resolution of Congress approved July tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; one-half of said sum to be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

WATER DEPARTMENT: For stationery, advertising, forage, and horse-shoeing, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, two hundred and eighty-six dollars and seventy-six

cents.

For pipe distribution to high and low service: Fuel, per bills on file in the office of auditor of the District of Columbia, one thousand and sixty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.

All being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

To pay William Forsyth for surveying site of pump-house in Georgetown, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, ten dollars.

The foregoing items under the water department shall be paid out of the revenues of that department.

Increase of Water Supply, Washington, District of Columbia: For expenses of the Joint Select Committee appointed under a concurrent resolution of Congress to investigate the work upon, and contracts and other matters relating to the Washington Aqueduct tunnel, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives on vouchers. approved by said Joint Select Committee.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay a reasonable additional compensation to the employees in the office of the Adjutant-General engaged on extra work after office hours in disposing of accumulated pension work during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyseven, at such rates as he may deem just and proper, but not exceeding sixty cents per hour to clerks (regardless of grade) and not exceeding thirty cents per hour to messengers, for the extra time actually employed, twenty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-nine dollars and thirty cents.

To enable the Secretary of War to pay a reasonable additional compensation to the employees in the office of the Surgeon-General who were actually employed after office hours in disposing of accumulated pension work during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyseven, at such rates as he may deem just and proper, but not exceeding sixty cents per hour to clerks (regardless of grade) and not exceeding thirty cents per hour to messengers, for the extra time actually employed, thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty-nine dollars and twenty cents.

MANUFACTURE OF ARMS AT NATIONAL ARMORIES: To enable the Secretary of War to pay to Paul Butler royalty on sixty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-eight hook attachments or stacking swivels, at eight cents each, as per judgment of the Court of Claims, dated June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight (numbered fourteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine), these being the number manufactured by the Government and attached to arms from April twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to June thirtieth,

eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, five thousand five hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-four cents.

PAY OF THE ARMY.

For mileage to officers, when authorized by law, to be disbursed under the limitations prescribed for the appropriation for mileage to officers by the Army appropriation act approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, six thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

For transportation of men and their baggage, and for transportation of material, being for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and fiftyfive dollars and ninety-two cents.

For Signal Service transportation, eighteen hundred and eightyfour and prior years, to pay the claim of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad Company, three dollars and one cent.

For medical attendance and medicines to officers and enlisted men. of the Signal Corps, being for the service of the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and forty-eight dollars and three cents.

ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMISSION: Salaries and traveling expensesof the Mississippi River Commission, and for salaries and traveling expenses of assistant engineers, and for office expenses and contingencies, being for the period from April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and to be at once available, twenty-five thousand dollars.

GAUGING THE WATERS OF LOWER MISSISSIPPI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES: Annual expenses of gauging the water of the Mississippi and its tributaries; continuing observations of the rise and fall of the river and its chief tributaries as required by joint resolution of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, rendered necessary for establishing additional gauges at Fulton, Garland, and Collin's Bluff (mouth of Sulphur River) Arkansas, three thousand six hundred dollars.

To reimburse and pay the Hartford and New York Transportation Company for labor and money expended in removing, in an emergency, obstructions and dredging the Connecticut River in eighteen hundred and eighty-six, under the same rules and inspections as the work on said river had been conducted by the United States engineer officers in charge, two thousand six hundred and six dollars and eighty cents.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

For payment on account of Army transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, as certified to Congress as due, by the accounting officers of the Treasury, in House Executive Document Number Nineteen, Fiftieth Congress, first session, namely: To the Hoboken Land Improvement Company of New Jersey, fifteen thousand eight hundred dollars.

That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby authorized and directed to credit and allow to LieutenantColonel R. N. Batchelder, deputy quartermaster-general, the voucher for eight hundred and fifty dollars for horses purchased for the use of the War Department on May fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and the voucher for five hundred dollars for a similar purchase made March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eightysix, and to charge the same, respectively, to the appropriations for contingencies of the Army for the years eighteen hundred and cightyfive and eighteen hundred and eighty-six.

RENT, AND SO FORTH, CITADEL ACADEMY, SOUTH CAROLINA: To pay the amount reported as due by the Secretary of War in pursuance of the joint resolution approved August fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to the State of South Carolina for rent of the Citadel Academy at Charleston, South Carolina, from August twentieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, to February second, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, including the sum equitably due to the said State for the loss by fire of the west wing of said building while in the occupation of the United States,.seventy-seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That this sum shall be accepted in full payment of all claims for rent, wear and tear, and injury to the property by fire, or from any other cause whatever due to the said occupancy by the United States.

EXTENSION OF MILITARY RESERVATION AT FORT THORNBURGH, UTAH: For payment for private property taken by the Government in extension of the military reservation at Fort Thornburgh, Utah; under the order of the commander of the post, of April fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and the President's order of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, being the amount awarded by a board of officers June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, as per their report approved by the War Department, three thousand four hundred and thirty-seven dollars.

Reimbursement to certain States and Territories for expenses incurred in repelling invasions and suppressing Indian hostilities, act June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eleven thousand seven hundred and twenty-three dollars and sixty-four cents.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, NAVY DEPARTMENT: To pay to John Wanamaker for stationery furnished the Navy Department and offices for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two hundred and nineteen dollars and fifty-eight cents.

To reimburse the appropriations "Ordnance and Ordnance Stores, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-six," thirty-six dollars, and "Contingent, Bureau of Ordnance, eighteen hundred and eighty-six," three dollars, for amounts erroneously paid therefrom; in all, thirty-nine dollars.

To reimburse the following appropriations for amounts erroneously paid therefrom:

Construction and repair, Bureau Construction and Repair, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, twelve dollars and fifty cents.

Contingent, Bureau Equipment and Recruiting, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, nine dollars and fifty cents.

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Contingent, Bureau of Navigation, eighteen hundred and eightysix, three dollars; in all, twenty-five dollars.

CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE: To reimburse Pay-Director T. H. Looker, United States Navy, for amounts paid the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, for exchange rental for the branch Hydrographic Office, Washington, District of Columbia, from the appropriation "pay miscellaneous, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven," the accounting officers claiming that these expenditures should have been paid from the appropriation for legislative, executive, and judicial expenses for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, twenty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.

PAY MISCELLANEOUS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers for actual expenses while traveling under orders, one thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seven cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fourteen dollars.

MARINE CORPS.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of undrawn clothing, two thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, seventeen dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy

one cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, eighty-nine dollars and forty-one cents.

To pay account for provisions furnished during fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, seven dollars and fifty cents.

To pay accounts on file for repair of barracks at Pensacola, Florida; one hundred and eighty dollars and forty-five cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of repair of barracks, Marine Corps, sixty dollars and sixteen cents. PROVISIONS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three

cents.

CLOTHING: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-three

cents.

FUEL: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-two cents. CONTINGENT: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, seventy-nine dollars and eighty-four cents.

TRANSPORTATION AND RECRUITING: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, forty-three dollars and fifty cents.

BUREAU OF NAVIGATION.

Το pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thir

teen cents.

NAVAL WAR COLLEGE, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: To pay the following unpaid bills on account of expenses of the Naval War College for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, namely: Warren Ward and Company, for furniture, ninety dollars; H. P. Williams and Company, for mattresses, eighteen dollars; Phillip F. Conroy, for plumbing, nine dollars and forty cents; Phillip F. Conroy, for plumbing, six dollars and fifty-four cents; W. K. Covell, for grate to range, one dollar and seventy-five cents; W. K. Covell, for brick for range, two dollars and fifty cents; G. B. Reynolds, for coal, sixty-five dollars and seventy cents; G. B. Reynolds, for coal, thirty-two dollars and eighty-five cents; Old Colony Steamboat Company, freight, seven dollars and forty-six cents; in all, two hundred and thirty-four dollars and twenty cents.

COMPASS-TESTING HOUSES, BUREAU OF NAVIGATION: To pay bill of T. B. Cross, junior, for doors, sash, and so forth, furnished for the compass-testing houses, Bureau of Navigation, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-two dollars and eighty-nine cents.

BUREAU OF ORDNANCE.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, twenty-one dollars and forty-nine cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, seventy-seven dollars and fifty-one cents.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the contingent service of the Bureau of Ordnance, three thousand dollars.

BUREAU OF EQUIPMENT AND RECRUITING.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, five dollars.

BUREAU OF PROVISIONS AND CLOTHING.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of rations commuted, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, two thousand one hundred and seventyseven dollars and seventy cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of advertising, one hundred and fifty-five dollars and eighty-six cents.

BUREAU OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fifty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers on account of freight; being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and ninety-four dollars and seven cents.