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rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey of public lands for the fiscal years in which the work was executed, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Six hundred and thirty-two of this session, four thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and ten cents..

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five dollars and forty-four cents..

REINDEER FOR ALASKA: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic purposes, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two thousand and twenty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents..

PUBLIC LANDS SERVICE.

For expenses incident to removing the records and public property in the office of the surveyor-general of Alaska from Sitka, its present location, to Juneau, to be immediately available, for the fiscal years ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred and fifty dollars..

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Montana," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, ten dollars and forty-two cents

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of New Mexico," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven dollars and seventy-eight cents..

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

That the accourting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of James W. Spencer, special disbursing agent of the United States Geological Survey, the sum of seventy-nine dollars and sixty cents, standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation "Geological Survey, nineteen hundred and four."

That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of James W. Spencer, special disbursing agent of the United States Geological Survey, the sum of two dollars, standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation "Surveying forest reserves, nineteen hundred and three and nineteen hundred and four."

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

To pay claims found due for increased advertising and expenses in connection with the purchase of supplies for the Indian service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred dollars

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Telegraphing, and purchase of Indian supplies," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and thirteen dollars and twenty-seven cents

To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service and pay of necessary employees; advertising, at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates; inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, and for telegraphing and telephoning, three thousand dollars

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For the necessary transportation of Indian goods, provisions, and other supplies for the Indian service for fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty-five thousand dollars

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, to pay claims found due, eight thousand dollars.

To pay traveling and incidental expenses incurred by superintendents in California, including purchase of subsistence and medical attention for indigent Indians, two hundred dollars

To pay traveling and incidental expenses of superintendents at Fort Hall, Lemhi, and Coeur d'Alene, two hundred dollars

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To pay accounts set forth on page twenty-five of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in Montana, including employees,' for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and twentysix dollars and ten cents

To pay traveling and incidental expenses of agents at Crow, Blackfeet, Tongue River, Fort Belknap, Fort Peck, and Flathead, three hundred dollars.

To pay traveling and incidental expenses and for additional supplies for Indians, five hundred dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in New Mexico," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-five dollars and eighty-three cents...

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in Utah," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, forty-six dollars and thirty-eight cents. To pay traveling and incidental expenses of superintendents and agents, including purchase of subsistence for indigent Indians, eight hundred dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Surveying and allotting for Chippewas in Minnesota (reimbursable)," two thousand two hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Town-site Commissioners, Indian Territory," six hundred and twenty-four dollars and thirteen cents.. To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma: Steam boilers," eight dollars and ten cents.

For transportation of pupils to and from the school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand five hundred dollars

To enable the Secretary of the Interior to return twenty-two pupils heretofore in the United States Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to their respective homes in Alaska, three thousand seven hundred and five dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Indian School, Riverside, California, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one thousand two hundred and forty-four dollars and forty-nine cents.

The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Edgar Smith from any tribal funds of the Cherokee Nation in the Treasury of the United States the sum of five thousand dollars, in full for his services as attorney for said Nation in the Supreme Court of the United States, in a certain cause entitled "In the matter of the enrollment of persons claiming rights in the Cherokee Nation by intermarriage versus United States: Cherokee Nation, Intervenor," more

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particularly described as numbers four hundred and nineteen to four hundred and twenty-two, inclusive, on the Calendar of said Court.

The appropriation contained in the Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, in behalf of Ann Francis, a Chippewa Indian woman, is hereby extended to and made available for the payment of the estimated clerk's costs in the case of Francis against Francis, pending in the United States Supreme Court, in addition to the purposes specified

in said Act.

[Total amount under Department of the Interior, $109,188.72.]

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars

DEFENDING SUITS IN CLAIMS: For defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, as follows:

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred and fourteen dollars and forty cents

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty-one dollars and ninety-four cents

PAYMENT TO HENRY E. DEAN: For payment to Henry E. Dean for legal services rendered for the United States on April nineteenth, nineteen hundred and four, in cross-examining a witness in the case of Schwarzschild and Sulzberger Company versus H. A. Rucker, collector of internal revenue, fifteen dollars

UNITED STATES JAIL, ALASKA: The judge of the United States district court for the third division of the district of Alaska is hereby authorized to order the clerk of said court to pay to the proper claimants, from court funds, the sum of six hundred and eighty-seven dollars and thirty-two cents, being the excess beyond the limit prescribed by law in the cost of the construction of the United States jail at Nushagak, Alaska.

PAYMENT TO HUGH T. TAGGART: For payment to Hugh T. Taggart in full for services rendered as special assistant to the Attorney-General in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the case commonly known as the "Potomac Flats" case, under appointment of January fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, five thousand dollars

REFORM SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow in the accounts of S. W. Curriden, treasurer of the Reform School, District of Columbia, payments heretofore made by him in good faith to instructors in music and military exercises and for officers' uniforms on first appointment, in accordance with the regulations of the board of trustees.

JUDICIAL.

For salaries of four deputy clerks in the Indian Territory, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, authorized by the Indian Appropriation Act, approved June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars..

$2,500.00

114. 40

31.94

15.00

5,000.00

4,800.00

For salaries of clerks, commissioners, and constables, and expenses of commissioners and judges in the Indian Territory, five hundred dollars.

For the salary of the additional district judge for the southern district of New York, at the rate of six thousand dollars per annum: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred dollars.. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, six thousand dollars.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentary; 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, six hundred dollars.

For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, ten thousand dollars.

For fees of clerks, forty-five thousand dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and sixty dollars

For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, forty-five thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be available also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized to expend the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars from the unexpended balance of the appropriation of twelve thousand eight hundred dollars made by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of February third, nineteen hundred and five, "For rent of suitable buildings for the storage of post-office supplies and for the rural free-delivery service," to defray the expenses of maintaining the mail-lock repair shop in a building separate from the mail-bag repair shop until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six.

Balance of account of William A. Machen, doing business as Machen Brothers, for coal furnished the Post-Office Department, sixty-eight dollars and ninety-three cents

Repairs to cement walk around plumbing appurtenances adjacent to the Post-Office Department building, fifteen dollars and ninety-one

cents

To pay the claim of John N. Newkirk, postmaster at San Diego, California, for credit on account of loss resulting from the burglary of his office February twenty fifth, nineteen hundred and six, fourteen thousand five hundred and thirteen dollars and six cents

For payment to Walter L. Stowell, of San Francisco, California, in full settlement for loss sustained by burglary of the stamp office in the post-office at San Francisco, California, one thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars...

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600.00

10,000.00 45,000.00

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45,000.00

68.93

15.91

14, 513. 06

1,374.00

For steel file boxes and cases for the division of appointments, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of seventy thousand dollars made in the Act approved May third, nineteen hundred and six, to meet emergencies in the postal service in the State of California occasioned by earthquake and fire shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven.

For inland mail transportation by steamboat and other power-boat routes, thirty-three thousand dollars

For inland mail transportation by railroad routes, two hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars....

For regulation, screen, or other wagon service, fifty-six thousand dollars

Railway Mail Service: For per diem allowance of assistant superintendents, three thousand dollars

For transportation of foreign mails, two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars

To pay the Adrian Brick and Tile Machine Company, of Adrian, Michigan, for street letter boxes manufactured by that company, as subcontractors, and furnished to the Post Office Department by the contractor, Eugene D. Scheble, of Toledo, Ohio, trading as the Michigan Steel Box Company, under his contract covering the period from July first, nineteen hundred and one, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, eighteen thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents

To pay the following, audited and certified by the Auditor for the Post-Office Department, on pages thirty-two and thirty-three of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, namely:

For transportation of foreign mails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, fifty-seven thousand five hundred and ninety-seven dollars. and fifty-five cents

For packing boxes, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nineteen dollars and forty-four cents

For miscellaneous items first and second-class offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, one hundred and twentyfour dollars and thirteen cents....

For city free-delivery service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, four hundred and nineteen dollars and sixty-nine cents For rural free-delivery service, incidental expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, ninety-one dollars and eight

cents

For inland mail transportation, star, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred and ninety-nine dollars and fifty cents ... [Total amount under Post-Office Department, $691,650.69.]

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES: To pay the claims set forth on page twentysix of House Document Numbered Eight hundred and sixty-one, of this session, on account of contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and twenty-six cents

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LIBRARY: To pay claim of G. E. Stechert, New York, New York, for various periodicals furnished under requisitions dated April

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