"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 eight hundred and seventyfive dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury under the appropriation Heating apparatus for 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 one thousand four hundred and fifty-four dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury, under the appropriation Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and five."

Springfield, Illinois, court-house and post-office: For balance due R. F. Kinsella on contract for painting old portion of court-house and post-office at Springfield, Illinois, two thousand five hundred and fiftynine dollars and twenty cents

Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia: To pay amount found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for annual repairs to Treasury building, Washington, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, to adjust appropriations, fifty dollars...

Kansas City, Missouri, post-office and court-house: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and forty thousand dollars

Nashville, Tennessee, custom-house and post-office: For continuation of extension under present limit, five thousand dollars

Rome, Georgia, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, five thousand dollars..

Los Angeles, California, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, and for electric current for power purposes, five thousand dollars..

Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For improvements and changes of a general nature, exclusive of furniture, in order to better fit the building for the transaction of the public business, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars....

$2,559. 20

50.00

140, 000. 00

5,000.00

5,000.00

5,000.00

138,000.00

INDEPENDENT TREASURY.

For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, two thousand six hundred and fifty-two dollars

2,652.00

MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco," fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty-one cents..

For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, three thousand five hundred dollars

137.51

3,500.00

For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, fifteen thousand dollars [Total amount under Treasury Department, $2,466,199.96.]

15,000.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS: For fuel, thirty thousand dollars For salaries of janitors for the John W. Ross and Henry T. Blow schools, six hundred and twelve dollars..

Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to 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. [Total amount under District of Columbia, $30,612.]

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of seventy-five thousand dollars made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the "Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes of said appropriation during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

ARMY GENERAL HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For the construction and completion of an army general hospital in the District of Columbia, upon the site recently acquired for the purpose, within the present authorized limit of cost, two hundred thousand dollars

MILITARY PRISON AT FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For the following during so much of the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six as may be necessary, namely: For one clerk at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; one clerk at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum; one clerk at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; five foremen of mechanics, at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each; one engineer at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum; one teamster at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; four teamsters, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; two night watchmen, at the rate of three hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; one fireman at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum; extra-duty pay for prison guard, one thousand one hundred and forty dollars; in all, eight thousand seven hundred and forty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary

NATIONAL TROPHY AND PRIZES FOR ARMY AND MILITIA: For 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 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, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven hundred and fifty-six dollars

PAYMENT TO INDIANA STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE: To pay the Indiana State board of agriculture the actual value of the use, occupation, and damage to their property by the United States military authorities for Government purposes during the war with Spain, as

$30,000.00

612.00

200,000.00

8,740. 00

756.00

ascertained under the Act approved April seventh, nineteen hundred and four, and reported to Congress in House Document Numbered Forty-eight of this session, seven thousand four hundred and thirtyone dollars and eighty-eight cents

[Total amount under War Department, $216,927.88.]

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

PAY DEPARTMENT.

For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, when authorized by law, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That out of the sum herein appropriated mileage shall be allowed in accordance only with the following rule in cases where the station of an officer is changed while he is on leave of absence, to wit, that he shall be allowed mileage on joining his new station for the distance to the new station from the place where he received the order directing the change: Provided, That the distance is not greater than that from the old station to the new station; but if the distance be greater, he shall be entitled to mileage for a distance equal to that from the old to the new station only, subject to the same restrictions as to the shortest usually traveled routes and compensation over bond or land grant aided roads as now provided by law.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

REGULAR SUPPLIES: For regular supplies of the Quartermaster's Department, 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, twenty thousand dollars.

BURIAL OF INDIGENT SOLDIERS: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, sailors, and marines of the late civil war and soldiers and sailors of the war with Spain who die in the District of Columbia or in the immediate vicinity thereof, and of such soldiers, sailors, and marines who die in the District of Columbia and are buried in the immediate vicinity thereof, 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, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, five hundred dollars

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, as follows:

For miscellaneous material purchases in the United States, one million dollars;

For miscellaneous material purchases on the Isthmus and miscellaneous expenditures, consisting of hotel and hospital and other supplies, transportation of labor from West Indies, four hundred thousand dollars;

For amounts to pay the Panama Railroad Company for material and services, including construction of second main track, two hundred thousand dollars;

For Isthmus pay rolls, two million one hundred thousand dollars; For salaries, incidental expenses, rents, cable and telegraph service in the United States, covering Washington office, including Commis

$7, 431. 88

50,000.00

20,000.00

500.00

sioners, offices of assistant purchasing agents at New Orleans, New York, and Tacoma, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the money herein appropriated shall be paid to any Commissioner as compensation in addition to his salary as Commissioner;

For new equipment purchases, one million five hundred and sixtyfive thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars; in all, five million three hundred and forty thousand seven hundred and eighty-six dollars, which shall continue available until expended: Provided, That all 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 bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twentyeighth, nineteen hundred and two..

To be used as an advance to the Panama Railroad Company to pay for the reequipment of that company, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars..

The provisions of the 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, shall not apply to alien laborers employed in the construction of the Isthmian Canal within the Canal Zone.

PAYMENT TO LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM M. BLACK: For payment to Lieutenant-Colonel William M. Black, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, fifty per centum additional compensation to pay proper, for services rendered to the Isthmian Canal Commission in the Isthmus of Panama from April ninth, nineteen hundred and three, to March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, being an equalization of pay similar to that paid other officers detailed with the Commission, and in pursuance of the understanding at the time when the assignment to duty with the Commission was tendered and accepted, one thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and thirty-two cents, to be paid from the appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal.

PAYMENT TO LIEUTENANT MARK BROOKE: For payment to Lieutenant Mark Brooke, Corps of Engineers, United States Army, fifty per centum additional compensation to pay proper, for services rendered to the Isthmian Canal Commission in the Isthmus of Panama from April ninth, nineteen hundred and three, to March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, being an equalization of pay similar to that paid other officers detailed with the Commission, and in pursuance of the understanding at the time when the assignment to duty with the Commission was tendered and accepted, five hundred and seventythree dollars and ninety-eight cents, to be paid from the appropriations herein made for the Isthmian Canal.

[Total amount under Military Establishment, $6,061,286.]

NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.

At the Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, seven thousand dollars

At the Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, four thousand dollars

For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, three thousand five hundred dollars.

$5, 340, 786. 00

650, 000. 00

7,000.00

4,000.00

3,500.00

At the Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For transportation of members of the Home, three thousand dollars...

For completion of coal shed, one thousand dollars, and said coal shed may be constructed of steel or other suitable material

At the Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For dredging and filling, twenty-one thousand dollars.

STATE OR TERRITORIAL HOMES FOR DISABLED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS: 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, on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand eight hundred and seventynine dollars and eighty-seven cents: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be 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, 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 apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained: And provided further, That 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.

STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.

For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories, five hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents..

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to complete the distribution of the medals commemorative of the naval and other engagements in the waters of the West Indies and on the shores of Cuba, to the officers and men of the Navy and Marine Corps who participated in any of said engagements, as provided by public resolution numbered seventeen, approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That the medals herein authorized shall be transmitted to the person entitled to the same at the place where he is ocated at the time of transmitting the same

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

PAY OF THE NAVY.

PAY, MISCELLANEOUS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Pay, miscellaneous," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, six thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-seven cents

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT.

COAL AND TRANSPORTATION: Purchase of coal and other fuel for 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 for the fiscal years as follows:

For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, five hundred thousand dollars

$3,000.00

1,000.00

21,000.00

188,879. 87

596.50

10,000.00

6, 478.57

500,000.00