For the repair of the United States mint building at Denver, Colorado, ten thousand dollars.

That the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to examine the claim of the State of Massachusetts for expenses incurred and paid, at the request of the President and Secretary of State, during the war, in protecting the harbors and strengthening the fortifications on the coast, now on file with the Third Auditor, under the act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-one (twelfth Statutes at Large page two hundred and seventy-six), and report the amount to Congress,

UNDER THE COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES.

For the propagation of food-fishes: For the introduction by the United States Fish Commission into, and to increase in, the waters of the United States of useful food-fishes, including lobsters, oysters, and other shellfish, and for continuing the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of the food-fishes of the United States, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For expenses of the office of the United States Fish Commission: For rent of rooms in the city of Washington, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.

For the maintenance of fish-ponds: For the maintenance of the United States fish ponds in Washington and elsewhere, and the distribution of carp and other young fish, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, forty-five thousand dollars.

For the maintenance of vessels: For the maintenance of the vessels of the United States Fish Commission, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, for storage and wharfage, and for the boats, apparatus, and machinery required for use therewith, forty-five thousand dollars.

For completion of the car for the distribution of carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United States, authorized by act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and its equipment, four thousand five hundred dollars; and the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars appropriated by the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the construction of a car for the distribution of carp and other useful food-fishes to distant portions of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyfive.

For completion of the necessary constructions at Wood's Holl Harbor, Massachusetts, and their equipment, for the propagation of and investigation in regard to useful sea-fishes and other marine animals, twenty thousand dollars.

For the inquiry of food-fishes: For collecting statistics of the seacoast and lake fisheries of the United States, especially those covered by the Washington treaty of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employees, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For illustrations for the report on food-fishes: For preparation of illustrations for the report of the United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, one thousand dollars,

CURRENT EXPENSES PUBLIC BUILDINGS,

For pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, three hundred thousand dollars,

For heating apparatus for public buildings, including new buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings including marine hospitals, under control of the Treasury Department, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars,

For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, including new buildings, For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, fifty thousand dollars,

For plans for public buildings: For books, photographic materials, and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand five hundred dollars,

For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For fuel, lights, water, and miscellaneous items required by the janitors and firemen in the proper care of the buildings, furniture and heating-apparatus, exclusive of personal services, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, five hundred thousand dollars,

For furniture and repairs of furniture, including carpets, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas-fixtures for six new buildings, namely: Buffalo, New York; Frankfort, Kentucky; Jackson, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; Memphis Tennessee, three hundred thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings in said cities, respectively, shall be used as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not,

For shore protection of the marine hospital near Chicago, Illinois, eight thousand dollars,

SUPPRESSING COUNTERFEITING AND SIMILAR FELONIES;

For the expenses of detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States, as well as the coins of the United States, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, sixty thousand dollars,

COMPENSATION IN LIEU OF MOIETIES.

For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customsrevenue laws, thirty-five thousand dollars,

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,

For one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dol. lars.

For two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each, four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.

For necessary traveling expenses of agents in going to and returning from Alaska, at six hundred dollars each per annum, two thousand four hundred dollars.

For the protection of sea-otter hunting-grounds and seal-fisheries in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to use revenue steamers for the protection of the interests of the Government on the sealislands and the sea-otter hunting-grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska, fifteen thousand dollars.

LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES.

For custody, care, protection, and sale of lands and other property belonging to the United States, one thousand dollars.

LIBRARY OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

For purchase of law-books and suitable books of reference for the library of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars.

To meet such expenses as may be necessary to be incurred in carrying out the provisions of the act to execute certain treaty stipulations relating to Chinese, approved May sixth, eighteen hundred and eightytwo, five thousand dollars.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic, to use the unexpended balance of appropriation made by act approved August seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and act approved March third, eighteen hundred and eightythree, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same and maintaining quarantine at points of danger.

To establish and maintain quarantine stations, and to provide proper shelter for and care of neat cattle imported at such ports as may be deemed necessary twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by the Commissioner of Agriculture under the general supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury.

For amount necessary to pay direct-tax purchasers the amount paid by said purchasers for real estate sold under the direct-tax laws, and from which they have been evicted by judgment of a United States court, two thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars.

UNITED STATES EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AT THE WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL AND COTTON CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION AT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

To enable the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Smithsonian Institution to participate in the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition to be held at New Orleans, Louisiana, under act of Congress of February tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, as follows: For the War Department, fifteen thousand dollars; for the Navy Department, ten thousand dollars; for the State Department, ten thousand dollars; for the Treasury Department, twelve thousand dollars; for the Interior Department, one hun

dred and twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Post Office Department, ten thousand dollars; for the Department of Agriculture, twenty-five thousand dollars; for the Department of Justice, three thousand dollars; for the Smithsonian Institution (including the National Museum and Commission of Fish and Fisheries), seventy five thousand dollars; for necessary incidental expenses of administration by the board, includ ing office rent, fuel, gas, stationery, telegrams, and expressage, fifteen thousand dollars; in all, three hundred thousand dollars, to be disbursed under the direction of the Board on United States Executive Departments appointed under executive order of May thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four; and no expenses of any kind beyond the amounts herein provided for shall be incurred by any of the said Departments, or any officer thereof on account of said exposition.

To enable the several Executive Departments of the Government including the Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution, to participate in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, to be held at Cincinnati, Ohio. during the months of September and October, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, ten thousand dollars; and to participate in the Southern Exposition, to be held at Louisville Kentucky, from August sixteenth to October twenty fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty four; ten thousand dollars; in all, twenty thousand dollars; Provided, That in case more than the said sums is required for the execution of this provision the same shall be paid by said Expositions.

UNDER THE NAVY DEPARTMENT,

For navy-yard, New York; For dredging, thirty thousand dollars, To enable the Secretary of the Navy to continue the improvement of the cob-dock at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (twenty-second Statutes, page six hundred and twenty), is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditures during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Navy-yard, Mare Island, California: Continuation of stone dry-dock, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For Coasters' Harbor Island, Rhode Island: For completion of wharf, dredging, heating apparatus, water supply for drill hall and trainingships, repairs to old building and main causeway, and for lighting thoroughfares, houses, and vessels at Coasters' Harbor Island, twenty one thousand dollars,

For navy-yards and stations, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

To complete the improvement of the Hot Springs Creek, in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, seventy-five thousand dollars,

BUREAU OF LABOR.

For salary of Commissioner of Labor, three thousand dollars; salary of chief clerk, two thousand dollars; rent of rooms for use of Bureau. and for fuel, light, and stationery, three thousand dollars; and for other necessary expenses of said Bureau, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and as provided by law. seven teen thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand dollars.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

For completing the reconstruction of the south and east wings of the building occupied by the Department of the Interior, by completing the work on the south wing and main portico on F street ready for occupancy, ninety-one thousand dollars,

For repairing the heating apparatus of the south wing, two thousand dollars,

For construction of coal-vaults on the north front of the building, and the replacing of flagging ruined by the debris from fire of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, seven thousand five hundred dollars,

For rebuilding of furnaces in the east wing, and putting them in serviceable and safe condition, one thousand dollars,

For casual repairs of the Interior Department building: For casual repairs of the Department building. five thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars,

For the Capitol extension: For work on the Capitol, and for general repairs thereof, including wages of mechanics and workmen and frescopainter, forty thousand dollars,

For improving the Capitol Grounds: For continuing the work of the improvement of the Capitol Grounds, and for care of the grounds, including the pay to landscape architect, one clerk, and wages of mechanics, gardeners, and workmen, fifty-two thousand dollars,

For constructing terraces north of the Capitol, section marked A. as shown on. printed plan accompanying the letter of the Secretary of the Treasury (Executive Document Number Nine, first session Forty eighth Congress), sixty thousand dollars, including wages of mechanics and laborers: Provided, That the work under this appropriation shall be confined to the north front of the Capitol building, and shall not extend westward beyond the line of the west front of the Senate wing of the Capitol.

For lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden and Senate and House stables: For gas, electric lighting, pay of superintendent of meters, lamp-lighters, gas-fitters, and for materials for gas or electrie lighting, and for general repairs, twenty thousand dollars.

For the increase of the openings in the floor of the Senate Chamber, the openings in the roof, and the arrangement for the exhaust fans to draw air from the corridors and stairways, as recommended by the Chief Engineer of the United States Senate and Architect of the United States Capitol, six thousand dollars.

For cleaning the outside marble walls of the House and Senate wings of the Capitol, and the approaches thereto, three thousand dollars. And hereafter it shall be the duty of the Architect to clean and keep in proper: order the exterior of the Capitol.

Enlarging court-house, Washington District of Columbia: For work on terrace, water-closets in upper story, iron window guards, and for painting roof, and for general repairs, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For paving sidewalk on south and east fronts of National Museum building, one thousand dollars.

New Pension Building: For completion of the new Pension Building, as per estimate contained in Senate Executive Document Number One Hundred and Eighty-eight, present session, two hundred and sixty-six thousand five hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-two cents.

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