the interest of navigation shall be promptly made by the owners thereof at their own expense.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 69: To authorize the Lewis Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>69</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 595</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>69.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Lewis Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Missouri River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26606">H. R. 26606</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/209">Public, No. 209</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Lewis Bridge Company,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kans, and Mo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lewis Bridge Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto across the Missouri River at a point on the east side of said river in section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> eight, township fifty north, range thirty-three west, in Platte County, Missouri, to a point on the west side of said river in section twenty-seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/596">596</page> , township ten south, range twenty-five east, in Wyandotte County, in the State of Kansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 84.</p></sidenote> navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 70: Granting to the Norfolk County Water Company the right to lay and maintain a water main through the military reservation on Willoughby Spit, Norfolk County, virginia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>70</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 596</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-04</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>70.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to the Norfolk County Water Company the right to lay and maintain a water main through the military reservation on Willoughby Spit, Norfolk County, virginia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-04">February 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/4836">H. R. 4836</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/210">Public. No. 210</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Norfolk County<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Willoughby Spit, Va.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk County Waler Company may operate, etc., water main through military reservation on.</p></sidenote> Water Company be, and it is hereby, granted the license and privilege to maintain and operate its water main, which has heretofore been constructed under a license granted by the Secretary of War on the twenty third of March, nineteen hundred and seven, across the military reservation of the United States on Willoughby Spit, in the county of Norfolk, Virginia, upon the following conditions, namely:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">First. That the said Norfolk County Water Company, its successors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of pipes.</p></sidenote> or assigns, shall remove its pipes, at its own expense, from said reservation within sixty days after receiving notice from the Secretary of War that the War Department requires the premises so occupied for the purposes of the United States; and upon the failure, neglect, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> inability of said company, its successors or assigns, so to do, the same shall become the property of the United States and the United States may then cause the same to be removed at said company’s expense, and no claim for damages against the United States, or any officer or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damage.</p></sidenote> agent thereof, shall be created by or made on account of such removal.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second. That the said company shall confine the route of its pipes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location of pipes restricted.</p></sidenote> to the location heretofore named under the license granted by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third. That the Norfolk County Water Company shall pay all taxes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes.</p></sidenote> assessed against the said pipe line laid and maintained hereunder.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fourth. That any sum which may have to be expended after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to premises.</p></sidenote> revocation of this license, as heretofore provided, in putting the premises or property hereby authorized to be occupied or used in as good condition for use by the United States as it is at the date of the granting of the said license, shall be repaid by the said company on demand.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifth. That said company shall pay such reasonable annual rental as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual rental.</p></sidenote> may be fixed from time to time by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixth. That the said company shall furnish water to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waler rates to Government.</p></sidenote> States, if the latter at any time so desires, at rates as favorable as those accorded to private consumers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventh. That all work incident to this license shall be subject to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision, etc.</p></sidenote> the supervision and approval of the officer of the United States Armyin charge of said reservation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighth. That the occupation of said reservation incident hereto<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> shall be subject to such rules and regulations in the interest of good order, police, sanitation, and discipline as said officer may from time to time prescribe.</p></content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/597">597</page>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 4, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 75: Authorizing the extension of New York avenue from its present terminus near Fourth street northeast, to the Bladensburg road.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>75</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 597</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>75.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the extension of New York avenue from its present terminus near Fourth street northeast, to the Bladensburg road.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17297">H. R. 17297</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/211">Public, No. 211</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York avenue NE.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning 1 a n d for extending, to Bladensburg road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151,</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of New York avenue from its present eastern terminus near Fourth street northeast to the proposed line of Montana avenue, and from Montana avenue to the Bladensburg road, upon such lines as the Commissioners may deem best for the public interests, with a width of one hundred and thirty feet: <proviso><i>Provided, however.</i> That the entire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension shall be assessed by the jury as benefits: <i>And provided further.</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby authorized to be expended from the revenues of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayment.</p></sidenote> to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 76: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell isolated tracts of land within the Nez l’erces Indian Reservation.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>76</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 597</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>76.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell isolated tracts of land within the Nez l’erces Indian Reservation.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19095">H.R. 19095</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/212">public. No, 212</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the law providing for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nez I’erces Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of isolated tracts of, authorized.</p></sidenote> the sale of any isolated or disconnected tract or parcel of the public domain is hereby extended and made applicable to any isolated and unappropriated public lands embraced within the Nez Perces Indian Reservation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for agricultural lands purchasers under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> this Act shall pay not less than three dollars and seventy-five cents per acre, and for lands valuable for stone and timber they shall pay not less than five dollars per acre.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 77: Authorizing the creation of a land district in the State of South Dakota, to be known as the Bellefourche land district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>77</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 597</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>77.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the creation of a land district in the State of South Dakota, to be known as the Bellefourche land district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26062">H.R. 26062</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/213">Public, No. 213</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tat ives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all that part of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bellefourche land district established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> State of South Dakota lying within the following described boundaries. to wit: Commencing at a point where the township line between townships eighteen and nineteen north intersects the boundary line between the States of South Dakota and Montana; thence east on the said township line to the northeast corner of township eighteen north, of range nine east; thence south along the range line between ranges nine and ten to a point where the same intersects the third standard parallel north; thence east on said third standard parallel north to the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/598">598</page> northeast corner of township twelve north, range eleven east; thence south along the range line between ranges eleven and twelve to where the same intersects the township line between townships six and seven north; thence west on said township line between tow nships six and seven to a point where the same intersects the boundary line between the States of South Dakota and Wyoming; thence north on the boundary line between the States of South Dakota and Wyoming and Montana to the point of beginning, be, and the same hereby is, constituted a new land district, to be known as the Bellefourche land district; and the United States land office for said district is hereby located at the town of Bellefourche, in Butte County.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register and receiver.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment.</p></sidenote> That the President be, and he hereby is, authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a register and a receiver for said land district, and they shall be subject to the same laws and be entitled to the same compensation as is or may be hereafter provided by law in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation, etc.</p></sidenote> relation to the existing land offices and officers in said State.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 78: Authorizing the sale of lands at the head of Cordova Bay, in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>78</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 598</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>78.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the sale of lands at the head of Cordova Bay, in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6418">S. 6418</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/214">Public, No. 214</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a corporation to be hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cordova Bay, Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cordova Bay Harbor and Improvement and Town-Site Company may purchase land at head of.</p></sidenote> duly organized under the name and style of the Cordova Bay Harbor Improvement and Town-Site Company and composed of the following-named persons, to wit: John H. McGraw. Edward Lewin, and Donald A. McKenzie, or any of them, and such others as may hereafter become associated with them as incorporators, shall be permitted to purchase at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per acre<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre. Limit.</p></sidenote> not to exceed two thousand acres of such nonmineral lands of the United States as may be selected by said corporation and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, including tide or mud flats, situated at the head of Cordova Bay, at approximately latitude sixty degrees and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> thirty minutes north, and longitude one hundred and forty-six west of Greenwich, in the district of Alaska, the same to be located in as nearly compact form as possible with a front of not to exceed two miles on the wharfage anti dock area to be reserved by the Secretary of War as provided in section three of this Act, in order to effect the improvement of said lands for town-site purposes and for the promotion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">purpose.</p></sidenote> and convenience of commerce with foreign nations and among the several States: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land withdrawn from entry, etc.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized and directed to withdraw from all forms of location or entry not to exceed three thousand acres to be selected by him and surrounding the land hereby made purchasable, subject to future disposition by the Congress.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That no land covered by any valid existing claim or right<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights protected.</p></sidenote> heretofore initiated or recognized under any law of the United States shall be subject to purchase under this Act until all rights thereunder have been transferred to said corporation or relinquished to the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of War, as soon as practicable after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land reserved for dock, etc., purposes.</p></sidenote> passage of this Act, shall establish a wharfage and dock area extending along the entire water front of the land proposed to be bought by said corporation and one thousand feetin width, thereby fixing the seaward line of said wharfage and dock area, and the area thus established is hereby reserved and shall remain under the control of the United States, in trust, however, for the future State which may be created, including the same or any part thereof within its boundaries: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p></sidenote> That wharves, docks, slips, and waterways may be constructed and maintained within such wharfage and dock area in accordance with plans approved and terms and conditions prescribed from time to time by <page identifier="/us/stat/35/599">599</page> the Secretary of War, but the public at all times shall have the use of all such wharves, docks, slips, and waterways upon the payment of such reasonable charges, and under such regulations as may from time to time be fixed and prescribed by the Secretary of War.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the right of eminent domain may, after the issuance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of eminent domain.</p></sidenote> patent hereunder, be exercised over any lands purchased under this Act, whether such lands may have been included within streets and alleys or otherwise, under any law applicable to lands held in private ownership in the district of Alaska, and no exclusive right of way shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exclusive right of way prohibited.</p></sidenote> be granted to any person, company, or corporation over the lands purchased under this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the corporation named in section one of this Act shall,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application, etc, to purchase.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> within six months after the approval hereof, file with the register and receiver of the land district within which the lands applied for are situated, an application to purchase under this Act, which application shall particularly describe the lands applied for and be accompanied with a certified copy of the field notes and plat of the survey of the boundaries of such lands, made under the direction and supervision of the surveyor-general of the district of Alaska.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the corporation named in section one of this Act shall,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plan of town site, etc., to be tiled.</p></sidenote> within twelve months after the approval of the application named in the foregoing section, subject to the approval and under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, file with the said Secretary a detailed plan of a town site, embracing the lands applied for, upon which shall be delineated adequate streets, alleys, lots, blocks, wharves, docks, slips, and waterways, and such reservations as the said Secretary may deem necessary and suitable for public use as parks and sites for public and school buildings and coaling stations: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public park reservations, etc.</p></sidenote> reservations for public parks shall, in addition to such other lands as may be needed for that purpose, include all of said lands which can not be reasonably utilized as sites for building purposes; and said corporation shall, after patent, dedicate and convey all of the said reservations for such public uses.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the corporation named in section one of this Act, or its<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of purchase price.</p></sidenote> assigns, shall, within six months from the approval of the plan mentioned in the preceding section, pay to the proper receiver the full purchase price of the lands applied for; and within five years after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparing reservation for wharfage and town-site purposes.</p></sidenote> the issuance of patent said corporation shall do all things necessary to render three hundred and twenty acres of the land purchased suitable and available for wharfage and town-site purposes in accordance with the plan thereof submitted as required in section six of this Act, and shall within two years from the approval of the plan mentioned in the preceding section construct within said wharfage and dock area a public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of dock pier, etc.</p></sidenote> dock, wharf, or pier, with suitable approaches on the land side and with not less than thirty-four feet of water at mean low tide leading to and surrounding the same, so as to enable ocean steamers to approach, dock, discharge and take on cargoes thereat; that patent for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cancellation of patent.</p></sidenote> said lands shall recite that they are issued under the provisions of this Act and are subject to cancellation and the land therein granted to forfeiture as herein provided; and if said corporation or its assigns<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> shall fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions of this Act, either before or after the issuance of patent, all interests, rights, or title which may have accrued or vested under this Act shall be forfeited to the United States, and the application under which they accrued, or the patent under which they vested, shall be canceled: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of time.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of the Interior may, on satisfactory showing, reasonably extend the time within which any of the Acts enumerated in this Act may be performed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That said corporation shall have the right to confine the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confining waters of Cordova Creek, etc.</p></sidenote> waters of Cordova Creek to one channel and to straighten and deepen the same in such manner as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 79: To place John Crowley on the retired list of the United States Navy.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>79.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To place John Crowley on the retired list of the United States Navy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/7807">H. R. 7807</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/215">Public, No. 215</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration of services<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John Crowleyplaeeđ on retired list.</p></sidenote> rendered in the United States Navy during a period of thirty-two years, from April eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-live, to June twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, that the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to place John Crowley on the retired list of the navy with the retired pay of the rating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay and rating.</p></sidenote> in which he wasserving at the time of his last honorable discharge.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 80: Relating to affairs in the Territories.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>80.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to affairs in the Territories.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21957">H.R. 21957</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/216">Public, No. 216</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Territories omnibus act.</p></sidenote> 
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>alaska.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the incorporated town of Valdez, Alaska, is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valdez may issue bonds to construct dikes, etc.</p></sidenote> and empowered to issue its bonds in any sum not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of constructing dikes, dams, and other protection to keep the waters from the Valdez Glacier from running into, over, and upon the town of Valdez.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That before said bonds shall be issued a special election shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special election.</p></sidenote> be ordered by the common council of the town of Valdez, at which election the question whether such bonds shall be issued shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said town of Valdez whose names appear on the last assessment roll of said town for municipal taxation. Thirty days’ notice of any such election shall be given by publication<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice.</p></sidenote> thereof in a newspaper printed and published and of general circulation in said town before the day fixed for such election.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the registration for such election, the manner of conducting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration for election, etc.</p></sidenote> the same, and the canvass of the returns of said election shall be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the requirements of law in general or special elections in said municipality, and said bonds shall be issued only upon the condition that a majority of the votes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Majority votes required.</p></sidenote> cast at such election in said town shall be in favor of issuing said bonds.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the bonds above specified, when authorized to be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest payments.</p></sidenote> as hereinbefore provided, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and shall not be sold for less than their par value with accrued interest and shall be in denominations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denomination.</p></sidenote> not exceeding one thousand dollars each, the principal to be due in ten years from date thereof: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of bonds.</p></sidenote> common council of said town of Valdez may reserve the right to pay off such bonds in their numerical order at the rate of five thousand dollars thereof per annum from and after the expiration of five years from their date. Principal and interest shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the town treasurer of the town of Valdez, Alaska, or at such bank in the city of New York, in the State of New York, or such place as may be designated by the common council of the town of Valdez; the place of payment to lie mentioned in said bonds: <i>And provided further.</i> That each and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signatures to bonds.</p></sidenote> every such bond shall have the written signature of the mayor and clerk of said town of Valdez and also bear the seal of said town.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That no part of the funds arising from the sale of said bonds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> shall be used for any purpose other than that specified in this Act.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/601">601</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That said bonds shall be sold only in such amounts as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale and diburse- ments.</p></sidenote> common council shall direct, and the proceeds thereof shall be disbursed under the limitations hereinbefore imposed and under the order and direction of said common council from time to time as the same may be required for the purposes aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter, as in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insane persons.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bids for care, etc., of.</p></sidenote> judgment may be deemed advisable, advertise for and receive bids for the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, and in behalf of the United States shall contract, for one or more years, as he may deem best, with a responsible asylum or sanitarium west of the main range of the Rocky Mountains submitting the lowest and best responsible bid for the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in said district of Alaska, the cost of advertising for bids, executing the contract, and caring for the insane to be paid from appropriations to be made for such service upon estimates to be submitted to Congress annually. So much of the Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Alaska fund.”</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of. for care. etc., of insane, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 616, amended.</p></sidenote> January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and live, entitled “An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, establishment and maintenance of schools, and care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” as provides that live per centum of the license moneys collected outside of incorporated towns in the district of Alaska shall be devoted to the care and maintenance of such insane persons is hereby repealed, and such five per centum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">To be used for school purposes.</p></sidenote> be applied to and used for the establishment and maintenance of public schools in said district, under the supervision of the governor.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That sections four hundred and sixty-four, four hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liquor licenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, pp. 1388, 1339.</p></sidenote> and sixty-five, and four hundred and sixty-eight, of an Act entitled “An Act to define and punish crimes in the district of Alaska, and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same are hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="464">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 464.</num> <content class="inline">That before any license is granted, as provided in this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent to issue by residents over 21 years of age required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1338 amended.</p></sidenote> Act in relation to intoxicating liquor, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of said court that a majority of the white male and female citizens over the age of twenty-one years, within two miles of the place where intoxicating liquor is to bo manufactured, bartered, sold, and exchanged or bartered, sold, and exchanged, have, in good faith, consented to the manufacture, barter, sale, and exchange or the barter, sale, and exchange of the same; and the burden shall be upon the applicant or applicants to show to the satisfaction of said court that a majority of the white male and female, citizens of twenty-one years of age or more have consented thereto, and no license shall be granted in the absence of such evidence: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no license<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limited to incorporated towns.</p></sidenote> shall be granted for the manufacture, barter, sale, or exchange of intoxicating liquors except within incorporated towns, and such other towns, settlements, or communities in which a duly appointed United States commissioner or deputy marshal shall reside, except that the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Road houses.</p></sidenote> respective district judges may in their discretion grant licenses to the keepers of regularly established road houses on main traveled postroads and post trails in the district: <i>And provided</i>, That when it is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No further proof of consent required for one year.</p></sidenote> made to appear that a majority of said white male and female citizens over the age of twenty-one years, of any one place have consented to the manufacture, barter, sale, and exchange or the barter, sale, and exchange of intoxicating liquor, no further proof of the consent of the citizens of the place where such intoxicating liquor is to be manufactured, bartered, sold, and exchanged or bartered, sold, and exchanged, will be required for twelve months thereafter.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="465">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 465.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That every person applying for a license to sell intoxicating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License petition to be filed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 30. p. 1338, amended.</p></sidenote> liquors in said district shall file with the clerk of the court <page identifier="/us/stat/35/602">602</page> a petition for such license, verified by the applicant’s oath, and such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath of applicant.</p></sidenote> petition shall be considered and acted upon by the court in the order in which the same was filed and numbered. Said petition shall contain:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“First. The name and residence of the applicant, and how long said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contents of petition.</p></sidenote> applicant has resided there.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Second. The particular place for which license is desired, designating the same by reference to street, locality, or settlement in such manner that the exact location at which such sale of liquor is proposed may be clearly and definitely determined from the description given.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Third. The statement that said applicant is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such; that said applicant is not less than twenty-one years of age, and that such applicant has not been, since the passage of this Act, adjudged guilty of violating the laws governing the sale of intoxicating liquors, or laws for the prevention of crime in said district.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fourth. That said applicant intends to, and if so licensed will,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business limited to applicant.</p></sidenote> carry on such business for himself and not as agent for any other person.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Fifth. That said applicant intends to, and if so licensed will, superintend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal management required.</p></sidenote> in person the management of the business licensed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Sixth. That said applicant will not conduct, maintain, or permit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gambling, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> the maintenance of any gambling, dance hall, or bawdy house on or in connection with the premises, nor permit any female or minor in or about the rooms where liquor is sold or served.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That if any false material statement is made in any part of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for perjury.</p></sidenote> petition or affidavit the petitioner or petitioners shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof said license shall be revoked and said licensee shall be subject to the penalties provided by law for the crime of perjury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That should it appear to the district judge that any of the statements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application to be denied.</p></sidenote> above enumerated, required to be made, in the petition, are untrue at the time of application for such license, such application shall be denied.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That should it appear to the district judge, after the granting of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation.</p></sidenote> any such license, that any of the statements above enumerated, required to be made in the petition, are untrue, or that the applicant is permitting any of the things to be done or exist on or about the premises contrary to the statements required in the petition, it shall be the duty of such judge to forthwith enter an order revoking such license, and all license moneys deposited by the applicant shall be thereby forfeited,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of deposit.</p></sidenote> and it shall be the duty of the United States marshals and their deputies and the United States attorneys and their deputies in said district to investigate and report to the district judge any violations of any of the provisions of this section: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not be so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Women and minors.</p></sidenote> construed as to prevent any innkeeper or any person operating a hotel in good faith from receiving as guests women and minors.</proviso></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="468">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 468.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the liquor licenses authorized and provided for by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses, wholesale and retail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 1339, amended.</p></sidenote> this Act shall be of two classes, namely, wholesale and barroom. Every applicant for a license shall deposit the amount of the license fee with the clerk of the court at the time of filing his application therefor; and if upon consideration of such application by the court, as provided for in this Act, the court shall determine to grant the license prayed for. it shall notify the clerk of the court and the applicant in writing and the applicant shall thereupon receive his license.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That the fee for a wholesale license shall be two thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> per annum, and for a barroom or retail license one thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steamboats, etc.</p></sidenote> per annum: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the fee for a retail license for road houses on regular post roads or trails where the population within two miles of the place where the business is to be conducted does not exceed fifty people, or for a steamboat or steamer operating on the inland rivers of Alaska during the season of open navigation, shall be five <page identifier="/us/stat/35/603">603</page> hundred dollars per annum: <i>Provided.</i> That said steamboat or steamer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Side of intoxicants while in port prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Towns, etc., defined.</p></sidenote> shall not be authorized to sell intoxicating liquor while in port or dock: <i>And provided</i>, That the words towns, camps, or settlements, as used in this Act shall be construed to embrace the population within a radius of two miles of the place wherein the business is to be conducted under the license.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That a retail or barroom license shall be required for every hotel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retail license.</p></sidenote> tavern, boat, barroom, or other place in which intoxicating liquors are sold at retail.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That a wholesale license shall only authorize the licensee to sell<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wholesale liquor business restrictions.</p></sidenote> distilled, malt, or fermented liquors, wines, and cordials in quantities not less than four gallons, not to be drunk upon the premises where sold; and no such license shall be granted until it is satisfactorily shown, that the place where it is intended to carry on such business is properly arranged for selling such liquor as merchandise.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That every place where distilled, malt, or fermented wines, liquors,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of “barroom.”</p></sidenote> or cordials are sold in quantities as prescribed for retail dealers by section thirty-two hundred and forty-four of the Revised Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 8244, p.662.</p></sidenote> of the United States, to be drunk upon the premises, shall be regarded as a barroom; and the possession of malt, distilled, fermented, or any other intoxicating liquors, with the means and appliances for carrying on the business of dispensing the same to he drunk where sold, shall be prima facie evidence of a barroom within the meaning of this Act, and the license therefor shall be known as a barroom license: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building where sold.</p></sidenote> That no licenser shall be granted for the sale of liquors at either wholesale or retail in any other than a substantial building which shall have cost for construction not less than five hundred dollars.”</proviso></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That section one hundred and forty-two of said Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of liquor to Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 1274, amended.</p></sidenote> March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="142">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 142.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That if any person shall, without the authority of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liquors, intoxicating extracts,etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> United States, or some authorized officer thereof, sell, barter, or give to any Indian or half-breed who lives and associates with Indians, any spirituous, malt, or vinous liquor or intoxicating extracts, such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> person shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not to exceed two years.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That the term ‘Indian’ in this Act shall be construed to include<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meaning of word “Indian.”</p></sidenote> the aboriginal races inhabiting Alaska when annexed to the United States, and their descendants of the whole or half blood, who have not become citizens of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That section nineteen hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importation of firearms, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 1055, p. 343. repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.23,p. 23, amended.</p></sidenote> of the United States and all that part of section fourteen of ‘An Act providing a civil government for Alaska,’approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, after the word ‘ provided,’ is hereby repealed.”</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be unlawful for any person to practice medicine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medicine and surgery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License for practice of.</p></sidenote> or surgery, or any of the departments thereof, within the Territory of Alaska, until he or she shall have first obtained a license therefor as hereinafter in this Act prescribed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That no person shall receive a license to practice medicine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> or surgery, or any of the departments thereof, within the Territory of Alaska until he or she shall have, first, submitted a diploma issued by some legally chartered medical school authorizing the holder thereof to practice medicine or surgery, the requirements for graduation of which medical school shall have been at the time of granting said diploma in no particular less than those prescribed by the Association of American Medical Colleges for that year, or, second, submitted proof of having practiced medicine or surgery, or both, for a period of not less than three successive years continuously prior to the passage of this Act and within the jurisdiction of one of the judicial districts of Alaska.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/604">604</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That any person desiring to obtain a license to practice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications.</p></sidenote> medicine or surgery within the Territory of Alaska shall first make application therefor to the clerk of the court of the district in which he desires to practice. The application shall be in writing, and shall state the name of the applicant, his age, his residence, the name and location of the college whence his diploma issued, the length of time, if at all, he has practiced medicine, and where, giving specifically the names of places wherein he has so practiced medicine. The application shall be accompanied by the diploma of the applicant, or duly authenticated copy, as must also an affidavit setting forth that he or she is the person therein named, and that the diploma was procured in the regular manner after the regular course of study prescribed by the medical school granting the same, without fraud or misrepresentation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That any applicant for license to practice medicine or surgery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licence to resident practitioners.</p></sidenote> within the Territory of Alaska, not in possession of the credentials specified in section three of this Act, may obtain a license at the discretion of the clerk of the district court to whom he applies upon furnishing a properly attested statement, to wit: That he or she<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> is a bona tide resident of Alaska, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine exclusively within the Territory of Alaska for a period of not less than three successive years immediately prior to the passage of this Act. The application shall be accompanied by the written recommendation of three bona fide residents of the judicial district wherein the applicant desires to practice, one of whom must be a physician holding a license under section three of this Act. and shall state in a general way applicant’s character and professional ability.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That every person receiving a license to practice medicine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recording license, etc.</p></sidenote> or surgery within the Territory of Alaska shall have such license recorded in the office of the clerk of the court of the district wherein he is practicing, or proposes to practice, within thirty days from date of issuance. And when such licentiate moves into another district for the purpose of continuing the practice of medicine, he shall first tile for record with the clerk of the court of the district to which he moves a certified copy of the license.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prima facie evidence of practice.</p></sidenote> within the meaning of this Act who shall within the Territory of Alaska append the letters M. D. to his name, or who shall prescribe or administer or make known his ability or willingness to prescribe or administer drugs, medicines, electricity, magnetism, hydrotherapy, or perform any operation or manipulation, or apply any apparatus or appliance for the cure, alleviation, correction, or reduction of any human disease, ill, deformity, defect, wound, or injury, including midwifery for hire, fee, compensation, or reward, promised, offered, or accepted, directly or indirectly. The doing of any of the acts of this section above mentioned shall be taken to be prima facie evidence on the part of the person so doing to represent himself or herself as engaged in the practice of medicine or surgery or both. But nothing in this Act shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency cases.</p></sidenote> so construed as to inhibit service in case of emergency, medical or surgical relief of natives of Alaska by employees of the Bureau of Education, or to the domestic administration of family remedies, nor to legally qualified dentists when engaged exclusively in the practice of dentistry. Nor shall this Act apply to any commissioned medical officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioned medical officers, etc.</p></sidenote> in the United States Army or Marine-Hospital Service or Bureau of Education in the discharge of his professional duties, or to any ship’s doctor attached to any vessel plying or operating in Alaska.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That applications for license to practice medicine within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recording licenses, etc.</p></sidenote> the Territory of Alaska shall be recorded by the clerk of the district court in which they are presented within five days of date of presentation. Said record shall specify under which section of this Act the license be issued, if issued, and the date thereof. The record containing said <page identifier="/us/stat/35/605">605</page> applications shall be accessible to the public during office hours of the clerk of the court for inspection. A fee of ten dollars shall accompany<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fee.</p></sidenote> each application for license.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That every person who shall practice, or shall attempt to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> practice medicine within the meaning of this Act without having first obtained a license therefor as prescribed in this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than thirty nor more than one hundred days, or by both fine and imprisonment, and each day of such practice shall constitute a distinct and separate offense.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That all moneys collected from licenses or fines under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposition of funds.</p></sidenote> Act shall be disposed of in the manner already provided for by law applicable to the Territory of Alaska.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<heading class="centered">arizona.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote> 
<num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 19.</num><content class="inline">That chapter fifty-seven, session laws of the Arizona legislature,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mohave County.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond issue by, ratified.</p></sidenote> twenty-third session, authorizing the county of Mohave, Territory of Arizona, to issue bonds in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the purpose of erecting a court-house, and also the further act of said legislature, being chapter sixty-one, authorizing said county to issue bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the purpose of building a jail for said county, is hereby ratified and approved.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That the city of Phoenix, situated in Maricopa County, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix city may issue bonds, etc.</p></sidenote> the Territory of Arizona, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue its bonds in any sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> dollars for the funding of its floating indebtedness created prior to July first, nineteen hundred and six, and represented by outstanding warrants bearing interest at the rate of six per centum per annum.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline">That before said bonds shall be issued a special election<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special election.</p></sidenote> shall be ordered by the common council of the city of Phoenix, at which election the question whether such bonds shall be issued shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city of Phoenix whose names appear on the last assessment roll of said city for municipal taxation. Thirty days’ notice of any such election shall be given by publication<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice.</p></sidenote> thereof in a newspaper printed and published and of general circulation in said city before the day fixed for such election.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline">That the registration for such election, the manner of conducting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registration.</p></sidenote> the same, and the canvass of the returns of said election shall be, as nearly as practicable, in accordance with the requirements of law in general or special elections in said municipality, and said bonds shall be issued only upon the condition that a majority of the votes cast at such election in said city shall be in favor of issuing said bonds.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline">The bonds above specified, when authorized to be issued as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> hereinbefore provided, shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed live per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and shall not be sold for less than their par value with accrued interest, and shall be in denominations of one thousand dollars each, the principal to be due in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denomination.</p></sidenote> twenty-five years from date thereof: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the common<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of bonds.</p></sidenote> council of said city of Phoenix may reserve the right to pay off such bonds in their numerical order at the rate of twenty-five thousand dollars thereof per annum from and after expiration of fifteen years from their date. Principal and interest shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America at the office of the city treasurer of the city of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona Territory, or at such bank in the city of New York, in the State of New York, or such place as may be designated by the common council of the city of Phoenix at the option of the holder of said bonds: the place of payment to be mentioned in said bonds:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signatures.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/606">606</page> and every such bond shall have the written signature of the mayor and recorder of said city of Phoenix and also bear the seal of said city.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="24"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 24.</num> <content class="inline">That no part of the funds arising from the sale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of funds.</p></sidenote> of said bonds shall be used for any purpose other than that specified in this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25.</num> <content class="inline">That said bonds shall be sold only in such amounts as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale and disbursement.</p></sidenote> common council shall direct, and the proceeds thereof shall be disbursed under the limitations hereinbefore imposed and under the order and direction of said common council from time to time as the same may be required for the purposes aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26.</num> <content class="inline">That the act of the legislative assembly of the Territory of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yuma court-house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection ratified.</p></sidenote> Arizona, approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, providing for the erection of a court-house and jail in the town of Yuma, Yuma County, Territory of Arizona, is hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed, to the extent of fifty thousand dollars and no more.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27.</num> <content class="inline">That the board of supervisors of the county of Gila, Territory<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gila County may issue additional bonds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83. p. 1268.</p></sidenote> of Arizona, is hereby authorized to issue additional bonds on said county in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the completion and furnishing of the court-house and jail for said county and vaults for the preservation of the records.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="28"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 28.</num> <content class="inline">That said bonds may be in such denomination as the said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Denomination, etc.</p></sidenote> board may prescribe, and shall bear no more than five per centum interest per annum, and shall not be sold for less than their par value.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="29"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 29.</num> <content class="inline">That said bonds shall be made payable in twenty years,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of bonds.</p></sidenote> with an option on the part of the county to pay any or all of them after eight years from the date of their issue.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="30"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 30.</num> <content class="inline">That for the purpose of paying the interest on said bonds<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes.</p></sidenote> as it becomes due and provide for a sinking fund to pay said bonds the said hoard of supervisors shall levy and cause to be collected, as other county taxes are levied and collected, a sufficient tax on the assessable property in said county as will meet the interest as it falls due and provide a reasonable sinking fund to pay said bonds when due.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="31"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 31.</num> <content class="inline">That said bonds shall be printed with interest coupons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coupons.</p></sidenote> attached thereto; each coupon shall represent one year’s interest on the bond, and when the interest represented in a coupon is paid the coupon shall be detached from the bond and placed by the treasurer with his other vouchers before the board of supervisors.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="32"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 32.</num> <content class="inline">That the act of the legislative assembly of Arizona approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apache County court-house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erection of, ratified.</p></sidenote> February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five, providing for the erection of a court-house in the town of Saint Johns, Apache County, Arizona, is hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="33"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 33.</num> <content class="inline">That the action of the taxpayers of special road district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maricopa County.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of bonds for public roads ratified.</p></sidenote> numbered one, of Maricopa County. Arizona, at an election duly held, authorizing and directing the issuing of the bonds of said special road district numbered one, in the sum of thirty thousand dollars, for the purpose of building, establishing, and maintaining a better system of public roads within said district, is hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<heading class="centered">hawaii.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote> 
<num value="34"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec.</inline> 34.</num><content class="inline">That the act of the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maui County.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture, etc., of electric light, etc., indistrict of Wailuku, ratified.</p></sidenote> entitled “An act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric light and power within the district of Wailuku, on the island and county of Maui. Territory of Hawaii,” passed by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii on the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days of April, anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven, be, and is hereby, amended, and as so amended is ratified, approved, and confirmed, as follows, to wit:</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/607">607</page>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>“act 105.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative act 105.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric light and power within the district of Wailuku, on the island and county of Maui, Territory of Hawaii.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Be it enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, That 11. P. Baldwin, R. A. Wadsworth, J. N. S. Williams, D. C. Lindsay, C. D. Lufkin, James L. Coke, and W. T. Robinson, together with their associates, hereafter called ‘The Company,’ and their respective successors and assigns, be. and hereby are, vested with the right, authority, and privileges, from and after the passage of this act. to manufacture, sen, furnish, and supply electric light, electric current, or electric power, in the district of Wailuku, on the island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, for lighting the streets, roads, public or private buildings, or for motive power, or for any other purpose which they may deem advisable, and from time to time, for the purposes above mentioned, and subject to the approval and supervision of the boards or officials having charge of said streets or roads, to construct, maintain. and operate suitable poles, lines, wires, cables, lamps, lamp-posts, conductors, conduits, and such other appliances and appurtenances as may from time to time be necessary for the transmission, distribution, or supply of electricity to consumers thereof, under, along, upon, and over the streets, sidewalks, roads, squares, bridges, alleys, and lanes in said district of Wailuku, on the island of Maui, and to connect the said lines, wires, and conductors with any manufactory, private or public buildings, lamps, lamp-posts, or other structure or object with the place of supply.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The officials or boards having charge of said streets or roads are hereby authorized to make, and from time to time change, amend, or add to, reasonable rules regulating the placing of poles, wires, the insulation of wires, and apparatus carrying the electric current, and the excavation of conduits, and the maintenance in good repair of all poles, wires, and apparatus, and generally concerning the manufacture and supply of electricity which may be necessary for the public safety and welfare.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all poles, lines, wires, cables, lamps, lamp-posts, conductors, conduits, and other appliances constructed, maintained, or operated under, along, upon, and over the streets, sidewalks, roads, squares, bridges, alleys, and lanes in said district, on the island of Maui, shall be so constructed, maintained, or operated by the company as to not unnecessarily interfere with the use of such streets, sidewalks, roads, squares, bridges, alleys, and lanes by the public.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the entire plant, lines, poles, and other apparatus and equipments shall at all times be subject and open to the inspection of the officials or boards having charge of said streets or roads, or any officer appointed by them for that purpose.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That said company, its representatives, successors, and assigns, shall be responsible for any damages, either to person or property, resulting from any act of negligence on its part, which may occur by reason of the exercise of any of the privileges herein granted.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">It is provided that if the company shall fail or refuse to do or perform or comply with any of the provisions of this act, or of the laws of the Territory of Hawaii, or of the county of Maui, and continues to refuse and fail to perform or comply therewith after reasonable notice given by the superintendent of public works, or any proper county or municipal officer or board, said officer or board may, with the consent of the governor and of the attorney-general, cause proceedings to be instituted before an appropriate tribunal to have the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/608">608</page> franchise granted hereby, and all rights and privileges accruing thereunder, forfeited and declared null and void.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">Said company shall also have the right to maintain, use, and operate electric meters or other means of measuring electric light, power, or current supplied from time to time, and to locate the same at such places as may be deemed necessary for their protection; and also to charge, receive, and collect from all customers of electricity such reasonable prices as may be from time to time fixed and determined by the company: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That power is hereby conferred upon the courts of appropriate jurisdiction at all times and upon the petition of any consumer of the company to hear and determine from time to time whether an existing rate is unreasonable: and if a rate be unreasonable, to order the same to be decreased, and to enforce such orders by appropriate judgment or decree.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">It is hereby expressly provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed as to grant the company an exclusive right to furnish, sell, or supply electric light and power.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">The said company shall, within one month after the expiration of each year, file with the superintendent of public works a statement showing the gross receipts from the sale of electric light and power furnished by the company, and shall at the same time pay to the superintendent of public works one per centum of the gross receipts of the company from all electric light or power furnished to consumers during the year preceding.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">This act shall go into effect and be law from and after the date of its approval by the governor of the Territory of Hawaii, subject, however, to the approval of the Congress of the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That Congress, or the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii with the approval of Congress, may at any time alter, amend, or repeal this act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“We hereby certify that the foregoing bill, after consideration on the veto of the governor, was, upon a vote taken by ayes and noes, approved by a two-thirds vote of all the elective members of senate of the Territory of Hawaii this twenty-fourth day of April, anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<signatures>
<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">“E. F. Bishop,</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role class="smallCaps">“President of the Senate.</role>
</signature>
<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">“William Savidge,</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role class="smallCaps">“Clerk of the Senate.</role>
</signature>
</signatures>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“We hereby certify that the foregoing bill, after consideration on the veto of the governor, was, upon a vote taken by ayes and noes, approved by a two-thirds vote of all of the elective members of the house of representatives of the Territory of Hawaii this twenty-fifth day of April, anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven.</p>
<signatures>
<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">“H. L. Holstein,</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role class="smallCaps">“Speaker.</role>
</signature>
<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">“John H. Wise,</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role class="smallCaps">“Clerk.”</role>
</signature>
</signatures></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="35"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 35.</num> <chapeau class="inline">That the act of the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maui County.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacture, etc., of electric light, etc., indistrict of Lahaina, ratified.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric light and power within the district of Lahaina, on the island and county of Maui, Territory of Hawaii,” approved by the governor of the Territory of Hawaii on the first of May, anno Domini nineteen hundred and seven, be. and is hereby, amended, and as so amended is ratified, approved, and confirmed as follows, to wit:<page identifier="/us/stat/35/609">609</page></chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>“act 130<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative act 130.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“An act to authorize and provide for the manufacture, maintenance, distribution, and supply of electric light and power within the district of Lahaina, on the island and county of Maui, Territory of Hawaii.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Be it enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, that the Lahaina ice Company (Limited), as a body corporate, its successors and assigns, hereinafter called ‘The Company,’ be, and hereby are, vested with the right, authority, and privilege, from and after the passage of this act, to manufacture, sell, furnish, and supply electric light, electric current, or electric power in the district of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, Territory of Hawaii, for lighting the streets, roads, public or private buildings, or for motive power, or for any other purpose which they may deem advisable, and from time to time, for the purposes above mentioned, subject to the approval and supervision of the officials or boards having charge of said streets or roads, to construct, maintain, and operate suitable poles, lines, wires, cables, lamps, lamp-posts, conductors, conduits, and such other appliances and appurtenances as may from time to time be necessary for the transmission, distribution, or supply of electricity to consumers thereof, under, along, upon, and over the streets, sidewalks, roads, squares. bridges, alleys, and lanes in said district of Lahaina, on said island of Maui, and to connect the said lines, wires, and conductors with any manufactory, private or public buildings, lamps, lamp-posts, or other structure or object with the place of supply.</p>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">The company shall at all times during the existence of said franchise promptly and efficiently supply such electric light and power in said district of Lahaina as may from time to time be required by persons desiring the same, at any point or points: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That it shall not be required to build, extend, or maintain any line or branch line for the transmission of such electric light or power beyond a distance of three hundred feet from such extension or major fraction thereof, unless the number of lights or amount of power agreed to be taken for not less than one year shall be reasonably sufficient to warrant the construction of such line or branch line or extension: <i>Provided further</i>, That if the company shall be unable to furnish power or light applied for by reason of lack of capacity of the plant or apparatus for producing and transmitting electric current, the company shall be allowed a reasonable time, not exceeding one year from the date of any application, to procure such additional improvements or apparatus as may be necessary to furnish such applicant or applicants.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">The officials or boards having charge of said streets or roads are hereby authorized to make, and from time to time change, amend, or add to, reasonable rules regulating the placing of poles, wires, the insulation of wires and apparatus carrying the electric current, and the excavation of conduits, and the maintenance in good repair of all poles, wires, and apparatus and generally concerning the manufacture and supply of electricity which may be necessary for the public safety and welfare.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all poles, lines, wires, cables, lamps, lamp-posts, conductors, conduits, and other appliances constructed, maintained, or operated under, along, upon, and over the streets, sidewalks, roads, squares, bridges, alleys, and lanes in said district, on the island of Maui, shall be so constructed, maintained, and operated by the company as to not unnecessarily interfere with the use of such streets, sidewalks, roads, squares, bridges, alleys, and lanes by the public.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the entire plant, lines, poles, and all other apparatus and equipments shall, at all times, be subject and open to the inspec-tion <page identifier="/us/stat/35/610">610</page> of the officials or boards having charge of said streets or roads, or any officer appointed by them for that purpose.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">Said company shall also have the right to maintain, use. and operate electric meters or other means of measuring electric light, power, or current supplied from time to time, and to locate the same at such places as may lie deemed necessary for their protection; and also to charge, receive, and collect from all customers of electricity such reasonable prices as may be from time to time fixed and determined by the company: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That power is hereby conferred upon the courts of appropriate jurisdiction at all times and upon the petition of any consumer of the company to hear and determine from time to time whether an existing rate or rates is or are unreasonable; and if a rate be unreasonable, to order the same to be decreased, and to enforce such orders by appropriate judgment or decree.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">Said company shall also have the right to charge consumers, or applicants for the use of electricity, for one-half of the cost and expense of making connections between the company’s nearest line of supply and the premises where the electricity is to be used; such cost and expense to include the price of ail wires, poles, insulators, and other materials, and labor necessary to be used in making such connections: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the company shall not be required to make, construct, or maintain said connections as aforesaid for supplying light or power unless the applicants therefor, if required, shall deposit in advance with the company a sum of money, sufficient to pay one-half of the total cost and expense of making and constructing such connections and for current for the period of one month.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">The said company shall have the right to acquire, hold, or take over, either by purchase or lease, property, both real, personal, and mixed, as may be necessary or incidental to the proper conduct of its business; but said company shall not have the right or power to purchase franchises and property of any other company of like nature in said district of Lahaina.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">Said company, whenever from time to time it shall be deemed expedient in the furtherance of the objects of the company, shall have the power to borrow money and to secure the payment thereof, with the interest agreed upon, by mortgage of any or all of its property, franchises, and privileges granted or obtained by virtue of this act, or, if it is deemed advisable, bonds may be issued, secured by deed of trust of such property, not to exceed sixty percentum of the actual value thereof, with all future acquired property, as well as the income and receipts of the property from whatever source derived and in such form and under such terms as the company shall deem advisable: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this section contained shall operate to prevent said company from obtaining the usual business credits and to make promissory notes without security.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That said company, its representatives, successors, and assigns, shall be responsible for any damages, either to person or property, resulting from any act of negligence on its part, which may occur by reason of the exercise of any of the privileges herein granted.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">It is provided that if the company shall fail or refuse to do or perform or comply with any of the provisions of this act or of the laws of the Territory of Hawaii, or of the county of Maui, and continues to refuse and fail to perform or comply therewith after reasonable notice given by the superintendent of public works or any proper county or municipal officer or board, said officer or board may, with the consent of the governor and of the attorney-general, cause pro ceedings to be instituted before an appropriate tribunal to have the franchise granted hereby and all rights and privileges accruing thereunder forfeited and declared null and void.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/611">611</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">It is hereby expressly provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to grant the company an exclusive right to furnish, sell, or supply electric light and power.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">The said company shall, within one month after the expiration of each year, file with the superintendent of public works a statement showing the gross receipts from the sale of electric light and power furnished by the company, and shall at the same time pay to the superintendent of public works one per centum of the gross receipts of the company from all electric light or power furnished to consumers during the year preceding.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">This act shall go into effect and be law from and after the date of its approval by the governor of the Territory of Hawaii, subject, however, to the approval of the Congress of the United States, such approval to be secured within five years from the date of this act becoming law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That Congress, or the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii with the approval of Congress, may at any time alter, amend, or repeal said act.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Approved this 1st day of May, A. D. 1907.</p>
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<signature>
<name><inline class="smallCaps">“G. R. Carter,</inline></name>
</signature>
<signature>
<role>“Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.”</role>
</signature>
</signatures></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="36"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 36.</num> <content class="inline">That the Wahiawa Water Company (Limited), a corporation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wahiawa Water Company granted right of way through military reservation.</p></sidenote> organized under the laws of the Territory of Hawaii for the purpose of irrigation, be, and is hereby, granted the right of way through the lands of the United States to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoirs and canals of said company and their laterals, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, including that portion of said company’s irrigation works located within the limits of the military reservation made by the order of the President July twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, setting aside a portion of Waianae Uka, in the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, and as published in the General Orders of the War Department Numbered One hundred and forty-seven, and dated August tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and including also the right to take from the lands of the United States adjacent to the line of the canals earth and stone necessary to the construction thereof, the said reservoir sites, canals, and laterals, and waterways being now occupied under an outstanding lease from the former authorities of said Territory to said company and so recognized in said General Orders: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the plans for the. works herein proposed shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p></sidenote> be submitted to the Secretary of War for approval, and shall be carried out in conformity to such regulations in respect to maintenance and operation as he shall prescribe: <i>Provided also</i>, That the servitude<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Movement of troops, etc., not prevented.</p></sidenote> herein granted shall not prevent the movement of troops over the said right of way. and when the movement of field artillery and wagon trains is impeded or prevented, due to the use of gulches for water storage by said company, bridges suitable for the passage of troops, artillery, and wagon trains across said gulches, with suitable approaches thereto, shall be provided by said company when required by the Secretary of War. said bridges and approaches to be constructed in accordance with plans approved by the Secretary of War: <i>Provided further</i>, That during the occupation of said military reservation by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water for troops, etc., free.</p></sidenote> troops the said company shall furnish, free of charge, all the water needed for post or encampment purposes, and, in case an electric<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric power, etc.</p></sidenote> power plant is erected by said company, it will furnish power to the United States, if required, and, if it be obtainable without interference with the irrigation supply, at not to exceed one cent per kilowatt hour, measured at the dynamos.</proviso></content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/612">612</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">
<heading class="centered">new mexico.</heading><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote> 
<num value="37"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 37.</num> <content class="inline">That the county of Bernalillo, in the Territory of New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bernalillo County may issue bonds for bridge purposes.</p></sidenote> Mexico, is hereby authorized to issue bonds to such amount as in the discretion of its county commissioners may seem necessary, but not exceeding the stun of one hundred thousand dollars, to be known as bridge bonds of the county of Bernalillo, which bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, and shall be sold for not less than par, the proceeds of such sale or sales to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale and disbursement.</p></sidenote> used exclusively for the construction and repair of bridges across the Rio Grande within the limits of said county. The said bonds shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of bonds.</p></sidenote> payable in whole or in part at the option of said county at any time after the expiration of ten years from their issue, and shall become absolutely due and payable upon the expiration of thirty years after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> their issue, and the proper county authorities shall levy each year after the issuance of said bonds at the time of levying other taxes, a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Taxes.</p></sidenote> tax sufficient in amount to pay the interest on said bonds for each year, the proceeds of such tax to be devoted exclusively to the payment of such interest; and after the expiration of fifteen years from the date of the issue of said bonds the said county authorities shall provide a sinking fund by taxation for the payment of said bonds at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sinking fund.</p></sidenote> their maturity, and shall annually levy a tax for that purpose sufficient to produce at least one-fifteenth part of the principal of said bonds.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="38"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 38.</num> <content class="inline">That at any time after the expiration of ten years from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refunding indebtedness.</p></sidenote> issue of said bonds the proper county officers of said county are authorized, in their discretion, to refund the indebtedness evidenced by said bonds; <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That they can do so at a lower rate of interest than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> that fixed for the original issue.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="39"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 39.</num> <content class="inline">That the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mexico<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of school lands to, authorized.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized and empowered to enact such legislation as is necessary to authorize the Territory of New Mexico, through its proper officer or officers, to sell and transfer school land section thirty-six. township one south, range thirty-four east. New Mexico principal meridian, to the town of Portales, Territory of New Mexico, for the use and benefit of the public schools of the town of Portales: <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonresponsibility of United States for bonds issued.</p></sidenote> That no obligation shall be created against or assumed by the United States on account of any bond or bonds issued in pursuance of authority granted by this Act, and notice of this proviso shall be printed on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice.</p></sidenote> face of each bond issued.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 81: To authorize the Edgewater Connecting Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>81</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>81.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Edgewater Connecting Railway Company to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge across the Kansas River at or near Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte, State of Kansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8333">S. 8333</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/217">Public, No. 217</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Edgewater Connecting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edgewater Connecting Railway Company may bridge, at Kansas City. Kans.</p></sidenote> Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kansas, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge and approaches thereto across the Kansas River near the confluence of said river with the Missouri River at or near the city of Kansas City, Kansas, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p.81.</p></sidenote> waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/613">613</page>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
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<dc:title>Chap. 82: To provide for the deduction of hatchways and water-ballast space from the gross tonnage of vessels.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>82</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 613</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>82.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the deduction of hatchways and water-ballast space from the gross tonnage of vessels.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8460">S. 8460</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/218">Public, No. 218</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section one of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions from gross tonnage United States vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28. p. 742, amended.</p></sidenote> approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act to amend section one of chapter three hundred and ninetyeight of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled ‘An Act to provide for deductions from the gross tonnage of vessels of the United States,’” is hereby amended by inserting after paragraph (h) the following words:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The cubical contents of the hatchways shall be obtained by multiplying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cubical contents of hatchways, etc.</p></sidenote> the length and breadth together and the product by the mean depth taken from the top of beam to the under side of the hatch. From the aggregate tonnage of the hatchways there shall be deducted one-half of one per cent of the gross tonnage and the remainder only shall be added to the gross tonnage of the ship exclusive of the tonnage of the hatchways.”</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That said section is further amended by inserting at the end of the fourth paragraph after paragraph (i) the following words:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“From the gross tonnage there shall be deducted any other space<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deduct ions for water-ballast space.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28. p. 743, mended.</p></sidenote> adapted only for water ballast certified by the collector not to be available for the carriage of cargo, stores, supplies, or fuel.”</p></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 83: Extending the time for the construction by James A. Moore, or his assigns, of a canal along the government right of way connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>83</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 613</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>83.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for the construction by James A. Moore, or his assigns, of a canal along the government right of way connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8695">S. 8695</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/219">Public. No. 219</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound and Lake Washington, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for constructing canal by James A. Moore, etc., to connect waters of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. pp. 231, 1108.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, subject to all the other provisions contained in the Act of Congress entitled “An Act authorizing James A. Moore, or his assigns, to construct a canal along the government right of way connecting the waters of Puget Sound with Lake Washington,” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six. and contained in the modification of said Act made in the Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March second, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven, the time limitation for the completion of the canal authorized by said Acts is hereby extended until June eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 84: To build a bridge across the Santee River, South Carolina.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>84</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 613</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-06</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>84.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To build a bridge across the Santee River, South Carolina.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-06">February 6, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23711">H. R. 23711</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[Public, No. 220.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of. America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Santee River Cypress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santee River, S. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santee River Cypress Lumber Company may bridge.</p></sidenote> Lumber Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, be. and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a drawbridge and approaches thereto across the Santee River at or near its lumber mill plant and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> property from its property in Clarendon County, South Carolina, on the east or north bank, as may be, to its property on the west or south bank, as may be, of said river, in the State of South Carolina, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 84.</p></sidenote> the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 6, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 100: To prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>100</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 614</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-09</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/614">614</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>100.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To prohibit the importation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-09">February 9, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27427">H. R. 27427</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/221">Public, No. 221</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That after the first day of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opium.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Importation prohibited.</p></sidenote> April, nineteen hundred and nine, it shall be unlawful to import into the United States opium in any form or any preparation or derivative thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That opium and preparations and derivatives thereof,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Opium, etc., for medicinal purposes excepted.</p></sidenote> other than smoking opium or opium prepared for smoking, may be imported for medicinal purposes only, under regulations which the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to prescribe, and when<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> so imported shall be subject to the duties which are now or may hereafter be imposed by law.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That if any person shall fraudulently or knowingly import<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violation.</p></sidenote> or bring into the United States, or assist in so doing, any opium or any preparation or derivative thereof contrary to law, or shall receive, conceal, buy, sell, or in any manner facilitate the transportation, concealment, or sale of such opium or preparation or derivative thereof after importation, knowing the same to have been imported contrary to law, such opium or preparation or derivative thereof shall be forfeited and shall be destroyed, and the offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars nor less than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for any time not exceeding two years, or both. Whenever, on trial for a violation of this section, the defendant is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Possession, proof of guilt.</p></sidenote> shown to have, or to have bad, possession of such opium or preparation or derivative thereof, such possession shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize conviction unless the defendant shall explain the possession to the satisfaction of the jury.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 9, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 101: Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>101</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>101.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-09">February 9, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26399">H. R. 26399</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/222">Public. No. 222</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Urgent deficiencies appropriations.</p></sidenote> any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, namely:</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Engraving and Printing, land for new building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 319.</p></sidenote> For the purchase of land, in addition to the amount appropriated by Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred and forty-six thousand three hundred and four dollars and forty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ithaca, New York, post-office: For completion of building, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ithaca. N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For cleaning snow and ice from cross walks and gutters, under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of snow and ice.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 809.</p></sidenote> Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, five thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount required, fiscal year nineteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of teachers, etc.</p></sidenote> nine, for salaries of teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction; and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One-half from District revenues.</p></sidenote> schools, five thousand five hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/615">615</page>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WAR DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">War Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the internal-revenue taxes imposed by the Philippine government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collection, etc., of Internal-revenue taxes in, ratified.</p></sidenote> and collected under sections one hundred and nine and one hundred and thirty-nine of Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty- nine of the Philippine Commission, and under Acts Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-one and Seventeen hundred and sixty-one of the Philippine Commission are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore or hereafter is hereby legalized and ratified and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That of the sum of fifty thousand dollars appropriated for contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for temporary labor Increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 216.</p></sidenote> expenses of the War Department in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby authorized to be expended for temporary labor, in lieu of the sum of one thousand dollars now provided by law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter no advertisement of any kind shall be displayed and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Monument.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertisements, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> no articles of any kind, except a guide book to the Monument, shall be sold in or around the Washington Monument.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Grant Memorial</inline>: For continuing work for the erection of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant memorial.</p></sidenote> memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana</inline>: That the Secretary of War be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land adjoining.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante.</i> p. 864.</p></sidenote> and he is hereby, authorized and directed to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings, for military purposes, land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and for this purpose the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, appropriated by Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purchase of said land, is hereby made available.</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mountain Branch at Johnson City, Tennessee: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Johnson City, Tenn.</p></sidenote> of members of the home, one thousand dollars.</p>
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for special or extraordinary repairs of Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> Department and Pension buildings and of the old Post-Office Department building, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, seven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indian affairs.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian affairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of a new dormitory at the Osage Indian School,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage Indian School, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New dormitory.</p></sidenote> Oklahoma, to replace the one recently destroyed by fire, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Osage Nation of Indians, fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>united states geological survey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Geological Survey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To replace instruments, apparatus, supplies, file cases and other furniture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Replacing instruments, etc., destroyed by fire</p></sidenote> maps, books, and so forth, destroyed by fire, and to provide against similar loss in future, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To provide for the purchase of instruments, apparatus, supplies, file<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchasing supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> cases and other furniture, maps, books, and so forth, to replace those destroyed by the fire of December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, in the building occupied by the United States Geological Survey,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/616">616</page> including the repairs to instruments and equipment made necessary by said tire, these emergency purchases to be made under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, fifteen thousand eight hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving and safeguarding the system of electric wiring in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric wires.</p></sidenote> the building occupied by the United States GeologicaL Survey, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation of mineral resources.</p></sidenote> Alaska, ninety thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
</content>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of Agriculture.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “General expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Animal Industry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> Bureau of Animal Industry,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified under the appropriation of nine hundred and forty-seven thousand two hundred dollars under this title in the “Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 254.</p></sidenote> making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.” approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Laboratory, Department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Chemistry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La bora lory expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante.</i> p. 260.</p></sidenote> of Agriculture,” including each and every object authorized by law and specified in the appropriation of seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars under this title in the “Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EXECUTIVE OFFICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive Office.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For purchase, care, and maintenance of automobiles for use of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobiles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of.</p></sidenote> President, twelve thousand dollars.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil. and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> electrical apparatus, exclusive of labor, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furnishing rooms of the Committee on Ways and Means, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furnishing rooms.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fixtures for postoffice.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fixtures for the post-office located in the House Office Building, four thousand one hundred and twenty five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For office fixtures for room of Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant - at - Arms’ room.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for furniture and materials for repairs of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional furniture. etc.</p></sidenote> same, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous extenses.</p></sidenote> , exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, forty thousand dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public printing and binding.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and binding.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Interior Department, ten thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interior Department.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/617">617</page> For the Patent Office, as follows: For printing the weekly issue of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent Office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Weekly issue of patents, etc.</p></sidenote> patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations, for printing, exclusive of illustrations, and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, one hundred and six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In terstatc Commerce Commission.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> seven thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>postal service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to rent offices for division<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway Mail Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> headquarters, Railway Mail Service, in Washington, District of Columbia, for the remainder of the current fiscal year, out of the appropriation heretofore provided “for rent, light, fuel, telegraph,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 414.</p></sidenote> and miscellaneous office expenses, schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway mail clerks.”</p>
</content>
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</appropriations>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 9, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 102: To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>102</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 617</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>102.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section twelve of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-09">February 9, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15448">H. R. 15448</ref>.].]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/223">Public, No. 223.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, Alexandria anil Mount Vernon Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motive power at new highway bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 773, amended.</p></sidenote> <i>of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section twelve of the “Act to provide for eliminating certain grade crossings on the line of the Baltimoreand Potomac Railroad Company in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, and requiring said company to depress and elevate its tracks, and to enable it to relocate parts of its railroad therein, and for other purposes,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, providing among other things that a standard underground electric system of street-car propulsion shall be installed by the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon Railway Company on the park highway leading to the new highway bridge, and that no dynamo furnishing power to said portion of the road shall be in any manner connected with the ground, is hereby amended by inserting after the words “shall be paid by said company” the words “<proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Overhead wire al lowed at north approach.</p></sidenote> That said company, for the purpose of making the necessary change from underground to overhead wire in the conduct and operation of its cars at the north end of the new highway bridge, shall be permitted to use an approved overhead wire system on the approach to said bridge for a distance of not more than three hundred and fifty feet from the northerly or Washington end of the bridge; the location, construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction, etc.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of all parts of the overhead and underground systems of the necessary plow pits and of the asphalt or other paving between the tracks and the two feet outside thereof on the bridge and both approaches to be subject at all times to the supervision, instructions, and approval of the Secretary of War: and all instructions and requirements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instructions, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of War shall be fully complied with by the said company within the time specified, at its own expense and without cost to the United States.”</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 9, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 107: Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish one condemned brass or bronze “Napoleon” gun, carriage, and cannon balls to the State of Iowa.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>107</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 618</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-11</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/618">618</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>107.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to furnish one condemned brass or bronze “Napoleon” gun, carriage, and cannon balls to the State of Iowa.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-11">February 11, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27051">H. R.27051</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/224">Public, No. 224.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the. Senate and House of Representatives if the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon donated, for historical building. Des Moines.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to furnish to the State of Iowa one condemned brass or bronze “Napoleon” gun, with carriage and with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not bo needed in the service, the same to be placed in front of the new historical building at Des Moines, Iowa: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 11, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 112: To create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>112</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 618</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-13</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>112.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To create a new division in the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-13">February 13, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24685">H. R. 24685</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/225">Public, No. 225.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee middle judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northeastern division established.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec.547, p.92.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That a new division of the middle judicial district of the State of Tennessee, to be known as the northeastern division of the middle judicial district of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby, established, to be composed of the following counties, to wit: Putnam, Jackson, Clay, Overton, Pickett, Fentress, Cumberland, White, Van Buren, Dekalb, Smith, and Macon: and said counties be, and the same are hereby, transferred to said northeastern division of said middle district of Tennessee, but no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in or for said district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That terms of the circuit court and of the district, court of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Cookeville.</p></sidenote> the northeastern division judicial district of Tennessee shall be held at Cookeville, in said State, each year on the second Mondays in May and November, after the passage of this Act.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the clerks of the district and circuit courts for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk’s office, etc.</p></sidenote> middle district of Tennessee, and the marshal and district attorney for said district, shall perform the duties appertaining to their offices, respectively, for said courts of said northeastern division judicial district, and except when court is in session and a judge present the clerk’s office of said courts may be at Nashville, where all records for said courts may be kept as of the same court and all duties performed as though the clerk were at Cookeville; but should, in the judgment of the district judge and the clerk, the business of said courts hereafter warrant the employment of a deputy clerk at Cookeville, Tennessee,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy clerk.</p></sidenote> new books and records may be opened for the court herein created and kept at Cookeville, and a deputy clerk appointed to reside and keep his office at Cookeville.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That all suits not of a local nature in said circuit and district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suits not of a local nature.</p></sidenote> courts against a single defendant, inhabitant of said State, must be brought in the division of the district in which he resides: but if there are two or more defendants residing in different divisions of the district such suits may be brought in either division.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That all prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution of crimes.</p></sidenote> in either or the divisions of said district shall be cognizable within such division, and all prosecutions for crimes or offenses heretofore committed in the middle district as heretofore constituted shall be commenced and proceeded with as if this Act had not been passed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That all grand and petit jurors summoned for service in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors.</p></sidenote> each division shall be residents of such division. All mesne and final process subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Process.</p></sidenote> in either of said divisions, may be served and executed in either or both of the divisions.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/619">619</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That in all cases of removal of suits from the courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of suits from State courts.</p></sidenote> State of Tennessee, to the courts of the United States, in the middle district of Tennessee, such removal shall be to the United States courts in the division in which the county is situated from which the removal is made, and the time within which the removal shall be perfected, in so far as it refers to or is regulated by the terms of the United States courts, shall be deemed to refer to the terms of the United States courts held in said northeastern division of the middle judicial district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That each of said courts shall be held in a building to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court rooms.</p></sidenote> provided for that purpose by the county or municipal authorities and without expense to the United States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be in force from and after the thirtieth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred and nine, and all Acts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> and parts of Acts so far as inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 13, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 126: For the relief of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>126</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 619</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-15</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>126.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-15">February 15, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5330">S. 5330</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/226">Public, No. 226.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mille Lac Indian Reservation, Minn.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims of Indians for losses on opening of. referred to Court of Claims.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Court of Claims be, and it is hereby, given jurisdiction to hear and determine a suit or suits to be brought by and on behalf of the Mille Lac band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota against the United States on account of losses sustained by them or the Chippewas of Minnesota by reason of the opening of the Mille Lac Reservation in the State of Minnesota, embracing about sixty-one thousand acres of land, to public settlement under the general land laws of the United States; and from any final judgment or decree of the Court of Claims either party shall have the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeal.</p></sidenote> said cause shall be advanced on the docket of the Court of Claims and of the Supreme Court of the United States if the same shall be appealed: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That upon the final determination of such suit or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provito.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorneys fees.</p></sidenote> suits the Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to decree the fees to be paid to the attorney or attorneys employed by the said Mille Lac band of Indians, and the same shall be paid out of any sum or sums found due said band or to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota.</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 15, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 127: To amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>127</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 619</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-15</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>127.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the resignation of judges of the courts of the United States.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-15">February 15, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/4535">S. 4535</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/227">Public, No. 227.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired judges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.8.,see. 714, p. 135, amended.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="714">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 714.</num> <content class="inline">When any judge of any court of the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay to be that received ten years prior to resignation.</p></sidenote> appointed to hold his office during good behavior resigns his office, after having held a commission or commissions as judge of any such court or courts at least ten years continuously, and having attained the age of seventy years, he shall, during the residue of his natural life, receive the salary which is payable, at the time of his retirement for the office that he held at a time ten years before his resignation.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 15, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 129: To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the widening of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>129</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 620</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-16</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/620">620</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>129.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act for the widening of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-16">February 16, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6580">S. 6580</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/28">Public, No 28.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bladensburg road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for widening.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 843, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act for the widening of Bladensburg road, and for other purposes,” approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to said Act a new section, to be known as section four, which section shall read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That any land owned by the United States or the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dedication of government, etc., lands for.</p></sidenote> of Columbia which is not now used for highway purposes, but which may be included in the widening of said Bladensburg road as herein provided, is hereby dedicated for the purposes of said widening, and that the abutments of any bridge or viaduct or any stone wall located<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridge abutments, etc., not to be disturbed.</p></sidenote> within said road as widened under the provisions hereof shall not be disturbed by reason of said widening, nor shall the ground under or within the foundations of any brick building located within the lines of said road as widened be condemned for said widening, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to permit any existing projections within the lines of said road as widened under the provisions hereof to remain within said road as widened, provided that they shall designate such projections which they will permit to remain before a jury shall have been impaneled in the proceedings for widening said road.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the limitation of thirty days after the date of dedication<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 843.</p></sidenote> within which condemnation proceedings are directed to be instituted for the widening of said Bladensburg road be, and the same is hereby, repealed.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 16, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 130: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, as amended by an Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.’”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>130</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 620</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>130.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, as amended by an Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee.’”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-16">February 16, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/s">S. 6580</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/229">Public, No. 229.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><i>Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, in Marion County, Tenn., by Memphis - Chattanooga Railway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83, p. 629, amended.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>, That an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee,” approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two, as amended by an Act approved February first, nineteen hundred and five, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee,’ approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and two,” be, and the same hereby is, revived and declared to be in full force and effect, except that section seven of said Act be, and the same hereby is, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void unless the bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> herein authorized shall be commenced within one year and completed within three years from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and nine.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the bridge to be constructed under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84. p. 84.</p></sidenote> said Act shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters.” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 16, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 131: To promote the administration of justice in the Navy.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>131</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 621</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-16</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/621">621</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>131.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To promote the administration of justice in the Navy.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-16">February 16, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6252">H. R. 6252</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/230">Public, No. 230.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That courts for the trial of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Administration of justice in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts to try enlisted men for minor offenses.</p></sidenote> enlisted men in the Navy and Marine Corps for minor offenses now triable by summary court-martial may be ordered by the commanding officer of a naval vessel, by the commandant of a navy-yard or station, by a commanding officer of marines, or by higher naval authority.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That such courts shall be known as “deck courts,” and shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deck courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p></sidenote> consist of one commissioned officer only, who, while serving in such capacity shall have power to administer oaths, to hear and determine cases, and to impose, in whole or in part, the punishments prescribed by article thirty of the Articles for the Government of the Navy: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in no case shall such courts adjudge discharge from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitations.</p></sidenote> the service or adjudge confinement of forfeiture of pay for a longer period than twenty days.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any person in the Navy under command of the officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recorder to be detailed.</p></sidenote> by whose order a deck court is convened may be detailed to act as recorder thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the officer within whose command a deck court is sitting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review, etc., of sentence.</p></sidenote> shall have full power as reviewing authority to remit or mitigate, but not to commute, any sentence imposed by such court; but no sentence of a deck court shall be carried into effect until it shall have been so approved or mitigated, and such officer shall have power to pardon any punishment such court may adjudge.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the courts hereby authorized shall be governed in all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure, etc.</p></sidenote> details of their constitution, powers, and procedure, except as herein provided, by such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the records of the proceedings of the courts hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record of proceedings.</p></sidenote> authorized shall contain such matters only as are necessary to enable the reviewing authorities to act intelligently thereon, except that if the party accused demands it within thirty days after the decision of the deck court shall become known to him, the entire record or so much as he desires shall be sent to the reviewing authority. Such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review of record by Judge-Advocate-General</p></sidenote> records, after action thereon by the convening authority, shall be forwarded directly to, and shall be filed in, the Office of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy, where they shall be reviewed, and, when necessary, submitted to the Secretary of the Navy for his action.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That no person who objects thereto shall be brought to trial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of objection, etc.</p></sidenote> before a deck court. Where such objection is made by the person accused, trial shall be ordered by summary or by general court-martial, as may be appropriate.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the courts authorized to impose the punishments prescribed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjudging punishments.</p></sidenote> by article thirty of the Articles for the Government of the Navy may adjudge either a part or the whole, as may be appropriate, of any one of the punishments therein enumerated: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of irons a bolished.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> the use of irons, single or double, is hereby abolished, except for the purpose of safe custody or when part of a sentence imposed by a general court-martial.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Navy may set aside the proceedings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-martial proceedings may be set aside.</p></sidenote> or remit or mitigate, in whole or in part, the sentence imposed by any naval court-martial convened by his order or by that of any officer of the Navy or Marine Corps.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That general courts-martial may be convened by the President,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to convene.</p></sidenote> by the Secretary of the Navy, by the commander in chief of a fleet or squadron, and by the commanding officer of any naval station beyond the continental limits of the United States.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That a naval court-martial or court of inquiry shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of inquiry, etc., may issue process, etc.</p></sidenote> power to issue like process to compel witnesses to appear and testify which United States courts of criminal jurisdiction within the State, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/622">622</page> Territory, or District where such naval court shall he ordered to sit may lawfully issue.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That any person duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses.</p></sidenote> before a general court-martial or court of inquiry of the Navy, who willfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for failure to appear.</p></sidenote> or to testify or produce documentary evidence, which such person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, for which such person shall be punished on information in the district court of the United States; and it shall be the duty of the United States District Attorney, on the certification of the facts to him by such naval court to file an information against and prosecute the persons so offending, and the punishment of such person, on conviction, shall be a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, at the discretion of the court: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this shall not apply to persons residing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> beyond the State, Territory, or District in which such naval court is held, and that the fees of such witnesses and his mileage at the rates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc.</p></sidenote> provided for witnesses in the United States district court for said State, Territory, or District shall be duly paid or tendered said witness, such amounts to be paid by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts out of the appropriation for compensation of witnesses: <i>Provided further</i>, That no witness shall be compelled to incriminate himself or to answer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incriminating testimony not compulsory.</p></sidenote> any question which may tend to incriminate or degrade him.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That persons confined in prisons in pursuance of the sentence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance to prisoners.</p></sidenote> of a naval court-martial shall, during such confinement, be allowed a reasonable sum, not to exceed three dollars per month, for necessary prison expenses, and shall upon discharge be furnished with suitable civilian clothing and paid a gratuity, not to exceed twenty-five dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such allowances shall be made in amounts to be fixed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> by, and in the discretion of, the Secretary of the Navy and only in cases where the prisoners so discharged would otherwise be unprovided with suitable clothing or without funds to meet their immediate needs.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That section sixteen hundred and twenty-four, article thirty- four,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure in summary courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1624, p. 282, amended.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes of the United States, is hereby amended as follows: “The proceedings of summary courts-martial shall be conducted with as much conciseness and precision as may be consistent with the ends of justice, and under such forms and rules as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, with the approval of the President, and all such proceedings shall be transmitted in the usual mode to the Navy Department, where they shall be kept on file for a period of two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record may be destroyed after two years.</p></sidenote> years from date of trial, after which time they may be destroyed in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be lawful for any civil officer having authority<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arrest of deserters by civil officers.</p></sidenote> under the laws of the United States or of any State. Territory, or District to arrest offenders, to summarily arrest a deserter from the Navy or Marine Corps of the United States and deliver him into the custody of the naval authorities.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That the depositions of witnesses may be taken on reasonable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depositions accepted as evidence.</p></sidenote> notice to the opposite party, and when duly authenticated, may be put in evidence before naval courts, except in capital cases and cases<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exceptions.</p></sidenote> where the punishment may be imprisonment or confinement for more than one year as follows: First, depositions of civilian witnesses residing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Of whom accepted.</p></sidenote> outside the State, Territory, or District in which a naval court is ordered to sit; second, depositions of persons in the naval or military service stationed or residing outside the State, Territory, or District in which a naval court is ordered to sit, or who are under orders to go outside of such State, Territory, or District; third, where such naval court is convened on board a vessel of the United States, or at a naval station not within any State, Territory, or District of the United States, the depositions of witnesses may be taken and used as herein <page identifier="/us/stat/35/623">623</page> provided whenever such witnesses reside or are stationed at such a distance from the place where said naval court is ordered to sit, or are about to go to such a distance as, in the judgment of the. convening authority, would render it impracticable to secure their personal attendance.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That all sentences of summary courts-martial may be carried<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of sentences.</p></sidenote> into effect upon the approval of the senior officer present, and all sentences of deck courts may be carried into effect upon approval of the convening authority or his successor in office.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 132: To amend section eight of the Act approved May twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
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<docNumber>132</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>132.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section eight of the Act approved May twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-16">February 16, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27970">H. R. 27970</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/231">Public, No. 231.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the requirements in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life lines not required on certain scows carrying garbage, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 427, amended.</p></sidenote> regard to life line or rope contained in section eight of the Act approved May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight (being chapter two hundred and twelve of the Statutes at Large, first session Sixtieth Congress) entitled “An Act to amend the laws relating to navigation, and for other purposes,” shall not apply to any scow or boat the deck, outside the coaming or rail of which shall not exceed one foot in width. On any such scow or boat its name or number<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Names, etc., may be painted on ends of boats.</p></sidenote> and owner’s name painted in letters and numbers, at least fourteen inches long on both ends of such scow or boat, shall be a compliance with the provisions of the said section in regard to name, number, and owner’s name.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 16, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 134: To change the name and jurisdiction of the inferior court of justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>134</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>134.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To change the name and jurisdiction of the inferior court of justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-17">February 17, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6359">S. 6359</ref>.]</p>.<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/232">Public, No. 232.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the inferior court known<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Justice of the peace court to be known as.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present justices to serve unexpired terms.</p></sidenote> as “justice of the peace” in the District of Columbia shall remain as now constituted, but shall hereafter be known as “the municipal court of the District of Columbia.” It shall consist of the present justices of the peace of said District, who shall serve as the judges of said court for the unexpired terms of their now existing commissions, and who shall not be required to be recommissioned for said unexpired terms. Thereafter, and upon the expiration of the commission of any of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments.</p></sidenote> members, his successor shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p></sidenote> a term of four years, unless sooner removed as provided by law: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qualifications.</p></sidenote> That no person shall be appointed to said office unless he shall have been a bona tide citizen and resident of said District for the continuous period of at least five years immediately preceding his appointment, and shall either have been a judge of said court for at least one year, or shall have been engaged in the actual practice of law before the supreme court of the District of Columbia for a period of at least five years prior to his appointment. Each judge, when appointed,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p></sidenote> shall take an oath for the faithful and impartial performance of the duties of his office. The judges of said court shall no longer be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond of clerk.</p></sidenote> required to give bond as heretofore, but a bond shall be given by the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/624">624</page> clerk of said court, who shall receive and account for all fees as hereinafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sittings.</p></sidenote> provided. Said municipal court shall sit for the trial of causes in one building to be designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to be rented by said District of Columbia at a rental not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum: <i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Number of judges to be reduced to five.</p></sidenote> That the first vacancy occurring in the office of judge in the. municipal court of the District of Columbia, after the passage of this Act shall not be filled, and thereafter the number of said judges shall be five only.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The said court and each member thereof shall exercise the same<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction as was vested in them as justice of the peace immediately before the passage of this Act. and no more, and shall be governed by the laws then in force, except as said laws and said jurisdiction are expressly changed or enlarged hereby.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any member of said court may try any case within its jurisdiction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trials.</p></sidenote> according to law, regardless of the place and residence of the defendant therein. The jurisdiction of said court is hereby increased from three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount increased to $500.</p></sidenote> hundred to five hundred dollars in the class of cases over which it had jurisdiction immediately prior to the passage of this Act; that said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exclusive jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction shall be exclusive when the amount claimed for debt or damages or the value of personal property claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, and concurrent with the supreme court of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concurrent.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia when it exceeds one hundred dollars and is not in excess of five hundred dollars, with the same right to remove any case by certiorari, as heretofore, in cases of concurrent jurisdiction.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All pending actions and all actions hereinafter instituted shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of actions.</p></sidenote> assigned for trial among the members of said court in nearly equal numbers and in such manner as may be agreed upon between them. The judges of said court shall hold separate sessions as heretofore, and are empowered to make rules for the apportionment of the business between them, and the act of each of said judges respecting the business of said court shall be deemed and taken to be the act of said court. Each of said judges is hereby empowered to administer oaths. The judges of said court shall receive the annual salary of two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars in lieu of the salary heretofore provided for justices of the peace by section six of the Code of Law for the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1191, amended.</p></sidenote> of Columbia, to be paid monthly as heretofore, but they shall not receive the allowance heretofore granted for rent, stationery, and other expenses. In case of sickness, absence, disability, expiration of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service in police and juvenile courts.</p></sidenote> term of service of or death of either of the judges of the police court or of the juvenile court, any one of the justices of the supreme court of the District of Columbia may designate one of the judges of the municipal court to discharge the duties of said judges until such disability be removed or vacancy tilled. The justice so designated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p></sidenote> shall take the same oath prescribed for these judges.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The said court shall have power to appoint a clerk at an annual salary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> of one thousand five hundred dollars and an assistant clerk at an annual salary of one thousand dollars, payable monthly by the District of Columbia, which clerks shall hold office at the pleasure of the court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The clerks shall receive and care for all deposits for costs made and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of fees, etc.</p></sidenote> fees exacted under the rules governing the tee charges of said court, and shall make a weekly deposit with the collector of taxes for the District of Columbia of all fees earned during the preceding week.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">He shall return to suitors making such deposits any proportion of a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of fees, etc.</p></sidenote> deposit which shall remain in his hands over and above the earned fees in completed cases, and shall render an itemized statement to the auditor of the District of Columbia of every fee earned, on such forms and in such manner as shall be prescribed by the auditor of the District of Columbia. In case there shall remain in the hands of the said clerk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion of unclaimed deposits to District.</p></sidenote> for a term of three years a balance or part of a deposit in any ease which shall not have been called for by the party or parties entitled <page identifier="/us/stat/35/625">625</page> to receive the same, the same shall revert to the District of Columbia, and be paid forthwith to the collector of taxes as part of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all suits in said court process shall be signed by the said clerk or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue of process.</p></sidenote> assistant clerk in the name of the court. The assistant clerk may sign the name of the clerk to any official act required by law or by the practice of the court to be performed by the clerk. In such case the signature shall be “— —, Clerk, by— —, Assistant Clerk.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Both the clerk and assistant clerk are hereby given authority to administer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath administered by clerk.</p></sidenote> oaths in all cases pending in said court, or about to be tiled therein.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The clerk shall perform such other and further duties as may from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other duties.</p></sidenote> time to time be prescribed by the municipal court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">He shall give bond to the District of Columbia in the sum of five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond.</p></sidenote> dollars, with surety or sureties to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and the assistant clerk shall give a like bond in the sum of two thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the expenditures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenditures limited.</p></sidenote> to be incurred under any of the provisions of this Act shall not in any case exceed the total amount of revenues and fees of the said municipal court.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The said clerk shall keep a docket similar to the one heretofore provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Docket.</p></sidenote> for justices of the peace.</p>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 17, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 135: To amend section nineteen of the Act granting the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company rights to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a canal or canals and appurtenant works between the Ohio River in the State of Pennsylvania and Lake Erie in the State of Ohio, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>135</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 625</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>135.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section nineteen of the Act granting the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company rights to construct, equip, maintain, and operate a canal or canals and appurtenant works between the Ohio River in the State of Pennsylvania and Lake Erie in the State of Ohio, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-17">February 17, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8154">S, 8154</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/233">Public, No. 233.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section nineteen of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Erie and Ohio RiverShip Canal Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for constructing canal between Ohio River and Lake Erie.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 813, amended.</p></sidenote> Act granting the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal Company rights to construct equip, maintain, and operate a canal or canals and appurtenant works between the Ohio River in the State of Pennsylvania and Lake Erie in the State of Ohio, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and it is hereby, amended as follows: In said section of said Act strike out the words “three years” and insert the. words “six years” in lieu thereof: also strike out the words “ten years” and insert the words “thirteen years” in lieu thereof.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 17, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 136: To authorize the Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or Held pieces and cannon balls to the city of Henderson, Kentucky.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>136</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 625</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>136.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to donate two condemned brass or bronze cannon or Held pieces and cannon balls to the city of Henderson, Kentucky.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-17">February 17, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27069">H. R. 27069</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/234">Public, No. 234.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Henderson. Ky.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemned cannon donated to.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the city of Henderson, Kentucky, to be placed in the public park of said city, two condemned brass or bronze cannon or field pieces with a suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service, the same to he placed in Central Park, in Henderson, Kentucky, and for which said city is trustee: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the articles of ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense, etc.</p></sidenote> property furnished under the provisions of this Act shall not be required to be accounted for by the Chief of Ordnance, and no expense shall be incurred by the United States in the delivery of the same.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 17, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 137: In relation to the salary of the Secretary of State.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>137</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 626</citableAs>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/626">626</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>137.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>In relation to the salary of the Secretary of State.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-17">February 17, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/9295">S. 9295</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/235">Public. No. 235.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of State.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary of, reduced.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 993, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 861.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, fixing the annual compensation of heads of executive departments, be, and the. same is hereby, repealed in so far as the same relates to the annual compensation of the Secretary of State; and the annual compensation of the Secretary of State shall be at the rate of eight thousand dollars.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That on and after March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emoluments limited.</p></sidenote> there shall be no emoluments attached to the office of Secretary of State other than those which by the law in force on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and four, belonged and were then attached to said office.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall lake effect and be in force from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 138: Authorizing sales of land within the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to the Northern Idaho Insane Asylum and to the University of Idaho.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>138</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 626</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-17</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>138.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing sales of land within the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to the Northern Idaho Insane Asylum and to the University of Idaho.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-17">February 17, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21158">H. R. 21158</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/236">Public. No. 236.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">University of Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land within Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation to, authorized.</p></sidenote> Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell to the regents of the University of the State of Idaho, for the use of said university, land not to exceed six hundred and forty acres in area, to be selected by the said regents of the said university within the limits of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, said regents to pay therefor, upon receiving a grant thereof, such price as shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior but which shall not be less than two dollars and fifty cents per acre.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price per ącre.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of proceeds.</p></sidenote> The moneys derived from said sale shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States for the benefit of the Indians of said reservation.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 17, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 143: To create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>143</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 625</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>143.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To create the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/1574">S. 1574</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/237">Public. No. 237.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Agriculture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calaveras Bigtree National Forest. Cal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Creation of authorized.</p></sidenote> to secure and protect for all time the big trees scientifically known as Sequoia washingtoniana, is hereby empowered, in his discretion, to obtain for the United States the complete title to any or all of the following-described lands in the State of California: In township<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> four north, range fifteen east. Mount Diablo meridian, the northeast quarter of section one; in township four north, range sixteen east. Mount Diablo meridian, the north half of section six; in township five north, range fifteen east, Mount Diablo meridian, the southwest quarter of section fourteen, south half of section fifteen, north half of section twenty-two, northwest quarter of section twenty-three, and southeast quarter of section thirty-six, and in township five north, range sixteen east. Mount Diablo meridian, the west half of section twenty-eight, the east half and southwest quarter of section twenty- nine, the southeast quarter of section thirty, all of sections thirty-one, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/627">627</page> thirty-two, and the northwest quarter of section thirty-three. And such area or areas, as fast as complete title is acquired, shall be permanently held by the United States and shall be known as the Calaveras Bigtree National Forest and shall be administered, and protected,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name.</p></sidenote> by the Secretary of Agriculture from the funds appropriated for the administration of National Forest hind to prolong the existence, growth, and promote the reproduction of said big trees: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title.</p></sidenote> That the owners of land acquired hereunder shall convey to the United States full title to any of the above-described areas approved for said national forest by the Secretary of Agriculture, the completeness of such title to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior in each case, and shall be reimbursed therefor only in any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement plan.</p></sidenote> or all of three ways: They may be given the right to file with the Secretary of the Interior, within sixty days after any such conveyance, selections for an equal area of surveyed, unreserved, unappropriated, nonmineral public lands which, if found subject to such lieu selection, and of a value substantially equal to that of the amounts conveyed, may be patented to said owners in lieu of the land conveyed, and if any selection is rejected other selections may be made under conditions applicable to the one rejected; or the Secretary of Agriculture may grant to any such conveying owner the right to cut from national forest land an amount of timber and wood, substantially equal to the amount of timber and wood on the land acquired by the United States under the provisions of this Act: <i>Provided</i>, That nothing contained<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No appropriation.</p></sidenote> in this Act shall warrant an appropriation from the Treasury to carry out the terms of this Act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 144: To amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>144</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 627</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>144.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/3969">S. 3969</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/238">Public. No. 238.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Section two of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trade-marks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws of, extended to interstate commerce.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 724, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 169, amended.</p></sidenote> of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and live, and Section one of the Act of May fourth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same are hereby, amended so that the sections shall, respectively, read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the application prescribed in the foregoing section,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Verified declaration of ownership.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., sec. 4938, p.966, amended.</p></sidenote> in order to create any right whatever in favor of the party filing it, must be accompanied by a written declaration verified by the applicant, or by a member of the firm or an officer of the corporation or association applying, to the effect that the applicant believes himself or the firin. corporation, or association in whose behalf he makes the application to be the owner of the trade-mark sought to be registered, and that no other person, firm, corporation, or association, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge anil belief, has the right to use such trademark in the United States, either in the identical form or in such near<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use in the United States.</p></sidenote> resemblance thereto as might be calculated to deceive: that such trademark is used in commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, or with Indian tribes, and that the description and drawing presented truly represent the trade-mark sought to be registered. If the applicant resides or is located in a foreign country, the statement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applicants residing abroad.</p></sidenote> required shall, in addition to the foregoing, set forth that the trademark has been registered by the applicant, or that an application for the registration thereof has been filed by him in the foreign country<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of registration, etc., in country of residence.</p></sidenote> in which he resides or is located, and shall give the date of such registration, or the application therefor, as the case may be, except that in the application in such cases it shall not be necessary to state, that the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/628">628</page> mark has been used in commerce with the United States or among the States thereof. The verification required by this section may be made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Verification, how made.</p></sidenote> before any person within the United States authorized by law to administer oaths, or, when the applicant resides in a foreign country, before any minister, charge d’affaires, consul, or commercial agent holding commission under the Government of the United States, or before any notary public, judge, or magistrate having an official seal and authorized to administer oaths in the foreign country in which the applicant may be whose authority shall be proved by a certificate of a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="1">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 1.</num> <content class="inline">That the owner of a trade-mark used in commerce with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application requirements.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S„ sec. 4937, p. 955, amended.</p></sidenote> foreign nations, or among the several States, or with Indian tribes, provided such owner shall be domiciled within the territory of the United States, or resides in or is located in any foreign country which, by treaty, convention, or law, affords similar privileges to the citizens of the United States, may obtain registration for such trade-mark by complying with the following requirements: First, by filing in the Patent Office an application therefor, in writing, addressed to the Commissioner of Patents, signed by the applicant, specifying his name, domicile, location, and citizenship; the class of merchandise and the particular description of goods comprised in such class to which the trade-mark is appropriated; a statement of the mode in which the same is applied and affixed to goods, and the length of time during which the trade-mark has been used; a description of the trade-mark<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description of trademark may be given.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 169, amended.</p></sidenote> itself shall be included, if desired by the applicant or required by the Commissioner, provided such description is of a character to meet the approval of the Commissioner. With this statement shall be filed a drawing of the trade-mark, signed by the applicant, or his attorney, and such number of specimens of the trade-mark as actually used as may be required by the Commissioner of Patents. Second, by paying into the Treasury of the United States the sum of ten dollars, and otherwise complying with the requirements of this Act and such regu-,lations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner of Patents.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 145: To enable the Omaha and Winnebago Indians to protect from overflow their tribal and allotted lands located within the boundaries of any drainage district in Nebraska.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>145</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 628</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>145.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To enable the Omaha and Winnebago Indians to protect from overflow their tribal and allotted lands located within the boundaries of any drainage district in Nebraska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20385">H. R. 20385</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/239">Public, No. 239.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Omaha and Winnebago Indians, Nebr.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage of lands of, authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of assessments, etc.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to pay from the funds remaining to the credit of the Omaha and Winnebago tribes of Indians any assessments which may be made by any drainage district in the State of Nebraska on the tribal lands of said Indians to protect such lands from overflow, not exceeding an average of eight dollars per acre.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payments to Indians.</p></sidenote> authorized, in his discretion, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to pay per capita to the Indians of the Omaha and Winnebago tribes who have allotted lands within any such drainage district the proportionate share of such Indians in the funds remaining to the credit of said tribe after the payment provided for in section one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments held in trust.</p></sidenote> this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no assessments made by such drainage district on the allotment of any Indian while the same is held in trust by the United States for the use and benefit of the allottee shall be valid or constitute a lien on the land, but the Secretary of the Interior shall retain not exceeding two hundred and forty dollars of the per capita <page identifier="/us/stat/35/629">629</page> share of any such allottee and expend the same for the payment or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for protection from overflow.</p></sidenote> partial payment of the sum found by such drainage district to be due from such allottee for the purpose of protecting his lands embraced in the drainage district from overflow. Such payment shall be credited<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credited on assessments.</p></sidenote> on any assessment which may be made on the allotment of said Indian after the termination of the trust by expiration of the period, issuance of a fee-simple patent, or by a conveyance under existing law, duly approved by the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any such drainage district be, and is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reclamation of tribal lands.</p></sidenote> to assess the cost of reclaiming the tribal lands of the Omaha and Winnebago Indians and all lands allotted to the Indians in severalty and held by patents containing restrictions as to alienation and taxation within such districts, subject to the limitation contained in the preceding section, and to condemn any of said lands necessary for the purpose of reclamation in the same manner as such district may condemn other lands: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the payments to be made or the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of payments.</p></sidenote> taking of lands under the provisions of this section shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee simple.</p></sidenote> authorized, in his discretion, upon application of the allottee, or his heirs, to issue a fee-simple patent to any Omaha and Winnebago Indian for the lands allotted to him within any such drainage district, and the issuance of such patent shall operate as a removal of all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, and taxation of the lands covered thereby.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 146: For the organization of the militia in the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>146</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 629</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>146.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the organization of the militia in the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21926">H. R. 21926</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/240">Public, No. 240.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the following amendments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia organization.</p></sidenote> are hereby made to an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide for the organization of the militia of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section ten and insert in lieu thereof the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 774, amended.</p></sidenote> following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the organized militia shall be composed of volunteers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designated National Guard.</p></sidenote> and shall be designated the National Guard of the District of Columbia.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section eleven and insert in lieu thereof the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the land forces of the National Guard shall consist<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> of one brigadier-general (the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia), an adjutant-general’s department, an inspector-general’s department, a judge-advocate-general’s department, a quartermaster’s department, a subsistence department, a department of small arms practice, a medical department and hospital corps, a pay department, a corps of engineers, an ordnance department, a signal corps, a coast artillery corps, two regiments and one separate battalion of infantry, four companies of coast artillery, a troop of cavalry, and one battery of field artillery, all to be organized by the President as now provided for the Regular Army or the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers of the President to change.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 775 amended.</p></sidenote> organized militia by law or regulation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, shall have power to alter, divide, annex, consolidate, disband, or reorganize the same whenever in his judgment the efficiency of the forces will be thereby increased, and he shall at any time have power to change the organization <page identifier="/us/stat/35/630">630</page> of departments, staff corps, regiments, battalions, companies, troop, and battery so as to conform to any organization, system of drill, or instruction now or hereafter adopted for the Army of the United States or the organized militia, and for that purpose the number of officers and enlisted men of any grade in departments, staff corps, regiments, battalions, companies, troop, and battery may be increased to the extent made necessary by the new positions thus created.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out all of sections twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 774, amened.</p></sidenote> and seventeen; change the number of section eighteen to twelve; and amend section nineteen to read as follows:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all officers shall be commissioned by the President<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissions on recommendation by commanding general.</p></sidenote> of the United States, on the recommendation of the commanding general. That they shall be nominated as herein provided. No person commissioned as an officer shall assume such rank or enter upon the duties of the office to which he may be commissioned until he has accepted such commission and taken such oaths or affirmation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath.</p></sidenote> as may be prescribed.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out all of sections twenty and twenty-one and insert in lieu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 775, amened.</p></sidenote> thereof the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the officers of the staff departments, staff corps,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nominationsof staff, etc., officers.</p></sidenote> and the organizations created by this Act when organized shall be nominated by the commanding general, subject to the examination required by law.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out all of section twenty-two and insert in lieu thereof the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That vacancies existing or hereafter occurring in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line officers, promotion.</p></sidenote> cavalry, coast artillery corps, field artillery, and infantry above the grade of second lieutenant shall, subject to the examination required by law, be filled by promotion according to seniority from the next lower grade in the troop, the separate company, the field battery, the separate battalion, and the regiment in which the vacancy occurred.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section twenty-two and between that section and section twenty-three insert the following additional section:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That hereafter all appointments to the grade of second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second lieutenants from enlisted men.</p></sidenote> lieutenant shall be from the enlisted men, under regulations prescribed by the commanding general, and subject to the examination required by law.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out all of section twenty-three and insert in lieu thereof the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the commanding general be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations for promotion.</p></sidenote> authorized to prescribe a system of examination to be conducted at such times anterior to the accruing of the right to promotion as may be best for the interest of the service. If any officer fails to appear for examination within thirty days after notification to so appear or fails to pass a satisfactory examination and is reported unfit for promotion, the officer next below him in rank, having passed said examination, shall receive the promotion: <proviso><i>And provided</i>, That should<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement for physcal disability.</p></sidenote> the officer fail in his physical examination and be found incapacitated for service by reason of physical disability contracted in the line of duty he shall be retired with the rank to which his seniority entitled him to be promoted; but if he should fail for any other reason he shall be suspended from promotion for ninety days, when he shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspension, etc.</p></sidenote> reexamined, and in case of failure on such reexamination he shall be honorably discharged.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section twenty-three and between that section and section twenty-four insert the following additional sections:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the commanding general be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations for secod lieutenancies.</p></sidenote> authorized to prescribe a system of examination of enlisted men to determine their fitness for promotion to the grade of second lieutenant.</content>
</section>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/631">631</page>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That whenever, in the opinion of the commanding general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical, etc., examination of officers.</p></sidenote> of the militia of the District of Columbia, an officer of the said militia has become incapacitated for the performance of duty for any reason, the commanding general shall submit the name of such officer to the Secretary of War, with a view to his being ordered before a board of examination, to be appointed by the Secretary of War, which board shall examine said officer as to his physical, mental, and military qualifications.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“If any officer shall fail to appear before a board of examination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate to President.</p></sidenote> so appointed within thirty days after being notified, or shall fail to pass a satisfactory examination, the fact shall be certified by the board to the commanding general, who shall forward the record of examination to the Secretary of War, with his recommendation thereon, for submission to the President.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That any commissioned officer in the National Guard of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement after ten years’ service.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia who shall have served as such in the National Guard of the District of Columbia for the continuous period of ten years may, upon his own application, be placed by the Presklent of the United States upon a retired list, which is hereby authorized, with the rank held by him at the time such application is made: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That an officer so retired who at the time of making such application has remained in the same grade for the continuous period of ten years, or whose services have been especially meritorious, may be retired with increased rank of one grade and shall, before being sq retired, receive from the President of the United States the commission of the new grade: <i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incrased rank.</p></sidenote> whenever any officer on the active list reaches the age of sixty-four years he shall be retired; with or without increase of rank in the discretion of the President of the United States. Retired officers on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement at sixty-four years of age.</p></sidenote> occasions of ceremony may, and when acting under orders, as hereinafter provided, shall wear the uniform of the highest rank attained by them in the military service of the United States, the militia of the States or Territories, or the National Guard of the District of Columbia. Retired officers shall be eligible to perform any military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers may wear uniforms, etc.</p></sidenote> duty to the same extent as if not retired, and the commanding general may, in his discretion, by order, require them to serve upon military boards, courts of inquiry, and courts-martial, or to perform any other special or temporary duty, and for such service they shall receive the same pay and allowances as are provided by law for like<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service on military boards, etc.</p></sidenote> service by officers on the active list of the National Guard of the District of Columbia. All retired officers shall be amenable to court-martial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payand allowances.</p></sidenote> for military offenses to the same extent as if upon the active list of the National Guard of the District of Columbia. The names of all officers of retired rank shall be borne upon a separate roster, kept under the supervision of the adjutant-general. The commanding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amenable for military offenses.</p></sidenote> general may at any time recommend to the President of the United States and the President may retire any commissioned officer who shall have been ordered before a medical board consisting of at least three commissioned medical officers and upon whom such a board shall have made report showing such officer to be physically unable to properly perform the duties of his office.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section twenty-four to “twenty-one.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commanding general may recommend retirement.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section twenty-five and insert in lieu thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section number changed.</p></sidenote> the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the commanding officers of regiments and battalions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote> not part of regiments shall appoint and warrant the non-commissioned staff officers of their respective regiments or battalions, and they shall, in their discretion, warrant the non-commissioned officers of the companies of their respective regiments and battalions from the members thereof, upon the written nomination of the commanding officers of the companies, respectively. In troop, battery, and companies not part of a regiment or battalion and in the hospital corps the noncommissioned officers shall be warranted by the commanding officer of the brigade, in his discretion, from the members thereof, upon the written nomination of the commanding officer of the troop, battery, company, or hospital corps. The officer warranting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Noncommissioned officers, appointments.</p></sidenote> a noncommissioned officer shall have power to reduce to the ranks, for good and sufficient reasons, the noncommissioned officers named in this section, but such as were enlisted as noncommissioned officers shall be discharged. Noncommissioned officers who shall be dropped vacate their positions.”<page identifier="/us/stat/35/632">632</page></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section twenty-six and insert in lieu thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reduction to ranks, etc.</p></sidenote> the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That enlistment in the National Guard of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 775, amended.</p></sidenote> of Columbia shall be for the term of three years: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of enlistment.</p></sidenote> That any soldier who may have received an honorable discharge by reason of the expiration of his term of service may within thirty days thereafter reenlist for a term of three years, to date from the expiration of his previous term.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section twenty-seven to “twenty-four.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenistment.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section twenty-eight and insert in lieu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section number changed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.25, p. 776, amended.</p></sidenote> thereof the following:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="25"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 25.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That no enlisted man shall be honorably discharged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharges of enlisted men.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Honoable.</p></sidenote> before the expiration of his term of service, except by order of the commanding general and for the following reasons:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Upon his own application, for good and sufficient reason, approved by the commanding officer of his company and by superior commanders.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Upon removal from the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Upon disability, established by certificate of a medical officer.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“To accept promotion by commission.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section twenty-eight and between that section and section twenty-nine insert the following additional section:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="26"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 26.</num> <content class="inline">That an enlisted man may be discharged without honor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Without honor.</p></sidenote> at any time by order of the commanding general on account of fraudulent enlistment, or on account of his being continuously absent without leave from his command for a period of not less than three months.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="27"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 27.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That an enlisted man shall be dishonorably discharged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dishonorable.</p></sidenote> by order of the commanding general upon conviction of felony in a civil court; upon discovery of reenlistment after previous dishonourable discharge; or to carry out a sentence of a court-martial.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty to “twenty-eight.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-one to “twenty-nine.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-two to “thirty.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section thirty-two and between that section and section thirty-three insert the following additional section:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="31"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 31.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That every officer and enlisted man to whom property<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persnal responsibility for.</p></sidenote> of the United States has been issued shall be personally responsible to the United States for such property, and no one shall be relieved from such responsibility except it be shown to the satisfaction of the commanding general that the loss or destruction of such property was unavoidable and in no way the fault of the person responsible for the same; and in all other cases the value of the property lost or destroyed shall be charged against the person at fault or to the organization to which it has been issued, and such person or organization, if not relieved from such charge by the commanding general, shall pay the value of such property to the Quartermaster-General within one year after such loss or destruction. The value of lost or destroyed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining value of lost, etc.</p></sidenote> property and the person or organization to be charged therewith shall be determined by a board to consist of an inspector of the staff of the commanding general, of the militia and the commanding <page identifier="/us/stat/35/633">633</page> officer of the organization in which such property is lost. In case of disagreement such value shall be fixed by the commanding general of the militia.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-three to “thirty-two.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-four to “thirty-three.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section thirty-five and insert in lieu thereof<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 777, amended.</p></sidenote> the following sections:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="34"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 34.</num> <content class="inline">That upon the promotion, tender of resignation, retirement,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of, on promotion, etc.</p></sidenote> or dismissal of any officer who is responsible or accountable for public property, the commanding general of the militia shall designate an officer to accept and receipt for such property, and direct the officer responsible or accountable therefor to make prompt transfer of all property remaining on hand; and it shall be the duty of the officer responsible or accountable to proceed at once to complete such transfer and close his accounts without delay.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="35"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 35.</num> <content class="inline">That should any officer responsible or accountable for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Failure to transfer.</p></sidenote> public property, after receiving instructions to transfer the same as aforesaid, fail to make proper transfer as directed within thirty days or any authorized extension of that period, the heads of the respective staff departments exercising supervision over or control of said property shall report the facts to the adjutant-general for the action of the commanding general of the militia. Upon receiving such a report the commanding general may, in his discretion, direct that a surveying officer be appointed, and it shall be the duty of such surveying officer to ascertain and verify all public property which the delinquent officer had on hand and certify the same to the officer designated to receive it, who will immediately take up all property so certified and receipt for the same to the head of the proper staff department. The surveying officer will then proceed to determine and fix the responsibility for the loss or destruction of any of the foregoing property which is not found or transferred as directed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="36"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 36.</num> <content class="inline">That should any officer responsible or accountable for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Defective accounts.</p></sidenote> public property, after receiving instructions to transfer the same and close his accounts as aforesaid, fail to close his accounts to the satisfaction of the commanding general, the heads of the respective staff departments exercising supervision over or control of said property will report the facts to the adjutant-general for the action of the commanding general of the militia. Upon receiving such a report, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Determining responsibility.</p></sidenote> commanding general may, in his discretion, direct that a surveying officer be appointed to determine and fix the responsibility for the loss or destruction of any public property for which said officer is responsible or accountable and which he has failed to transfer to the officer designated to receive the same.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="37"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 37.</num> <content class="inline">That in the event of the death or desertion of any officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey of, in case of death, etc.</p></sidenote> accountable for public property the commanding general shall direct that a surveying officer be appointed, and also designate an officer to receive such property. Said surveying officer shall ascertain and verify all public property which the deceased or deserting officer had on hand at the time of his death or desertion and certify the same to the officer designated to receive it, who will immediately take up all property so certified and receipt for the same to the heads of the proper staff departments. The surveying officer will then proceed to determine and fix the responsibility for the loss or destruction of any of the foregoing property which is not found or transferred as directed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="38"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 38.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That until an officer or his legal representative shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Liability until notice of correctness of account.</p></sidenote> received notice that the property accounts of such officer have been examined and found correct the liability of such officer or of his estate for public property for which he is or may have been responsible or accountable shall be in no way affected by resignation, discharge, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/634">634</page> change in official position, desertion, or death. Compensation for any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for loss, etc.</p></sidenote> public property defaced, injured, lost, or destroyed through the neglect or default of a deceased officer may be recovered from his estate in the manner provided in section thirty-two.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-six to “thirty-nine.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-seven to “forty.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-eight to “forty-one.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 779.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section thirty-nine to “forty-two.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty to “forty-three.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-one to “forty-four.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-two to “forty-five.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-three to “forty-six.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-four to “forty-seven.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-five to “forty-eight.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-six to “forty-nine.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-seven to “fifty.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-eight to “fifty-one.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section forty-nine to “fifty-two.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section forty-nine insert the following additional section:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay for active service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlited men.</p></sidenote></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="53"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 53.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That whenever the National Guard of the District of Columbia shall be ordered to duty in case of riot, tumult, breach of the peace, or whenever called in aid of the civil authorities, all enlisted men who do duty shall’be paid at the rate equivalent to two times the pay of enlisted men of the Regular Army of like grade. Commissioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioned officers.</p></sidenote> officers who do duty shall be entitled to and shall receive the same pay and allowances as commissioned officers of like grade of the Regular Army. Each mounted officer and enlisted man shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mounts.</p></sidenote> paid a reasonable per diem compensation for each horse actually furnished and used by him: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when the National Guard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Servce in Army.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia is called into the actual service of the United States the officers and enlisted men shall, during their time of service, be entitled to the same pay and allowances as are or may be provided by law for the Regular Army.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the whole of section fifty and insert in lieu thereof the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 779, amended.</p></sidenote> following sections:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="54"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 54.</num> <content class="inline">That the military courts of the District of Columbia shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military courts.</p></sidenote> be: General courts-martial, garrison courts-martial, the summary court, and courts of inquiry, as now or hereafter provided by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="55"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 55.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That courts of inquiry, to consist of not more than three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts of inquiry.</p></sidenote> officers, may be ordered by the commanding general for the purpose of investigating the conduct of any officer, either at his own request or on complaint or charge of conduct unbecoming an officer. Such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> court of inquiry shall report the evidence adduced, a statement of facts, and an opinion thereon, when required, to the commanding general, who may, in his discretion, thereupon order a court-martial for the trial of the officer whose conduct has been inquired into.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change number of section fifty-one to “fifty-six.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">After section fifty-one insert the following additional sections:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="57"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 57.</num> <content class="inline">That the constitution and jurisdiction of military courts,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution, jurisdiction, etc., of.</p></sidenote> the form and manner in which their proceedings shall be conducted and reported, and the forms of oaths and affirmations taken in the administration of military law by such courts, the limits of punishment and the proceedings in revision shall be governed by the Articles of War and the law and procedure of the military courts of the United States.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="58"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 58.</num> <content class="inline">That no action or proceeding shall be prosecuted or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecutions of members of, prohibited.</p></sidenote> maintained against a member of a military court, or officer or person acting under its authority or reviewing its proceedings on account of the approval or imposition or execution of any sentence, or the imposition or collection of fine or penalty, or the execution of any warrant, writ, execution, process, or mandate of a military court., <page identifier="/us/stat/35/635">635</page> nor shall any officer or enlisted man be liable to civil, or criminal prosecution for any act done while in the discharge of his military duty.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="59"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 59.</num> <content class="inline">That the jurisdiction of the courts and boards established<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction to be presumed.</p></sidenote> by this Act shall be presumed, and the burden of proof shall rest on any person asking to oust such courts or boards of jurisdiction in any action or proceedings.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="60"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 60.</num> <content class="inline">That every person not belonging to the National Guard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witnesses.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia who, being duly subpoenaed to appear as a witness before the military courts herein provided for, wilfully neglects or refuses to appear, or refuses to qualify as a witness or to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refusal to qualify, etc.</p></sidenote> testify or produce documentary evidence which such person may have been legally subpoenaed to produce, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, for which such person shall be punished on information in the criminal courts of the District of Columbia, and it shall be the duty of the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, on certification of the facts to him by any military court herein provided for, to file an information against and prosecute the person so offending and the punishment of such person on conviction shall be by a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonrsidents.</p></sidenote> That this section shall not apply to persons residing beyond the limits of the District of Columbia, and that the fees of such witness and his mileage at the rate provided for witnesses in the United States district court in said District shall be duly paid or tendered said witness: <i>And provided</i>, That no witness shall be compelled to incriminate himself<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incriminating testi-mony.</p></sidenote> or to answer any questions which may tend to criminate or degrade him.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="61"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 61.</num> <content class="inline">That the sentences of said courts, whether of fine or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sentences.</p></sidenote> imprisonment, shall be executed by the United States marshal for the District of Columbia in the same manner as are sentences of the criminal courts of said District.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="62"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 62.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That whenever it shall appear to a regularly constituted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrants for arrest of accused.</p></sidenote> court-martial convened under the provisions of this Act that the accused, having been duly ordered or summoned to appear before such court-martial for trial, has refused or neglected so to appear, such court-martial shall issue a warrant or attachment for the arrest of the accused, directed to the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, who shall forthwith execute said warrant or attachment, make proper return thereof to such court-martial, and produce to such court-martial the body of the accused, if within the District of Columbia, and to retain the custody thereof and continue so to produce said body during the sessions of such court-martial until the conclusion of the trial, unless sooner discharged by said court-martial.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out all of sections fifty-two, fifty-three, and fifty-four.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, pp. 779, 780, amended.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change number of section fifty-five to “sixty-three.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section fifty-six to “sixty-four,” and amend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p></sidenote> it to read as follows:</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="64"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 64.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That during the annual encampment, and on every duty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Musicians’ pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annul encampments, etc.</p></sidenote> on parade ordered by the commanding general, there shall be allowed and paid for each day of service: To each member of the regularly enlisted bands, four dollars; to the chief musicians, eight dollars; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 780, amended.</p></sidenote> to the principal musicians, six dollars. In event there is no enlisted band or field music, or not a sufficient number of either, the commanding general may authorize the employment of such as he may deem necessary for the occasion: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total pay of enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limi.</p></sidenote> musicians shall not in any event exceed the rates authorized by this section.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section fifty-seven to “sixty-five.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section number changed.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/636">636</page> Strike out all of section fifty-eight, and insert, in lieu thereof the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 780, amended.</p></sidenote> following:</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="66"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 66.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the commanding general shall annually transmit to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual estimates.</p></sidenote> the Commissioners of the District of Columbia an estimate of the amount of money required for the next ensuing fiscal year to pay the expenses authorized by this Act, and the said Commissioners shall include the same in their annual estimates of appropriations for the District; and all money appropriated to pay the expenses authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements.</p></sidenote> by this Act shall be disbursed in accordance with law.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section fifty-nine to “sixty-seven.”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Section numbers changed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.25, p. 780.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section sixty to “sixty-eight.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section sixty-one to “sixty-nine.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section sixty-two to “seventy.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Change the number of section sixty-three to “seventy-one.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Following section sixty-three insert the following additional sections:</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="72"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 72.</num> <content class="inline">That a reserve corps of the National Guard of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve corps organized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compsition of.</p></sidenote> of Columbia is hereby organized, to consist of honorably discharged officers and men of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps of the United States, honorably discharged officers and men of the organized militia of any State or Territory who are residents of the District of Columbia, and honorably discharged members of the National Guard of the District of Columbia whose military training and physical condition shall conform to the standard determined by regulations to be promulgated by the President of the United States: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the term of enlistment in the reserve and the military<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termof enlistment.</p></sidenote> duties and obligations required of reservists shall be determined by regulations to be promulgated by the President of the United States: <i>Provided further</i>, That when called out for military duty, reservists<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> shall receive the same pay and allowances as officers and men of like grade on the active list of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="73"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 73.</num> <content class="inline">Tha all officers and enlisted men of the National Guard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exempt from jury duty.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia, both active and retired, shall be exempt from jury duty.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="74"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 74.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever the words ‘State or Territory’ are used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia included in militia law.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 775.</p></sidenote> in the ‘Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,’ approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as amended, they shall be held to apply to and include the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="75"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 75.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing herein contained shall be held to alter the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval battalion not affected.</p></sidenote> status or organization of the naval battalion as now provided for by law.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="76"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 76.</num> <content class="inline">That any commission issuing under the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Date of commissions.</p></sidenote> Act shall, where the rank remains unchanged, bear the date of the commission now held; and that any officer who has served continuously in the same grade may be recommissioned with rank from date of his original commission to that grade.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 147: To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>147</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>147.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8510">S. 8510</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/241">Public, No. 241.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time within which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for payments on certain homestead entries in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, pp. 213, 550, amended.</p></sidenote> all unpaid payments which have heretofore, or may hereafter, become due and payable under the Act entitled “An Act to open to settlement five hundred and five thousand acres of land in Kiowa-Comanche and Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma Territory,” approved June <page identifier="/us/stat/35/637">637</page> fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act entitled “An Act giving preference right to actual settlers on pasture reserve numbered three to purchase land leased to them for agricultural purposes in Comanche County, Oklahoma,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act entitled “An Act to extend the time of payments on certain homestead entries in Oklahoma,” approved March eleventh,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 41, amend ed.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eight, be, and the same is hereby, postponed and extended for one year from the date on which such payments are now by law required to be made: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That as a condition precedent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per entum payments.</p></sidenote> to said extension in each case the settler shall pay to the Secretary of the Interior, to be held in trust by him for the benefit of the Indians entitled thereto, four per centum on the amount of such deferred payments where the settler had no preference right, and five per centum on the amount of the deferred payment where such settler was given a preference right, but the payment of said five per centum shall be made in lieu of the interest payment required by said Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and six.</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Town-site lots.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timeof payment, extended to purchasers of.</p></sidenote> discretion, to extend the time of payments to the purchasers and their assigns applying therefor upon the lots sold, or to be sold, in pursuance of an Act entitled “An Act providing for the platting and selling of the south half of section thirty, township two north, range eleven west of the Indian meridian, in the State of Oklahoma, for townsite purposes,” approved March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 49.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior is authorized to permit the unpaid purchase money for such lots to be paid in such installments and at such times as he may deem proper: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That said purchasers or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inteest, etc., on deferred payments.</p></sidenote> their assigns shall be required to pay interest on all such deferred payments sufficient to pay the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians four per centum interest on the payments so deferred, and to pay the local authorities entitled to receive the same the equivalent of the State, county, city, and school tax at the legal rate, upon such valuation as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, and to which the lots would be liable if patented, such extension of time not to exceed four years from the date of the approval of this Act: <i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That not exceeding one-half of the amount which may be set aside by the Secretary of the Interior, under the Act above referred to, for the construction of two school buildings may be applied by the Secretary of the Interior to such other improvements as he may deem for the public welfare.</proviso></p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 148: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>148</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 637</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>148.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19662">H. R. 19662</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/242">Pubic, No. 242.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section two of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, p. 1242, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, be amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the trustees herein mentioned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties of trustees.</p></sidenote> to invest and reinvest the principal of this foundation, to receive any additions which may come to it by gift, bequest, or devise, and to invest and reinvest the same; and to pay over the income from the Foundation and its additions, or such part thereof as they may from time to time apportion, to a committee of sixteen persons, to be known<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Committee reduced.</p></sidenote> as the ‘Industrial Peace Committee;’ said committee to consist of the seven trustees and nine other persons to be selected by the trustees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Selection, service, etc.</p></sidenote> three of whom shall serve as members of the committee for the period <page identifier="/us/stat/35/638">638</page> of one year, three as members for the period of two years, and three as members for the period of three years, three of the nine members thus selected by the trustees to be representatives of labor, three to be representatives of capital, each chosen for distinguished services in the industrial world in promoting righteous industrial peace, and three members to represent the general public. Any vacancies which may occur in this committee shall be filled by the selection and appointment in the manner prescribed for the original appointment of the committee, and when the committee has first been fully selected and appointed each member thereafter appointed shall serve for the period of three years or for the unexpired portion of such term.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the Industrial Peace Committee herein constituted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings and conferences at Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> shall arrange for such meetings and conferences in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as it may deem advisable, of representatives of labor and capital for the purpose of discussing industrial problems with the view of arriving at a better understanding between employers and employees. It shall call such conferences in case of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Objects.</p></sidenote> great industrial crises and take such other steps as in its discretion will promote the general purposes of the Foundation, subject, however, to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the trustees. The committee shall receive suggestions for the subjects to be discussed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subjects for discussion, etc.</p></sidenote> at the meetings and conferences, and be charged with the conduct of the proceedings at such meetings and conferences, and shall also arrange for the publication of the results of such meetings and conferences.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 149: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>149</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>149.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25552">H.,R. 25552</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/243">Pubic, No. 243.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section two of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Liberty Bridge Company at Pittsburg, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, p. 1235.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Monongahela River, in the State of Pennsylvania, by the Liberty Bridge Company,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, as amended by an Act approved March sixteenth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 45, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, be, and is hereby, further amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void if actual construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within three years from March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 150: To extend the provisions of section four of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>150</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 638</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-18</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>150.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the provisions of section four of an Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-18">February 18, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26216">H. R. 26216</ref>.]</p>[Pubic, No. 244.]</sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico and Arizona.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands grants for irrigation extended to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.28, p. 422.</p></sidenote> section four of the Act of Congress approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, being chapter three hundred and one to Supplement to Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled <page identifier="/us/stat/35/639">639</page> “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” and the amendments thereto be, and the same are hereby, extended to the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, and that said Territories upon complying with the provisions of said Act shall be entitled to have and receive all of the benefits therein conferred upon the States.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> its passage.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 18, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 160: To provide for an enlarged homestead.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>160</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 639</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-19</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>160.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for an enlarged homestead.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-19">February 19, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/6155">S. 6155</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/245">Pubic, No. 245.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatl/ves of the United States of America tn Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That any person who is a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlarged homestead entries of 320 acres permitted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stats and Territories affected.</p></sidenote> qualified entryman under the homestead laws of the United States may enter, by legal subdivisions, under the provisions of this Act, in the States of Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming, and the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, three hundred and twenty acres, or less, of nonmineral, nonirrigable, unreserved and unappropriated surveyed public lands which do not contain merchantable timber, located in a reasonably compact body, and not over one and one-half miles in extreme length: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desination of nonirrigable lands.</p></sidenote> lands shall be subject to entry under the provisions of this Act until such lands shall have been designated by the Secretary of the Interior as not being, in his opinion, susceptible of successful irrigation at a reasonable cost from any known source of water supply.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That any person applying to enter land under the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Applications, fees, etc.</p></sidenote> of this Act shall make and subscribe before the proper officer an affidavit as required by section twenty-two hundred and ninety of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2290, p. 420.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, and in addition thereto shall make affidavit that the land sought to be entered is of the character described in section one of this Act, and shall pay the fees now required to be paid under the homestead laws.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That any homestead entryman of lands of the character<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions allowed incomplete homestead entries.</p></sidenote> herein described, upon which final proof has not been made, shall have the right to enter public lands, subject to the provisions of this Act, contiguous to his former entry which shall not, together with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit, etc.</p></sidenote> the original entry, exceed three hundred and twenty acres, and residence upon and cultivation of the original entry shall be deemed as residence upon and cultivation of the additional entry.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That at the time of making final proofs as provided in section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proof of cultivation required.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2291, p. 420.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addiional.</p></sidenote> twenty-two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes the entry-man under this Act shall, in addition to the proofs and affidavits required under the said section, prove by two credible witnesses that at least one-eighth of the area embraced in his entry was continuously cultivated to agricultural crops other than native grasses beginning with the second year of the entry, and that at least, one-fourth of the area embraced in the entry was so continuously cultivated beginning with the third year of the entry.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing herein contained shall be held to affect the right<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular homestead entries not affected.</p></sidenote> of a qualified entryman to make homestead entry in the States named in section one of this Act under the provisions of section twenty-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2289, p. 419.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes, but no person who has made entry under this Act shall be entitled to make homestead<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No commutations.</p></sidenote> entry under the provisions of said section, and no entry made under this Act shall be commuted.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/640">640</page>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That whenever the Secretary of the Interior shall find that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land without water for domestic use.</p></sidenote> any tracts of land, in the State of Utah, subject to entry under this Act, do not have upon them such a sufficient supply of water suitable for domestic purposes as would make continuous residence upon the lands possible, he may, in his discretion, designate such tracts of land, not to exceed in the aggregate two million acres, and thereafter they<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence not required, if so designated.</p></sidenote> shall be subject to entry under this Act without the necessity of residence: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in such event the entryman on any such entry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cultvation required.</p></sidenote> shall in good faith cultivate not less than one-eighth of the entire area of the entry during the second year, one-fourth during the third year, and one-half during the fourth and fifth years after the date of such entry, and that after entry and until final proof the entryman shall reside within such distance of said land as will enable him successfully to farm the same as required by this section.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 19, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 161: To amend section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, of Public Statutes at Large.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>161</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 640</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-19</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>161.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section ten of chapter two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, of Public Statutes at Large.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-19">February 19, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16274">H. R. 16274</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/246">Pubic, No. 246.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section ten of chapter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States courts.</p></sidenote> two hundred and fifty-two, volume twenty-nine, Public Statutes at Large, is hereby amended by striking out in the twelfth line of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29. p. 182, amended.</p></sidenote> section the word “two” and inserting in place thereof the word “three,” so that said section as amended shall read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That when in the opinion of the Attorney-General the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offie deputies, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote> public interest requires it, he may, on the recommendation of the marshal, which recommendation shall state the facts as distinguished from conclusions, showing necessity for the same, allow the marshals to employ necessary office deputies and clerical assistance, upon salaries to be fixed by the Attorney-General, from time to time, and paid as hereinafter provided. When any of such office deputies is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, serving writs, etc.</p></sidenote> engaged in the service of any writ, process, subpoena, or other order of the court, or when necessarily absent from the place of his regular employment, on official business, he shall be allowed his actual traveling<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem increased.</p></sidenote> expenses only, and his necessary and actual expenses for lodging and subsistence, not to exceed three dollars per day, and the necessary actual expenses in transporting prisoners, including necessary guard hire; and he shall make and render accounts thereof as hereinafter provided.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 19, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 162: To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Gadsden, Alabama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>162</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 640</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-19</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>162.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for circuit and district courts of the United States at Gadsden, Alabama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-19">February 19, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21560">H. R. 21560</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/247">Pubic, No. 247.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the middle division of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama northern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Middle division created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S, 532, p. 89.</p></sidenote> northern judicial district of the State of Alabama is hereby established, composed of the counties of Cherokee, Dekalb, Marshall, Etowah, and Saint Clair.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That a term of the circuit and the district courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Gadsden.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S, secs. 572, 658, pp. 98, 120.</p></sidenote> middle division of the northern judicial district of the State of Alabama shall be held at Gadsden, in Etowah County, in said State, on the first Tuesday in February and on the first Tuesday in August of each year: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That suitable rooms and accommodations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cour rooms.</p></sidenote> are furnished for the holdings of said courts, free of all expense to the Government, until a public building shall be provided for by law.</proviso></content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/641">641</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all civil process issued against persons residing in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process.</p></sidenote> counties cognizable before the United States court shall be made returnable to the courts of the United States, respectively, to be held at Gadsden, as provided by this Act, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at Gadsden: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no process or prosecutions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pendng cases not affected.</p></sidenote> commenced or suits instituted before the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof, and that all prosecutions heretofore commenced for offenses heretofore committed against the United States in any of the said counties shall be prosecuted and tried as though this Act had not been passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the clerks, marshals, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance of clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> officers of the northern judicial district to attend said. terms of said court and perform the duties pertaining to their positions, and no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district; and that the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said northern district shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at Gadsden, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the business of said division.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 19, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 165: To withdraw from settlement and entry certain lands in the State of California.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>165</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 640</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-20</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>165.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To withdraw from settlement and entry certain lands in the State of California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-20">February 20, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8048">S. 8048</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/248">Pubic, No. 248.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all of the public lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Publc lands reserved to conserve waters of San Bernardino Valley.</p></sidenote> in section eight, township one south, range two west, and in sections two, four, eight, ten, and twelve, in township one south, range three west, San Bernardino base and meridian, in the State of California, are hereby withdrawn from settlement and entry and reserved for the purpose of aiding in the conservation of the waters of the San Bernardino Valley: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not defeat any vested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prio rights not affected.</p></sidenote> right which has attached under any pending entry or location.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That any individual or association of individuals or any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of waste waters, etc.</p></sidenote> company or corporation may have the right, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to conduct to said lands and to distribute over them any flood or waste waters not otherwise appropriated, and to build the necessary engineering works for this purpose, to the end that said flood or waste waters may sink into the sands and gravels of said lands, thereby increasing and replenishing the supply of underground waters in the San Bernardino Valley.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 20, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 166: To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>166</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 641</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-20</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>166.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-20">February 20, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20247">H. R. 20247</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/249">Pubic, No. 249.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section eight of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment agencies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.34, p. 307, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That the fees charged for the employment of agricultural<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> hands, coachmen, grooms, hostlers, seamstresses, cooks, waiters, waitresses, scrubwomen, nurses (except professional nurses), chambermaids, maids of all work, domestics, servants, or other laborers (except <page identifier="/us/stat/35/642">642</page> seamen), or for the purpose of procuring or giving information concerning such person for or to employers, shall be as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Employment agents or agencies shall be entitled to receive in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount increased.</p></sidenote> advance from an employer, for male or female employees, two dollars each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such fee shall entitle said employer to at least<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thiry days’ service.</p></sidenote> thirty days’ service from said male or female employee, or from other employees at the same rate of wages to be furnished by said employment agent or agencies.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Employment agents or agencies shall be entitled to receive in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of one-half of fees.</p></sidenote> advance from the applicant for work or employment, either male or female, one dollar each, one-half of which is to be returned on demand if such applicant is not secured a fair opportunity of employment within fifteen days after the receipt of said original fee of one dollar: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Addiional fee.</p></sidenote> That where the male or female employee receives employment at a rate of wage of twenty-five dollars per month or more, said employment agent or agency shall, on obtaining employment for such employee, receive an additional one dollar from said employee: <i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of transportation expense, etc.</p></sidenote> That the whole fee and any sums paid by the applicant for transportation in going to and returning from such employer shall be refunded within four days of demand, if no employment of the kind applied for was vacant at the place to which the applicant was directed:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That it shall be unlawful for any employment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> agent or agency to receive more than the fees set forth in this Act in the business aforesaid.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“It shall be the duty of such licensed person to give to every applicant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts.</p></sidenote> for employment from whom a fee shall be received a receipt in which shall be stated the name of said applicant, the date and amount of the fee, and the purpose for which it was paid, and to every applicant for help a receipt stating the name and address of said applicant, the date and amount of the fee, and the kind of help to be provided. Every such receipt, excepting only those given by theatrical and teachers’ agencies and those procuring technical, clerical, sales, and executive positions for men only, shall have printed on the back thereof a copy of this section in the English language. No such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of fees prohibited.</p></sidenote> licensed person shall divide fees with contractors or their agents or other employers or anyone in their employ to whom applicants for employment are sent. Every such licensed person shall give to each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cards for applicants, etc.</p></sidenote> applicant for employment a card or printed paper containing the name of the applicant for employment, name and address of such employment agency, and the written name and address of the person to whom the applicant is sent for employment. Every such licensed person shall post in a conspicuous place in each room of such agency a plain and legible copy of this Act, which shall be printed in large type.”</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 20, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 167: For the investigation, treatment, and prevention of trachoma among the Indians.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>167</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 642</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-20</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>167.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the investigation, treatment, and prevention of trachoma among the Indians.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-20">February 20, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28164">H. R. 28164</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/250">Pubic, No. 250.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That there be, and hereby is,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apprpriation to prevent, etc., spread of trachoma among.</p></sidenote> appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twelve thousand dollars, to be immediately available to enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to investigate, treat, and prevent the spread of the disease of trachoma among the Indians.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 20, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 169: Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate two condemned cannon to Moores Creek Battle Ground Association.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>169</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 643</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/643">643</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>169.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of War to donate two condemned cannon to Moores Creek Battle Ground Association.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-23">February 23, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8708">S. 8708</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/251">Pubic, No. 251.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moores Creek Battle</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground Association, Currie, N. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condmned cannon donated to.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to Moores Creek Battle Ground Association, of Currie, North Carolina, two condemned bronze field pieces with their carriages and a suitable outfit of cannon balls which may not be needed in the service: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No epense.</p></sidenote> no expense shall be incurred by the United States in connection with the donation of the above-mentioned articles of ordnance property.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 23, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 170: Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>170</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1909-02-23</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>170.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Massachusetts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-23">February 23, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/13851">H. R. 13851</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/252">Pubic, No. 252.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Builing for immigration station at, authorized.</p></sidenote> Department of Commerce and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be erected, upon any site except Castle Island now owned or controlled by the Government of the United States or upon any site to be ceded to or purchased by the Government for the purpose of establishing a new immigration station, suitable fireproof building or buildings in connection therewith, at the port of Boston, Massachusetts: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this Act shall not be construed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Castle Island.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.26, p. 671.</p></sidenote> amend, modify or repeal joint resolution numbered seventeen authorizing the use and improvement of Castle Island in Boston Harbor, approved May first, eighteen hundred and ninety.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the expenditure of the sum of two hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation from immigrant fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i> p. 982.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars is hereby authorized for the purchase of ground for and the complete erection and furnishing of said building, which sum shall be paid from the “immigrant fund;” that the said building shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> be erected in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, and under the supervision of said Department.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 23, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 171: Extending the provisions of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, concerning transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>171</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 643</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-23</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>171.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the provisions of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, concerning transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-23">February 23, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24140">H. R. 24140</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/253">Pubic, No. 253.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the privileges of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blaine and Sumas, Wash., granted immediate transportation facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> first section of the Act, approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the subports of Blaine and Sumas, in the State of Washington.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> repealed.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 23, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 174: To reenact and to amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>174</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 643</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-23</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>174.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To reenact and to amend sections thirty-six hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-23">February 23, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25805">H. R. 25805</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/254">Pubic, No. 254.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That sections thirty-six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lost, etc., checks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S, secs. 3646, 3647, pp. 717, 718.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty-six and thirty-six hundred and forty-seven of the Revised Statutes be, and they hereby are, reenacted and amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3646">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3646.</num> <content class="inline">Whenever any original disbursing officer’s check is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursing officers’ checks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duplcates of, lost, etc., may be issued.</p></sidenote> lost, stolen, or destroyed, the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize <page identifier="/us/stat/35/644">644</page> the officer issuing the same, after the expiration of six months and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec.3646, p. 717, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 415.</p></sidenote> within three years from the date of such disbursing officer’s check, to issue a duplicate thereof upon the execution of such bond to indemnify the United States as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That when such original disbursing officer’s check does not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provios.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small amounts.</p></sidenote> exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars the Secretary of the Treasury may authorize the issuance of a duplicate at any time after the expiration of thirty days and within three years from the date of such disbursing officer’s check: <i>Provided further</i>, That whenever any original<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal checks and warrants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issuance of duplicates.</p></sidenote> check or warrant of the Post-Office Department has been lost, stolen, or destroyed the Postmaster-General may authorize the issuance of a duplicate thereof, at any time within three years from the date of such original check or warrant, upon the execution by the owner thereof of such bond of indemnity as the Postmaster-General may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That when such original check or warrant does<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Small amounts to officials, etc.</p></sidenote> not exceed in amount the sum of fifty dollars and the payee or owner is, at the date of the application, an officer or employee in the service of the Post-Office Department, whether by contract, designation, or appointment, the Postmaster-General may, in lieu of an indemnity bond, authorize the issuance of a duplicate check or warrant upon such an affidavit as he may prescribe, to be made before any postmaster by the payee or owner of an original check or warrant.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3647">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3647.</num> <content class="inline">In case the disbursing officer or agent by whom such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death of issuing officer.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 8647, p. 718, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> lost, destroyed, or stolen original check was issued is dead or no longer in the service of the United States it shall be the duty of the proper accounting officer, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, to state an account in favor of the owner of such original check for the amount thereof and to charge such amount to the account of such officer or agent: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in case a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal checks.</p></sidenote> check drawn by any officer or agent of the Post-Office Department is lost, stolen, or destroyed a duplicate thereof may be issued under regulations prescribed by the Postmaster-General, as set forth in section thirty-six hundred and forty-six.”</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 23, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 178: To provide for the granting and patenting to the State of Colorado desert lands within the former Ute Indian Reservation in said State.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>178</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 644</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>178.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the granting and patenting to the State of Colorado desert lands within the former Ute Indian Reservation in said State.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-24">February 24, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19606">H. R. 19606</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/255">Public, No. 255.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the provision of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Desert lands in former Ute Indian Reservation granted to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 422.</p></sidenote> four of “An Act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the amendments thereof, approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 434.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1188.</p></sidenote> and March third, nineteen hundred and one, respectively, be, and are hereby, extended over and shall apply to the desert lands within the limits of all that portion of the former Ute Indian Reservation, not included in any national forest, in the State of Colorado, described and embraced in the Act entitled “An Act relating to lands in Colorado lately occupied by the Uncompahgre and White River Ute Indians.” approved July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty- two: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before a patent shall issue for any of the lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 178.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> aforesaid under the terms of the Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and amendments thereto, the State of Colorado shall pay into the Treasury of the United States the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for the lands so patented, and the money so paid shall be subject to the provisions of section three of the Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 203.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to accept and ratify the agreements submitted by <page identifier="/us/stat/35/645">645</page> the confederated bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriation for carrying out same.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That no lands shall be included in any tract to be segregated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of this Act on which the United States Government has valuable improvements, or which have been reserved for any Indian schools or farm purposes.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 179: Relating to injured employees on the Isthmian.Canal.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>179</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 645</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>179.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to injured employees on the Isthmian.Canal.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-24">February 24, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/22340">H. R. 22340</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/256">Public, No. 256.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in, Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That nothing-contained in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isthmian Canal Commission may grant leave of absence with pay to injured employees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 556.</p></sidenote> the Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment,” shall prevent the Isthmian Canal Commission, under rules to be fixed by the commission, from granting to its injured employees, whether engaged in a hazardous employment or otherwise, leave of absence with pay for time necessarily lost as a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> result of injuries received in the course of employment, not exceeding in the aggregate thirty days per annum: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> compensation paid to such injured employees under such regulations shall be deducted from any compensation which such employees may be entitled to receive under the terms of the said Act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 180: For relief of applicants for mineral surveys.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>180</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 645</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-24</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>180.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For relief of applicants for mineral surveys.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-24">February 24, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25396">H. R. 25396</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/257">Public, No. 257.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enactedby the Senateand House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral land surveys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Refund of unused deposit.</p></sidenote> Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of the moneys heretofore or hereafter covered into the Treasury from deposits made by individuals to cover cost of work performed and to be performed in the offices of the United States surveyors-general in connection with the survey of mineral lands, any excess in the amount deposited over and above the actual cost of the work performed, including all expenses incident thereto for which the deposits were severally made or the whole of any unused deposit; and such sums, as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent appropriation for refunding.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repayments to depositors, etc.</p></sidenote> the several cases may be, shall be deemed to be annually and permanently appropriated for that purpose. Such repayments shall be made to the person or persons who made the several deposits, or to his or their legal representatives, after the completion or abandonment of the work for which the deposits were made, and upon an account certified by the surveyor-general of the district in which the mineral land surveyed, or sought to be surveyed is situated and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 181: To permit change of entry in case of mistake of the description of tracts intended to be entered.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>181</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 645</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-24</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>181.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To permit change of entry in case of mistake of the description of tracts intended to be entered.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-24">February 24, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26734">H. R. 26734</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/258">Public, No. 258.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section twenty-three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2372, p. 434, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2372">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2372.</num> <content class="inline">In all cases where an entry, selection, or location has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Erroneous entries corrected.</p></sidenote> been or shall hereafter be made of a tract of land not intended to be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/646">646</page> entered, the entryman, selector, or locator, or, in case of his death, his legal representatives, or, when the claim is by law transferable, his or their transferees, may. in any case coming within the provisions of this section, file his or their affidavit, with such additional evidence as can<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence of error to be filed.</p></sidenote> be procured showing the mistake as to the numbers of the tract intended to be entered and that every reasonable precaution and exertion was used to avoid the error, with the register and receiver of the land district in which such tract of land is situate, who should transmit<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transmission of, to General Land Office.</p></sidenote> the evidence submitted to them, in each case, together with their written opinion both as to the existence of the mistake and the credibility of every person testifying thereto, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, who, if he be entirely satisfied that the mistake has been made and that every reasonable precaution and exertion has been made to-avoid it, is authorized to change the entry and transfer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Change of entry, etc.</p></sidenote> the payment from the tract erroneously entered to that intended to be entered, if the same has not been disposed of and is subject to entry, or, if not subject to entry, then to any other tract liable to such entry, selection, or location; but the oath of the person interested shall in no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oath of beneficiary to be corroborated.</p></sidenote> case be deemed sufficient, in the absence of other corroborating testimony, to authorize such change of entry, nor shall anything herein contained affect the right of third persons.”</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 24, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 190: To incorporate the Imperial Palace. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>190</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 646</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>190.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To incorporate the Imperial Palace. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23707">H. R. 23707</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/259">Public. No. 259.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Imperial Palace of Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, incorporated.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incorporators.</p></sidenote> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Daniel F. Summey, junior, of the city of Charlotte, State of North Carolina; William Beatty, of the city of Toledo, State of Ohio; Thomas H. Hineline, of the city of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota; Henry W. Belding, of the city of Webster Groves, State of Missouri; Charles V. Stansbury, of the city of Los Angeles, State of California; John Hallowell Dickinson, of the city of Richmond, State of Virginia; Charles E. Rice, of the city of Buffalo, State of New York; George F. Eubanks, of the city of Atlanta, State of Georgia; Joseph A. Solomons, of the city of Grand Rapids, State of Michigan; Estil D. Gully, of the city of Oklahoma City, State of Oklahoma; Frank R. Lander, of the citv of Cleveland, State of Ohio; and Gus Meese, of the city of Spokane, State of Washington, officers and members of the Imperial Palace, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan. and their successors, be. and they are hereby, incorporated and made a body politic and corporate in the District of Columbia, by the name of “The Imperial Palace,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Name.</p></sidenote> Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan,” and by that name may sue<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers.</p></sidenote> and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, and may have and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and be entitled to use and exercise all the powers, rights, and privileges incidental to fraternal and benevolent corporations within the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the said corporation shall have power to take and hold<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Real, etc., property.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum holdings.</p></sidenote> real and personal estate not exceeding in value one hundred thousand dollars, which shall not bo divided among the members of the corporation, but shall descend to their successors for the promotion of the fraternal and benevolent purposes of said corporation.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That all claims, accounts, debts, things in action or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Claims, accounts, etc.</p></sidenote> matters of business of whatever nature now existing for or against the present Imperial Palace. Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, mentioned in section one of the Act, shall survive and succeed to and against the body corporate and politic hereby created: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/647">647</page> That nothing contained herein shall be construed to extend the operation of any law which provides for the extinguishing of claims or contracts by limitation of time.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That said corporation shall have a constitution and shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Constitution.</p></sidenote> have power to amend the same at pleasure: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such constitution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> or amendments thereof do not conflict with the laws of the United States or of any State.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That said corporation may provide for meetings of its legislative<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Meetings.</p></sidenote> or governing body wherever such association shall have subordinate bodies, and all business transacted at such meetings shall be valid in all respects as if such meetings were held within said District.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the general offices of said corporation shall be in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Offices.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia or in any State where the secretary of the corporation may reside.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That said corporation shall not engage in any business for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Business for gain prohibited.</p></sidenote> gain, the purposes of said corporation being fraternal and benevolent.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That Congress may at any time amend, alter, or repeal this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> Act.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 191: To declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- five, entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>191</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>191.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- five, entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24833">H.R. 24833</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/260">Public, No. 260.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That each and every grant of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture of certain railroad rights of way, etc., through.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 483.</p></sidenote> right of way and station grounds heretofore made to any railroad corporation under the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” where such railroad has not been constructed and the period of five years next following the location of said road, or any section thereof, has now expired, shall be, and hereby is, declared forfeited to the United States, to the extent of any portion of such located line now remaining unconstructed, and the United States hereby resumes the full title to the lands covered thereby free and discharged from such easement, and the forfeiture hereby declared shall, without need of further assurance or conveyance, inure to the benefit of any owner or owners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prior rights restored.</p></sidenote> of land heretofore conveyed by the United States subject to any such grant of right of way or station grounds: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no right of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> way on which construction is progressing in good faith at the time of the passage of this Act shall be in any wise affected, validated or invalidated, by the provisions of this Act.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 192: Amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>192</docNumber>
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<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>192.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, Fifty-sixth Congress, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, entitled “An Act to provide for the holding of a term of the circuit and district courts of the United States at Superior, Wisconsin.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27311">H. R. 27311</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/261">Public, No. 261.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That chapter five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin western judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 219, amended.</p></sidenote> and ninety-one of the United States Statutes at Large, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="1">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline>. 1.</num> <content class="inline">That two terms of the circuit and district courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Superior.</p></sidenote> United States for the western district of Wisconsin shall he held annually at the city of Superior, one term beginning on the fourth Tuesday <page identifier="/us/stat/35/648">648</page> in January and another term beginning on the second Tuesday in July. Either of said terms may be adjourned by the court, or by said clerk by the direction of the court, to any other day and from time to time at the same place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That in addition to the two clerks now provided for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerk.</p></sidenote> circuit and district judges of the western district of Wisconsin shall appoint a clerk, who shall be clerk both of the circuit and district courts for the western district of Wisconsin, who shall reside and keep his office at Superior, Wisconsin, and who shall receive such fees and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office, etc.</p></sidenote> compensation for services performed by him as are now fixed for clerks and limited by law; and one or more deputies of the clerk of the circuit and district courts may be appointed by the judges of said courts on the application of the clerk, and may be removed at the pleasure of the judges authorized to make the appointments. In case of the death of the clerk his deputy or deputies shall, unless removed, continue in office and perform the duties of the clerk in his name until a clerk is appointed and qualified.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3">“<inline class="smallCaps">Section</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">All summonses, writs, and processes, except criminal warrants,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process, etc.</p></sidenote> issued out of said courts at Superior may be made returnable, at Superior, and the clerk shall keep in his office the original records of all actions, prosecutions, and special proceedings so commenced and pending therein. Criminal warrants may be returned at any place where the court is held. Whenever warrants shall be returned at any place other than Superior, the clerk of the court, where the warrant is returned, shall certify the same, under the seal of the court, together with the plea and other proceedings had thereon, and the determination of the court upon such plea or proceedings, and all papers and orders filed in reference thereto, to the. clerk of the courts at Superior, and shall charge for the same in his account against the United States. The clerk at Superior shall enter upon his records a minute of the proceedings had upon the return of said warrant and certified as aforesaid.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">All causes triable in either of said courts when the summonses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trials.</p></sidenote> writs, warrants, and processes shall be issued from the said courts at Superior shall be tried at Superior, unless by consent of parties, or unless otherwise ordered by the court.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">A grand jury and petit jury shall be summoned for each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juries.</p></sidenote> term of said courts, which petit jury shall be competent to sit and act as such jury in either or both of said circuit and district courts at said terms: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the judge of the district court may, in his discretion.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand jury.</p></sidenote> dispense with the summoning or impaneling of a grand jury at either or both of said terms.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">The marshal of said western district of Wisconsin shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy marshal, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 182.</p></sidenote> appoint a deputy marshal, who shall reside and keep his office at Superior, Wisconsin, whose compensation shall be fixed as provided by section ten. chapter two hundred and fifty-two, of the General Statutes of the United States, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> its passage and publication.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 193: Amending an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>193</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 648</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>193.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Amending an Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27891">H. R. 27891</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/262">Public No. 262.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That paragraph seven of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interstate commerce regulations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24. p. 379.</p></sidenote> section twenty of an Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen <page identifier="/us/stat/35/649">649</page> hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, and to enlarge the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission,” approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended so that said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 594.</p></sidenote> paragraph as so amended will read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Par</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">Any person who shall willfully make any false entry in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for false entries, etc.</p></sidenote> the accounts of any book of accounts or in any record or memoranda kept by a carrier, or who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, alter, or by any other means or device falsify the record of any such account, record, or memoranda, or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make full, true, and correct entries in such accounts, records, or memoranda of all facts and transactions appertaining to the carrier’s business, or shall keep any other accounts, records, or memoranda than those prescribed or approved by the commission, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction, to a line of not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars or imprisonment for a term not less than one year nor more than three years, or both such tine and imprisonment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destruction of old records allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 594, amended.</p></sidenote> may in its discretion issue orders specifying such operating, accounting, or financial papers, records, books, blanks, tickets, stubs, or documents of carriers which may, after a reasonable time, be destroyed, and prescribing the length of time such books, papers, or documents shall be preserved.”</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 194: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>194</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 649</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>194.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road,” approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/7829">S. 7829</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/263">Public, No. 263.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section two of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mercer County Bridge Company may rebuild bridge across at Keithsburg. 111.</p></sidenote> approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at or near Keithsburg, in the State of Illinois, and to establish it as a post-road, be, and is hereby, so amended as to permit, in rebuilding and in relocating the bridge, the construction of a lift draw span of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lift draw span. etc.</p></sidenote> not less than two hundred and twenty feet in the clear in place of the existing swing draw span having two openings each one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 22, p. 51, amended.</p></sidenote> sixty feet in the clear: and also to permit the adjoining span to be two hundred and five feet in length instead of two hundred and fifty: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the bridge shall be rebuilt in accordance with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable streams,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the right reserved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment</p></sidenote> in section six of said Act is also reserved as to this amendment.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 195: For the widening of Twentieth street northwest, District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>195</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 649</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>195.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the widening of Twentieth street northwest, District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p>.<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/12678">H. R. 12678</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/264">Public. No. 264.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twentieth street northwest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for widening.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the Districtof Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed, for the purpose of widening Twent ieth street northwest, to institute proceedings to condemn all that part of lot fifteen of Richard E. Pairo’s subdivision of “Rosemount <page identifier="/us/stat/35/650">650</page> Park,” as recorded in book, county, six, page seventy-eight, surveyor’s office, District of Columbia, lying within the lines of Twentieth street northwest, north of Park road and lying west of the radial line of lot numbered thirty, block numbered four, Ingleside subdivision: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> <i>however</i>, That the entire, amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension, plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceedings hereunder.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated, out of the revenues of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages; to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 196: To amend an Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>196</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>196.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16747">H. R. 16747</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/265">Public, No. 265.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia. New highway plan for northeast section.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1244, amended.</p></sidenote> approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act for the opening of Mills avenue northeast from Rhode Island avenue to Twenty-fourth street,” be, and it is hereby, so amended as to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to prepare a new highway plan for that portion of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Area enlarged.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia lying west of Mills avenue, north of Franklin street, east of Twentieth street, and south of Rhode Island avenue northeast, and that portion of said District lying east of said Mills avenue, north of Franklin street, west of South Dakota avenue, and south of Rhode Island avenue northeast under the provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, entitled ‘An Act to provide a permanent system<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 532.</p></sidenote> of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,’ and an amendment to said Act approved June twenty-eighth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 519.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the place of and stand for any previous plan for said District.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 197: Extending the time for final entry of mineral claims within the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>197</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 650</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>197.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Extending the time for final entry of mineral claims within the Shoshone or Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23473">H. R. 23473</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/266">Public, No. 266.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section two of chapter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral claims in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of final entry extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1021, amended.</p></sidenote> fourteen hundred and fifty-two of the Statutes of the Fifty-eighth Congress (United States Statutes at Large, volume thirty-three, part one), being “An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians residing on the Shoshone or Wind River Indian Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, and to make appropriations to carry the same into <page identifier="/us/stat/35/651">651</page> effect.” be, and the same is hereby, amended so that all claimants and locators of mineral lands within the ceded portion of said reservation shall have five years from the date of location within which to make entry and payment instead of three years, as now provided by the said Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 198: Authorizing the widening and extension of Minnesota avenue southeast from its present terminus near Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the Sheriff road.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>198</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 651</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>198.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the widening and extension of Minnesota avenue southeast from its present terminus near Pennsylvania avenue southeast to the Sheriff road.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23861">H. R. 23861</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/267">Public, No. 267.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota avenue southeast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for widening, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 151.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the widening and extension of Minnesota avenue southeast from Pennsylvania avenue to the. Sheriff road, according to the permanent system of highway plans adopted in and for the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> <i>however</i>, That the entire amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension shall be assessed by the jury as benefits:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in said subchapter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> one of chapter fifteen of said code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated from the revenues of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expeases.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 199: For the widening and extension of Massachusetts avenue Southeast, from its present terminus near Fortieth street southeast, to Bowen road.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>199</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 651</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>199.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the widening and extension of Massachusetts avenue Southeast, from its present terminus near Fortieth street southeast, to Bowen road.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24152">H. R. 24152</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/268">Public, No. 268.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts avenue southeast.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for widening, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the widening and extension of Massachusetts avenue southeast, from its present terminus near Fortieth street southeast, to the Bowen road, according to the permanent system of highway plans in and for the District of Columbia: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the entire amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> found to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the hind to be condemned for said extension shall be assessed by the jury as benefits:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> That nothing in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said code shall be, construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder.</proviso>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/652">652</page></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated from the revenues of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto, and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 200: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a telephone system on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>200</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 652</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>200.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a telephone system on the island of Oahu, Territory of Hawaii,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25139">H. R. 25139</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/269">Public, No. 269.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time for construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oahu Island, Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for construction, etc., of telephone system on, by Standard Telephone Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 312, amended.</p></sidenote> of that portion of the telephone system of the Standard Telephone Company prescribed in the Act entitled “An Act to ratify, approve, and confirm an act duly enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, to authorize and provide for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a telephone system on the island of Oahu. Territory of Hawaii,” be, and is hereby, extended to three years from and after the passage of this Act, during which extended period the rights and privileges conferred upon the said Standard Telephone Company in and by said Acts shall continue in full force and effect, but subject to the forfeiture therein provided on the failure of said company to otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forfeiture.</p></sidenote> comply with the provisions of time limitations therein prescribed within such extended period.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 201: To authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways, District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>201</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 652</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>201.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize certain changes in the permanent system of highways, District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25149">H. R. 25149</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/270">Public, No. 270.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Commissioners of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New highway plan for northern section.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to prepare a new highway plan for that portion of the District of Columbia lying north of Evarts street north, east of North Capitol street, south of Michigan avenue, and west of Glenwood Cemetery, under the provisions contained in the Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 519.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-three, entitled “An Act to provide a permanent system of highways in that part of the District of Columbia lying outside of cities,” and an amendment to said Act approved June twentyeighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; that upon the completion and recording of said new highway plan it shall take the place of. and stand for, any previous plan for said portion of the District of Columbia; and that the portion of the highway thereby abandoned<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion toowners.</p></sidenote> shall revert to the abutting owners.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 202: To amend an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>202</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 652</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>202.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River at Burlington, Iowa.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26466">H. R. 26466</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/271">Public, No. 271.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time fixed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Burlington. Iowa.</p></sidenote> Act of Congress entitled “An Act to authorize the city of Burlington. Iowa, to construct a bridge across the Mississippi River,” approved <page identifier="/us/stat/35/653">653</page> January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, for the construction and completion of the bridge therein authorized to be constructed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 2, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> is hereby extended one year and three years, respectively, from January twenty-third, nineteen hundred and nine.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 203: To provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>203</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 653</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>203.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the extension of Rittenhouse street, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20472">H. R. 20472</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/272">Public, No. 272.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That within ninety days after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kitten house street northwest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for extending.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 151.</p></sidenote> the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a district court, under and in accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Rittenhouse street on a straight extension of the lines thereof, as now established on the highway extension plan in the District of Columbia, from its present terminus at Broad Branch road eastwardly to the Daniel road, with a uniform width of ninety feet: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total amount found to be due and awarded as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> damages, plus the cost and expenses of the proceedings, shall be assessed by the said jury as benefits.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby appropriated from the revenues of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages, to be repaid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefitsand covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 204: To authorize the construction of two bridges across Rock River, State of Illinois.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>204</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 253</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>204.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the construction of two bridges across Rock River, State of Illinois.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26482">H. R. 26482</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/273">Public, No. 273.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be It enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives. of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Rock River Traction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock River, III.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock River Traction Company may build two bridges across.</p></sidenote> Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct two bridges across Rock River: the first bridge at a point between the west line of section thirty and the west lino of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p></sidenote> fourteen in township twenty north, range five east, in the State of Illinois; the second bridge at a point between the east line of section thirty and the west line of section twenty-three in township twenty- one north, range seven east, in the State of Illinois. Said bridges to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> be built across Rock River, in accordance with the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is expressly<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> reserved.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 205: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the liorough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>205</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 654</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/654">654</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>205.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the liorough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26829">H. R. 26829</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/274">Public, No. 274.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section seven of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monongahela River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Fayette Bridge Company at Brownsville, Pa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p 1236.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 39, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act to authorize the Fayette Bridge Company to construct a bridge over the Monongahela River, Pennsylvania, from a point in the borough of Brownsville, Fayette County, to a point in the borough of West Brownsville, Washington County,” approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six. as amended by section one of the Act approved March seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall be null and void unless the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> of said bridge shall be commenced within one year from April twenty- third, nineteen hundred and nine, and shall be completed by April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the bridge to be constructed under the provisions of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> said Act shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 84.</p></sidenote> navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 206: To authorize Behn Brothers, of San Tuan, Porto Rico, to construct a bridge across a portion of the Condado Bay, at the eastern extremity of San Juan Island, Porto Rico.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>206</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 654</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>206.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize Behn Brothers, of San Tuan, Porto Rico, to construct a bridge across a portion of the Condado Bay, at the eastern extremity of San Juan Island, Porto Rico.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26838">H. R. 26838</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/275">Public, No. 275.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Behn Brothers, of San<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condado Bay, Porto Rico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Behn Brothers may bridge.</p></sidenote> Juan, Porto Rico, be, and are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a bridge and approaches thereto, across a portion of Condado Bay, at the eastern extremity of San Juan Island, Porto<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Location.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 34.</p></sidenote> Rico, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 207: Granting a right of way over a strip of land along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson Military Reservation to the commissioners of Fulton Countys Georgia, for road purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>207</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 654</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-25</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>207.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting a right of way over a strip of land along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson Military Reservation to the commissioners of Fulton Countys Georgia, for road purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-25">February 25, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27864">H. R. 27864</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/276">Public, No. 276.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort McPherson Military Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulton County, Ga., granted right of way through.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue a deed conveying to the commissioners of Fulton County, Georgia, a right of way over a strip of land twenty feet in width along the eastern boundary of the Fort McPherson Military Reservation, for so long only as the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> same shall be used for a public road between College Park, East Point. Fort McPherson, and Atlanta, Georgia: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of removal. etc., of buildings.</p></sidenote> removal and reconstruction of any post buildings which it may be found necessary to move in connection with the construction of said road way shall be borne by the authorities of Fulton County, Georgia.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 25, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 212: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- one, and the Acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>212</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 655</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/655">655</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>212.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- one, and the Acts amendatory thereto, approved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninetyeight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15442">H.R. 15442</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/277">Public, No. 277.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section eighteen of an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Private Land Claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for filing claims.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 862.</p></sidenote> Act entitled “An Act to establish a court of private land claims and to provide for the settlement of private land claims in certain States and Territories.” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- one, as amended by the Act approved February twenty-first, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 470.</p></sidenote> hundred and ninety-three, and by the Act approved June twenty-seventh,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 495, amended.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, further amended by striking out the words “before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and one,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and ten,” so that the first clause of said section shall read as follows, namely:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That all claims arising under either of the two next preceding sections<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time limit.</p></sidenote> of this Act shall be tiled with the surveyor-general of the proper State or Territory before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and ten, and no claim not so filed shall be valid.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the extension herein granted shall not apply to lands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> within the limits of a confirmed grant or embraced in any entry completed under the public land laws prior to filing of a claim hereunder, nor shall its provision extend to persons holding under assignments made after March third, nineteen hundred and one.</proviso></p></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 213: Authorizing the extension of Ninth street northwest.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>213</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 655</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>213.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the extension of Ninth street northwest.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16269">H. R. 16269</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/278">Public, No. 278.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia. Ninth street northwest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for extending.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Ninth street northwest from Barry place to Euclid street, with a width of fifty feet along such line as said commissioners may deem most advantageous: <proviso><i>Provided, however.</i> That the entire amount found to be due<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, <i>etc.</i>, assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages, for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension plus the costs and expenses of said proceeding, shall be assessed by the jury as benefits:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing in said subchapter one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby authorized to be expended from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> revenues of the District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> to be repaid to the District of Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 214: Authorizing the extension of Girard street northwest from its western terminus to Fifteenth street northwest.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>214</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 656</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/656">656</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>214.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the extension of Girard street northwest from its western terminus to Fifteenth street northwest.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/17303">H. R. 17303</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/279">Public, No. 279.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That, under and in accordance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Girard street northwest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning land for extending.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 151.</p></sidenote> with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, within ninety days after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to institute a proceeding in rem to condemn the land that may be necessary for the extension of Girard street from its western terminus to Fifteenth street with a width of sixty feet, more or less, upon such lines as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may deem most advantageous to the abutting property: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That the entire amount found<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc., assessed as benefits.</p></sidenote> to be due and awarded by the jury in said proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said extension shall be assessed by the jury as benefits: <i>And provided farther</i>, That nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> in said subchapter one of chapter fifteen of said Code shall be construed to authorize the jury to assess less than the aggregate amount of the damages awarded for and in respect of the land to be condemned and the costs and expenses of the proceeding hereunder.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby authorized to be expended from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> revenues of the District of Columbia an amount sufficient to pay the necessary costs and expenses of the condemnation proceedings taken pursuant hereto and for the payment of amounts awarded as damages,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment of awards.</p></sidenote> to be repaid to the District ol Columbia from the assessments for benefits and covered into the Treasury to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 215: Providing for an additional judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>215</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 656</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>215.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for an additional judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26068">H. R. 26068</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/280">Public, No. 280.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania western judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional judge appointed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 551, p. 93.</p></sidenote> United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint an additional judge for the western district of Pennsylvania, whose length of term, compensation, duties, and powers shall be the same as now provided by law for the judges of said district.</content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 216: To provide for the sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Ohio at the city of Youngstown, in said district.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>216</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 656</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
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<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>216.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the sittings of the United States circuit and district courts of the northern district of Ohio at the city of Youngstown, in said district.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27139">H. R. 27139</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/281">Public, No. 281.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That from and after the passage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio northern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Youngstown.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 100, 122.</p></sidenote> of this Act there shall be held at the city of Youngstown, in the northern district of Ohio, a term of both the circuit and district courts of said district on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March of each year.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That grand and petit jurors summoned for service at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service of jurors.</p></sidenote> terms of either of the courts aforesaid to be held at the city of Cleveland, may, if, in the opinion of the judge holding court in said division, the public convenience requires it, be directed to serve also at the term then being held, or herein authorized to be then held, at the city of Youngstown.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That prosecutions for crimes or offenses hereafter committed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prosecution of crimes.</p></sidenote> in any part of the eastern division of said district shall be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/657">657</page> cognizable at the terms aforesaid of either of the said courts having jurisdiction thereof.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That any judge of the United States holding court in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of trials.</p></sidenote> eastern division of the northern district of Ohio in pursuance of existing laws may cause to be held, at the city of Youngstown, the trial of any suit now pending or hereafter brought in the court wherein he shall be so, as aforesaid, sitting.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> of this Act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency, but not otherwise.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 217: To provide for t he parole of juvenile offenders committed to the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>217</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 657</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-26</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>217.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for t he parole of juvenile offenders committed to the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-26">February 26, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27425">H. R. 27425</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/282">Public, No. 282.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That every male juvenile<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parole for inmates of National Training School for Boys.</p></sidenote> offender who is now or may hereafter be committed to the National Training School for Boys, and who has by his conduct given sufficient evidence that he has reformed, may be released on parole as hereinafter provided.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Action by trustees.</p></sidenote> trustees of said school that there is reasonable probability that any boy detained in the said school will, if conditionally released, remain at liberty without violating the laws, then said board of trustees may in its discretion parole such boy under such conditionsand regulations as the said board of trustees may deem proper: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commitment from other courts.</p></sidenote> parole of all such juvenile offenders committed by courts other than those of the District of Columbia shall be subject to the approval of the Attorney-General of the United States.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> are hereby repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 26, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 223: To amend an Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>223</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 657</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>223.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15230">H. R. 15230</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/283">Public, No. 283.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act of February<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia. Fire department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 820, amended.</p></sidenote> twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and one, entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia,” be amended by adding thereto the following:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">a. That hereafter whenever any member of the fire department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical services to injured firemen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses paid from pension fund.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia in the actual discharge of his duty shall become, so disabled by injury as to require medical or surgical services or treatment other than such as can be rendered by the board of police and fire surgeons, the expense of such services or treatment may be paid from the firemen’s pension fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval, etc.</p></sidenote> That no such expenses shall be paid except upon the. recommendation of the chief engineer of the fire department, approved by the Commissioners of said District, and such recommendation must be accompanied by a certificate from a member of the board of fire surgeons setting forth the nature and cause of the sickness or disability which rendered such services or treatment necessary.”</proviso></content>
</section>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 224: Relating to the use, control, and ownership oí lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>224</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 658</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/658">658</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>224.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Relating to the use, control, and ownership oí lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/18694">H. R. 18694</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/284">Public, No. 284.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal Zone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases of public lands on.</p></sidenote> hereby authorized to grant leases of the public lands in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, for such period, not exceeding twenty-five years, and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem advisable. No lease, however, shall be granted for a tract of land in excess of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conditions.</p></sidenote> fifty hectares, nor to any person who shall not have first established, by affidavit and by such other proof as may be required, that such person is the head of a family or over the age of twenty-one years, and that the application for a lease is made in good faith for the purposes of actual settlement and cultivation, and not for the benefit of any other person whatsoever, and that such person will faithfully comply with all the requirements of law as to settlement, residence,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference to occupants.</p></sidenote> and cultivation. In granting such leases preference shall be accorded to actual occupants of lands in good faith.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That no portion of the lands of the United States within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands excepted.</p></sidenote> the Canal Zone shall be leased hereunder unless it shall first be made to appear, by a statement or plat filed by the Isthmian Canal Commission with the collector of revenues for the Canal Zone, that it is not contemplated to use such lands in the work of canal construction or to set the same aside as a town site; and all leases shall be made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Resumption of public use.</p></sidenote> subject to the provision that if at any time it shall become necessary, notwithstanding, for the United States to occupy or use any portion of the leased lands, it shall have the right to so do without further compensation to the lessee than for the reasonable value of the necessary improvements made upon said tracts by the lessee, the same to be determined by the courts of the Canal Zone.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all leases of lands hereunder shall reserve to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mineral, etc., rights reserved.</p></sidenote> United States all mineral, oil, and gas rights in the lands leased.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the President may, in his discretion, require a land<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey.</p></sidenote> survey to be made of the Canal Zone.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the powers conferred upon the President under this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delegation of authority.</p></sidenote> Act may be exercised by him through the Isthmian Canal Commission or in such other manner as he may designate.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 225: To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>225</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 225</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>225.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for the completion of a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Yankton, South Dakota, by the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/7378">S. 7378</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/285">Public. No. 285.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section six of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, at Yankton, S. Dak., by Winnipeg, Yankton, and Gulf Railroad Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 157.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 167, amended.</p></sidenote> approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and four, authorizing the Winnipeg, Yankton and Gulf Railroad Company to construct a combined railroad, wagon, and foot-passenger bridge, across the Missouri River at or near the city of Yankton, South Dakota, as amended by the Act approved May twentieth, nineteen hundred and eight, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the time within which the said bridge is required to be commenced shall be within one year and the time witlún which it is required that the said bridge shall be completed shall be within three years from the date of the approval of this Act.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 226: For the establishment of a subport of entry at Ranier, Minnesota.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>226</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 659</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/659">659</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>226.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the establishment of a subport of entry at Ranier, Minnesota.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/9017">S. 9017</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/286">Public, No. 286.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Ranier, Minnesota, be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ranier, Minn., made subport of entry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2595. p.513, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediate transportation facilities granted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 173.</p></sidenote> and is hereby, established as a subport of entry in the customs collection district of Minnesota, and that the privileges of the first section of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled “An Act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes,” being chapter one hundred and ninety, volume twenty-one, of the Statutes at Large, be, and the same are hereby, extended to said subport.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 227: To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.”</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>227</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 659</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
<processedBy>Digitization Vendor</processedBy>
<processedDate>2025-03-14</processedDate>
<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
<publicPrivate>public</publicPrivate>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>227.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes.”</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25155">H. R. 25155</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/287">Public, No. 287.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the third paragraph of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual sessions of legislature.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 694, amended.</p></sidenote> the seventh section of the Act entitled “An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes,” approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, is hereby amended to read as follows:</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">The legislature shall hold annual sessions, commencing on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Date, etc., of.</p></sidenote> the first Monday of February in each year and continuing not exceeding ninety days thereafter (Sundays and holidays not included) and the first meeting of the legislature shall be held upon the call of the governor within ninety days after the first election: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislature may determine date.</p></sidenote> Philippine Legislature after its first meeting as herein provided may by law fix a date other than the first Monday of February in each year for the commencement of its annual sessions:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That if at the termination of any session the appropriations necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions for governmental expenses.</p></sidenote> for the support of government shall not have been made, an amount equal to the sums appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes shall be deemed to be appropriated; and until the legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer may, with the advice of the governor. make the payments necessary for the purposes aforesaid.”</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<pLaw>
<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 228: To provide for improving the navigable capacity of the Sabine and Neches rivers, and the canal connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers with the mouth of Taylors Bayou.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>228</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 659</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-02-27</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>228.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for improving the navigable capacity of the Sabine and Neches rivers, and the canal connecting the Sabine and Neches rivers with the mouth of Taylors Bayou.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27863">H. R. 27863</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/288">Public. No. 288.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sabine and Neches rivers, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improving navigation of, permitted.</p></sidenote> be, and he is hereby, authorized, in his discretion, to permit the counties of Jefferson and Orange, or any subdivisions there of, in the State of Texas, or any citizen or citizens of said State, to improve the navigable capacity of the Sabine and Neches rivers, and the canal connecting the mouths of these rivers with the mouth of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canal connecting Taylors Bayou with.</p></sidenote> Taylors Bayou, by deepening and otherwise improving the same, such work to be done in accordance with such plans and specifications<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p></sidenote> as may be approved by him on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the prosecution of the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervision, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be subject to the supervision, control, and regulation of the Secretary of War, and to such special conditions as he may impose for the protection of the interests of the United States: <i>Provided further</i>, That the entire cost of any work which may be done under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost.</p></sidenote> authority hereby granted shall be borne by the party or parties to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/660">660</page> whom the permit is issued, and neither this Act, nor any privilege acquired, or work executed thereunder, shall be used as the basis for any claim against the United States for remuneration for any expenditures made by the said party or parties:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the methods to be pursued in executing the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts, etc.</p></sidenote> herein authorized, including the making of the necessary contracts and the expenditure of the funds provided, shall be such as may be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of War and the parties to whom the permit is issued.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 229: To amend an Act to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>229</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>229.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act to authorize a bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-02-27">February 27, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28104">H.R. 28104</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/289">Public, No. 289.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America, in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Act to authorize a<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Missouri River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for bridging, by Central Railroad and Bridge Company, at Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 3, amended.</p></sidenote> bridge across the Missouri River at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, approved February first, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby amended so as to give to the Central Railroad and Bridge Company, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, all the authority and rights granted under said Act if the actual construction, of the bridge authorized by said Act is commenced within one year and completed within three years from the passage of this Act.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, February 27, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 232: Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>232</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>232.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the service of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-01">March 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26305">H. R, 26305</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/290">Public. No. 290.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal service appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department, in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 5, p. 80.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-six, as follows:</p>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For advertising for the Post-Office Department and postal service,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of suitable buildings for the use of the Post-Office Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair shop and supplies division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of buildings.</p></sidenote> including the mail-bag repair shop, lock repair shop, amd the division of supplies, thirty-four thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For gas, electric power and light, and the repair of machinery, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Salaries of Post-Office Inspectors</inline>: For salaries of fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office inspectors.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> inspectors in charge of divisions, at three thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; fifteen inspectors, at two thousand dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: one hundred and thirty inspectors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one hundred and ten inspectors, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; and fifty inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, in all, five hundred and seventy-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance of inspectors in the field while actually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/661">661</page> Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary allowances.</p></sidenote> may, in his discretion, allow inspectors per diem while temporarily located at any place on business away from their home, or their designated domicile, for a period not exceeding twenty consecutive days at any one place, and make rules and regulations governing the foregoing provisions relating to per diem:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> That no per diem shall be paid to inspectors receiving annual salaries of two thousand dollars or more.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks at division headquarters, fifteen, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, etc., division headquarters.</p></sidenote> one thousand six hundred dollars each ; nine, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-seven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirteen, at one thousand dollars each; and six, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, ninety-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of inspectors without per diem allowance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> inspectors in charge, and the chief post-office inspector, and expenses incurred by inspectors not covered by per diem allowance, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For livery hire incurred by inspectors not covered by their per diem<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Livery hire.</p></sidenote> allowance, including livery hire in connection with the installation and inspection of rural routes, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary miscellaneous expenses at division headquarters, six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rewards, etc.</p></sidenote> of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That of the amount herein appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obtaining information.</p></sidenote> not to exceed five thousand dollars may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General, for the purpose of securing information concerning violations of the postal laws, and for services and information looking toward the apprehension of criminals.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor-saving devices.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 407.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars for expenses incident to the investigation and testing of mechanical and labor-saving devices, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for the use of the postal service, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the first assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to postmasters, twenty-seven million dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmasters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to assistant postmasters at first and second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant postmasters.</p></sidenote> class post-offices, four, at not exceeding four thousand dollars each; thirty-one, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each: four, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each; five, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each; eleven, at not exceeding one thousand nine hundred dollars each; thirty, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each; sixty-nine, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each; one hundred and seven, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each: one hundred and fifty-seven, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; one hundred and fourteen, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two hundred and seventy-six, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; four hundred and fifty-three, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; two hundred and eighteen, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; one hundred and eighty-one, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; two hundred and eleven, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/662">662</page> at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; two hundred and sixty- three, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; and one hundred, at not exceeding seven hundred dollars each; in all, two million six hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment anil assignment of assistant postmasters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote> hereunder shall be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks and employees at first and second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> class post-offices:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,200.</p></sidenote> of money order, and superintendents of registry, sixteen, at not exceeding three thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Auditors, two, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $3,000.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery and superintendents of mails, nineteen,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,700.</p></sidenote> at not exceeding two thousand seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cashiers, superintendents of delivery, and superintendents of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,600.</p></sidenote> mails, twenty, at not exceeding two thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, and superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,500.</p></sidenote> of stations, six, at not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,400.</p></sidenote> of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, thirty-three, at not exceeding two thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of mails, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,200.</p></sidenote> mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, finance clerks, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, and superintendents of stations, twenty-two, at not exceeding two thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chief stamp clerks, night superintendents, superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,100.</p></sidenote> of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of inquiry, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, and superintendents of registry, twenty, at not exceeding two thousand one hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $2,000.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, bookkeepers, cashiers, examiners of stations, finance clerks, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, superintendents of inquiry, and superintendents of stations, ninety-five, at not exceeding two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,800.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stat ions, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, eighty-four, at not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,700.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/663">663</page> examiners of stations, finance clerks, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and thirteen, at not exceeding one thousand seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,600.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and seventeen, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,600.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, one hundred and sixty-two, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,400.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, examiners of stations, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of delivery, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, four hundred and thirteen, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, superintendents of delivery, assistant superintendents<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,300.</p></sidenote> of money order, assistant superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, cashiers, chief mailing clerks, chief stamp clerks, special clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secret aries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of mails, superintendents of money order, superintendents of registry, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, six hundred and thirty, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant cashiers, assistant superintendents of delivery, assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,200.</p></sidenote> superintendents of mails, assistant superintendents of money order, assistant superintendents of registry, assistant superintendents of stations, bookkeepers, chief stamp clerks, clerks, finance clerks, foremen of crews, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, six thousand nine hundred and sixty-one, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, private secretaries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,100.</p></sidenote> superintendents of carriers, superintendents of second-class matter, and superintendents of stations, seven thousand eight hundred and fifteen, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant superintendents of stations, clerks, clerks in charge of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $1,000.</p></sidenote> stations, private secretaries, superintendents of carriers, and superintendents of second-class matter, six thousand, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/664">664</page> Clerks, clerks in charge of stations, and private secretaries, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $900.</p></sidenote> thousand, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, four thousand, at not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $800.</p></sidenote> exceeding eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clerks, and clerks in charge of stations, one thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">At $600.</p></sidenote> and twenty-five, at not exceeding six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Substitutes for clerks and employees absent without pay;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-one million nine hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum, and the assignment of the several grades of compensation to the various offices shall be made, so far as practicable, in proportion to the amount of business transacted through such offices and the respective divisions thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to printers, mechanics, and skilled laborers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printers, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote> ten, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand dollars each; and six, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to watchmen, messengers, and laborers, six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watehmen, messengers. etc.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty, at seven hundred dollars each; four hundred and twenty-five, at six hundred dollars each; and one hundred and forty, at five hundred dollars each; in all, seven hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract station clerks.</p></sidenote> above three hundred dollars each, and not to exceed one thousand dollars each, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to clerks in charge of contract stations, at a rate not to exceed three hundred dollars each, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to substitutes for clerks and employees at first<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes for clerks on leave.</p></sidenote> and second class post-offices on vacation, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at first and second class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary and auxiliary clerks.</p></sidenote> post-offices and temporary anil auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post-offices, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For separating mails at third and fourth class post-offices, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Separating mails.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For unusual conditions at post-offices, one hundred and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the cost of clerical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, third-class offices.</p></sidenote> services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand dollars to one thousand five hundred dollars, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no allowance in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments not exceeding $300.</p></sidenote> excess of two hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand dollars, one thousand one hundred dollars, or one thousand two hundred dollars; nor in excess of three hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand three hundred dollars, one thousand four hundred dollars, or one thousand five hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For allowance to third-class post-offices to cover the cost of clerical services in offices where the salaries of the postmasters range from one thousand six hundred dollars to one thousand nine hundred dollars, seven hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no allowance in excess<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments not exceeding $500.</p></sidenote> of four hundred dollars shall be made where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand six hundred dollars, or one thousand seven hundred dollars; nor in excess of five hundred dollars where the salary of the postmaster is one thousand eight hundred dollars, or one thousand nine hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/665">665</page> For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent, light, and fuel.</p></sidenote> three million nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That there shall not be allowed for the use of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of five hundred dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for fuel and light in any one year:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Postmaster-General may, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ten-year leases.</p></sidenote> disbursement of this appropriation, apply a part thereof to the purpose of leasing premises for the use of post-offices of the first, second, and third classes, at a reasonable annual rental, to be paid quarterly, for a term not exceeding ten years.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post-offices of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> the first anil second class, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rental or purchase of canceling machines, including cost of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canceling machines.</p></sidenote> power in rented buildings, motors, repairs to motors, and miscellaneous expenses of installation and operation, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to thirteen assistant superintendents, salary and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendents.</p></sidenote> allowance division, at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum each, and for their per diem allowance when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General not to exceed four dollars per day, and for other necessary official expenses, forty-four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers at offices already established, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letter carriers.</p></sidenote> substitutes for carriers absent without pay, city delivery service, and for the pay of letter carriers in second-class post-oflices eligible for promotion to the fifth grade, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars. In all, twenty-nine million six hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote> auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices already established, one million three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers, substitute anil auxiliary letter carriers at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New offices.</p></sidenote> new offices entitled to city delivery service, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For horse-hire allowance and the rental of vehicles, eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse hire, etc.</p></sidenote> and fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car fare and bicycle allowance, four hundred and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare and bicycles.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For street-car collection service, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street-car collections.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation to twenty-two mechanics, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For marine postal service, Detroit, Michigan, six thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detroit, marine service.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses of the city delivery service, including freight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">incidentals.</p></sidenote> and drayage on equipment, furniture, and supplies, and erecting, painting, and repairing letter and package boxes and posts, repairing clocks and other equipment, and for maps, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For car faro for special-delivery messengers in emergency cases,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special-delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Car fare.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fees to special-delivery messengers, one million three hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the First Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the second assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by star routes, including temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Star routes.</p></sidenote> service to newly established offices, seven million sixty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/666">666</page> expended for continuance of any star-route sendee the patronage of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discontinuance if served by rural delivery.</p></sidenote> which shall be served entirely by the extension of rural delivery service, nor shall any of said sum be expended for the establishment of new star-route service for a patronage which is already entirely served by rural delivery service: <i>Provided</i>, That out of this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska emergency service.</p></sidenote> the Postmaster-General is authorized to provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable without advertising therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">steamboat, etc., routes.</p></sidenote> routes, seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail-messenger sendee, one million six hundred and thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messenger sendee.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the transmission of mail by pneumatic tubes or other similar<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pneumatic tubes, etc.</p></sidenote> devices, one million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, one million six<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wagon service.</p></sidenote> hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail bags, metal for mail-bag attachments, cord fasteners,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail bags. etc.</p></sidenote> label cases, and labor and material necessary for manufacture and repairing equipment, and for incidental expenses pertaining thereto, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments for Alaska and island possessions.</p></sidenote> this appropriation the Postmaster-General is authorized to use so much of the sum, not exceeding four thousand five hundred dollars, as may be deemed necessary for the purchase of material, and the manufacture in the mail-bag repair shop of such small quantities of distinctive equipment as may be required by other executive departments, and for service in Alaska, Porto Rico, Philippine Islands, Hawaii, or other island possessions, and for such special equipment for testing and for other purposes in connection with the reduction in the weight of mail equipment.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, fuel, electric power, and incidental expenses pertaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment shop, Chicago, III.</p></sidenote> to the maintenance of a subworkshop for the repair of mail equipment at Chicago, Illinois, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, machinery and labor and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Locks, keys, etc.</p></sidenote> material necessary for manufacturing and repairing same, and incidental expenses pertaining thereto; also for making in the mail-lock repair shop such metal attachments as may be needed for use in the manufacture and repair of mail equipment, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation by railroad routes, forty-six million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railroad routes.</p></sidenote> five hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight on postal cards, etc.</p></sidenote> newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Postmaster-General shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Withdrawal from mails at weighing periods.</p></sidenote> require, when in freightable lots and whenever practicable, the withdrawal from the mails of all postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, in the respective weighing divisions of the country, immediately preceding the weighing period in said divisions, and thereafter such postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, empty mail bags, furniture, equipment, and other supplies for the postal service, except postage stamps, shall be transmitted by either freight or express.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For railway post-office car service, four million eight hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post-office car service.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Railway Mail Service</inline>: For thirteen division superintendents, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Railway Mail Service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division officers,etc.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars each; thirteen assistant division superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; five assistant superintendents, at two thousand dollars each; nineteen assistant superintendents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and thirty-six chief clerics, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two hundred and eighty-six clerks, class six, at not exceeding <page identifier="/us/stat/35/667">667</page> one thousand six hundred dollars each: one thousand four hundred and eleven clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars each; five hundred and eighty-three clerks, class five, at not exceeding one thousand four hundred dollars each; two thousand six hundred and fifty-seven clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand three hundred dollars each; two thousand and fifty-six clerks, class four, at not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each; six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight clerks, class three, at not exceeding one thousand one hundred dollars each; two thousand six hundred clerks, class two, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each; six hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding nine hundred dollars each; six hundred clerks, class one, at not exceeding eight hundred dollars each; in all, nineteen million four hundred and sixty-five thousand three hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General may hereafter, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sick leave.</p></sidenote> under such regulations as he may provide, allow a clerk who is sick leave of absence with pay, his duties to be performed without expense to the Government during the period for which he is granted leave, not exceeding thirty days in any fiscal year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appointment and assignment of clerks hereunder shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments limited.</p></sidenote> be so made during the fiscal year as not to involve a greater aggregate expenditure than this sum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary clerk hire in classes one and two for emergency<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency service.</p></sidenote> service, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For substitutes for clerks on vacation, sixty-five thousand dollars:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Postmaster-General may hereafter allow railway<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual vacation.</p></sidenote> postal clerks whose duties require them to work six days or more per week, fifty-two weeks per year, an annual vacation of fifteen days with <i>pay.</i></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For acting clerks, in place of clerks or substitutes injured while<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acting clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance in case of death.</p></sidenote> on duty, and to enable the Postmaster-General to pay the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be exempt from payment of debts of the deceased, to the legal representatives of any railway postal clerk or substitute railway postal clerk who shall be killed while on duty, or who, being injured while on duty, shall die within one year thereafter as the result of such injury, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For actual and necessary expenses, division superintendents,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> assistant division superintendents, and chief clerks, Railway Mail Service, and railway postal clerks, while actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department and away from their several designated headquarters, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, light, fuel, telegraph, and miscellaneous office expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> schedules of mail trains, telephone service, and badges for railway postal clerks, sixty-nine thousand dollars, including rental of offices lor division headquarters, Railway Mail Service, in Washington, District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents while actually<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem, etc., assistant superintendents.</p></sidenote> traveling on official business away from their home, their official domicile, and their headquarters, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not to exceed four dollars per day, thirty thousand dollars, and for their necessary official expenses not covered by their per diem allowance, not exceeding three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric and cable car service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the rate of compensation to be paid per mile shall not exceed the rate now paid to companies performing such service, except that the Postmaster-General, in cases where the quantity of mail is large and the number of exchange points numerous, may, in his discretion, authorize payment for closed-pouch service at a rate per mile not to exceed <page identifier="/us/stat/35/668">668</page> one-third above the rate per mile now paid for closed-pouch service; and for mail cars and apartments carrying the mails, not to exceed the rate of one cent per linear foot per car mile of travel: <i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outside of cities.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That the rates for electric-car service on routes over twenty- live miles in length outside of cities shall not exceed the rates paid for service on steam railroads: <i>Provided, however</i>, That not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unusual conditions, etc.</p></sidenote> thirty thousand dollars of the sum hereby appropriated may be expended, in the discretion of the Postmaster-General where unusual conditions exist or where such service will be more expeditious and efficient and at no greater cost than otherwise.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For transportation of foreign mails, three million five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign mails.</p></sidenote> and seventy-three thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the PostmasterGeneral<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks on steamships.</p></sidenote> shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding one hundred and thirty thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expenses of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union, and not exceeding eighty thousand dollars for transferring the foreign mail from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pier transfers, New York and San Francisco.</p></sidenote> incoming steamships in New York Bay to the steamship and railway piers, and for transferring the foreign mail from incoming steamships in San Francisco Bay to the piers; also for transferring the mail from steamships performing service under contract for transporting United States mail.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant superintendent, division of foreign mails, with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant superintendent.</p></sidenote> headquarters in New York, New York, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For balances due foreign countries, three hundred and four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances due foreign countries.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the third assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamps.</p></sidenote> stamps, and books of stamps, five hundred and ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stamped envelopes and wrappers.</p></sidenote> one million three hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute stamped<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution and inspection.</p></sidenote> and official envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency at Dayton, Ohio, including expenses attendant on inspection of manufacture of official envelopes at Cincinnati, Ohio, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For manufacture of postal cards, two hundred and seventeen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postal cards.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent and assistants to examine and distribute postal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution, etc.</p></sidenote> cards, and expenses of agency, eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ship, steamboat, and way letters, five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ship, etc., letters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of first- class<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indemnity, lost registered letters.</p></sidenote> domestic registered matter, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of registered articles<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International articles.</p></sidenote> in the international mails, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special counsel, second-class mail privilege suits.</p></sidenote> of ten thousand dollars for the employment of special counsel to prosecute and defend suits affecting the second-class mailing privilege is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/669">669</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the fourth assistant postmaster-general.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery, including all money-order offices, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For official and registry envelopes, two hundred and twenty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official and registry envelopes.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of agent anil assistants to examine and distribute registry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution.</p></sidenote> envelopes: agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; and one laborer, at six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand anil sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blanks, blank books, printed anil engraved matter, binding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money-oder blanks, etc.</p></sidenote> and carbon paper for the money-order service, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blanks, books, and printed matter of urgent or special character,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Registry blanks, etc.</p></sidenote> including the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of a pamphlet containing general postal information, intaglio seals, and other miscellaneous items of immediate necessity for the registry system, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplies for the city-delivery service, including letter boxes, letterbox<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">City delivery supplies.</p></sidenote> fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postmarking, rating, and money-order stamps and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmarking, etc., stamps.</p></sidenote> same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For letter balances, scales, test weights, repairs to same, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Letter scales, etc.</p></sidenote> tape measures, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping paper, fifteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wrapping paper.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For wrapping twine and tying devices, two hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Twine, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Facing slips, etc.</p></sidenote> paper for same; anil for card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriting machines,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous supplies.</p></sidenote> envelope-opening machines, anil computing machines, and for the purchase or copying presses, numbering machines, anil miscellaneous articles purchased and furnished directly to the postal service, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplies for the rural delivery service, including collection boxes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery supplies.</p></sidenote> furniture, satchels, badges, straps, map supplies, repairing satchels and furniture, repairing, erecting, and painting collection boxes in the rural delivery service, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To defray expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shipping supplies.</p></sidenote> hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter and three laborers for assignment in connection therewith, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of letter carriers, substitutes for carriers on annual leave,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural delivery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carriers, etc.</p></sidenote> clerks in charge of substations, and tolls and ferriage, rural delivery service, thirty-seven million three hundred and sixty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of oue hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substation clerks.</p></sidenote> not to exceed twelve thousand dollars of the amount hereby appropriated may be useil for compensation of clerks in charge of substations: <i>Provided further</i>, That in the discretion of the Postmaster-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power boats.</p></sidenote> the pay of any carrier on a water route who furnishes his own power boat and is employed during the summer months may be fixed at an amount not exceeding nine hundred dollars in any one calendar year.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/670">670</page> For travel and miscellaneous expenses in the postal service, office<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-four of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonds of postmasters.</p></sidenote> Statutes be amended by striking therefrom the following words:“and where an office is designated as a money-order office, the bond<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Money-order condition omitted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3834. p. 751, amended.</p></sidenote> of the postmaster shall contain an additional condition for the faithful performance of all duties and obligations in connection with the money-order business.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No payment to permanently incapacitated persons.</p></sidenote> persons employed in the postal service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for performing such service. The establishment of a civil-pension roll or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pension roll, etc., prohibited.</p></sidenote> an honorable-service roll, or the exemption of any of the officers, clerks, and persons in the postal service from the existing laws respecting employment in such service is hereby prohibited.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations to meet deficiencies.</p></sidenote> to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenue of said department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post-Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the sum needed may be advanced to the Post-Office Department upon requisition of the Postmaster-General.</p></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 233: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” relative to gambling, bucket shops, and bucketing.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>233.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” relative to gambling, bucket shops, and bucketing.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-01">March 1, 1909</approvedDate>.</p>.<p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/20111">H. R. 20111</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/291">Public. No. 291</ref>]</p>.]</sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia Code amendments</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gambling.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 1381, amended.</p></sidenote> and sixty-nine of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to establish a Code of Law for the District of Columbia,” approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, be, and is hereby, amended by adding sections eight hundred and sixty-nine a, eight hundred and sixty-nine b, eight hundred and sixty-nine c, and eight hundred and sixty-nine d, so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="869">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 869.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">a. <inline class="smallCaps">An Act to Prohibit Bucketing and Bucket Shopping</inline><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">bucket shops, etc., prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Definitions.</p></sidenote> <inline class="smallCaps">And to Abolish Bucket Shops</inline>.—The following words and phrases used in this Act shall, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, have the following meanings:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Person’ shall mean an individual, partnership, corporation, or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Person.”</p></sidenote> association, whether acting in his or their own right or as the officer, agent, servant, correspondent, or representative of another.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Contract’ shall mean any agreement, trade, or transaction.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Contract.”</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Securities’ shall mean all evidences of debt or property and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Securities.”</p></sidenote> options for the purchase and sale thereof, shares in any corporation or association, bonds, coupons, scrip, rights, choses in action, and other evidences of debt or property and options for the purchase or sale thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Commodities’ shall mean anything movable that is bought and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Commodities. ’</p></sidenote> sold.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Bucket shop’ shall mean any room, office, store, building, or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Bucket shop.”</p></sidenote> place where any contract prohibited by this Act is made or offered to be made.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘Keeper’ shall mean any person owning, keeping, managing, operating,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Keeper.”</p></sidenote> or promoting a bucket shop, or assisting to keep, manage, operate, or promote a bucket shop.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“‘ Bucketing’ or ‘bucket shopping’ shall mean: (a) The making of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Bucketing,” “bucket shopping.”</p></sidenote> or offering to make any contract respecting the purchase or sale, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/671">671</page> either upon credit or upon margin, of any securities or commodities wherein both parties thereto intend, or such keeper intends, that such contract shall be, or may be, terminated, closed, or settled according to or upon the basis of the public market quotations of prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon which said securities or commodities are dealt in and without a bona fide purchase or sale of the same; or (b) the making of or offering to make any contract respecting the purchase or sale, either upon credit or upon margin, of any securities or commodities, wherein noth parties intend, or such keeper intends, that such contract shall be, or may be, deemed terminated, closed, or settled when such public market quotations of prices for the securities or commodities named in such contract shall reach a certain figure without a bona fide purchase or sale of the same: or (c) the making of or offering to make any contract respecting the purchase or sale, either upon credit or upon margin, of any securities or commodities wherein both parties do not intend, or such keeper does not intend, the actual or bona fide receipt or delivery of such securities or commodities, but do intend, or such keeper does intend, a settlement of such contract based upon the differences in such public market quotations of prices at which said securities or commodities are or are asserted to be bought and sold.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="869">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 869.</num> <content class="inline">b. Any person who makes or offers to make any contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for violations.</p></sidenote> defined in the preceding section, or who is the keeper of any bucket shop, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year. Any person who shall be convicted of a second offense shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second offense.</p></sidenote> punished by imprisonment for not more than five years. The continuing of the keeping of a bucket shop by any person after the first conviction therefor shall be deemed a second offense under this Act. If a domestic corporation shall be convicted of a second offense, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic corporations.</p></sidenote> supreme court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction, upon an information in equity in the name of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, on the relation of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to dissolve the corporation; and if a foreign corporation shall be convicted of a second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign corporations.</p></sidenote> offense, the supreme court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction, in the same manner, to restrain the corporation from doing business in the District of Columbia.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="869">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 869.</num> <content class="inline">c. Any person who shall communicate, receive, exhibit,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Punishment for displaying quotations, etc.</p></sidenote> or display in any manner any statement of quotations of prices of any securities or commodities with an intent to make, or offer to make, or to aid in making, or offering to make any contract prohibited by this Act, upon conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalties provided in the preceding section.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="869">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 869.</num> <content class="inline">d. Every person shall furnish, upon demand, to any customer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Information to customer of actual sales.</p></sidenote> or principal for whom such person has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale of any securities or commodities, either for immediate or future delivery, a written statement, containing the names of the persons from whom such property was bought or to whom it has been sold, as the fact may be, the time when, place where, and the price at which the same was either bought or sold; and if such person shall refuse or neglect to furnish such statement within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of refusal.</p></sidenote> twenty-four hours after such demand such refusal or neglect shall be prima facie evidence that such purchase or sale was bucketing or ucket shopping within the terms of this Act.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 1, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 235: Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>235</docNumber>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/672">672</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>235.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27628">H. R. 27628</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/292">Public, No. 292.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diplomatic and consular appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
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<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE A.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule A.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of ambassadors and ministers.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambassadors.</p></sidenote> Brazil. Erance, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico. Russia, and Turkey, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.</p></sidenote> Republic, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador. and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, ninety thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary anil ministers plenipotentiary to Denmark, Morocco, Norway, Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Roumania and Servia and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, Sweden, and Switzerland, at ten thousand dollars each, eighty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Ecuador, Haiti, Persia, and Siam, at ten thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minister resident and consul-general to t he Dominican Republic,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ministers resident and consuls-general.</p></sidenote> ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Agent and consul-general at Cairo, six thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, etc., Cairo.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary restriction.</p></sidenote> official receiving any other salary from the United States Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chargés d’affaires ad interim, forty thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charges d’affaires.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, five hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The following provision of an Act making appropriations for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ministers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority to change rank annulled.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 497, repealed.</p></sidenote> diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and is hereby, repealed, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Whenever the President shall be advised that any foreign government is represented, or is about to be represented, in the United States by an ambassador, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, special envoy, or chargé d’affaires, he is authorized, in his discretion, to direct that the representative of the United States to such government shall bear the same designation. This provision shall in nowise affect the duties, powers, or salary of such representative.”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And hereafter no new ambassadorship shall be created unless the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New ambassadorships restricted to Act of Congress.</p></sidenote> same shall be provided for by Act of Congress.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/673">673</page> Section sixteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of embassy. etc., acting as chargé d’affaires.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1685, p. 295, amended.</p></sidenote> hereby amended to read as follows: “For such time as any secretary of embassy or legation shall be lawfully authorized to act as chargé d’affaires ad interim at the post to which ho shall have been appointed, he shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his salary as secretary of embassy or legation, compensation equal to the difference between such salary and fifty per centum of t he salary provided by law for the ambassador or minister at such post.”</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretaries of embassies and legations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Great Britain,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of legation to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretaries of legation to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Salvador and consul-general to San Salvador, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Siam and consul-general at Bangkok, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Greece and Montenegro, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Paraguay and Uruguay, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation and consul-general to Roumania and Servia, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Secretary of legation to Persia, who shall be an American student of the language of that country, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Great<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Second secretaries.</p></sidenote> Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of embassy to Japan, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of legation to China, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of that court and country, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretaries of embassy to Great Britain, France, Mexico,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third secretaries.</p></sidenote> Germany, and Russia, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretary of embassy to Japan, who shall be an American student of the Japanese language, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Third secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the Turkish language, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/674">674</page></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Instruction and transit pay.</p></sidenote> officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition anil authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. 8., sec. 1740, p. 309.</p></sidenote> and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby appropriated.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>clerks at embassies and legations.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at embassies, etc.</p></sidenote> legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to embassy to Turkey, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chinese secretary, legation to China, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Japanese secretary and interpreter to embassy to Japan, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpreters in China.</p></sidenote> citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said student interpreters shall be chosen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legation and consulates in China so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> the legation to China at the rate, of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpreters in Japan.</p></sidenote> citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said student interpreters shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tenn of service.</p></sidenote> be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Japan so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> embassy to Japan, at the rate, of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/675">675</page> For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Student interpreters in Turkey.</p></sidenote> citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the language of Turkey with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said student interpreters shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nonpartisan selection.</p></sidenote> chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That upon receiving such appointment each student<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Term of service.</p></sidenote> interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Turkey so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuition.</p></sidenote> embassy to Turkey, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, forty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on salaries.</p></sidenote> shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For two clerks to be employed by the Department of State and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to distribute information.</p></sidenote> be charged with the distribution of information among the diplomatic missions, one at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and one at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses, foreign missions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses, foreign missions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dispatch agents.</p></sidenote> Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consular<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of five cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, thirty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>steam launch for legation at constantinople.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hiring of steam launch for use of the embassy at Constantinople,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam launch, Turkey.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Japan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ground rent.</p></sidenote> ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/676">676</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Spartel light.</p></sidenote> Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bringing home criminals.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home criminals.</p></sidenote> persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Life-saving testimonials.</p></sidenote> services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses under the neutrality act.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, neutrality act.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.</p></sidenote> the neutrality Act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety- one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unforeseen emergencies.</p></sidenote> the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die Abroad.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad.</p></sidenote> forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bringing home remains of diplomatic and consular officers.</p></sidenote> and consular officers of the United States, including consular clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of weights and measures.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau of Weights and Measures.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20. p. 714.</p></sidenote> Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction <page identifier="/us/stat/35/677">677</page> of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Customs Tariffs Bureau.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26. p. 1518.</p></sidenote> the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand five hundred dollars; this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and nine, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mexican Water Boundary Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 1011: Vol. 26. p. 1512.</p></sidenote> of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>elimination of bancos in the rio grande.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the. United States in the expense of carrying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rio Grande.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Elimination of bancos in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>post</i> p. 1863.</p></sidenote> out the provisions of the convention of March twentieth, nineteen hundred and five, between the United States and Mexico for the elimination of the bancos in the Rio Grande, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau for Repression of African Slave Trade.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 917.</p></sidenote> special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and ten, one hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international prison commission.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Prison Commission.</p></sidenote> the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the participation of the United States in the Eighth International<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Internationa1 Prison Congress.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1284.</p></sidenote> Prison Congress to be held at the city of Washington in nineteen hundred and ten, in pursuance of the invitation extended by the President in virtue of the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to meet the expenses that shall actually and necessarily be incurred by the United States by reason of such invitation, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Geodetic Association.</p></sidenote> the American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/678">678</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>repairs to legation and consular premises.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to legations and consulates.</p></sidenote> consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, ten thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>installation of a water supply at seoul.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to install a water-supply system<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seoul, Korea.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Installing water supply.</p></sidenote> in the American consulate-general at Seoul, Korea, seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-five cents.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international union of american republics.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">International Bureau of American Republics, fifty-six thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of American Republics.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of moneys received.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the bureau, shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may bo drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the bureau:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to print an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monthly Bulletin.</p></sidenote> edition of the Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies, for distribution by the bureau every month during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. I793.</p></sidenote> year nineteen hundred and eight of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague, July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international institute of agriculture.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Institute of Agriculture.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>. p. 1918.</p></sidenote> of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and ten, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international railway congress.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Railway Congress.</p></sidenote> the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and ten, four hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international sanitary bureau.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Sanitary Bureau.</p></sidenote> the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and ten, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy- nine cents.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reports relative to the work of the joint high commission.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joint High Commission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation of reports, etc.</p></sidenote> Secretary of State to utilize and carry out the work partly performed by the Joint High Commission of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight for the settlement of questions relating to Canada and for the settlement of questions relating to Newfoundland, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to become immediately available.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/679">679</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>boundary line, alaska and canada.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary. Alaska and Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82. p. 1961.</p></sidenote> the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quarters for the student interpreters at the embassy to japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Japan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for student interpreters.</p></sidenote> embassy at Tokyo, Japan, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries and expenses, united states court for china.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">United States court for China.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> district attorney of the United States court for China, four thousand dollars; marshal of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; clerk of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; stenographer of the United States court for China, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for court expenses, seven thousand dollars; total, twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge and district attorney.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sessions other than at Shanghai.</p></sidenote> sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed ten dollars per day for the judge and five dollars per day for the district attorney, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of deputy marshals at Canton and Tientsin, so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy marshals.</p></sidenote> much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of deputy clerks at Canton and Tientsin, so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy clerks.</p></sidenote> as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for China<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The judicial authority and jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consu1general, Shanghai.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial authority of. transferred to a vice-consul-general.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 814.</p></sidenote> now vested in and reserved to the consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, China, by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act creating a United States court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof,” shall, subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, be vested in and exercised by a vice-consul-general of the United States to be designated from time to time by the Secretary of State, and the consul-general at Shanghai shall thereafter be relieved of his judicial functions.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>boundary line, united states and canada.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the more effective demarkation and mapping, pursuant to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boundary. United States and Canada.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 2003.</p></sidenote> treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/680">680</page> the Secretary of State, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, together with the unexpended balance appropriated for the demarkation of the boundary line west of the Rocky Mountains by the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to remain available until expended as provided in said Acts.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fisheries convention, united states and canada.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the compensation of a commission on the part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fishery Commission, Canadian.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>. p. 2000.</p></sidenote> of the United States under the convention between the United States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and of the share of the United States of the expenses that may be incurred in putting into operation and carryingout the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international congress of hygiene and demography.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Government of the United States suitably to participate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1422.</p></sidenote> in the Twelfth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, which will be held at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in nineteen hundred and ten,in pursuance of the invitation extended by the President of the United States in virtue of the joint resolution of the Congress thereof, approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, and to meet the expenses that will actually and necessarily’ be incurred by the United States by reason of such invitation and meeting, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international commission on private and public international law.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of compensation to, and of the necessary expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Commission on International Law.</p></sidenote> of, a commissioner to represent the United States in the international commission, which, in pursuance of the convention signed at the Third International Conference of American States, on August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate on February third, nineteen hundred and eight, and ratified by the President on February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, is to meet at the city of Rio de Janeiro in May, nineteen hundred and nine, for the purpose of preparing draft codes of private and public international law regulating the relations between the nations of America; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation of the drafts, including the compensation of the experts provided for in article four of the said convention, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>the hague international congress.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the participation by the United States in an International Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Congress on Letters of Exchange.</p></sidenote> to be held at The Hague at such time as the Netherlands Government shall fix, for the purpose of promoting uniform legislation concerning letters of exchange, including compensation of and the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of an expert delegate and a secretary, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/681">681</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>international office of public health.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">International Office of Public Health.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Past. p. 1834.</p></sidenote> hundred and nine toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome December ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, in pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, three thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>purchase of property for legation purposes at tokyo, japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of residence erected by Mr. R. S. Miller, Japanese secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tokyo, Japan.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of residence for embassy.</p></sidenote> to the embassy at Tokyo, at his own expense, on ground held by the United States in perpetual lease for legation purposes in Tokyo, three thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE B.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule B.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries, consular service.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of consuls-general and consuls, as provided in the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ante, p. 101.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 99.</p></sidenote> approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘ An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States’ approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six,” and amendments thereto, as follows: Consuls- general, three hundred and three thousand dollars; consuls, seven hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars; in all, one million and thirty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For salaries of five consular inspectors, at five thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular inspectors.</p></sidenote> each, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of consular inspectors.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling, etc., expenses.</p></sidenote> consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SCHEDULE C.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule C.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of consular assistants.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For thirteen consular assistants as provided for by law, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular assistants.</p></sidenote> thousand three hundred dollars; twelve additional consular assistants, subject to the same provisions of law as the above thirteen, twelve thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand three hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at consulates.</p></sidenote> direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and forty-two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> six hundred and ninety dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters at consulates.</p></sidenote> Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/682">682</page> For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter at Tangier, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreter at Seoul, live hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters, guards, etc.</p></sidenote> Persia, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fourteen thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salaries of marshals for consular courts.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p></sidenote> eleven thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>expenses of prisons for american convicts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consular prisons.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bangkok.</p></sidenote> in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shanghai.</p></sidenote> convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Keeping prisoners.</p></sidenote> Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent. etc., Turkey.</p></sidenote> keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prison keeper, Korea.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>relief and protection of american seamen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of American seamen.</p></sidenote> and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign hospital at cape town.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign hospitals.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cape Town.</p></sidenote> (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, fifty dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>foreign hospitals at panama.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama.</p></sidenote> at Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/683">683</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>seamen’s institute at kobé.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seamen’s Institute, Kobé.</p></sidenote> Kobé, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingent expenses, united states consulates.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses. consulates.</p></sidenote> books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty per centum of the officers’ salary), postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
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</appropriations>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 236: Granting to the Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railway Company a right of way across the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>236</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>236.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Granting to the Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railway Company a right of way across the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Montana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24149">H. R. 24149</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/293">Public. No. 293.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Montana, Wyoming<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Keogh Military Reservation, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana. Wyoming and Southern Railway Company gran tea right of way across.</p></sidenote> and Southern Railway Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Wyoming, and empowered and authorized by the laws of the State of Montana to construct, operate, and maintain a railroad and engage in business therein, be, and is hereby, granted a right of way across the Fort Keogh Military Reservation, upon such line, in the vicinity of the valley of the Tongue River, as may be approved by the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> the right of way hereby granted shall not exceed one hundred feet in width, except where side tracks, spurs, turnouts, turntables, and a station are located or are to be located, and at such point or points the right of way shall not exceed two hundred feet on each side of the main track and not exceed two thousand feet in length.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 237: To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>237</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 683</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>237.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27068">H.R. 27068</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/294">Public, No. 294.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the time for filing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska Central Railway.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for completion.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 410.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 798, amended.</p></sidenote> map of definite location of the Alaska Central Railway, as required by the provisions of chapter two hundred and ninety-nine of the Laws of the United States, entitled “An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right of way for railroads in the District of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, be, and the same is hereby, extended for three years from the date of the passage of this Act, and that the time for completion of said Alaska Central Railway be, and the same is hereby, extended for three years from the expiration of the period provided for in the Act entitled “An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Alaska Central Railway, and for other purposes,” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be held or construe<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legal rights not affected.</p></sidenote> d to affect any lawfully accrued rights.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 238: For the relief of certain occupants of unsurveyed public lands in Craighead County, Arkansas.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>238</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 684</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-02</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/684">684</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>238.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the relief of certain occupants of unsurveyed public lands in Craighead County, Arkansas.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8654">S. 8654</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/295">Public, No. 295.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the survey, made under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cane Island. Ark.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of State survey.</p></sidenote> the authority of the State of Arkansas in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, of a small area of land known as Cane Island, situated in Saint Francis River, in townships numbered fourteen and fifteen north, range six east, Craighead County, Arkansas, into blocks numbered, respectively, from one to thirty-three, inclusive, shall, upon the filing in the local land office, and with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, of the plat of said survey and the field notes thereof, be accepted as the governmental official survey of said body of land.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homestead entries by occupants allowed.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Interior, all persons who at the date of the passage of this Act are bona fide occupants and owners of improvements situated upon any of the blocks returned by said survey, shall have a preferred right at any time within one year from the passage of this Act to make entry, under the provisions of the homestead laws, of the block or blocks so occupied and upon which their improvements are situated, as their respective interests may appear, or to make purchase of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase.</p></sidenote> lands at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents peracre: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> That no person shall be permitted to acquire title under this Act to more than one hundred and sixty acres: <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Previous surveys.</p></sidenote> in this Act shall be construed to grant to any person title to any part of the island, herein referred to, which is shown to be within the limits of land previously surveyed and disposed of by the Government.</proviso></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 239: To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Valdez, Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>239</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 684</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-02</dc:date>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>239.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act entitled “An Act to extend the time for the completion of the Valdez, Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25823">H. R. 25823</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/296">Public, No. 296.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p></sidenote> Act to extend the time for the completion of the Valdez, Marshall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valdez. Marshall Pass and Northern Railroad Company.</p></sidenote> Pass and Northern Railroad, and for other purposes,” approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“That the time for the compliance of the Valdez, Marshall Pass and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for completing road.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 410.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 915, amended.</p></sidenote> Northern Railroad Company with the provisions of sections four and five of the Act entitled ‘An Act extending the homestead laws and providing for the right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,’ approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by locating and completing its railroad in Alaska, is hereby extended—</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“First. Said company shall have four years from the passage of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Further extension.</p></sidenote> Act within which to complete the first twenty miles of its railroad, by way of Keystone Canyon, Marshall Pass to Copper River, and from thence to Tanana River, and six years from the date of the passage of this Act within which to complete said railroad to the Tanana River, all to be within such rights as it possesses and not in any way affecting or contravening any vested rights of any other company or person or the rights of the Government, provided said company carry out the requirements of law.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Second. Said company shall be exempt from license tax during the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">License tax exemption.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p></sidenote> period of construction and for four years thereafter: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the total period of exemption shall not exceed ten years from the time<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time.</p></sidenote> of the passage of this Act:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That this exemption<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/685">685</page> shall exist and operate only during the continuance of the construction of said road in good faith, and in the event of unnecessary delay and failure in the construction and completion of said road the exemption from taxation herein provided shall cease and said tax shall be collectible as to so much of said road as shall have been completed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“Third. Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> Act.”</p></content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 240: To provide for holding sessions of the United States circuit and district courts at Springfield, Massachusetts.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>240</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 685</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-02</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>240.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for holding sessions of the United States circuit and district courts at Springfield, Massachusetts.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/6074">S. 6074</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/297">Public, No. 297.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the. Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That hereafter, and until<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of court Springfield.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S.,sec. 572, 658, pp. 99, 121.</p></sidenote> otherwise provided by law, two sessions of the district and circuit courts of the United States for the district of Massachusetts shall be held in each and every year in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, beginning, respectively, on the second Tuesday of May and the second Tuesday of December.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the marshal and clerk of said district shall each,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy marshal and clerk.</p></sidenote> respectively, appoint at least one deputy, to reside in said city of Springfield, and he shall also maintain an office at that place.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That suitable rooms and accommodations shall be furnished<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court rooms.</p></sidenote> for holding said courts free of expense to the Government of the United States until such time as a federal building shall be prepared for that purpose in said Springfield.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 241: Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange property.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>241</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 685</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>241.—</docNumber>
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<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to exchange property.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/15989">H.R. 15989</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/298">Public, No. 298.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of Commerce<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ashtabula, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Change of lighthouse property.</p></sidenote> and Labor be, and he is hereby, authorized to exchange property now occupied by the Light-House Board at Ashtabula, Ohio, for other property of not less value at another location and to make a contract for such exchange.</content>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<meta>
<dc:title>Chap. 242: Providing for an additional judge for the southern district of New York, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>242</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 685</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-02</dc:date>
<dc:publisher>United States Government Publishing Office</dc:publisher>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>EN</dc:language>
<dc:rights>Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.</dc:rights>
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<congress>60</congress>
<session>2</session>
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<preface>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>242.—</docNumber>
</preface>
<main>
<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Providing for an additional judge for the southern district of New York, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/19655">H. R. 19655</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/299">Public, No.299.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
</longTitle>
<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York southern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional judge authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 551. p. 93.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 805.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 202.</p></sidenote> United States be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint an additional judge for the southern district of New York, whose length of term, compensation, duties, and powers shall be the same as now provided by law for the judges of said district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That that part of section six hundred and thirteen of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for services of judge, eastern district, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 613. p. 108, amended.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes which reads as follows: “and at every such term held by said judge of said eastern district he shall receive the sum of three hundred dollars, the same to be paid in the manner now prescribed by law for the payment of the expenses of another district judge while holding court in said district,” is hereby repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 243: To provide for the appointment of one additional district judge in and for the western district of Washington, and one additional district judge in and for the district of Oregon.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>243.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the appointment of one additional district judge in and for the western district of Washington, and one additional district judge in and for the district of Oregon.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27061">H.R. 27061</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/300">Public, No. 300.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the President of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington western judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional judge authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 824.</p></sidenote> United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an additional judge of the district court of the United States for the western district of Washington, whose length of term, compensation, duties, and powers shall be the same as now provided by law for the judge of said district.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the present district judge in said district and the one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of cases.</p></sidenote> appointed under this Act shall agree between themselves upon the division of business and assignment of cases for trial in said district:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circuit judge to decide differences.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That in case the said two district judges do not agree the senior circuit judge of the ninth circuit shall make all necessary orders for the division of business and the assignment of cases for trial in said district.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That the President of the United States by, and with the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional judge authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 551, p. 93.</p></sidenote> advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint an additional judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Oregon, who shall reside in said district, and who shall possess the same powers, perform the same duties, and receive the same salary as the present judge of said district.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the present district judge in said district of Oregon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment of cases.</p></sidenote> and the one appointed under this Act shall agree between themselves upon the division of business and assignment of cases for trial in said district: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That in case the said two district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Circuit judge to decide differences.</p></sidenote> judges do not agree the senior circuit judge of the ninth circuit shall make all necessary orders for the division of business and the assignment of cases for trial in said district.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That hereafter and until otherwise provided by law, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., secs. 572, 658, pp. 100, 122.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portland.</p></sidenote> addition to the terms of the United States circuit and district courts now required by law to be held at the city of Portland in the district of Oregon, there shall be held annually one term of said courts at the following named places in said district of Oregon at the times hereinafter stated namely: At Pendleton on the first Tuesday of April each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pendleton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medford.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputies.</p></sidenote> year and at Medford on the first Tuesday of October each year.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That the marshal and clerk of the district of Oregon shall, each, respectively, appoint at least one deputy to reside in each of said towns of Pendleton and Medford in said district of Oregon and he shall maintain an office in each of said places.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 244: To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>244.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section forty-four hundred and thirty-four of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28175">H.R. 28175</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/301">Public, No. 301.</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section forty- four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boiler plates.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 690, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thickness i ncreased.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-four, Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety five, be amended by inserting a hyphen and the word “eight” after the word “thirty” in the second line of the section, and by inserting after the word diameter” in the ninth line of the section a comma and the words “the measurements to be taken from the center of the length of the tapered section of said flues,” and by striking out, in the fifteenth and sixteenth lines of the section, the words “Secretary of the Treasury” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “Supervising Inspector-General,” and by inserting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supervising Inspector-General to determine.</p></sidenote> after the word “thirty,” in the twentieth line of the section, a hyphen <page identifier="/us/stat/35/687">687</page> and the word “eight,” and after the word “the,” in the twenty-third line of the section, the word “approved.” so that the section as amended shall read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4434"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4434.</num> <content class="inline">No externally fired boiler having its shell constructed of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Thickness of toiler plates increased for certain rivers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 4434, p. 859, amended.</p></sidenote> iron or steel plates, exceeding an average thickness of thirty-eight one-hundredths of an inch, shall be employed on any steam vessel navigating the Red River of the North or rivers flowing into the Gulf of Mexico or their tributaries; and no externally tired boiler employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Space between flues.</p></sidenote> on any such steam vessel shall have less than three inches space between its shell and any of its internal flues, and not less than three inches space between such flues when any such flues are more than five inches in diameter, the measurements to be taken from the center of the length of the tapered section of said flues; and every such externally<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manhole.</p></sidenote> tired boiler employed on any such steam vessel shall be provided with a manhole in the lower part of the front head thereof, of such dimensions as may be prescribed by the Board of Supervising Inspectors, in all cases where the distance between its internal flues is less than three inches. Externally fired boilers having shells constructed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra thickness allowed ocean, etc., vessels.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Decision.</p></sidenote> of iron or steel plates not exceeding an average thickness of fifty one- hundredths of an inch may, in the discretion of the, Supervising Inspector-General, be authorized and employed on steam vessels navigating the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, or salt-water bays, or sounds, or the Great Lakes, or any of them, and waters flowing to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Average required.</p></sidenote> and from the same, or any of them: <proviso><i>Provided.</i>, That on inspection, no plate that is by this Act limited to a thickness of thirtv-eight one- hundredths of an inch and no plate that is by this Act limited to a thickness of fifty one-hundredths of an inch shall be rejected for use if found to exceed those dimensions, respectively, if the approved average thickness thereof does not exceed the limits therein specified, and the amount of steam pressure that will be permitted to be carried in boilers constructed in accordance with the requirements of this Act shall be determined from measurements showing the least thickness of the plates.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all externally fired boilers, constructed of iron or steel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boilers in use.</p></sidenote> prior to the passage of this Act, and now in use on any such vessels, wherein the space between the shell and any of its internal flues or between such flues is less than three inches, they shall be deemed lawfully constructed.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That all laws or parts of laws conflicting with this Act are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> hereby repealed. •</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 245: To attach Dawson County, in the State of Texas, to the Abilene division of the northern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Fort Worth division of said court.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>245</docNumber>
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<docNumber>245.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To attach Dawson County, in the State of Texas, to the Abilene division of the northern judicial district of said State and to detach it from the Fort Worth division of said court.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-02">March 2, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28305">[H. R. 28305</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/302">[Public, No. 302</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Suites of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Dawson County, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas northern judicial district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dawson County transferred to A bilene division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 67, amended.</p></sidenote> State of Texas, be, and the same is hereby, attached to and’ made a part of the Abilene division of the northern judicial district of the State of Texas and detached from the Fort Worth division of said judicial district.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That all process against persons resident in said countv of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process, etc.</p></sidenote> Dawson and cognizable before the court in said judicial district shall be issued out of and made returnable to said court at Abilene, and that all prosecutions against persons for offenses committed in said comity shall be tried in said court at Abilene: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no civil<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes.</p></sidenote> or criminal cause begun and pending prior to the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by it.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 2, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 250: Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>250</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 688</citableAs>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/688">688</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>250.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/25392">H. R. 25392</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/303">Public, No. 303</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the half of the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia appropriations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hali from District revenues.</p></sidenote> sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, in full for the purposes following, being for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>GENERAL EXPENSES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">For Executive Office</inline>: For two commissioners, at five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries of Commissioners.</p></sidenote> dollars each; engineer commissioner, two hundred and eighty dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); additional compensation for two assistants to the engineer commissioner, detailed from the Engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants to Engineer Co mmissioner.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 103.</p></sidenote> Corps of the United States Army, under Act of Congress approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, two, at two hundred and fifty dollars each, and said assistants shall also act jointly as superintendent of the municipal building; secretary, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents, municipal building.</p></sidenote> four nundred dollars; two assistant secretaries to commissioners, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two clerks, at six hundred dollars each; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Veterinary division: Veterinary surgeon for all horses in the departments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veterinary surgeon.</p></sidenote> of the District government, one thousand two hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Property division: Property clerk, two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Property division.</p></sidenote> dollars; deputy property clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four clerks, at six hundred dollars each; inspector of fuel, at one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector of fuel, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two messengers, at six hundred dollars each; driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; inspector, nine hundred dollars; inspector, seven hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Building inspection division: Inspector of buildings, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Building inspection division.</p></sidenote> seven hundred and fifty dollars; principal assistant inspector of buildings, one thousand six hundred dollars; eleven assistant inspectors of buildings, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one fireescape inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand four hundred dollars; two civil engineers or computers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be a stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; superintendent of construction, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant inspector, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plumbing inspection division: Inspector of plumbing, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plumbing inspection division.</p></sidenote> dollars; principal assistant inspector of plumbing, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant inspectors of plumbing, one at one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/689">689</page> thousand two hundred dollars and four at one thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; temporary employment of additional assistant inspectors of plumbing and laborers for such time as their services may be necessary, two thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; sewer tapper, one thousand dollars; three members of the plumbing board, at three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and five thousand six hundred and fifty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, building inspection.</p></sidenote> and directed, from time to time, to prescribe a schedule of fees to be paid for permits, certificates, and transcripts of records issued by the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia, for the erection, alteration, repair, or removal of buildings and their appurtenances, and for the location of certain establishments for which permits are now or hereafter may be required under the building regulations of the District of Columbia, said fees to cover the cost and expense of the issuance of said permits and certificates and of the inspection of the work done under said permits; said schedule<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule.</p></sidenote> shall be printed and conspicuously displayed in the office of said inspector of buildings; said fees shall be paid to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia and shall be deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Care of District Building</inline>: Clerk and stenographer, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of District building.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two dynamo tenders, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three coal passers, at six hundred dollars each; one electrician’s helper, eight hundred and forty dollars; eight elevator conductors, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; two chief cleaners who shall also have charge of the lavatories, at five hundred dollars each; forty cleaners, at two hundred and forty dollars each; chief watchman, one thousand dollars; assistant chief watchman, six hundred and sixty dollars; eight watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; one pneumatictube operator, six hundred dollars; in all, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the employees herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment.</p></sidenote> authorized for the care of the District building shall be appointed by the assistants to the engineer commissioner with the approval of the commissioners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter policemen shall not be detailed for duty as watchmen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detail of police forbidden.</p></sidenote> at the Municipal building.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, light, power, repairs, mechanics and labor not to exceed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance expenses.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars, and miscellaneous supplies, twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Assessor’s Office</inline>: For assessor, three thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessor’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as chairman of the excise and personal tax boards; two assistant assessors, at two thousand <inline class="smallCaps">Dollars Each; Two Clerks, At One Thousand Four Hundred</inline> dollars each; clerk, arrears division, one thousand four hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk in charge of records, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant inspector of licenses, one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/690">690</page> thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; three assistant, assessors, at three thousand dollars each; clerk to board of assistant assessors, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger and driver, for board of assistant assessors, six hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, five hundred dollars; in all, forty-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Excise Board</inline>: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excise board.</p></sidenote> thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Personal Tax Board</inline>: For two assistant assessors of personal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Personal tax board.</p></sidenote> taxes, at three thousand dollars each; appraiser of personal property, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; extra clerk hire, two thousand dollars; in all, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Collector’s Office</inline> : For collector, four thousand dollars; deputy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collector’s office.</p></sidenote> collector, two thousand dollars; cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand four hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three coupon clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk and bank messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra labor in the preparation of tax-sale certificates, with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-sale certitl- cates.</p></sidenote> authority to employ clerks of this and other offices after office hours, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Auditor’s Office</inline>: For auditor, four thousand dollars; chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Auditor’s office.</p></sidenote> clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; disbursing officer, three thousand dollars; deputy disbursing officer, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, thirty-four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Office of Corporation Counsel</inline>: For corporation counsel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corporation counsel’s office.</p></sidenote> four thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant corporation counsel, two thousand five hundred dollars; second assistant corporation counsel, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third assistant corporation counsel, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourth assistant corporation counsel, one thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Sinking-Fund Office, Under Control of the Treasurer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sinking-fund office.</p></sidenote> of the United States</inline>: For clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Coroner’s Office</inline>: For coroner, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars; morgue master, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant morgue master and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Market Masters</inline>: For two market masters, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Market masters.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars each; for assistant market masters, who shall also perform the necessary labor in cleaning the markets, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/691">691</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Wholesale Producers’ Market</inline>: One market master, nine hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Produce market.</p></sidenote> dollars; one assistant market master, who shall also act as night watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars; one laborer for sweeping B street sidewalk used for market purposes, three hundred and sixty dollars; sweeping B street used for market purposes, four hundred and eighty dollars; hauling refuse (street sweepings), six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Eastern Market</inline>: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern market.</p></sidenote> used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Western Market</inline>: Laborer for cleaning sidewalk and street where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western market.</p></sidenote> used for market purposes (farmers’ market), two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Office of Sealer of Weights and Measures</inline>: For sealer of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sealer of weights and measures.</p></sidenote> weights and measures, two thousand five hundred dollars; first assistant sealer of weights and measures, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant sealer of weights and measures, nine hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Engineer’s Office, Record Division</inline>: For engineer of highways,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer’s office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Record division.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars; engineer of bridges, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of streets, two thousand dollars; superintendent of county roads, one thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as assistant engineer in Rock Creek Park; superintendent of sewers, three thousand dollars; inspector of asphalts and cements, two thousand four hundred dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asphalt inspector.</p></sidenote> (<proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the inspector of asphalts and cements shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> receive or accept compensation of any kind from, or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to, any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia); assistant inspector of asphalts and cements, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of trees and parkings, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, engineer, two thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, two thousand one hundred dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand six hundred dollars; five assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two transitmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one transitman, one thousand and fifty dollars; four rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; eight rodmen, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; twelve chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; one general inspector of sewers, one thousand three hundred dollars; one inspector of sewers, one thousand two hundred dollars; one bridge inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three inspectors of streets, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one inspector, one thousand dollars; one inspector, nine hundred dollars; twelve foremen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one foreman, Rock Creek Park, one thousand two hundred dollars; three subforemen, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one foreman, one thousand and fifty dollars; ten foremen, at nine hundred dollars <page identifier="/us/stat/35/692">692</page> each; one bridgekeeper, six hundred and fifty dollars; three bridgekeepers, at six hundred dollars each; two inspectors of property, at nine hundred and thirty-six dollars each; two property yardkeepers, at one thousand dollars each; one inspector of material, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; permit clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant permit clerk, one thousand dollars; index clerk and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, nine hundred dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and twenty dollars; clerk, six hundred dollars; seven messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two skilled laborers, at six hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, six hundred and twenty-five dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; principal steam engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three assistant steam engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; six oilers, at six hundred dollars each; six firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of stables, one thousand five hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; two watchmen, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; two drivers, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; inspector of gas and meters, two thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, one thousand dollars; assistant inspector of gas and meters, nine hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; boss carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss painter, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss tinner, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss plumber, one thousand two hundred dollars; boss steam fitter, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal architect.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office created; duties.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; boss grader, one thousand dollars; municipal architect, whose duty it shall be to prepare and supervise the plans for, and superintend the construction of all municipal buildings, and the repair and improvement of all buildings belonging to the District of Columbia under the direction of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, three thousand six hundred dollars; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laws repealed.</p></sidenote> all laws or parts of laws placing such duties upon the inspector of buildings of the District of Columbia are hereby repealed; in all, two hundred thousand seven hundred and eighty-two dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Special Assessment Office</inline>: For special assessment clerk, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special assessment office.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; seven clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Street-Sweeping Office</inline>: For superintendent, two thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street-sweeping office.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; assistant superintendent and clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; ten inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three assistant inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; foreman of public dumps, nine hundred dollars; messenger and driver, six hundred dollars; stable foreman, one thousand dollars; foreman of repairs, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; stenographer and clerk, nine hundred dollars; blacksmith, nine hundred dollars; mechanic, seven hundred and eighty dollars; mechanic’s helper, six hundred dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/693">693</page> hostler, five hundred and fifty dollars; two hostlers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; seven dumpmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and fifty dollars; in all, forty- five thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Examiners, Steam Engineers</inline>: For compensation for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of examiners, steam engineers</p></sidenote> board of examiners of steam engineers in the District of Columbia, three, at three hundred dollars each, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Automobile Board</inline>: For secretary or acting secretary of the automobile<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Automobile board.</p></sidenote> board, three hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter there<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax on motor vehicles.</p></sidenote> shall be assessed and collected an annual wheel tax on all automobiles or other motor vehicles owned and operated in the District of Columbia having seats for only two persons the sum of three, dollars, and on all such vehicles having seats for more than two persons an additional tax of two dollars for each additional seat.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Department of Insurance</inline>: For superintendent of insurance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insurance department.</p></sidenote> three thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; temporary clerk hire, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Surveyor’s Office</inline>: For surveyor, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyor’s office.</p></sidenote> assistant surveyor, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; record clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; inspector, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; clerk, nine hundred and seventy-five dollars; draftsman, nine hundred dollars; assistant computer, eight hundred and twenty-five dollars; two rodmen, at eight hundred and twenty- five dollars each; three chainmen, at seven hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk, six hundred and seventy-five dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of temporary draftsmen, computers, laborers, additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary sendees.</p></sidenote> field party when required, purchase of supplies, care or hire of teams, purchase and maintenance of a motor vehicle, six thousand dollars; all expenditures hereunder to be made only on the written authority of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and may include the purchase of a motor vehicle at a cost not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, said vehicle to be driven by a member of the field party using the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for surveyor’s oilice, twenty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Free Public Library</inline>: For librarian, three thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free public library.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; chief circulating department, one thousand two hundred dollars; children’s librarian, one thousand dollars; librarian’s secretary, nine hundred dollars; reference librarian, one thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand dollars; four assistants, at seven hundred ami twenty dollars each; four assistants, at six hundred dollars each; three assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; copyist, four hundred and eighty dollars; cataloguer, nine hundred dollars; cataloguer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cataloguer, six hundred dollars; three temporary cataloguers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six attendants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; five attendants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; collator, three hundred and sixty dollars; two messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; ten pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two janitors, at four hundred and eighty dollars <page identifier="/us/stat/35/694">694</page> each, one of whom shall act as a night watchman; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; workman, four hundred and eighty dollars; library guard, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two cloakroom attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; six charwomen, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of substitutes and other special and temporary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Substitutes, etc.</p></sidenote> service, at the discretion of the librarian, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For keeping the library open fifty-two Sundays from two o’clock<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> postmeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, five holidays from nine o’clock antemeridian to nine o’clock postmeridian, and for extra services three hours on Saturday afternoons during July, August, and September, one thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous, Free Public Library</inline>: For purchase of books,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> seven thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For binding, three thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lighting, fitting up building, including lunch-room equipment, purchase and maintenance of motor cycles, and other contingent expenses, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nineteen thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.</heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For contingent expenses of the government of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> Columbia, namely: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference and periodicals, stationery; detection of frauds on the revenue; repairs of market houses: surveying instruments and implements; drawing materials; binding, rebinding, repairing, and preservation of records; maintaining and keeping in good order the laboratory and apparatus in the oflice of the inspector of asphalt and cement; damages; livery, purchase, and care of horses and carriages or buggies not otherwise provided for; horseshoeing; ice, repairs to pound and vehicles, use of bicycles by inspectors in the engineer department not to exceed eight hundred dollars, and other general necessary expenses of District offices, including the sinkingfund office, Board of Charities, excise board, personal-tax board, harbor master, health department, surveyor’s office, sealer of weights and measures’ office, and department of insurance, and purchase of new apparatus and laboratory equipment in office of inspector of asphalt and cement, thirty-six thousand dollars; and the commissioners shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That horses and vehicles appropriated for in this Act shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on use of horses. etc.</p></sidenote> not be used by the commissioners for any other purpose than to visit such points within the District of Columbia as it may be necessary to visit in order to enable them to inspect or inform themselves concerning any public work or property belonging to the said District or to do any other act necessary to the administration of its affairs.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the money appropriated by this Act, except appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on expenditure for horses, etc.</p></sidenote> tor the militia, shall be used for the purchase, livery, or maintenance of horses, or for the purchase, maintenance, or repair of buggies or carriages and harness, except as provided for in the appropriation for contingent and miscellaneous expenses or unless the appropriation from which the same is proposed to bo paid shall specifically authorize such purchase, livery, maintenance and repair, and except also as hereinafter authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire insurance pro hibited.</p></sidenote> the payment of premiums or other cost of fire insurance.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of stables of the engineer department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stables.</p></sidenote> including forage, shoeing, purchase and repair of vehicles, purchase <page identifier="/us/stat/35/695">695</page> and repair of harness, blankets, lap robes, purchase of horses, whips, oils, brushes, combs, sponges, chamois skins, buckets, halters, jacks, rubber boots and coats, medicines, and other necessary articles and expenses, five thousand dollars; and no expenditure on account of the engineer department for the items named in this paragraph shall be made from any other fund, except as hereinafter authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage for strictly official mail matter, eight thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Collecting personal taxes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary expenses, including services of collectors or bailiffs, in the collection of overdue personal taxes by distraint and sale and otherwise, and for other necessary items, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judicial expenses.</p></sidenote> printing of briefs in the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, and witness fees in District cases before the supreme court of said District, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For livery of horse or horse hire for coroner’s office, jurors’ fees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coroner’s expenses.</p></sidenote> witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, ami photographing unidentified bodies, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advertising.</p></sidenote> tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tax-arrearage sales.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 24.</p></sidenote> and nine, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars, to be reimbursed by a charge of fifty cents for each lot or piece of propertv advertised.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the game and fish laws of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enforcing game and fish laws.</p></sidenote> Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners, five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing dangerous buildings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 923.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to remove dangerous or unsafe buildings and parts thereof, ami for other purposes,” to pay the members of the board of survey provided for therein, other than the inspector of buildings, at a compensation of not to exceed ten dollars each survey, and to pay the cost of making safe or removing such buildings upon the refusal or neglect of the owners so to do, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of suitable tablets to mark historical places in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Historical tablets.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, the appropriations made for this purpose by the Acts of June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, March<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, pp. 489, 1126.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 281.</p></sidenote> second, nineteen hundred and seven, and May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, respectively, are continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the office of the register of wills: For furnishing to the office of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Register of wills.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copies to assessor.</p></sidenote> the assessor, copies of wills, petitions, and all necessary papers wherein title to real estate is involved, nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification number<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicle tags.</p></sidenote> tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra services necessary to classify, arrange, and rebind the old<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Classifying, etc., old records.</p></sidenote> records of the District of Columbia, including the corporations of Washington, Georgetown, and the levy court, with authority to employ clerks of the auditor’s and other offices after office hours, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of fire injuries.</p></sidenote> when injured by fire, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tne installation of permanent electric wiring and gas systems<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western market.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light and power for.</p></sidenote> for lighting and power in the Western District of Columbia Market, eight hundred dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/696">696</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Improvements and repairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Elimination of Grade Crossings</inline>: Toward carrying out the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eliminating grade crossings, Union Station.</p></sidenote> of the Acts of Congress providing for the elimination of grade crossings and the construction of a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 767.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 913.</p></sidenote> February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, for purchase or condemnation of the land necessary for the plaza and new streets, and for reconstructing, grading, and paving, together with the necessary incidental work in connection therewith, the streets, avenues, and ways changed in line or grade or newly created under the provisions of said Acts, including the employment on the approval of this Act of special assistant counsel, at a rate not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, and one clerk, at a rate not to exceed one thousand dollars per annum, in connection with the settlement of claims for damages incident to changes of grade, this sum to be expended under the provisions of said Acts, and to continue available until expended, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flagstaffs for plaza.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized to use such portion of the unexpended balances of the appropriations for elimination of grade crossings, District of Columbia, improvement of plaza, as may be necessary for the construction of the three flagstaffs shown upon the approved plans for “Plaza Improvement, Union Station,” on file in the office of the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the Washington Terminal Company shall first convey to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land to to conveyed to United States.</p></sidenote> the United States all that portion of the terminal area, as described in the Act of February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, Eroviding for a union railroad station in the District of Columbia, ring north of the north line of Massachusetts avenue and south of the line of balustrades of islands “C,” “D,” “E,” and “F,” and of the north line of lamp-posts of the central island, as shown on the plans referred to above.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Assessment and Permit Work</inline>: For assessment and permit work,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assessment and permit work.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paving roadways under the permit system, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paving roadways.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Work on Streets and Avenues</inline>: For work on streets and avenues<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work on streetsand avenues.</p></sidenote> named in Appendix T, Book of Estimates, nineteen hundred and ten, seventy-one thousand dollars, to be expended in the discretion of the commissioners upon streets and avenues specified in the schedules named in said appendix and in the aggregate for each schedule as stated herein, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Georgetown Schedule: Two</inline> thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedules.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Northwest Section Schedule</inline>: Including V street, from Tenth to Twelfth streets, fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Southwest Section Schedule</inline>: Twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Southeast Section Schedule</inline> : Ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Northeast Section Schedule</inline>: Including Eighth street from Maryland avenue to H street, and Fifth street from H street to I street, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That streets and avenues named in said schedules already<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets paved with Belgian blocks, etc.</p></sidenote> paved with Belgian block or granite shall not be paved or otherwise improved under this appropriation, and the remaining streets and avenues, except as herein specified, shall be contracted for in the order in which they appear in said schedules, and be completed in such order as nearly as practicable, and shall be paved, in the discretion of the Commissioners, instead of being graded and regulated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit for asphalt pavements.</p></sidenote> made for making or relaying asphalt pavement at a higher price than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for a quality equal to the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/697">697</page> best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with same depth of base, nor more than one dollar and eighty cents per square yard for laying standard asphalt block pavement equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase allowed.</p></sidenote> prior to July first, nineteen hundred and four: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Commissioners, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to two dollars per square yard.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing granite block pavement with asphalt on the following<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Asphalt to replace granite blocks.</p></sidenote> streets:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">First street, between B and C streets northwest, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets affected.</p></sidenote> eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Second street, between B and C streets northwest, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventh street northwest, from Q to R streets, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Grading Streets, Alleys, and Roads</inline>: For purchase and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grading.</p></sidenote> cars, carts, tools, or the hire of the same, and horses to be used by the inmates of the Washington Asylum in the work of grading, and pay of dump men needed to carry out the work, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Condemnation of Streets, Roads, and Alleys</inline>: For purchase or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation.</p></sidenote> condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction of County Roads</inline>: For construction of county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County roads.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> roads and suburban streets, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Massachusetts avenue, grade and improve, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for the condemnation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of Massachusetts avenue continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 492.</p></sidenote> of land necessary for extending Massachusetts avenue from Wisconsin avenue to Nebraska avenue and toward grading and improving said part of Massachusetts avenue, contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby made available for grading and improving Massachusetts avenue between the limits named during the nscal year nineteen hundred and ten;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: Lincoln road, from Truxtun circle to R street, pave thirty-five feet wide, five thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Sixteenth street, extended,grade, and improve,twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: U street, from North Capitol street to Flagler place, pave at present width, eight thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: Mills avenue, between Twenty-fourth street and Rhode Island avenue, grade and improve, four thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Harvard street, from Eleventh to Thirteenth street, pave thirty feet wide, six thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: School street, from Irving to Lamont street, grade and improve, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Todd place, between First and Second streets, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Warder street, from Manor street to Newton place and from Luray place to Kenyon street, and Park place from Lamont street to Manor street, grade and improve, four thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: Lawrence street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, grade and improve, one thousand eight hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/698">698</page> Northeast: Evarts street, between Twenty-second and Twentyfourth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County roads—Continued</p></sidenote> streets, grade and improve, two thousand seven hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Garfield street, Connecticut avenue to Twenty-seventh street, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Eleventh street, Monroe to Otis street, grade and improve, two thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Newton street, Fourteenth street to Holmead place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Seaton place, from First to Second street, pave thirty feet wide, four thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Meridian street, Center street to Holmead place, grade and improve, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nortnwest: Fourth street, Elm to W street, pave thirty-five feet wide, four thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southeast: Prout street, Twenty-second street to Pennsylvania avenue, grade and improve, three thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest; Third street, T to Elm street, pave forty feet wide, three thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: Jackson street, Eighteenth to Twentieth street, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: Todd place, North Capitol street to Lincoln road, pave twenty-four feet wide, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Upton street, east of Pierce Mill road, grade, fourteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Monroe street, Eighteenth to Nineteenth street, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nortneast: Kearney street, between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, grade and improve, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Oak street, Fourteenth street to Holmead place, grade and improve, two thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nortnwest: Streets in Walbridge subdivision of Ingleside, grade and improve, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Otis street, Tenth to Thirteenth street, and Tenth street, Monroe to Otis street, grade and improve, five thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Ninth street, Ingraham to Kennedy street, grade and improve, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Thirteenth street, Euclid street to Park road, grade and improve, forty feet wide, seventeen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: T street, Lincoln road to Second street, grade and improve, six thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southeast: Pennsylvania avenue, grade and improve, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southeast: Twenty-third street, Naylor road to Minnesota avenue, and from Q street, Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street, grade and gravel, four thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: Rittenhouse street, from Georgia avenue to Blair road, grade and improve, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northwest: To widen Thirteenth street extended ten feet on the easterly side between Park road and Monroe street, and grade and improve the same, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work to commence immediately.</p></sidenote> Commissioners of the District are hereby required to commence immediately the work herein provided for;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast: M street, Bladensburg road to Twenty-fourth street, grade, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For paving with asphalt, Connecticut avenue extended from Macomb street to Newark street, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/699">699</page> In all, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs Streets, Avenues, and Alleys</inline>: For current work of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs, streets, etc.</p></sidenote> repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys, including resurfacing and repairs to concrete pavements with the same or other not inferioi material, of which sum fifty thousand dollars shall be immediately available, three hundred thousand dollars; and this appropriation shall be available for repairing the pavements of the street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended shall be collected from such railroad company as provided by section five of “An Act providing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 20, p. 105.</p></sidenote> a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioners of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of heater method.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to expend not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars of the sum hereby appropriated in repairing such streets, avenues, and alleys, as they may deem advisable, by what is known as the heater method of repairs; and to enter into a supplemental contract for such repair<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorizcd.</p></sidenote> with the present contractor with the District of Columbia for work of resurfacing and repairing asphalt and coal tar pavements, if a price satisfactory to said commissioners can be agreed upon between said contractor and said commissioners, and in the event that such a satisfactory price can not be agreed upon, the said commissioners are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to enter into a new contract for such work of repairs by the heater method, after competition, in an amount not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing and repairing sidewalks and curbs around public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sidewalks and curbs.</p></sidenote> reservations and municipal buildings, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs County Roads</inline>: For current work of repairs of county<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">County roads.</p></sidenote> roads and suburban streets, one hundred thousand dollars, of which sum twenty thousand dollars shall be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forpurchase and maintenance of one motor vehicle for the use of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor vehicles.</p></sidenote> superintendent of county roads, and of one motor truck for the use of field party engaged in survey work pertaining to the construction and repair of county roads, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bridges</inline>: For construction and repairs of bridges, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bridges.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Highway bridge across Potomac River: For salaries of two draw<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Highway bridge.</p></sidenote> operators, at one thousand and twenty dollars each; one draw operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; for labor, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, nine thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Operation of the Anacostia River Bridge: For salaries of employees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia bridge.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessary to the operation and maintenance of the bridge, five thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For removal of the superstructure and substructure of the old<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removing old bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing bridge, etc.</p></sidenote> Anacostia Bridge, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for the construction of the new Anacostia River Bridge and its approaches shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten for all necessary expenses to complete said bridge and its approaches.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sixteenth Street Bridge across Piney Branch: For widening bridge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Piney Branch bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">WideningSixteenth street.</p></sidenote> across Piney Branch on the line of Sixteenth street, said bridge to be widened to a width over all of sixty-five feet, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/700">700</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Anacostia Flats</inline> : For employment of special counsel to investigate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anacostia flats.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigating titles, etc.</p></sidenote> and determine the ownership of the land and riparian rights along the Anacostia River, for the purpose of improvement of the Anacostia flats, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SEWERS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sewers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For cleaning and repairing sewers and basins, sixty-three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and operation of sewage pumping station, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pumping station.</p></sidenote> employment of mechanics, laborers, and watchman, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, forty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For main and pipe sewers and receiving basins, fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Main and pipe.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For suburban sewers, seventy-five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suburban.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of way.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing work on extension of east side intercepting sewer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">East side intercepting.</p></sidenote> from boundary sewer to Brookland, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing construction of Fourth street southeast relief sewer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fourth street relief.</p></sidenote> from Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth street to Virginia avenue and Second street southeast, sixteen thousand eight hundred and seventy- five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Piney Branch valley trunk sewer: For beginning the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Piney Branch valley trunk.</p></sidenote> of the Piney Branch valley trunk sewer between Sixteenth street and Georgia avenue (estimated cost three hundred thousand dollars), thirty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>STREETS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Streets.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Sprinkling, Sweeping, and Cleaning</inline>: For sprinkling, sweeping,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cleaning, etc.</p></sidenote> and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, including rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stable, purchase and maintenance of horses; purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons and harness, allowance to inspectors for maintenance of horses and vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed thirty dollars per month for each inspector, and necessary incidental expenses, and work done under existing contracts, as well as hand work: done under the immediate direction of the commissioners without contract: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever it shall appear to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts.</p></sidenote> the commissioners that said latter work can not be done under their immediate direction at nineteen cents or less per thousand square yards, in accordance with the specifications under which the same was last advertised for bids, it shall at once be their duty to advertise to let said work under said specifications to the lowest responsible bidder, and if the same can not be procured to be done at a price not exceeding twenty cents per thousand square yards, they may continue to do said work under their immediate direction, in accordance with said specifications; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the commissioners shall so apportion this appropriation as to prevent a deficiency therein.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of snow and ice.</p></sidenote> gutters, in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purchase of necessary implements, thirty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available and until expended.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Disposal of City Refuse</inline>: For the collection and disposal of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of city refuse.</p></sidenote> garbage and dead animals; miscellaneous refuse and ashes from private residences in the city of Washington and the more densely <page identifier="/us/stat/35/701">701</page> populated suburbs; for collection and disposal of night soil in the district of Columbia, and for the payment of necessary inspection, livery of horses, and incidental expenses, one hundred and seventy- nine thousand nine hundred and forty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For the Parking Commission</inline>: For contingent expenses, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Parking commission.</p></sidenote> laborers, trimmers, nurserymen, repairmen, and teamsters, cart hire, trees, tree boxes, tree stakes, tree straps, tree labels, planting and care of trees on city and suburban streets, care of trees, tree spaces, and miscellaneous items, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bathing Beach</inline>: For superintendent, six hundred dollars; watchman,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bathing beach.</p></sidenote> four hundred and fifty dollars; for temporary services, supplies, and maintenance, one thousand five hundred dollars; for repair of houses, bathing pools, and grounds, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Public Scales</inline>: For purchase, repair, and replacement of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public scales.</p></sidenote> public scales, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Deep Wells</inline>: For drilling deep wells and maintenance of same,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deep wells.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Playgrounds</inline>: For maintenance and renewal of equipment and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Playgrounds.</p></sidenote> planting trees for outdoor playgrounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the improvement and equipment of the Georgetown site, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgetown site.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Public-Convenience Stations</inline>: For maintenance of public-convenience<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public-convenience stations.</p></sidenote> stations, including compensation of necessary employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one new public-convenience station under the sidewalk on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ninth street NW.</p></sidenote> east side of Ninth street northwest, between F and G streets, twenty- two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one public-convenience station on the triangle west of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dupont Circle.</p></sidenote> Dupont Circle, between Twentieth and P streets and Massachusetts avenue, fifteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the above publicconvenience<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of jurisdiction, etc.</p></sidenote> stations be located on public space to be selected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and the jurisdiction and control of such portion of any public reservation so selected as shall be required for the location of such stations and their approaches is hereby transferred from the United States official having charge of said reservation to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, such transfer to take effect on the date of notice by the said commissioners to the said United States official of the location of the sites for said stations.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings</inline>: For all expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insanitary buildings. 34, p. 157.</p></sidenote> necessary and incident to the enforcement of the provisions of an Act entitled “An Act to create a board for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, including Êersonal services, when authorized by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars, three thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electrical department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For electrical engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> electrical engineer who shall perform the duties of the electrical engineer in the absence or disability of the latter and shall have the same qualifications as to ability and technical knowledge as is required by law of the head of the department, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three electrical inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; inspector of lamps, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; draftsman, one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/702">702</page> thousand dollars; three telegraph operators, at one thousand dollars each; three inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; expert repair man, nine hundred and sixty dollars; four repair men, at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at four hundred dollars each; electrical inspector, two thousand dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand eignt hundred dollars; electrical inspector, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cable splicer, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars each; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cable splicer, six hundred and twenty dollars; assistant repair man, six hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant repair men, at five hundred and forty dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; laborer, four hundred and sixty dollars; four telephone operators, at five hundred and forty dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and fifty dollars; storekeeper, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; and one laborer, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, forty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general supplies, repairs, new batteries, and battery supplies,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> telephone rental and purchase, wire for extension of the telegraph and telephone service, repairs of lines and instruments, purchase of poles, tools, insulators, brackets, pins, hardware, cross arms, ice, record books, stationery, printing, livery, horses and harness, washing, blacksmithing, forage, extra labor, new boxes, rent of storeroom, and other necessary items, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For placing wires of fire-alarm, telegraph, police-patrol, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Placing wires under ground.</p></sidenote> telephone service underground in existing conduits, including cost of cables, terminal boxes, and posts, connections to and between existing conduits, manholes, hand-holes, posts for fire-alarm and police boxes, extra labor, and other necessary items, eleven thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extension of police-patrol system, including purchase of new<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police patrol system.</p></sidenote> boxes, purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Lighting</inline>: For illuminating material, lighting, extinguishing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lighting.</p></sidenote> repairing, and cleaning public lamps on avenues, streets, roads, and alleys; purchasing and expense of erecting and maintaining new lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures; moving lamp-posts, painting lamp-posts and lanterns; replacing and repairing lamp-posts and lanterns damaged or unfit for service; for rent of storeroom, cartage of material, livery, and other necessary items, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no more<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maxim u m perlamp.</p></sidenote> than eighteen dollars per annum shall be paid for each gas lamp equipped with a self-regulating flat-flame burner so adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of five cubic feet of gas per hour, nor more than twenty dollars and eighty-five cents per annum for each gas and twenty-two dollars and eighty cents per annum for each oil lamp equipped with an incandescent mantle burner of not less than sixty candlepower. And during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten the price<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses included.</p></sidenote> rescribed by Congress for lighting each street lamp in the District of oluinbia with gas or oil shall be construed to include the cost of the illuminating material used, lighting and extinguishing lamps, repairing, painting, cleaning, purchasing, and expense of erecting and maintaining lamp-posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures: <i>Provided</i>, That all of said lamps shall burn every night, on the average,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All-night service.</p></sidenote> from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/703">703</page> <i>And provided further</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street designation fixtures.</p></sidenote> Columbia may purchase, erect, light, and maintain such posts, lanterns, signs, and fixtures for street designation purposes, in addition to those mentioned above, as in their judgment may be necessary, which lamps shall not to be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph except as to the time of burning: <i>And providedfurther</i>, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conduit road.</p></sidenote> authorized, in their discretion, to extend the street-lighting system, by incandescent forty-candlepower lamps, on and along the Conduit road, from its intersection with the Canal road to the District line and to use so much of this appropriation as may be necessary for maintaining the lamps. The location of the necessary posts, poles, wires, fixtures, and so forth, and the use of the road therefor shall be subject to such reasonable regulations as may be prescribed by the officer in charge of the Washington Aqueduct.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter contracts shall be entered into for lighting avenues,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Three-year contracts.</p></sidenote> streets, roads, and alleys in the District of Columbia by gas or electricity for a period of not exceeding three years: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gas companies.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provision for increasing capital stock repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 252.</p></sidenote> section five of an Act entitled “An Act relating to the sale of gas in the District of Columbia,” approved June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and all remedies therein provided, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and all pending proceedings thereunder shall be vacated, and no judgment, decree, finding, permit, or valuation of any kind mentioned or intended to be mentioned in said section shall be made or ascertained.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On and after the passage of this Act every corporation engaged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Form of books to be kept.</p></sidenote> in the manufacture and sale of gas or electricity in the District of Columbia shall open and keep a set of books in manner and form prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The charter of the Washington Gaslight Company is hereby amended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Gaslight Company</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Directors increased.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 722, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric arc lights.</p></sidenote> so as to increase the membership of its board of directors to seven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For electric arc lighting, and for extensions of such service, not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum per lamp.</p></sidenote> exceeding one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional firealarm boxes.</p></sidenote> That not more than eighty-five dollars per annum shall be paid for any electric arc light burning from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise, and operated wholly by means of underground wire: and each arc fight shall be of not less than one thousand actual candlepower, and no part of this appropriation shall be used for electric lighting by means of wires that may exist on or over any of the streets or avenues of the city of Washington.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of fifteen additional fire-alarm boxes, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Aqueduct.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> the purchase and erection of the necessary poles, cross-arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, four thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Filtration plant.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For operation, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including Conduit road, the McMillan Park reservoir, and Washington Aqueduct tunnel, and also including the purchase and maintenance of horses, vehicles, and harness, and the care and maintenance of the stable, thirty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care, including salaries of all necessary employees, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency fund.</p></sidenote> and operation of the Washington Aqueduct, District of Columbia, filtration plant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, eighty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency fund, to be used only in case of a serious break<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rock Creek Park.</p></sidenote> requiring immediate repair in one of the important aqueduct or filtration plant structures, such as a dam, conduit, tunnel, bridge, building, or important piece of machinery; all expenditures from this <page identifier="/us/stat/35/704">704</page> appropriation to bo reported be detail to Congress, live, thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ROCK CREEK PARK.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For care and improvement of Rock Creek Park, and of the Piney<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ground.</p></sidenote> Branch parkway entrance to said park from Sixteenth street extended, exclusive of building for superintendent’s residence, to be expended under the direction of the board of control of said park, fifteen thousand dollars; and the said board of control is hereby authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public schools.</p></sidenote> purchase eight hundred and sixty-seven one-thousandths acre, more or less, of land adjoining the northern boundary of Rock Creek Park, assessed as parcel sixty-four-three, for a sum not to exceed four hundred dollars, chargeable to said appropriation.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PUBLIC SCHOOLS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">For Officers</inline>: For superintendent of public schools, five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 220.</p></sidenote> dollars; two assistant superintendents, at three thousand dollars each; director of intermediate instruction, thirteen supervising principals, and supervisor of manual training, fifteen in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand two hundred dollars each; secretary, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk to carry out the provisions of the childlabor law, nine hundred dollars; two stenographers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Attendance Officers</inline>: For two attendance officers, authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers.</p></sidenote> the Aet providing for compulsory education in the District of Columbia, approved June eighth, nineteen hundred and six, at six hundred dollars each; one attendance officer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Teachers</inline>: For one thousand seven hundred and ten teachers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotions to Group B.</p></sidenote> to be assigned as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For principals of normal, high, and manual training schools, nine in all, at a minimum salary of two thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant director of primary instruction, at a minimum salary of one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistant directors of music, drawing, physical culture, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, six in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For heads of departments in high and manual training schools in Group B of class six, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers of the normal, high, and manual training schools promoted for superior work, Group B of class six, seven in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand nine hundred dollars each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 318.</p></sidenote> That hereafter no teacher shall be eligible to Group B, class six, who has not attained the maximum of Group A;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in Group A of class six, two hundred and three in all, at a minimum salary of one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class five, one hundred and fifty-four in all, at a minimum salary of nine hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class four, four hundred and twenty-five in all, at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/705">705</page> For teachers in class three, four hundred and seventy-seven in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class two, three hundred and forty-eight in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in class one, sixty in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For teachers in the normal, high, and manual training schools not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Librarians and clerks.</p></sidenote> eligible to the salary of class six by reason of the provisions of section four of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the said Act, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One at a salary of eight hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for teachers, one million three hundred and thirteen thousand and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Librarians and Clerks</inline>: For twenty-two librarians and clerks, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity pay.</p></sidenote> be assigned as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarian in class four, one at a minimum salary of eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarians and clerks in class three, twelve in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred and fifty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarians and clerks in class two, five in all, at a minimum salary of six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For librarians and clerks in class one, four in all, at a minimum salary of five hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all for librarians and clerks, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Longevity Pay</inline>: Longevity pay for director of intermediate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 316.</p></sidenote> instruction, supervising principals, supervisor of manual training, principals of the normal, high, and manual training schools, heads of departments, director and assistant director of primary instruction, directors and assistant directors of drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, and kindergartens, teachers, clerks, librarians and clerks, and librarians to be paid in strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p></sidenote> regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Allowance to Principals</inline>: For allowance to principals of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 320.</p></sidenote> grade school buildings for services rendered as such, in addition to their grade salary, to be paid hi strict conformity with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No sex discrimination, etc.</p></sidenote> of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, thirty-five thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in assigning salaries to teachers no discrimination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on employment.</p></sidenote> shall be made between male and female teachers employed in the same grade and performing a like class of duties; and it shall not be lawful to pay, or authorize or require to be paid, from any of, the salaries of teachers herein provided, any portion or percentage’ thereof for the purpose of adding to salaries of higher or lower grades.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That no teacher, of the whole number appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Night schools.</p></sidenote> for herein, shall be employed as, or required to discharge the duties of, a clerk or librarian.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Night Schools</inline>: For salaries of teachers and janitors of night<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial, etc., in struction.</p></sidenote> schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/706">706</page> For contingent and other necessary expenses of night schools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kindergarten supplies.</p></sidenote> including equipment and the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Kindergarten Supplies</inline>: For kindergarten supplies, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors, etc.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Janitors and Care of Buildings and Grounds</inline>: For superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers.</p></sidenote> of janitors, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of Central High School and annex, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Business High School, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Jefferson Building, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Western High School, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Franklin School, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Eastern High School and M Street High School, two in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the McKinley Manual Training School, one thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the McKinley<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical inspectors.</p></sidenote> Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant engineer at the McKinley Manual Training School, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one engineer and instructor in steam engineering at the Armstrong Manual Training School, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one assistant engineer at the Armstrong Manual Traming School, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Stevens School, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Emery school building, one sixteen-room building to take the place of the Mott, and the Henry D. Cooke building, three in all, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Van Buren School and annex, and the Wallach School, at one thousand dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Birney and annex, Brookland, Bryan, Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gage, Gales, Garfield, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Johnson and annex, Lincoln, Lovejoy, Monroe and addition, Peabody, Seaton, Sumner, and Webster school buildings, and one new building to relieve the Franklin and Thompson schools, twenty-one in all, at nine hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Mott, New Langdon, and Miner buildings, three in all, at eight hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Abbott, Berrett, Sayles J. Bowen, Brightwood, John F. Cook, Cranch, Randall, Syphax, and Tenley buildings, nine in all, at seven hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Adams, Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Bennings (white), Blair, Blake, Blow, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Bruce, Buchanan, Carberry, Cardozo, Chevy Chase, Cleveland Park, Congress Heights, Corcoran, Dent, Douglass, Edmunds, Eckington, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Greenleaf, Harrison, Hayes, Hilton, Hubbard, Hyde, Jackson, Jones, Ketcham, Langston, Lenox, Logan. Ludlow, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Mont- gomery, Morgan, Morse, Patterson, Payne, Petworth. Phelps, Phillips, ’ierce, Polk, Potomac, Ross, Abby S. Simmons, Slater, Smallwood, Takoma, Taylor, Toner, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Ness, Webb, Weightman, Wheatley, Wilson, and Wormley buildings, and one eight-room building adjacent to Johnson school, seventy-four in all, at six hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the B. B. French, Thomson, and Woodburn buildings, three, in all. at four hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/707">707</page> Of the Benning (colored), Brightwood Park, Brookland (colored), Deanwood, Hamilton, Kenilworth, McCormick, Orr, Reno, Reservoir, Stanton, and Threlkeld buildings, twelve in all, at three hundred dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Of the Bunker Hill, Conduit Road, Chain Bridge Road, Ford Road, Fort Slocum, Military Road, Ivy City, and Burrville buildings, eight in all, at one hundred and twenty dollars each;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools wherever located, at a rate not to exceed seventy-two dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and ten thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Medical Inspectors</inline>: For twelve medical inspectors of public<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Competitive examination.</p></sidenote> schools, four of whom shall be of the colored race, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said inspectors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> shall be appointed by the commissioners only after competitive examination, and shall have had at least five years’ experience in the practice of medicine in the District of Columbia, and shall perform their duties under the direction of the health officer and according to rules formulated from time to time by him, which shall be subject to the approval of the board of education and the commissioners.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For rent of school buildings, repair shop, storage<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary rooms, etc.</p></sidenote> and stock rooms, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory-education law and for the purchase of all necessary articles and supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plumbing repairs</p></sidenote> for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manual training expenses.</p></sidenote> school buildings, fifty thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, ninety-two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture including also clocks, pianos, and window shades for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One four-room addition to Monroe School building, nine hundred dollars; one twelve-room building to take place of the Garfield School building, three thousand dollars; one eight-room building, Johnson Annex, two thousand dollars; one twelve-room building to relieve Franklin and Thomson schools, three thousand dollars; six kindergartens, one thousand five hundred dollars; two manual training shops, five hundred dollars; one cooking school, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fiftv dollars; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/708">708</page> For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pianos.</p></sidenote> stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars each for livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent of schools and for the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, fortyseven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies for pupils.</p></sidenote> schools, at an average cost not to exceed three hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchanges.</p></sidenote> grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and supplies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the board of education, in its discretion, is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flags.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Playgrounds.</p></sidenote> authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School gardens.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school playgrounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance and repairing eighteen playgrounds now established, nine hundred dollars; in all, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Telephones to new schools.</p></sidenote> of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extending the telephone system to one twelve-room building<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apparatus for physics department, etc.</p></sidenote> in the “fourth division.” one eight-room building in the “third division,” the Bunker Hill School, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, poles, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, extra labor, and other necessary items to be expended under the electrical department, four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of apparatus and for extending the equipment of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portable school houses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balances for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, pp. 501, 1140.</p></sidenote> the physics department in the Central, Eastern, and Western High schools, including the purchase of pipes and fittings and extra labor, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any unexpended balances in the “Act making appropriations to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buildings and grounds.</p></sidenote> provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes, to rent, equip, and care for temporary rooms for classes above the second grade, now on half time, and to provide for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law,” is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for the purchase, erection, and maintenance of portable schoolhouses for temporary use.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings and Grounds</inline>: For the completion of the twelve-room<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">McKinley Manual Training School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions.</p></sidenote> building in the fourth division to relieve the Franklin and Thomson schools, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of extension of the Business High School building, thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion of eight-room annex to the Johnson School building, fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of four-room addition to the Monroe School building, twenty-four thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For erection of eight-room school building to take the place of Potomac School, sixty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/709">709</page> For one eight-room building and site in or near Cleveland Park, eighty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the erection of a four-room addition to the Benning School building, thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground, approximately, thirty-five thousand square feet, adjacent to Chevy Chase School, and the erection thereon of a four-room addition thereto, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of lots adjacent to Phelps School, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For erection of a four-room addition to Lovejoy School building, thirty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For addition to Western High School building, nine class rooms, seventy-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground, approximately forty-five thousand square feet, for the erection of an eight-room building between Thirteenth and Sixteenth streets and north of Spring road northwest, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground adjacent to the Seaton School, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of ground for school in ninth division, approximately thirty thousand square feet, eighteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of site for building north of Q street and west of Seventh street northwest, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of additional ground adjacent to the Garfield School, approximately eighty-five thousand square feet, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the appropriation of twenty-six thousand dollars made in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, for one four-room building and site, Brookland (colored), seventh division, is hereby made available for the purchase of site and construction of a two-room school building at such point in or near Brookland as may be selected by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of additional ground for further extension of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fireproof stairways, etc.</p></sidenote> McKinley Manual Training School, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of a further extension of McKinley Manual Training School, ninety-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of lots adjacent to Petworth School, approximately eight thousand seven hundred and fifteen square feet, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for “Repairs and improvements to school<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost of sites, etc.</p></sidenote> buildings and grounds” for the purpose of replacing wooden stairways in brick buildings with those of fireproof construction, removal of old and unsuitable fire ladders and fire escapes, improving exits, and for such miscellaneous alterations and repair work as may be necessary to secure protection against fire in existing school buildings owned by the District of Columbia, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the total cost of the sites and of the several and respective<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparation and approval.</p></sidenote> buildings herein provided for, when completed upon plans and specifications to be previously made and approved, shall not exceed the several and respective sums of money herein respectively appropriated or authorized for such purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the plans and specifications for all buildings provided for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doors to open outward.</p></sidenote> in this Act shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia and shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and shall he constructed in conformity thereto.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">School buddings authorized and appropriated for herein shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deaf and dumb pupils.</p></sidenote> constructed with all doors intended to be used as exits or entrances opening outward and each of said buildings having in excess of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/710">710</page> eight rooms shall have at least four exits. No part of any appropriation carried in this Act shall he used for tne maintenance of school in any building unless all outside doors thereto used as exits or entrances shall open outward and be kept unlocked every school day from one-half hour before until one-half hour after school hours.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb</inline>: For expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., see, 4864, p.942.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 844.</p></sidenote> attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colored children.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution bv the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 901.</p></sidenote> age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized in an Act of Congress approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indigent blind children.</p></sidenote> March third, nineteen hundred and five, and under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote> in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR METROPOLITAN POLICE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For major and superintendent, four thousand dollars; assistant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion to class three.</p></sidenote> superintendent, with rank of inspector, two thousand five hundred dollars; three inspectors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; eleven captains, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, who shall also be property clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk and stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, who shall be assistant property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four surgeons of the police and fire departments, at six hundred dollars each; additional compensation for twenty privates detailed for special service in the detection and prevention of crime, four thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; twelve lieutenants, one of whom shall be harbor master, at one thousand three hundred and twenty dollars each; forty-five sergeants, one of whom may be detailed for duty in the harbor patrol, at one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; four hundred and eighty-two privates of class three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eighty-nine privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; eighty-eight privates of class one, at nine hundred dollars each; for amount required to pay salaries of privates of class two who will be promoted to class three and privates of class one who will be promoted to class two during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, seven thousand and forty-three dollars and fifty-two cents; six telephone operators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fourteen janitors, at six hundred dollars each; messenger, seven hundred dollars; messenger, five hundred dollars; major and superintendent, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; inspector, mounted, two hundred and forty dollars; fifty-five captains, lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, at two hundred and forty dollars each; sixty-four lieutenants, sergeants, and privates, mounted, on bicycles, at fifty dollars each; twenty-six drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and three police matrons, at six hundred dollars each; in all. nine hundred and twenty-seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/711">711</page> thousand four hundred and seventy-three dollars and fifty-two cents:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vagrants described.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any private of the Metropolitan police force who served for a period of five years prior to the Act of June eight h, nineteen hundred and six, shall be included in class three.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the following-described persons in the District of Columbia<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idle persons without means.</p></sidenote> are hereby declared to be vagrants:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Idle persons who, not having visible means of support, live without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leading immoral, etc., lives.</p></sidenote> lawful employment; persons wandering abroad and visiting tippling shops or houses of ill fame, or lodging in groceries, outhouses, market places, sheds, barns, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves; persons wandering abroad and begging, or who go about from door to door or place themselves in the streets, highways, passages, or other public places to beg or receive alms.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All persons leadmg an idle, immoral, or profligate life who have no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Known thieves, etc.</p></sidenote> property to support them and who are able of body to work and do not work, including all able-bodied persons without other visible means of support who shall live in idleness upon the wages or earnings of their mother, wife, or minor child or children.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, or confidence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Persons having burglars’ tools, etc.</p></sidenote> operator, either by his own confession or by his having been convicted in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of either of such offenses, and having no visible or lawful means of support, when found loitering around in any building, park, highway, street, avenue, alley, or reservation, steamboat landing, railroad depot, station, banking institution, broker’s office, place of amusement, room, store, shop, public place, or car or omnibus or other vehicle, or at any public gathering or assembly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Persons upon whom shall be found any instrument, tool, or other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bond required of convicted vagrants.</p></sidenote> implement used for the commission of burglary or the commission of any other crime against property, or for picking locks or pockets who shall fail to give a good account of the possession of the same, and all persons who by the common law are vagrants whether embraced in any of the foregoing classifications or not.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That every person in the District of Columbia who shall be convicted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commitment on failure to furnish.</p></sidenote> of vagrancy under the provisions of this Act shall be required to enter into security in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, conditioned upon his good behavior and industry for the period of one year, and if he shall fail to give such security he shall be committed to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of security.</p></sidenote> the workhouse in the said District for a term not to exceed one year. The security herein mentioned shall be in the nature of a recognizance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jury trials.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81, p. 1196.</p></sidenote> to the District of Columbia with a surety or sureties to be approved by the police court of the said District, in which court all prosecutions under this Act shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law for the prosecution of offenses against the laws and ordinances of the said District, but nothing contained in section forty-four of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent of substation, etc., Anacostia.</p></sidenote> Code of Law for the District of Columbia shall be so construed as to create or give to the accused, in prosecutions under this Act, any right to trial by jury not existing by force of the Constitution of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For rent of substation and stable at Anacostia,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> four hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detection of crime.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to stations, five thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, including the purchase of new wagons, rewards for fugitives, modern revolvers, maintenance of card system, stationery, city directories, periodicals, telegraphing, telephoning, photographs, printing, binding, gas, ice, washing, meals for prisoners, furniture and repairs thereto, beds and bed clothing, insignia of office, purchase of horses, horse and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/712">712</page> vehicle for superintendent, bicycles, police equipments and repairs to the same, narness, forage, repairs to vehicles, van, and patrol wagons and saddles, mounted equipments, and expenses incurred in the prevention and detection of crime, repairs to rented buildings, and other necessary expenses, thirty-five thousand dollars; of which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mounted equipment.</p></sidenote> amount a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars may be expended by the major and superintendent of police for the prevention and detection of crime under his certificate, approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the War Department may, in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flags.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Motor patrol wagon.</p></sidenote> its discretion, furnish the District Commissioners for the use of the police, upon requisition, such worn mounted equipment as may be required;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For flags and halyards for station houses, one hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of detention.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one motor patrol wagon, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-eight thousand and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">House of Detention</inline>: To enable the Commissioners of the District<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Harbor patrol.</p></sidenote> of Columbia to provide transportation, including the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and a suitable place for the reception, transportation, and detention of children under seventeen years of age and, in the discretion of the commissioners, of girls and women over seventeen years of age, arrested by the police on charge of offense against any law in force in the District of Columbia, or held as witnesses, or held pending final investigation or examination, or otherwise, including salaries of two clerks at nine hundred dollars each; four drivers, at six hundred dollars each; one hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; six Suards, at six hundred dollars each: and three matrons, at six hun- red dollars each, thirteen thousand five hundred and eighty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Harbor Patrol</inline>: For one engineer, one thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, etc.</p></sidenote> two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; one watchman, five hundred and forty dollars; one deck hand, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire department.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For chief engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; deputy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> chief engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; three battalion chief engineers, at two thousand dollars each; fire marshal, two thousand dollars; deputy fire marshal, one thousand four hundred dollars; two inspectors, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; chief clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; thirty-five captains, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; thirty-six lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent of machinery, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of machinery, one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-two engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty-two assistant engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two pilots, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant marine engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two marine firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-six drivers, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/713">713</page> at one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars each; thirty-six assistant drivers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; two hundred and two privates of class two, at one thousand and eighty dollars each; thirty-seven privates of class one. at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: For repairs and improvements to engine houses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> and grounds, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to apparatus and for new apparatus and new appliances, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of hose, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of horses, fifteen thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For forage, twenty-seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements of the fire boat, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New house for No. 2 company.</p></sidenote> medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, twenty-four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase Fire Department</inline>: For house, site, and furniture for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House. Twining City.</p></sidenote> engine company numbered two of the fire department of the District of Columbia, including cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, eighty- five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For house and furniture for a chemical engine company to be located<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dedication of site.</p></sidenote> at a point in the neighborhood of Minnesota avenue and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, including the cost of necessary instruments for receiving alarms and connecting said house with fire-alarm headquarters, twenty-six thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a site of not less<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New apparatus.</p></sidenote> than seven thousand two hundred square feet at a point satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be first dedicated to the District of Columbia without cost;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one second-size steam fire engine, five thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Health department.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For one combination chemical engine and hose wagon, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred. and eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>HEALTH DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For health officer, four thousand dollars; assistant health officer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stable rent.</p></sidenote> who shall be a physician, and during the absence or disability of the health officer shall act as health officer and discharge the duties incident to that position, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and deputy health officer, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks, two of whom may act as sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; chief inspector and deputy health officer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant chief inspector, one thousand six hundred dollars; fourteen sanitary and food inspectors, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two inspectors, at one thousand dollars each; two inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; sanitary and food inspector, who shall be a veterinary surgeon and act as inspector of live stock and dairy farms, one thousand two hundred dollars; five sanitary and food inspectors, who shall be veterinary surgeons, at one thousand dollars each, and five sanitary and food inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each, to assist in the enforcement of the milk and pure-food laws and the regulations <page identifier="/us/stat/35/714">714</page> relating thereto; sanitary and food inspector, who shall also inspect dairy products and shall be a practical chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger and janitor, six hundred dollars; driver, five hundred and forty dollars; pound master, one thousand five hundred dollars; and for laborers, at not exceeding fifty dollars per month, three thousand six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous</inline>: Fox<sup>-</sup> rent of stable, one hundred and twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prevention of contagious diseases.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 635.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to prevent the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 889.</p></sidenote> spread of contagious diseases in the District of Columbia, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, and an Act for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis registration.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 126.</p></sidenote> prevention of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis, and typhoid fever in the District of Columbia, approved February ninth,nineteen hundred and seven, and an Act to provide for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, wagons, etc.</p></sidenote> registration of all cases of tuberculosis in the District of Columbia, for free examination of sputum in suspected cases, and for preventing the spread of tuber culosis in said District, approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, under the direction of the health officer of said District, including salaries or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners anti necessary for the enforcement and execution of said Acts purchase anti maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, rent of stables, purchase of reference<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disinfecting service.</p></sidenote> books and medical journals, and maintenance of quarantine station and smallpox hospital, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of the disinfecting service, including salaries or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Drainage.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 29, p. 125.</p></sidenote> compensation for personal services wnen ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for the maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, and rent of stable, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Abatement of nuisances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 114.</p></sidenote> drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the abatement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food adulterations.</p></sidenote> of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For special services in connection with the detection of the adulteration<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of milk. etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 709.</p></sidenote> of drugs and of foods, including candy and milk, one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses incident to the enforcement of an Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pure-food law.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 768.</p></sidenote> regulate the sale of milk in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety- five; an Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspecting dairy farms.</p></sidenote> of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, anti liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes, approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary expenses of inspection of dairy farms, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pound wagon.</p></sidenote> amounts that may be allowed to the health officer, and assistant health officer, medical inspector in charge of contagious disease service, and inspectors assigned to the inspection of dairy farms, for the maintenance of horse and vehicle, or motor vehicle, for use in the discharge of their official duties,not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five dollars per annum each, and other necessary traveling expenses, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance of an additional pound wagon, including compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Isolating wards in hospitals.</p></sidenote> for personal services when ordered in writing by the com- missioneis and necessary for the maintenance of said wagon, and all <page identifier="/us/stat/35/715">715</page> other extra expenses whatsoever connected therewith, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Garfield and Providence hospitals: For isolating wards for minor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public crematory.</p></sidenote> contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial and Providence hospitals, maintenance, six thousand dollars, and four thousand dollars, respectively, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including personal services, of the public crematory,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COURTS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of appeals report</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For amount required to pay the reporter of the court of appeals of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 609.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia for volumes of the reports of the opinions of said court, authorized to be furnished by him under section two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juvenile court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> and twenty-nine of the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia as amended July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-two volumes, at five dollars each, namely, eleven copies each of volumes thirty-two and thirty-three, one hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Juvenile Court</inline>: For judge, three thousand dollars; clerk, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; deputy clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars, who is hereby authorized to act as clerk in the absence of that officer; chief probation officer, one thousand five hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand two hundred dollars; probation officer, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: For compensation of jurors, one thousand seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries</p></sidenote> hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent, two hundred and forty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, fixtures, and equipments, and repairs to the courthouse and grounds, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, ice, gas, and laundry work, stationery, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, typewriter and repairs thereto, binding and rebinding, preservation of records, mops, brooms, and buckets, removal of ashes and refuse, telephone service, traveling expenses, and other incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Police Court</inline>: For two judges, at three thousand six hundred dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> each; clerk, two thousand dollars; two deputy clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two deputy clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; deputy clerk, to be known as financial clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; seven bailiffs, at nine hundred dollars each; deputy marshal, one thousand dollars; janitor, five hundred and forty dollars; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fireman, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant janitors, at three hundred dollars each; matron, six hundred dollars; three charmen, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: For fuel, gas, laundry work, stationery, printing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lunacy writs.</p></sidenote> preservation of records, mops, brooms, buckets, city directory, removal of ashes and other refuse, telephone service, electric current, and all other necessary and incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For witness fees, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to police court furniture and repairing and replacing same, two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For meals of jurors and of bailiffs in attendance upon them when ordered by the court, one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/716">716</page> For compensation of jurors, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to the police-court building, four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Writs of Lunacy</inline>: To defray the expenses attending the execution<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 740.</p></sidenote> of writs de lunatico inquirendo and commitments thereunder in all cases of indigent insane persons committed or sought to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 623.</p></sidenote> committed to the Government Hospital for the Insane by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Municipal Court</inline>: For five judges, at two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> dollars each; one judge, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum for six months; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand dollars; and janitor, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of building, one thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses to June 30, 1909.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone rental, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all for the municipal court, eighteen thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following from March first to the end of the fiscal year,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Justices of the peace.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriations continued for municipal court judges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 301.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and nine: One clerk, at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, five hundred dollars; one assistant clerk, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; one janitor, at the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars per annum, one hundred and sixty dollars; for rent of building, five hundred dollars; for furniture and equipment of rented building, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and ninety-three dollars and thirty-three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation provided for the compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expense.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropriated for municipal court.</p></sidenote> of the six justices of the peace by the District of Columbia appropriation- Act, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the compensation of the judges of the municipal court from March first to the end of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and nine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The unexpended balance of the appropriation of four hundred dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest and sinking fund.</p></sidenote> each for justices of the peace, for rent, clerical services, stationery, and other expenses, provided by the District of Columbia appropriation Act, approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby reappropriated and made available from March first to the end of the fiscal year, nineteen hundred and nine, for contingent expenses of the municipal court, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone rental, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>INTEREST AND SINKING FUND.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency fund.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For interest and sinking fund on the funded debt, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand four hundred and eight dollars.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EMERGENCY FUND.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">To be expended only in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character, and in all cases of emergency not otherwise sufficiently provided for, eight thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in the purchase of all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts and prisons.</p></sidenote> articles provided for in this Act no more than the market price shall be paid for any such articles, and all bids for any of such articles above the market price shall be rejected.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/717">717</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FOR COURTS AND PRISONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of convicts out of District.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of Convicts</inline>: For support, maintenance, and transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court-house.</p></sidenote> of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, forty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Court-House, District of Columbia</inline>: For the following force<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jail.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warden.</p></sidenote> necessary for the care and protection of the court-house in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: Engineer,one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and three messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand and eighty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Warden of the Jail</inline>: For warden of the jail of the District of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> Columbia, two thousand dollars, to be paid under the direction of the Attorney-General.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Support of Prisoners</inline>: For expenses for maintenance of the jail of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Witness fees.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fees of Witnesses, Supreme Court</inline>: For fees of witnesses in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 850. p. 160.</p></sidenote> supreme court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurors’ fees.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fees of Jurors, Supreme Court</inline>: For fees of jurors in the supreme<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of bailiffs, etc.</p></sidenote> court of the District of Columbia, fifty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Bailiffs</inline>: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous Expenses</inline>: For payment of such miscellaneous<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatory and work house.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites to be selected.</p></sidenote> expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the supreme court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General for the court or appeals, District of Columbia, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sites for Reformatory and Workhouse</inline>: The Commissioners of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commission to prepare plans, etc.</p></sidenote> the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to purchase two tracts of land, widely separated, of not less than one thousand acres each, either or both of which to be situated in the State of Maryland, or in the State of Virginia; one of said tracts shall be used as a site for the construction and erection of a reformatory of sufficient capacity to accommodate at least one thousand inmates, and the other for the construction and erection of a workhouse of sufficient capacity to accommodate at least five hundred prisoners, and to build necessary temporary structures on each tract; the said commissioners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p></sidenote> are hereby authorized and directed to appoint a commission to consist of three persons, one of said commissioners shall be chairman, which commission shall employ an architect skilled in the construction of such buildings to prepare all plans, specifications, and estimates deemed necessary or required by said commission, and which shall first be approved before acceptance by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who are hereby required to construct said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Labor of work house prisoners.</p></sidenote> reformatory and workhouse; and on their direction the prisoners at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for sites, etc.</p></sidenote> the time confined in any existing workhouse of said District shall <page identifier="/us/stat/35/718">718</page> clear and prepare any or all such tracts of land for building, and assist in the construction of any or all of said buildings; and the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and the Attorney-General, and the warden of the jail of said District are hereby authorized and directed, on the request of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to require male prisoners at the time serving sentence in said jail to do the said work. For the purchase or condemnation of said sites, work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balance available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1149.</p></sidenote> of preparing same for buddings, and erection of said temporary structures and the means necessary thereto, the sum of sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and sixty-four cents is hereby appropriated, and in addition thereto the unexpended balance amounting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense for permanent buildings until authorized.</p></sidenote> to eighty-three thousand three hundred and three dollars and thirty-six cents of the appropriation of eighty-live thousand dollars for the erection of an administrative building for the workhouse for males in the District of Columbia appropriat ion Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby reappropriated and made available for these purposes: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of commission.</p></sidenote> actual erection of permanent buildings shall be incurred until an appropriation shall be made for such purpose.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For architects’ services and necessary expenses of said commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> to be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all appropriations herein made for said reformatory and workhouse are hereby made immediately available.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charities and corrections.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Charities</inline>: For secretary, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Charities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, six hundred dollars; one inspector, one thousand dollars; six inspector’s, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one driver, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; three drivers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; hostler, five hundred and forty dollars; traveling expenses, four hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>reformatories and correctional institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reformatories.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Washington Asylum</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Asylum. Salaries.</p></sidenote> eight hundred dollars; visiting physician, one thousand and eighty dollar’s; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; property clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; baker, six hundred dollars; principal overseer, one thousand five hundred dollars; sixteen overseers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twentv dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer at hospital for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; engineer at new workhouse for seven and one-half months, at fifty dollars per month; two watchmen, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two night watchmen, at five hundred and forty-eight dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred dollars; carpenter, five hundred dollars; driver for dead wagon, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; keeper at female workhouse, three hundred dollars; keeper at female workhouse, one hundred and eighty dollars; hospital cook, six hundred dollars; chief cook for workhouse, six hundred dollars; four assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; trained nurse, who shall act as superintendent of nursing, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two graduate nurses, at four hundred and twenty-five dollars each; graduate nurse for receiving ward, four hundred and twenty-five <page identifier="/us/stat/35/719">719</page> dollars; two nurses for annex wards, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; pupil nurses, not less than twenty in number (nurses to be paid not to exceed one hundred and twenty dollars per annum during first year of service, and not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum during second year of service), two thousand six hundred and tweuty-five dollars; registered pharmacist, who shall act as hospital clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; gardener, five hundred and forty dollars; herdsman, three hundred and sixty-five dollars; florist, three hundred dollars; tailor, one hundred and eighty dollars; housekeeper, three hundred dollars; laundryman, six hundred dollars; temporary labor, not to exceed two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty- nine thousand three hundred and thirty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to buildings, plumbing, painting, lumber, hardware, cement, lime, oil, tools, cars, tracks, steam heating and cooking apparatus, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to the beneficiaries named in section three of “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to families.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 87.</p></sidenote> making it a misdemeanor in the District of Columbia to abandon or willfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance by any person of his wife or his or her minor children in destitute or necessitous circumstances,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the disbursing officer of the District of Columbia on itemized vouchers duly audited and approved by the auditor of said District.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Home for the Aged and Infirm</inline>: Superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Aged and Infirm.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; two female attendants, at three hundred dollars each; chief cook, six hundred dollars; two male attendants, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; chief engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; second assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; three firemen, at three hundred dollars each; physician and pharmacist, four hundred and eighty dollars; two nurses, at three Hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; blacksmith and woodworker, five hundred and forty dollars; farmer, five hundred and forty dollars; three farm hands, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; tailor, two hundred and forty dollars: seamstress, two hundred and forty dollars; laundryman, five hundred and forty dollars; hostler and driver, two hundred and forty dollars; three servants, at one hundred and forty- four dollars each; temporary labor, six hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-two dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installing a dairy, including the erection of buildings, purchase of cattle, and the necessary fixtures for the same, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and laving of farm land drain tile, five hundred dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Home for Aged and Infirm, forty thousand nine hundred and ninety-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/720">720</page> <inline class="smallCaps">For National Training School for Boys</inline>: For care and maintenance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Training</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School for Boys.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of inmates.</p></sidenote> of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, twenty-two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reform School for Girls</inline>: Superintendent, one thousand two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reform School for Girls.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; treasurer, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; three teachers, at six hundred dollars each; overseer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; six teachers of industries, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, four hundred and eighty dollars ; two laborers, at three hundred dollars each; in all, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, soap, oil, lamps, candles,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> clothing, shoes, forage, horseshoeing, medicines, medical attendance, hack hire, transportation, labor, sewing machines, fixtures, books, stationery, horses, vehicles, harness, cows, pigs, fowls, sheds, fences, repairs, and other necessary items, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing dormitory for male employees in accordance with original plan, six hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For painting and repairing preparatory building, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Reform School for Girls, twenty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Prisoners</inline>: For conveying prisoners to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation of prisoners.</p></sidenote> workhouse, including salary of driver, not to exceed seven hundred and twenty dollars, and the purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, two thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical charities.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical charities.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freedmens Hospital.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum by the Board of Charities, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Columbia Hospital for Women.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs to Columbia Hospital, two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Children’s Hospital.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homeopathic Hospital.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Children’s Hospital by t he Board of Charities, not to exceed fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 304.</p></sidenote> to be made with the National Homeopathic Hospital Association by the Board of Charities, not to exceed eight thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency Hospitai.</p></sidenote> That the limitation of time fixed in the provision to the appropriation for the relief of the National Homeopathic Hospital Association in the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby extended to January first, nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Dispensary.</p></sidenote> to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by. the Board of Charities, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/721">721</page> For Washington Home for Incurables, maintenance, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for Incurables.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the Women’s Clinic, maintenance, two hundred and fifty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Women’s Clinic.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgetown University Hospital.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with the Georgetown University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">George Washington University Hospital.</p></sidenote> be made with the George Washington University Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sibley Hospital.</p></sidenote> be made with the Sibley Hospital by the Board of Charities, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Tuberculosis Hospital</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tuberculosis Hospital.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; resident physician, four hundred and eighty dollars; pharmacist and clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of nurses, six hundred dollars; matron, six hundred dollars; pathologist, three hundred dollars; seven graduate nurses, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; chief cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant cooks, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant engineer, six hundred dollars; assistant engineer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two firemen, at three hundred dollars each; elevator conductor, three hundred dollars; laundry man, four hundred and eighty dollars; laundress, one hundred and eighty dollars; laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; night watchman, three hundred and sixty dollars; three orderlies, at three hundred dollars each; ward maid, one hundred and eighty dollars; four servants, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, books and periodicals not to exceed fifty dollars, temporary services not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other necessary items, twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary equipment for pathological laboratory, to be immediately available, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Tuberculosis Hospital, forty thousand and twenty-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>child-caring institutions.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of children.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Board of Children’s Guardians</inline>: For the board of children’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Children’s Guardians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 268.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including expenses in placing and visiting children, city directory, and all office and sundry expenses, three thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For agent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; executive clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one thousand and eighty dollars; placing officer, nine hundred dollars; two placing officers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; investigating clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; record clerk, six hundred and sixty dollars; visiting inspector, six hundred dollars; one clerk, six hundred dollars: messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance of feeble-minded children, sixteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Feeble-minded children.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board, etc.</p></sidenote> of said board by the courts of the District, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred <page identifier="/us/stat/35/722">722</page> from place to place, with authority to pay not more than one thousand five hundred dollars to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control and not more than three hundred dollars for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, thirty-five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for board of children’s guardians, sixty-one thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to agent.</p></sidenote> advance to the agent of the board of children’s guardians, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said agent by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sums of money not to exceed two hundred dollars at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Industrial Home School for Colored Children</inline>: For superintendent,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School for Colored Children.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> one thousand two hundred dollars; matron of school, four hundred and eighty dollars; two caretakers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two assistant caretakers, at three hundred dollars each; two teachers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; sewing teacher, three hundred and sixty dollars; manual training teacher, four hundred and eighty dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; watchman, three hundred dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; in all, six thousand anil sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary services, not to exceed five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, five thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary furniture and manual training equipment, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, two hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary tiling and pipes, three hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Industrial Home School for Colored Children, thirteen thousand one hundred and ten dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipts from sale of products, etc.</p></sidenote> received at said school as income from sale of products and from payment of board or instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to be expended by them in the support of the school during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For the Industrial Home School</inline>: For superintendent, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Industrial Home School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; matron, four hundred and eighty dollars; three matrons, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: two assistant matrons, at three hundred dollars each; housekeeper, three hundred and sixty dollars: sewing teacher, three hundred, and sixty dollars; nurse, three hundred dollars; manual training teacher, six hundred dollars; florist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; engineer, six hundred dollars; farmer, four hundred and eighty dollars; cook, two hundred and forty dollars; laundress, two hundred and forty dollars; two housemaids, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; temporary labor, not to exceed four hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> harness, twelve thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cost of operating pumping plant to dispose of sewage, five hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/723">723</page> For new boiler, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for the Industrial Home School, twenty-three thousand and seventy dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Home for destitute colored children.</p></sidenote> made with the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children by the Board of Charities, not to exceed nine thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundlings’ Hospital.</p></sidenote> made with the Washington Hospital for Foundlings by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Ann’s Asylum.</p></sidenote> made with Saint Ann’s Infant Asylum by the Board of Charities, five thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of children under a contract to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">German Orphan Asylum.</p></sidenote> made with the German Orphan Asylum by the Board of Charities, not to exceed three hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>temporary homes.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary homes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For municipal lodging house and wood and stone yard, namely:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Municipal lodging house.</p></sidenote> For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; foreman, three hundred and sixty dollars; and night watchman for six months, at twenty-five dollars per month, one. hundred and fifty dollars; maintenance, including rent, one thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For temporary Home for ex-Union Soldiers and Sailors, Grand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Army Soldiers’ Home.</p></sidenote> Army of the Republic, namely: For superintendent, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, three hundred and sixty dollars; and cook, three hundred and sixty dollars; maintenance, four thousand dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and ex-soldiers and sailors of the Spanish war and the war with Mexico shall also be admitted to the Home.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the care and maintenance of women and children under a contract<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hope and Help Mission.</p></sidenote> to be made with the Florence Crittenton Hope and Help Mission by the Board of Charities, maintenance, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Hospital for the Insane</inline>: For support of the indigent insane<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of indigent insane.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane in said District, as provided by law, three hundred and one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For deportation from the District of Columbia of nonresident<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deporting nonresident insane.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 811.</p></sidenote> insane persons, in accordance with the Act of Congress “to change the proceedings for admission to the Government Hospital for the Insane in certain cases, and for other purposes,” approved January thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in expending the foregoing sum the disbursing officer of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances to Board of Charities.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the secretary of the Board of Charities, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, and upon such security as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may require of said secre- tarv, sums of money not exceeding three hundred dollars at one time, to be used only for deportation from the District of nonresident insane persons, and to be accounted for monthly on itemized vouchers to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Relief of the Poor</inline>: For relief of the poor, including pay of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Relief of the poor.</p></sidenote> physicians to the poor at not exceeding one dollar per day each, who shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on the recommendation of the health officer, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/724">724</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Paupers</inline>: For transportation of paupers, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting parpers.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public vehicles.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">commissioners to set scale of charges.</p></sidenote> and directed, after due investigation, to prepare and put in immediate operation, subject to change from time to time, a reasonable scale of charges by cabs, taxicabs, and public vehicles, for the transportation of passengers in the District of Columbia, and the tariffs so prepared shall be the maximum charges that may be collected in the District of Columbia. The said commissioners are hereby empowered to prescribe the penalty or penalties for violation of any charge fixed by them.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MILITIA OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Militia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For the following, to be expended under the authority and direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> of the commanding general, who is hereby authorized and empowered to make necessary contracts and leases, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Camps, etc.</p></sidenote> to be mounted, and such hire not to be deducted from their mounted pay, instruction, practice marches and practice cruises, drills and parades, rent, fuel, light, heat, care, and repair of armories, practice ships, boats, machinery, and dock, dredging alongside of dock, and for telephone service, forty-five thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For lockers, furniture, and gymnastic apparatus for armories, seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For printing, stationery, and postage, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipments and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For custodian in charge of United States property and storerooms, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk, office of the adjutant-general, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of rifle practice and matches, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of troops, other than government employees, to be disbursed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> under the authority and direction of the commanding general eighteen thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all moneys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deductions for loss of property.</p></sidenote> collected on account of deductions made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia on account of government property lost or destroyed by such individual shall be repaid into the United States Treasury to the credit of the officer of the militia of the District of Columbia who is accountable to the United States Government for such property lost or destroyed: <i>Provided further</i>, That all moneys collected on account of deductions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of fines, etc.</p></sidenote> made from the pay of any officer or enlisted man of the National Guard of the District of Columbia for or on account of any violation of the regulations governing said national guard shall be held by the commanding general of the militia of the District of Columbia, who is authorized to expend such moneys so collected for necessary clerical and general expenses of the service, heretofore or hereafter incurred, including law books and books of reference, or for the pay of troops, other than government employees; and for all moneys so collected and expended the commanding general shall make an accounting in like manner as for the appropriation disbursed for pay of troops: <i>Provided further</i>, That any of the moneys appropriated for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriations.</p></sidenote> District of Columbia Militia may be used to supplement specific appropriations or allotments which may be found insufficient for the purposes for which made, and authority is hereby given to supplement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additions to rations.</p></sidenote> the regular ration by purchase of such additional articles of subsistence as may be deemed necessary.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the service, five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/725">725</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WATER DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">The following sums are hereby appropriated to carry on the operations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payable from water revenues.</p></sidenote> of the water department, to be paid wholly from its revenues, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For revenue and inspection branch: For water registrar, who shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue and inspection branch.</p></sidenote> also perforin the duties of chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; index clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; meter computer, one thousand dollars; chief inspector, one thousand dollars; nine inspectors, at nine hundred dollars each; ten inspectors, at eight hundred dollars each; assistant tapper, eight hundred and twenty- five dollars: messenger, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For distribution branch: For superintendent, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Distribution branch.</p></sidenote> draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; timekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant foreman, nine hundred dollars; three steam engineers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; assistant engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; leveler, one thousand two hundred dollars; two rodmen, at nine hundred dollars each; two chainmen, at six hundred and seventy-five dollars each; draftsman, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper, seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; chief steam engineer, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant steam engineers, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; four oilers, at six hundred and ten dollars each; three firemen, at eight hundred and seventy-five dollars each; inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, nine hundred dollars; watchman, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; watchman, seven hundred dollars; watchman, six hundred and ten dollars; two drivers, at seven hundred dollars each: two messengers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand and fifty dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; driver, six hundred and thirty dollars; in all, eighty-one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, including books, blanks, stationery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> printing, purchase of technical reference books and periodicals not to exceed seventy-five dollars, and other necessary items and services, three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, pipe<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operatingexpenses.</p></sidenote> distribution to high and low service, material for high and low service, including public hydrants and fire plugs, and labor in repairing, replacing, raising, and lowering mains, laying new mains and connections, and erecting and repairing fire plugs, anil purchase and maintenance of two motor trucks, horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work and including a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for the purchase and use of bicycles by inspectors of the water department, forty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the extension of and maintaining the high-service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">High-service system.</p></sidenote> system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mams for low service, including a twelve-inch main for the general use of and to afford fire protection to the National Training School <page identifier="/us/stat/35/726">726</page> for Boys, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and the purchase ami maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper execution of this work, so much as may be available in the water fund during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">The services of draftsmen, assistant engineers, levelers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> transitmen, rodmen, chainmen, computers, copyists, overseers, and inspectors temporarily required in connection with sewer, street, or road work, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District: and all such necessary expenditures for the proper execution of said work shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> number of such employees performing such services, and their work, and the sums paid to each, and out of what appropriation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum expenditure.</p></sidenote> That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed sixty-two thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under Commissioners.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required exclusively in connection with sewer, street, and road work, and street sprinkling, or the construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to earn ing on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof; said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriations under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">All horses, harness, and wagons necessary for use in connection<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, wagons, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special orders from Commissioners for using.</p></sidenote> with sewer, street, or road work, or on construction and repair of buildings and bridges, or any general or special engineering or construction work authorized by appropriations may be purchased, hired, and maintained exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all such expenditures necessary for the proper execution of said work, exclusive of personal services, shall be paid from and equitably charged against the sums appropriated for said work; and the Commissioners of the District in the annual estimates shall report the number of horses, wagons, and harness purchased, and horses and wagons hired, and the sums paid for same, and out of what appropriation, and all horses owned or maintained by the District shall, so far as may be practicable, be provided for in stables owned or operated by said District: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under Commissioners.</p></sidenote> horses, wagons, and carts as may be temporarily needed for hauling and excavating material in connection with works authorized by appropriations may be temporarily employed for such purposes under the conditions named in section two of this Act in relation to the employment of laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">The services of draftsmen, levelers, rodmen, chainmen, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary draftsmen, etc.</p></sidenote> inspectors temporarily required in connection with water-department <page identifier="/us/stat/35/727">727</page> work authorized by appropriations may be employed exclusively to carry into effect said appropriations, and be paid therefrom, when specifically and in writing ordered by the Commissioners of the District, and the Commissioners of the District in their annual estimates shall report the number of such employees performing such services and their work and the sums paid to each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum expenditure.</p></sidenote> That the expenditures hereunder shall not exceed ten thousand dollars during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Work under commissioned.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termporary laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> to employ temporarily such laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics as may be required in connection with water-department work, and to incur all necessary engineering and other expenses, exclusive of personal services, incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, said laborers, skilled laborers, and mechanics to be employed to perform such work as may not be required by existing law to be done under contract, and to pay for such services and expenses from the appropriation under which such services are rendered and expenses incurred.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous trust fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses paid from.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 368.</p></sidenote> to employ in the execution of work the cost of which is payable from the appropriation account created in the District appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and known as the “Miscellaneous trust-fund deposits, District of Columbia,” all necessary inspectors, overseers, foremen, sewer tappers, skilled laborers, mechanics, laborers, special policemen stationed at streetrailway crossings, one inspector of gas fitting, two janitors for laboratories of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies, market master, assistant market master, watchman, and one laborer for the wholesale producers’ market, horses, carts, and wagons, and to incur all necessary expenses incidental to carrying on such work and necessary for the proper execution thereof, such services and expenses to be paid from said appropriation account.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">The Commissioners or the District of Columbia shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit on requisitions.</p></sidenote> make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advances from the Treasury.</p></sidenote> and ten, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance, on the requisition of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, made in the manner now prescribed by law, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary from time to time to meet the general expenses of said District, as authorized by Congress, and to reimburse the Treasury for the portion of said advances payable by the District of Columbia out of the taxes and revenues collected for the support of the government thereof: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That all advances<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on advances.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 766.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, pp. 616, 981.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, pp. 390, 915.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, pp. 516, 1157.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 311.</p></sidenote> made under this Act and under the Acts of February eleventh, nineteen hundred and one, July first, nineteen hundred and two, March third, nineteen hundred and three, April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, March third, nineteen hundred and five, June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, March second, nineteen hundred and seven, and May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eight, not reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be reimbursed to said Treasury out of the revenues of the District of Columbia from time to time, within five years, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and ten, together with interest thereon at the rate of two per centum per annum on annual balances until so reimbursed: <i>Provided further</i>, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/728">728</page> That the Auditor for the State and other Departments and the auditor<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report.</p></sidenote> of the District of Columbia shall each annually report the amount of such advances, stating the account for each fiscal year separately, and also the reimbursements made under this section, together with the balances remaining, if any, due to the United States:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That nothing contained herein shall be so construed as to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Street extensions from District revenues only.</p></sidenote> require the United States to bear any part of the cost of acquisition of land for street extensions, and all advances heretofore or hereafter made for this purpose by the Secretary of the Treasury shall be repaid in full from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual estimates limited.</p></sidenote> the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall not submit, nor shall the Secretary of the Treasury transmit to Congress regular annual estimates for expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for any fiscal year that shall exceed in the aggregate a sum equal to twice the amount of the total estimated revenues of the District of Columbia for such fiscal year. Said estimates shall take into consideration and embrace all charges against the said revenues arising under appropriations other than the regular District of Columbia bill. Such annual estimates shall not be published in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Publication before submitting to Congress forbidden.</p></sidenote> advance of their.submission to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">All laws and parts of laws to the extent that they are<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> inconsistent with this Act are repealed.</content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 251: Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>251.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, for the armament thereof for the procurement of heavy ordnance for trial and service, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27054">[H. R. 27054</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/304">[Public, No. 304</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the sums of money herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fortifications appropriations.</p></sidenote> provided for be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be available until expended, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS OF DEFENSE.</heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of gun and mortar batteries, five thousand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gun and mortar batteries.</p></sidenote> sixty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For modernizing older emplacements, one hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modernizing older emplacements.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control stations, etc.</p></sidenote> purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus, and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders, etc.</p></sidenote> and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and forty-seven thousand and fifty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For supplying current for power and lighting at seacoast fortifications,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric current supply.</p></sidenote> one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> our most important harbors, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites.</p></sidenote> thereto, needed for site, location, construction, or prosecution of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/729">729</page> works for fortifications and coast defenses, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> which there may be no special appropriation available, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completing sea walls for the protection of the sites of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penacola, Fla., seawlls.</p></sidenote> fortifications and of the necessary post buildings at Forts Pickens and McRee, Pensacola Harbor, Florida, five hundred and seven thousand one hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preparation of plans for fortifications, five thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tools, electrical and engine supplies and appliances, to be furnished by the Engineer Department, for the use of the troops for maintaining and operating electric light and power plants in gun and mortar batteries, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reserve lights, ten thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve lights.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea walls.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of sea walls and embankments, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of sea wall anil fill for the protection of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Travis. Galveston, Tex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sea wall.</p></sidenote> military reservation at Fort Travis, Galveston, Texas, four hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For preservation and repair of structures erected for the torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo structurea.</p></sidenote> defense of the United States, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories, one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended by the Engineer Department.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Service.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control installations.</p></sidenote> defenses, one hundred and forty-five thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>armament of fortifications.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armament.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mountain, Held and siege cannon.</p></sidenote> siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, six hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> machine and automatic guns, and for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote> cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., seacoast artillery practice.</p></sidenote> guns, and other accessories for seacoast artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering mobile artillery.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition, etc., for Held artillery practice.</p></sidenote> guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/730">730</page> Hereafter ammunition of older model than current may be issued<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Issue to institutions.</p></sidenote> for the instruction in target practice of students at the institutions to which the issue of artillery is authorized to the value of not more than five thousand dollars of original cost in any one year.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration of three and two-tenths inch batteries to rapidfire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering to rapidfire batteries, etc.</p></sidenote> field batteries, including sights, implements, equipments, and the materials and machinery necessary for alteration and manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering, etc., seacoast artillery.</p></sidenote> the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, four hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
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</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PROVING GROUND, SANDY HOOK, NEW JERSEY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sandy Hook proving ground.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For current expenses of the ordnance proving ground, Sandy Hook,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> New Jersey, comprising the maintenance of rail and water transportation, repairs, alterations, accessories, and service of employees incidental to testing and proving ordnance material, hire or assistants for the Ordnance Board, purchase of instillments and articles required for testing and experimental work, building and repairing butts and targets, clearing and grading ranges, fifty-six thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the necessary expenses of officers while temporarily employed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary employment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> on ordnance duties at the proving ground and absent from their proper station, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per diem while so employed, and the compensation of draftsmen while employed in the Army Ordnance Bureau on ordnance construction, eighteen thousand seven hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SUBMARINE MINES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For the purchase of submarine mines and necessary appliances to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and continuing torpedo experiments; for the purchase of the necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repair shop, torpedo depot.</p></sidenote> machinery, tools, and implements for the repair shop of the torpedo depot at Fort Totten, New York, and for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days on work in connection with the issue, receipt, and care of submarine mining material at the torpedo depot, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FORTIFICATIONS IN INSULAR POSSESSIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular possessions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of seacoast batteries, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast batteries.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, three hundred and thirty-seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Philippine Islands, one million dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That contracts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> may be entered into, under the direction of the Secretary of War, for materials and work for construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, to be paid for as appropriations may from time to time be made by law, for an additional sura not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one million three hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/731">731</page> For installation of light and power plants at the defenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Electric plants.</p></sidenote> following localities:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, fourteen thousand four hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote> sixty-nine dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Philippine Islands, eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phi lippine Islands.</p></sidenote> twenty-three dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and three thousand two hundred and ninety- two dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OFFICE OF CHIEF OF ARTILLERY.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief of Artillery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire control stations, etc.</p></sidenote> purchase of lands and rights of way, and for the purchase and installation of necessary lines and means of electrical communications, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; for the purchase, manufacture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Range finders.</p></sidenote> and test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and installation of searchlights for the defenses of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Searchlights.</p></sidenote> most important harbors, as follows:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaiian Islands.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the Hawaiian Islands, sixty-six thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sites, Philippines.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procurement or reclamation of land, or right pertaining thereto, needed for the site, location, construction, or prosecution of works for fortifications and coast defenses in the Philippine Islands, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seacoast cannon.</p></sidenote> coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, to cost ultimately not more than eight hundred and fiftyseven thousand dollars, five hundred and forty-seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The action of the Secretary of War in heretofore mounting eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of mortars, etc., to Hawaii.</p></sidenote> twelve-inch mortars from the stock on hand for use in continental United States at Diamond Head in the Hawaiian Islands is ratified and legalized, and the Secretary of War is further authorized to transfer to the insular possessions for reserve purposes one ten-inch gun and two six-inch guns out of the stock now on hand in the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition forsea- coast cannon.</p></sidenote> cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, five hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the alteration and maintenance of the seacoast artillery, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Altering artillery, etc.</p></sidenote> the mechanical supervision of its installation, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of the civilian mechanics and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Not to exceed thirty-five thousand dollars of the funds appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draftsmen.</p></sidenote> for fortifications in the insular possessions may be used prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, in the War Department for services of draftsmen, such sum to be in addition to other amounts authorized for similar work: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That the Secretary of War shall report<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rrport.</p></sidenote> in his annual estimates to Congress the number of persons employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.</proviso></p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/732">732</page></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BOARD OF ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bonrđ of Ordnance and Fortification.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases, etc.</p></sidenote> experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war material as may, in the judgment of the board, be necessary in the proper discharge of the duty devolved upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25. p. 489.</p></sidenote> it by the Act approved September twenty-second, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian member.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26. p. 769.</p></sidenote> and eighty-eight; to pay the salary of the civilian member of the Board of Ordnanceand Fortification provided by the Act of February twentyfourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said Act; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the board,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem; tests, etc.</p></sidenote> including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages, and other devices procured in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, one hundred thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right to use invention.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said board, the board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the same to the Government.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">No money appropriated by this Act shall be expended except for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials to be of American manufacture.</p></sidenote> goods of American manufacture, save in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad.</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 252: Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>252.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26915">[H. R. 26915</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/305">[Public. No. 305</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anny appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten:
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies of the Army</inline>: For all contingent expenses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies of the Army.</p></sidenote> army not otherwise provided for, and embracing all branches of the military service, including the office of the Chief of Staff, to be expended under the immediate orders of the Secretary of War, fifteen thousand dollars.</p></chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the chief of staff.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief of Staff.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army War College</inline>: For expenses of the Army War College, being<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote> for the purchase of the necessary stationery, office, toilet, and desk furniture, text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers and periodicals, printing and binding, maps, police utensils, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, including twenty-five <page identifier="/us/stat/35/733">733</page> dollars per month additional to regular compensation, to chief clerk of division for superintendence of the War College building, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the military information division,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference, professional and technical periodicals and newspapers, and of the military attaches at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign periodicals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3648, p, 718.</p></sidenote> That section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">United States Service Schools</inline>: To provide means for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service schools.</p></sidenote> theoretical and practical instruction at the Staff College (including the Army School of the line and the Army Signal School) at Fort<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Riley, Kans.</p></sidenote> Leavenworth, Kansas, and the mounted service school at Fort Riley, Kansas, by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, the purchase of modern instruments and material for theoretical and practical instruction, and for all other absolutely necessary expenses, to be allotted in such proportions as may, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, be for the best interests of the military service, twenty-five thousand dollars: <i>Prowled</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School detachments.</p></sidenote> from the enlisted force of the army now provided by law the President may authorize the organization of school detachments at each of the service schools, and may authorize the appointment therein of such noncommissioned officers, mechanics, artificers, farriers, horse- shoers, and cooks as may be necessary for the administration of such school: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing herein shall be construed as to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of enlisted men prohibited.</p></sidenote> authorize an increase in the total number of enlisted men of the army now authorized by law.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>the adjutant-general’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant General’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingencies, Headquarters of Military Departments</inline>: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses at headquarters.</p></sidenote> contingent expenses at the headquarters of the several military divisions and departments, including the staff corns serving thereat, being for the purchase of the necessary articles of office, toilet, and desk furniture, binding, maps, technical books of reference, professional and technical newspapers and periodicals, and police utensils, to be allotted by the Secretary of War, and to be expended in the discretion of the several military division and department commanders, seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>under the chief of artillery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under Chief of Artillery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia</inline>: For incidental<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coast artillery school. Fort Monroe.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, hardware; extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in line with their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; office furniture and fixtures, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special apparatus, etc.</p></sidenote> instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of the enlisted specialists, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/734">734</page> For purchase of generating, measuring, and mine apparatus, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine mines.</p></sidenote> materials for use in instruction of artillery troops in their special duties in connection with the loading and planting of submarine mines, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase and binding of professional books of recent date treating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Books,</p></sidenote> of military and scientific subjects for library and for use of school, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That section three thousand six hundred and forty-eight,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foreign periodicals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718.</p></sidenote> Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>office of the chief signal officer.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief Signal Officer.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Service of the Army</inline>: For expenses of the Signal Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field electric telegraphs, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; war balloons; telephone apparatus (exclusive of exchange service) and maintenance of the same: electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire control and direction apparatus and material for field artillery; maintenance and repair of military telegraph lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, and general repairs, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the army by telegraph or otherwise, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the increase of post telephone systems at interior posts, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post telephone systems.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the installation of post telephone systems at all garrisoned coast artillery posts, except those located in districts where post telephone systems have already been installed or are in course of installation, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington- Alaska cable, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cost for extension, etc., available from receipts.</p></sidenote> For defraying the cost of such extensions and betterments of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system as may be approved by the Secretary of War, to be available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven from the receipts of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system that have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote> been covered into the Treasury of the United States, the extent of such extensions and the cost thereof to be reported to Congress by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Donation of cablestation site accepted.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of War, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the conveyance by George C. Hazelet, trustee, of a tract of about two acres of land in the town of Cordova, on Orea Inlet, Alaska, which it is proposed to donate to the United States as the site for a cable station be, and the same is hereby, accepted.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Annunciator Buzzer Systems At Target Ranges</inline> : For installation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target ranges.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annunciator buzzer systems.</p></sidenote> of annunciator buzzer systems at target ranges at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont; Fort Niagara, New York; Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Fort Sheridan, Illinois; Presidio of Monterey, California; Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming; and Fort William McKinley, Philippine Islands, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Wireless Telephone Apparatus</inline>: For the purchase and development<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wireless telephone apparatus.</p></sidenote> of wireless telephone apparatus, thirty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of officers of the line.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers of the line, seven million dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Line officers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one million six hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/735">735</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of enlisted men.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, sixteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> million seven hundred and forty-eight thousand and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, one million seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That one of the two “blacksmiths and farriers” now<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i>.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay to horseshoer. etc.</p></sidenote> authorized by law for each troop of cavalry shall hereafter be designated “farrier,” and the other “horseshoer,” and that the additional pay of nine dollars per month provided for “one blacksmith and farrier in each troop of cavalry for performing the duty of horseshoer” in the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 109.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, shall be paid to the soldier designated as “horseshoer.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowances for death in service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 108, amended.</p></sidenote> hundred and eight, for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, in so far as it relates to the payment of six months’ pay to the widow of an officer or enlisted man, and so forth, be amended as follows:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Strike out the words “contracted in the line of duty” and insert in lieu thereof the words, “not the result of his own misconduct.”</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>corps of engineers.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men, four hundred and sixty-seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer battalion.</p></sidenote> five hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, sixty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted mon, two hundred and ten thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordmance Corps.</p></sidenote> and thirty-six dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster’s department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two hundred post quartermaster-sergeants, at forty- five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster-sergeants.</p></sidenote> dollars per month each, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>subsistence department.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two hundred post commissary-sergeants, at forty-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissary-sergeants.</p></sidenote> dollars per mont h each, one hundred and eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, twenty-seven thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>signal corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of thirty-six master signal electricians, at nine hundred dollars each, thirty-two thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred and thirty-two first-class sergeants, at five hundred and forty dollars each, seventy-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred and forty-four sergeants, at thirty-six dollars per month each, sixty-two thousand two hundred and eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of twenty-four cooks, at thirty dollars per month each, eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred and fifty-six corporals, at twenty-four dollars per month each, forty-four thousand nine hundred and twentyeight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/736">736</page> For pay of five hundred and fifty-two first-class privates, at eighteen dollars per month each, one hundred and nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred and sixty-eight privates, at fifteen dollars per month each, thirty thousand two hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to eleven sergeants, serving as mess sergeants, at six dollars per month, seven hundred and ninety-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, fifty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hospital corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital Corps.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of enlisted men, nine hundred and forty-two thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay to clerks, messengers, and laborers at headquarters of divisions, and departments and office of the chief of staff.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One chief clerk, at the office of the Chief of Staff, two thousand dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fifteen clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thirty-eight clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Eighty-four clerks, at one thousand dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One clerk, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One captain of the watch, at nine hundred dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One gardener, at seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One packer, at eight hundred and forty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Seventy-four messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two messengers, at six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One laborer, at six hundred and sixty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Two laborers, at six hundred dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each per annum.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, three hundred and forty-four thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And said clerks, messengers, and laborers shall be employed and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment.</p></sidenote> assigned by the Secretary of War to the offices and positions in which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty in War Department forbidden.</p></sidenote> they are to serve: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of divisions, departments, or office of the Chief of Staff, shall be assigned to duty with any bureau in the War Department.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>for pay of officers of the staff corps and staff departments.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Staff officers.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Adjutant-General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjutant - General’s Department.</p></sidenote> Adjutant-General’s Department, eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Inspector-General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspector- General’s Department.</p></sidenote> Inspector-General’s Department, fifty-nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/737">737</page> For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">The Corps Op Engineers</inline>: For pay of officers in the Corps of Engineers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Corps</p></sidenote> four hundred and sixty thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and four thousand nine hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote> Department, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, sixty-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quartermaster’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote> Department, two hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Subsistence Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Subsistence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence Department.</p></sidenote> Department, one hundred and fifty-one thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-three thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Medical Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion of majors, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suspensions if disqualified.</p></sidenote> one million three hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any major of the Medical Corps on the active list of the army who, at his first examination for promotion to the grade of lieutenantcolonel in said corps, has been or shall hereafter be found disqualified for such promotion for any reason other than physical disability incurred in the line of duty shall be suspended from promotion and his right thereto shall pass successively to such officers next below him in rank in said corps as are or may become eligible to promotion under existing law during the period of his suspension; and any officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reexaminations.</p></sidenote> suspended from promotion, as hereinbefore provided, shall be reexamined as soon as practicable after the expiration of one year from the date of the completion of the examination that resulted in his suspension; and if on such reexamination he is found qualified for promotion, he shall again become eligible thereto; but if he is found<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retirement.</p></sidenote> disqualified by reason of physical disability incurred in line of duty, he shall be retired, with the rank to which his seniority entitles him to be promoted; and if he is not found disqualified by reason of such physical disability, but is found disqualified for promotion for any other reason, he shall be retired without promotion.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, one hundred and seventyeight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay Department</inline>: For pay of officers in the Pay Department, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay Department.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Judge-Advocate-General’s Department</inline>: For pay of officers in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judge-Advocate- General’s Department.</p></sidenote> the Judge-Advocate-General’s Department, forty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, eight thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Signal Corps</inline>: For pay of the officers of the Signal Corps, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Signal Corps.</p></sidenote> and fourteen thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/738">738</page> For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to he paid with their current monthly pay, twenty-four thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bureau of Insular Affairs</inline>: For pay of officers of the Bureau of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Insular Affairs Bureau.</p></sidenote> Insular Affairs, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, nine hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>retired officers.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers on the retired list and for officers who may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired officers.</p></sidenote> placed thereon during the current year, two million seven hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars and sixty- three cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> with their current monthly pay, four hundred and thirty-one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of retired officers on active service, one hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">On active service.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such officers for length of service, to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> with their current monthly pay, fifty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Act approved November third, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detail to colleges, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p. 7, amended.</p></sidenote> and ninety-three, authorizing the detail of officers of the army and navy to educational institutions, be amended so as to provide that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Full pay and allowances, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 83, p. 831.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 246.</p></sidenote> retired officers, when so detailed, shall receive the full pay and allowances of their rank, except that the limitations on the pay of officers of the Army above the grade of major as provided in the Acts of March second, nineteen hundred and five, and June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, shall remain in force.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>retired enlisted men.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the enlisted men of the army on the retired list, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p></sidenote> million dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of seventy-five hospital matrons, nine thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital matrons.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one Superintendent Nurse Corps, one thousand eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent Nurse Corps.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one hundred nurses (female), fifty-five thousand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses.</p></sidenote> twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of forty-two veterinarians, at one thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Veterinarians.</p></sidenote> dollars each, seventy-one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to such veterinarians, for length of service, to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> paid with their current monthly pay, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of thirty-one dental surgeons, fifty-seven thousand nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dental surgeons.</p></sidenote> hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of contract surgeons, thirty-six thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contract surgeons.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of ninety paymasters’ clerks, one hundred and forty-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paymasters’ clerks.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of paymasters’ messengers, eighteen thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For traveling expenses of paymasters’ clerks and expert accountant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Inspector-General’s Department, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of courts-martial, courts of inquiry, military commissions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts-martial, etc.</p></sidenote> and compensation of reporters and witnesses attending the same, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/739">739</page> For additional pay to officer in charge of public buildings and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officer, buildings and grounds, D. C.</p></sidenote> grounds at Washington, District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters to commissioned officers on duty without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters.</p></sidenote> troops at stations where there are no public quarters, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For travel allowance to enlisted men on discharge, one million<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Travel, enlisted men.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge, eight<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing not drawn.</p></sidenote> hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on soldiers’ deposits, one hundred thousand dollars, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest on deposits.</p></sidenote> so much as may be necessary to pay back such deposits.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of translator and librarian of the military information division,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Translator.</p></sidenote> General Staff Corps, one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of expert accountant for the Inspector-General’s Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expert accountant.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty for periods<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, seacoast fortifications.</p></sidenote> of not less than ten days in the offices of district artillery engineers, and district ordnance officers, and as switchboard operators, at seacoast fortifications, ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty as switchboard<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Switchboard operators nt posts.</p></sidenote> operators at each interior post of the army, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra pay to enlisted men of the line of the army and to enlisted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, Alaskan cable, etc.</p></sidenote> men of the Signal Corps employed in the Territory of Alaska on the Alaskan cable and telegraph system, for periods of not less than ten days, at the rate of thirty-five cents per day, thirty-six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage to officers and contract surgeons when authorized by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers, etc.</p></sidenote> law, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional ten per centum increase on pay of officers on foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay, foreign service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> service, three hundred and forty-four thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and twenty-live cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional twenty per centum increase to enlisted men on foreign<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> service, seven hundred and eighty thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one computer for artillery board, two thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Computer.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of exchange by special disbursing agents of the Pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loss by exchange.</p></sidenote> Department serving in foreign countries, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence, mileage, and commutation of quarters to officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance of militia at service schools.</p></sidenote> the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For three months’ additional pay to enlisted men reenlisting within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">First reenlistments.</p></sidenote> the period of three months from date of discharge from first enlistment, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For six months’ additional pay to persons designated to receive the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Death from wounds, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 735.</p></sidenote> same by officers and enlisted men on active service who have died from wounds or disease contracted in line of duty, sixty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to officers below the grade of major required to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers furnishing mounts.</p></sidenote> be mounted and who furnish their own mounts, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to make monthly payment to Jennie Carroll,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jennie Carroll.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1325.</p></sidenote> widow of James Carroll, late major and surgeon, United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For amount required to make monthly payment to Mabel H. Lazear,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mabel H. Lazear.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1325.</p></sidenote> widow of Jesse W. Lazear, late acting assistant surgeon,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/740">740</page> United States Army, as per Act of Congress approved May twenty- third,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 392.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For Porto Rico Regiment or Infantry, of the United States Army, composed of two battalions of four companies each:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers, sixty-three thousand four hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, nine thousand one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to officers required to be mounted who furnish<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers furnishing mounts.</p></sidenote> their own mounts, one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> twenty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Additional pay for length of service, twenty-nine thousand nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote> hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>philippine scouts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Scouts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of officers: For fifty captains, one hundred and twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fifty-eight first lieutenants, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fifty-eight second lieutenants, ninety-eight thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For eight majors, in addition to pay as captain, six hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay to sixteen battalion staff officers, required to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers furnishing mounts.</p></sidenote> mounted, who furnish their own mounts, three thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, eighty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay for enlisted men, five hundred and eighty-seven thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twenty cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional pay for length of service, fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Longevity.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay accounts.</p></sidenote> miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage of officers and contract surgeons when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Pay Department as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Encampment and Maneuvers, Organized Militia</inline>: For paying the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Organized militia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of encampment with Army.</p></sidenote> expenses of the organized militia of any State, Territory, or of the District of Columbia, which may be authorized by the Secretary of War to participate in such encampments as may be established for the field instruction of the troops of the Regular Army, as provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, pp. 777, 779.</p></sidenote> by sections fifteen and twenty-one of the Act of January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to promote the efficiency of the militia, and for other purposes,” to be immediately available and to remain available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, four hundred and twenty-live thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>subsistence department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence Department,</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase of subsistence supplies: For issue, as rations to troops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the army, without pay, as guides and scouts, and military convicts at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the army transport service; hot coffee for troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap, candles, matches, toilet paper, salt, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/741">741</page> vinegar, flour, and towels; authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’, laundry, and tailors’ materials, for use of military convicts confines at military posts without pay or allowances, and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; for issues of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting depots, etc.</p></sidenote> War may authorize the temporary appointment of such number of sergeants and corporals in the companies at the general recruiting depots as may be necessary for the proper control and instruction of the varying number of recruits attached to such companies; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men at such places as the Secretary of War may determine; for sales to officers and enlisted men of the army; coffee roasters and cooking apparatus in the field, and when traveling (except on transports), bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto; scales, weights, measures, utensils, tools, stationery, blank books and forms, office furniture, commissary chests and outfits, and field desks of commissaries: <i>Provided</i>, That the sum of twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National rifle match.</p></sidenote> dollars is authorized to be expended to defray the cost of furnishing food, and for providing extra-duty pay for cooks, assistant cooks, and waiters, and for perishable table equipment in subsisting enlisted men of the Regular Army and the organized militia who may be competitors in the national rifle match:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> competitor who is thus subsisted shall be entitled to commutation of rations, and no greater expense shall be incurred than one dollar and fifty cents per man per day for the period the contest is in progress.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation.</p></sidenote> For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets at the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration at the rate of thirty cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men and male and female nurses when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men selected to contest for places or prizes in department and army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment and military convicts while traveling under orders; of commutation of rations in lieu of the regular established ration for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, and military convicts sick therein, at the rate of thirty cents per ration (except that at the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, fifty cents per ration is authorized for enlisted patients in said hospital), to be paid to the surgeon in charge; of compensation of civilians employed in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of civilians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extra pay, enlisted men, etc.</p></sidenote> Subsistence Department; of extra pay to enlisted men employed on extra duty in the Subsistence Department for periods of not less than ten days, at rates fixed by law; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are to be graduates at the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for printing, advertising, commercial newspapers, and use of telephones; for temporary buildings, cellars, and other means of protecting subsistence supplies (when not provided by the Quartermaster’s Department); for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes for bakers, etc.</p></sidenote> enlisted men of the army who graduate from the army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various schools not to exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the army; for extraordinary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inauguration expenses of West Point cadets.</p></sidenote> expense of subsistence of West Point cadets while attending inaugural ceremony, to be immediately available, and to be expended from this appropriation, one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/742">742</page> dollars; in all, seven million seven hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and twenty-nine cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, and accounted for as “Subsistence of the Army,” and for that purpose to constitute one fund.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quartermaster’s department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quartermaster’s Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Regular Supplies</inline> : Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’s<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regular supplies.</p></sidenote> Department, including their care and protection, consisting of stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks, and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States military prison; also ranges and stoves, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers and enlisted men, for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 282.</p></sidenote> at private cost in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and’ two, for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage, etc.</p></sidenote> each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage in kind for the horses, mules, and oxen of the Quartermaster’s Department at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses for officers,etc.</p></sidenote> bedding for the animals; and nothing in the Act making appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 687</p></sidenote> for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, or any other Act, shall hereafter be held or construed so as to deprive officers of the army, wherever on duty in the military service of the United States, of forage, bedding, shoeing, or shelter for their authorized number of horses, or of any means of transportation or maintenance therefor for which provision is made by the terms of this Act; of straw for soldiers’ bedding, and of stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books for the Quartermaster’s Department, certificates for discharged soldiers, blank forms for the Pay and Quartermaster’s departments, and for printing department<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing.</p></sidenote> orders and reports: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster’s Department shall be expended on printing, unless the same shall be done by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ice machines, laundries, etc.</p></sidenote> of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose. For the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, whenever the ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants shall not come in competition with private enterprise for sale to the public, and in the opinion of the Secretary of War it becomes necessary to the economical use and administration of such ice machines, steam laundries, and electric plants as have been or may hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal of surplus products, etc.</p></sidenote> be established in pursuance of law, surplus ice may be disposed of, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/743">743</page> laundry work may be done for other branches of the Government, and surplus electric light and power may be sold on such terms and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War: <i>Provided</i>, That the funds received from such sales<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds, etc.</p></sidenote> and in payment for such laundry work shall be used to defray the cost of operation of said ice, laundry, and electric plants; and the sales and expenditures herein provided for shall be accounted for in accordance with the methods prescribed by law, and any sums remaining, after such cost of maintenance and operation have been defrayed, shall be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of operation of such plant is paid, nine million three hundred thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of the necessary instruments, office furniture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of post schools.</p></sidenote> stationery, and other authorized articles required for the equipment and use of the officers’ schools at the several military posts, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Incidental Expenses</inline> : Postage; cost of telegrams on official business<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> received and sent by officers of the army; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for prison overseers at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States military prison guard; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field, of escorts to paymasters and other disbursing officers, and to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; expenses of the interment of officers killed in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interments.</p></sidenote> action or who die when on duty in the field, or at military posts or on the frontiers, or when traveling under orders, and of non-commissioned officers and soldiers; and in all cases where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement may be made of expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred by individuals of burial and transportation of remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, not to exceed the amount now allowed in the cases of officers, and for the reimbursement in the cases of enlisted men not exceeding the amount now allowed in their cases, may be paid out of the proper funds appropriated by this Act, and the disbursing officers shall be credited with such reimbursement heretofore made; but hereafter no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to the twenty-first day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; authorized office furniture, hire of laborers in the Quartermaster’s Department, including the care of officers’<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of officers’ mounts.</p></sidenote> mounts when the same are furnished by the Government and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster’s Department, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States military prison, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than fifty dollars for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of five dollars to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement, under court-martial sentence, involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horse expenditures.</p></sidenote> required for the several regiments of cavalry, the batteries of light artillery, and such companies of infantry and scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit: Hire of veterinary surgeons, purchase of medicines <page identifier="/us/stat/35/744">744</page> for horses and mules, picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules, and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers</inline> : For the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses, etc.</p></sidenote> of horses for officers entitled to public mounts, for the cavalry, artillery, and engineers, service school and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such infantry and members of the Hospital Corps in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, five hundred and ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limi.</p></sidenote> added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster’s Department and an inspection under the direction and authority of the Secretary of War. When practicable, horses shall be purchased in the open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for breeding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Breeding.</p></sidenote> purposes: <i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> expended for the purchase of any horses below the standard set by army regulations for cavalry and artillery horses.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and Quarters</inline>: For barracks and quarters for troops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p></sidenote> other than seacoast artillery, storehouses for the safekeeping of military stores, for offices, recruiting stations, to provide such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for the hire of buildings and grounds for summer cantonments, and for temporary buildings at frontier stations, for the construction of temporary buildings and stables, and for repairing public buildings at established posts, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commtation restrictions.</p></sidenote> paid for commutation of fuel or for quarters to officers or enlisted men: <i>Provided further</i>, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster’s Department, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> those paid from the funds appropriated for regular supplies, incidental expenses, barracks and quarters, army transportation, clothing, camp and garrison equipage, shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee paid therefrom shall receive a salary of more than one hundred and fifty dollars per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War, three million five hundred thousand dollars: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Army War College.</p></sidenote> sum herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters at the Army War College: <i>Provided further</i>, That fifteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chapel, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars of this sum may be used for the construction of a chapel on the military reservation at Fort Des Moines, Iowa:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That one thousand seven hundred dollars of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington Barracks, D. C., stable.</p></sidenote> foregoing total amount may be expended for the completion of stable at the engineer post, Washington Barracks, District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Post Exchange</inline> : For continuing the construction, equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post exchanges,etc.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, two hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maxium amounts or construction, etc.</p></sidenote> not more than forty thousand dollars of the above appropriation shall be expended at any one post or station.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/745">745</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of the Army and Its Supplies</inline> : For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of the army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter one of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Infatry band at recruiting depots.</p></sidenote> companies at each recruiting depot shall have the organization of an infantry band, to which recruits showing an aptitude for music may be attached for examination and instruction before assignment to organizations in the Army; of persons on their discharge from the United States military prison to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of supplies furnished to the militia for the permanent equipment thereof; of the necessary agents and other employees; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster’s stores from army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and army depots, and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipments and of subsistence stores from places of purchase, and from the places of delivery under contract to such places as the circumstances of the service may require them to be sent; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts and army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriage; for transportation of funds of the army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in government<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to landgrant railroads.</p></sidenote> bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant acts), but in no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> case shall more than fifty per centum of full amount of service be paid: <i>Provided</i>, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Basis of computation.</p></sidenote> of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large, and shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: <i>Provided further</i>, That in expending the money appropriated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.</p></sidenote> by this Act, a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service; for the purchase<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Draft and pack animals, etc.</p></sidenote> and hire of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, and drays as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; and for extra-duty pay of enlisted men driving teams, repairing means of transportation, and employed as train masters; for the purchase and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ships, boats, ete.</p></sidenote> repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for garrison purposes; for expenses of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/746">746</page> sailing public transports and other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; and for the purchase and repair of harbor boats, and repair of boats for the seacoast artillery service; in all, twelve million six hundred and thirty-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred and forty-six dollars and fifty cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Roads, Walks, Wharves, and Drainage</inline> : For the construction and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Roads, walks, wharves, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consruction and repair.</p></sidenote> repair by the Quartermaster’s Department of roads, walks, and wharves; for payment of extra-duty pay to enlisted men employed in opening roads and in building wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, one million one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Water and Sewers At Military Posts</inline>: For procuring and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military posts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wate and sewers.</p></sidenote> introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situation require it to be brought from a distance; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus; for the disposal of sewage; for repairs to water and sewer systems and for hire of employees, two million eight hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military and post roads, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consruction, etc.</p></sidenote> Bridges, and Trails, Alaska</inline> : For the construction and maintenance of military and post roads, bridges, and trails in the district of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the board of road commissioners described in section two of an Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 616.</p></sidenote> provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and five, and to be expended conformably to the provisions of said Act, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to remain available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Barracks and Quarters, Philippine Islands</inline> : Continuing the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philippine Islands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barrcks and quarters.</p></sidenote> work of providing for the proper shelter and protection of officers and enlisted men of the army of the United States lawfully on duty in the Philippine Islands, including repairs and payment of rents, the acquisition of title to building sites and such additions to existing military reservations as may be necessary, and including also shelter for the animals and supplies, and all other buildings necessary for post administration purposes, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Care of Insane Filipino Soldiers</inline> : For the care, maintenance,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of insane native soldiers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i> p. 122.</p></sidenote> and treatment at asylums in the Philippine Islands during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, of insane natives of the Philippine Islands cared for in such institutions conformably to the Act of Congress approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page one hundred and twenty-two, Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, volume thirty-five, page one hundred and twenty-two), one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, and Camp and Garrison Equipage</inline> : For cloth, woolens,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing and camp and garrison equipage.</p></sidenote> materials, and for the manufacture of clothing for the army, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the army regulations; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning, when necessary; for equipage, and for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding ten dollars, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the army for sanitary reasons, seven million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/747">747</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Repair of Hospitals</inline>: For construction and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospitals.</p></sidenote> repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, and including also all expenditures for construction and repairs required at the Army and Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hot Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> and for the construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto, and for additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, four hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That eighty-five thousand dollars of this sum may be used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Bayard, N. Mex.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional ward Miildings.</p></sidenote> for construction of additional ward buildings for the United States Army General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, and that forty-five thousand dollars of the foregoing total amount may be used for the construction of a hospital at Fort Yellowstone, in the Yellowstone National Park.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Quarters for Hospital Stewards</inline>: For construction and repair<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Yellowstone.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarters for hospital stewards.</p></sidenote> of quarters for hospital stewards at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Shooting Galleries and Ranges</inline>: For shelter, shooting galleries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shooting ranges, etc.</p></sidenote> ranges for small-arms target practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, such ranges and galleries to be open, as far as practicable, to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, one hundred and seventyseven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That forty-one thousand dollars of this amount may be used<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>provise</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Leavenworth, Kans.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> for the acquisition of approximately three hundred and twenty acres of land adjacent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as an addition to the target range, provided, that of the funds herein provided or as much thereof as may be necessary, for the purchase of an addition to said target range, not to exceed forty-one thousand dollars, shall be immediately available: <i>Provided further</i>, That of the foregoing total amount<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land.</p></sidenote> eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the purchase of one thousand four hundred acres of land, more or less, adjoining the military reservation of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, as an addition to the rifle range:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That three thousand six hundred dollars of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Douglas Miliary Reservation, Utah.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land.</p></sidenote> foregoing total amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be immediately available for the purchase of the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the east half of section two, in township one south, range one east of the Salt Lake meridian, as an addition to the target range of Fort Douglas Military Reservation, in the State of Utah.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of the Army War College</inline>: For supplying the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Anny War College, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> necessary fuel for heating the Army War College building at Washington Barracks and for lighting the building and grounds; also for pay of a chief engineer, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; an assistant engineer, at nine hundred dollars; four firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one elevator conductor, at seven hundred and twenty dollars, twelve thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings on Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands</inline>: For the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corregidor Island, P. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storehouses.</p></sidenote> construction on Corregidor Island, Philippine Islands, of storehouses for the Quartermaster’s Subsistence, Ordnance, and Medical departments of the Army, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter whenever pressing obligations are required to be paid by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements in case of insufiicient balances.</p></sidenote> a disbursing officer of the (Quartermaster’s Department and there is an insufiicient balance to his official credit under the proper appropriation or appropriations for the purpose, he is authorized to make payment from the. total available balance to his official credit, provided sufficient funds under the proper appropriation or appropriations have been <page identifier="/us/stat/35/748">748</page> apportioned by the Quartermaster-General for the expenditure. When such disbursements are made the accounts of the disbursing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote> officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, the balances under which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds or by the accounting officers of the Treasury.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>medical department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medical Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical and Hospital Department</inline>: For the purchase of medical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies, etc.</p></sidenote> and hospital supplies, including disinfectants, for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital ships, and transports; for expenses of medical supply depots; for medical care and treatment not otherwise<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treatment at private hospitals, etc.</p></sidenote> provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals, of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement, when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this shall not apply to officers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contagious diseases, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> and enlisted men who are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagious diseases in the army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; for the pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nurses, etc.</p></sidenote> of male and female nurses, not including the nurse corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; for the pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; for the pay of other employees of the Medical Department; for the payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; for supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the Hospital Corps; for the supply of the Army and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark.</p></sidenote> Navy Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas: <i>Provided</i>, That hereafter all persons admitted to treatment in the Army and Navy General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patients subject tc Army rules.</p></sidenote> Hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas, shall, while patients in said hospital, be subject to the rules and articles for the government of the armies of the United States; for advertising, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, seven hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Army Medical Museum and Library</inline>: For Army Medical Museum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Museum.</p></sidenote> preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, including the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals, ten thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>engineer department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer Depots</inline>: For incidental expenses of the depots, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> fuel, lights, chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, pay of civilian clerks, mechanics, and laborers, extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; repairs of, and for materials to repair, public buildings, machinery, and unforeseen expenses, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/749">749</page> For purchase and repair of instruments to be issued to officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase. etc., of instruments.</p></sidenote> the Corps of Engineers and to officers detailed and on duty as acting engineer officers for use on public works and surveys, ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer School, Washington District of Columbia</inline>: Equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineer Schools Washington Barracks D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of the Engineer School at Washington Barracks, District of Columbia, including purchase of instruments, machinery, implements, models, and materials, for the use of the school and for instruction of engineer troops in their special duties as sappers and miners; for land mining, pontooning, and signaling; for purchase and binding of professional works and periodicals of recent date treating of military and civil engineering and kindred scientific subjects for the library of the United States Engineer School; for incidental expenses of the school, including fuel, lights,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidental expenses.</p></sidenote> chemicals, stationery, hardware, machinery, and boats; for pay of civilian clerks, draftsmen, electricians, mechanics, and laborers; for extra-duty pay to soldiers necessarily employed for periods not less than ten days as artificers on work in addition to and not strictly in the line of their military duties, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, draftsmen, printers, lithographers, photographers, engine drivers, telegraph operators, telephone operators, teamsters, wheelwrights, masons, machinists, painters, overseers, laborers; for repairs of and materials to repair public buildings and machinery; for unforeseen expenses; for travel expenses of officers on journeys approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Traveling expenses.</p></sidenote> by the Chief of Engineers and made for the purpose of instruction: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the traveling expenses herein provided for shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In lieu of mileage, etc.</p></sidenote> in lieu of mileage and other allowances; and to provide means for the theoretical and practical instruction at the Engineer School by the purchase of text-books, books of reference, scientific and professional papers, and for other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty- five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Engineer Equipment of Troops</inline>: For pontoon material, tools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pontoon material, etc.</p></sidenote> instruments, and supplies required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals, ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services of surveyors, survey parties, draftsmen, photographers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveyors, etc.</p></sidenote> master laborers, and clerks to engineer officers on the staff of division, corps, and department commanders, forty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ordnance department.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Service</inline>: For the current expenses of the Ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Current expenses.</p></sidenote> Department, in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, and advertising, stationery, and office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; for incidental expenses of the ordnance service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; and for publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office, and payment for mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Stores—Ammunition</inline>: Manufacture and purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition for small arms, etc.</p></sidenote> ammunition and materials therefor for small arms for reserve supply; ammunition for burials at the National Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia; ammunition for firing the morning and evening gun at military posts prescribed by General Orders, Numbered Seventy, Headquarters or the Army, dated July twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and its several branches, including National <page identifier="/us/stat/35/750">750</page> Soldiers’ Home in Washington, District of Columbia, and soldiers’ and sailors’ state homes, seven hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Small-Arms Target Practice</inline>: Ammunition, targets, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Target practice.</p></sidenote> accessories for small-arms and machine-gun target practice and instruction; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target material, and other accessories may be. issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and state soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes, to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, provided the total value of the stores so issued to the educational institutions does not exceed thirty thousand dollars, one million three hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Manufacture of Arms</inline>: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manufacturing, etc., arms.</p></sidenote> and issuing arms at the national armories, one million seven hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance Stores and Supplies</inline>: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preserving, etc.,ordnance.</p></sidenote> and preserving, ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipments.</p></sidenote> infantry, cavalry, and artillery equipments, including horse equipments for cavalry and artillery, one million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests</inline>: That for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle contests.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Medals, prizes, and trophy.</p></sidenote> the purpose of furnishing a national trophy and medals and other prizes to be provided and contested for annually, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, said contest to be open to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard or organized militia of the several States, Territories, and of the District of Columbia, and fór the cost of the trophy, prizes, and medals herein provided for, and for the promotion of rifle practice, the sum of nine thousand dollars, to be expended for the purposes hereinbefore prescribed under the direction of the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For range finders and other instruments for fire control in field<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire control for field batteries.</p></sidenote> batteries, to be available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, sixty-two thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balance.</p></sidenote> balance of the sum of one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars appropriated for range finders and other instruments for fire control in field batteries in the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 125.</p></sidenote> and eight, entitled “An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” shall be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of material, equipment, books of instruction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchases for State coast artillery.</p></sidenote> range finders, and fire-control equipment for the instruction and use of State coast artillery organizations, twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in time of war, or threatened war, such equipment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of, in time of war.</p></sidenote> may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be withdrawn from armories or other places where it is in use by the State coast artillery organizations, and may be used in the fortifications of the United States.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Automatic rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of automatic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase, etc., of automatic rifles.</p></sidenote> rifles, including their sights, and equipments, to be available until the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sales of ordnance stores are authorized to civilian employees of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of ordnance stores, etc.</p></sidenote> army and to The American National Red Cross under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter whenever pressing obligations are required to be paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements in case of insufficient balances.</p></sidenote> by a disbursing officer of the Ordnance Department and there is an insufficient balance to his official credit under the proper appropriation <page identifier="/us/stat/35/751">751</page> or appropriations for the purpose, he is authorized to make payment from the total available balance to his official credit, provided sufficient funds under the proper appropriation or appropriations have been allotted by the Chief of Ordnance for the expenditure. When such disbursements are made the accounts of the disbursing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts.</p></sidenote> officer shall show the charging of the proper appropriations, the balances under which will be adjusted by the disbursing officer on receipt of funds or by the accounting officers of the Treasury.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hereafter officers serving by detail in the Ordnance Department,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rank of detailed officers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 754.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 455.</p></sidenote> under the. Acts of February second, nineteen hundred and one, and June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and six, shall take rank in then- respective grades from the dates of their rank under their original detail in said grades.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Articles of ordnance property may be sold by the Chief of Ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of ordnance property, etc.</p></sidenote> to officers of the Navy and Marine Corps, for their use in the public service, in the same maimer as these articles are now sold to officers of the army.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to acquire<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salisbury National Cemetery.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rond way.</p></sidenote> title to the United States, by gift or donation, and not otherwise, of a strip of land lying on the southwest side of the roadway now under construction to the Salisbury National Cemetery, for sidewalk purposes. And the sum of one thousand six hundred dollars, to be immediately available, is hereby appropriated for the completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> of said roadway and sidewalks.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to convey to the owners<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Marion Military Reservation. Fla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance of portion of. authorized</p></sidenote> of premises which encroach upon the military reservation of Fort Marion in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the portions of the reservation which have been occupied by them, under license or claim of title, upon the payment by said owners of such sums of money as the Secretary of War shall determine proper to be paid for the said lands.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the acquiring of water rights and necessary lands therewith<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort William Henry Harrison, Mont.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water rights, etc.</p></sidenote> connected for a permanent water supply for Fort William Henry Harrison, in Montana, the amount of twenty thousand dollars appropriated therefor by the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act making appropriation for the support of the army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,” is hereby reappropriated and made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reappropria t ion, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante.</i> p. 122.,</p></sidenote> available, and forty thousand dollars additional, or so much thereof as may be necessary for said purposes, including the acquiring of water rights and lands for intakes and right of way for pipe lines from such intakes to said fort, is hereby appropriated, to be expended from the amount appropriated in this Act for water and sewers at military posts; and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to acquire such rights and lands by purchase or by condemnation proceedings.</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 253: For the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>253.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Oklahoma, and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/16743">[H. R. 16743</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/306">[Public, No. 306</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assemblea</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quapaw Indian</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alienation restrictions removed from lands of Indians of.</p></sidenote> Interior be, and he is hereby authorized, upon application of any adult member of either of the tribes of Indians belonging to the Quapaw Indian Agency in the State of Oklahoma, to remove the restrictions on any part of or all of the lands allotted to such applicant, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/752">752</page> and permit a sale under such terms and conditions as he may deem<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Homesteads retained.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modocs excepted.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal and agency lands, etc., to be sold.</p></sidenote> for the best interests of the applicant, excepting a tract of not less than forty acres, which shall be designated and held as a homestead: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this section does not apply to the Modocs.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell all or any of the tribal lands within the jurisdiction of the Quapaw Agency, and all agency, school, or other Government buildings on any reservation within the jurisdiction of said agency, at public auction or by sealed bids, under such regulations as he may prescribe; and he is hereby authorized to convey all lands so sold to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion of agency, etc., lands.</p></sidenote> the purchaser thereof by patents in fee. And all lands within such agency which have heretofore been reserved for agency, school, or other purposes shall, on approval of this Act, revert to the tribe within whose reservation the lands are located and be sold as tribal lands as herein provided.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That after the sale of all such lands as provided herein,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Net proceeds pro rata to Indians.</p></sidenote> the net proceeds of such sale, together with all funds belonging to such tribes from whatever source derived, shall be apportioned and paid pro rata, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to the members of each of the respective tribes, in such maimer as he shall prescribe.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to religious societies.</p></sidenote> directed to issue patents in fee to all religious societies and organizations, severally, for the lands occupied by them within any of such reservations and heretofore reserved to such societies, as shown on approved schedules of allotments.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, ami he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modocs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferred to Kla math Agency, Oreg.</p></sidenote> authorized and directed to restore to the rolls of the Klamath Agency, in Oregon, those Modoc Indians now enrolled at the Quapaw Agency, in Oklahoma, formerly Indian Territory, together with their descendants living at the date of the passage of this Act, and that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments, etc.</p></sidenote> upon the removal of any of said Indians to the Klamath Reservation, in Oregon, they shall be allotted as other Indians on said reservation, and that upon the passage of this Act they be accorded all the rights and privileges of other Indians enrolled at the Klamath Agency: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the purposes of such removal the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of allotments in Oklahoma.</p></sidenote> of the Interior be, and ne is hereby, upon application of any allottee, authorized to sell, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, all lands inherited and otherwise heretofore allotted to the members of said tribe in Oklahoma, and he is authorized to issue a patent in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases permitted.</p></sidenote> of said lands, and all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, and taxation of said land shall thereupon be removed: <i>Provided further</i>, That if any member of the Modoc tribe of Indians prefers not to have his or her land sold, such allottee may lease his or her land in Oklahoma for a period of not to exceed five years, the parent or next of kin having the care and custody of any minor executing the lease for such minor.</proviso></content>
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<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 254: To authorize the city of Shreveport to construct a bridge across Red River.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>254</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 752</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>254.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the city of Shreveport to construct a bridge across Red River.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28193">H. R. 28193</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/307">Public, No. 307</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the city of Shreveport,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red River. La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shreveport may bridge.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33. p. 629.</p></sidenote> a. corporation organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a traffic bridge and approaches thereto across the Red River at Shreveport, in the State of Lotiisiana,<page identifier="/us/stat/35/753">753</page> in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84, p. 84.</p></sidenote> to regulate the construction of bridges over navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 255: Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>255</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 753</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>255.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/26394">[H. R. 26394</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/308">[Public, No. 308</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval service appropriations.</p></sidenote> and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay of the navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay and allowances prescribed by law of officers on sea duty and other duty; officers on waiting orders; officers on the retired list; clerks to paymasters at yards and stations, general storekeepers and receiving ships, and other vessels; two clerks to general inspectors of pay corps; one clerk to pay officer in charge of deserters’ rolls; commutation of quarters for officers on shore not occupying public quarters, including boatswains, gunners, carpenters, sailmakers, warrant machinists, pharmacists, and mates, and also naval constructors and assistant naval constructors; for hire of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them, or commutation of quarters not to exceed the amount which an officer would receive were he not serving with troops; pay of enlisted men on the retired list; extra pay to men reenlisting under honorable discharge; interest on deposits by men; pay of petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and apprentice seamen, including men in the engineers’ force, and men detailed for duty with Naval Militia, and for the Fish Commission, forty-two thousand men; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement; and as many warrant machinists as the President may from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warrant machinists.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 771.</p></sidenote> time to time deem necessary to appoint, not to exceed twenty in any one year; and two thousand five hundred apprentice seamen under training at training stations and on board training ships, at the pay prescribed by law; pay of the Nurse Corps; rent of quarters for members of the Nurse Corps; prizes to be awarded to the engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prizes to engineer division.</p></sidenote> divisions of the ships in commission for general efficiency and for economy in coal consumption under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may formulate, thirty-two million eight hundred and three thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The provisions of the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increased grade for eivil-war service.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 554.</p></sidenote> hundred anti six, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, and for other purposes,” providing for the retirement in the next higher grade of officers of the navy who served during the civil war. shall not operate to deprive any officer of the navy who has been, or may be, retired, since the passage of that Act, of the right to increased rank and pay to which, but for the passage of said Act, he would have been entitled.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/754">754</page> The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to officers on temporary leaves.</p></sidenote> directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made to officers of the navy while on temporary leaves of absence since March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, not involving detachment from duty, and not in excess of leaves of absence allowed by law to officers of the army without reduction in pay.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pay, miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy shall send to Congress at the beginning<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule to be sent to Congress.</p></sidenote> of its next regular session a complete schedule or list showing the amount in money of all pay under the provisions of this Act and for all allowances for each grade of officers in the navy, including retired officers, and for all officers included in this Act and for all enlisted men so included.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The estimates for the support of the navy shall hereafter show,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Estimates for support of Navy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> under the head of Pay of the Navy, the sums allowed for pay of officers belonging to the line, to the several departments of the staff, and to the retired list; the estimates to show under each head the amount allowed for pay proper, for increases due to longevity and foreign service, and for pay at sea rates to officers employed on shore; together with the total number of warrant and petty officers and seamen of the several grades and designations, including as to each class the amount allowed for pav proper and for longevity or service increases. The estimates shall include a list giving the rates of pay for all petty officers and other enlisted men of the navy.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commissions and interest; transportation of funds; exchange;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous expenses.</p></sidenote> mileage to officers while traveling under orders in the United States, ami for actual personal expenses of officers while traveling abroad under orders, and for traveling expenses of civilian employees, and for actual and necessary traveling expenses of midshipmen while proceeding from their homes to the Naval Academy for examination and appointment as midshipmen: for actual traveling expenses of female nurses; for rent of buildings and offices not in navy-yards; expenses of courts-martial, prisoners and prisons, and courts of inquiry, boards of inspection, examining boards, with clerks’ and witnesses fees, and traveling expenses and costs; stationery and recording; expenses of purchasing paymasters’ offices of the various cities, inchiding clerks, furniture, fuel, stationery, and incidental expenses; newspapers; all advertising for the Navy Department and its bureaus (except advertising for recruits for the Bureau of Navigation); copying; care of library, including the purchase of books, photographs, prints, manuscripts, and periodicals; ferriage; tolls; costs of suits; commissions, warrants, diplomas, and discharges; relief of vessels in distress;, recovery of valuables from shipwrecks; quarantine expenses; reports: professional investigation; cost of special instruction at home and abroad, in maintenance of students and attaches; information from abroad, and the collection and classification thereof; all charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus for ice for the cooling of drinking water on shore (except at naval hospitals), telephone rentals and tolls, telegrams, cablegrams, and postage, foreign and domestic, and post-office box rentals; and other necessary and incidental expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allowance for clerical. etc., services.</p></sidenote> appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed two hundred and forty-nine thousand and fifty-four dollars and twenty-five cents: <i>Provided further</i>, That hereafter the rates of pay of the clerical, drafting,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Navy to fix. etc., pay of clerical, drafting, etc., force.</p></sidenote> inspection, and messenger force at navy-yards and naval stations and other stations and offices under the Navy Department shall be <page identifier="/us/stat/35/755">755</page> paid from lump appropriations and shall be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy on a per annum or per diem basis as he may elect; that the number may be increased or decreased at his option and shall be distributed at the various navy-yards and naval stations by the Secretary of the Navy to meet the needs of the naval service, and that such per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leaves for per diem employees.</p></sidenote> diem employees may hereafter, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, be granted leave of absence not to exceed fifteen days in any one year, which leave may, in exceptional and meritorious cases, where such an employee is ill, be extended, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, not to exceed fifteen days additional in any one year; that the total amount expended annually for pay for such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger force shall not exceed the amounts specifically allowed by Congress under the several lump appropriations, and that the Secretary of the Navy shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each: <i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule of rates of pay to be submitted to Congress.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to submit to Congress at its next session, and for its consideration, a schedule of rates of compensation, annual or per diem, that should, in his judgment, be permanently fixed by law for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and purchasing pay offices, superintending construction offices, and inspection of engineering material; and in fixing such rates of compensation he shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service included.</p></sidenote> due regard for the rates usually paid for like services in the respective localities by employers other than the United States, and he shall not recommend any rate exceeding that being paid by the United States at any such yards, stations, or offices prior to January first, nineteen hundred and nine: <i>Provided further</i>, That persons employed in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference for reinstatements.</p></sidenote> clerical, drafting, and inspection force at navy-yards and stations discharged for lack of work or insufficiency of funds shall for one year thereafter be preferred for employment in such navy-yards and stations in the clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger forces; that section fifteen hundred and forty-five, Revised Statutes, and so<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 1545, p. 263, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec.1556, p. 267, amended</p></sidenote> much of section fifteen hundred and fifty-six of the Revised Statutes as relates to pay of clerks to commandants of navy-yards and naval stations, are hereby repealed: hi all, eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Navy</inline>: For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> exclusive of personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be. expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, forty-six thousand and eighty-six dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the accounting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian employees.</p></sidenote> officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow, in the settlement of accounts of disbursing officers involved, payments made under the appropriation “Contingent, navy,” to civilian employees appointed by the Navy Department for duty in and serving at naval stations maintained in the island possessions during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten,</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice, seamen at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, transportation of sick or <page identifier="/us/stat/35/756">756</page> insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, eight hundred and eighteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of the Navy is hereafter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Discharged prisoners.</p></sidenote> authorized to transport to their homes or places of enlistment, as he may designate, all discharged naval prisoners; the expense of such transportation shall be paid out of any money that may be to the credit of prisoners when discharged; where there is no such money, the expense shall be paid out of money received from fines and forfeitures imposed by naval courts-martial: <i>Provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilian clothing.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to furnish naval prisoners upon discharge suitable civilian clothing in case, and only where, said discharged prisoners would otherwise be unprovided with suitable clothing to meet their immediate needs.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Recruiting: Expenses of recruiting for the naval service; rent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recruiting.</p></sidenote> rendezvous and expenses of maintaining the same; advertising for and obtaining men and apprentice seamen: actual and necessary expenses in lieu of mileage to officers on duty with traveling recruiting parties, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of age required.</p></sidenote> part of this appropriation shall be expended in recruiting seamen, ordinary seamen, or apprentice seamen, unless in case of minors a certificate of birth or a verified written statement by the parents, or either of them, or in case of their death a verified written statement by the legal guardian, be first furnished to the recruiting officer, showing applicant to be of age, required by naval regulations, which shall be presented with the application for enlistment.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contingent: Ferriage, continuous-service certificates, discharges,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> good-conduct badges, and medals for men and boys; purchase of gynmastic apparatus; transportation of effects of deceased officers and enlisted men of the navy; books for training apprentice seamen and landsmen; maintenance of gunnery and other training classes; packing boxes and materials, and other contingent expenses and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Navigation, unforeseen and impossible to classify, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Gunnery exercises: Prizes, trophies, and badges for excellence in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Gunnery exercises.</p></sidenote> gunnery exercises and target practice; for the establishment and maintenance of shooting galleries, target houses, targets, and ranges; for hiring established ranges, and for transportation of civilian assistants and equipment to and from ranges, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Outfits on First Enlistment</inline>: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Outfits.</p></sidenote> seamen of the navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed sixty dollars each, one million two hundred and ninety-one thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of Naval Auxiliaries</inline>: Pay, transportation, shipping,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance of auxiliaries.</p></sidenote> and subsistence of civilian officers and crews of naval auxiliaries and all expenses connected with naval auxiliaries employed in emergencies, which can not be paid from other appropriations, six hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, California</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yerba Buena Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> training station, Yerba Buena Island, California, namely: Labor and material: buildings and wharves; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen: printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/757">757</page> and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; maintenance of dispensary building; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, sixty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Rhode Island</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coasters Harbor Island, R. I.</p></sidenote> training station, Coasters Harbor Island, Rhode Island, namely: Labor and material; building and wharves; dredging channels; extending sea wall; repairs to causeway and sea wall; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and wharves; wharfage, ferriage, and street-car fare; purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire engines and extinguishers; boats and gymnastic implements; models and other articles needed in instruction of apprentice seamen; printing outfit and materials, and maintenance of same; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; fresh water, and washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses; lectures and suitable entertainments for apprentice seamen; in all, eighty-five thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., service.</p></sidenote> That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed five thousand seven hundred and one dollars and sixty cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Great Lakes</inline>: Maintenance of naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote> training station: Labor and material; general care, repairs, and improvements of grounds, buildings, and piers; street-car fare: purchase and maintenance of live stock, and attendance on same; wagons, carts, implements, and tools, and repairs to same; fire extinguishers; heating and lighting; stationery, books, and periodicals; washing; packing boxes and materials; and all other contingent expenses: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., service.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed forty-eight thousand one hundred and thirty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents; in all, naval training station, Great Lakes, one hundred and two thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval War College, Rhode Island</inline>: For maintenance of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval War College, R. I.</p></sidenote> Naval War College on Coasters Harbor Island, and care of grounds for same, twelve thousand three hundred dollars; services of a lecturer on international law, one thousand dollars; services of civilian lecturers, rendered at the War College, six hundred dollars; purchase of books of reference, eight hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical.etc.,service.</p></sidenote> sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed six thousand three hundred and seventy- five dollars and seventy-six cents; in all. Naval War College, Rhode Island, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: One superintendent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Home. Philadelphia.</p></sidenote> of grounds, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one steward, at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one store laborer, at four hundred and eighty dollars; one matron, at four hundred and twenty dollars; one beneficiaries’ attendant, at two hundred and forty dollars: one chief cook, at four hundred and eighty dollars: one assistant cook, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one assistant cook, at two hundred and forty dollars; one chief laundress, at one hundred and ninety-two dollars; five laundresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; four scrubbers, at one hundred and sixty-eight <page identifier="/us/stat/35/758">758</page> dollars each; one head waitress, at one hundred and ninety- two dollars; eight waitresses, at one hundred and sixty-eight dollars each; one kitchen servant, at two hundred and forty dollars; eight laborers, at two hundred and forty dollars each; one stable keeper and driver, at three hundred and sixty dollars: one master at arms, at four hundred and eighty dollars; two house corporals, at three hundred dollars each; one barber, at three hundred and sixty dollars; one carpenter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one painter, at eight hundred and forty-five dollars; one engineer for elevator and machinery, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: three laborers, at three hundred dollars each; total for employees, fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Miscellaneous: Water rent and lighting, two thousand one hundred dollars; cemetery, burial expenses, and headstones, one thousand dollars; improvement of grounds, seven hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to buildings, boilers, furnaces, and furniture, six thousand seven hundred and forty-eight dollars: repaving roadways, seven thousand dollars; music in chapel, six hundred dollars: transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and msane beneficiaries, their attendants, and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other government hospitals, three hundred dollars: support of beneficiaries, forty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-three dollars; total miscellaneous, sixty-two thousand nine hundred and one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for Naval Home, seventy-eight thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employing beneficiaries.</p></sidenote> naval pension fund: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That for the performance of such additional services in and about the Naval Home as may be necessary, the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to employ, on the recommendation of the governor, beneficiaries in said home, whose compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary and paid from the appropriation for the support of the home.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For badges and ribbons, to be distributed by the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Badges, etc.</p></sidenote> Navy to officers and men, now or formerly of the Volunteer and Regular Navy and Marine Corps, who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration, two thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ordnance and Ordnance Stores</inline>: For procuring, producing, preserving,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ordnance and ordnance stores.</p></sidenote> and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of the Ordnance Department; for furniture, at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving ground; for maintenance of the proving ground and maintenance and enlargement of powder factory, and for target practice, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chemical, clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>“Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed three hundred and ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and twenty-eight cents.” In all, five million five hundred and twentyeight thousand one hundred and seventy-one dollars and ninety-nine cents, of which not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be expended for the enlargement of the Government powder factory: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of shells restricted.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/759">759</page> expended for the purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for powder other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum price.</p></sidenote> than small-arms powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound. All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standard prescribed by the Secret ary of the Navy: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments to trusts, etc., forbidden.</p></sidenote> appropriation made in this Act for the purchase of powder shall be paid to any trust or combination in restraint of trade nor to any corporation having a monopoly of the manufacture and supply of gunpowder in the United States, except in the event of extraordinary emergency.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Purchase and manufacture of smokeless powder, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for powder other than small-arms powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machine tools, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, nineteen thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machine tools, navy-vard, Boston, Massachusetts, nineteen thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Electric traveling crane for gun shed, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Air compressor with storage tank and pipe line, naval magazine, Mare Island, California, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smokeless powder.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> New and improved machinery for existing shops, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Remodeling one hundred and ten ton crane in north gun shop, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New eighty-ton crane over shrinkage pit, north gun shop, twenty- five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">New Batteries for Ships of the Navy</inline>: For completing the work<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machine tools.</p></sidenote> of modifying four-inch forty-caliber mounts, and five-inch forty-caliber mounts, and providing new sights for same, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For replacing eight-inch Mark V guns with eight-inch Mark AT guns on United States ship “Maryland” and class, two hundred and fifty- two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For continuing the relining and conversion of twelve-inch Mark III guns to Mark IV guns, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For new sights for five-inch, six-inch, and seven-inch guns and modifying their mounts, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For tire-control instruments for ships of the navy, one hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Gun Factory, D. C.</p></sidenote> fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ammunition for ships. For procuring, producing, preserving, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New batteries.</p></sidenote> handling ammunition for issue to ships, three million dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fire-control instruments.</p></sidenote> That the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized to utilize all ammunition and other supplies already on hand under the appropriations “Increase of the navy; Armor and armament,” “Reserve ammunition,” and “Reserve Powder and Shell,” for general issue to ships in commission, as though purchased from this appropriation: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ammunition.</p></sidenote> purchase of shells or projectiles except for shells or projectiles purchased in accordance with the terms and conditions of proposals submitted by the Secretary of the Navy to all of the manufacturers of shells and projectiles and upon bids received in accordance with the terms and requirements of such proposals: <i>Provided</i>, That no part of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Present supply utilized.</p></sidenote> this appropriation shall be expended for powder other than small-arms <page identifier="/us/stat/35/760">760</page> powder at a price in excess of sixty-four cents a pound. All shells and projectiles shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Reserve Guns for Ships of the Navy</inline>: For the purchase and manufacture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of shells, etc., restricted.</p></sidenote> of reserve guns for ships of the navy, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Modernizing Turrets</inline>: For new and improved gun elevating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price restricted.</p></sidenote> control for turret guns having electric elevating motors, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hand purchases for eight-inch turrets, twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedoes and Appliances</inline>: For the purchase and manufacture<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reserve guns.</p></sidenote> of torpedoes and appliances, six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this amount shall De expended for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modernising turrets.</p></sidenote> the purchase of torpedoes or appliances or rights pertaining thereto, where the rights to such torpedoes or appliances are the subject of legal controversy now pending.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island</inline>: For labor and material;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedoes and appliances.</p></sidenote> general care of and repairs to grounds, buildings, and wharves; boats, instinct ion, instruments, tools, experiments, and general torpedo outfits, seventy thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New machinery and tools for torpedo factory, one hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For experimental work in the development of armor-piercing projectiles,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station. Newport, R. I.</p></sidenote> fuses, powders and high explosives, in connection with problems of the attack of armor with direct and inclined fire at various ranges, including the purchase of armor, powder, projectiles, and fuses for the above purposes, and of all necessary material and labor in connection therewith; and for other experimental work under the cognizance of the Bureau of Ordnance in connection with the development of ordnance material for the navy, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Arming and Equipping Naval Militia</inline>: For arms, accouterments,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New machinery, etc.</p></sidenote> ammunition, signal and medical outfits, boats and their equipment and maintenance, fuel and clothing, and the printing or purchase of necessary books of instruction for the Naval Militia of the various States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For necessary repairs to ordnance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental work.</p></sidenote> buildings, magazines, wharves, machinery, and other items of like character, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous, Bureau of Ordnance</inline>: For miscellaneous items,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval militia.</p></sidenote> namely: Cartage, expenses of light and water at magazines and stations: tolls, ferriage, technical books, and incidental expenses attending inspection of ordnance material, nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Equipment of Vessels</inline>: For hemp, wire, iron, and other materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> for the manufacture of cordage, anchors, cables, galleys, and chains; specifications for purchase thereof shall be so prepared as shall give fair and free competition: canvas for the manufacture of sails, awnings, hammocks, and other work: water for all purposes on board naval vessels, including the expenses of transportation and storage of the same; stationery for chaplains and for commanding and navigating officers of ships, equipment officers on shore and afloat, and for the use of courts-martial on board ship; the removal and transportation of ashes from ships of war; interior appliances and tools for equipment buildings in navy-yards and naval stations; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/761">761</page> supplies for seamen’s quarters; and for the purchase of all other articles of equipment at home and abroad, and for the payment of labor in equipping vessels and manufacture of equipment articles in the several navy-yards; all pilotage and towage of ships of war; canal tolls, wharfage, dock and port charges, and other necessary incidental expenses of a similar nature; services and materials in repairing, correcting, adjusting, and testing compasses on shore and on board ship; nautical and astronomical instruments and repairs to same; libraries for ships of war, professional books and papers, and drawings and engravings for signal books; naval signals and apparatus, namely, signals, lights, lanterns, rockets, and running lights; compass fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appendages of ships’ compasses; logs and other appliances for measuring the ship’s way, and leads and other appliances for sounding; lanterns and lamps and their appendages for general use on board ship for illuminating purposes, and oil and candles used in connection therewith; service and supplies for coast-signal service; bunting and other materials for making and repairing flags of all kinds; photographs, photographic, instruments, and materials; musical instruments and music; installing, maintaining, and repairing interior and exterior signal communications and all electrical appliances of whatsoever nature on board naval vessels, except range finders, battle order and range transmitters and indicators, and motors and their controlling apparatus used to operate the machinery belonging to other bureaus, three million nine hundred and thirty-five thousand four hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote> sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service at the several navy-yards, naval stations, and coaling stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed two hundred and twenty-six thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars and sixty cents.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment of vessels.</p></sidenote></proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Coal and Transportation</inline>: Purchase of coal and other fuel for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> steamers’ and ships’ use, and other equipment purposes, including expenses of transportation, storage, and handling the same, and for the general maintenance of naval coaling depots and coaling plants, five million dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Equipment</inline>: Packing boxes and materials,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coal, etc.</p></sidenote> books, and models; stationery; ferriage and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, eleven thousand two hundred and eighty-one dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Ocean and Lake Surveys</inline>: Hydrographic surveys, and for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> purchase of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Depots for Coal</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the Navy to execute<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ocean and lake surveys.</p></sidenote> the provisions of section fifteen hundred and fifty-two of the Revised<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depots for coal.</p></sidenote> Statutes, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to establish, at such places as he may deem necessarv, suitable depots for coal and other fuel for the supply of steamships of war, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec, 1552, p. 264.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Maintenance of Yards and Docks</inline>: For general maintenance of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p></sidenote> yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery; purchase and maintenance of oxen, horses, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles for use hi the navy-yards; tools and repairs of the same; stationery; furniture for government houses and offices in navy-yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning <page identifier="/us/stat/35/762">762</page> and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants; incidental labor at navy-yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy- yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for rent of wharf and storehouse at Erie, Pennsylvania, for use of and accommodation of United States steamer Wolverine, and for pay of employees on leave, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance.</p></sidenote> million five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Yards and Docks</inline>: For contingent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> expenses that may arise at navy-yards and stations, thirty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, bureau of yards and docks.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire</inline>: Rebuilding and fireproofing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public works. Bureau of Yards and Docks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> building numbered twenty, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; electric capstan for quay wall, three thousand dollars; foundry building (to cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars), fifty thousand dollars; in all, ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Boston, Massachusetts</inline>: Power plant, to complete,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; dredging, two thousand five hundred dollars; sewer system, extensions two thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to water front, fifty thousand dollars; ropewalk lire protection, ten thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Boston, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, New York, New York</inline>: Central power plant, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> complete, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars; granite and concrete dry dock, to continue, two hundred thousand dollars; toward improvement of water front facilities, seventy-six thousand three hundred and thirty dollars; in all, navy-yard, New York, New York, three hundred and ninety-two thousand three hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</inline>: Central power plant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> to complete, one hundred and seventy-two thousand six hundred dollars; dredging, cost not to exceed four hundred and thirty thousand dollars, two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; crane track, extensions, thirty thousand dollars; paving around piers, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Philadelphia, four hundred and sixty-seven thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Washington, District of Columbia</inline>: Improvements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington, D. C.</p></sidenote> to storehouse for guns and mounts, seven thousand dollars; concrete roof for foundry buildings, fifteen thousand dollars; improvements to building one hundred and eighteen, three thousand dollars; improvements to building forty-one, twenty thousand dollars; fireproof storehouse for fuses, acids, and oils, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Norfolk, Virginia</inline>: Railroad tracks, extensions, ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; electric plant, extensions, twenty thousand dollars; repairs, buildings, Saint Helena, twenty-five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, fifty thousand dollars; compressed-air system, extensions, ten thousand dollars; improvements to water front, one hundred thousand dollars; locomotive crane, fifty thousand dollars; crane track, twenty thousand dollars; paving and grading, additional, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/763">763</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Charleston, South Carolina</inline>: Paving and grading<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> (to continue), twenty thousand dollars; underground conduit system, extension, five thousand dollars; intercepting drain, thirty thousand live hundred dollars; pneumatic system, extension, five thousand dollars; dredging, to continue, twenty-five thousand dollars; increasing and improving torpedo-boat slips, fifty thousand dollars; in all, navyyard, Charleston, South Carolina, one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Pensacola, Florida</inline>: Remodeling building numbered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> twenty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars; to repair rifle range and wharf, five thousand dollars; in all, navy-yard, Pensacola, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Key West, Florida</inline> : Latrines, five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Key West, Fla.</p></sidenote> concrete cistern, twenty-five thousand dollars; to complete marine railway, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Mare Island, California</inline>: Central power plant at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island, Cal.</p></sidenote> Mare Island Navy-Yard, California, to complete, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars; new elevators in buildings numbered sixty-nine and seventy-one, five thousand dollars; sewer system, extension, ten thousand dollars; repairs to building numbered one hundred and sixteen, three thousand five hundred dollars; crane track, extension, seventy-five thousand dollars; to continue improvement of channel, one hundred thousand dollars; ordnance storehouse, one hundred thousand dollars; improvements to building numbered sixty- nine, four thousand dollars; railroad system, extension, twenty thousand dollars: in all, navy-yard, Mare Island, five hundred and seventy- two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Navy-Yard, Puget Sound, Washington</inline>: Stone and concrete dry<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound. Wash.</p></sidenote> dock, to continue(to cost two million dollars), four hundred thousand dollars; sewer system, extensions, eight thousand dollars; railroad and equipment, extensions, ten thousand dollars; general storehouse (to cost two hundred and sixty thousand dollars), one hundred thousand dollars; pier numbered eight, seventy-five thousand dollars; pattern shop, forty thousand dollars; two officers’ quarters, eighteen thousand dollars; warrant officers’ quarters, four thousand miliars; in all, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington, six hundred and fifty- five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Island of Guam</inline>: Dredging, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p></sidenote> extension of naval-station roads, eleven thousand dollars; watersupply system, thirty thousand dollars; in all, forty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii</inline>: Toward dredging an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor. Hawaii.</p></sidenote> entrance channel of a depth of thirty-five feet, six hundred thousand dollars; toward construction of dry dock, to cost two million dollars, two hundred thousand dollars; toward yard development, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, nine hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Cavite, Philippine Islands</inline>: Improvements to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> building twenty-five, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars; improvements to building twenty-one, two thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, Tutuila: Two</inline> officers’ quarters, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tutuila.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; preservation of grounds, two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Station, New Orleans, Louisiana</inline>: Levee improvements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Orleans, La.</p></sidenote> and grading, forty-five thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Plans and Specifications for Public Works</inline>: Navy Department:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Plans, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., see. 8663 p. 720.</p></sidenote> Plans and estimates required by section thirty-six hundred and sixty-three, Revised Statutes,and plansand specifications for pub-lie <page identifier="/us/stat/35/764">764</page> works, thirty thousand dollars: <i>Prowled</i>, That the pay of the clerical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> and drafting service for plans and specifications for public works, Bureau of Yards and Docks, shall be paid from this appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs and Preservation At Navy-Yards</inline>: For repairs and preservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and preservation.</p></sidenote> at navy-yards and stations, seven hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Floating Derricks</inline>: One one-hundred ton floating derrick, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Floating derricks.</p></sidenote> complete, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works, navy-yards and stations, four million eight hundred and forty-four thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works under the secretary of the navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of Navy.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings and Grounds, Naval Academy</inline>: For the purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rifle range.</p></sidenote> land for the extension of the present rifle range near Annapolis for the use of the midshipmen at the Naval Academy, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Buildings for Lepers, Island of Guam</inline>: Naval station, island of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Guam.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care, etc., of lepers.</p></sidenote> Guam: Maintenance and care of lepers and other special patients, fourteen thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works under Secretary’s office, eighty-nine thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works under bureau of navigation.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Navigation.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, California, Buildings</inline>: Roads, grounds,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Training stations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote> and planting of trees, two thousand dollars; oiling parade grounds and roads adjacent, two thousand and fifty dollars; shacks for the detention camp, four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; salt water flushing system, two thousand eight hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-two cents; dredging the north side of island, seven thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and forty-five dollars and fifty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Rhode Island, Buildings</inline>: Improving<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island.</p></sidenote> and grading grounds and roads, one thousand nine hundred dollars; dredging channel and basin, two thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents; increase of heating and lighting plant, to complete, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars; walks at detention barracks, two thousand dollars: water-closets, one thousand five hundred dollars; for bakery and cold-storage plant, to complete, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars; repairs to Barracks “C,” three thousand four hundred dollars; improvements in rifle galleries and ranges, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; paving and grading peninsula, four thousand five hundred dollars; enlarging boathouse, seven thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; improvements to assembly, lecture, and reading room, thirteen thousand one hundred dollars; fire-alarm system, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, naval training station, Rhode Island, seventy- nine thousand seven hundred and sixteen dollars and seventy-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Buildings</inline>: Roads, sidewalks,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes.</p></sidenote> inner basin sea wall, entrance piers and dredging, arch bridge, wagon bridge to power house, walls and fences, garbage crematory, and grading, three hundred and fourteen thousand dollars; railroad scales, scale house, and spur, nine thousand two hundred dollars; electric fixtures, interior and exterior arcs, and incandescent lamps, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars; cooking equipment, disinfecting equipment, and cold-storage installation, ten thousand dollars; fire apparatus, four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; elevators and dumb waiter, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars; storage balconies and trolleys in boat house, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; tower clock, electric clocks, and wiring, one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/765">765</page> thousand six hundred dollars; furniture, filing apparatus, shelving, cupboards, fittings, lockers, and interior equipment for buildings, twenty-three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, to complete naval training station, Great Lakes, four hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, public works, Bureau of Navigation, five hundred and eleven thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars and twenty-four cents.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, bureau of ordnance.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Ordnance.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head, Maryland</inline>: Blacksmith<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Head proving ground, Md.</p></sidenote> and pipe shop, three thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars; lime and cement shed, four thousand five hundred dollars; new emplacement, twelve-inch gun, two new steel circles and vamping ten- inch emplacement, sixteen thousand dollars; railroad extensions, eight thousand dollars; in all, naval proving ground, Indian Head, thirty-two thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania: Storehouse and offices,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mifflin.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> with railroad track through center of building and continuation of railroad trestle to connect therewith, thirty thousand dollars; powder magazine, with railroad track connections, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, Mare Island, California: One office building, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> permanent furnishings and fixtures, eight thousand dollars: two filling houses, two thousand dollars; extension of sewerage system through magazine grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, New York Harbor: For naval magazine, New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iona Island, N. Y.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> York Harbor (Iona Island): One ammunition house, twenty thousand dollars; extension of sewerage system, five thousand dollars; condenser in boiler room of power house, three thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For naval magazine, navy-yard, Puget Sound. Washington: One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> gib crane on magazine wharf, one thousand dollars: telephone line from navy-yard to magazine, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; watchman’s clock system at magazine, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval torpedo station, Newport, Rhode Island: New water main,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Newport, R. I.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Torpedo station.</p></sidenote> two thousand three hundred dollars; converting one of powder factory buildings into brasss foundry, five thousand three hundred dollars; repairing and extending wharves, eight thousand eight hundred dollars; new sewerage and drainage system, two thousand seven hundred dollars: coal shed and coal-handling apparatus, including elevated car tracks, elevator, fourteen thousand dollars; repairs to sea walls, six thousand four hundred dollars; in all, thirty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Naval magazine, Lake Denmark, New Jersey: One magazine, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lake Denmark, N.J.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> necessary clearing, grading, railroad track, water mains, electric lights, hose houses, and watchmen’s clocks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. One high explosive house for storage of explosive “D,” including necessary clearing, grading, railroad track, water mains, electric lights, hose houses, and watchmen’s clocks, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Extension of administration building to provide office for general storekeeper, for dispensary, and laboratory for testing powder, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Magazine, New England Coast (Hingham, Massachusetts</inline>):<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hingham, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote> Toward the erection of the necessary buildings on ground, the purchase of which is now under negotiation, as authorized by the Act approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, for a new <page identifier="/us/stat/35/766">766</page> naval magazine on the New England coast: also toward inclosing said grounds, grading and filling in, building roads and walks, improvement of the water front, necessary wharves and cranes, railroad tracks and rolling stock for local service, fire and water service, and equipment of the establishment, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Magazine, Saint Juliens Creek, Virginia</inline>: Gravity blending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 338.</p></sidenote> house for smokeless powder, five thousand dollars; electrical apparatus for lighting magazine grounds, barracks, quarters, and offices; motor for running reforming plant: and a small lathe, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works under Bureau of Ordnance, three hundred and one t housand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works under bureau of equipment.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Juliens Creek, Va</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval magazine.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Observatory</inline>: Grounds and roads: Continuing grading, extending<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Equipment.</p></sidenote> roads and paths, clearing and improving grounds, ten thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works under bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Observatory.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Naval Training Station, Great Lakes: Building Equipment</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote> To install cold-storage and refrigerating plant and all necessary equipment, twelve thousand dollars; to fit general storehouse with interior fittings, shelving, scales, and all office and other equipment, four thousand dollars; in all, sixteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total public works under Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, sixteen thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>public works, marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Lakes Training Station.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Barracks and quarters, Marine Corps:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To extend the marine barracks, by the erection of a wing thereto, at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Barracks and quarters.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia.</p></sidenote> a cost not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the quartermaster’s depot, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the purchase of ground adjoining such depot, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Toward the completion of the marine garrison, naval station, Pearl<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p></sidenote> Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, one marine barracks, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars; and to complete six officers’ quarters, fifty thousand dollars; in all. one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purchase of land adjoining the navy-yard, Charleston,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> South Carolina, as a reservation for the Marine Corps, six thousand five hundred dollars; in all, six thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To complete the marine garrison, navy-yard, Bremerton. Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote> one marine barracks, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and for officers’ quarters, sixty thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, public works, Marine Corps, five hundred and seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of medicine and surgery.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Medical Department</inline>: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surgeons’ necessaries.</p></sidenote> navy-yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy-yards, naval laboratory. museum of hygiene, and department of instruction, and Naval Academy, three hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/767">767</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For tolls and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> ferriages; care, transportation, anil burial of the dead; purchase of books and stationery, binding of medical records, unbound books, and pamphlets; hygienic and sanitary investigation and illustration; sanitary and hygienic instruction: purchase and repairs of wagons, automobile ambulances, and harness; purchase of and feed for horses and cows; trees, plants, garden tools and seeds; incidental articles for the museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks; washing for medical department at museum of hygiene and department of instruction, naval dispensary, Washington, naval laboratory, sick quarters at Naval Academy and marine barracks, dispensaries at navy-yards and naval stations, and ships: and for minor repairs on buildings and grounds of the United States Naval Museum of Hygiene and Department of Instruction: for the care, maintenance, and treatment of the insane of the Navy and Marine Corps on the Pacific coast, and all other necessary contingent expenses; in all, sixty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation of Remains</inline>: To enable the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transferring home remains of officers, etc.</p></sidenote> Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transferred to their homes the remains of officers and enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corns who die or are killed in action ashore or afloat, and also to enable the Secretary of the Navy, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of civilian employees who die outside of the continental limits of the United States, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum herein appropriated shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Application of fund.</p></sidenote> available for payment for transportation of the remains of officers and men who have died while on duty at any time since April twenty- first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</inline>: For necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> repairs of naval laboratory, naval hospitals, and appendages, including roads, wharves, outhouses, sidewalks, fences, gardens, farms, and cemeteries, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, four hundred and twenty- four thousand seven hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of supplies and accounts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Navy</inline>: For provisions and commuted rations for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions, etc.</p></sidenote> seamen and marines, which commuted rations may be paid to caterers of messes, in case of death or desertion, upon orders of the commanding officers, commuted rations for officers on sea duty (other than commissioned officers of the line, Medical and Pay Corps, chaplains, chief boatswains, chief gunners, and chief sailmakers) and midshipmen, and commuted rations stopped on account of sick in hospital and credited to the naval hospital fund; subsistence of officers and men unavoidably detained or absent from vessels to which attached under orders (during which subsistence rations to be stopped on board ship and no credit for commutation therefor to be given); and for subsistence of female nurses and navy and marine corps general courts-martial prisoners undergoing imprisonment with sentences of dishonorable discharge from the service at the expiration of such confinement: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation, prisoners.</p></sidenote> the Navy is authorized to commute rations for such general courts- martial prisoners in such amounts as seem to him proper, which may vary in accordance with the location of the naval prison, but which shall in no case exceed thirty cents per diem for each ration so commuted; labor in general storehouses and paymasters’ offices in navyyards, including naval stat ions maintained in island possessions under the control of the United States, and expenses in handling stores <page identifier="/us/stat/35/768">768</page> purchased under the naval supply fund; and for the purchase of United States Army emergency rations, as required: <i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales to civilians.</p></sidenote> hereafter such stores as the Secretary of the Navy may designate may be procured and sold to officers anti enlisted men of the Navy and Marine Corps, also to civilian employees at naval stations beyond the continental limits of the United States and in Alaska, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for chemists and for clerical, inspection, and messenger service in the general storehouses and paymasters’ offices of the navy-yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed four hundred and forty-seven thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars and eighty-eight cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seven million one hundred and ten thousand two hundred and eighty-four dollars anil thirty-one cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts</inline>: For fuel, books<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> and blanks, stationery, interior fittings for general storehouses and pay offices in navy-yards; coffee miffs and repairs thereto; expenses of naval clothing factory anil machinery for same, tolls, ferriages, yeoman’s store-safes, newspapers, and other incidental expenses, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight and express<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Freight, Departmen and bureaus.</p></sidenote> charges pertaining to t he Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, five hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of construction and repair.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Construction and Repair.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Repair of Vessels</inline>: For preservation and completion<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and repair of vessels.</p></sidenote> of vessels on the stocks and in ordinary; purchase of materials and stores of all kinds; steam steerers, pneumatic steerers, steam capstans, steam windlasses, and all other auxiliaries; labor in navyyards and on foreign stations; purchase of machinery and tools for use in shops; carrying on work of experimental model tank; designing naval vessels; construction and repair of yard craft, lighters, and barges; wear, tear, and repair of vessels afloat; general care, increase, and protection of the navy in the line of construction and repair; incidental expenses for vessels and navy-yards, inspectors’ offices, such as photographing, books, professional magazines, plans, stationery, anil instruments for drafting room, and for pay of classified force under the bureau, eight million nine hundred and seventy-nine thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wooden ships.</p></sidenote> of this sum shall be applied to the repair of any wooden ship, when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed ten per centum or the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: <i>Provided further</i>, That no part of this sum shall be applied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other ships.</p></sidenote> to the repair of any other ship when the estimated cost of such repairs, to be appraised by a competent board of naval officers, shall exceed twenty per centum of the estimated cost, appraised in like manner, of a new ship of the same size and like material: <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing herein contained shall deprive the Secretary of the Navy of the authority to order repairs of ships damaged in foreign waters or on the high seas, so far as may be necessary to bring them home. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs <i>of</i> ships in foreign waters.</p></sidenote> to make expenditures from appropriate funds under the various bureaus for repairs and changes on the vessels herein named, in an amount not to exceed the sum specified for each vessel, respectively, as follows: Maine (in addition to the two hundred thousand dollars authorized by the naval <page identifier="/us/stat/35/769">769</page> appropriation Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight), five hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Missouri, five hundred and forty thousand dollars; Ohio, five hundred and forty thousand dollars; Wisconsin, three hundred and eighty thousand dollars; Chattanooga, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Cleveland, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Denver, two hundred and ten thousand dollars: Des Moines, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Galveston, two hundred and ten thousand dollars; Tacoma, two hundred and ten thousand dollars: Concord, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; Yorktown, one hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; Elcano, thirty-five thousand dollars; Paragua, twenty thousand dollars; Quiros, thirty thousand five hundred dollars; Rodgers, forty-two thousand dollars; Rainbow, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; Supply, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars; Yankee, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; Apache, twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars; Lincoln, six thousand dollars; in all, four million one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars as per the let ters of the Secretary of the Navy, I louse Documents Numbered Eleven hundred and fifty-two and Thirteen hundred and six, Sixtieth Congress, concerning repairs of cert ain naval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs to specified vessels.</p></sidenote> vessels:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof, in addition to the report directed to be made in the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional report on repairs.</p></sidenote> appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, and for other purposes, a detailed statement showing the amount expended from each of the appropriations for the repair of every ship where such repairs exceed for any one ship the sum of two hundred thousand dollars in any one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1195.</p></sidenote> fiscal year: <i>Provided further</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of superintending naval constructors for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed eight hundred and eight thousand and thirty-nine dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Improvement of Construction Plants</inline>: Construction plant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., services.</p></sidenote> navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Repairs to and improvements of plant at navy-yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts: Repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth, N. H.</p></sidenote> and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, New York. New York: Repairs to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston, Mass.</p></sidenote> and improvement of plant at navy-yard, New York, New York, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">’ Construction plant, navy-yard, Norfolk. Virginia: Repairs to and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> improvement of plant at navy-yard, Norfolk, Virginia, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Charleston, South Carolina: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfolk, Va.</p></sidenote> to and improvement of plant at naval station, Charleston, South Carolina, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida: Repairs to and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Charleston, S. C.</p></sidenote> improvement of plant at navy-yard, Pensacola, Florida, twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Construction plant, navy-yard, Mare Island. California: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pensacola, Fla.</p></sidenote> to and improvement of plant at navy-yard, Mare Island, California, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/770">770</page> Construction plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: Repairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island. Cal.</p></sidenote> to and improvement of plant at navy-yard. Puget Sound, Washington, twenty thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bureau of steam engineering.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound, Wash.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Steam Machinery</inline>: For completion, repairing, and preservation of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Steam Engineering.</p></sidenote> machinery and boilers of naval vessels, including cost of new boilers: distilling, refrigerating, and auxiliary machinery; preservation of and small repairs to machinery and boilers in vessels in ordinary, receiving and training vessels: repair and care of machinery of yard tugs and launches, four million four hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That so much of the foregoing and current appropriation as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Steam machinery.</p></sidenote> necessary may be used to build the machinery of the colliers Vestal and Prometheus, now under construction at the navy-yards. New York and Mare Island, respectively.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase, handling, and preservation of all material and stores;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colliers “Vestal” and “Prometheus.”</p></sidenote> purchase, fitting, repair, and preservation of machinery and tools in navy-yards and stations, and running yard engines, two million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For incidental expenses for navy vessels, yards, the engineering<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Materials, etc.</p></sidenote> experiment station, such as photographing, books, stationery, technical books, periodicals, engineering indices, and instruments, live thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation “Steam<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> machinery.” under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, for clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy-yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery, and of engineering material, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, shall not exceed three hundred and fifty thousand and sixty-three dollars and two cents.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, steam machinery, six million six hundred and fifty-five thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerical, etc., senvices.</p></sidenote> additional heavy-power tools for new boiler and machine shops, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Boston. Massachusetts: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinery plants.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Portsmouth. N. H.</p></sidenote> tools for foundry, machine, and coppersmith shops, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, New York, New York: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Boston. Mass.</p></sidenote> machine tools for copper, boiler, machine, and pattern shops, and foundry, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York, N. Y.</p></sidenote> machine tools for machine and boiler shops, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Norfork. Virginia: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Philadelphia, Pa.</p></sidenote> machine tools to equip machine, boiler, and coppersmith shops, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Mare Island, California: For additional<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Norfork. Va.</p></sidenote> new machine tools for machine and boiler shops and foundry, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, navy-yard, Puget Sound, Washington: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mare Island. Cal.</p></sidenote> additional new machine tools required in repair work of naval vessels, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Machinery plant, naval station, Cavite, Philippine Islands: For<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Puget Sound. Wash.</p></sidenote> additional new machine tools, required to facilitate repairs to naval vessels on Asiatic Station, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cavite, P. I.</p></sidenote> Annapolis, Maryland—Experimental and research work: For original investigation and extended experimentation of naval appliances; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/771">771</page> and for the purchase of such machines and auxiliaries considered applicable for test and use in the naval service, seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Buildings, engineering experiment station, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland: Repairs to wooden bulkhead about experiment station building, one thousand two hundred dollars; extension of wooden bulkhead to surround the ship basin, seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars; in all, eight thousand live hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The title of warrant machinist is hereby changed to machinist; and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineering expertinent station.</p></sidenote> all machinists shall, after six years from date of warrant, be commissioned chief machinists, to rank with, but after, ensign, and shall, on promotion, have the same pay and allowances as are allowed chief boatswains, chief gunners, chief carpenters, and chief sailmakers, and no machinist shall be promoted until he shall have passed such examination before a board as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and no warrant officer, heretofore or hereafter promoted six years from date of warrant, shall suffer a reduction in pay which, but for such promotion, would have been received by him: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Machinists.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title of warrant machinists changed to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Promotion to chief machinists.</p></sidenote> That chief boatswains, chief gunners, and chief machinists shall be eligible for appointment to the grade of ensign under the restrictions imposed by law upon the appointment of boatswains, gunners, and warrant machinists to that grade.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>naval academy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eligible to grade of ensign.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Professors and Others, Naval Academy</inline> : One professor as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Naval Academy.</p></sidenote> head of the department of physics, three thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One professor of mathematics, one of mechanical drawing, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at three thousand dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Three professors, namely, one of English, one of French, and one of Spanish, at two thousand six hundred and forty dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five instructors, at two thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Four instructors, at two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ten instructors, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One sword master, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; one instructor in gymnastics, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant librarian, at one thousand eight hundred dollars;one cataloguer, at one thousand one hundred dollars; two shelf assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; one secretary of the Naval Academy, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each ; two writers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; one dentist, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one baker, at six hundred dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, at seven hundred and thirty dollars; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty-two cents; one mechanic in the department of ordnance, at seven hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty cents; one messenger to the superintendent, at six hundred dollars; one armorer, at six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty cents; one chief gunner’s mate, at five hundred and twenty-nine dollars anil fifty cents; three quarter gunners, at four hundred and sixty- nine dollars and sixty-eight cents each; one coxswain, at four hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty cents; three seamen in the department of seamanship, at three hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents each; twenty-five attendants at recitation rooms, library, store, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/772">772</page> chapel, armory, gymnasium, and oilices, at three hundred dollars each: one bandmaster, at one thousand two hundred dollars; twenty-one first-class musicians, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; seven second-class musicians, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; services of organist at chapel, three hundred dollars; one assistant instructor in gymnastics, one thousand dollars; four clerks, nine hundred dollars each; one assistant baker, five hundred and forty dollars; one mechanic in department of physics, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four cooks, at six hundred dollars each: two instructors in physical training, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two electrical machinists in department of physics, one thousand dollars each; one chief cook, one thousand two Hundred dollars; one steward, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant steward, six hundred dollars; one head waiter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant head waiters, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two pantry men, at four hundred and twenty dollars each, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant baker, four hundred and twenty dollars; eight assistant cooks, at three hundred dollars each, two thousand four hundred dollars; necessary waiters, at sixteen dollars per month each, thirteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and two dollars and seventy-six cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Watchmen, Mechanics, and Others, Naval Academy</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of professors, etc.</p></sidenote> Captain of the watch, at two dollars and fifty cents per diem; second captain of the watch, at two dollars and twenty-four cents per diem: twenty-two watchmen, at two dollars per diem each; in all, pay of watchmen, seventeen thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and ten cents; foreman of power plant, at five dollars per diem; for labor at power house, for mechanics, laborers, and attendants; and for care of buildings and grounds, wharves, and boats; in all, pay of watchmen, mechanics and others, Naval Academy, one hundred and forty-two thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars and ten cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Department Steam Engineering Employees, Naval Academy</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of watchmen, mechanics, etc.</p></sidenote> Pay of mechanics, attendants, and others in department of steam engineering, twenty thousand four hundred and twenty- three dollars and thirty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Special course, Naval Academy: Purchase of apparatus and materials<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees, steam engineering.</p></sidenote> for instruction of midshipmen in physical training and athletics, and for all expenses of lectures, including the pay of the lecturer, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Repairs, Naval Academy</inline>: Necessary repairs of public buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physical training.</p></sidenote> wharves, and walls inclosing the grounds of the Naval Academy, improvements, repairs, furniture, and fixtures, forty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Heating and Lighting, Naval Academy</inline>: Fuel, oil, waste, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs.</p></sidenote> other materials for the operation, repair, and maintenance of the plant; heating, and lighting apparatus and tools; and for heating and lighting the academy and bandsmen’s quarters, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Naval Academy</inline>: Purchase, binding, and repair of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Heating, etc.</p></sidenote> books for the library and text-books for the use of instructors (to be purchased in open market on the written order of the superintendent), two thousand five hundred dollars; stationery, blank books, models, and maps, two thousand five hundred dollars; expenses of the Board<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> of Visitors of the Naval Academy, being mileage and five dollars per diem for each member for expenses during actual attendance at the academy, and for supplying necessary outfit for the Board house, and for clerk hire, carriages, and other incidental and necessary expenses of the Board, two thousand dollars; purchase of chemicals, apparatus, and instruments in the department of physics and for repairs of the same, three thousand dollars; purchase of gas and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/773">773</page> steam machinery, steam pipes and fittings, rent of buildings for the use of the academy, commutation of rent for bandsmen, at eight dollars per month each, cartage, water, music, musical and astronomical instruments, uniforms for the bandsmen, feed and maintenance of teams, current expenses, and repairs of all kinds, and for incidental labor and expenses not applicable to any other appropriation, sixty thousand dollars; stores, stationery, periodicals, materials, apparatus, machinery, tools, and fittings, for use in the department or marine engineering and naval construction, for purposes of instruction: repairs of apparatus, tools, and machinery, care and cleaning of building and its equipment, and for all other necessary purposes, twelve thousand live hundred dollars; for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy, to be expended in his discretion, two thousand dollars; apparatus for the instruction of midshipmen in the various academic departments, fifteen thousand dollars; for care of rifle range, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of Visitors.</p></sidenote> dollars and four cents; for the installation, care, preservation, and display of memorial and other objects of historic interest and value at the Naval Academy, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and ten thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars and four cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, Naval Academy, five hundred and thirty-four thousand two hundred and ninety-three dollars and twenty-two cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The crypt and window spaces of the United States Naval Academy<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of memorials, etc.</p></sidenote> chapel are to be used only for memorials to United States naval officers who have successfully commanded a fleet or squadron in battle, or who have received or may receive the thanks of the Congress of t he United States for conspicuously distinguished services in time of war, and no memorial shall be accepted for or installed in said crypt or window spaces until at least five years after the death of the officer in question: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That nothing in this provision shall be considered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of crypt and windows of chapel restricted.</p></sidenote> as invalidating any agreement made by the present or any former superintendent of the Naval Academy, authorizing a memorial window in the old Naval Academy chapel to be transferred to the new Naval Academy chapel.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>marine corps.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of old memorial window.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay, Marine Corps</inline>: For pay and allowances prescribed by law<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marine Corps.</p></sidenote> of officers on the active list, nine hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers prescribed by law, on the retired list: For one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers.</p></sidenote> major-general, eight brigadier-generals, two colonels, seven lieutenantcolonels, nine majors, seven captains, eleven first lieutenants, and four second lieutenants, and for officers who may be placed thereon during the year, including such increased pay as is now or may hereafter be provided for retired officers regularly assigned to active duty, one hundred and forty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of enlisted men, active list: Pay of noncommissioned officers,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired list.</p></sidenote> musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law; and the number of enlisted men shall be exclusive of those undergoing imprisonment with sentence of dishonorable discharge from the service at expiration of such confinement, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins, or bars, including interests on deposits by enlisted men, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exercise and target practice, both afloat and ashore, two million eight hundred and seventy-two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the appropriations herein made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Enlisted men.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/774">774</page> for the Marine Corps shall be expended for the purposes for which<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p></sidenote> said appropriations are made unless officers and enlisted men shall serve as heretofore on board all battle ships and armored cruisers, and also upon such other vessels of the navy as the President may direct, in detachments of not less than eight per centum of the strength of the enlisted men of the navy on said vessels.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay and allowances prescribed by law of enlisted men on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Service on battle shifts.</p></sidenote> retired list: For two sergeant-majors, one drum-major, twenty-four gunnery-sergeants, twenty-one quartermaster-sergeants, twenty first sergeants, fifty-four sergeants, ten corporals, eighteen first-class musicians, one drummer, one trumpeter, and thirty-seven privates, and for those who may be retired during the fiscal year, one hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and twenty-two dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Undrawn clothing: For payment to discharged soldiers for clothing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Retired enlisted men.</p></sidenote> undrawn, one hundred and seventy-two thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mileage: For mileage to officers traveling under orders without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Undrawn clothing.</p></sidenote> troops, fifty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That hereafter the settlement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage to officers.</p></sidenote> of all traveling expense claims, where the payment of such is authorized by existing law, and the determination of distances and of what constitutes the shortest usually traveled route in the meaning of laws relating to traveling allowances, shall accord to such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commutation of quarters of officers on duty without troops<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Settlement of claims.</p></sidenote> where there are no public quarters, thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Pay of Civil Force</inline>: In the office of the Major-General Commandant:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, officers without troops.</p></sidenote> One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, at nine hundred and seventy-one dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the paymaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of each assistant paymaster: One clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the adjutant and inspector: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant adjutant and inspector: One clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the quartermaster: One chief clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one draftsman, at one thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, or San Francisco, California: Two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two clerks, for duty in the Philippine Islands, one in Pay and one in Quartermaster’s Department, at one thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In the office of the assistant quartermaster, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: One clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; one messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; in the Quartermaster’s Department, for duty where their services are required, two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, for pay of civil force, thirty-five thousand nine hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil force.</p></sidenote> eleven dollars and twenty-eight cents; and the money herein specifically appropriated for pay of the Marine Corps shall be disbursed and accounted for in accordance with existing law as pay of the Marine Corps, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/775">775</page> In all, pay, Marine Corps, four million three hundred and forty-nine thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Provisions, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disbursements.</p></sidenote> and privates serving ashore, for subsistence of enlisted men when traveling on duty, or cash in lieu thereof, for commutation of rations to enlisted men regularly detailed as clerks and messengers, for payment of board and lodging of recruiting parties, transportation of provisions, and the employment of necessary labor connected therewith, and for ice for preservation of rations, seven hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred anil forty-three dollars; and no law shall be construed to entitle marines on shore duty to any rations, or commutation thereof, other than such as now are or may hereafter be allowed to enlisted men in the army: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That when<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisions.</p></sidenote> it is impracticable or the expense is found greater to supply marines serving on shore duty in the island possessions and on foreign stations with the army ration, such marines may be allowed the navy ration or commutation therefor.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clothing, Marine Corps</inline>: For noncommissioned officers, musicians,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navy ration or commutation.</p></sidenote> and privates authorized by law, seven hundred anil twenty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Fuel, Marine Corps</inline>: For heating barracks and quarters, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clothing.</p></sidenote> ranges and stoves for cooking, fuel for enlisted men, for sales to officers, maintaining electric lights, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Military Stores, Marine Corps</inline>: Pay of chief armorer, at four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel.</p></sidenote> dollars per day; one mechanic, at three dollars per day; two mechanics, at two dollars and fifty cents each per day; one chief electrician, at four dollars per day, and one assistant electrician, at three dollars and fifty cents per day; for purchase of military equipments, such as rifles, revolvers, cartridge boxes, bayonet scabbards, haversacks, blanket bags, knapsacks, canteens, musket slings, swords, drums, trumpets, flags, waist belts, waist plates, cartridge belts, sashes for officer of the day, spare parts for repairing muskets, purchase and repair of tents and field ovens, purchase and repair of instruments for band, purchase of music and musical accessories, purchase and marking of prizes for excellence in gunnery and rifle practice, good-coņduct badges; and medals awarded to officers and enlisted men by the Government for conspicuous, gallant, and special service; for incidental expenses of the School of Application; for the construction, equipment, and maintenance of school, library, and amusement rooms and gymnasiums for enlisted men, and the purchase and repair of all articles of field sports for enlisted men; purchase and repair of signal equipment and stores; for the estab- lishment and maintenance of targets and ranges, and renting ranges, and for entrance fees in competitions; and for procuring, preserving, and handling ammunition and other necessary military supplies; in all, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Transportation and Recruiting, Marine Corps</inline>: For transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Military stores.</p></sidenote> of troops, including ferriage and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof, toilet kits for issue to recruits upon their first enlistment and the expense of the recruiting service, two hundred and eighty-two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Repairs Oe Barracks, Marine Corps</inline>: Repairs and improvements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation and recruiting.</p></sidenote> to barracks and quarters at Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Narragansett Station, Rhode Island; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Annapolis, Maryland; headquarters and navy-yard, District of Columbia; Norfolk, Vir- ginia;Port Royal and Charleston, South Carolina; Pensacola, Florida; Dry Tortugas, Florida; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mare Island and San <page identifier="/us/stat/35/776">776</page> Francisco, California; Bremerton, Washington; Sitka, Alaska, and Isthmus of Panama; for the renting, leasing, improvement, and erection of buildings in Porto Rico, the Territory of Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, at Guam, the District of Columbia, and at such other places as the public exigencies require; and for per diem to enlisted men employed under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department on the repair of barracks, quarters, and the other public buildings, one hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Forage, Marine Corps</inline>: For forage in kind for horses of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs of barracks.</p></sidenote> Quartermaster’s Department, and the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for stabling of public horses, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Commutation of Quarters, Marine Corps</inline>: For commutation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Forage.</p></sidenote> of quarters for officers serving with troops where there are no public quarters belonging to the Government, and where there are not sufficient quarters possessed by the United States to accommodate them; for commutation of quarters for enlisted men employed as clerks and messengers in the offices of the commandant, adjutant and inspector, paymaster and quartermaster, and the offices of the assistant adjutant and inspectors, the assistant paymasters, and the assistant quartermasters, at twenty-one dollars each per month, and for enlisted men employed as messengers in said offices, at ten dollars each per month, sixty-eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent, Marine Corps</inline>: For freight, tolls, cartage, advertising,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commutation of quarters, officers with troops.</p></sidenote> washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillowcases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and marines, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States, stationery and other paper, printing and binding, telegraphing, rent of telephones, purchase and repair of typewriters, apprehension of stragglers and deserters, per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for a period or not less than ten days, employment of civilian labor, repair of gas and water fixtures, office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements, mess utensils for enlisted men, such as bowls, plates, spoons, knives and forks, tin cups, pans, pots, and so. forth; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, iron safes, purchase, and repair of public wagons, motor wagons, carts, and drays, purchase and repair of public harness, purchase of public horses, services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public horses; purchase, and repair of hose, purchase and repair of fire extinguishers, purchase of lire hand grenades; purchase and repair of carts, wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase and repair of cooking stoves, ranges, stoves, and furnaces where there are no grates; purchase of ice, towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign postage: purchase of books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of pumps and wharves; laying drain, water, and gas pipes; water, introducing gas, and for gas, gas oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for government quarters and repair of same, packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station: and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, lint impossible to anticipate or classify, three hundred and seventy thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent.</p></sidenote> That hereafter extra-duty pay will not be allowed to enlisted men of the Marine Corps except when they are regularly detailed thereon by a written order of the commandant of the corps.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/777">777</page> Total under quartermaster, Marine Corps, two million six hundred and ninety-eight thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total Marine Corps, exclusive of public works, seven million fortyeight thousand three hundred and ten dollars and twenty-eight cents.</p></content>
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<heading>increase of the navy.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction on extra-duty pay.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That, for the purpose of further increasing the naval establishment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of the Navy.</p></sidenote> of the United States, the President is hereby authorized to have constructed two first-class battle ships to cost, exclusive of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two first-class battle ships.</p></sidenote> armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar in all essential characteristics to the battle ship authorized by the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Five torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1203.</p></sidenote> speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">One fleet collier, of fourteen knots trial speed, when carrying not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five torpedo-boat destroyers.</p></sidenote> less than twelve thousand five hundred tons of cargo and bunker coal, to cost not exceeding nine hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the contract for the construction of said vessels shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">One collier.</p></sidenote> awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest best responsible bidder, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery; and in the construction of all of said vessels the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Award of contracts.</p></sidenote> of August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An Act to increase the naval establishment,” as to materials for said vessels, their engines, boilers, and machinery, the contracts under which they are built, the notice of any proposals for the same; the plans, drawings, specifications therefor, and the method of executing said contracts shall be observed and followed, and, subject to the provisions of this Act, all said vessels shall be built in compliance with the terms of said Act, and in all their parts shall be of domestic manufacture; anil the steel material shall be of domestic manufacture, and of the. quality and characteristics best adapted to the various purposes for which it may be used, in accordance with specifications approved by the Secretary of the Navy, provided contracts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 215.</p></sidenote> for furnishing the same in a reasonable time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties, and of the two first-class battle ships provided for in this Act, not more than one shall be built by one contracting party.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For four submarine torpedo boats, in an amount not exceeding in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restrictions.</p></sidenote> the. aggregate two million dollars, and the sum of three million dollars is hereby appropriated toward said purpose and for the completion of submarine boats heretofore authorized: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Submarine torpedo boats.</p></sidenote> Secretary of the Navy may build any or all of the vessels authorized in this Act in such navy-yards as he may designate, anil shall build any of the vessels herein authorized in such navy-yards as he may designate, should it reasonably appear that the persons, firms, or corporations, or the agents thereof, bidding for the construction of any of said vessels, have entered into any combination, agreement, or understanding, the effect, object, or purpose of which is to deprive the Government of fair, open, and unrestricted competition in letting contracts for the construction of any of said vessels.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized, in his discretion,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction in navy-yards if combination, etc., of bidders.</p></sidenote> to contract for or purchase one destroyer whose vitals are located below the normal load water line, such vessel to cost not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars and to have a speed not less than twenty-two knots; also two small vessels of similar construction having a speed of not less than sixteen knots and to cost not to exceed twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars each: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Destroyers with vitals below water line.</p></sidenote> <page identifier="/us/stat/35/778">778</page> before any vessel provided for in this paragraph shall be purchased<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p></sidenote> or contracted for a vessel of similar construction shall have been constructed complete and of full size for naval warfare and submitted to the Navy Department for such trial and tests as the Secretary of the Navy may, in his discretion, prescribe, and as the result of such tests be demonstrated to have fulfilled all the reasonable requirements of naval warfare for such a vessel.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Construction and Machinery</inline>: On account of hulls and outfits<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vessels to be tested.</p></sidenote> of vessels and steam machinery of vessels heretofore authorized, twenty-two million seven hundred and sixty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty-three dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of the,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction and machinery.</p></sidenote> above appropriation shall be used for the payment of the construction, of any collier the total cost of which shall exceed nine hundred thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Armor and Armament</inline>: Toward the armor and armament of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost of collier.</p></sidenote> domestic manufacture for vessels authorized, twelve million four hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and seventy-two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor and armament.</p></sidenote> dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Armor contracts.</p></sidenote> for armor for vessels except upon contracts for such armor when awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidders, having in view the best results and most expeditious delivery: <i>Provided also</i>, That contracts for furnishing said armor in a reasonable<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condition.</p></sidenote> time, at a reasonable price, and of the required quality can be made with responsible parties.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase of the Navy, Equipment</inline>: Toward the completion of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equipment.</p></sidenote> equipment outfit of the new vessels authorized, six hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Total increase of the navy, thirty-eight million eight hundred and nineteen thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of any sum hereby appropriated under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment inNavy Department restricted.</p></sidenote> “Increase of the navy” shall be used for the payment of any clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service, or for pay of any of the other classified force, under the various bureaus of the Navy Department in Washington, District of Columbia.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That no part of any sum appropriated by this Act shall be used for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Technical, etc., service. Navy Department.</p></sidenote> any expense of the Navy Department at Washington unless specific authority is given by law for such expenditure, except that draftsmen and other technical employees heretofore paid from “Public works” and “Increase of the navy” and employed in the Navy Department at Washington may be continued in employment in the Navy Department at Washington and paid from appropriations “Maintenance,” “Construction and repair,” “Steam machinery,” “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” and “Equipment of vessels,” respectively.</p></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 256: Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell part or all of the surplus lands of members of the Kaw or Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>256.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to sell part or all of the surplus lands of members of the Kaw or Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8554">[S. 8554</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/309">[Public. No. 309</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kaw or Kansas and Osage Indians in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of surplus lands of, authorized.</p></sidenote> Interior be. and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, upon application, to sell, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, part or all of the surplus lands of any member of the Kaw or Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians in Oklahoma: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sales<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage lands.</p></sidenote> of the Osage lands shall be subject to the reserved rights of the tribe in oil, gas, and other minerals.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 257: To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/779">779</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>257.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend an Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/9006">[S. 9006</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/810">[Public, No. 810</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section eighteen of an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for constructing Washington,, Spa Springs mid Gretta Railroad.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 896, amended.</p></sidenote> Act authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland, a corporation created by the laws of the State of Maryland and authorized by an Act of Congress approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, to extend its line into the District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the construction of the said extension on the lines<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time of construction.</p></sidenote> of said railroad company within the District of Columbia shall be commenced within six months from the passage of this Act and shall be completed and cars in operation within one year from the passage of this Act, in default of which this Act shall be void and of no effect: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the tracks of the Washington, Spa Springs and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening Bladensburg road.</p></sidenote> Gretta Railroad shall be located approximately in the middle of Bladensburg road, as the same shall be ultimately widened to a width of ninety feet: and that the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company shall,, in conjunction with its track construction, grade and macadamize, to such section and profile as is approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, a width of fifteen feet on both sides of its track construction; and that the Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Costs.</p></sidenote> Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company shall bear and defray all costs of this widening, which shall be done to the entire satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That all the rights, duties, obligations, and requirements as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permits and deposits.</p></sidenote> to permits and deposits contained in the Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, authorizing the Washington, Spa Springs and Gretta Railroad Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia shall, in conjunction with this amendment, remain in full force and effect.”</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 258: To provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperia County, California.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>258</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>258.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the sale of isolated tracts of public land in Imperia County, California.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/9373">[S. 9373</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/311">[Public. No. 311</ref>]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That all the allotted portions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of isolated tracts in Imperial County, Cal., authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> of townships thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, south of ranges eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, and of fractional township seventeen south, of ranges fifteen and sixteen, all east of San Bernardino meridian, which are ten chains or less in width and lie between or abut on entered or patented lands, shall be sold at private sale for cash, at such price and under such regulations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, but not at less than two dollars and fifty cents an acre: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That any entryman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preference rights.</p></sidenote> or owner of such entered or patented tracts shall have a preferred right to buy one-half of all such lots as abut on lands held under his entry or owned by him within six months after the time when the said Secretary shall fix the price of such tracts, and this preferred right shall not prevent such entryman or owner from buying all of any such abutting lots as may remain unsold at the expiration of said six months.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 259: To authorize the sale of certain public lands.</dc:title>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/780">780</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>259.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the sale of certain public lands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21492">[H. R. 21492</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/312">[Public, No. 312</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, of the United</i> <i>States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of certain fractional subdivisions in Nebraska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> Interior is authorized and directed to sell, upon sealed bids or at public auction, at his discretion, for cash, any or all of the vacant public lands in township eight north, range thirty west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, which are embraced within the fractional subdivisions which resulted from disconnected surveys; and the expenses of such sale, including the cost of publication<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses, etc.</p></sidenote> of such notices as said Secretary may direct, shall be paid out of the proceeds thereof.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the net proceeds of the sales authorized by this Act,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> shall be pro rated by the Secretary of the Interior among and severally paid to the persons or the heirs of the persons who on February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, were the owners of the lands in sections six, seven, eighteen, nineteen, thirty, and thirty-one, in township eight north, range twenty-nine west of the sixth principal meridian, in the State of Nebraska, in proportion to the loss in area severally sustained by such persons by reason of such disconnected surveys.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 260: To extend the time for construction and beginning construction of the Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>260.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To extend the time for construction and beginning construction of the Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23717">[H. R. 23717</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/313">[Public, No. 313</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That in consideration of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for construction of Alaska Short Line Railroad in.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 84. p. 610, amended.</p></sidenote> construction of the Alaska Short Line Railroad in Alaska being actually commenced prior to June first, nineteen hundred and ten, the time for the completion of the survey and construction of said railroad be, and the same is hereby, extended to a period of three years from said first day of June, anno Domini nineteen hundred and ten: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said company shall file with the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Map of definite location.</p></sidenote> of the Interior maps of definite location of its line of road, prior to the beginning of the construction of any twenty-mile section thereof, the same to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as is now required by the Act approved May fourteenth, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 410.</p></sidenote> and ninety-eight, providing for right of way for railroads in the district of Alaska.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 261: To make Corry, Pennsylvania, a port of delivery in the district of Erie, Pennsylvania, and extending to it the privileges of section seven of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>261</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>261.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To make Corry, Pennsylvania, a port of delivery in the district of Erie, Pennsylvania, and extending to it the privileges of section seven of the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24327">[H. R. 24327</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/314">[Public, No. 314</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That Corry,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Corry, Pa., made a port of delivery and granted immediate transportation facilities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 2543, p. 50-2.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 174.</p></sidenote> Pennsylvania, be, and the same is hereby, made and constituted a port of delivery in the district of Erie, Pennsylvania, anil that the privileges of section seven of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, governing the immediate transportation of dutiable merchandise without appraisement be, and the same are hereby, extended thereto.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 262: To authorize the Chicago, Iake Shore and Eastern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet River in the State of Indiana.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>262</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 781</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-03</dc:date>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/781">781</page>
<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>262.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Chicago, Iake Shore and Eastern Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Calumet River in the State of Indiana.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/27926">[H. R. 27926</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/315">[Public, No. 315</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Chicago, Lake Shore<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Calumet River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chicago,Lake Shore and Eastern Railway Company may bridge, in Lake Country, Ind.</p></sidenote> and Eastern Railway Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the States of Indiana and Illinois, its successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby, authorized to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad bridge, and approaches thereto, across the Calumet River in the northwest quarter of section four, township thirty-six north, range eight west of the second principal meridian, in Lake County, in the State of Indiana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of bridges over<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 84.</p></sidenote> navigable waters,” approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six.</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amendment.</p></sidenote> expressly reserved.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 263: Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>263</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 781</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>263.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hk/26916">[H. K. 26916</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/316">[Public, No. 316</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums be,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian Department appropriations.</p></sidenote> ami they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices the salaries for which are specially provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, namely:</chapeau>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General provisions.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>president.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the President.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in severalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 388.</p></sidenote> of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians,” such Indian reservations as in his judgment are advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes to be surveyed or resurveyed, for the purposes of said Act, and to complete the allotment of the same, including the necessary clerical work incident thereto in the field and in the Office of Indian Affairs, and delivery of trust patents, so far as allotments shall have been selected under said Act, ninety thousand dollars.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>secretary of the interior.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the Secretary.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That when, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, it is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of lands to railroads in Indian reservations for reservoirs, etc.</p></sidenote> necessary for any railway company owning or operating a line of railway in any Indian reservation to acquire lands in such Indian reservation for reservoirs, material, or ballast pits for the construction, repair, and maintenance of its railway, or for the purpose of planting and growing thereon trees to protect its line of railway, the said Secretary be, and he is hereby, authorized to grant such lands to any such railway company under such terms and conditions and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the said Secretary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/782">782</page> That, when any railway company desiring to secure the benefits of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Conveyance of lands.</p></sidenote> this provision shall file with the Secretary of the Interior an application describing the lands which it desires to purchase, and upon the payment of the price agreed upon the said Secretary shall cause such lands to be conveyed to the railway company applying therefor upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> no lands shall be acquired under the terms of this provision in greater quantities than forty acres for any one reservoir, and one hundred and sixty acres for any material or ballast pit, to the extent of not more than one reservoir and one material or gravel pit in any one section of ten miles of any such railway in any Indian reservation: <i>And provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land for tree plant</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That the lands acquired for tree planting shall be taken<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of proceeds.</p></sidenote> only at such places along the line of the railway company applying therefor as in the judgment of the said Secretary may be necessary, and shall be taken in strips adjoining and parallel with the right of way of the railway company taking the same, and shall not exceed one hundred and fifty feet in width.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all moneys paid for such lands shall be deposited in the Treasury<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments to Indians.</p></sidenote> of the United states to the credit of the tribe or tribes, and the moneys received by said Secretary as damages sustained by individual members of the Indian tribe, which damages shall be ascertained by the Secretary of the Interior and paid by the railway company taking such lands, shall be paid by said Secretary to the Indian or Indians sustaining such damages.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of acreage.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the President, to allot any Indian on the public domain who has not heretofore received an allotment, in such areas as he may deem proper, not to exceed, however, eighty acres of agricultural or one hundred and sixty acres of grazing land to any one Indian, such allotment to be made and patent therefor issued in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February eighth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24. p. 388.</p></sidenote> hundred and eighty-seven (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, three hundred and eighty-eight).</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>commissioner.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Under the Commissioner.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of ditches and reservoirs, purchase and use of irrigating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> tools and appliances, and water rights, including lands necessary for canals, pipe lines, and reservoirs, for Indian reservations and allotments, and for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and subject to his control, two hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendents.</p></sidenote> of the Interior, may employ superintendents of irrigation, who shall be skilled irrigation engineers, not to exceed five, as in his judgment may be necessary to secure the construction of ditches and other irrigation works in a substantial and workmanlike manner.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For survey and subdivision of Indian reservations and of lands to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveying and allotting.</p></sidenote> be allotted to Indians, and to make allotments in severalty, to be expended by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Suppressing liquor traffic.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, to suppress the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, fifty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of Indian day and industrial schools, and for other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support of schools.</p></sidenote> educational purposes, not herein provided for, one million four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction, purchase, lease, and repair of school buildings,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of buildings, etc.</p></sidenote> and for sewerage, water supply, and lighting plants and purchase of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/783">783</page> school sites, and improvement of buildings and grounds, three hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one million seven hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transporting pupils.</p></sidenote> schools, and also for the transportation of Indian pupils from all the Indian schools and placing of then, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of such suitable white families as may in all respects be qualified to give such pupils moral, industrial, and educational training, seventy-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Positions for pupils.</p></sidenote> not exceeding five thousand dollars of this amount may be used, under direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in the transportation and placing of Indian pupils in positions where remunerative employment can be found for them in industrial pursuits. The provisions of this section shall apply to native pupils brought from Alaska: <i>Provided</i>, That no Indian pupil under the age of fourteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Young children.</p></sidenote> years shall be transported at government expense to any Indian school beyond the limits of the St ate or Territory in which the parents of such child reside or of the adjoining State or Territory: <i>Provided further</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White children admitted to Indian boarding schools.</p></sidenote> That hereafter white children may, under rules prescribed by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, be admitted to Indian boarding schools on the payment of tuition fees at a rate to be fixed in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of tuition fees.</p></sidenote> rules: <i>Provided further</i>, That all tuition fees paid for white children so enrolled shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to reimburse the fund out of which the school is supported.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from time to time as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special investigations.</p></sidenote> he may deem necessary, to detail clerks from his office to make special investigations in the field: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That while thus absent from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem.</p></sidenote> Washington under such detail they shall receive a per diem of three dollars to cover all expenses, exclusive of transportation and sleeping- car fares, three thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to conduct experiments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experimental test of soils, etc.</p></sidenote> on Indian school or agency farms, designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate, in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, and fruits not hitherto raised in those neighborhoods, using Indian labor in the process, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of the forests</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, to make investigations on Indian reservations and take measures for the purpose of preserving living and growing timber, and removing dead timber, standing or fallen; to advise the Indians as to the proper care of forests, and to conduct such timber operations and sales of timber as may be deemed advisable and provided for by law, one hundred thousand dollars, of which ten<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars shall be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this section shall not apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That hereafter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with the approval<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Designation of employee to sign letters, authorized.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, may designate an employee of the Indian Office to sign letters of that office requiring the signature of the commissioner or assistant commissioner, and all signatures of such employee while acting under such designation shall have the same force and effect as if made by said commissioner or assistant commissioner.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That all lands allotted to Indians in severalty, except allotments<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in severalty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lease of mineral lands.</p></sidenote> made to members of the Five Civilized Tribes and Osage Indians in Oklahoma, may by said allottee be leased for mining purposes for any term of years as may be deemed advisable by the Secretary of the Interior; and the Secretary of the. Interioris hereby authorized to perform<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations</p></sidenote> any and all acts and make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying the provisions of this paragraph into full force and effect.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/784">784</page> That if any Indian of a tribe whose surplus lands have been or shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exchange of lands unsuitable for allotment, etc.</p></sidenote> be ceded or opened to disposal has received or shall receive an allotment embracing lands unsuitable for allotment purposes, such allotment may be canceled and other unappropriated, unoccupied, and unreserved land of equal area, within the ceded portions of the reservation upon which such Indian belongs, allotted to him upon the same terms and with the same restrictions as the original allotment, and lands described in any such canceled allotment shall be disposed of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations.</p></sidenote> as other ceded lands of such reservation. This provision shall not apply to the lands formerly comprising Indian Territory. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe rules and regulations to carry this law into effect.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>miscellaneous.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Telegraphing, telephoning, and purchase of Indian supplies: To<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supplies.</p></sidenote> pay the expense of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian Service<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">All expenses.</p></sidenote> , including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; telegraphing and telephoning; and transporting Indian goods and supplies, including expenses of transportation agents and rent of warehouses, three hundred and- fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For buildings and repairs of buildings at agencies, and for rent of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agency buildings.</p></sidenote> buildings for agency purposes, and for water supply at agencies, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pure vaccine matterand vaccination of Indians, five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vaccination.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to pay court costs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court costs, etc., in suits involving allotted lands.</p></sidenote> witness fees, and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving lands allotted to them, two thousand five hundred dollars, five hundred dollars thereof to be immediately available: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i>Attorney’s fees.</p></sidenote> shall be used in the payment of attorney’s fees.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section ten of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent’s records, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 18, p. 451, amended.</p></sidenote> seventy-five (Eighteenth Statutes at Large, four hundred and fifty- one), be amended so as to read as follows: “Each Indian agent shall keep a book of itemized expenditures of every kind, with a record of all contracts, together with the receipts of moneys from all sources, and the books thus kept shall always be open to inspection; and the said books shall remain in the office at the respective reservations, not to be removed from said reservation by said agent, but shall be safely kept and handed over to his successor and he shall report annually to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual report.</p></sidenote> the Commissioner of Indian Affairs all material on hand and not required for his use: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That should any agent knowingly make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">False entries in transcripts, etc.</p></sidenote> any false entry in said books, or shall knowingly fail to keep a perfect entry in said books as herein prescribed, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction before any United States court having jurisdiction of such offense, shall be fined in a sum not less than<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty.</p></sidenote> five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court, and shall be rendered incompetent to hold said office of Indian agent after conviction under said Act.”</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any moneys appropriated in this Act for the general incidental<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of appropriation for incidental expenses. etc.</p></sidenote> expenses of the Indian service in certain States and Territories, including traveling expenses of agents, which are not needed in the particular States or Territories for which provided may be used for the same kind of expenses elsewhere, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To pay certain individual Indians of the Fort Lapwai School, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lapwai School.</p></sidenote> sum or five hundred and sixteen dollars and eighty-eignt cents, to reimburse<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement of Indians for loss by burglary.</p></sidenote> them for moneys said to have been deposited in the safe at said school and stolen there from by burglars on the night of October eleventh,<page identifier="/us/stat/35/785">785</page> nineteen hundred and six: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said Indians, before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Evidence of loss.</p></sidenote> being paid, shall be required to furnish evidence of their respective losses satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>II. GENERAL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General officers and employees.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>board of indian commissioners.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of the commission of citizens, serving without compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Citizen commission.</p></sidenote> , appointed by the President under the provisions of the fourth section of the Act of April tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty- nine<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 40.</p></sidenote> , four thousand dollars, of which amount not to exceed three hundred dollars may be used by the commission for office rent.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>inspectors.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inspectors.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two Indian inspectors, who shall be engineers, one to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation engineers.</p></sidenote> designated as chief, competent in the location, construction, and maintenance of irrigation works, one at two thousand five hundred dollars per annum and one at three thousand five hundred dollars per annum: in all, six thousand dollars. For traveling expenses of two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> Indian inspectors, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, for incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing and expense of going to and coming from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>superintendent of indian schools.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one superintendent of Indian schools, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of schools.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary traveling expenses of one superintendent of Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> schools, including telegraphing and incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, one thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">per diem.</p></sidenote> That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for traveling expenses when actually on duty in the field, exclusive of cost of transportation and sleeping-car fare in lieu of all other expenses now allowed by law.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>interpreters.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment of necessary interpreters, to be distributed in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters.</p></sidenote> discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars; but no person employed by the United States and paid for any other service shall be paid for interpreting.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>police.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of officers at twenty-five dollars per month each, and privates<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote> at twenty dollars per month each, of Indian police, to be employed in maintaining order and prohibiting illegal traffic in liquor on the several Indian reservations and within the Territory of Alaska, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of equipments, and for the purchase of rations for policemen at nonration agencies, two hundred thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>matrons.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ suitable persons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Matrons.</p></sidenote> as matrons to teach Indian girls in housekeeping and other household <page identifier="/us/stat/35/786">786</page> duties, at a rate not to exceed sixty dollars per month, and for furnishing necessary equipments, and renting quarters where necessary, thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the amount paid said matrons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30, p. 90.</p></sidenote> shall not come within the limit for employees fixed by the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>farmers and stockmen.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to employ practical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmers and stockmen.</p></sidenote> farmers and practical stockmen, subject only to such examination as to qualifications as the Secretary or the Interior may prescribe, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed, at wages not exceeding seventy-five dollars each per month, to superintend and direct farming and stock raising among such Indians as are making effort for self-support, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs may use<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional clerks at agencies, etc.</p></sidenote> not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars of the said amount in the employment of additional clerical assistance at such agencies and schools as may be necessary in connection with the leasing and appraisal of Indian lands and for sundry purposes: <i>Provided further</i>, That the amounts paid such farmers and stockmen shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 90.</p></sidenote> come within the limit for employees fixed by the Act of June seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>judges.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of judges of Indian courts, twelve thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Judges. Indian courts.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>contingencies.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingencies.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingencies of the Indian service, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph W. Howell and Joseph R. Webster.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p></sidenote> traveling and incidental expenses of Indian agents and of their offices, and of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; also traveling and incidental expenses of special agents, at three dollars per day when actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and expenses of going to and from the seat of government, and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, for a period not to exceed twenty days; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for, and for pay of special agents, at two thousand dollars per annum each, eighty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arizona.</p></sidenote> the appropriation for contingencies of the Indian Service, nineteen hundred and nine, for expenses incurred under the orders of the Secretary of the Interior, to Joseph W. Howell one hundred and thirty-five dollars and to Joseph R. Webster two hundred and ten dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>ARIZONA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Carlos Agency, agent.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apaches, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Apache and other Indians in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> Arizona and New Mexico who have been or may be collected on reservations in Arizona and New Mexico, three hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner is authorized to use the unexpended balance for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, which is hereby appropriated and made available for nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians of Pima Agency, Arizona, forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pima Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, to be expended for their benefit in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, may deem best.<page identifier="/us/stat/35/787">787</page></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort mojave school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Mojave school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent of said school, thirty-live thousand one hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For deep well, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-eight thousand one hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>phoenix school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Phoenix school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>truxton canyon school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Truxton Canyon school.</p></sidenote> school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to James H. Owen, of Los Angeles, California, the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">James H. Owen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 1521.</p></sidenote> amount found to be due him by the Secretary of the Interior under contract of May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, for the construction of buildings and irrigation works at the Truxton Canyon Indian School, Arizona, nine hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Arizona, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to purchase lands and water<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Navajo Indians, Ariz. and N. Mex.</p></sidenote> rights for the use of Navajo Indians who have lost title to their homes on the public domain in Arizona and New Mexico the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of lands, etc., for.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation immediately available.</p></sidenote> forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated the same to be immediately available.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CALIFORNIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Mission Indians in California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mission Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, and for the purchase of small tracts of land situated adjacent to lands heretofore purchased, twenty thousand dollars, part of which may be used for making improvements for the use and occupancy of Indians in southern California.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians in California, twenty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of land for certain Indians.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, part of which may be used for the purchase of small tracts of land adjacent to lands now owned by the Indians and for improvements on lands for the use and occupancy of Indians.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sherman institute.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of five hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sherman Institute.</p></sidenote> at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, and for pay of superintendent, ninety-four thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and four thousand three hundred and fifty-nine dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in California,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at the Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, and Tule River agencies, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And pay of employees at same agencies, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eleven thousand dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/788">788</page></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>COLORADO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colorado.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Colorado,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort lewis school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby granted to the State of Colorado, upon the terms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Lewis school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of, to State.</p></sidenote> and conditions hereinafter named, the property, known as the Fort Lewis School, including the lands, buildings, and fixtures pertaining to said school: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands and buildings shall be held<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils, etc.</p></sidenote> and maintained by the State of Colorado as an institution of learning, and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such school free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this grant shall be effective at any time before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of grant.</p></sidenote> July first, nineteen hundred and ten, if before that date the governor of the State of Colorado files an acceptance thereof with the Secretary of the Interior accepting for said State said property, upon the terms and conditions herein prescribed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indian pupils.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Fort Lewis, Colorado, thirty-five thousand dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if said school is disposed of as above authorized at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pro rata share of appropriation.</p></sidenote> any time during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and ten the pro rata share only of the appropriation for the maintenance of said school for the portion of the year which the school is maintained by the United States shall be available.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>grand junction school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby granted to the State of Colorado, upon the terms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grand Junction School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of, to State.</p></sidenote> and conditions hereinafter named, the property, known as the Grand Junction School, including the lands, buildings, and fixtures pertaining to said school: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands and buildings shall be held<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils.</p></sidenote> and maintained by the State of Colorado as an institution of learning, and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such school free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils:</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this grant shall be effective at any time before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of grant.</p></sidenote> July first, nineteen hundred and ten, if before that date the governor of the State of Colorado files an acceptance thereof with the Secretary of the Interior accepting for said State said property, upon the terms and conditions herein prescribed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of pupils.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Grand Junction, Colorado, thirty-three thousand four hundred dollars, and pay of superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if said school is disposed of as above authorized at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pro rata share of appropriation.</p></sidenote> any time during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and ten the pro rata share only of the appropriation for the maintenance of said school for the portion of the year which the school is maintained by the United States shall be available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to expend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southern Ute Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of water right, etc.</p></sidenote> from the funds of the Southern Ute Indians in the Treasury of the United States sufficient moneys, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to purchase a perpetual water right for the purpose of irrigating not less than ten thousand acres of land in the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That to carry into effect the agreement between the Confederated<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confederated Bands of Ute Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of Claims to determine, etc.,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">claims, etc., of.</p></sidenote> Bands of Ute Indians of Colorado and the United States, ratified by the Act of Congress approved June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, being “An Act to accept and ratify the agreement sub <page identifier="/us/stat/35/789">789</page> mitted by the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians in Colorado for the sale of their reservation in said State, and for other purposes, and to make the necessary appropriations for carrying out the same” (Twenty-first Statutes, page one hundred and ninety-nine),<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 199.</p></sidenote> jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon the Court of Claims to hear, determine, and render final judgment, with right of appeal as in other cases, on the claims and rights of said Indians under said agreement, including the value of all lands ceded by the said Indians which have been set apart and reserved from the public lands as public reservations or for other public uses under existing laws and proclamations of the President, as if disposed of under the public-land laws of the United States, as provided by said agreement, and the money due therefor; and the court shall set off against any sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Perpetual trust fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 21, p. 204.</p></sidenote> found due said Indians the amount paid to them under the fifth section of said Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, being fifty thousand dollars per annum up to the date of rendition of final judgment in this cause, also any other sum or sums that shall be found to be properly chargeable under the terms of said agreement and also any sum or sums paid by the United States to or for the benefit of said Indians, whether as a gratuity or otherwise, except such sums as have been paid for a specific purpose and an adequate consideration; and the credit of one million two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Termination of, etc.</p></sidenote> and fifty thousand dollars set apart in the Treasury by the terms of said agreement, upon which said annuity has been estimated, shall, upon the rendition of final judgment in this cause, cease to exist as a trust fund, and from and after the date of said judgment no annuity shall be estimated or paid therefrom; and the action herein authorized shall be consolidated with cause congressional numbered eleven thousand two hundred and forty-eight, now pending in said court, for the purpose of using at the trial thereof all evidence which has been adduced in said pending cause, and shall be commenced by petition under the title of said pending cause and shall be conducted by the attorney of record now appearing therein, or by any attorney by him specifically authorized to appear; and the Attorney-General shall continue to appear and represent the United States; and in rendering judgment herein the court shall fix upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney’s compensation.</p></sidenote> a quantum meruit and set apart just and reasonable compensation to the attorneys on behalf of plaintiffs who have rendered actual services in prosecuting said claim before the committees of Congress and in conducting the said cause before the courts in the name of the attorney of record in said pending cause, or any attorney by him specifically authorized, and said compensation shall be paid to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment.</p></sidenote> such attorney by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury arising from the sale of said ceded lands or from the proceeds of said judgment, and the balance of said judgment shall be held in the Treasury for the benefit of said Indians as a trust find, and the interest thereon shall be distributed annually to them<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annual distribution of interest.</p></sidenote> in accordance with the terms of said Act of June fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty; and the said cause shall be advanced in hearing by the Court of Claims, and by the Supreme Court of the United States if the same shall be appealed.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IDAHO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a superintendent in charge of agency and educational matters<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alene Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> on the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho, one thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Shoshones and Bannocks, Sheepeaters,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> and other Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/790">790</page> For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Idaho,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For carrying out the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Hall Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1024.</p></sidenote> hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page one thousand and twenty-four), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to acquire lands and other property necessary in constructing a reservoir for storing water for the purpose of irrigating lands on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho and those ceded by the Indians of said Reservation, and for construction of the system determined on, one hundred thousand dollars, reimbursable.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Neils Anderson and William Winchell.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation, etc., of claims of.</p></sidenote> authorized o investigate and settle the equitable claims of Neils Anderson, William Winchell, and others whose lands or improvements, held under possessory claims, have been or will be damaged by reason of the construction of said reservoir, for which purpose the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey, etc.</p></sidenote> allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Idaho, fifteen thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshones and bannocks. (treaty.) (for shoshones, see wyoming.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bannocks.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Bannocks</inline> : For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote> engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>coeur d’alenes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coeur d’Alenes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 26, p. 1029.</p></sidenote> medicines, as per the eleventh article of agreement, ratified by Act of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indians formerly of lemhi agency, idaho.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lemhi Agency.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the third to the eleventh, inclusive, of the twenty installments,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty withlndians formerly of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 688.</p></sidenote> as provided in the agreement with the Indians of Fort Hall and Lemhi agencies, Idaho, approved February twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be used by the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of the Indians removed to Fort Hall Reservation from Lemhi Agency, Idaho, in such manner as the President may direct, thirtysix thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>IOWA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sac and fox school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sac and Fox school.</p></sidenote> school on the Sac and Fox Reservation, Iowa, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, seventeen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>KANSAS.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>haskell institute.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Haskell Institute, Lawrence.</p></sidenote> school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, for transportation of pupils to and from said school, and for pay of <page identifier="/us/stat/35/791">791</page> superintendent, one hundred and thirty-seven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hay barn, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ventilation system, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For equipment of manual training school, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and fifty-five thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>kickapoo indian school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of eighty Indian pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoo Reservation school.</p></sidenote> school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pottawatomies. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pottawatomies.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per fourth article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuities.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 51.</p></sidenote> August third, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 114.</p></sidenote> September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and nine, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and ninety cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in silver, per third article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 185.</p></sidenote> October second, eighteen hundred and eighteen, eight hundred and ninety-four dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in money, per second article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 317.</p></sidenote> September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, seven hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in specie, per second article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 320.</p></sidenote> July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p, 317.</p></sidenote> article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy-seven cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for payment,of money in lieu of tobacco,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 318.</p></sidenote> iron, and steel, per second article of treaty of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and tenth article of treaties of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 855.</p></sidenote> June fifth and seventeenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, one hundred and seven dollars and thirty-four cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for three blacksmiths and assistants, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7. p. 296.</p></sidenote> for iron and steel for shops, per third article of treaty of October sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-six; second article of treaty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 318.</p></sidenote> of September twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 321.</p></sidenote> second article of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 320</p></sidenote> twenty-nine, one thousand and eight dollars and ninety-nine cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent provision for fifty barrels of salt, per second article</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">of treaty of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nine thousand and thirty-seven dollars and ninety cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the treaty with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wah- qua - bas - kuk, band.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of Kansas lands of.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 1191.</p></sidenote> the Pottawatomie Indians proclaimed April nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, upon application therefor, to sell the lands in Kansas allotted to those Indians styling themselves the Wah-qua-bas-kuk band, and yurchase satisfactory lands for them in Wisconsin or elsewhere and ocate them thereon. All expenses to be paid out of the receipts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> Torn the Kansas lands.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/792">792</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sacs and foxes of the missouri. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of a school, per fifth article of treaty of March sixth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 1173.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and sixty-one, two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">John K. Heyl.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to, etc.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to John K. Heyl upon surrender of the certificates herein referred to, from the funds of the Kaw Indians in his possession, which have been set aside for the payment of certain claims, now in his possession, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars the same to be accepted in full payment and discharge of seven hundred and fifty dollars of Kaw scrip and the interest thereon.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MICHIGAN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mount pleasant school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mount Pleasant school.</p></sidenote> Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MINNESOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leech Lake Agency.</p></sidenote> one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at White Earth, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White Earth Agency.</p></sidenote> thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>morris school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That there is hereby granted to the State of Minnesota, upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Morris school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of, to State.</p></sidenote> terms and conditions hereinafter named, the following-described property, known as the Indian school at Morris, Minnesota, and more particularly described as follows, to wit:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All those several tracts and parcels of land situate, lying, and being<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> in the county of Stevens and State of Minnesota, and described as follows: The northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter, the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, township one hundred and twenty-five north, range forty-two west, containing eighty acres.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beginning at the quarter post, being the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one, township one hundred and twenty-five north, range forty-one west of the fifth principal meridian; running along the county road (Morris, Minnesota, to Glenwood, Minnesota), or along the established line of the said county road, running from said quarter post north sixty-three degrees and thirty minutes east one and fifty-six one-hundredths chains; thence north sixty-one degrees east eight and thirteen one-hundredths chains; thence north eighty-seven degrees and twenty-five minutes east seven and seven one-hundredths chains; thence north sixty-nine degree and thirty minutes east fourteen and eighty-five one-hundredths chains; thence north seventy-seven degrees east twenty-seven chains; thence leaving the said county road and running north twenty-five chains to a point on the north boundary line of said section thirty-one, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-one, fifteen chains east of the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of said section thirty-one, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-one; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/793">793</page> thence west along the said north boundary line of said section thirtyone, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-one, to the northwest corner of the northwest quarter of section thirty-one, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-one; thence south along the west boundary line of said section thirty-one, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-one, to the place of beginning, except twelve and nine-tenths acres of land owned by the Northern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> Pacific Railroad Company, being used for railroad right of way and special snow-fence purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Also all that part of the east half of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, township one hundred and twenty-five north, range forty-two west of the fifth principal meridian, in Stevens County, Minnesota, lying south of the county road from Morris to Cyrus, Minnesota, containing fifteen acres.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And beginning at the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, township one hundred and twenty-five, range fortytwo ; thence south eleven and five one-hundredths chains, east three and sixteen one-hundredths chains, south two and fifty-seven onehundredths chains, to the Cyrus and Morris public road; thence easterly along the north line of said road to a point on the east line of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, seven and twenty-five one-hundredths chains south of the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six; thence north seven and twenty-five one-hundredths chains to said northeast corner; thence west to the place of beginning, containing twenty-two and one-half acres.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And the south half of the south half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-six, township one hundred and twenty-five, range forty-two, containing two and one-half acres.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And lot numbered three of county subdivision of unplatted part of east half of section thirty-five, township one hundred and twentyfive, range forty-two, containing eight and seventy-five one-hundredths acres, described as follows: Commencing at a point on the north side of the county road leading from Morris to Cyrus, Minnesota, six hundred and eighty-eight feet from the southeast corner of section thirty-five, township one hundred and twenty-five north, range forty-two west; thence north eight hundred and eighty-seven feet, west four hundred and forty feet, south six hundred and fortysix feet; thence southeast three hundred and ninety-one feet to said county road; thence northeast along said county road two hundred and thirty-two feet to the place of beginning.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aggregating two hundred and ninety acres, with buildings, improvements<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Total acreage.</p></sidenote> , and other appurtenances thereon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands and buildings shall be held and maintained<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils, etc.</p></sidenote> by the State of Minnesota as an agricultural school, and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such school free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this grant shall be effective on July first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of grant.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and ten, if before that date the State of Minnesota, by its legislature, shall, by a bill or joint resolution, accept the terms of this grant, and in said event the said State of Minnesota shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a certified copy of said act or joint resolution, whereupon this grant shall take effect without<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Effect.</p></sidenote> further act; and the indorsement of the Secretary of the Interior upon a certified copy of said act or joint resolution of the legislature of the State of Minnesota, showing the date of the filing thereof with the said Secretary of the Interior, and showing said date to be prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, shall be competent proof in all courts of record of the filing of such certified copy of such act or joint resolution.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/794">794</page> For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indian pupils.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Morris, Minnesota, twenty-five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if said school is disposed of as above authorized at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pro rata share of appropriation, etc.</p></sidenote> any time during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and ten the pro rata share only of the appropriation for the maintenance of said school for the portion of the year which the school is maintained by the United States shall be available.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pipestone school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and twenty-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pipestone school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-nine thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred sdollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For removing obstructions at the falls and improving the highway to the cemetery, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-five thousand six hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chippewas of the mississippi. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of the Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of a school or schools upon said reservation, during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 720.</p></sidenote> the pleasure of the President, in accordance with third article of treaty of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, four thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chippewas of minnesota, reimbursable. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Advance interest to the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, as required<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advance interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 645.</p></sidenote> by section seven of “An Act for the relief of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner required by said Act (reimbursable), ninety thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the direction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilization, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 642.</p></sidenote> of the Secretary of the Interior, to carry out an Act entitled “An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota,” approved January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, namely, the purchase of material and employment of labor for the erection of houses for Indians; for the purchase of agricultural implements, stock, and seeds, breaking and fencing land; for payment of expenses of delegations of Chippewa Indians to visit the White Earth Reservation; for the erection and maintenance of day and industrial schools; for subsistence and for pay of employees; for pay of commissioners and their expenses, and for removal of Indians and for their allotments, to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of sale of their lands, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to advance to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote> the executive committee of the White Earth band of Chippewra Indians in Minnesota the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the annual celebration of said band to be held June fourteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, out of the funds belonging to said band.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/795">795</page></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>MONTANA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Agency.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For pay of Indian agents in Montana at the following-named<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Agency.</p></sidenote> agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Crow Agency, Montana, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of implements, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Flathead Agency, Montana, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 83.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Available for reexpenditure, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys, etc., Blackfeet Reservation.</p></sidenote> Montana, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any moneys repaid by Indians to the United States under the provisions of the section of the Indian appropriation Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, appropriating the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of implements and other equipment for the Indians of the Fort Belknap Reservation in the State of Montana (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page eightythree), shall be available for reexpenditure for the same purposes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> and under the same conditions until June first, nineteen hundred and fifteen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Crow Indians in Montana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Belknap Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey, allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Blackfeet Reservation, in the State of Montana, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flathead Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 305.</p></sidenote> States from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion and extension of the Milk River Irrigation System<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, twenty-five thousand dollars, reimbursable.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of irrigation systems to irrigate the allotted<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 302.</p></sidenote> lands of the Indians of the Flathead Reservation in Montana and the unallotted irrigable lands to be disposed of under the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” including the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars thereof to be immediately available, the cost of said entire work to be reimbursed from the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 354.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 448, amended.</p></sidenote> proceeds of the sale of the lands and timber within said reservation. That the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of intoxicants prohibited.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prohibition term, 25 years.</p></sidenote> (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page three hundred and two), entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Indian Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” as amended by the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian allottees.</p></sidenote> and six, and the Act of May twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended by adding thereto the following sections:</p></content>
</appropriations>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline">That the lands allotted, those retained or reserved, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Power and reservoir sites to be reserved.</p></sidenote> the surplus lands sold or otherwise disposed of shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country, and that the Indian allottees, whether under the care of an Indian agent<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report to Congress.</p></sidenote> or not, shall for a like period be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the sale or other disposition of intoxicants to Indians.</content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/796">796</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Timber lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 304, amended.</p></sidenote> in his discretion, to reserve from location, entry, sale, or other appropriation all lands within said Flathead Indian Reservation chiefly valuable for power sites or reservoir sites, and he shall report<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of merchantable timber.</p></sidenote> to Congress such reservations.”
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That section eleven of the Act of April twenty-third, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land.</p></sidenote> and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page three hundred and two), entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Flathead Reservation, in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all surplus lands after allotment,” be amended to read as follows:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That all merchantable timber on said lands returned and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Peck Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotment, etc., of lands in.</p></sidenote> classified by said commission as timber lands shall be sold and disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior, for cash, under sealed bids or at public auction, as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, and under such regulations as he may prescribe: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That after the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> sale and removal of the timber such of said lands as are valuable for agricultural purposes shall be sold and disposed of by the Secretary of the Interior in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe.”</proviso>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Great Northern Railway Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of land to.</p></sidenote> allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, fifty thousand dollars : <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Damages, etc.</p></sidenote> from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso>That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reallotment.</p></sidenote> and directed to cause to be appraised the south half of southwest quarter of northeast quarter and south half of south half of northwest quarter; the north half of southwest quarter of section twenty-eight; the south half of south half of northeast quarter and the north half of north half of southeast quarter of section twenty-nine, in township twenty-seven north, range forty-four east, Montana meridian, in the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, for the purpose of granting the same to the Great Northern Railway Company for a ballast pit for ballasting its railway, and upon appraising said land the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey the same to said railway upon such terms as he may deem advisable. If the sale of said land shall interfere with any improvements of an individual Indian, provision shall be made for the payment of damages, and the amount of damages<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of intoxicants.</p></sidenote> awarded shall be paid to such Indian, subject to the control of the Secretary of the Interior as to the funds of incompetent Indians, and if the sale of said land interferes with any allotment, such allottee<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 564, amended.</p></sidenote> shall be entitled to reallotment.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Act of Congress approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prohibition term, 25 years.</p></sidenote> and eight, entitled “An Act for the survey and allotment of lands now embraced within the limits of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian allottees.</p></sidenote> in the State of Montana, and the sale and disposal of all the surplus lands after allotment,” be, and it is hereby, amended by adding thereto section seventeen, as follows:</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17">“<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <chapeau class="inline">That the lands allotted, those retained or reserved,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> and the surplus lands sold or otherwise disposed of shall be subject for a period of twenty-five years to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the introduction of intoxicants into the Indian country, and that the Indian allottees, whether under the care of an Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crows.</p></sidenote> agent or not, shall for a like period be subject to all the laws of the United States prohibiting the sale or other disposition of intoxicants to Indians.”
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Montana,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 652.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, two thousand five hundred dollars;<page identifier="/us/stat/35/797">797</page></p></chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>crows. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, as per tenth article of the treaty of May<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote> seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of same treaty, three thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>northern cheyennes and arapahoes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 658.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence and civilization, as per agreement with the Sioux<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands reserved for irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 360.</p></sidenote> Indians approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including subsistence and civilization of Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, ninety thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northern Cheyenne Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of “Line Riders.”</p></sidenote> two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer, per seventh article of the treaty of May tenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, nine thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That any of the lands withdrawn under the reclamation Act in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nebraska.</p></sidenote> pursuance of the provisions of section five of the Act of Congress approved April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to ratify and amend an agreement with the Indians of the Crow Reservation, in Montana, and making appropriations to carry the same into effect,” which are not disposed of within five years from the date of the passage of said Act shall remain subject to disposal under the provisions of the reclamation Act until otherwise directed by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the employment of “Line Riders” along the southern and eastern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Genoa school.</p></sidenote> boundary of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in the State of Montana, one thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEBRASKA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winnebagoes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>genoa school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> the Indian school of Genoa, Nebraska, fifty thousand four hundred dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To replace brick barn destroyed by fire, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-eight thousand one hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>winnebagoes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 545.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civilization, etc.</p></sidenote> nine dollars and seventeen cents, at five per centum per annum, per fourth article of treaty of November first, eighteen hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> thirty-seven, forty thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and forty-five cents; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby directed to expend said interest for the support, education, and civilization of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principal sum to credit of tribe.</p></sidenote> said Indians, to be expended in such manner and to whatever extent that he may judge to be necessary and expedient for their welfare and best interest;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/798">798</page> For interest on seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 544.</p></sidenote> dollars and forty-one cents, at five per centum per annum, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior for the erection of houses, improvement of their allotments of land, purchase of stock, agricultural implements, seeds, and other beneficial objects, three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars and two cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-four thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars and</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">forty-seven cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 355.</p></sidenote> to place upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Winnebago tribe of Indians the sum of eight hundred and eighty-three thousand two hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-eight cents, and such sum shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum until withdrawn from the Treasury for payment to the Indians as hereinafter provided, being the balance of the unappropriated amounts due said tribe under the fourth article of the treaty of November first,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New enrollment.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, to wit, eight hundred and four thousand nine hundred and nine dollars and seventeen cents (Seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and forty-four) and the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy, seventy-eight thousand three hundred and forty dollars and forty-one cents (Sixteenth Statutes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita distribution.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 201.</p></sidenote> at Large, page three hundred and fifty-five), and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause a new<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Exception.</p></sidenote> enrollment to be made of all Winnebago Indians entitled to share in said fund other than those enrolled at the Winnebago agency in Nebraska, and until the completion of such enrollment no part of said sum shall be distributed. Upon the completion of such roll the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nevada.</p></sidenote> of the Interior is authorized to pay per capita to the members of the tribe, except those resident in Wisconsin, their proportionate share of said sum, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in the same manner as provided by the Act of April twentyfirst, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page two hundred and one). The proportionate share to the credit of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Western Shoshone Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> Winnebago Indians resident in Wisconsin shall be held in the Treasury of the United States, pending further legislation.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEVADA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carson school.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Indians of the Western Shoshone<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> Agency, Nevada, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>carsoit school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 388.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Nevada,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 389.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians located on the Piute, Walker River, and Pyramid Lake reservations, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And pay of employees, including physician at the Walker River Reservation, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That in carrying out any irrigation project which may be undertaken<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No lien, etc., against reserved lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount of cost.</p></sidenote> under the provisions of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), known as “The Reclamation Act,” and which may make possible, and provide for in connection with the reclamation of other lands, the irrigation of all or any part of the irrigable lands <page identifier="/us/stat/35/799">799</page> heretofore included in allotments made to Indians under the fourth section of the general allotment Act, the Secretary of the Interior<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p></sidenote> be, and he hereby is, authorized to make such arrangement and agreement in reference thereto as said Secretary deems for the best interest of the Indians: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no lien or charge for construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Albuquerque school.</p></sidenote> operation, or maintenance shall thereby be created against any such lands: <i>Provided further</i>, That to meet the necessary cost of carrying out this legislation the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend, out of the sum appropriated in this Act for irrigation, an amount not exceeding thirteen thousand dollars.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEW MEXICO.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Santa Fe school.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">(<inline class="smallCaps">See Arizona for “Support and Civilization of the Apache, and so Forth,” in Arizona and New Mexico</inline>.)</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>albuquerque school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pueblo Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attorney.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sante fe school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-one thousand nine hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For water supply, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">San Juan River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Construction of bridge.</p></sidenote> Mexico, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">And for necessary traveling and incidental expenses of said attorney, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigation, etc.</p></sidenote> Mexico, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the construction of a bridge across the San Juan River, near<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Zuni irrigation project.</p></sidenote> Shiprock School, in the Navajo Indian Reservation, in the Territory of New Mexico, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no part of this appropriation shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote> available until the proper officer of the Indian Bureau shall investigate and report that the work contemplated can be completed for the amount herein appropriated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For completion of the irrigation system on the Zuni Reservation in New Mexico, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NEW YORK.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, etc.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the New York Agency, New York, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senecas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 4, p. 442.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician, New York Agency, six hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>senecas of new york. (treaty.)</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in lieu of interest on stock, per Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 35.</p></sidenote> February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/800">800</page> For interest, in lieu of investment, on seventy-five thousand dollars<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Six Nations.</p></sidenote> , at five per centum, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest, at five per centum, on forty-three thousand and fifty dollars transferred from the Ontario Bank to the United States Treasury, per Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand one hundred and fifty-two dollars and fifty cents;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and fifty cents.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>six nations of new york. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 46.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles, per<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seneca Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principal sum to credit of tribe.</p></sidenote> sixth article of treaty of November eleventh, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 9, p. 35.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita distribution.</p></sidenote> directed to place on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Seneca Indians of New York the sum of one hundred and eighteen thousand and fifty dollars, and such sum shall bear interest at the rate of five per centum per annum until withdrawn from the Treasury for payment to the Indians as hereinafter provided, being the value of stocks held in trust for the Indians and taken by the United States, and canceled under authority jf the Act of June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-six (Ninth Statutes at Large, page<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 201.</p></sidenote> thirty-five), and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to pay per capita to the members of the tribe entitled thereto the said sum under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in the same manner as provided by the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p></sidenote> and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page two hundred and one).</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NORTH CAROLINA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee school.</p></sidenote></heading>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>cherokee school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred pupils at the Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Dakota.</p></sidenote> school at Cherokee, North Carolina, and for pay of superintendent, thirty-four thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; For general repairs and improvements, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>NORTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent, Standing Rock Agency.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Indian agent at the Standing Rock Agency,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Devils Lake Sioux.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Berthold Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p></sidenote> North Dakota, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Sioux of Devils Lake<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for horses condemned, etc.</p></sidenote> , North Dakota, five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, twenty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For payment to such Indians of the Fort Berthold Reservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Turtle Mountain Band.</p></sidenote> in North Dakota as the Secretary of the Interior shall determine to be entitled thereto, the value of certain horses condemned and destroyed by the Bureau of Animal Industry in nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, the said value to be ascertained and determined by the said Secretary, thirteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain band of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents to allottees.</p></sidenote> Chippewas, North Dakota, including seeds, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/801">801</page> That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, on the approval of any allotment or homestead made to an Indian of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians under the Act of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, pp. 189, 194.</p></sidenote> April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, pages one hundred and eighty-nine and one hundred and ninety-four), to cause patent to issue therefor in the name of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trust patents.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 24, p. 389.</p></sidenote> allottee in accordance with section five of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians of the various reservations and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes,” and amendments thereto.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>fort totten school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred and twenty-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fort Totten school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty thousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>wahpeton school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wahpeton school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Wahpeton, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For improving the heating and lighting plant, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Commissioner of Indian Affairs is hereby authorized to expend<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Purchase of live stock.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of unexpended, balance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 87.</p></sidenote> in behalf of said Indian school at Wahpeton, North Dakota, the unexpended balance of the item of five thousand dollars appropriated by the Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purchase of live stock, seed, equipment of farm, and machinery; and also to expend for said school the unappropriated balance of the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars made in said Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the construction of concrete<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Concrete walk, etc.</p></sidenote> walk, driveways and grading, and the unexpended balance of said two appropriations is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>bismarck school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bismarck school.</p></sidenote> Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For brick barn, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in North<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents at three agencies, one thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OKLAHOMA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agents in Oklahoma at the following-named<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents.</p></sidenote> agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowa Agency.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Osage Agency, Oklahoma, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Osage Agency.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/802">802</page> For support and civilization of the Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Apaches, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> Wichitas, and affiliated bands who have been collected in the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceeds of town-lot sales in Anadarko, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of unexpended balances for county improvements.</p></sidenote> to turn over to the proper officers, respectively, of the counties now forming a part of the area covered by the counties of Caddo, Kiowa, and Comanche, State of Oklahoma, upon such equitable basis as. May be satisfactory to and approved by the Secretary of the Interior, the respective unexpended balances of the funds derived from the sale of town lots in the towns of Anadarko, Hobart, and Lawton, Oklahoma, under the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and one, and by that<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 1904.</p></sidenote> Act and the Acts of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 506.</p></sidenote> March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, set apart for the construction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 62.</p></sidenote> of public improvements in the said counties, as a trust fund, to be by them, or under their supervision, expended solely for the construction and completion of public improvements in the counties aforesaid, as provided by the enactments of Congress creating and regulating the disposition of said funds, and for expenses necessary in connection with the construction and completion of such improvements.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For a monument to Cynthia Ann Parker, mother of Quanna Parker,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cynthia Ann Parker.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Monument for.</p></sidenote> chief of the Comanches, one thousand dollars, to be expended under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Arapahoes ami Cheyennes who<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arapahoes and Cheyennes.</p></sidenote> have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation, thirty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas Indians.</p></sidenote> including agricultural assistance and pay of employees, one thousand five hundred dollars.For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kickapoos.</p></sidenote> two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians, including pay<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Poncas.</p></sidenote> of employees, nine thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oklahoma,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> and for pay of employees, twenty-two thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chilocco school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of seven hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chilocco school.</p></sidenote> Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and nineteen thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred dollars;</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pawnees. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawnees.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For perpetual annuity, which is to be paid in cash to them,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuitv.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 729.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 644.</p></sidenote> per second article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and agreement of November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, article three, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support of two manual-labor schools, per third article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> of same treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Farmer, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> engineer tand apprentices, and two teachers, as per fourth article of same treaty, five thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of physician and purchase of medicines, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/803">803</page> Education.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron, steel, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 730.</p></sidenote> as per fourth article of treaty of September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-seven thousand one hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>quapaws. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quapaws.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For education, per third article of treaty of May thirteenth, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 425.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Unexpended balance immediately available.</p></sidenote> hundred and thirty-three, one thousand dollars; and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for education per said article of said treaty for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for payment for the care and support of Quapaw Indian children at the mission school on the Quapaw Reservation during the said fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, in accordance with a resolution of the Quapaw national council adopted December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seven, on file in the office of Indian Affairs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmiths, etc.</p></sidenote> shop, per same article and treaty, five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one thousand five hundred dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certificate of President.</p></sidenote> President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sacs and foxes of the mississippi. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, in goods or otherwise, per third article of treaty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 85.</p></sidenote> November third, eighteen hundred and four, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on two hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 541.</p></sidenote> per second article of treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on eight hundred thousand dollars, at five per centum, per second article of treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two, forty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Physician, etc.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars of this amount shall be used for the pay of a physician and for purchase of medicine;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Principal sum to credit of tribe.</p></sidenote> directed to place upon the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi tribe of Indians, the unappropriated sums of two hundred thousand dollars, due under the second article of the treaty of October twenty-first, eighteen hundred and thirtyseven<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 541.</p></sidenote> (Seventh Statutes at Large, page five hundred and forty), and eight hundred thousand dollars under the second article of the treaty of October eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-two (Seventh<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 596.</p></sidenote> Statutes at Large, page five hundred and ninety-six).</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment.</p></sidenote> discretion, to pay per capita to the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi tribe of Indians in the State of Oklahoma the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, now to the credit of the tribe in the United States Treasury under the title of “Sac and Fox of the Mississippi in Oklahoma fund;” and also the sum of twelve thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars and ninety-six cents standing to the credit of the tribe under the title of “Sac and Fox of the Mississippi fund.”</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Five Civilized Tribes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of superintendent at the Union Agency, Oklahoma, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Union Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/804">804</page> For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with entering of remittances received on account of payments of town lots and issuance of patents, six thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerical work and labor connected with the leasing of Creek<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases, etc.</p></sidenote> and Cherokee lands for mineral and other purposes, and the leasing of lands of full-blood Indians under the Act of April twenty-sixth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 145.</p></sidenote> nineteen hundred and six, and Acts amendatory thereto, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For appraising, clerical work, and labor connected with the sale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sales of restricted lands.</p></sidenote> of restricted lands, Five Civilized Tribes, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of intruders.</p></sidenote> in unrestricted possession of their allotments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, seventeen thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry out the provisions<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of alienation restrictions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 204.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 312.</p></sidenote> of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, and section one of the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the removal of restrictions upon the alienation of lands of allottees of the Five Civilized Tribes, fifteen thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>district agents.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District agents.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Supplemental to the funds appropriated and available for expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries, etc.</p></sidenote> connected with the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, there is hereby appropriated for the salaries and expenses of district agents and other employees connected with the work of such agents, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ninety thousand dollars, to be immediately available as the Secretary of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Powers continued.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 312.</p></sidenote> Interior may direct; and all powers heretofore conferred by law on said district agents, who were designated by the Act of May twentyseventh, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and twelve), as “local representatives” of the Secretary of the Interior, are continued in full force and effect: <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignment, etc.</p></sidenote> <i></i>, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to employ of such district agents such number, not exceeding five, as he deems proper, to perform like duties as those now performed by them among the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma in other portions of that State.</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>schools.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the maintenance, strengthening, and enlarging of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maintenance, etc.</p></sidenote> the tribal schools of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole nations, and making provision for the attendance of children of parents of other than Indian blood therein, and the establishment of new schools under the control of the Department of the Interior, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior, and disbursed by him under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>completion of the work.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Completing work of Commission.</p></sidenote> done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, one hundred and forty thousand dollars, said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior is directed to so disburse this appropriation as to complete said work by July first, nineteen hundred and ten.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/805">805</page> That allottees of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw nations,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to allottees from tribal fund.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Creeks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Equalization of allotments.</p></sidenote> having remnant allotments due them of not exceeding fifty dollars in value, shall be paid twice the value thereof in lieu of such allotment, by check from the tribal funds of their respective tribes. The Secretary of the Interior is directed immediately after July first, nineteen hundred and nine and prior to December first, nineteen hundred and nine, to pay allottees out of the funds of the Creek Nation, the amounts severally due for the equalization of their allotments. In making<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment to allottees.</p></sidenote> such payment for the equalization of the Creek allotments eight hundred dollars shall be taken as the standard value of an allotment:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tribal settlement.</p></sidenote> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the payment of such funds for the equalization of allotment shall be a final and conclusive settlement of all claims for the equalization of allotments in the Creek Nation: <i>And provided-further</i>, That as a condition precedent to any such payment the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acknowledgm ent of.</p></sidenote> Creek National Council shall pass an Act, in form approved by the Secretary of the Interior, discharging the United States from all claim and demand on this account.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The tribal councils when meeting shall receive compensation only<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of tribal councils.</p></sidenote> for the length of time authorized by the Secretary of the Interior.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The town-lot payments in default shall not work forfeiture if payment<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for town - lot payments, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of freedmen.</p></sidenote> , with ten per centum interest from date of such default, is made before December first, nineteen hundred and nine. All rights to acquire land for allotment by Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen shall cease December first, nineteen hundred and ten. The surface only<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemning segregated coal, etc., lands.</p></sidenote> of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation shall be subject to condemnation under the laws of the State of Oklahoma for state penal institutions, county and municipal purposes and for sewers and water systems: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reversion.</p></sidenote> title to the surface of any lands so condemned shall revert to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nation upon its ceasing to be used for the purpose for which it was condemned and the tribal relation is hereby continued for such purpose and no title to any mineral rights in said lands so condemned shall be acquired hereunder.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Court of Claims is hereby authorized to allow, and, upon such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Eastern Cherokees.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Council meetings.</p></sidenote> allowance, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay out of the sum awarded to the Eastern Cherokees, under the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States, October term, nineteen hundred and five, to the several members of the council of the Eastern Cherokees, the sum of five dollars per diem each for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per diem allowances for attending.</p></sidenote> period they severally rendered service in going to and from and attending the councils of the Eastern Cherokees, as shall be certified to the Court of Claims by the president and secretary of the council, and otherwise established to the satisfaction of said court: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maximum.</p></sidenote> That in no event shall the amount thus paid exceed five thousand dollars.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To reimburse Doctor G. W. Harkins, of Coalgate, Oklahoma, for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">G. W. Harkins.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> services rendered and expenses incurred in suppressing the spread of smallpox in Indian Territory from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, to August eighth, nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifteen cents, the same to be accepted by said Doctor G. W. Harkins in full payment of all demand for such services and expenses.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>choctaws. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaws.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity, per second article of treaty of November<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Annuity.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 99.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> sixteenth, eighteen hundred and five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/806">806</page> For permanent annuity for support of light horsemen, per thirteenth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Light horsemen.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 213.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p></sidenote> article of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for support of blacksmith, per sixth article<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, pp. 212, 236.</p></sidenote> of treaty of October eighteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty, ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for education, per second and thirteenth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Education.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 235.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iron and steel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 7, p. 236.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 614</p></sidenote> articles of last two treaties named above, six thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For permanent annuity for iron and steel, per ninth article of treaty of January twentieth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and thirteenth article of treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>seminoles. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seminoles.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 702.</p></sidenote> dollars, to be paid as annuity, per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For five per centum interest on two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be paid as annuity (they having joined their brethren West), per eighth article of treaty of August seventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twelve thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on fifty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 757.</p></sidenote> per annum, to be paid annually, for the support of schools, as per third article of treaty of March twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, two thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For interest on twenty thousand dollars, at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid annually for the support of the Seminole government, as per same article, same treaty, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Credit to tribal fund.</p></sidenote> directed to place on the books of the Treasury to the credit of the Seminole tribe of Indians, the sum of five hundred and seventy thousand dollars, said sum, or any part thereof, so long as it remains in the Treasury, to draw interest at the rate of five per centum perannum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interest.</p></sidenote> , being the balance of the unappropriated amounts due said tribe under article eight of the treaty of August seventh, eighteen<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 11, p. 702.</p></sidenote> hundred and fifty-six (Eleventh Statutes at Large, page seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 14, p. 756.</p></sidenote> and two), and “article three of the treaty of March twenty-first,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">eighteen hundred and sixty-six (Fourteenth Statutes at Large, page</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">seven hundred and fifty-six).</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments from tribal funds to.</p></sidenote> to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, at his discretion, the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and pay out the same for the benefit of the members of said tribes for their maintenance and support, and improvement of their homesteads, for the ensuing year in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in case, after<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Goodland Indian Orphan Industrial School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Choctaw lands to be conveyed to.</p></sidenote> investigation, he deems it for the best interest of the tribe, to set aside six hundred and forty acres of Choctaw land for the benefit of old Goodland Indian Orphan Industrial School, and to convey the same to said school in conjunction with the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation and the governor of the Chickasaw Nation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/807">807</page> That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Benedictine Fathers of Sacred Heart Abbey, Okla.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patent in fee to.</p></sidenote> to issue a patent in fee to the Benedictine Fathers of Sacred Heart Abbey, Oklahoma, for the following-described lands, now and for many years reserved for and occupied by the Sacred Heart Mission, to wit: The south half of section seven and the north half of section eighteen, in township six north, range five east, on the Pottawatomie Reservation, Oklahoma, containing six hundred and forty acres more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Attorney-General of the United States is hereby authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fleming vs. McCurtain.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Advancement of case in Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> and directed to immediately move the advancement, upon the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States, of the case of J. E. Fleming, and others, against Green McCurtain, and others, docket numbered five hundred and thirty-five to the earliest practicable hearing.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>OREGON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Klamath, Modocs, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc., of Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Klamath Agency.</p></sidenote> Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Warm Springs Agency.</p></sidenote> under Warm Springs Agency, and for pay of employees, four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Walla Walla, Cayuse, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Walla Walla, Cayuse, and Umatilla tribes.</p></sidenote> Umatilla tribes, Oregon, including pay of employees, three thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>salem school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils at the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salem school.</p></sidenote> Indian school, Salem, Oregon, and for pay of superintendent, one hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, ten thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and twelve thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Oregon,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and ‘civilization of Indians of Grande Ronde and Siletz agencies, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pay of employees at the same agencies, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>siletz indian reservation.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That within one year from the date of the approval of this Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Siletz Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale of lands on, to religious societies.</p></sidenote> any religious or missionary society now occupying, under proper authority, for religious or educational work among the Indians, any lands on the Siletz Reservation in Oregon shall have the right to purchase ten acres of land on said reservation, or a less quantity at the option of the purchaser, at the rate of two dollars and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Price per acre.</p></sidenote> cents per acre, and the same shall be conveyed to such religious or missionary society by patent.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>molels. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Molels.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of teachers and for manual-labor schools, and for all<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 12, p. 981.</p></sidenote> necessary materials therefor, and for the subsistence of the pupils, per second article of treaty of December twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, three thousand dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/808">808</page></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>PENNSYLVANIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">
<p class="inline">For support and education of Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carlisle school.</p></sidenote> ,</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">for transportation of pupils to and from said school, for pay of superintendent, and for general repairs and improvements, one hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>SOUTH DAKOTA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agents in South Dakota at the following named<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agents at agencies.</p></sidenote> agencies at the rates respectively indicated, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Crow Creek Agency, one thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Creek.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Pine Ridge Agency, two thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pine Ridge.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Rosebud Agency, one thousand eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosebud.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Sisseton Agency, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sisseton.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">At the Yankton Agency, one thousand six hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yankton.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>chamberlain school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby granted to the State of South Dakota upon the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chamberlain school.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of, to State.</p></sidenote> terms and conditions hereinafter named the following-described property, known as the Chamberlain School, including the lands, juildings, and fixtures pertaining to said school: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of grant.</p></sidenote> ands and buildings shall be held and maintained by the State of South Dakota as an institution of learning, and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such school free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this grant shall be effective at any time before July first, nineteen hundred and ten, if before that date the governor of the State of South Dakota files an acceptance thereof with the Secretary of the Interior accepting for said State said property, upon the terms and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale in case of non-acceptance.</p></sidenote> conditions herein prescribed. If said property is not accepted by the State of South Dakota, as hereinbefore provided, the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to dispose of and convey the real estate, including buildings and fixtures, of the Chamberlain School, South Dakota, for a price not less than twenty-six thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minimum price.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Requirements.</p></sidenote> upon condition that the property shall continue to be maintained and operated as an educational institution, and that children of Indian parents shall have the same privilege of education as white<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sale, etc., of residue of property.</p></sidenote> children, but with tuition free:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the Commissioner of Indian Affairs is authorized and directed to dispose, by sale or transfer to other schools, such property as is not covered by the transfer of the realty, buildings, and fixtures.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils, etc.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school at Chamberlain, South Dakota, twenty-five thousand and fifty dollars, and for pay of superintendent, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if such school is disposed of as above authorized at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pro rata share of appropriation, etc.</p></sidenote> any time during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and ten the pro rata share only of the appropriation for the maintenance of said school for the portion of the year which the school is maintained by the United States shall be available.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Edward N. Vandall.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land on former Yankton Reservation allotted to, etc.</p></sidenote> to allot eighty acres of land on the former Yankton Reservation in South Dakota, now reserved for Indian administrative purposes to Edward N. Vandall, a Yankton Sioux allottee, in consideration that said Vandall relinquish eighty acres of land, more or less, which he now holds in allotment.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/809">809</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>flandreau school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of three hundred and seventy-five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flandreau school.</p></sidenote> Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, sixty-four thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars, of which two thousand five hundred dollars shall be immediately available;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pierre school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pierre school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, and for pay of superintendent, twenty-six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, four thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For construction of new water pipe, four thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-five thousand and fifty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rapid city school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rapid City school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For installation of water plant, twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, sixty-eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in South<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> Dakota, including traveling expenses of agents, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to.</p></sidenote> to issue patents in fee to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions, organized under an act of the assembly of Maryland entitled “An act to incorporate the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions,” approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, for the land set apart to the Catholic Church on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Crow Creek, and Lower Brule reservations, in the State of South Dakota, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Rosebud Reservation, at or near Saint Francis Mission: The<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rosebud Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Francis Mission.</p></sidenote> east half of the northeast quarter and the east half of the southeast quarter of section thirty-one, and the west half of the northwest quarter and the west half of the southwest quarter of section thirty-two, all in township thirty-seven north, range thirty west of the sixth principal meridian, containing three hundred and twenty acres, more or less; also, at or near Red Leaf Camp, the southwest quarter of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Red Leaf Camp.</p></sidenote> northwest quarter of section two, township thirty-nine north, range thirty-three west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less; also, at or near Oak Creek, the southwest quarter of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oak Creek.</p></sidenote> southeast quarter of section one, township thirty-nine north, range twenty-six west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less; also, at or near Antelope Creek, the southwest<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Antelope Creek.</p></sidenote> quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-four, township thirty-nine north, range twenty-eight west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less; also, at or near Little<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little White River.</p></sidenote> White River, the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-four, township forty-two north, range twenty-nine west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less; also, at or near Ponca Creek, lot one and the northeast quarter of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ponca Creek.</p></sidenote> northwest quarter of section seven, township ninety-six north, range <page identifier="/us/stat/35/810">810</page> seventy-one west of the fifth principal meridian, containing seventyeight and sixty-two one-hundredths acres, more or less; also, at or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Francis Mission.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery.</p></sidenote> near Saint Francis Mission, for cemetery purposes, the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section thirty-two, township thirtyseven north, range thirty west of the sixth principal meridian, containing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Little White River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cemetery.</p></sidenote> forty acres, more or less; also, at or near Little White River, for cemetery purposes, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty, township forty north, range twenty-nine west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less, and the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section thirty-three, township forty-three north, range twenty-five west of the sixth principal meridian, containing forty acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Pine Ridge Reservation: The north half of the northeast<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pine Ridge Reservation.</p></sidenote> quarter and the north half of the northwest quarter of section fourteen, township thirty-nine north, range forty-three west of the sixth principal meridian, containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less, and the northwest quarter of section twenty, township forty-one north, range forty-three west of the sixth principal meridian, containing one hundred and sixty acres, more or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Crow Creek Reservation: The northwest quarter of section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Crow Creek Reservation.</p></sidenote> four, township one hundred and nine north, range seventy-two west of the fifth principal meridian, containing one hundred and fifty-eight and forty one-hundredths acres, more or less; also the north half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter, shown by the tract book to be in lot eight, section twentythree, township one hundred and seven north, range seventy-two west of the fifth principal meridian.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">On the Lower Brule Reservation: On agency reserve<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lower Brule Reservation.</p></sidenote> in section fifteen, township one hundred and seven north, range seventy-three west of the fifth principal meridian, described as beginning at the corner to sections ten, eleven, fourteen, fifteen; thence west three hundred and thirty feet on the section line between sections ten and fifteen; thence south two hundred and sixty-four feet; thence east three hundred and thirty feet; thence north two hundred and sixtyfour feet to the place of beginning, containing two acres.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sioux of different tribes, including santee sioux of nebraska. (treaty)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux of different tribes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Teachers, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 640.</p></sidenote> one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith, per thirteenth article of treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, ten thousand four hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and other material, per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand six hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of additional employees at the several agencies for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote> Sioux in Nebraska and Dakota, eighty-eight thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence of the Sioux, and for purposes of their civilization,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 19, p. 256.</p></sidenote> as per agreement ratified by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, five hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall include transportation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transportation.</p></sidenote> of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable;</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schools.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 637.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 894.</p></sidenote> including erection and repairs of school buildings, in accordance with article seven of the treaty of April twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, which article is continued in force for twenty years by section seventeen of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightynine, two hundred thousand dollars; In all, eight hundred thousand dollars.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/811">811</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>sioux, yankton tribe. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sioux, Yankton tribe.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For subsistence and civilization of Yankton Sioux, heretofore provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Subsistence, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol.19, p. 287.</p></sidenote> for in appropriations under “Fulfilling treaty with Sioux of different tribes,” and so forth, twenty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Canton.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses of insane asylum.</p></sidenote> Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, and for necessary expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, twenty-five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey and allotment.</p></sidenote> allotment of the reservations of the Sioux Nation of Indians in North and South Dakota, thirty thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the President to cause, under the provisions of the Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments in Sioux Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 888.</p></sidenote> of March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, entitled “An Act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment of the Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes,”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">to be allotted the lands in said separate reservations as provided in said Act, including the necessary resurveys, thirty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Flandreau tribe.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Per capita payment.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol 25, p. 888.</p></sidenote> and directed to pay to the Flandreau tribe of Indians in the State of South Dakota per capita the balance remaining in the Treasury to their credit, approximating eight thousand dollars, accruing to said Indians under the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and eightynine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the following-described tract of land situated in Boreman<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Standing Rock Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Land reserved for cemetery.</p></sidenote> County, in the State of South Dakota, and described as follows, to wit: A strip of land ten chains wide on the west side of lot three, in section twenty-six, of township twenty north, of range twenty-five east, of the Black Hills principal meridian be, and the same hereby is, reserved for cemetery purposes for the perpetual use of the Indians of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and the same shall not be subject to taxation so long as the same may be used for cemetery purposes.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>UTAH.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Utah<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uintah and Ouray Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> (consolidated), one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Utah, including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For constructing irrigation system, to irrigate the allotted lands of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lands of Uncompahgre, Uintahs, and White River Utes.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 375.</p></sidenote> the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, as provided by the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, reimbursable.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">There is hereby granted to the State of Utah, upon the terms and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panguitch School.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Grant of, to State.</p></sidenote> conditions hereinafter named, the property, known as the Panguitch School, including the lands, buildings, and fixtures pertaining to said school: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said lands and buildings shall be held and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indian pupils, ete.</p></sidenote> maintained by the State of Utah as an institution of learning, and that Indian pupils shall at all times be admitted to such school free of charge for tuition and on terms of equality with white pupils:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That this grant shall be effective at any time before<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Acceptance of grant.</p></sidenote> July first, nineteen hundred and ten, if before that date the governor of the State of Utah files an acceptance thereof with the Secretary of the Interior accepting for said State said property, upon the terms and conditions herein prescribed.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/812">812</page> To enable the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to perfect and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Protecting, etc., water rights.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p„ 375.</p></sidenote> protect the rights of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah in and to the waters appropriated under the laws of the State of Utah for the irrigation systems authorized by the Act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the amount expended hereunder to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> of lands within the former Uintah Reservation: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p></sidenote> sum, or any part thereof, shall be used only in the event of failure to procure from the State of Utah or its officers an extension of time in which to make final proof for waters appropriated for the benefit of the Indians, and any sum expended hereunder shall be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of the lands within the former Uintah Reservation.</proviso></p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>confederated bands of utes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utes, Confederated Bands.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carpenters, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 13, p. 675.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 622.</p></sidenote> blacksmiths, as per tenth article of treaty of October seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and fifteenth article of treaty of March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of two teachers, as per same article of same treaty, one thousand eight hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop, per ninth article of same treaty, two hundred and twenty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Food.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 622.</p></sidenote> wheat, flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food, as per twelfth article of same treaty, thirty thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, fifteen thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employees.</p></sidenote> dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>VIRGINIA.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="inline">For the support and education of one hundred and twenty Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hampton school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the school at Hampton, Virginia, twenty thousand and forty dollars.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WASHINGTON.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of the Indian agent at the Colville Agency, Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p></sidenote> one. thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.,</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">D’Wamish, etc., Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Makahs.</p></sidenote> in Washington, including pay of employees, seven thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of the Makahs, Washington, including pay of employees, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and. civilization of the Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes.</p></sidenote> including pay of employees, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Yakimas, and other Indians<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas.</p></sidenote> at said agency, including pay of employees, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Washington,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, and support and civilization of Indians at Colville and Puyallup agencies, and for pay of employees, thirteen thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>spokanes. (treaty.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokanes.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of a blacksmith and carpenter to do necessary work and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Blacksmith, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 139.</p></sidenote> instruct the said Indians in those trades, one thousand dollars each, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/813">813</page> per sixth article of agreement with said Indians, dated March eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ratified by Act of Congress approved July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, two thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joseph’s Band, Nez Perees.</p></sidenote> of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians, one thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the extension of the irrigation system on lands allotted to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Yakimas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigating allotments.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 597.</p></sidenote> Yakima Indians in Washington, fifteen thousand dollars, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of surplus lands, as provided by the Act of December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, entitled “An Act to authorize the sale and disposition of surplus or unallotted lands of the Yakima Indian Reservation in the State of Washington;”</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey, etc.</p></sidenote> , allotment, classification, and appraisement of the lands in the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington, fifty thousand dollars:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><proviso><i>Provided</i>, That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States from the proceeds of the sale of surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the survey<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> , allotment, classification, and appraisement of lands in the Spokane Reservation in the State of Washington, ten thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Spokane Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey, etc.</p></sidenote> That this sum shall be reimbursed to the United States<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reimbursement.</p></sidenote> from the proceeds of the sale of the surplus lands after the allotments are made.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the third of five installments to the Indians residing on the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Colville Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Third payment to Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 27, p. 62.</p></sidenote> Colville Reservation for the cession by said Indians to the United States of one million five hundred thousand acres of land opened to settlement by an Act of Congress “To provide for the opening of a part of the Colville Reservation in the State of Washington, and for other purposes,” approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, being a part of the full sum set aside and held in the Treasury of the United States in payment for said land under the terms of the Act approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, ratifying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 377.</p></sidenote> the agreement ceding said land to the United States under date of May ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, three hundred thousand dollars, to be expended for the benefit of said Indians in accordance with the provisions of the said Act setting aside in the Treasury the money in payment for the land ceded.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WISCONSIN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of Indian agent at the La Pointe Agency, Wisconsin, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">La Pointe Agency.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Agent.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hayward school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the support and education of two hundred and ten pupils at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hayward school.</p></sidenote> the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, thirty-six thousand six hundred and seventy dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, two thousand two hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and seventy dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>tomah school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tomah school.</p></sidenote> at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, and pay of superintendent, forty-three thousand four hundred and fifty dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For steel tower for water tank, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, forty-nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/814">814</page> For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chippewas of Lake Superior.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.-</p></sidenote> Wisconsin, to be expended for agricultural and educational purposes; pay of employees, including pay of physician, purchase of goods and provisions, and for such other purposes as may be deemed for the best interests of said Indians, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oneida Indian Reservation.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee to Diocese of Fond du Lac.</p></sidenote> to issue patents in fee to the trustees of the diocese of Fond du Lac, organized under an Act of the State of Wisconsin, entitled “An Act to provide for the incorporation of trustees to hold property for religious purposes in certain cases, approved March second, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,” for said lands so set apart to said church, as follows: Lot X, in the southeast quarter of section three, township<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Description.</p></sidenote> twenty-three north, range nineteen east, fourth principal meridian, containing one acre, more or less; the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter section twelve, township twenty-three north, range nineteen east, fourth principal meridian, containing forty acres; claim numbered one hundred and forty, in section three, township twentythree north, range nineteen east, fourth principal meridian, containing seven acres, more or less; claim numbered one hundred and fortyseven, in section three, township twenty-three north, range nineteen east, fourth principal meridian, containing forty-eight acres, more or less, on the Oneida Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Religious organizations.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patents in fee may issue to.</p></sidenote> to issue a patent in fee simple to the duly authorized missionary board, or other proper authority, of any religious organization engaged in mission or school work on any Indian reservation, for such lands thereon as have been heretofore set apart to and are now being used and occupied by such organization for mission or school purposes.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That the provisions of section two of the Act approved May twenty-ninth<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Menominee Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Adjudication of certain claims against.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction extended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 444.</p></sidenote> , nineteen hundred and eight, conferring jurisdiction upon the Court of Claims in certain cases against the Menominee Indians, be, and the same hereby are, extended to the heirs of the legal representatives of William H. Stacy, formerly a trader upon the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, and to all other persons having claims against the Menominee tribe of Indians and against certain members of said tribe of the character described in said Act, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay to Henry S. Comstock, attorney of record for said Indians in the Court of Claims, the sum of two thousand dollars to be immediately available out of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation immediately available.</p></sidenote> any funds in the Treasury to the credit of said tribe for the purpose of taking depositions, payment of witness fees, and other expenses necessarily incident to the preparation of the defense of said Indians against all actions brought or to be brought under the provisions of section two of the Act above mentioned, the said amount to be accounted for in final settlement of fees and expenses with said court and to be deducted from the allowance made.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>WYOMING.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wyoming.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone Indians.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Support, etc.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
</chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshone school.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For support and education of one hundred and seventy-five Indian<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshone school.</p></sidenote> pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, and pay of superintendent, thirty-one thousand and twenty-five dollars; For general repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, thirty-four thousand and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Wyoming,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Incidentals.</p></sidenote> including traveling expenses of agents, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/815">815</page> For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Irrigation system.</p></sidenote> the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming, one hundred thousand dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That said sum be reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States from the sale of lands made under the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 1016.</p></sidenote> (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page one thousand and sixteen).</proviso></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>shoshones and bannocks., (treaty.) (for bannocks, see idaho.)<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shoshones.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Shoshones: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fulfilling treaty.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 15, p. 676.</p></sidenote> , farmer, and blacksmith, as per tenth article of treaty of July third, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required, as per eighth article of same treaty, one thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, six thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
</section>
<action>
<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 264: To provide for the repair, maintenance, and preservation of public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>264.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To provide for the repair, maintenance, and preservation of public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28243">H. R. 28243</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/317">Public, No. 317</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<section class="inline">
<content class="inline"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>, That for the preservation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">River and harbour works.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for preservation, etc.</p></sidenote> and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, heretofore appropriated for by Congress, and for continuing in operation such dredging and other plants or equipment of any kind owned by the United States Government, and constructed or acquired for use on river and harbor improvements, there be, and is hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, the sum of eight million one hundred and eighty-five thousand seven hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p></sidenote> and fifty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That allotments from the amount herein named shall be made by the Secretary of War, and the same shall be recommended by the local engineer having such channel, improvement, or other public work in charge and the Chief of Engineers, respectively: <i>Provided further</i>, That the amount allotted to any specific<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> channel or improvement shall not be greater than the estimated amount required for preservation and maintenance as transmitted by the Chief of Engineers in a communication dated February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and nine, which said letter was filed with the House of Representatives on the eighteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, and designated as House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and sixty-two, Sixtieth Congress, second session.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That for emergencies, to provide for the restoration of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for emergencies.</p></sidenote> channels, or river and harbor improvements, heretofore established or improved by the Government where, by reason of emergency, the usual depth of such channel or customary use of such improvement cannot be maintained, and there is no sufficient fund available for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Immediately available.</p></sidenote> such restoration, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to be immediately available. The amount herein provided shall be allotted by the Secretary of War: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That in no<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Allotments.</p></sidenote> case shall such allotment be made unless recommended by the local engineer having such channel or improvement in charge and by the Chief of Engineers, respectively: <i>Provided further</i>, That no single<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation.</p></sidenote> channel or improvement shall be allotted a sum greater than fifty thousand dollars, nor any portion of the said appropriation, unless the same is necessary in the interest of navigation or to protect and preserve existing government work in the interest of navigation.</proviso></content>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/816">816</page>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That appropriations or authorizations for appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diversion, etc., allowed.</p></sidenote> heretofore made may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, and upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, be diverted or applied upon modified projects for the rivers and harbors hereinafter named, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving harbors of New Bedford and Fairhaven. Massachusetts:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Bedford and Fair Haven. Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of improvement.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 1074.</p></sidenote> The authorization for the improvement of said harbors contained in the river and harbor Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby extended so as to include the extension of the basin north of Fish Island, now being dredged under the adopted project, southward between the harbor lines to the bridge between New Bedford and Fish Island, and the extension of the twenty-five foot channel along the New Bedford front from its terminus, as contemplated by the present project, northerly between established harbor lines to said bridge: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a contract or contracts for such improvement<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> can be made within the limit of cost authorized by the said Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pawtucket River, Rhode Island: Any balance remaining unexpended<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pawtucket River, R. I.</p></sidenote> after the completion of the work provided for under the existing contracts for improving the Pawtucket River, Rhode Island, may be used in deepening the channel of said river to eighteen feet, and in increasing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deepening, etc., channel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1075.</p></sidenote> the widths thereof at such places between Pawtucket and Providence as may best subserve the interests of commerce: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Consent of State.</p></sidenote> That the work herein authorized shall not be undertaken until the consent of the State of Rhode Island shall have been given for the application to this purpose of the portion of said balance heretofore contributed and pledged by the said State.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Patapsco River and Channel to Baltimore, Maryland:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Patapsco River. Md.</p></sidenote> The authorization for the improvement of said harbor contained in the river and harbor Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening channel.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1081.</p></sidenote> is hereby extended so as to include the widening of the channel in the Fort McHenry division, in the vicinity of its intersection with the channel leading to Curtis Bay, so as to provide at the most practicable point an additional width of six hundred feet for a distance of about three thousand five hundred feet, with project depth: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit of cost.</p></sidenote> That a contract or contracts for such improvement can be made within the limit of cost authorized by the said Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inland waterway between Franklin and Mermentau, Louisiana: To<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Waterway, Franklin to Mermentau, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of way.</p></sidenote> secure a suitable right of way for the proposed inland waterway channel from Franklin to Mermentau, adopted by Congress in the river<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1089.</p></sidenote> and harbor Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven, the location of the eastern terminus of said channel may be changed from the town of Franklin, on Bayou Teche, to such other point on said bayou as the Secretary of War may select: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the modification<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Title to be free of cost.</p></sidenote> herein authorized shall not be made unless a valid title to the necessary right of way be secured to the United States free of cost.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Buffalo entrance to Erie Basin and Black Rock Harbor.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Buffalo, N. Y.</p></sidenote> New York: The balance remaining of appropriations heretofore made<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Entrance to Erie Basin and Black Rock Harbor.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 335: Vol. 33, pp. 494, 1120, 1195: Vol. 34. pp. 736, 1078, 1345.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Balances for breakwater.</p></sidenote> for this improvement is hereby transferred and reappropriated for improving harbor at Buffalo, New York, and the breakwater constructed with said appropriations shall hereafter be counted as an integral part of the breakwater system protecting Buffalo Harbor and be cared for and maintained with funds appropriated for improving said harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Southwest Pass, Mississippi River: The sum of six hundred thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Southwest Pass, Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 361.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Post</i>, p. 818.</p></sidenote> dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds appropriated and authorized for the improvement of Southwest Pass. Mississippi River, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be applied to the construction or purchase of a suitable dredging plant<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dredging plant authorized.</p></sidenote> for use on the said improvement.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/817">817</page> Hingham Harbor, Massachusetts: The balance remaining from appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hingham, Mass.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1074.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Redredging.</p></sidenote> heretofore made for this improvement may be diverted and made available for redredging and improving the channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atchafalaya and Old rivers, Louisiana: The permanent annual appropriation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Atehafalaya and Old rivers, La.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Removal of snags, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25. p. 421.</p></sidenote> for the removal of snags in the Mississippi River, under the river and harbor Act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, shall be available for the removal of snags and other floating and sunken obstructions in the Atchafalaya and Old rivers from the junction with the Mississippi and Red rivers down the Atchafalaya River as far as Melville, Louisiana, and so much of said appropriation as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be expended for such removal.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving Minnesota River; That the annual appropriation for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use of snag boats.</p></sidenote> operating snag boats on the upper Mississippi River, made by section seven of the river and harbor Act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 424.</p></sidenote> and eighty-eight, is hereby made available for similar purposes on the Minnesota River, and other tributaries of the upper Mississippi River now or heretofore improved by the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lorain Harbor, Ohio: The Secretary of War, in his discretion, with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lorain, Ohio.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1094.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension of break-water.</p></sidenote> the concurrence and upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, may authorize the expenditure of funds already appropriated or authorized for the extension of the west arm of the breakwater to or toward the shore.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Improving entrance to Coos Bay and Harbor, Oregon: The balance<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Coos Bay and Harbor, Oreg.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32. p. 347.</p></sidenote> remaining from appropriations heretofore made for this improvement may be diverted and made available for the operation of government dredges in Coos Bay and River.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That for improvements already under way for which amounts<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional contracts authorized.</p></sidenote> were appropriated or authorized for completion, in accordance with estimates heretofore made, wherein such estimates have proven insufficient, and for the completion or continuous prosecution of the work further authorizations are absolutely essential at this time, the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into an additional contract or contracts for the projects named in this section, and for the amounts stated with each, the amount of said contracts to be paid from time to time by appropriations to be hereafter made according to law, as follows:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Deflection and improvement of the Appomattox River at Petersburg,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appomattox River, Va.</p></sidenote> Virginia, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered One hundred and thirty-nine, Fifty-sixth Congress, second session, sixty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, Ohio River, one hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lock and Dam 37, Ohio River.</p></sidenote> and fifty thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Big Sandy River and Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, and Dam<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Big Sandy River and forks.</p></sidenote> Numbered One, Levisa Fork, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aransas Pass, Texas, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Aransas Pass, Tex.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hales Bar, Tennessee River, fifty thousand eight hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hales Bar.</p></sidenote> seventy-five dollars.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">For regulations in channels already improved or under way<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ambrose Channel N. Y. Harbor.</p></sidenote> it is enacted—</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That during the further progress of dredging Ambrose Channel,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations of navigation at night.</p></sidenote> New York Harbor, the navigation of the part thereof now dredged to the full depth of forty feet may be carried on during the night as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi River.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulation of navigation of South and Southwest passes.</p></sidenote> well as by day, and may be extended by regulations to be issued by the Secretary of War to all government vessels, foreign and coastwise steamships, and to such other vessels as, in his judgment, will not unduly interfere with the progress of the improvement; and the navigation of the incompleted part of said channel may be prohibited by such regulations.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/818">818</page> That the Secretary of War be, and is hereby, authorized to make<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Channels embraced.</p></sidenote> such rules and regulations for the navigation of the South and Southwest passes of the Mississippi River as to him shall seem necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing any obstruction to the. channels through said South and Southwest passes and any injury to the works therein constructed. The term “South and Southwest passes,”<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Penalty for violations.</p></sidenote> as herein employed, shall be construed as embracing the entire extent of channel, in each case, between the upper ends of the works at the head of the pass and the outer or sea ends of the jetties at the entrance from the Gulf of Mexico: and any willful violation of any rule or regulation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Government locks, canals, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 23. p. 147, amended.</p></sidenote> made by the Secretary of War in pursuance of this Act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, for which the owner or owners, agent or agents, master or pilot of the vessel so offending shall be separately or collectively responsible, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That section four of the river and harbor Act approved<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Free passage through locks, canals, and canalized rivers.</p></sidenote> July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, be, and is hereby, amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That no tolls or operating charges whatever shall be levied<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Permanent appropriation for maintenance.</p></sidenote> upon or collected from any vessel, dredge, or other water craft for passing through any lock, canal, canalized river, or other wor<inline class="smallCaps">K for the Use and Benefit of Navigatio</inline>n, now belonging to the United States or that may be hereafter acquired or constructed; and for the purpose of preserving and continuing the use and navigation of said canals and other public works without interruption, the Secretary of War. upon the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, is hereby authorized to draw his warrant or requisition, from time to time, upon the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the actual expenses of operating,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reconstruction authorized.</p></sidenote> maintaining, and keeping said works in repair, which warrants or requisitions shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recommendation required.</p></sidenote> whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, the condition of any of the aforesaid works is such that its entire reconstruction is absolutely essential to its efficient and economical maintenance and operation as herein provided for, the reconstruction thereof may include such modifications in plan and location as may be necessary to provide adequate facilities for existing navigation: <i>Provided further</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report of expenses.</p></sidenote> modifications are necessary to make the reconstructed work conform to similar works previously authorized by Congress and forming a part of the same improvement, and that such modifications shall be considered and approved by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and be recommended by the Chief of Engineers before the work of reconstruction is commenced:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further, also</i>, That an<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Panama Canal not included.</p></sidenote> itemized statement of said expenses shall accompany the annual report of the Chief of Engineers: <i>And provided further.</i> That nothing herein<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">National Waterways Commission created.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Composition.</p></sidenote> contained shall be held to apply to the Panama Canal.”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That a commission be, and is hereby, created, to be known<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> as the National Waterways Commission, to be composed of Members of the Sixtieth Congress, who shall be Members of the Sixty-first Congress as well, as follows: Five Members of the Senate, to be appointed by the presiding officer thereof: seven Members of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker. It shall be the duty of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Experts, employees, etc.</p></sidenote> this commission to investigate questions pertaining to water transportation and the improvement of waterways, and to recommend to Congress such action as it may deem best upon these subjects. Said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details of officials, etc.</p></sidenote> commission shall be, and is hereby, authorized to employ experts to aid in the work of inquiry and examination, also to employ clerks, stenographers, and such other assistants as may be necessary, all such <page identifier="/us/stat/35/819">819</page> employees to be paid such compensation as the said commission may deem just and reasonable, upon a certificate to be issued by the chairman of the commission. The several departments and bureaus of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations authorized.</p></sidenote> Government shall detail from time to time such officials and employees and furnish such information as may be requested by said commission in its investigations. For the purposes of its investigations said commission shall be authorized to pay the necessary traveling expenses of persons summoned before it for the giving of information upon matters pertaining to the subjects under consideration, and the said commission is authorized to sit during the recess of Congress. The members of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duration.</p></sidenote> said commission or of any subcommission, or subcommissions thereof, may make investigations of waterways and harbors in the United States and elsewhere, and shall be allowed actual necessary expenses for the same and the expenses of necessary employees. The term of the commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final report.</p></sidenote> shall expire on March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven. The commission shall report from time to time to the Congress of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preliminary report.</p></sidenote> United States, and shall at the conclusion of its labors submit a final report: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a preliminary report shall be made not later<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for expenses.</p></sidenote> than January first, nineteen hundred and ten, which report, with all other reports, shall embrace such material and information obtained in the course of the investigation as shall be of value; also the conclusions reached by said commission on the several subjects investigated.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kook River, I11.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Time extended for damming south branch.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 156, amended.</p></sidenote> necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available, to pay the necessary expenses of said commission.</p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That section three of “An Act permitting the building of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of dam to United States.</p></sidenote> dams across the North and South branches of Rock River, adjacent to Vandruffs Island and Carrs Island, and across the cut-off between said islands, in Rock Island County, Illinois, in aid of navigation and for the development of water power,” approved May first, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended by extending the time for the completion of the dam across the south branch to May first, nineteen hundred and eleven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the said dam<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Operation.</p></sidenote> shall, immediately upon its completion, become the property of the United States, and that the grantee under the said Act of May first, nineteen hundred and six, shall operate and maintain the other works<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 386.</p></sidenote> authorized by the said Act in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the construction of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wabash River, Ill.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use by Mount Carmel Development Company revoked.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 25, p. 670. repealed.</p></sidenote> dams across navigable waters,” approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, so far as such provisions may be applicable.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to authorize and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81. p. 785, repealed</p></sidenote> empower the Mount Carmel Development Company to draw water from the Wabash River, or its tributaries, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois,” approved February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Act of Congress entitled “An Act authorizing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Licenses for power from government dam.</p></sidenote> the Mount Cannel Development Company to draw water from Wabash River at Grand Rapids, Wabash County, Illinois,” approved February twelfth, nineteen hundred and one, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. And the Secretary of War is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit, etc., of receipts.</p></sidenote> authorized and empowered to grant leases or licenses for the use of the water power created by the government dam on the Wabash River at Mount Carmel, Illinois, at such a rate, and on such conditions, and for such periods of time, as may seem to him just, equitable, and expedient; the said leases or licenses to be limited to the use of the surplus water not required for navigation, and to a period not exceeding twenty years; and he is also empowered to grant leases or licenses, not exceeding twenty years, for the occupation of such land belonging to the United States on said river as may be required for mill sites or other <page identifier="/us/stat/35/820">820</page> industrial purposes not inconsistent with the requirements of navigation: <proviso><i>Provided.</i> That all moneys received under such leases or licenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">White River, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Diversion of waters by State authorized.</p></sidenote> shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, and an itemized statement thereof shall accompany the annual report of the Chief of Engineers.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That in connection with any works which may be undertaken<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duwamish River, Wash.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Widening, etc., permitted.</p></sidenote> affecting the waters of the White, Stuck, and Puyallup rivers, in King and Pierce counties. State of Washington, under authority of the, laws of said State, the Secretary of War is in his discretion hereby authorized to consent to the permanent diversion of the waters of the White River into the Stuck and Puyallup rivers upon the approval by him and the Chief of Engineers of the location and plans for such diversion. The Secretary of War is also authorized, in his discretion, to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Approval of plans.</p></sidenote> permit any corporation or association of persons in King County, Washington, at their own expense, and without cost to the United States Government, to widen, deepen, and straighten the Duwamish River in said King County: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the work so done shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Necessity of ownership of lands, etc., between. and Canadian boundary.</p></sidenote> in accordance with plans approved by the Chief of Engineers of the War Department.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the ownership in fee simple absolute by the United<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proceedings to acquire lands, etc.</p></sidenote> States of all lands and property of every Kind and description north of the present Saint Marys Falls Ship Canal throughout its entire length and lying between said ship canal and the international boundary line at Sault Sainte Marie, in the State of Michigan, is necessary for the purposes of navigation of said waters and the waters connected therewith.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby directed to take proceedings immediately<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commencement of work.</p></sidenote> for the acquisition by condemnation or otherwise of all of said lands and property of every kind and description, in fee simple absolute. He. shall proceed in such taking by tiling in the office of the register of deeds of Chippewa County, in the State of Michigan, a writing, stating the, purpose for which the same is taken under the provisions of this section, and giving a full description of all the lands and property of every kind and description thus to be taken. After the filing of said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Condemnation proceedings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> writing, and ten days after publication thereof in one or more newspapers in the city of Sault Sainte Marie, in the State of Michigan, the United States shall be entitled to, and shall take, immediate possession of the property described, and may at once proceed with such public works thereon as have been authorized by Congress for the uses of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The circuit court of the United States for the, western district of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payments.</p></sidenote> Michigan is hereby given exclusive jurisdiction to hear condemnation proceedings and to determine what compensation shall be awarded for property taken under authority of this section. After the taking of any property by the Government of the. United States, as herein provided for, the United States, by its proper officials, shall begin condemnation proceedings in the aforesaid court, and the practice shall be in accordance with the practice in the courts of the State of Michigan for the condemnation of lands by the State for public buildings of such State so far as the same may be followed without conflicting with the provisions hereof. Possession may be. taken by the United States prior to a determination by a court of any necessity of taking, and prior to any determination of the, amount of compensation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Any money payable by the Government under the provisions of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Former provisions repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34. p. 1098.</p></sidenote> section shall be payable out of any money heretofore authorized or appropriated for the purpose of improving Saint Marys River at the falls, Michigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">All that part of “An Act making appropriations for the construction,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revocation of existing licenses for waterpower privileges.</p></sidenote> repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seven, beginning with the words “and all lands and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/821">821</page> waters north of the present Saint Marys Falls ship canal throughout its length,” and ending with the words “to comply with the provisions of the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, but such lands, if so acquired, shall be obtained without expense to the United States,” is hereby repealed.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Every permit, license, or authority of every kind, nature, and description<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Use pending condemnation.</p></sidenote> heretofore issued or granted by the United States, or any official thereof, to the Chandler-Dunbar Water Power Company, the Edison Sault Light and Power Company, the Edison Sault Electric Company, or the Saint Marys Power Company, shall cease and determine and become null and void on January first, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the Secretary of War is hereby authorized and instructed to revoke, cancel, and annul every such permit, license, or authority, to take effect on January first, nineteen hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War may. in his discretion, permit the Chandler- Dunbar<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Water levels of Great Lakes, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Negotiations requested with Great Britain for maintaining.</p></sidenote> Water Power Company and the Edison Sault. Electric Company to maintain their present works and utilize the water power in said river at said rapids, in so far as the same does not interfere with navigation, or retard the construction of government works in said river, under such rules or regulations as have been or hereafter shall be imposed by the Secretary of War, until they shall be paid the compensation awarded by the court for their property condemned under the provisions of this section; but said permit shall not extend beyond January first, nineteen hundred and eleven.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The President of the United States is respectfully requested to open<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examination, etc., for filling basin in the rapids.</p></sidenote> negotiations with the Government of Great Britain for the purpose of effectually providing, by suitable treaty with said Government, for maintaining ample water levels for the uses of navigation in the Great Lakes and the waters connected therewith, by the construction of such controlling and remedial works in the connecting rivers and channels of such lakes as may be agreed upon by the said governments under the provisions of said treaty.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is further authorized and instructed to cause<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Not to delay construction.</p></sidenote> to be made a preliminary examination and survey to ascertain and determine a proper plan and the probable expense for constructing in the rapids of the Saint Marys River a filling basin or forebay, from which the ship locks shall be filled: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That such survey shall in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan-Lake Superior Tower Company.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 361, amended.</p></sidenote> no way delay or interfere with the plans for construction already underway.</proviso></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That part of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Declaration of right of United States to flow of water, etc.</p></sidenote> for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.” approved J une thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, in section one, relating to the Michigan-Lake Superior Power Company, is hereby amended by adding the following:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The right to the flow of water, and riparian, water power, and other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Leases authorized.</p></sidenote> rights, now or hereafter owned by the United States in the Saint Marys River in Michigan shall be forever conserved for the benefit of the Government of the United States, primarily for the purposes of navigation and incidentally for the purpose of having the water power developed, either for the direct use of the United States, or by lease<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation to be paid for use.</p></sidenote> or other agreement, through the Secretary of War, who is hereby authorized to make such leases or agreements: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That a just<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limitation on all grants.</p></sidenote> and reasonable compensation shall be paid for the use of all waters or water power now or hereafter owned in said Saint Marys River by the United States, whether utilized in said river or in any lateral canal, said compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of War:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided further</i>, That under no circumstances shall any rights be granted in said<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Only excess of water for navigation to be leased.</p></sidenote> river which will interfere with the needs and uses of navigation, or which will limit the absolute control of said land and waters when <page identifier="/us/stat/35/822">822</page> desired for purposes of navigation by the United States, or for a longer period than thirty years, and the Secretary of War, in his discretion, may provide for readjustment of compensation at periods of ten years, nor shall any such rights be granted without just and adequate compensation. It is intended that any excess of water in the Saint Marys<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Regulations, etc.</p></sidenote> River at Sault Sainte Marie over and above the amount now or hereafter required for the uses of navigation shall be leased for power purposes by the Secretary of War upon such terms and conditions as shall be best calculated in his judgment to insure the development thereof.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appropriation for examinations, etc.</p></sidenote> The Secretary of War may, as often as necessary, make such regulations as in his judgment are reasonable, and just and best calculated to carry out the purposes of this section.</proviso></p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <chapeau class="inline"><p class="inline">That for examinations, surveys, and contingencies, and for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preliminary examinations to be made.</p></sidenote> incidental repairs for rivers and harbors for which there may be no special appropriation, the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to cause<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Report on advisability.</p></sidenote> preliminary examinations and surveys to be made at the localities named in this section, as hereinafter set forth, and a sufficient sum to pay the cost thereof may be allotted from the amount appropriated in this section. In all cases a preliminary examination of the river, harbor,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Surveys directed.</p></sidenote> or other proposed improvement mentioned shall first be made, and a report as to the advisability of its improvement shall be submitted, unless a survey or estimate is herein expressly directed. If upon such preliminary examination the proposed improvement is not deemed advisable, no further action shall be taken thereon without the further direction of Congress; but in case the report shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Review by board.</p></sidenote> favorable to such proposed improvement, or that a survey and estimate should be made to determine the advisability of improvement, the Secretary of War is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to cause surveys to be made, and the cost and advisability to be reported<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 34, p. 1118.</p></sidenote> to Congress. Such examinations and surveys shall be reviewed by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, as provided in section<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Additional information required in reports.</p></sidenote> three of the river and harbor Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That every report submitted to Congress<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Scope of investigations.</p></sidenote> in pursuance of this section, in addition to full information regarding the present and prospective commercial importance of the project covered by the report, and the benefit to commerce likely to result from any proposed plan of improvement, shall contain also such data as it may be practicable to secure regarding (first) the establishment of terminal and transfer facilities, (second) the development and utilization of water power for industrial and commercial purposes, and (third) such other subjects as may be properly connected with such project:</proviso> <proviso><i>Provided</i><sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extension to other works.</p></sidenote> <i>further</i>, That in the investigation and study of these questions consideration shall be given only to their bearing upon the improvement of navigation and to the possibility and desirability of their being coordinated in a logical and proper manner with improvements for navigation to lessen the cost of such improvements and to compensate the Government for expenditures made in the interest of navigation:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That the investigation and study<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Depth of waters.</p></sidenote> of these questions as provided herein may, upon review by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors when called for as now provided by law, be extended to any work of improvement now under way and to any locality the examination and survey of which has heretofore been, or may hereafter be, authorized by Congress.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/823">823</page> The depth of water in tidal waters, as well as in rivers and nontidal<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examinations ordered.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama.</p></sidenote> channels, whenever referred to in this Act shall be understood to mean the depth at mean low water unless otherwise expressed:</p></chapeau>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>alabama.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mobile Harbor, with a view to obtaining a suitable depth and width.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mulberry and Locust forks of the Warrior River, up the Mulberry Fork to Saunders Ferry, and up the Locust Fork to the mouth of Fivemile Creek.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cahaba River, from its mouth to Centerville.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chickasaw Creek, with a view to removing the bar at its mouth in Mobile River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fowl River, in connection with the proposed intracoastal waterway.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou La Batre.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>arkansas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Arkansas and Missouri.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ouachita River, from Camden to Arkadelphia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arkansas River between Little Rock and Ozark, with a view to improving the navigation by locks and dams or otherwise.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arkansas River at Douglas, with a view to determining what improvements are necessary in the interest of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Blackfish Bayou, from its mouth to Fifteenmile Bayou.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>arkansas and missouri.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">California.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Black River.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>california.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Connecticut.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oakland Harbor, with a view to obtaining a suitable depth and width and sufficient anchorage room.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Monterey Bay, with a view to selecting a harbor thereon.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilmington Harbor, with a view to obtaining a channel two hundred feet wide and twenty feet deep, beginning at the turning basin in said harbor, thence in a northeasterly direction to the east line of the east basin; and also a similar channel beginning at said turning basin, thence in a northwesterly direction to the north line of the west basin.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sacramento River, from Sacramento to Red Bluff.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Feather River, from the mouth to Marysville.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Redwood Creek.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Humboldt Harbor, South Bay Channel, with a view to the removal of obstructions to navigation to the wharf at Fields Landing.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Humboldt Bay, with a view to securing increased depth between Eureka and Arcata.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>connecticut.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Haven Harbor above Tomlinson Bridge and including Mill River and Quinnipiac River, including a report whether the whole or any part of the cost of improvement thereof should be borne by the General Government.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bridgeport Harbor, with a view to providing increased facilities in Poquonock River and Cedar Creek branches, including a report whether the whole or any part of the cost of improvement thereof should be borne by the General Government.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Greenwich Harbor, with a view to widening to one hundred feet the existing nine-foot channel and continuing the same to the head of the harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/824">824</page> Norwalk Outer Harbor, with a view to the removal of a shoal near to and west of White Rock; also to straightening the main channel between Gregorys Point and South Norwalk.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mystic River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sbetucket River, from a point just south of the Laurel Hill Bridge to the dock of the city of Norwich, with a view to removing rocks and other obstructions in the channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Connecticut River up to Hartford.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>delaware.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Delaware and Maryland.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Christiana River, from Newport to Christiana.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Broad Creek River, from the mouth to the town of Laurel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leipsic River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>delaware and maryland.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Florida.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Poeomoke River, from Snow Hill. Maryland, to Gumboro, Delaware. Nanticoke River, up to Middleford.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>florida.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Augustine Harbor, with a view to constructing the necessary sea walls and also to providing a channel sixteen feet deep and three hundred feet wide from the city of Saint Augustine to the ocean.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mosquito Inlet to New Smyrna.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kissimmee River, from Kissimmee to Lake Okechobee.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian River, from Fort Pierce to Sewalls Point.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Suwanee River, from White Springs to the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Johns River, from Jacksonville to the ocean, with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel from Apalachicola River to Saint Andrews Bay.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manatee River, with a view to securing a depth of thirteen feet from the mouth to Palmetto and Bradentown, and thence such depth to Ellenton and Ryo as commerce may demand.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hillsboro Bay, from the twenty-four-foot contour in the bay through the present twenty-foot channel to the head of the estuary in the direction of Ybor City, thence from the mouth of said estuary through said bay, as near the eastern shore thereof as practicable, to the western end of Hookers Point, and thence through the channel recently constructed by the Tampa Northern Railway Company to said twenty-foot channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sarasota Bay, from Tampa Bay to Venice, thence through Caseys Pass to Lemon Bay, and thence to Gasparilia Sound.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pine Island Sound, from Wulfert bulkhead to Blind Pass, thence along the western side of said sound to Captiva bulkhead.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New River, Dade County, Florida, with a view to securing a depth of twenty feet of water at the cut-off near the mouth, with jetties to protect the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The narrows, Santa Rosa Sound, Florida, for a channel of six feet.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>georgia.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia and Alabama</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sapelo bar and harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oconee, Ocmulgee, and Altamaha rivers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ocmulgee River, with a view to the construction of locks and dams between Macon and Hawkinsville.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Big Satilla River from the mouth to Burnt Fort.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Savannah River, at Augusta, with a view to determining what improvements are necessary in the interest of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ogeechee, Ohoopee, and Cannouchee rivers.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/825">825</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>georgia and alabama.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Georgia and Florida.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Etowah, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers, with a view to their improvement for navigation. Such examination for the improvement of the navigation of said rivers, including the Alabama River in connection therewith, shall include investigations necessary to determine whether storage reservoirs at the headwaters of said rivers can be utilized to advantage and, if so, what portion of the cost of any such improvements, including reservoirs, should be borne by owners of water power and others.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>georgia and florida.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Marys River.</content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>hawaii.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illinois.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kahului Harbor, island of Maui.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hanapepe Bay, island of Kauai.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>illinois.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Illinois and Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">West Fork of the South Branch of Chicago River, with a view to obtaining a channel one hundred feet wide and twenty-one feet deep from the mouth to Sacramento avenue; also from Western avenue to Sacramento avenue.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>illinois and wisconsin.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Indiana and Illinois.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rock River, with a view to securing a channel seven feet deep from the dam at the head of the feeder of the Illinois and Mississippi Canal, at or near Sterling, Illinois, to the city of Janesville, Wisconsin: also with a view to ascertaining whether, for the maintenance of navigation, storage reservoirs are necessary at or near the headwaters of said river, and to determine what portion of the cost of said improvement should be borne by owners of water power and others.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>indiana and illinois.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Idaho.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbors and rivers at or near Chicago, Illinois, including Chicago Harbor, Chicago River, Calumet Harbor, Grand Calumet and Little Calumet rivers, Illinois and Indiana, Lake Calumet and necessary connection with Calumet River, and the lake shore from the mouth of Chicago River to the city of Gary, Indiana, for the purpose of reporting a plan for a complete, systematic, and broad improvement of harbor facilities for Chicago and adjacent territory.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wabash River, from its mouth to Mount Carmel.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>idaho.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Iowa.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clearwater River from its mouth to Kamiah, with a view to a maximum depth of six feet.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>iowa.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Des Moines River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cedar River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Iowa River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>kansas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Kentucky.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kansas River, up to Argentine.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Missouri River at the city of Atchison, with a view to retaining said river in its proper channel.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/826">826</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>kentucky.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisiana.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tradewater River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>louisiana.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisiana and Arkansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Cocodrie.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Courtableau.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Boeuf.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Teche, with a view to securing increased depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Queue de Tortue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Atchafalaya River, from Morgan City to the Gulf of Mexico, with a view to obtaining a channel two hundred and forty feet wide and twenty feet deep.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>louisiana and arkansas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Louisiana and Texas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Red River, from its mouth to Fulton, Arkansas.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>louisiana and texas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maine.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey of the Jefferson-Shreveport waterway in Texas and Louisiana, with a view to constructing a locĸ in the proposed dam at the foot of Caddo Lake, and providing a navigable channel therefrom to Red River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>maine.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maryland.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Isle au Haut Thoroughfare between the island of Isle au Haut and Kimball’s Island, with a view to obtaining a channel of increased depth and width and the establishment of a harbor of refuge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East Boothbay Harbor, with a view to an extension of the improvement contemplated in the report submitted in House Document Numbered Nine hundred and forty-four, Sixtieth Congress, first session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saco River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kennebec River, for a distance of five hundred yards from its mouth along what is known as Popham Beach.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Croix River at and near Calais.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>maryland.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cambridge Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wicomico River, at the city of Salisbury, from the foot of Main street to the Salisbury mill dam.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chesapeake Bay, between North Point light-house and Millers Island light-house, with a view to obtaining a channel to the Baltimore County shore; also on the eastern side of the Chesapeake Bay, with a view to obtaining a channel to the Kent County shore.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Corsica River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>massachusetts.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Massachusetts and Connecticut.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Harbor, Woods Hole, with a view to its improvement by dredging.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Provincetown Harbor, with a view to the protection thereof.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Fall River Harbor, with a view to providing an anchorage area of a depth of twenty-five feet, extending from Borden Flats Light northerly to Slades Ferry Bridge, so called, and westerly to such a point as may be deemed feasible; also with a view to the construction of a breakwater from said Borden Flats Light to such point as may be deemed necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hingham Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nantucket Sound, with a view to the removal of the northerly end of Stone Horse Shoal, and of such portions of Bearse Shoal and Pollock Rip Shoal as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Merrimac River, from Haverhill to Lowell.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/827">827</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>massachusetts and connecticut.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Michigan.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Connecticut River, from Hartford. Connecticut, to Holyoke, Massa chusetts.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>michigan.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Marquette Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manistee Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Muskegon Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arcadia Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Empire and Leland harbors.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">New Buffalo Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ontonagon Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saugatuck Harbor and Kalamazoo River, with a view to securing increased depth to the town of Douglas.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rogers City, with a view to determining what improvement, if any, is required in the harbor and the access thereto; also to report whether a harbor of refuge is desirable at this locality.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grand Haven Harbor, to east end of Fulton street and including channel into Spring Lake.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saginaw River, with a view to securing a depth of twenty feet from Saginaw Bay to Tittabawassee River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inland water route between Cheboygan, on Lake Huron, and Petoskey, on Lake Michigan.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Forestville, with a view to improvement by dredging.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Port Sanilac, with a view to improvement by dredging.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Lexington, with a view to improvement by dredging.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pigeon River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Livingstone Channel. Detroit River, with a view to widening the same to six hundred feet; and a board of engineers shall be appointed to report upon the probable effect of such widening upon the depth of water in Lake Saint Clair and above the point of such proposed widening.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Forestér Harbor, with a view to deepening the same to twenty feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">White Lake Harbor, with a view to providing an entrance channel with a depth of twenty feet and a turning basin.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Traverse Bay, at Traverse City, with a view to the construction of a breakwater.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>minnesota.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minnesota and Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mississippi River, from Saint Paul to Minneapolis, with a view to modification of project to provide for increased depth and utilizing the surplus water for development of power: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That if any modification of the present project be deemed advisable by the Chief of Engineers, no work thereon shall be performed inconsistent with such proposed modifications. The Chief of Engineers shall submit various practical alternative plans with the advantages of each.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reservoirs at headwaters of Mississippi River, with a view to an equalizing canal with regulating gates between Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Warroad Harbor, with a view to deepening the channel and maintaining the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mississippi River, between Brainerd and Grand Rapids.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Red Lake River, between Thief River Falls and Red Lake.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Zippie Bay, Lake of the Woods, with a view to establishing a harbor of refuge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rainy River, at the mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Minnesota River; also with a view to ascertaining whether, for the maintenance of navigation, storage reservoirs are necessary at or near the headwaters of said river, and to determine what portion of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/828">828</page> cost of said improvement should be borne by owners of water power and others.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rainy Lake, with a view to locating the points dangerous to navigation by reason of submerged rocks.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>minnesota and wisconsin.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mississippi.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harbor at Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, with a view to securing increasd anchorage area in the vicinity of Superior Entry.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Saint Louis River, from the upper limit of the present project to the stone quarries near Fond du Lac.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The report upon the examination and survey for the location of a canal connecting Lake Superior and the Mississippi River by way of the Saint Croix River, as provided by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundred and ninety-four and as supplemented by the provisions of the river and harbor Act approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, shall be completed by a further report as to whether existing conditions render such project now feasible and practicable, considering the necessary location, plans, cost of construction and maintenance, commerce affected, and water supply.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>mississippi.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Montana.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Horn Island Pass, from the outer bar in the Gulf of Mexico through and across Dago Shoals, in Mississippi Sound, by the most direct and practicable route, to the twenty-one-foot depth north of Petit Bois Island.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dog River, to a point one-fourth mile above the Denney and Company railroad bridge.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Leaf and Pascagoula rivers, from the mouth of Bowie Creek to the junction of Pascagoula and Dog rivers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cassidy Bayou, from the mouth, near Marks, to Belen.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bogue Phalia, from its mouth to the Forks of the Bogue.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pearl River, from Rockport to Jackson.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bayou Pierre, from the mouth to Port Gibson.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>montana.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Hampshire.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Flathead River, from its mouth, and by Kalispel Slough, to Kalispel, with a view to securing a depth of four feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yellowstone River, from its mouth to Billings, with a view to a four- foot stage of water and the building of a lock at the United States Government dam.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Polson Bay, Flathead Lake, with a view to dredging the channel and providing a harbor on the east side.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>new hampshire.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Jersey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Portsmouth Harbor, with a view to the construction of a lock and dam in the Piscataqua River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rye Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cocheco and Lamprey rivers.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Exeter River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>new jersey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New York.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Absecon Inlet, with a view to maintaining a depth of twelve feet over the bar.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware River, from Lalor street, Trenton, to upper railroad bridge, with a view to obtaining greater depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Double Creek, Ocean County.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/829">829</page> Salem River, from the mouth to Salem.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Rancocas River, from the mouth to Mount Holly.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hackensack River, with a view to providing a channel sixteen feet deep from Newark Bay to Little Ferry and twelve feet deep from Little Ferry to Anderson Street Bridge in the town of Hackensack.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Passaic River, with a view to extending continuous navigation from the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad bridge to the city of Paterson.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newark Bay, with a view to securing a channel along the eastern shore.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mantua Creek, with a view to continuing improvement to the head of navigation.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>new york.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sterling Basin, Greenport Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Flushing Bay, with a view to securing increased depth to the head of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Huntington Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Stonybrook Harbor, including Porpoise Channel.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Indian Creek, Jamaica Bay, with a view to obtaining a depth of six feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sheepshead Bay, with a view to obtaining an increased depth at its mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">East River, including Little Hell Gate.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mamaroneck Harbor, with a view to deepening the channel to not less than twelve feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Harlem River, with a view of straightening the channel at the curve near the Johnson Iron Works.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels. New York Harbor, with a view to the removal of the shoal between these channels and the deep water of the bay and the construction of a breakwater or quay extending from Red Hook Point on and along the westerly side of said shoal as it now exists, for the purpose of providing protection to that part of the harbor against the effects of westerly winds.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hudson River at Coeymans, with a view to securing a suitable width and depth in the channel along the village front behind the government dike; also at Albany, with a view to providing additional area of navigable depth at the mouth of Island Creek and vicinity, for the benefit of general commerce and the making up of barge tows; also at Troy, with a view to widening the channel below Adams street.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hudson River, with a view to providing a channel not less than two hundred feet wide and twelve feet deep at all stages from deep water in the lower river to Waterford, including a lock and dam at Troy suitable in size for all probable purposes of navigation and commerce to and from the Barge Canal.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Plattsburg Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Charlotte Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wilson Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oak Orchard Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Buffalo Harbor, with a view to widening the channel at the entrance of the inner harbor, and also an estimate of the cost of the removal of the Watson elevator site, exclusive of the cost of acquiring title to the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Buffalo Harbor, with a view to widening and improving the entrance to Erie Basin.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dunkirk Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is hereby directed to report as soon as he is satisfied that the citv of New York is prepared to undertake the work to be done by it preliminary to or contemporaneous with any dredging to be done by the United States Government as recommended in the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/830">830</page> report and plan of the Secretary of War transmitted under date of February twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, for the improvement of Jamaica Bay, New York, and its entrance at Rockaway Inlet and Dead Horse Inlet.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>north carolina.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North Carolina and South Carolina.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Fear River, at and below Wilmington, with a view to obtaining a suitable depth and width.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bay River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bogue Sound, contiguous to the town of Morehead City.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pamlico and Tar rivers, with a view to obtaining greater depth and width as far up as Tarborough.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Point Harbor Channel, to and into Point Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Beaufort Harbor, with a view to obtaining a channel of not less than ten feet in depth and sixty feet in width, beginning at the town of Beaufort, thence between rivers Island and the Town Marsh down through the Bulkhead Channel to Beaufort Inlet; also a continuation of the aforesaid channel from the town of Beaufort up through Gallants Channel, connecting with the waterway now under construction from Pamlico Sound to Beaufort Inlet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Thoroughfare Bay, and the thoroughfare leading from Core Sound into Cedar Island Bay. and thence to Neuse River and Pamlico Sound, with a view to securing a channel sixty feet wide and six feet deep.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Northeast branch of the Cape Fear River, from its mouth for a distance of two and one-half miles, with a view to securing a depth of twenty feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Contentnia River up to the town of Ridge Springs.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Contentilia River from Snow Hill to Stantonsburg.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Neuse River from Pamlico Sound to New Bern; Trent River up to Quaker Bridge; Pasquotank River up to Elizabeth City; with a view to providing channels to conform with the depth of the authorized waterway to connect the waters of Pamlico Sound with the ocean at Beaufort.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cape Lookout, with a view to providing a harbor of refuge for the largest coastwise vessels.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Swift Creek from its confluence with the Neuse River to the head of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Smiths Creek from its confluence with the Neuse River to the head of navigation.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>north carolina and south carolina.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">North and South Dakota, Montana, and Missouri.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Great Pedee River, from Cheraw, South Carolina, to Blewetts Falls, North Carolina.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>north and south dakota, montana and missouri.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Missouri River from Sioux City, Iowa, to Fort Benton, Montana; also at or near Lake Contrary, Missouri, with a view to preventing a diversion of the channel.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ohio.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Ohio and West Virginia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Conneaut Harbor, with a view to enlarging and improving the outer harbor area.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashtabula Harbor, with a view to enlarging and improving the outer harbor area.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lorain Harbor, with a view to enlarging and improving the outer harbor area; also the dock wall on the east side of the river extending east of the government pier shoreward to connect with completed work.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Port Clinton Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/831">831</page> Mahoning River, with a view to its improvement from Girard dam to Warren.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maumee River, at and above Toledo.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>ohio and west virginia.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey of Ohio River, with a view to the selection of sites for the, additional locks and dams between Lock Numbered Eight and Lock Numbered Twenty-nine including the last named lock, and for the preparation of plans and estimates.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>oklahoma.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma and Kanms.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Washita River, up to Mountain View.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Kiamichi River, up to a point opposite Talihina.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The North Canadian River, with a view to the diversion of a portion of its waters into the Cimarron River for improving the navigation of the latter river.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arkansas River, from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Tulsa, reporting an estimate of the cost to make the same navigable.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>oklahoma and kansas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oregon.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Verdigris River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>oregon.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wood River, from Klamath Lake to the head of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River, in front of the town of Hood River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Coquille River, from the mouth, including the bar thereof, up to Myrtle Point.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Siuslaw River, at the mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Willamette River, from Oregon City to Eugene.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Clatskanie River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Falls of the Willamette River at Oregon City, with a view to determining what, if anything, should be done by the Federal Government in aid of navigation at this point.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yaquina River, from Yaquina to Elk City.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Umpqua River bar.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia and lower Willamette rivers below Portland, with a view to securing a permanent channel thirty feet in depth and of sufficient width.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pennsylvania.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsy1vanta and New Jersey.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Crum River, from the mouth to Lieperville.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Erie Harbor, with a view to extension of the piers.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pennsylvania and new jersey.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pennsylvania. New Jersey, and Delaware.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware River, from Allegheny avenue, Philadelpia, to Trenton.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>pennsylvania, new jersey, and delaware.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Porto Rico.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Delaware River, from Allegheny avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea. with a view to obtaining a channel thirty-five feet in depth and of suitable width.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>porto rico.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rhode Island.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Arecibo Harbor.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/832">832</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>rhode island.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Carolina.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Newport Harbor, with a view to the modification and enlargement of the existing projects as indicated in plans “B” and “C” contained in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-eight, Fiftyninth Congress, second session.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Point Judith Pond, and the entrance thereto, with a view to obtaining a navigable depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Providence River and Harbor, with a view to widening and straightening the channel between Kettle Point and Gaspee Point, and to extending the twenty-five feet deep anchorage area westward to the western harbor line from a point just above Harbor Junction pier to Fields Point and cutting off Fields Point back to the harbor line.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Inner Harbor. Great Salt Pond, Block Island, with a view to widening the present channel and providing increased anchorage.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>south carolina.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota and Iowa.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cooper River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Wateree, Congaree, and Santee rivers, including the Estherville- Minim Creek Canal.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Great Pedee River up to Cheraw, with a view to obtaining an increased depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Pedee River, from its mouth to the mouth of Lumber River. Black River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lynch River and Clark Creek, from Effingham to Great Pedee River. Mingo Creek, from Hemingway Bridge to its mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Waverly Creek, from its mouth to Waverly Mills.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>south dakota and iowa.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">South Dakota and Minnesota.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Big Sioux River.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>south dakota and minnesota.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lake Traverse, with a view to removing obstructions to navigation.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>tennessee.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Obey River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Caney Fork, from its mouth for a distance of eighty miles up the same.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>tennessee, alabama, and kentucky.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Tennessee and Kentucky.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey of Tennessee River from the confluence of the Holston and the French Broad rivers, to its mouth, with a view to securing the best permanent navigation by open channel work, or locks and dams, or both, and making an estimate of the cost of same, with a view to securing a depth from Knoxville to Chattanooga of six feet, if obtainable, or any such less depth as may be practicable between such depth and the present project depth; and from Chattanooga to the mouth of the river a depth of nine feet, if obtainable, or such less depth as may be practicable between such depth and the present project depth.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>tennessee and kentucky.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cumberland River, from Lock Numbered Seven, below Carthage, Tennessee, to Lock Numbered Twenty-one, below Burnside, Kentucky.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/833">833</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>texas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Texas and Arkansas.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Aransas Pass Harbor, with a view to obtaining a suitable depth and width.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel from Aransas Pass Harbor to Rockport, with a view to deepening and widening the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brazos Santiago Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel from Aransas Pass Harbor through Turtle Cove to Corpus Christi, with a view to obtaining a channel twenty-five feet deep and of the necessary width.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel extending from the mouths of the Sabine and Neches rivers to the mouth of Taylors Bayou, including the Sabine River from Orange to said canal, and the Neelies River from Beaumont to said canal, with a view to widening and deepening said canal and removing the obstructions in the said rivers and improving the same; and in making such examination or survey the engineer or engineers having the same in charge shall take into account, and make report upon any proposition for participation in the expense of said project by the localities immediately affected thereby.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Sabine Pass and Port Arthur Ship Canal, to and including Taylors Bayou and the turning basin at Port Arthur, with a view to widening and deepening said channels and said turning basin, and to obtaining- increased harbor room of equal depth at Port Arthur.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Brazos River, with a view to the selection of sites for the additional locks and dams between Old Washington and Waco.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>texas and arkansas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Utah.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey of Sulphur River, from its mouth to the forks in Delta County, Texas.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>utah.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vermont.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Grand River, from its mouth to Moab.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Green River, from its mouth to the town of Greenriver.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>vermont.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Virginia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Otter Creek, from Lake Champlain to Vergennes.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>virginia.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Washington.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Dymers Creek, with a view to increasing the depth over the bar at the entrance to fifteen feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Chincoteague Inlet, with a view to obtaining a channel depth of fifteen feet.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mattox Creek, with a view to increasing the depth over the bar at or near its mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mattaponi River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Totuskey River, from deep water in Rappahannock River to the bridge about five miles above its mouth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nansemond River, from Hampton Roads to Suffolk, with a view to widening and straightening the channel and deepening the same to twenty-five feet, and with a view to removing the bars in and near the mouth of Bennetts Creek.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Norfolk Harbor and the approaches thereto, with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty-five feet and suitable width from deep water in the sea via Elizabeth River and the Southern Branch to the navyyard; also between Lamberts Point and Pinners Point, with a view to <page identifier="/us/stat/35/834">834</page> providing additional anchorage area abreast of and above Lamberts Point; also the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River above the navy-yard.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Channel across Newport News Middle Ground Bar, with a view to obtaining a depth of thirty-five feet and suitable width between Old Point and Newport News.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>washington.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">West Virginia.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River, from the mouth of Snake River to Wenatchee.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Pend Oreille River, from Newport to Metaline.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Okanogan River.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Lewis River, including the North Fork and the East Fork to La Center.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Alamicut River to the main channel of the Columbia.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Columbia River, from Vancouver to the mouth of Willamette River, with a view to securing increased width and depth.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Cowlitz River, from Castlerock to the head of navigation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Tacoma Harbor, with a view to extending the Puyallup waterway five thousand feet or less.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Hammersley Inlet, Puget Sound.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Willapa Harbor and River, to and through Raymond.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Swinomish Slough.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Nooksak River to Lynden.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>west virginia.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Wisconsin.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Little Kanawha River, with a view to the modification of the existing system of locks and dams and its further improvement.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><b>WISCONSIN.</b></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Ashland Harbor, with a view to widening the channel to four hundred feet, or to such width as may be deemed suitable for the needs of commerce.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Oconto Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Depere Harbor, with a view to the construction of a turning basin in the Fox River at Depere and securing a channel twenty feet in depth from said turning basin to the city of Green Bay.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Port Washington Harbor.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Milwaukee Harbor, with a view to the creation of an outer harbor; also with a view to a modification of the present plan of improvement by providing for widening the channels in the inner harbor instead of the construction of certain turning basins heretofore authorized.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Highcliff Harbor, Like Winnebago.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Yahara River, with a view to securing a channel four feet deep from Madison to Janesville.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>uniformity relating to appropriations.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Uniformity of appropriations.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Secretary of War is authorized io appoint a board of engineers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Board of engineers to report on local improvements of harbors on Great Lakes, etc.</p></sidenote> to examine those harbors on the Great Lakes and elsewhere in which the whole or a part of the harbor is improved at local expense, which board shall make recommendations with a view to determining whether the improvements so made by local authorities should be undertaken or maintained by the General Government and to establishing uniform rules in making harbor improvements.</p>
<page identifier="/us/stat/35/835">835</page></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>intra-coastal waterways.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Intra-coastal waterways.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey for the construction of a continuous waterway, inland where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey from Boston, Mass., to Beaufort Inlet, N. C., inland. where practicable.</p></sidenote> practicable, from Boston, Massachusetts, to Long Island Sound including a waterway from the protected waters of Narragansett Bay through the ponds and lagoons lying along the southern coast of Rhode Island to Watch Hill and Fishers Island; thence to New York Bay; thence across the State of New Jersey to a suitable point on Delaware River or Bay; thence to Chesapeake Bay; thence from Norfolk, Virginia, to the sounds of North Carolina and Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a channel with a maximum depth of twenty-five feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of the said waterway as may be found to be sufficient for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of report,etc.</p></sidenote> commercial, naval, or military purposes. Such survey shall include an examination of all practicable routes, the preparation of plans and estimates of cost along the most available route, and a report upon the desirability of utilizing as a part of such waterway any existing public or private canal, or any part thereof, and the probable cost of acquiring the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey for the construction of a continuous waterway, inland where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey from Beaufort. S. C., to Key West, Fla., inland, where practicable.</p></sidenote> practicable, from Beaufort, North Carolina, to the Cape Fear River, North Carolina; thence to Winyah Bay, South Carolina; thence to Saint Johns River, Florida; thence to Key West, Florida, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a channel with a maximum depth of twelve feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of the said waterway as may be found to be sufficient for commercial, naval,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of report, etc.</p></sidenote> or military purposes. Such survey shall include an examination of ail practicable routes, the preparation of plans and estimates of cost along the most available route, and a report upon the desirability of utilizing as a part of such waterway any existing public or private canal, or any part thereof, and the probable cost of acquiring the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey for the construction of a continuous inland waterway across<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey inland across Florida, from ocean to the Gulf.</p></sidenote> the State of Florida, between suitable points on the eastern and Gulf coasts of said State, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a channel with a maximum depth of twelve feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of said waterway as may be found sufficient for commercial, naval, and military purposes. Such survey shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of report, etc.</p></sidenote> include an examination of all practicable routes, the preparation of plans and estimates of cost along the most available route, and a report upon the desirability of utilizing as a part of such waterway any existing public or private canal, or any part thereof, and the probable cost of acquiring the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey for the construction of a continuous waterway, inland where<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey from St. George’s Sound, Fla., to New Orleans, La., inland, where practicable.</p></sidenote> practicable, along the Gulf of Mexico from Saint Georges Sound, Florida, to the Mississippi River at New Orleans, Louisiana, by way of Saint Andrews Bay, Choctawhatchee Bay, Pensacola Bay, and Perdido Bay, Florida; Mobile Bay, Alabama; Mississippi Sound, Alabama and Mississippi; Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain, Louisana, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a channel with a maximum depth of nine feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of the said waterway as may be found to be sufficient for commercial, naval, or military purposes. Such survey shall include an examination<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of report, etc.</p></sidenote> of all practicable routes, the preparation of plans and estimates of cost along the most available route, and a report upon the desirability of utilizing as a part of such waterway any existing public or private canal, or any part thereof, and the probable cost of acquiring the same.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/836">836</page> Survey for the construction of a continuous inland waterway in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey inland between Humboldt Bay and Eel River. Cal.</p></sidenote> State of California, between suitable points on Humboldt Bay and Eel River, with a view to obtaining a channel of suitable width and a maximum depth of nine feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of said waterway as may be found desirable. Sucn survey shall include an examination of all practicable routes.</p></content>
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<heading>inland waterway of louisiana and texas.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Survey for the construction of a continuous inland waterway from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Inland waterway of Louisiana and Texas.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Survey from Mississippi River, Ln., to Rio Grande, Tex.</p></sidenote> the Mississippi River to Bayou Teche; thence to Mermentau River; thence to Calcasieu River; thence to the Sabine River, Louisiana and Texas; thence to Galveston, Texas; thence to Brazos River, Texas; thence to Pass Cavallo; thence to Aransas Pass; thence to Point Isabel; and thence to the Rio Grande, for the purpose of ascertaining the cost of a channel with a maximum depth of nine feet, or such lesser depths along any section or sections of the said waterway as may be found to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Extent of report, etc.</p></sidenote> be sufficient for commercial, naval, or military purposes. Such survey shall include an examination of all practicable routes, the preparation of plans and estimates of cost along the most availabe route, and a report upon the desirability of utilizing as a part of such waterway any existing public or private canal, or any part thereof, and the probable cost of acquiring the same: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That whenever, in the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rejection of inadvisable schemes.</p></sidenote> making of a survey of any of the preceding waterways, field work shall indicate that the proposed improvement is clearly inadvisable, no detailed survey or plans shall be made.</proviso></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the Chief of Engineers may, with the approval of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office of Chief of Engineers.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Employment of professional assistants authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Post, p. 880.</p></sidenote> the Secretary of War, employ in his office such professional and other assistants as, in his judgment, may be necessary to enable him to perform effectively and with advantage to the public service the various duties imposed upon his office by the laws enacted from time to time by Congress for the improvement, preservation, and protection of the navigable waters of the United States, the salaries of such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Payment for.</p></sidenote> employees to be paid by allotments from any appropriations made by Congress for examinations and surveys, or for the improvements of rivers and harbors: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That expenditures hereunder shall not<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Provisos.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Limit.</p></sidenote> exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in any one year, and shall be in addition to those otherwise authorized by law:</proviso> <proviso><i>And provided further</i>, That an itemized statement of all expenditures under this section,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Itemized statement required.</p></sidenote> including the number of persons employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each, shall accompany the annual report of the Chief of Engineers.</proviso></content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 265: To correct the records and authorize the reenlistment of certain noncommissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry who were discharged without honor under Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, War Department, November ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and the restoration to them or all rights of which they have been deprived on account thereof.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>265.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To correct the records and authorize the reenlistment of certain noncommissioned officers and enlisted men belonging to Companies B, C, and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry who were discharged without honor under Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, War Department, November ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and the restoration to them or all rights of which they have been deprived on account thereof.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/5729">S. 5729</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/318">Public, No. 318</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Brownsville, Tex., shooting affray.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court of inquiry to investigate.</p></sidenote> is hereby authorized to appoint a court of inquiry, to consist of five officers of the United States Army, not below the rank of colonel, which court shall be authorized to hear and report upon all charges and testimony relating to the shooting affray which took place at Brownsville, Texas, on the night of August thirteenth-fourteenth, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/837">837</page> nineteen hundred and six. Said court shall, within one year from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Final report</p></sidenote> the date of its appointment, make a final report, and from time to time shall make partial reports, to the Secretary of War of the results of such inquiry, and such soldiers and noncommissioned officers of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reenlistment of soldiers of 25th Infantry found qualified.</p></sidenote> Companies B, C, and D, of the Twenty-fifth Regiment United States Infantry, who were discharged from the military sendee as members of said regiment, under the provisions of Special Orders, Numbered Two hundred and sixty-six, dated at the War Department the ninth day of November, nineteen hundred and six, as said court shall find and report as qualified for reenlistment in the Army of the United States shall thereby become eligible for reenlistment.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That any noncommissioned officer or private who shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rcenlistment to be dated from time of discharge.</p></sidenote> made eligible for reenlistment under the provisions of the preceding section shall, if reenlisted, be considered to have reenlisted immediately after his discharge under the provisions of the special order hereinbefore cited, and to be entitled, from the date of his discharge<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay, etc., as of that date.</p></sidenote> under said special order, to the pay, allowances, and other rights and benefits that he would have been entitled to receive according to his rank from said date of discharge as if he had been honorably discharged under the provisions of said special order and had reenlisted immediately.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 266: Authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>266</docNumber>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>266.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the Attorney-General to appoint as special peace officers such employees of the Alaska school service as may be named by the Secretary of the Interior.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8058">S. 8058</ref>]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/319">Public, No. 319</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Attorney-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">School employees may be designated as special peace officers.</p></sidenote> shall have power to appoint, in his discretion, any person employed in the Alaska school service who may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior as a special peace officer of the division of the district of Alaska in which such person resides; and such special peace officer<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authorized to arrest persons violating Criminal Code.</p></sidenote> shall have authority to arrest, upon warrant duly issued, any native of the district of Alaska charged with the violation of any of the provisions of the Criminal Code of Alaska (Act March third, eighteen hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 30. p. 1258.</p></sidenote> and ninety-nine, second supplement Revised Statutes, page one thousand and three) or any amendment thereof, or any white man charged with the violation of any of said provisions to the detriment of any native of the district of Alaska; and such peace officer shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Summary arrests.</p></sidenote> also have authority to make such arrests, without warrant, for a crime committed or attempted in his presence, or when the person arrested has committed a felony, although not in his presence, or when a felony has in fact been committed and he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have committed it; and any person so arrested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Trials.</p></sidenote> shall be taken, in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Attorney-General, and without unnecessary delay, before a United States commissioner or other judicial officer for trial : <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That no person so appointed shall be entitled<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fees, etc., not allowed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Actual expenses.</p></sidenote> to any fees or emoluments of any character whatsoever for performing any of the services herein mentioned, but may be allowed, in the discretion of the Attorney-General, expenses actually and necessarily incurred in connection with such services.</proviso></content>
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<page identifier="/us/stat/35/838">838</page>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 267: To change the name of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>267</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>267.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To change the name of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8187">S. 8187</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/320">Public, No. 320</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That the Act entitled “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundlings Hospital to be Washington Home for Foundlings.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 92, amended.</p></sidenote> Act for incorporating a hospital for foundlings in the city of Washington,” approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy, be, and the same is hereby, amended by changing the name of said institution to the Washington Home for Foundlings.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 268: Requiring reports of the Hospital for Foundlings to he made to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>268</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 838</citableAs>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>268.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Requiring reports of the Hospital for Foundlings to he made to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/s/8520">S. 8520</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/321">Public, No. 321</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section four of “An<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District of Columbia.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Foundlings Home.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reports to be made to Commissioners, D. C.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 16, p. 92, amended.</p></sidenote> Act incorporating a hospital for foundlings in the city of Washington,” approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy (Sixteenth Statutes, page ninety-two), which provides that “It shall be the duty of the president and directors to report to the Secretary of the Interior the condition of said institution on the first day of July in each year,” is hereby amended by substituting the words “Commissioners of the District of Columbia” for the said words “Secretary of the Interior.”</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 269: To amend section eighty-six of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes.</dc:title>
<dc:type>Chapter</dc:type>
<docNumber>269</docNumber>
<citableAs>35 Stat. 838</citableAs>
<dc:date>1909-03-03</dc:date>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>269.—</docNumber>
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<longTitle>
<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To amend section eighty-six of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, to provide for additional judges, and for other judicial purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/21896">H. R. 21896</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/322">Public, No. 322</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
<section class="inline">
<content class="inline">That section eighty-six of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Hawaii.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Federal court.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31. p. 158, amended.</p></sidenote> the Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, entitled <i>“An</i> Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii,” be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="86">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 86.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">There shall be established in the said Territory a district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District court with two judges authorized.</p></sidenote> court, to consist of two judges, who shall reside therein and be called district judges, and who shall each receive an annual salary of six thousand dollars. The said court while in session shall be presided over by only one of said judges. The two judges shall from<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division of cases.</p></sidenote> time to time, either by order or rules of court, prescribe at what times and in what class of cases each of them shall preside. The said two judges shall have the same powers in all matters coming before said court.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The President of the United States, by and with the advice and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment.</p></sidenote> consent of the Senate of the United States, shall appoint two district judges, a district attorney, and a marshal of the United States for the said district, and said judges, attorney, and marshal shall hold office for six years unless sooner removed by the President.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">“The said court shall have, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Jurisdiction.</p></sidenote> of district courts of the United States, jurisdiction of all cases cognizable in a circuit court of the United States, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court; and the said judges, district attorney, and marshal shall have and exercise in the Territory of Hawaii all the powers conferred by the laws of the United State’s upon the judges, district attorneys, and marshals of district and circuit courts of the United States.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/839">839</page> “Writs of error and appeals from the said district court shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Procedure, etc.</p></sidenote> had and allowed to the circuit court of appeals for the ninth judicial circuit in the same manner as writs of error and appeals are allowed from circuit courts to circuit courts of appeal as provided by law, and appeals and writs of error may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States from said district court in cases where appeals and writs of error are allowed from the district and circuit courts of the United States to the Supreme Court, and the laws of the United States relating to juries and jury trials shall be applicable to said district court. The law’s of the United States relating to appeals, writs of error, removal of causes, and other matters and proceedings as between the courts of the United States and the courts of the several States shall govern in such matters and proceedings as between the courts of the United States and the courts of the Territory of Hawaii. Regular terms of said court shall be held in Honolulu<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of court.</p></sidenote> on the second Monday in April and October, and special terms may be held at such times and places in said district as the said judges may deem expedient. The said district judges shall appoint a clerk<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk.</p></sidenote> of said court at a salary of three thousand dollars per annum and shall appoint a reporter of said court at a salary of one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporter.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars per annum: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That writs of error and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appeals, etc., to Supreme Court.</p></sidenote> appeals may also be taken from the supreme court of the Territory of Hawaii to the Supreme Court of the United States in all cases where the amount involved, exclusive of costs, exceeds the sum or value of five thousand dollars.”</proviso></p></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="2"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 2.</num> <content class="inline">That section four of chapter one of title one of an Act<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alaska.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 81. p. 322, amended.</p></sidenote> entitled “An Act making further provision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes,” approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That there is hereby established a district court for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District court established.</p></sidenote> district of Alaska, with the jurisdiction of circuit and district courts of the United States and with general jurisdiction in civil, criminal, equity, and admiralty causes; and four district judges shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four judges authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salary, residence, etc.</p></sidenote> appointed for the district, each at an annual salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars, who shall during their terms of office reside in the divisions of the district to which they may be respectively assigned by the President. The court shall consist of four divisions,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Recording divisions created.</p></sidenote> which shall also be recording divisions. Division numbered one shall consist of all that part of the district of Alaska lying east of the one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division No. 1.</p></sidenote> hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude. Division numbered<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division No. 2.</p></sidenote> two shall consist of all that territory lying west of a line commencing on the Arctic coast at the one hundred and forty-eighth meridian; thence extending south along the easterly watershed of the Colville River to a point on the Rocky Mountain divide between the headwaters of Colville River on the north and west and the waters of the Chandlar on the south: thence southwesterly along the divide between the waters of the Colville River, the Kotzebue Sound, and Norton Sound on the north and west and the waters of the Yukon on the south to the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence along said meridian to the Kuskokwim River: thence southwesterly along the center of the channel of said Kuskokwim River to Bering Sea; the said division to include all the islands lying north of the fifty-ninth parallel of north latitude. Division numbered three shall consist of all that territory lying south<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division No. 3.</p></sidenote> and west of the line starting on the coast of the Gulf of Alaska at the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude; thence northerly along said meridian to a point due east from Mount Kimball; thence west to summit of Mount Kimball; thence southwesterly along the southerly watershed of the headwaters of Tanana River; thence westerly along the divide between the waters of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/840">840</page> Gulf of Alaska on the south and the waters of the Yukon on the north to the summit of Mount McKinley; thence continuing westerly along the divide between the waters of the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay on the south and the waters of the Yukon and Kuskokwim on the north to the one hundred and fifty-ninth meridian of west longitude; thence northwesterly to the Kuskokwim River on the one hundred and sixty-first meridian of west longitude; thence southwesterly along the center of said river to Bering Sea; said division to include the Alaska peninsula, the Aleutian Islands, and all islands along the coast of this district south and west of the said district and all lying<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division No. 4.</p></sidenote> south of the fifty-ninth parallel of north latitude. Division numbered four shall consist of all that part of the district of Alaska lying east of the second division and north of the third division. One<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms.</p></sidenote> general term of court shall be held each year at Juneau, and such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Juneau.</p></sidenote> additional terms at other places in the first division as the AttorneyGeneral may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Nome, and such additional terms at other places in the second<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Nome.</p></sidenote> division as the Attorney-General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Valdez, and such additional terms at<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Valdez.</p></sidenote> other places in the third division as the Attorney-General may direct. One general term of court shall be held each year at Fairbanks, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fairbanks.</p></sidenote> such additional terms at other places in the fourth division as the Attorney-General may direct. Each of the judges is authorized and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special terms.</p></sidenote> directed to hold such special terms of court as may be necessary for the public welfare or for the dispatch of the business of the court at such times and places in their respective districts as any of them, respectively, may deem expedient, or as the Attorney-General may direct; and each shall have authority to employ interpreters and to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Interpreters, etc.</p></sidenote> make allowances for the necessary expenses of his court, and to employ an official court stenographer at such compensation as shall be fixed by the Attorney-General. At least thirty days’ notice shall be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Notice of term.</p></sidenote> given by the judge, or the clerk, of the time and place of holding the several terms of the court.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="3"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 3.</num> <content class="inline">That section seven of said chapter one of title one is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 324, amended.</p></sidenote> amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That four clerks shall be appointed for the court, one of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four clerks authorized.</p></sidenote> whom shall be assigned to each division thereof, and during his term of office shall reside at such place in the division as the Attorney-General may direct. Each clerk shall, in his division of the district,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> perform the duties required or authorized by law to be performed by clerks of United States courts in other districts, and such other duties as may be prescribed by the laws of the United States relating to the district of Alaska. He shall preserve copies of all laws applicable to the district and shall preserve all records and record all proceedings and official acts of his division of the court. He shall also collect<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Receipt, etc., of fees, etc.</p></sidenote> and receive all moneys arising from the fees of his office, from licenses, fines, forfeitures, judgments, or on any other account authorized by law to be paid to or collected by him, and shall apply the same, except the money derived from licenses, to the incidental expenses of the proper division of the district court and the allowance thereof as directed in written orders, duly made and signed by the judge, and shall account for the same in detail, and for any balances on account<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounting.</p></sidenote> thereof, under oath, quarterly, or more frequently if required, to the court, the Attorney-General, and the Secretary of the Treasury: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That moneys accruing from violations of the customs laws,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Moneys not available for court expenses.</p></sidenote> civil customs cases, or internal-revenue cases, moneys, not including costs, accruing from civil post-oilice suits, fines in criminal cases for violations of the postal laws, the net proceeds of sales of public property under section thirty-six hundred and eighteen, Revised Statutes as amended, and any other moneys the disposition of which is otherwise specially provided for by law, shall not be available for the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/841">841</page> expenses of the court, but shall be paid over or deposited as provided<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deposit of regular balances.</p></sidenote> by law for other districts. And ‘after all payments ordered by the judge shall have been made, any balances remaining in the hands of the clerk shall be by him deposited to the credit of the United States and be covered into the Treasury of the United States at such times and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. The clerk shall be ex officio recorder<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Other duties, etc.</p></sidenote> of instruments as hereinafter provided and also register of wills for the division, and shall establish secure offices for the safe-keeping of his official records where terms of his division of the court are held. He may appoint necessary deputies and employ other necessary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputies, etc.</p></sidenote> clerical assistance to aid him in the expeditious discharge of the duties of his office, with the approval and at compensation to be fixed by the court or judge, subject to the approval of the Attorney-General. Any person so appointed or employed shall be paid by the clerk on the order of the judge, as other court expenses are paid.’”</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="4"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 4.</num> <content class="inline">That section eight of said chapter one of title one is hereby<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 321, amended.</p></sidenote> amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That four district attorneys shall be appointed for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four district attorneys authorized.</p></sidenote> district, one of whom shall be assigned to each division and shall reside at such place in the division as the Attorney-General shall direct. They shall each perform the duties required to be performed<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> by United States district attorneys in other districts, and such other duties as may be required by law; and they shall each receive a salary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p></sidenote> of five thousand dollars per annum and shall not while in office accept retainers or engage in any other law business in the district than that pertaining to the duties of their office. The Attorney-General<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistants.</p></sidenote> may, upon the recommendation of the district attorney, appoint and at pleasure remove one or more assistant district attorneys and one or more clerical assistants, who shall receive such compensation as the Attorney-General may fix, to be paid as other assistant United States district attorneys and clerical assistants are paid. In the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vacancies.</p></sidenote> case of the death or disability of a district attorney the judge may appoint a suitable person to fill the office until his successor is appointed and qualified or until the disability is removed.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="5"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 5.</num> <content class="inline">That section eleven of chapter one, title one, of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That an accurate detailed account of all fees earned and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Accounts of commissioners and deputy marshals.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 326, amended.</p></sidenote> expenses incurred by commissioners and deputy marshals shall be prepared hi duplicate quarterly, duly verified by the oath of the commissioner or deputy marshal rendering the account, and forwarded to the clerk for the proper division of the district court and approved by the judge thereof, if found to be in accordance with law. After<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Quarterly statement to Department of Justice.</p></sidenote> approval by the judge the original of each such account shall be forwarded by the clerk to the Department of Justice for revision and the duplicate filed in the court. All net fees earned in excess of the sum of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Excess of fees to clerk.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars per calendar year or in excess of that rate for a less period, by any commissioner or deputy marshal, shall be annually paid to the clerk of the proper division of the court to be available for incidental expenses of the district court of the proper division, such payment of such incidental expenses to be accompanied by a verified detailed statement of said clerk.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="6"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 6.</num> <content class="inline">That four United States marshals shall be appointed for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Four marshals authorized.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 324, amended.</p></sidenote> district, one of whom shall be assigned to each division, and shall reside at such place hi the division as the Attorney-General shall direct.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="7"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 7.</num> <content class="inline">That section seven hundred and twenty-eight of chapter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 447, amended.</p></sidenote> seventy-four, title two, of said Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="728">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 728.</num> <content class="inline">That each deputy clerk has the power to perform any<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Deputy clerks.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duties.</p></sidenote> act or duty relating to the clerk’s office that his principal has, and his <page identifier="/us/stat/35/842">842</page> principal is responsible for his conduct and for all money received by him in his official capacity.”</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="8"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 8.</num> <content class="inline">That nothing in this Act shall lie construed to limit or terminate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms of present officers not affected.</p></sidenote> the term of office of any of the judges, district attorneys, or marshals now serving in Alaska; but each shall serve out the term for which he was appointed unless sooner removed. The judge, district<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers in third division.</p></sidenote> attorney, and marshal now serving in the third division of said district shall hereafter have their residence and hold their respective offices in the fourth division created by this Act: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assignments.</p></sidenote> President may, in his discretion, change the assignment of any of said officers from one division to another.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="9"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 9.</num> <content class="inline">That section seven hundred and seventy-one of chapter<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule of commissioners fees repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 454, repealed.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Schedule to be prepared.</p></sidenote> eighty, title two, of said Act, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the Attorney-General is authorized and directed to prescribe a schedule of fees for the services rendered by the United States commissioners acting as ex officio probate judges.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 10.</num> <content class="inline">That when, in the opinion of the Attorney-General, it<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Modification of time for transmitting accounts allowed.</p></sidenote> will be impossible for the accounts of any court official or other person whose accounts pertain to the United States courts in Alaska to be transmitted to the Department of Justice within the period prescribed by law, the Attorney-General may modify, as he may deem proper, any requirement of law concerning the time when such accounts shall be rendered and transmitted.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="11"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 11.</num> <content class="inline">That hereafter the supreme court of the Territory of New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">New Mexico.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Supreme court increased to seven justices.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Restriction.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 33, p. 542, amended.</p></sidenote> Mexico shall consist of a chief justice and six associate justices, any four of whom shall constitute a quorum: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the judge who presided at the trial of a cause in the court below shall not sit at the hearing of the same case on appeal or writ of error in the supreme court of the Territory.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="12"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 12.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the President to appoint one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment of additional justice.</p></sidenote> additional associate justice of said supreme court in manner now provided by law, who shall hold his office for the term of four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="13"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 13.</num> <content class="inline">That the said Territory shall be divided into seven judicial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Seven districts established.</p></sidenote> districts, and a district court shall be held in each district by one of the justices of the supreme court, at such time and place as is or may be prescribed by law. Each judge, after assignment, shall reside in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Residence required.</p></sidenote> the district to which he is assigned.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="14"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 14.</num> <content class="inline">That the chief justice and his associates are hereby vested<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Division and assignments.</p></sidenote> with power and authority, and they are hereby directed, to divide said Territory into seven judicial districts and make such assignments of the judges provided for in section twelve of this Act as shall in their judgment be meet and proper: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That one of said judges<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court at Roswell.</p></sidenote> shall reside and hold a district court in the city of Roswell.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="15"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 15.</num> <content class="inline">That two terms of said court shall be held annually within<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Two terms annually.</p></sidenote> each of said districts at such places within said district as may be designated by the chief justice and his associates, or a majority of them.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="16"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 16.</num> <content class="inline">That all offenses committed before the passage of this<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending causes,</p></sidenote> Act shall be prosecuted, tried, and determined in the same manner and with the same effect, except as to the number of judges, as if this Act had not passed.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="17"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 17.</num> <content class="inline">That the northwestern division of the northern judicial<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Alabama northern district.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northwestern division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Counties composing.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Northeastern division.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 82, p. 832, amended.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S., sec. 532, p. 89.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Huntsville.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 32, p. 832.</p></sidenote> district of the State of Alabama is hereby established, composed of the counties of Lauderdale, Colbert, Marion, Franklin, and Winston. All other counties now in the northern division of the northern judicial district of the State of Alabama shall constitute the northeastern division of the northern district of Alabama, and the courts of the northeastern division of said northern district of Alabama shall be held at Huntsville, as now provided by law.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That a term of the circuit and the district courts of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Terms at Florence.</p></sidenote> northwestern division of the northern judicial district of the State of Alabama shall be held at Florence, in Lauderdale County, in said State, on the first Monday in February and on the first Monday in November of each year: <proviso><i>Provided, however</i>, That suitable rooms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Court rooms.</p></sidenote> and accommodations are furnished for holding of said courts free of all expenses to the Government.</proviso></content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="19"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 19.</num> <content class="inline">That all civil process issued against persons residing in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Return of process.</p></sidenote> said counties of Lauderdale, Colbert, Marion, Franklin, and Winston cognizable before the United States court shall be made returnable to the courts of the United States respectively to be held at Florence, as provided by this Act, and all prosecutions for offenses committed in any of said counties shall be tried in the appropriate United States court at Florence: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no process or prosecutions commenced<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Proviso.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pending cases.</p></sidenote> or suits instituted before the passage of this Act shall be in any way affected by the provisions hereof, and that all prosecutions heretofore commenced for offenses heretofore committed against the United States in any of the said counties of Lauderdale, Colbert, Marion, Franklin, and Winston shall be prosecuted and tried as though this Act had not been passed.</proviso></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="20"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 20.</num> <content class="inline">That it shall be the duty of the clerks, marshals, and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Attendance of officers.</p></sidenote> other officers of the northern judicial district to attend said terms of said court and perform the duties pertaining to their positions, and no additional clerk or marshal shall be appointed in said district; and that the clerks of the circuit and district courts of said northern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Office at Florence.</p></sidenote> district shall maintain an office, in charge of themselves or a deputy, at Florence, which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the busmess of said division.</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="21"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 21.</num> <content class="inline"><p class="inline">That the United States district attorney for the eastern<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Oklahoma.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Salaries.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">District attorneys.</p></sidenote> district of Oklahoma shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, in twelve equal installments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The United States district attorney for the western district of Oklahoma shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, pavable monthly, in twelve eαual installments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The United States marshal for the eastern district of Oklahoma<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Marshals.</p></sidenote> shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, in twelve equal installments.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The United States marshal for the western district of Oklahoma shall receive a salary of four thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, in twelve equal installments.</p></content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="22"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 22.</num> <content class="inline">That section eighteen of an Act entitled “An Act to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">State courts.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 31, p. 277 amended.</p></sidenote> enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to enable the people of New Mexico and of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States,” approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:</content>
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<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="18">"<inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 18.</num> <content class="inline">That the supreme court or other court of last resort of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Authority of supreme, etc., courts.</p></sidenote> said State shall be deemed to be the successor of Territorial appellate courts, and shall take and possess any and all jurisdiction as such not herein otherwise specifically provided for, and shall receive and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Dockets, records, etc.</p></sidenote> retain the custody of all books, dockets, records, and files not transferred to other courts as herein provided, subject to the duty to furnish transcript of all book entries in any specific case transferred to complete the record thereof. That all books, dockets, records,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of Indian Territory records. etc., of corporations to secretary of state.</p></sidenote> and files relating to the organization, management, and control of corporations which at the time of the approval of the Act of which this Act is amendatory were in the custody and possession of the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/844">844</page> clerk of the United States court of appeals for the Indian Territory shall be transferred to the custody of the secretary of state of the State of Oklahoma, and the then clerk of said court shall certify to the identity of said books, dockets, records, and files, and when the said clerk of the United States court of appeals for the Indian Territory has certified all books, records, documents, and files in his office relating to corporations to the secretary of the State of Oklahoma, it shall be the duty of the secretary of the State of Oklahoma to<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Duty of secretory of state.</p></sidenote> receive and retain the custody and control of the said records, books, documents, and files certified to him by the clerk of the court of appeals for the Indian Territory, and when received by the secretary of state of Oklahoma the same shall become a part or the records of the office of the secretary of the State, and the secretary of state is<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Certified copies.</p></sidenote> hereby empowered to furnish conies and to certify to the same, whose certificate, when made under the great seal of the State of Oklahoma, shall have the same force and effect as if the said books, records, documents, and files had been originally filed in the office of the secretary of the State of Oklahoma.”</content>
</section>
<section class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><num value="23"><inline class="smallCaps">Sec</inline>. 23.</num> <content class="inline">That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">In effect July 1, 1900.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repeal.</p></sidenote> after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and nine. In so far only as the provisions of this Act are in conflict with other or prior Acts the other or prior Acts are hereby repealed.</content>
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<actionDescription>Approved, March 3, 1909.</actionDescription>
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<dc:title>Chap. 270: For the protection of the surface rights of entrymen.</dc:title>
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<dc:type>CHAP.</dc:type>
<docNumber>270.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>For the protection of the surface rights of entrymen.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24834">H. R. 24834</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/323">Public, No. 323</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That any person who has<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Confirmation of entries on lands erroneously deemed nonmineral.</p></sidenote> in good faith located, selected, or entered under the nonmineral land laws of the United States any lands which subsequently are classified, claimed, or reported as being valuable for coal, may, if he shall so elect, and upon making satisfactory proof of compliance with the laws under which such lands are claimed, receive a patent therefor, which shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preservation of coal rights to United States.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Disposal under coalland laws.</p></sidenote> contain a reservation to the United States of all coal in said lands, and the right to prospect for, mine, and remove the same. The coal deposits in such lands shall be subject to disposal by the United States in accordance with, the provisions of the coal-land laws in force at the time of such disposal, but no person shall enter upon<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Right of owner of surface.</p></sidenote> said lands to prospect for, or mine and remove coal therefrom, without previous consent of the owner under such patent, except upon such conditions as to security for and payment of all damages to such owner caused thereby as may be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That the owner under such patent shall have<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Provisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Domestic use of coal.</p></sidenote> the right to mine coal for use on the land for domestic purposes prior to the disposal by the United States of the coal deposit: <i>Provided further</i>, That nothing herein contained shall be held to affect or<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rights of entryman.</p></sidenote> abridge the right of any locator, selector, or entryman to a hearing for the. purpose of determining the character of the land located, selected, or entered by him. Such locator, selector or entryman who has heretofore made or shall hereafter make final proof showing good faith and satisfactory compliance with the law under which his land is claimed shall be entitled to a patent without reservation unless at the time of such final proof and entry it shall be shown that the land is chiefly valuable for coal.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 271: Authorizing the necessary resurvey of public lands.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>271.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Authorizing the necessary resurvey of public lands.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/24835">H. R. 24835</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/324">Public, No. 324</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public lands.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Necessary resurveys authorized.</p></sidenote> of the Interior may in his discretion cause to be made, as he may deem wise under the rectangular system now provided by law, such resurveys or retracements of the surveys or public lands as, after full investigation, he may deem essential to properly mark the boundaries of the public lands remaining undisposed of: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no such<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Prorvisos.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bona fide rights not impaired.</p></sidenote> resurvey or retracement shall be so executed as to impair the bona fide rights or claims of any claimant, entryman, or owner of lands affected by such resurvey or retracement : <i>Provided further</i>, That<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Amount for, limited</p></sidenote> not to exceed five per cent of the total annual appropriation for surveys and resurveys of the public lands shall be used for the resurveys and retracements authorized hereby.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 272: To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the soldiers’ plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pennsylvania.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>272.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>To authorize the Secretary of War to donate one condemned brass or bronze cannon and cannon balls to the soldiers’ plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pennsylvania.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-03">March 3, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/28055">H. R. 28055</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/325">Public. No. 325</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<content class="inline">That the Secretary of War<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Obsolete ordnance.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Granted to soldiers’ plot, Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pa.</p></sidenote> be, and lie is hereby, authorized and directed to donate to the soldiers’ plot in Forest Hill Cemetery, Scranton, Pennsylvania, one condemned brass or bronze cannon, with suitable outfit of cannon balls, which may not be needed in the service; the same to be placed by the Lieutenant Ezra S. Griffin Post, Numbered One hundred and thirty-nine, Grand Army of the Republic, on the soldiers’ plot in the Forest Hill Cemetery, located at Scranton, Pennsylvania, in honor of the soldiers and sailors from that county who served their country and State: <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no expense shall be incurred by<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">No expense.</p></sidenote> the United States in connection with the donation of the above-mentioned articles of ordnance property.</proviso></content>
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<dc:title>Chap. 297: Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<docNumber>297.—</docNumber>
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<docTitle>An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle>Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for other purposes.</officialTitle>
<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8"><approvedDate date="1909-03-04">March 4, 1909</approvedDate>.</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/bill/70/hr/23461">H. R. 23461</ref>.]</p><p class="centered fontsize8">[<ref href="/us/pl/70/326">Public. No. 326</ref>.]</p></sidenote> 
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<enactingFormula class="indent0 firstIndent1 fontsize10"><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled</i>,</enactingFormula>
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<chapeau class="inline">That the following sums<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses appropriations.</p></sidenote> be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:</chapeau>
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<heading>LEGISLATIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Legislative.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<heading>senate.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate.</p></sidenote></heading>
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<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Senators, six hundred and ninety thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Senators.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage of Senators, forty-seven thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> in the service of the Senate, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Vice-President</inline>: For secretary to the VicePresident,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vice-President’s office.</p></sidenote> four thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four <page identifier="/us/stat/35/846">846</page> hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain</inline>: For Chaplain of the Senate, one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Secretary</inline>: For Secretary of the Senate, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary of the Senate. assistant, clerks, etc</p></sidenote> compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of the contingent fund of the Senate, six thousand five hundred dollars; hire of house and wagon for the Secretary’s office, four hundred and twenty dollars; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, three thousand dollars, and one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent ; minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at three thousand dollars each; principal clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; executive clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each: five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; keeper of stationery, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred anil forty dollars; assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, eighty thousand four hundred and thirty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Document Room</inline>: For superintendent of the document room,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Document room.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent,etc.</p></sidenote> George II. Boyd, three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Clerks and Messengers to Committees</inline>: For clerk of printing<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and messengers to committees.</p></sidenote> records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, three thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred anil forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; messenger, nine hundred dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, nine hundred dollars; clerk to the <page identifier="/us/stat/35/847">847</page> Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred- and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the Committees on Naval Affairs, Indian Affairs, Agriculture and Forestry, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate and Interstate Commerce, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerks to the Committees on Census, Education and Labor, Territories, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses, Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Enrolled Bills, Geological Survey, Railroads, Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands ami Porto Rico, Philippines, Cuban Relations, Interoceanic Canals, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Expenditures in the Department of State, Manufactures, University of the United States, Canadian Relations, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage and Mines and Mining, at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; assistant clerk to the Committee on Fisheries,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant clerk. Committee on Fisheries.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-four thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For additional amount for the clerk to the Committee on Rules for<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Manual.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Preparing, etc.</p></sidenote> revising and preparing for publication biennially, under the direction of the committee, the Senate Manual, one thousand dollars, to be immediately available.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twenty-two clerks to committees, at two thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks at $2,220 a year.</p></sidenote> and twenty dollars each, forty-eight thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following now authorized by Senate resolutions and paid<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant clerks to committees, etc.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Paid from miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote> from the appropriations for miscellaneous items, contingent expenses of the Senate, namely: For assistant clerk to Committee on Appropriations, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk to Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerks to the Committees on Philippines, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Judiciary, Interstate Commerce, Pensions, Private Land Claims, District of Columbia, Rules, and conference minority of the Senate, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three assistant clerks to Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, assistant clerks to Committees on Appropriations, Territories, Indian Affairs, Naval Affairs, Immigration, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Claims, Coast Defenses, Enrolled Bills, Manufactures, Military Affairs, Education and Labor, Agriculture and Forestry, Cuban Relations, Privileges and Elections, Public Lands, Interoceanic Canals, and Public Health and National Quarantine, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messengers to committees on<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers to committees.</p></sidenote> Joint Committee on the Library, Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Privileges and Elections, Philippines, Immigration, Printing, Expenditures in the Department of State, Coast and Insular Survey, Mines and Mining, Railroads, Revision of the Laws of the United States, Territories, Agriculture and Forestry, Irrigation, Patents, Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/848">848</page> Geological Survey, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, Commerce, Census, Interstate Commerce, Forest Reservations and Protection of Game, Indian Depredations, University of the United States, Standards, Weights and Measures, Industrial Expositions, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Revolutionary Claims, Investigate Trespassers on Indian Lands, National Banks, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service, Fisheries, Canadian Relations, Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, Investigate the Condition of Potomac River Front at Washington, Disposition of Useless Documents in Executive Departments, Woman Suffrage, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Public Buildings and Grounds, Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Expenditures in the War Department, Expenditures in the Navy Department, Expenditures in the Interior Department, Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, Expenditures in the Department of Justice, and Rules, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk in the Office of the Secretary<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks, messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> of the Senate, compiling a history of revenue and general appropriation bills, at two thousand five hundred dollars; two messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; assistant librarian of the Senate, at two thousand dollars; laborer, at nine hundred dollars; additional clerk in Senate Document Room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; in all. one hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant-At-Arms and Doorkeeper</inline>: For Sergeant - at-Arms<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants.</p></sidenote> and Doorkeeper, six thousand five hundred dollars; horse and wagon for his use, four hundred ami twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers, etc.</p></sidenote> assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two messengers on the floor of the Senate, at two thousand dollars each; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, two thousand dollars: storekeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred anil forty dollars; cabinetmaker, one thousand two hundred dollars; three carpenters, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers, etc.</p></sidenote> two skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; chief telephone operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; two telephone operators, at nine hundred dollars each; night telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; telephone page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of press gallery, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of press gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-four laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-nine laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for the Senate<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages, etc.</p></sidenote> Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant-at- Arms,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Senate Oilice Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote> namely: For eighteen privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/849">849</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Post-Office</inline> : For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster, etc.</p></sidenote> fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eightv-eight dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; Seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Folding Room</inline>: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding room. Superintendent,etc.</p></sidenote> one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and one page, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief engineer, etc.</p></sidenote> For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred ami sixty dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each ; eight conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two machinists and electricians, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, six hundred ami sixty dollai-s; one attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For twenty-two annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to Senators.</p></sidenote> committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Contingent Expenses, Namely</inline>: For stationery and newspapers<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery and newspapers.</p></sidenote> for Senators and the President of the Senate, including four thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> two hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To enable the Postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply of postage stamps for sale to Senators, fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> for carrying the mails, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Folding.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for folding, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel, oil, etc.</p></sidenote> and electrical apparatus, exclusive of labor, forty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of furniture, eight thousand five hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, three thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, two thousand dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, seventy-five thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maltby Building and Senate Office Building.</p></sidenote> Senate Office Building, eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/850">850</page> For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Storage warehouse.</p></sidenote> Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Investigations.</p></sidenote> including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, thirty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reporting debates.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments.</p></content>
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<appropriations level="small">
<heading>capitol police.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">capitol police.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay.</p></sidenote> three lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two special officers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and sixty-seven privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and one-half by the the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, seventy-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars, one half to be<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> disbursed by the Secretary of the. Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>congressional directory.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Directory.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand six hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>house of representatives.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House of Representatives.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Members, Delegates. and Resident Commissioners.</p></sidenote> Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, two million nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mileage.</p></sidenote> of Resident Commissioners, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Officers, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the service of the House of Representatives, namely:</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Speaker</inline>: For secretary to the Speaker, four thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Speaker’s office.</p></sidenote> dollars; clerk to the Speaker’s table, three thousand six hundred dollars, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars: in all, eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Chaplain</inline> : For Chaplain of the House, one thousand two hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chaplain.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Clerk</inline>: For Clerk of the House of Representatives,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk of House, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, six thousand five hundred dollars; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, four thousand dollars; journal clerk, four thousand dollars; stenographer to journal clerk, nine hundred and eighty dollars; two reading clerks, at four thousand dollars each; tally clerk, three thousand three hundred dollars; enrolling clerk, three thousand dollars; file clerk, three thousand two hundred and fiftydollars; disbursing clerk, three thousand four hundred dollars; printing and bill clerk, <page identifier="/us/stat/35/851">851</page> two thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant to chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; distributing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; index clerk, two thousand live hundred dollar’s; assistant enrolling clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant disbursing clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant journal clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; notification clerk, two thousand three hundred dollars; stationery clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand one hundred dollars; document and bill clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; resolution and petition clerk, printing and document clerk, and assistant stationery clerk, at two thousand dollars each; assistant enrolling clerk, superintendent clerk’s document room, anil assistant to printing and trill clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two assistant librarians, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, assistant in Clerk’s office, and assistant in disbursing office, at one thousand six hundred dollars •each; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred and eighty dollars each; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant file clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; assistant index clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; special employee in clerk’s document room, one thousand five hundred and eighty dollars; document clerk, one thousand nine liundred dollars; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand three hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant telegraph operator, authorized and named in resolution adopted January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred dollars; three telephone operators, at nine hundred dollars each; three telephone operators, at seventy- five dollars per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten; one night telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for services of a substitute telephone operator when required, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, four hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in document room, nine hundred and eighty dollars; messenger in file room, one thousand one hundred dollars; assistant in library, and two messengers in disbursing oilice, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; one page, nine hundred dollars; assistant in charge of bathroom, one thousand four hundred dollars; three laborers in the bathroom, at nine hundred dollars each; one janitor, eight hundred and forty dollars; two laborers, and page in enrolling room, at seven hundred anil twenty dollars each; janitor in the library, eight hundred dollars; messenger in chief clerk’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor in file room, eight hundred dollars; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, one thousand dollars; janitor to journal clerk’s rooms, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred and twenty- five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, etc.</p></sidenote> Grounds</inline>: For chief engineer, one thousand nine hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; twenty-four conductors of elevators, including fourteen for service in the House of Representatives Office Building, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, one thousand three hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; five firemen, at nine hundred dollars each: laborer, one thousand dollars; three laborers, at eight hundred dollars each; in all, forty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/852">852</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Clerks, Messengers, and Janitors to Committees</inline>: For clerk to the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks and janitors to committees.</p></sidenote> Committee on Ways ami Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; two janitors, one at one thousand dollars and one at seven hundred ami twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Invalid Pensions, and Post-Offices and Post-Roads, three in all, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerks to Committees on Agriculture, Claims, District of Columbia, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Judiciary, Military Affairs, Pensions, Public Buildings and Grounds, War Claims, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, twelve in all, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk to Committee on Naval Affairs, two thousand four hundred dollars; clerks to the Committees on Banking and Currency, Census, Elections Numbers One, Two, and Three, Enrolled Bills, Immigration and Naturalization, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Insular Affairs, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Patents, Printing, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, Revision of the Laws, and Territories, nineteen in all, at two thousand dollars each; additional clerk to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce two thousand dollars; assistant clerk to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant clerks to the Committees on Banking and Currency, Public Buildings and Grounds, Claims, and Public Lands, four in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant clerk to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifteen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For janitors for rooms of the Committees on Accounts, Agriculture,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitors.</p></sidenote> Elections Number One, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-offices and Post-Roads, Printing, and Rivers and Harbors, eight in all, at one thousand dollars each; for janitors for rooms of the Committees on Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections Numbers Two and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Pensions, Public. Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Territories, War Claims, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Enrolled Bills, Patents, Census, Immigration and Naturalization, Revision of the Laws, and Expenditures in the Navy Department, twenty-seven in all, at seven hundred ami twenty dollars each; and said janitors<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments, etc.</p></sidenote> shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/853">853</page> For an assistant clerk to each of the Committees on Military Affairs<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant clerks.</p></sidenote> and Naval Affairs, at six dollars per day, each during the session, two thousand four hundred and eighty-four dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For ten clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day during<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerks to committees, session.</p></sidenote> the session, twelve thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Sergeant-At-Arms</inline>: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sergeant-at-Arms, Deputy, etc.</p></sidenote> House of Representatives, six thousand five hundred dollars; Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand four hundred dollars; financial clerk, two thousand seven hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred dollars; deputy sergeant-at-arms in charge of pairs, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk in charge of pairs, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; and for hire of horse and wagon for the office of the Sergeant- at-Arms, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For police force House Office Building under the Sergeant-at- Arms,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">House Office Building.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Police.</p></sidenote> namely: For one captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; two lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fifteen privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; in all, nineteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Doorkeeper</inline>: For Doorkeeper, five thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Doorkeeper, assistants, etc.</p></sidenote> hire of horses and wagon, feed, and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Assistant Doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; Department messenger, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: one special employee, John T. Chancey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars: superintendent of reporters’ gallery, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to Doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand five hundred dollars; twenty-four messengers, at one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Messengers.</p></sidenote> one hundred and eighty dollars each; messenger to the Speaker’s table, one thousand two hundred dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers.</p></sidenote> the water-closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; nine laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each’; one laborer, six hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, known as cloakroom men, at eight hundred and forty dollars each ; eight laborers, known as cloakroom men, at six hundred dollars each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, eight hundred dollars; superintendent of folding room, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of folding room, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; second assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars: messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, seven hundred ami twenty dollars; thirty-two folders, at nine hundred dollars each; two night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two drivers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pages.</p></sidenote> pages, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of telephones, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger in charge of telephones (for the minority), one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, ami ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, twenty-three thousand eight hundred and five dollars; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/854">854</page> horse and buggy for Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of document room, two thousand nine hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of document room,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent of document room, etc.</p></sidenote> two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk in document room, one thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant clerk in document room, one thousand six hundred dollars; seven assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars each; and one janitor, nine hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants in the old library space, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, and one assistant in document room, one thousand one hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Joel Grayson.</p></sidenote> one hundred and fifty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the following minority employees authorized and named in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Minority employees.</p></sidenote> the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December second, nineteen hundred and seven, namely: One special employee, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two special messengers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; and one special chief page, one thousand one hundred dollars, and seven hundred dollars additional for services as pair clerk: in all, six thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the assistant department messenger authorized and named in<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special employees.</p></sidenote> the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue employment and for compensation of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives Februarv sixth, nineteen hundred, at three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, one thousand four hundred and five dollars and twenty-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of the person named in the resolution of the House adopted June fifth, nineteen hundred, as a laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">To continue the employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, at seventy dollars per month, eight hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">‘ To continue the employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted February seventh, nineteen hundred, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Successors to any of the employees provided for in the seven preceding<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointments.</p></sidenote> paragraphs may lie named by the House of Representatives at any time.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For clerk to the conference minority of the House of Representatives, two thousand dollars; and for’assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, three thousand eight hundred dollars. Said clerk and assistant clerk to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of Postmaster</inline>: For Postmaster, four thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postmaster, assistant, etc.</p></sidenote> assistant postmaster, two thousand two hundred dollars; thirteen messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fourteen messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, from December first to June thirtieth, inclusive, seven months, nine thousand eight hundred dollars; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Horses and wagons.</p></sidenote> two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/855">855</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Official Reporters</inline>: For six official reporters of the proceedings<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Official reporters.</p></sidenote> and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, thirty- one thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For janitor for rooms of official reporters of debates, eight hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Janitor.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Stenographers to Committees</inline>: For four stenographers to committees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stenographers to committees.</p></sidenote> at five thousand dollars each; assistant stenographer to committees, two thousand dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the fore going<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">“Du ring the session” to mean 207 days.</p></sidenote> paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and seven days from December sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, both inclusive.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Clerk Hire. Members and Delegates</inline>: To pay each Member<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Clerk hire. Members and Delegates.</p></sidenote> and Delegate for clerk hire, necessarily employed bv him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in monthly installments, five hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; ami Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R.S., sec. 31, p.6.</p></sidenote> be entitled to payment under this appropriation.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">For Contingent Expenses, Namely</inline>: For wrapping paper, pasteboard,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses. Folding material.</p></sidenote> paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of Members of House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room (not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions or the Act approved January twelfth,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Vol. 28, p.624.</p></sidenote> eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), ten thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, thirty-eight thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Fuel and oil.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, ami materials for repairs of the same, twenty thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For packing boxes, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Packing boxes.</p></sidenote> thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous items etc.</p></sidenote> committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Stationery.</p></sidenote> five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For postage stamps for the Postmaster, two hundred and fifty<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Postage stamps.</p></sidenote> dollars; for the Clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; for the Sergeant-at-Arms, three hundred dollars; and for the Doorkeeper, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library of Congress.</p></sidenote></p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="small">
<heading>library of congress.</heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">General administration: For Librarian of Congress, six thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Librarian, etc.</p></sidenote> dollars; chief assistant librarian, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; Librarian’s secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk (assistant to chief clerk), one thousand dollars; two stenographers and typewriters, one at one <page identifier="/us/stat/35/856">856</page> thousand two hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Mail and delivery: For assistant in charge, one thousand live hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail and delivery.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Order and accession: For chief of division, two thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Order and accession.</p></sidenote> five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; assistant, five hundred and twenty dollars; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each: in all, eleven thousand seven hundred anil eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Catalogue, classification, and shelf: For chief of division,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Catalogue, classification, and shelf.</p></sidenote> three thousand dollars; chief classifier, two thousand dollars; four assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: seven assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twelve assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four assistants, at eight hundred dollars each; thirteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; four assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Binding: For assistant in charge, one thousand four hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Binding.</p></sidenote> assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Bibliography: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bibliography.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred anil twenty dollars; and one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Reading rooms, etc.</p></sidenote> For superintendent of reading room, three thousand dollars; two assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant (reading room for the blind), one thousand two hundred dollars; five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Senate reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, cloak rooms, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Toner Library, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Washingtonian Library, nine hundred dollars; two attendants (for gallery anil alcoves) at four hundred and eighty dollars each; for messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred anil twenty dollars each; evening service, five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-eight thousand six hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Periodical (including evening service): For chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; chief assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each: stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; three assistants, at seven hundred and <page identifier="/us/stat/35/857">857</page> twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical reading room to be open in the evenings, two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Documents: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Documents.</p></sidenote> one thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred anil twenty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Manuscript: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; chief<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Manuscripts.</p></sidenote> assistant, one thousand five hundred dollar’s; assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollar’s.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Maps and charts: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Maps and charts.</p></sidenote> assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all,seven thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Music: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Music.</p></sidenote> one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollar’s each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Prints: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistant, one<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Prints.</p></sidenote> thousand four hundred dollar’s; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Smithsonian deposit: For custodian, one thousand five hundred<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Smithsonian deposit.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Congressional Reference Library.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Congressional Reference Library: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollar’s; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollar’s; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, five thousand and forty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Law Library: For law librarian, including additional compensation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law Library.</p></sidenote> of live hundred dollars for supervision of preparation of the new index to the Statutes at Large, three thousand dollars; two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; messenger, nine hundred dollars; assistant for evening service, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Copyright Office</inline>, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Copyright office.</p></sidenote> Register of copyrights, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant register of copyrights, three thousand dollars; chief clerk and chief of bookkeeping division, two thousand dollars; chief of application division, two thousand dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each ; six clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; ten clerks at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four clerks, at six hundred dollars each; three messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; porter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eighty-seven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/858">858</page> <inline class="smallCaps">Distribution of Card Indexes</inline>: For service in connection with<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Card indexes.</p></sidenote> the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for freight charges, axpressage, and traveling expenses connected with such distribution, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Temporary Services</inline>: For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Temporary, etc., service.</p></sidenote> at the discretion of the Librarian, to continue available until expended, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Carrier service: Two messengers, at forty dollars per month each,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Carrier service.</p></sidenote> during the first session of the Sixty-first Congress, being from December first, nineteen hundred and nine, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and for services in connection with the House Office Building, five hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Sunday Opening</inline>: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> open for reference use from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays ami legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Increase of Library of Congress</inline>: For purchase of books for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase of Library.</p></sidenote> Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, one hundred thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Law books.</p></sidenote> the direction of the Chief Justice, three thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, including<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Periodicals.</p></sidenote> payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, five thousand dollars;</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">In all, one hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses</inline>: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> of the Library, stationery, supplies, and al) stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with, the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein, seven thousand three hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Index to the Statutes At Large</inline>: For continuing the preparation<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Index to Statutes at Dirge.</p></sidenote> of an index to the Statutes at Large of the United States, ten thousand dollars, to be expended by the Librarian of Congress for the salaries of the persons whom he employs to prepare the index and for incidental expenses; the scope, classification, and style of the index to be such as the Judiciary Committees of the two Houses of Congress shall direct or approve.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">The Librarian of Congress may from time to time transfer to other<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of books, etc., authorized.</p></sidenote> governmental libraries within the District of Columbia, including the Public Library, books ahd material in the possession of the Library of Congress in his judgment no longer necessarv to its uses, but in the judgment of the custodians of such other collections likely to be useful to them, and may dispose of or destroy such material as has become useless.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Custody, Care, and Maintenance of Library Building and Grounds</inline>:<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Care of building and grounds.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent,etc.</p></sidenote> For superintendent of the Library building and grounds, live thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant <page identifier="/us/stat/35/859">859</page> messenger; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant of watch, one thousand dollars; sixteen watchmen; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; painter, nine hundred dollars; foreman of laborers, nine hundred dollars; fourteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; four check boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; mistress of charwomen, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; assistant mistress of charwomen, three hundred dollars; forty-five charwomen; chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant engineer’s, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant electrician, one thousand dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred dollars; two wiremen, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollar’s; three elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine firemen; six skilled laborer’s, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy- six thousand nine hundred and five dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For extra services of employees and additional employees under the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Sunday opening.</p></sidenote> superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide, for the opening of the Library building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, two thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric and<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">General expenses.</p></sidenote> steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custodv, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Furniture.</p></sidenote> work pertaining thereto, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For the completion of the construction, mechanical equipment,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Shelving for bound newspapers, etc.</p></sidenote> electric lighting, and roofing of a stack of shelving for bound newspapers and books in the southeast court of the Library building, two hundred thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>BOTANIC GARDEN.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Botanic Garden.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Superintendent,etc.</p></sidenote></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, fourteen thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Repairs and improvements.</p></sidenote> plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, six thousand five hundred dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>EXECUTIVE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the President of the United States, seventy- five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of the President.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">R. S. sec. 153, p. 24, amended.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars, and after the third of March, nineteen hundred and nine, the compensation of the President of the United States shall be seventy-five thousand dollars per annum; a sufficient sum<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Increase.</p></sidenote> to pay the increase in the compensation of the President herein authorized from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive, is hereby appropriated.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Compensation of the Vice-President.</p></sidenote> twelve thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/860">860</page> For compensation to the following in the office of the President of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Executive office.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Secretary to the President, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the United States: Secretary, six thousand dollars; two assistant secretaries, at three thousand dollars each; executive clerk, two thousand live hundred dollars; executive clerk and disbursing officer, two thousand dollars; seven clerks, at two thousand dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class four, who shall be a telegrapher; four clerks of class three: two clerks of class two; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief doorkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five doorkeepers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; watchman, nine hundred dollars; one fireman, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: <proviso><i>Provided</i>,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Detail of employees.</p></sidenote> That employees of the Executive Departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, carriages, harness, automobiles, expenses of stable, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, twenty-five thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Civil Service Commission.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Commissioners, examiners, etc.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; two commissioners, at four thousand dollars each; chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief examiner, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three examiners, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; twenty-four clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; twenty-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one telephone switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; one elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers; and three messenger boys, at three, hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and ten dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Field Force</inline>: For one examiner, two thousand four hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Field force.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Examiners, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> two examiners, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; four examiners, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Rural Carrier Examining Board</inline>: For one chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rural carrier examining board.</p></sidenote> thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: <page identifier="/us/stat/35/861">861</page> <proviso><i>Provided</i>, That no detail of clerks or other employees from the Executive<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Proviso.</i></p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Details from Departments forbidden.</p></sidenote> Department or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten. The Civil Service Commission<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Transfer of employees.</p></sidenote> shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board.</proviso></p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Expenses.</p></sidenote> under the direction of the commission and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, ten thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>DEPARTMENT OF STATE.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Department of State.</p></sidenote></heading>
<content>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary.</p><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8"><i>Ante</i>, p. 626.</p></sidenote> and the annual compensation of the Secretary of State, including all emoluments or allowances fixed by law, except such as were fixed by law prior to the twenty-sixth day of February, nineteen hundred and seven, after the third day of March, nineteen hundred ami nine, is hereby fixed at eight thousand dollars, and all laws or parts of laws providing different compensation, emoluments, or allowances, are hereby repealed, to take eπect on the third day of March, nineteen hundred and nine, except that so much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of twelve thousand dollars for the salary of the Secretary of State for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine as may be necessary is hereby made available to pay the said salary as herein fixed at the rate of eight thousand dollars per annum from March fourth, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, inclusive; Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; Second and Third<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Assistant Secretaries, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> Assistant Secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars: two assistant solicitors of the Department of State, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, at three thousand dollars each; law clerk, ami assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretaiy of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at two thousand five hundred dollars and one thousand five hundred dollars, respectively; two chiefs of bureaus, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; six chiefs of bureaus, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; two translators, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; additional to Chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Secretary of State, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fifteen clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; twenty-five clerks of class two; forty clerks of class one, two of whom shall be telegraph operators; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nineteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; five messengers; twenty-two assistant messengers; messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switchboard operator; carpenter, one thousand dollars; for emergency clerical services, to be expended by the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Emergency services.</p></sidenote> State in his discretion, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, two hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Contingent Expenses, Department of State</inline>: For stationery,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Contingent expenses.</p></sidenote> furniture, fixtures, and repairs and material for repairs, seven thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Library.</p></sidenote> library, two thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><page identifier="/us/stat/35/862">862</page> For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Lithographing.</p></sidenote> press, one thousand five hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, and subsistence<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Miscellaneous.</p></sidenote> of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair’ of wagons, carriages, and harness, rent of stable, telegraph and electrical apparatus and repairs to the same, and other items not included in the foregoing; in all, eight thousand dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">For rent of building in the District of Columbia for the use of the<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Rent.</p></sidenote> Department of State, three thousand dollars.</p></content>
</appropriations>
<appropriations level="major">
<heading>TREASURY DEPARTMENT.<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Treasury Department.</p></sidenote></heading>
<chapeau>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Office of the Secretary</inline>: For compensation of the Secretary of<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at five thousand dollars each; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; examiner, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four messengers; and one laborer; in all, fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Office of chief clerk and superintendent: For chief clerk,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Chief clerk, clerks, etc.</p></sidenote> including three hundred dollars as superintendent of Treasury building, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and fixtures for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant inspector of electric-light plants and draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, as bookkeeper, one hundred dollars; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one (one as librarian); one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; five assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telephone operator and assistant telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Engineers, etc.</p></sidenote> four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; six elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen; five firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; coal passer, five hundred dollars; locksmith and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Watchmen.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; sixty-four watchmen; six watchmen (transferred from the rolls of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department);<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Laborers.</p></sidenote> foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two skilled laborers, male, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; thirty-two laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; ten laborers, at five hundred dollars each; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one plumber, one thousand one hundred dollars; one painter, one thousand one hundred dollars; one wireman, one thousand dollars; eighty-seven charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, one thousand five hundred dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cabinet shop.</p></sidenote> draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; ten cabinetmakers, at one thousand dollars each; cabinetmaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; carpenter’s helper, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the Winder Building: Engineer,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Winder Building.</p></sidenote> one thousand dollars; three firemen; conductor of elevator, seven <page identifier="/us/stat/35/863">863</page> hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; and eight charwomen. For the Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Cox Building.</p></sidenote> York avenue: Three watchmen-firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer; in all, two hundred thousand three, hundred and ninety dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, three<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Bookkeeping mid warrants division.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; assistantchief of division, two thousand seven hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two principal bookkeepers, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; twelve bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, ninety thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of customs: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Customs division.</p></sidenote> assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; seven law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and two assistant messengers; in all, forty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of appointments: For chief of division, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Appointment division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; executive clerk, two thousand dollars; law and bond clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, forty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of public moneys: For chief of division, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Public moneys division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of loans and currency: For chief of division, three thousand<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Loans and currency division.</p></sidenote> dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars: five clerks of class four; additional to two clerks of class four as receiving clerk of bonds, and bookkeeper, one hundred dollars each; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class’ one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; seventeen expert money counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; ten laborers; superintendent of paper room, one thousand two hundred dollars; paper cutter, at three dollars per day; paper counter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; forty-three paper counters and laborers, at six hundred amt twenty dollars each; in all, ninety-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division,<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Revenue-Cutter Service division.</p></sidenote> two thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; law and contract clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of printing and stationery: For chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Printing and stationery division.</p></sidenote> thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; <page identifier="/us/stat/35/864">864</page> three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three messengers; one assistant messenger; two laborers; foreman of bindery at six dollars per day; four binders, at four dollars per day each; and two sewers ami folders, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each in all, forty thousand nine hundred and eleven dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand five<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Mail and files division.</p></sidenote> hundred dollars; registered mail and bond clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class two; additional to one clerk ol class two, in charge of documents, two hundred dollars; two clerk.- of class one; one mail messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers: one laborer; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.</p>
<p class="firstIndent1 fontsize10">Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, two<sidenote><p class="firstIndent1 fontsize8">Special agents.</p></sidenote> thous