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Tobacco,

Agricultural

waii, and Porto

Limit.

* * * and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby au- stations. thorized to expend forty-eight thousand dollars of which sum to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and Porto Alaska. II. Rico, including the erection of buildings, the printing (in Rico. Hawaii and Porto Rico), illustration, and distribution of reports and bulletins: Provided, That not more than fif- Provisos. teen thousand dollars shall be expended for the maintenance of such stations in any one of said Territories, except in the case of Alaska, where three thousand dollars additional may be used for the purchase and introduction of live stock for experimental purposes; 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, and Porto Rico, and to apply the moneys received from the sale of such products to the maintenance of said stations, and this fund shall be available until used; * * *

CHAP. 1407.-An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic Mar. 3, 1905. and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, [H. R. 18468.] nineteen hundred and six.

[Public, No.
140.]
33 Stats. L.,

and consular

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- pt. 1, p. 915. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, Diplomatic severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplo- appropriations. matic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.

American

Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign Relief countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Ter- men. ritory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico,

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and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

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CHAP. 1481.-An Act Making appropriations for the naval [H. R. 18467.] service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes.

[Public, No. 214.]

33 Stats. L., pt.-1, p. 1092.

Mar. 3. 1905.

(Naval Station, Cavite, P. I.; Naval Station, San Juan, P. R.; Naval Station, Guam; Naval Station, Tutuila, Samoan Islands; Naval Station, Olongapo, P. I.; Repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, Alaska, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, and Guam. See pp. 69-71.)

CHAP. 1483.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil [H. R. 18969.] expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June [Public, No. thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. 216.] 33 Stats. L., Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representapt. 1. p. 1156. tives of the United States of America in Congress assemSundry civil bled, That the following sums be, and the same propriations. hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, namely:

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Quarantine

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QUARANTINE SERVICE: For the maintenance and ordiMaintenance. nary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at

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quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Geodetic Survey.

Coast and For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the survey of the coast of the United States and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including Survey of the survey of rivers to the head of tide water or ship navi jurisdiction of gation; deep-sea soundings, temperature and current obUnited States. Servations along the coast and throughout the Gulf

coasts under

Stream and Japan Stream flowing off the said coast; tidal observations; the necessary resurveys; the preparation. of the Coast Pilot; continuing researches and other work Coast Pilot. relating to physical hydrography and terrestrial magnetism and the magnetic maps of the United States and adjacent waters, and the tables of magnetic declination, dip, and intensity usually accompanying them, astronomical and gravity observations; and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, in conformity with the regulations for the government of the Coast and Geodetic Survey adopted by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for special examinations that may be required by the LightHouse Board or other proper authority;

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FOR FIELD EXPENSES: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States, to be immediately available, and to continue available until expended: Provided, Proviso. That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this tations. amount shall be expended on the coasts of the beforementioned outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars.

Island

limi

For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Pacific Pacific coast. coast, including the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska and other coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction. of the United States, to be immediately_available, and

Employment,

pinos.

to continue available until expended: Provided, That Proviso. this appropriation be available for the transportation to etc.. of Filiand from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars.

For offshore soundings and examination of reported Coast Pilot. 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 offices as may be necessary for the same, fifteen

thousand dollars.

servations.

For continuing magnetic observations and to establish Magnetic obmeridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and

Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to Points to be applied as far as practicable in States where points State surveys. have not been furnished; for deteriminations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars.

affairs.

INSULAR AND TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the conduct of insular and other territorial matters and affairs within the jurisInsular, etc., diction of the Department of Justice, including the payment of necessary employees at the seat of government or elsewhere, to be selected and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, and to be expended under his direction, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That estimates under this appropriation shall hereafter be submitted in detail under Legislative, Executive, and Judicial expenses.

Proviso.

Future estimates.

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JUDICIAL.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS: For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska;

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CHAP. 1484.-An Act Making appropriations to supply defi[H. R. 19150.] ciencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June_thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

[Public, No. 217.]

33 Stats. L., pt. 1, p. 1214.

(Survey for wagon road and military trail, Alaska; Dry dock, Havana, Cuba. See p. 73.)

TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS.

33 Stats. L., pt. 2, p. 2145.

Supplementary Convention between the United States and Jan. 26, 1903. Cuba extending the time within which may be exchanged the ratifications of the Commercial Convention signed on December 11, 1902. Signed at Washington, January 26, 1903; ratification advised by the Senate, February 16, 1903; ratified by the President, March 30, 1903; ratified by Cuba, March 30, 1903; ratifications exchanged at Washington, March 31, 1903; proclaimed December 17, 1903.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas a Supplementary Convention between the Preamble. United States of America and the Republic of Cuba, extending the time within which may be exchanged the ratifications of the Commercial Convention signed at Habana, December 11, 1902, was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the twentysixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and three, the original of which Supplementary Convention, being in the English and Spanish languages, word for word as follows:

The President of the United States of America and the President of the Republic of Cuba considering it expedient to prolong the period within which, by Article XI of the Commercial Convention, signed by their respective plenipotentiaries at Habana on December 11, 1902, the exchange of ratifications of the said Convention shall take place, have for that purpose appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, namely:

The President of the United States of America, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America; and

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El Presidente de los Es- Contracting parties. tados Unidos de América y el Presidente de la República de Cuba considerando conveniente ampliar el plazo dentro del cual, segun el Artículo XI del Tratado comercial firmado por sus respectivos plenipotenciarios en la Habana, el dia 11 de Diciembre de 1902, debe tener lugar el canje de las ratificaciones del referido Tratado, han nombrado com este objeto sus respectivos Plenipotenciarios, á saber:

El Presidente de los Es- Plenipotentitados Unidos de América, á arles. John Hay, Secretario de Estado de los Estados Unidos de América; y

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