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fifty-five, One hundred and seventy-seven, and One hundred and eightysix of the present session, sixty-three thousand seven hundred and forty dollars..

SEC. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREAS-
URY DEPARTMENT.

For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, nineteen dollars and fifty-seven cents

For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, ninety-three

cents

For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, twenty-three dollars and twenty-eight cents.

For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, eleven dollars and fifty-five cents

For repairs and preservation of public buildings, twenty-nine dollars and thirteen cents.

For collecting the revenue from customs, fifty dollars

For repayment to importers, excess of deposits, one hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty-three cents

For quarantine service, one dollar

For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine dollars and fifty-four cents

For Life-Saving Service, nine hundred and thirty-seven dollars and eighty-four cents.

For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, one dollar and sixty-three cents

For refunding taxes on distilled spirits destroyed by casualty, fortyone dollars and sixty-nine cents...

For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, four hundred and twenty-five thousand four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and forty-nine cents

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR

DEPARTMENT.

For Signal Service of the Army, four dollars and fourteen cents... For pay and so forth of the Army, twenty thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighteen cents

For subsistence of the Army, four hundred and one dollars and twenty-two cents.

For regular supplies, Quartermaster's Department, two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and forty-three cents

For incidental expenses, Quartermaster's Department, one hundred and forty-five dollars and nine cents.

For transportation of the Army and its supplies, seventeen thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and twenty-one cents

$63, 740. 00

19.57

.93

23.28

11. 55

29.13

50.00

121.53

1.00

1, 649. 54

937.84

1.63

41.69

425, 428. 49

4. 14

20, 631. 18

401.22

239. 43

145. 09

17, 127. 21

For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, one thousand four hundred and nineteen dollars and forty-eight cents

For barracks and quarters, two thousand seven hundred and fiftyfour dollars and forty-five cents

For headstones for graves of soldiers, four dollars and five cents..
For Medical and Hospital Department, eighteen dollars and seventy

cents

For ordnance service, twenty-three dollars and eighty-three cents. For ordnance stores, equipments, two hundred and seventy-three dollars and seventy-four cents...

For collecting, drilling, and organizing volunteers, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and six cents..

For horses and other property lost in the military service, one hundred and fifty dollars..

For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, two hundred and forty-six dollars and two cents.

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY
DEPARTMENT.

For pay of the Navy, thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and eightyseven dollars and fifty-nine cents

For pay, miscellaneous, eighty-one dollars and fifty-six cents
For pay, Marine Corps, seven thousand six hundred and six dollars
and ten cents.

For provisions, Marine Corps, seven dollars and fifty cents.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, three dollars.

For transportation, recruiting and contingent, Bureau of Navigation, four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents

For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, forty-five dollars

For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, forty-five dollars.

For maintenance of colliers, Bureau of Navigation, three thousand and forty dollars and ninety-three cents

For contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, four hundred and nine dollars and forty cents

For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, one hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents

For contingent, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, three dollars and eighty-one cents

For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, thirty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents

For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, twenty-eight dollars

For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents.

$1, 419. 48

2, 754. 45 4. 05

18.70

23.83

273.74

147.06

150.00

246. 02

39, 787.59

81.56

7, 606. 10 7.50

3.00

485.97

45.00

• 45.00

3,040. 93

409.40

195.50

3.81

38.92

28.00

725.58

For indemnity for lost clothing, one hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents

108.33

For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, fifty dollars and sixty-five cents

50.65

For bounty for destruction of enemy's vessels, forty-nine dollars and fifty-six cents

49.56

For enlistment bounties to seamen, five hundred and fifty-two dollars and two cents.

552.02

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT.

For expenses, special inspectors, Department of the Interior, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, six dollars and forty-five cents For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, seven dollars and four cents.

For contingent expenses, office of surveyor-general of Alaska, one dollar and seventy-five cents.

For contingent expenses of land offices, eleven dollars and sixty-one

cents

For surveying the public lands, twenty-three thousand two hundred. and sixty-five dollars and thirty-eight cents.

For surveying private land claims, one hundred and ninety dollars. and seven cents.

For surveying Fort Buford abandoned military reservation, five hundred and forty seven dollars and thirty-two cents

For Geological Survey, two hundred and seventy-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents

For geological maps of the United States, fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, sixteen dollars and fifty cents..

For surveying forest reserves, twelve dollars and twenty-three cents. For transportation of Indian supplies, two hundred and ninety-two dollars and forty-six cents

For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, forty dollars and seventy-five cents.

For support of confederated bands of Utes, employees, six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and two cents....

For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, one hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-three cents..

For army pensions, five hundred and sixty-nine dollars and ninetythree cents

$6.45

7.04

1.75

11. 61

23, 265. 38

190.07

547.32

279.79

16.50

12.23

292.46

40.75

659.02

166. 63

For navy pensions, thirty dollars.

569.93 30.00

For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, two dollars.

2.00

For contingent expenses, pension agencies, two dollars and twentytwo cents

2.22

CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE
AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

For public printing and binding, thirty-eight dollars

38.00

For improving Botanic Garden, forty-one dollars and seventy-six

41.76

cents

For improving buildings, Botanic Garden, five dollars and twentytwo cents

For payment for contesting seats in Congress in contest entitled "Koonce against Grady," Act March third, nineteen hundred and five, one thousand dollars.

For salaries of ministers, sixty-five dollars and ninety-three cents For contingent expenses, foreign missions, one hundred and fiftyfive dollars and sixty cents.

5. 22

1,000.00 65.93

155.60

For rent of buildings for legation in China, three dollars and sixty

seven cents.

3.67

For salaries, consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit, twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents

20.38

For pay of consular officers for services to American vessels and seamen, ten dollars.

10.00

For Interstate Commerce Commission, nine dollars and sixty cents.
For expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, eight dollars and twelve

cents

9.60

8.12

For grass and forage plant investigations, one dollar and fifty cents. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, twenty-seven dollars and seventy-nine cents.

For general expenses, Weather Bureau, fifty-one dollars and sixty

one cents.

For supplies of light-houses, one thousand seven hundred and four dollars and fifty-six cents

For repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses, two dollars and twenty-three cents

For expenses of light vessels, one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents..

For expenses of buoyage, fifty-three dollars and forty-nine cents.
For miscellaneous expenses, Fish Commission, fifty-five cents
For defense in Indian depredation claims, nine dollars and forty-
four cents....

For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, nine hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents.

For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, three hundred dollars

For fees of clerks, United States courts, two hundred and forty dollars

For fees of commissioners, United States courts, two hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents..

For fees of jurors, United States courts, eighteen dollars and thirty

cents

For support of prisoners, United States courts, one hundred and eighty-nine dollars and thirty-five cents.

For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, forty-eight dollars

For supplies for United States courts, five dollars and eighty-seven

cents

For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, five dollars [Total amount under section 2, for Audited Claims, $556,659.01.] SEC. 3. That section thirty-six hundred and seventy-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by section four of the deficiency appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby further amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 3679. No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law. Nor shall any Department or any officer of the Government accept voluntary service for the Government or employ personal service in excess of that authorized by law, except in cases of sudden emergency involving the loss of human life or the destruction of property. All appropriations made for contingent expenses or other general purposes, except appropriations made in fulfillment of contract obligations expressly authorized by law, or for objects required or authorized by law without reference to the amounts annually appropriated therefor, shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, be so apportioned by monthly or other allotments as to prevent expenditures in one portion of the year which may necessitate deficiency or additional appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year for which said appropriations are made; and all such apportionments shall be adhered to and shall not be waived or modified except upon the happening of some extraordinary emergency or unusual circumstance which could not be anticipated at the time of making such apportionment, but this provision shall not apply to the contingent

$1.50

27.79

51.61

1,704. 56

2. 23

138. 56

53.49

.55

9.44

998.80

300.00

240.00

238.33

18.30

189.35

48.00

5.87

5.00

appropriations of the Senate or House of Representatives; and in case said apportionments are waived or modified as herein provided, the same shall be waived or modified in writing by the head of such Executive Department or other Government establishment having control of the expenditure, and the reasons therefor shall be fully set forth in each particular case and communicated to Congress in connection with estimates for any additional appropriations required on account thereof. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be summarily removed from office and may also be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than one month.”

Approved, February 27, 1906.

Total, Urgency 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 $803,700. For details, see page 769.]

$16, 270, 332. 09

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