[PUBLIC RESOLUTION-NO. 15.]

Joint resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all appropriations for the neces sary operations of the Government under existing laws which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and eighty-six be, and they are hereby continued and made available for a period of fifteen days from and after that date, unless the regular appropriations therefor provided for in bills now pending in Congress, shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven; and in case the appropriations, or any of them, hereby continued, are or is, insufficient to carry on the said necessary operations, a sufficient amount is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro priated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount shall be expended therefor than will be in the same proportion to the appropriations of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as fifteen days time bears to the whole of said fiscal year: Provided further, That authority is also granted for continuing during the same period the necessary work required for public printing and binding, and for all other miscel laneous objects embodied in the sundry civil and naval appropriation acts, in advance of appropriations to be hereafter made for said objects: And provided further, All sums expended under this act shall be charged to and be deducted from the appropriations for like service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth eighteen hundred and eighty-seven.

Approved, July 1, 1886.

15447-9

[PUBLIC-No. 114.]

CHAP. 611.—An act making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes, namely:

For Army and Navy pensions as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, and survivors and widows of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, seventy-five million dollars: Provided, That the appropriations aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same may be sufficient for that purpose: And provided further, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.

For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, eight hundred and twenty-one thousand dollars. And each member of each examining board shall, as now authorized by law, receive the sum of two dollars for the examination of each applicant whenever five or a less number shall be examined on any one day, and one dollar for the examination of each additional applicant on such day: Provided, That if twenty or more applicants appear on one day, no fewer than twenty shall, if prac ticable, be examined on said day, and that if fewer examinations be then made, twenty or more having appeared, then there shall be paid for the first examinations made on the next examination day the fee of one dollar only until twenty examinations shall have been made.

For the salaries of eighteen agents for the payment of pensions, at four thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars; and hereafter the provisions of section three of the act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and for other purposes," are hereby extended and made applicable to all official mail-matter of agents for the payment of pensions.

For clerk-hire, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; rents, twenty thousand dollars; fuel, one thousand two hundred dollars; lights, two thousand dollars; postage on letters to the Executive Departments and to pensioners, stationery, and other necessary expenses, to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior, nine thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty-two thousand two hundred dollars.

Approved, July 2, 1886.

[PUBLIC-No. 125.]

CHAP. 757.—An act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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 half of the following sums named, respectively, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, for the purposes following, being the estimated expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyseven, namely:

GENERAL EXPENSES.

FOR SALARIES AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES.

For executive office: For two commissioners, at five thousand dollars each; one engineer commissioner, nine hundred and twenty-four dollars (to make salary five thousand dollars); one secretary, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; one driver, four hundred and eighty dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, horseshoeing, and other necessary items, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand four hundred and forty-four dollars.

For assessor's office: For one assessor, three thousand dollars; two assistant assessors, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one license clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one inspector of licenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant or clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk and messenger, nine hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, including printing, books, stationery, detection of frauds on the revenue, and other necessary items, one thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.

For collector's office: For one collector, four thousand dollars; one cashier, who shall, in the absence or inability from any cause of the collector, perform his duties, without additional compensation, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk in charge of special assessments, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, six hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, printing, books, stationery, and other necessary items, seven hundred dollars; for services necessary for preparing an exhibit of all outstanding taxes in arrears, two thousand dollars; in all, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars. For auditor's office: For one auditor, three thousand dollars; one chief clerk, who shall, in the absence or inability from any cause of the auditor, perform his duties, without additional compensation, one thou