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 Fifty-ninth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand dollars to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work...... CHARTERS AND CONSTITUTIONS: For the purchase from Professor Francis N. Thorpe of the manuscript for a new edition of charters, constitutions, and organic laws of all the States, Territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States, and any Acts of Congress relating thereto, prepared by him, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That he shall prepare a complete index of the work and do all proof reading in connection with the preparation, printing, and publication thereof; and the Public Printer shall print and bind six thousand copies of the work, of which two thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate and four thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives

BOTANIC GARDEN: For painting, glazing, and general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, foot walks, and roadways, and for reconstructing plant houses numbered one and two, south side of Maryland avenue, with cast-iron sills and gutters, wrought-iron rafters and purlines, gulf-cypress sash bars, and reglaze with twelve inch by sixteen inch double thick glass, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars..

[Total amount under Legislative, $19,000.]

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary clerks and employees; for the purchase and installation of, and instruction in, cost, audit, and inventory systems; for rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; for bicy cles, 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 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; 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 one 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

For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, and for rents, two million ninety-three thousand five 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

$2,000.00

10,000.00

7,000.00

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cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made.

For the Department of State, forty-two thousand dollars.

For the Treasury Department, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be expended for the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office.

For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office.

For the Interior Department, including not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding twenty thousand dollars for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, four hundred and eighty-seven thousand dollars.

For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, 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-nine thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, twenty-one thousand dollars; in all, seventy thousand dollars.

For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the Report on Mineral Resources, forty-five thousand dollars. For printing and binding the Annual Report of the Director, the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the Report on Mineral Resources, one hundred and forty thousand dollars; and said amounts shall cover all printing and binding on account of said publications of the Geological Survey.

For the Department of Justice, twenty-three thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

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 Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the provisions of public resolution Numbered Thirteen of the present session, three hundred thousand dollars.

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.

For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order.

For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Court of Claims, fifteen thousand dollars.

For the Library of Congress, including the copyright department and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the Copyright Office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, two hundred and five thousand dollars.

For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars.

For the Interstate Commerce Commission, fifty-eight thousand dollars.

For the Bureau of American Republics, twenty thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.

To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days' annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

[Total amount for Public Printing and Binding, $5,425,000.]

THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.

To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expended under the direction of the President in accordance with an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two: Provided, That no part of the sums herein appropriated shall be used for the construction of a canal of the so-called sea level type, as follows:

For salaries of members, officers, and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission, including inspectors of material, examiners, assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, two hundred and fifty-one thousand and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents;

For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal building in the District of Columbia, twelve thousand dollars, and text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars), one hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-six cents;

For pay of officers and employees other than skilled, and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, for the construction and engineering and administration departments, two million six hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and twelve dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, for the departments of construction and engineering and administration, nine million fifty thousand six hundred and sixty-one dollars;

For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment for the construction and engineering and administration departments on the Isthmus of Panama, nine million thirty-two thousand eight hundred and fourteen dollars and twenty-four cents;

To continue the reequipment of the Panama Railroad, to be disbursed directly under the Isthmian Canal Commission, one million dollars; no part of said sun shall have been so expended until the obligation of the Panama Railroad Company for the full amount thereof and drawing four per cent interest payable to the United States shall have been delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and by him accepted.

For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, and traveling and incidental expenses on the Isthmus for the construction and engineering and administration departments, four hundred and thirty-four thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled

$325,000.00

labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, six hundred thousand dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor in the service of the government of the Canal Zone, fifty thousand dollars;

For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses for account of the government of the Canal Zone, three hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred dollars;

For pay of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus of Panama, five hundred and seventy-nine thousand and sixty-eight dollars;

For material, supplies, equipment, new buildings, and contingent expenses of the health and sanitation department on the Isthmus, eight hundred and twenty-two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifteen cents;

In all, twenty-five million four hundred and fifty-six thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and eight cents: Provided, That all expenditures from the appropriation herein made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of, the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two. $25, 456, 415. 08 SEC. 2. Hereafter there shall be submitted in the regular annual estimates to Congress under and as a part of the expenses for "Printing and binding," estimates for all printing and binding required by each of the Executive Departments, their bureaus and offices, and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, for each fiscal year; and after the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven no appropriations other than those made specifically and solely for printing and binding shall be used for such purposes in any Executive Department or other Government establishment in the District of Columbia: Provided, That nothing in this section shall apply to stamped envelopes, or envelopes and articles of stationery other than letter heads and note heads, printed in the course of manufacture.

SEC. 3. The authority vested in the Joint Commission to examine into the general subject of the public printing and binding of Congress and the various executive departments, authorized and appointed under the provisions of the Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, shall be continued in force during the term of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and the said Commission is hereby directed to continue its investigations and report to Congress at its next session. And the said Commission is hereby directed to enquire into the necessity for the continuance of the various branch printing offices and printing offices maintained in the various executive department bureaus or independent offices of the Government and to report what economies, if any, would be effected in the abolition of these printing offices or branch printing offices and the execution of the work now performed therein in the Government Printing Office.

SEC. 4. So much of chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page eight hundred and forty-three, at page eight hundred and forty-eight) relative to the employment of counsel to protect the interests of the Treasury Department in cases before the Board of General Appraisers is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

That the Attorney-General shall, at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, appoint a solicitor of customs and such assistants, not to exceed three, as the Secretary may deem necessary to protect the interests of the United States in all cases and matters before the Board of

General Appraisers; and tne said solicitor and his assistants shall, whenever so directed by the Attorney-General, appear in courts of the United States in any cases appealed from said Board of General Appraisers and take such part in the management, conduct, and trial of such cases as the Attorney-General may deem advisable.

That the salary of said solicitor shall be five thousand dollars per annum, and of said assistants not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum, to be fixed by the Attorney-General, and all of said salaries shall be paid out of the general appropriation for the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs.

That said solicitor and assistants shall be appointed without compliance with the conditions prescribed by the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and improve the civil service," approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and amendments thereof. And the salary of the Appraiser of Merchandise for the Port of Chicago is hereby fixed at four thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 5. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall require, and it shall be the duty of the head of each Executive Department or other Government establishment to furnish him, within thirty days after the close of each fiscal year, a statement of all money arising from proceeds of public property of any kind or from any source other than the postal service, received by said head of Department or other Government establishment during the previous fiscal year for or on account of the public service, or in any other manner in the discharge of his official duties other than as salary or compensation, which was not paid. into the General Treasury of the United States, together with a detailed account of all payments, if any, made from such funds during such year. All such statements, together with a similar statement applying to the Treasury Department, shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.

SEC. 6. Hereafter, where the compensation of any person in the service of the United States is annual or monthly the following rules for division of time and computation of pay for services rendered are hereby established: Annual compensation shall be divided into twelve equal installments, one of which shall be the pay for each calendar month; and in making payments for a fractional part of a month onethirtieth of one of such installments, or of a monthly compensation, 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 annual or monthly compensation, 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 of any calendar month from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Any person entering the service of the United States during a thirtyone 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 date of entry: Provided, That for one day's unauthorized absence on the thirty-first day of any calendar month one day's pay shall be forfeited.

SEC. 7. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and six, all of the expenses of the supreme court of the District of Columbia mentioned below, to wit, fees of witnesses, fees of jurors, pay of bailiffs and criers, including salaries of deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and all miscellaneous expenses of said court, shall be paid one half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the revenues of the United States: Provided, That estimates for