years, unless sooner removed by the President for cause; the tenure of office of the other officials of the court shall be at the pleasure of the President. SEC. 8. The marshal and the clerk of said court shall be required to furnish bond for the faithful performance of their duties, in sums and with sureties to be fixed and approved by the judge of the court. They shall each appoint, with the written approval of said judge, deputies at Canton and Tientsin, who shall also be required to furnish bonds for the faithful performance of their duties, which bonds shall be subject, both as to form and sufficiency of the sureties, to the approval of the said judge. Such deputies shall receive compensation at the rate of five dollars for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities. The office of marshal in China now existing in pursuance of section forty-one hundred and eleven of the Revised Statutes is hereby abolished. SEC. 9. The tariff of fees of said officers of the court shall be the same as the tariff already fixed for the consular courts in China, subject to amendment from time to time by order of the President, and all fees taxed and received shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States. Approved, June 30, 1906. [For appropriation, see Deficiency Act, p. 391.] [PUBLIC-NO. 276.] By the Act To provide for the traveling expenses of the President of the United Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter there may be expended for or on account of the traveling expenses of the President of the United States such sum as Congress may from time to time appropriate, not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, such sum when appropriated to be expended in the discretion of the President and accounted for on his certificate solely. There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes authorized by this Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars Approved, June 23, 1906. $25,000.00 [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 1.] By the Joint Resolution To pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House Of Representatives their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and five, on the twentieth day of said month. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asseribled, That the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives be, and they are hereby, authorized and instructed to pay the officers and employees of the Senate and House of Representatives, including the Capitol police, their respective salaries for the month of December, nineteen hundred and five, on the twentieth day of said month. Approved, December 18, 1905. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 2.] By the Joint Resolution Relating to the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the appropriation made for the miscellaneous items of the contingent expenses of the House of Representatives for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six is hereby made available for the payment of salaries and labor heretofore or hereafter specifically ordered by the House of Representatives of the present Congress, in addition to the purposes for which said appropriation is otherwise available. Approved, January 17, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 22.] By the Joint Resolution Extending the thanks of Congress to General Horace Porter. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the thanks of the people of the United States are justly due and are hereby tendered to General Horace Porter, late ambassador to France, for his disinterested and patriotic services in conducting, upon his own initiative and at his own expense, a series of researches and excavations extending over a period of six years and resulting in the recovery of the body of Admiral John Paul Jones from a forgotten grave in a foreign land and its return to the country which he had loved so well and so heroically served: Resolved, That General Porter he requested to furnish Congress a copy of his remarks at the exercises at Annapolis, April twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six, and that, when received, said remarks be printed in the Record. Approved, May 9, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 25.] By the Joint Resolution Directing the selection of a site for the erection of a bronze statue in Washington, District of Columbia, in honor of the late Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, the Chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of War, and the President of the Longfellow National Memorial Association are hereby created a commission to select and prepare a site on property belonging to the United States in the city of Washington, other than the grounds of the Capitol or Library of Congress, and erect thereon a suitable pedestal for a statue in bronze of the late Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, to be provided by the Longfellow National Memorial Association. SEC. 2. That for the preparation of the site so selected and the erec- · tion of the pedestal the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided. That the design for said statue shall be approved by the commission herein created... Approved, June 8, 1906. $4,000,00 [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 13.] By the Joint Resolution To correct abuses in the public printing and to provide for the allotment of cost of certain documents and reports. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That hereafter, in the printing and binding of documents or reports emanating from the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, the cost of which is now charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, or to appropriations or allotments of appropriations other than those made to the Executive Departments, bureaus, or independent offices of the Government, the cost of illustrations, composition, stereotyping, and other work involved in the actual preparation for printing, apart from the creation of manuscript, shall be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation for the printing and binding of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such documents or reports originate; the balance of cost shall be charged to the allotment for printing and binding for Congress, and to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government, in proportion to the number delivered to each; the cost of any copies of such documents or reports distributed otherwise than through Congress, or the Executive Departments, bureaus, and independent offices of the Government, if such there be, shall be charged as heretofore: Provided, That on or before the first day of December in each fiscal year each Executive Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government to which an appropriation or allotment of appropriation for printing and binding is made, shall obtain from the Public Printer an estimate of the probable cost of all publications of such Department, bureau, or independent office now required by law to be printed, and so much thereof as would, under the terms of this resolution, be charged to the appropriation or allotment of appropriation of the Department, bureau, or independent office of the Government in which such publications originate, shall thereupon be set aside to be applied only to the printing and binding of such documents and reports, and shall not be available for any other purpose until all of such allotment of cost on account of such documents and reports shall have been fully paid. This resolution shall be effective on and after July first, nineteen hundred and six. Approved, March 30, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 14.] By the Joint Resolution To prevent unnecessary printing and binding and to correct evils in the present method of distribution of public documents. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized and directed to establish rules and regulations, from time to time, which shall be observed by the Public Printer, whereby public documents and reports printed for Congress, or either House thereof, may be printed in two or more editions, instead of one, to meet the public requirements: Provided, That in no S. Doc. 535, 59-1—45 case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies now authorized or which may hereafter be authorized: And provided further, That the number of copies of any public document or report now authorized to be printed or which may hereafter be authorized to be printed for any of the Executive Departments, or bureaus or branches thereof, or independent offices of the Government may be supplied in two or more editions, instead of one, upon a requisition on the Public Printer by the official head of such Department or independent office, but in no case shall the aggregate of said editions exceed the number of copies now authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized: Provided further, That nothing herein shall operate to obstruct the printing of the full number of any document or report, or the allotment of the full quota to Senators and Representatives, as now authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized, when a legitimate demand for the full complement is known to exist. Approved, March 30, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 15.] By the Joint Resolution For the publication of eulogies delivered in Congress on Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the eulogies delivered in the Senate and House during the third session of the Fifty-fifth Congress on the late Honorable John W. Cranford, a Representative in Congress from the Fourth district of Texas, who died but a short time before the end of the Fifty-fifth Congress, and the eulogies on whose life and character were delivered in the Senate and House before the adjournment of said Congress, but for some unknown reason were never published and under the law can not now be published except by joint resolution, be published in the form and manner usually followed in the publication of eulogies in Congress on deceased members, to the number of one thousand copies to be distributed by the Representative from the First district of Texas and the regular number bound in the usual style for the family of the deceased. The usual number shall not be printed. Approved, April 2, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 40.] By the Joint Resolution To print the Fourth Annual Report of the United States Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Director of the Geological Survey be, and he is hereby, authorized to print four thousand copies of the Fourth Annual Report of the United States Reclamation Service, the cost thereof to be paid out of the reclamation fund. Approved, June 29, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 50.] By the Joint Resolution Providing for the printing of reports ordered by the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That at any time prior to the assembling of Congress in December, nineteen hundred and six, all reports of preliminary examinations and surveys ordered in the river and harbor Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, that may be ready for printing shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be printed by the Public Printer as documents of the Fifty-ninth Congress. Approved, June 30, 1906. [PUBLIC RESOLUTION-No. 51.] By the Joint Resolution Relative to the printing of twelve thousand copies of the report on the progress of the beet-sugar industry. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be printed twelve thousand copies of the report on the progress of the beet-sugar industry in the United States in nineteen hundred and five; one thousand copies for the use of the Senate, three thousand copies for the use of the House of Representatives, and eight thousand copies for the use of the Department of Agriculture, and that the Secretary of Agriculture. be authorized to print and distribute annually hereafter eight thousand copies of such annual reports covering the progress of the beet-sugar industry: Provided, That the preparation and publication of such annual reports shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture. Approved, June 30, 1906. |