eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

ALASKAN SEAL FISHERIES: For salaries and traveling expenses of agents at seal-fisheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed six hundred dollars each per annum; in all, thirteen thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

UNITED STATES COMMISSION OF FISH AND FISHERIES: For compensation of the Commissioner, five thousand dollars.

PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES: For the introduction by the United States Fish Commission into and the increase in the waters of the United States of food-fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shell-fish, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That the building known as the Armory Building, Washington, District of Columbia shall be occupied as at present, jointly by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries and the National Museum.

RENT OF OFFICE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION: For rent of rooms in the city of Washington, two thousand five hundred dollars. DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD FISHES: For the distribution of the eggs and young of the whitefish, salmon, shad, carp, cod, lobster, and other useful inhabitants of the waters, including salaries, or compensation of all necessary employees, thirty-one thousand one hundred and eighty dollars

ESTABLISHMENT OF STATIONS: For the construction of buildings, ponds, and appliances for a station for fish culture at Neosho, Missouri, eight thousand dollars.

For maintenance of same, five thousand dollars.

MAINTENANCE OF VESSELS: For the maintenance of the vessels and steam launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, forty-three thousand nine hundred dollars.

INQUIRY RESPECTING FOOD FISHES: For continuing the enquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the Interior in the interests of fish culture; for the study of the methods and relations of the fisheries, with a view to their improvement; for the exploration of the fishing grounds of the South Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts, with a view to the development of the commercial fisheries; and for the preparation of reports relating to the enquiry, including salaries or compensation and field expenses of scientific assistants, fishery experts, and other necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars.

STATISTICAL INQUIRY: For the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries of all portions of the United States, including persons employed, capital invested, and the quantity and value of the products, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary in the prosecution of this

work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, ten thousand dollars.

SCHOONERS SARAH C. WHARF AND CHAMPION: To pay damages sustained by the schooner Sarah C. Wharf, five hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents, and by the schooner Champion, four hundred and twenty-five dollars, by collision with the United States Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk, on February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six; in all, nine hundred and thirtyseven dollars and sixty cents.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Mrs. Mary H. C. Baird, widow of the late Spencer F. Baird, twenty-five thousand dollars, in full compensation for the services and expenses of the said Spencer F. Baird during his administration of the office of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, including rent of rooms for the use of said Commission from February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the time of his death, in August, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

PREVENTION OF EPIDEMICS.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera or yellow fever to use the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated therefor by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, in aid of State and local boards or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and for maintaining quarantine and maritime inspections at points of danger.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

REPAIRS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT AND PENSION BUILDINGS: For repairs of buildings, eight thousand dollars.

FOR THE CAPITOL: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics, workmen, and fresco-painter, thirty-five thousand dollars.

POWER ELEVATOR: That not exceeding three thousand dollars of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for an elevator for the House wing of the Capitol, in the act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, is hereby authorized to be used in constructing a power elevator and gallery thereto from the book vaults at the south terrace of the Capitol.

STEAM-BOILERS, HOUSE WING OF THE CAPITOL: For new boilers for House wing, and for fitting up boiler vaults, and steam-pipes connected with the same, twelve thousand dollars.

IMPROVING THE CAPITOL GROUNDS: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including pay of landscape architect, one clerk, and the pay of mechanics, gardeners, and laborers, twenty thousand dollars.

CAPITOL TERRACES: For artificial pavement and for fountain in front of terrace, pavement in area between terrace and building, and for bronze lamp-posts and vases for north and south terraces, fifteen thousand dollars.

LIGHTING THE CAPITOL AND GROUNDS: For lighting the Capitol, and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For the erection of four reservoires in the corridors of the Capitol Building for the purpose of supplying drinking water to the public, one thousand five hundred dollars.

SENATE STABLES AND ENGINE-HOUSE: For renewal of portions of the roof on the Senate stable and fire-engine house, and for casual repairs of said buildings, four hundred dollars.

For the purchase by the Secretary of the Interior of that part of lot eleven, in square six hundred and eighty-three, situated in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, as laid out and recorded in the original plat of the city and District aforesaid, lying directly north of the Senate stables, and containing six thousand and eighty-seven square feet, six thousand and eighty-seven dollars, upon proof of a perfect title and the execution to the United States of a deed good and sufficient in law and in form approved by the Attorney-General; said ground to be used in connection with the Senate stables.

• BUILDING FOR THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

For the building for the Library of Congress, as herein provided for, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including the cost of all professional and other personal services that the Chief of Engineers of the Army may deem necessary for the work and shall specially order five hundred thousand dollars.

This appropriation and all appropriations hereafter made, and all sums available from appropriations heretofore made for this purpose shall be expended under the direction and supervision of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, who shall have the control and management of all of said work and the employment of all persons connected therewith. And all contracts for the construction of said building, or any part thereof, shall be made by the Chief of Engineers of the Army, and so much of the act entitled "An act authorizing the construction of a building for the accommodation of the Congressional Library" approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six as requires the construction of said building substantially according to the plan submitted to the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, by John L. Smithmeyer and so much of the first section as provides for a commission together with the eighth section of said act be and the same are hereby repealed, and the duties of said commission under said act are hereby devolved upon the Chief of Engineers of the Army, who shall annually report to Congress at the commencement of each session a detailed statement of all the proceedings under the provisions of this act, and hereafter, until otherwise ordered by Congress, no work shall be done in the construction of said Library except such as is herein provided for, and all contracts for work or materials not necessary for the execution of the work contemplated herein are hereby rescinded. And all loss or damage occasioned thereby or arising under said contracts, together with the value of the plan for a Library Building submitted to the Joint Select Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress by John L. Smithmeyer in the Italian Renaissance style of Architecture, may be adjusted and

determined by the Secretary of the Interior, to be paid out of the sums heretofore or hereby appropriated: Provided, That before any further contracts are let for the construction of said building general plans for the entire contruction thereof shall be prepared by or under the direction of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, which plans shall be subject to the inspection and approval of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That the total cost of said building shall not exceed four million dollars exclusive of appropriations heretofore made.

FIRE-PROOF BUILDING FOR THE PENSION OFFICE: For slate base around galleries and corridors, three thousand dollars.

For the construction of sky-lights with adjustable sash, similar to the one now in use at the western front of the building, three thousand dollars.

For one elevator in the Pension Building, four thousand dollars. For the purchase and putting in position of two boiler-iron watertanks, with necessary pipe connections from pumps, three thousand dollars.

For the improvement of the sewerage of building, five hundred dollars.

That the Postmaster-General be, and is hereby, granted authority to remove the Washington City post-office to the center of the court of the Pension Building in said city, and use such portion of said court as is hereafter specified for the principal post-office of said city, until further action by Congress: Provided, That only a space of two hundred and ninety feet in length by ninety feet in width of said court shall be so occupied, and in such space there shall be set apart and arranged to the satisfaction to the Architect of the Capitol a compartment, or compartments, for the accommodation of the post-offices of the Senate and House of Representatives; and to defray the expense of such removal and for fitting up and furnishing the said post-office there is hereby appropriated five thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided further, That so much of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as requires the removal of the General Land Office and the Bureau of Education to said Pension Building be, and the same is hereby repealed.

EXPENSES OF THE COLLECTION OF REVENUE FROM SALES OF PUBLIC LANDS.

SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS OF REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS: For salaries and commissions of registers of land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars each, five hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF LAND OFFICES: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF DEPOSITING PUBLIC MONEYS: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, ten thousand dollars.

DEPREDATIONS ON PUBLIC TIMBER: To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, seventy-five thousand dollars. PROTECTING PUBLIC LANDS: For the protection of public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, one hundred thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hear

ings held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, thirty thousand dollars.

SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS FOR SWAMP-LAND AND SWAMP-LAND INDEMNITY: For salaries and expenses of agents employed in adjusting claims for swamp-lands, and for indemnity for swamp-lands, twenty-thousand dollars: Provided, That agents and others employed under this and the appropriations for "Depredations on public timber" and "Protecting public lands," while traveling on duty, shall be allowed per diem, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses for transportation.

REPRODUCING PLATS OF SURVEYS: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and also to furnish local land offices with the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.

TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS: For furnishing transcripts of records and plats, and paying therefor, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.

SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS.

For surveys and resurveys of public lands one hundred thousand dollars, at rates not exceeding nine dollars per lineal mile for standard and meander lines, seven dollars for township, and five dollars for section lines, except that as to mountainous lands or lands covered with dense timber or under brush, the rate shall not exceed thirteen dollars per mile for standard and meander lines, eleven dollars for township and seven dollars for section lines, when the survey is made upon the order of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers; and the surveys shall be confined to lands adapted to agriculture and lines of reservations. And of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding twenty thousand dollars may be expended for the examination of surveys in the field, to test the accuracy of the work, including in this, and if found necessary by the Secretary of the Interior, the resurvey of township thirty south of range four west of Willamette meridian, in the State of Oregon, and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors; and for inspecting mineral deposits, coal-fields, and timber districts, and for making such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and is hereby, authorized to transfer to the Secretary of state of the States of Nebraska and Iowa, or to such officers as may be entitled to receive them, the field-notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land surveys in said States which are now stored in the district land-office at Lincoln, Nebraska; and the office of surveyor-general for the district of Nebraska and Iowa is hereby abolished: Provided, That the aforesaid field-notes, maps, records, and other papers pertaining to the State of Nebraska shall not be delivered to the proper authorities until said State shall have provided by law for the safe keeping of the same as public records, and for the allowance of free access to field