clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one assistant messenger, and one laborer; in all, twenty eight thousand and eighty dollars.

For law and miscellaneous books for Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars.

For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

UNITED STATES COURTS.-For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars; and for eight associate justices, ten thousand dollars each; in all, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, is hereby appropriated.

For nine circuit judges, to reside in circuit, at six thousand dollars each, fifty-four thousand dollars.

For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand dollars.

For salaries of the fifty-six district judges of the United States, two hundred and three thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the five associate judges, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

COURT OF CLAIMS.-For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; and messenger thereof; in all, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.

For stationery, books, fuel, labor, postage, and other contingent and miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars.

For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending the printing of the nineteenth volume of the Reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four chapter three hundred and twenty-eight.

SEC. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, and laborers provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each.

SEC. 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved, July 7, 1884.

[PUBLIC-No. 110.]

AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyfive, namely:

UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT.

For expenses of the international conference for fixing a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning, including cost of printing and translations, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars; and the President is hereby authorized to appoint two delegates to represent the United States at said international conference, in addition to the number authorized by the act approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and who shall serve without compensation.

That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorized to appoint a scientific commission which may, in the name of the United States Government, conduct a national conference of electricians in Philadelphia in the autumn of eighteen hundred and eighty-four.

That said commission may invite scientific men, native and foreign, to participate in the conference, and may, in general, determine the scope and character of its work.

That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be appropriated to meet the expenses of the commission in conducting the conference and investigations, and to meet the expenses of preparing reports of the same: Provided, That the whole amount of the expense incurred by said commission shall not exceed the said sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars; and the members of said commission shall not receive any compensation for services.

To enable the Secretary of State to pay expenses already incurred for the Siamese embassy, two thousand five hundred dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to obtain dies of the obverse and reverse of the seal of the United States, and the appliances necessary for making impressions from and for the preservation of the same, one thousand dollars.

That the sum of five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eleven cents of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for contingent expenses foreign missions, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available to pay the widow of General Judson Kilpatrick, late United States minister to Chili, the amount found due him on the settlement of his accounts for contingent expenses of the legation of the United States in Chili in eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

To enable the President to continue negotiations with foreign Governments respecting the establishment of a common ratio between gold and silver, ten thousand dollars.

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To pay the expenses of representatives of the United States to the conference of the Red Cross Association to be held at Geneva on the first of September next, said representatives to be appointed by the President, two thousand dollars.

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

For post-office and court-house at Baltimore, Maryland: For continuation of building, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For post office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts: For completion of building and additional vaults, fifty thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post office at Cincinnati, Ohio: For completion of building, three hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Charleston, West Virginia: For fencing, pump, tank, and connections for water supply, and for sewer, four thousand seven hundred dollars.

For custom-bouse at Charleston, South Carolina: For building one stone wharf in front of custom-house, thirty-five thousand dollars. For custom-house at Cleveland, Ohio: For completion of building, fifteen thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Columbus, Ohio: For continuation of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Danville, Virginia: For approaches, sidewalks, iron fence, and for retaining-wall in rear of building, ten thousand three hundred dollars, of which sum not less than one thousand seven hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be applied to building a substantial stone wall in the rear of the lot upon which said building stands.

For court-house and post-office at Denver, Colorado: For continuation, fifty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Des Moines, Iowa: For completion of extension and remodeling interior, fifty thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa: For purchasing lot immediately north of the custom-house lot, Dubuque, Iowa, five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of the purchase money shall be paid until the Attorney-General of the United States shall be satisfied that there is a good title to said premises in the United States, free from all incumbrance.

For court-house and post-office at Fort Wayne, Indiana: For contin uation of building, forty thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Galveston, Texas: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Harrisonburg, Virginia: For completion of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For court-house and post office at Jackson, Mississippi: For completion of building and approaches, fifteen thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post-office at Kansas City, Missouri: For completion of building and approaches, fifty thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For completion of sea-wall to protect marine-hospital property, one thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuation, fifty-five thousand dollars.

For court-house and post office at Lynchburg, Virginia: For continuation of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.