For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fiftynine dollars and fifty-seven cents $59.57 For enlistment bounties to seamen, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTE- For Geological Survey, seven dollars and thirty-one cents. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, six dollars and fifty cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, four dollars and fifty-five cents For fees of jurors, United States courts, twenty-six dollars For support of prisoners, United States courts, eleven dollars and twenty cents [Total amounts under secs. 2 and 3 for Audited Claims, $199,929.86.] To pay William F. M. McCarty for services and expenses as an expert employed by the Committee on the District of Columbia to aid them in investigating and reporting upon the cost and quality of gas furnished to the Government and to the people of Washington in the year eighteen hundred and eigtyh-six, one thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars SEC. 4. The provisions of an Act entitled "An Act relating to the limitations of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia," approved August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and of an Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes," approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six, shall not apply to unskilled alien laborers and to the foremen and superintendents of such laborers employed in the construction of the isthmian canal within the Canal Zone. SEC. 5. For salaries and other expenses of the United States court for China, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, twenty thousand five hundred dollars Approved, June 30, 1906. Total, Deficiency Act.. [In addition to the appropriations made in the foregoing Act, contracts are authorized thereby to be entered into, subject to future appropriations by Congress, aggregating $270,000. For details, see p. 768.] 166.67 7.31 5.50 19.50 6.50 4. 55 26.00 11.20 1, 283.00 20, 500.00 11, 583, 777. 85 URGENT DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION ACT. [PUBLIC NO. 28.] By the Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for prior years, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1906. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 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 six, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Contingent expenses, foreign missions," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, twenty-one thousand dollars.. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, foreign missions," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, twenty-two thousand and twenty-eight dollars and forty-one cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Bringing home criminals," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one thousand ard thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Relief and protection of American seamen," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents To supply a deficiency in the appropriation "Contingent expenses, United States consulates," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, thirty thousand dollars.. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising 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 Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, no part of which sum shall be disbursed for services rendered or expenses incurred within the District of Columbia, except for the entertainment of visiting representatives of foreign governments... That not to exceed five thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of twenty thousand dollars made by the sundry civil Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, for furnishing complete the legation buildings in Peking, China, may be used for improving the legation grounds at Peking, China. [Total amount under Department of State, $124,247.99.] $21,000.00 22, 028.41 1,033.33 186. 25 30,000.00 50,000.00 TREASURY DEPARTMENT. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Cora B. Thomas her salary as a clerk of class three in the Treasury Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, deducting therefrom any salary paid her during said year as a clerk in said Department, four hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to continue her name on the rolls of said Department with pay at the rate of one thousand six hundred. dollars per annum after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six for the period of five years, but if her death shall occur during this period this provision shall terminate OFFICE OF THE TREASURER: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, namely: For eight expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars each per annum; and four messenger boys, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars each per annum; in all, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary For the following additional force to be employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks) for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, namely: For six expert counters, at the rate of nine hundred dollars each per annum; six expert counters, at the rate of eight hundred dollars each per annum; and one charwoman, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum; in all, four thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary COLLECTING THE REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS: 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 six, one million five hundred thousand dollars TRANSPORTATION OF SILVER COIN: 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 five, three thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and sixtyfive cents.... RECOINAGE OF GOLD COINS: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, three thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Recoinage of gold coins," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, one hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents. EXPENSES OF LOCAL APPRAISERS' MEETINGS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appro priation Expenses of local appraisers' meetings," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, three hundred and fourteen dollars and forty-four cents. VAULTS, SAFES, AND LOCKS: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, twenty-five thousand dollars FURNITURE AND REPAIRS OF FURNITURE: For an additional amount required for "Furniture and repairs of same for public buildings," to equip United States buildings which have not been included in any previous estimate submitted to the Congress, ninety-one thousand three hundred dollars. $400.00 3,000.00 4,350.00 1, 500, 000, 00 3, 426. 65 3,000.00 165.58 314. 44 25,000.00 91, 300.00 ARREARS OF PAY, WAR WITH SPAIN: The unexpended balances of the appropriations made for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five, for payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands, that were chargeable to the appropriations that had been carried to the surplus fund, are hereby reappropriated and made available for payment of all such amounts that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. PAYMENT TO LINDLEY C. KENT AND JOSEPH JENKINS: That out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the Port Penn range light, Delaware, there is reappropriated the sum of one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty-seven cents, to be paid to Lindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins, sureties upon the bond of Frank A. Webb for the faithful performance of his contract for the construction, erection, and delivery of buildings for the new Port Penn light station, Delaware (fourth light-house district), as authorized by the Act approved January thirteenth, nineteen hundred and five, for the relief of said Lindley C. Kent and Joseph Jenkins. PAYMENTS TO NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA: To pay to the State of New York the sum of one hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-four cents and to the State of Pennsylvania two hundred and thirty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars and sixty-five cents, said sums being certified to Congress at its present session, in House Document Numbered One hundred and sixty-seven, as having been ascertained to be due said States, respectively, under the provision in the general claims Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five; in all, three hundred and fifty-five thousand three hundred and forty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents.. COLLECTING INTERNAL REVENUE. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers, and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue on account of fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Redemption of stamps" (certified claims), five thousand and nine dollars and fifteen cents.... To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Refunding taxes illegally collected" (certified claims), sixteen thousand four hundred and sixtyone dollars and thirty-five cents QUARANTINE STATIONS. The provisions in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, for the quarantine station at Honolulu, Hawaii, is hereby amended by decreasing the appropriation for construction of a wharf from fifty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars, and increasing the appropriation for a runway to connect wharf with island from ten thousand dollars to fifteen thousand dollars, so as to read as follows: For construction of wharf at United States quarantine station, Honolulu, Hawaii, fifty thousand dollars; for a runway to connect wharf with the island, fifteen thousand dollars; for retaining wall around the island, ten thousand dollars; for laundry plant, five thousand dollars; $355, 348.49 120,000.00 5, 009. 15 16, 461. 35 in all, eighty thousand dollars, which sum shall be expended in such manner and under such plans as will complete in every detail each and every object mentioned in this paragraph. For the reclamation of Quarantine Island, Honolulu, Hawaii, from the materials now being dredged from the harbor of Honolulu, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, twenty thousand dollars.. $20,000.00 REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of RevenueCutter Service for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, one thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars and fifty-two cents: Provided, That the office of Captain of Engineers in the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States is hereby abolished from the date of the death of the late incumbent thereof, and that on and after the passage of this Act, the President may select and appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a chief engineer of said service, who has served not less than three years in that grade, as Engineer-in-Chief of the Revenue-Cutter Service, for a period of four years, and no longer, unless reappointed or sooner retired by reason of age or disability; And provided further, That the Engineer-in-Chief thus appointed shall thereafter receive the rank, pay, and allowances, while holding said appointment, that are now or may hereafter be prescribed for a Captain of the Revenue-Cutter Service, but nothing herein shall operate to increase the number of Chief Engineers now in the Revenue-Cutter Service.. 1,277.52 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Denver, Colorado, mint building: For amount required to meet outstanding obligations incurred as a result of an apparent available balance under the appropriation due to a clerical error, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and one cent Norwich, Connecticut, post-office: To pay to the Buckley Construction Company the balance due for shelving placed in the vaults of the new post-office building at Norwich, Connecticut, twenty dollars and six cents Credit in the accounts of George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of George A. Bartlett, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of one hundred and fifteen dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury, under the following appropriations: Post-office, Pekin, Illinois, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; United States mint, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents; custom-house, Portland, Oregon, thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. Credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk: That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of twenty-one dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and five." That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Thomas J. Hobbs, disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department, the sum of six hundred dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation 228. 01 20.06 |