Geological Survey. Pay of scientific assistants. Expenses. Topographic sur veys. Geological surveys. Paleontological re searches. Chemical and physical researches. Illustrations. Storage reservoirs in arid region. Investigation. Post, p. 619. Report. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. FOR SALARIES OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANTS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: For five geologists, at four thousand dollars each; For two geologists, at three thousand dollars each; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two geologists, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; For one paleontologist, four thousand dollars; For one chemist, two thousand dollars; For one chief geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For three topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, sixtyseven thousand seven hundred dollars. FOR GENERAL EXPENSES of the GeolOGICAL SURVEY: For the Geological Survey, and the classification of the public lands, and examination of the geological structure, mineral resources, and the products of the national domain, and to continue the preparation of a geological map of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in the field and office, and all other necessary expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, fifteen thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars; For geological surveys in the various portions of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and office, the cost of all instrun.ents, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, one hundred thousand dollars. For paleontologic researches relating to the geology of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the cost of all materials and instruments, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, forty thousand dollars; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees in field and in office, the maintenance of the laboratory, the cost of instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, seventeen thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, including the pay of temporary employees, the cost of apparatus, instruments, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, sixteen thousand dollars; For the purpose of investigating the extent to which the arid region of the United States can be redeemed by irrigation, and the segrega tion of the irrigable lands in such arid region, and for the selection of sites for reservoirs and other hydraulic works necessary for the storage and utilization of water for irrigation and the prevention of floods and overflows, and to make the necessary maps, including the pay of employees in field and in office, the cost of all instruments, apparatus, and materials, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, the work to be performed by the Geological Survey, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary. And the Director of the Geological Survey under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior shall make a report to Congress on the first Monday in December of each year, showing in detail how the said money has been expended, the amount used for actual survey and engineer work in the field in locating sites for reservoires and an itemized account of the expenditures under this appropriation. And all the lands which may hereafter be designated or selected by such United States surveys for sites for reservoirs, ditches or canals for irrigation purposes and all the lands made susceptible of irrigation by such reservoirs, ditches or canals are from this time henceforth hereby reserved from sale as the property of the United States, and shall not be subject after the passage of this act, to entry, settlement or occupation until further provided by law: Lands reserved from sale. Reopening of lands Provided, That the President may at any time in his discretion by Proviso proclamation open any portion or all of the lands reserved by this to settlement. provision to settlement under the homestead laws. Mineral resources For the preparation of the report on the mineral resources of the United States, including the pay of temporary employees, and all report. necessary expenses connected therewith, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of necessary books for the library, and the pay- Books, etc. ment for the transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange, five thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and two thousand dollars. PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS: For providing a system of reservoirs, pumps, and piping, and for other purposes necessary to the collection and economical distribution of the hot water, thirty-one thousand dollars. For improvement of free bath-house and bathing-pools, five thousand dollars. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE. Hot Springs, Ark. Miscellaneous. Government Hospital for the Insane. For current expenses of the Government Hospital for the Insane: Expenses. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, and Revenue-Cutter Service, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States, inmates of the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military or naval service of the United States, and who are indigent, two hundred and one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expenses of the removal of patients to their friends. For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, twelve thousand dollars. For the construction and completion of an infirmary building for the sick, including all heating and ventilating apparatus for the same, twenty-five thousand dollars. For water-tank and connections, stand-pipe, and fire-escape, four thousand five hundred dollars. For cementing and finishing the basement of dining-hall, for the recreation of inmates, one thousand two hundred dollars. COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB: For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, and for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs, and improvements, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That no more than twenty-five thousand dollars of said sum shall be expended for salaries and wages. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. Expenses Proviso. Educating feebleminded children. Vol. 21, p. 275. Howard University. Maintenance. Education in Alaska. Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum. Expenses. Columbia Hospital for Women. Repairs, etc. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the education of feeble-minded children belonging to the District of Columbia, as provided for in the act approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, two thousand five hundred dollars. HOWARD UNIVERSITY. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors and teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which will be paid from donations and other sources, eighteen thousand five hundred dollars. For tools, materials, and wages of instructors for industrial department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For repairs of buildings, three thousand dollars. For the erection of fire escapes and stand pipes, four hundred dollars. EDUCATION IN ALASKA. For the industrial and primary education of the children of school age in the Territory of Alaska, without reference to race, forty thousand dollars. FREEDMEN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM. For the Freedmen's Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, as follows: For subsistence, twenty-two thousand dollars; For salaries and compensation of the surgeon-in-chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, two assistant surgeons, clerk, engineer, matron, nurses, laundresses, cooks, teamsters, watchmen, and laborers, fourteen thousand dollars; For rent of hospital buildings and grounds, four thousand dollars; For fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, transportation, medicines and medical supplies, repairs and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For reading-matter for patients, twenty-five dollars; For one engine, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifty-one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; COLUMBIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND LYING-IN ASYLUM: For extension of laundry and for machinery and engine; elevator; remodeling heating apparatus, including new boiler to supply deficiency in heat and provide power for laundry engine and elevator pumps; repairs and reconstruction of iron fence; and for general repairs, Half from District eleven thousand three hundred dollars. One-half of said sum to be paid from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. revenues. INDIAN AFFAIRS. WESTERN MIAMI INDIANS: For the payment per capita, under such regulations for the protection of minors as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to the Western Miami Indians from the funds to their credit in the Treasury of the United States, twentyfive thousand dollars. KASKASKIA, WEA, PEORIA, AND PIANKESHAW INDIANS: For the payment per capita, under such regulations for the protection of minors as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, to the Kaskaskia, Wea, Peoria, and Piankeshaw Indians, forty thousand dollars, to be charged to said Indians on the books of the Treasury, and the bonds representing the amount paid shall become the property of the United States. CENSUS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA. Florida. Census expenses. To to the State of Florida the expenses of taking the census of pay said State in pursuance of the "Act to provide for taking the tenth and subsequent censuses," approved March third, eighteen hundred Vol. 20, p. 480. and seventy-nine, nine thousand three hundred and twenty-six dollars and twenty-one cents. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Com mission. nations. For expenses of examinations held elsewhere than at Washington, Expenses of exami including rent of rooms and furniture and reasonable fees to janitors, two hundred and fifty dollars, and of this sum one hundred and twenty-nine dollars shall be available to pay expenses incurred in the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-seven and eighteen hundred and eighty-eight. UNDER THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institu tion. International ex changes. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, fifteen thousand dollars. NORTH AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY: For the purpose of continuing North American ethnological researches among the American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. Under the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution as Director of the National Museum. ethnology. National Museum. Heating, lighting, etc. lections. NATIONAL MUSEUM, HEATING AND LIGHTING: For expense of heating, lighting, and electrical and telephonic service for the National Museum, twelve thousand dollars. PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For Preserving, etc., col the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. FURNITURE AND FIXTURES OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty thousand dollars. That the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shall submit to Congress at its next session a detailed statement of the expenditures of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, under appropriations for "International Exchanges,' ," "North American Ethnology," and the "National Museum," and annually thereafter a detailed statement of expenditures under said appropriations shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Furniture, etc. Detailed statement to be submitted. Interstate-Com merce Commission. For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the "Act to regulate Salaries. commerce," thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of secretary, as provided by the "Act to regulate commerce," three thousand five hundred dollars. For all other necessary expenditures to enable the Commission to Expenses. give effect to and execute the provisions of the said "Act to regulate Vol. 24, p. 386. commerce," one hundred and nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. STAT L-VOL XXV-34 Detailed statement to be made. War Department. Armories and arse nals. Rock Island. Bridge expenses. Reconstructing dam. Proviso. ernment. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include in their annual report to Congress a statement showing in detail their expenditures for each fiscal year, including the number of persons employed and the amount of compensation to each. UNDER. THE WAR DEPARTMENT. ARMORIES AND ARSENALS. For the Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois, as follows: For completing armory-shop K, an iron finishing shop, seventeen thousand two hundred dollars. For continuing storehouse K, thirty-five thousand dollars. For new office: For putting concrete floors in basement; plastering basement walls and ceilings; gas-machine and fixtures; plumbing in second story; making shelves, drawers, and pigeon holes for vaults; replacing wooden outside steps with granite; office furniture and fixtures, and connecting water arrangements with elevated tank and reservoir, nine thousand dollars. For machinery and shop-fixtures, ten thousand dollars. For general care, preservation, and improvements; for building new roads; for care and preservation of the water-power; for painting and care and preservation of permanent buildings, bridges, and shores of the island; for building fences, grading grounds, and repairs and extension of railroad, ten thousand dollars. For permanent shafting underground through north end of arsenal shops by brick tunnels between shops; gearing, and so forth, from shop "A" to shop "I," twenty thousand dollars. For the Rock Island Bridge as follows: For care, preservation, and expense of maintaining and operating the draw, nine thousand dollars. For the reconstruction of the Government dam at the Rock Island Arsenal, and for the immediate construction of a temporary dam to furnish water-power for said arsenal and to be used as a coffer-dam when the permanent dam is reconstructed, two hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War: Provided, Liability of the Gov- That this appropriation shall not be construed or held as importing or implying any obligation on the part of the United States to maintain said dam or works by reason of any obligation to said Moline Water-Power Company, and no money hereby appropriated shall be expended until the Moline Water-Power Company shall agree that no liability on the part of the Government to maintain the dam, water-power, or other works in connection therewith exists whenever the Government shall see fit to relinquish the use of said power: Reconveyance of Provided further, That whenever the Government shall cease to maintain or use said water-power, it shall reconvey in fee simple, to said Moline Water-Power Company, its right and title to use the water-power. Kennebec Arsenal, Maine. same. For repairs of draw-pier of the Rock Island Bridge, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For repairs of dykes and embankments of the water-power pool, and for dredging and scouring out mud in said pool, twenty-five thousand dollars. KENNEBEC ARSENAL, MAINE: For repairs to walks, grounds, sewers, drains, and for new and necessary sewers and drains, two thousand dollars. For introducing city water and for necessary changes and repairs in plumbing work, two thousand dollars. |