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For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, two hundred and ten thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT, BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT: Express charges on equipment stores; packing boxes and materials, printing, advertising, telegraphing, books, and models; stationery; furniture for equipment of offices in navy-yards; postage on letters sent abroad; ferriage, ice, and emergencies arising under cognizance of the Bureau of Equipment unforeseen and impossible to classify, for the fiscal years as follows:

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

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Equipment," fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and eight dollars and twenty-seven cents

BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery," fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, one hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-three cents..

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS.

Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: All freight charges pertaining to the Navy Department and its bureaus, except the transportation of coal for the Bureau of Equipment, seventy-five thousand dollars..

$210,000.00

3,000.00

15,000.00

408.27

156.93

75,000.00

MARINE CORPS.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING, MARINE CORPS: For transportation of troops, including ferriage and the expense of the recruiting service, one hundred thousand dollars.

CLOTHING, MARINE CORPS: For clothing for noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, one hundred thousand dollars

PUBLIC WORKS, MARINE CORPS: For repairs and improvements to public buildings, Philippine Islands, destroyed and damaged by typhoon, eleven thousand dollars

[Total amount under Naval Establishment, $1,021,043.77.]

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For salary of private secretary, now appropriated for as confidential clerk in office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, from March tenth, nineteen hundred and six, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, being three months and twenty-two days, five hundred and sixty dollars..

The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to credit the accounts of George W. Evans, disbursing clerk Department of the Interior, with the amount of twenty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents, on account of payments made to the Library Bureau Company for printed index cards furnished the Department of the Interior in the quarters ended December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, and March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, on properly approved vouchers.

S. Doc. 535, 59-1-26

100, 000. 00

100,000.00

11,000.00

560.00

CAPITOL BUILDING: That the balance of the appropriations for work at the Capitol and repairs thereof made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, and continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.

HEATING, LIGHTING, AND POWER PLANT: The limit of cost of the heating, lighting, and power plant, authorized and provided for under the sundry civil Act approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby extended so that when said plant shall have been completed and of sufficient size and capacity to furnish heat, light, and power for the office building, House of Representatives, the Capitol building, the Congressional Library building, the office building, United States Senate, and for such other buildings as may hereafter be erected on grounds adjacent to the Capitol grounds at the east of the Capitol building and facing the same, the total expenditure shall not exceed one million three hundred and ninety-three thousand dollars; and contracts for any part or the whole of the work herein provided for under said extended limit of cost are authorized to be entered into by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the terms of the Act aforesaid.

SUBWAY SYSTEM: For the construction of a subway system to connect the office building of the United States Senate with the Capitol building an expenditure not to exceed one hundred and sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars is hereby authorized; and contracts for said subway system are authorized to be entered into within said sum by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision of the Commission on the Senate office Building created by the sundry civil Act, approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, subject to appropriations to be hereafter made by Congress.

OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF NEVADA: For rent of office for the surveyor-general, stationery, and drawing materials, post-office box rent, registering letters, telephone, ice, repair of furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars

COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, two thousand five hundred dollars

For the maintenance and tuition of colored deaf-mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia in the Maryland School for Colored Deaf-Mutes, as authorized by an Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, four thousand five hundred dollars, one-half of this amount to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated

$500.00

2,500.00

4,500.00

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

To reimburse Doctor William A. White, superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane, for expenses incurred by him for printing, binding, engraving, and blank books for the use of the Government Hospital for the Insane, such expense having been disallowed in the accounts by the Comptroller of the Treasury under date of August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, upon the ground that the items should have been procured from the Government Printing Office, under section eighty-seven of the act of January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents..

103.25

For the purchase of fire extinguishers, hose, and other fire apparatus and for furnishing and fixing in place fire escapes and for fireproofing buildings at the Government Hospital for the Insane, as required for the protection of the inmates thereof the unexpended balance of the thirty-three thousand six hundred dollars appropriated in the urgent deficiency Act of February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for fire escapes and fireproofing at the Government Hospital for the Insane, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purposes above mentioned during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six and nineteen hundred and seven.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.

To enable the Director of the Geological Survey to complete the investigation of the useful values contained in the black sands of the United States, under the conditions prescribed in the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-five thousand dollars, of which not exceeding two thousand dollars may be expended for rent of rooms

For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, eighty thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven

INDIAN AFFAIRS.

To supply a deficiency in salary of the United States Indian inspector designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, as "chief engineer," in connection with his appointment of March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five, es United States Indian inspector" (irrigation engineer) from March twenty-eighth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, inclusive, two hundred and sixty-one dollars and eleven

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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, 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 thousand two hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-five cents.

For the necessary transportation of Indian goods, provisions, and other supplies for the Indian service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Transportation of Indian supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, nine thousand six hundred and ninety-three dollars and eighty-six cents

To pay for outstanding indebtedness for the erection of school buildings and waterworks at Western Navajo School, Arizona, and Zuni School, New Mexico, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, forty-two thousand one hundred and forty-two dollars and fifty

nine cents

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Indian school, Grand Junction, Colorado: Water system," twenty dollars and fifty cents

The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay John H. Roberts the sum of eight hundred and forty-three dollars and sixty cents, from the appropriations for the support of the

$25,000.00

80,000. 00

261. 11

300.00

1,278.55

10,000.00

9,693. 86

42, 142.59

20.50

Flandreau Indian School for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, being the amount disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department on his claim for net beef furnished the Flandreau Indian School under his contract during the fourth quarter, nineteen hundred and four, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in Idaho" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, twenty dollars

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in the Indian Territory, including employees," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, three hundred dollars and forty-eight cents

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in Montana, including employees," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, fiftytwo dollars and sixty-five cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Incidentals in South Dakota," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seventy-eight dollars and fifty-five 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, one hundred and fourteen dollars and seventy-five cents

For general incidental expenses of the Indian Service in Indian Territory and pay of employees, seven thousand five hundred dollars

For the purpose of removing intruders and placing allottees in unrestricted possession of their allotments, ten thousand dollars

For clerical work and labor connected with the sale and leasing of Creek and leasing of Cherokee lands, ten thousand dollars

For special clerical force in the office of the United States Indian agent, Union Agency, and miscellaneous expenses in connection with payments for town lots, and issuance of patents and conveying same, four thousand dollars..

For necessary expenses and clerical force for removal of restrictions. upon the alienation of lands allotted to members of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, of Indian blood, as provided by the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four, ten thousand dollars....

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the completion of the work heretofore required by law to be done by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, being the amount required to complete the unfinished work devolving upon the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes within said fiscal year, seventy-five thousand dollars, said appropriation to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Town-site commissioners, Indian Territory," fifty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Irrigation, Indian reservations," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, two thousand three hundred and ninety-four dollars and five cents

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and ninety cents

For the care and support of insane persons in the Indian Territory until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, and to be

$20.00

300.48

52.65

78.55

114. 75

7,500.00

10,000.00

10, 000. 00

4,000.00

10,000.00

75,000.00

59.36

2,394. 05

6.90

expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior: Prorided, however, That the Indian citizens in said Territory shall be cared for at the asylum in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota, twentyfive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For asylum for insane Indians, Canton, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and six: For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum, for incidental and all other expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees and necessary expenses of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, three thousand five hundred dollars

$28, 500.00

PENSIONS.

For army and navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, three million five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the appropriation aforesaid for navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: Provided further, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately

[Total amount under Department of the Interior, $3,824,886.60.|

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, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, four hundred and thirteen dollars and forty-five cents

For books for law library of the Department, five hundred dollars.. To enable the Attorney-General to procure, through the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, plans for a new building or buildings to replace the main building of the Reform School, District of Columbia, recently destroyed by fire; said plans not to be upon a basis of construction of a building or buildings involving a total cost exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, and no plan to be adopted unless approved by the Attorney-General and authorized by legislation hereafter to be enacted, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary

For roofing and repairing the main building at the reform school, District of Columbia, and for the purchase of storeroom and hospital supplies, bedding and bedsteads for dormitory, kitchen utensils, tableware and furniture for dining room, clothing material and clothing for inmates, and other necessary articles and supplies to replace those destroyed by fire recently, four thousand five hundred dollars

COURT-HOUSE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For annual repairs, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five hundred and ninety-nine dollars and thirty-three cents

COURT OF CLAIMS: For miscellaneous expenses, including furniture and repairs thereof, six 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 on account of fiscal years as follows:

3, 500, 000. 00

413. 45 500.00

3,000.00

4,500.00

599.33

600.00

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